Телеграм канал «Политическая теория и философия (Political theory and philosophy)»

Andrew Dobson - Jean-Paul Sartre and the Politics of Reason: A Theory of History

Andrew Dobson charts Sartre's transformation from novelist and apolitical philosopher of existentialism, before the Second World War, to a committed defender of Marxism and Marxist method after it. Examining Sartre's post-war work in detail, he shows how the biographies of Baudelaire, Genet and Flaubert, often considered tangential to his main oeuvres, are in fact central to this defence of Marxism, and should therefore be read as acts of political commitment. Andrew Dobson's study of posthumous sources, including the extended commentaries in English of Volume II of the Critique of dialectical reason, and in its insistence on reading Sartre's philosophical development as primarily politically motivated. It provides a clear reading of some of Sartre's less familiar works, situating them in an overarching social and political project.

A. H. Brown - Soviet Politics and Political Science (1974)

Archie Brown that evaluates how Western political science analyzes the Soviet Union, examining methodological approaches, institutional power structures, and the application of interest group theory to a communist state

Э. Конклин - В Музее человека. Раса, антропология и империализм во Франции, 1850–1950 годы

В книге представлен новый взгляд на сложные взаимоотношения науки, общества и власти в период расцвета французского империализма и европейского расизма. Автор переносит нас в годы становления французской антропологии и социальной теории 1850–1900-х годов. В работе анализируется возрождение антропологии — именуемой этнологией — в Париже и французских колониях до и после Первой мировой войны, а также рассматривается судьба этой дисциплины в обстоятельствах немецкой оккупации и после нее. Автор исследует влияние академических кругов, музейных коллекций и имперских связей на определение человеческого разнообразия с социокультурной точки зрения, особенно в связи с возрождением антисемитизма. «В Музее человека» — захватывающая история сплоченной работы ученых, пришедших к пониманию, что все общества одинаково сложны. Несмотря на то, что научная экспертиза когда-то санкционировала расизм, антропологи научились пересматривать свои концепции и выступать против расовой предвзятости.

Terence Ranger - Writing Revolt: An Engagement with African Nationalism, 1957-67

A deeply felt and engaging personal account of Zimbabwe's political awakening by one of its best-known historians. I did not set out for Rhodesia as a radical' writes Terence Ranger. This memoir of the years between 1957, when he first went to Southern Rhodesia, and 1967 when he published his first book, is both an intimate record of the African awakening which Ranger witnessed during those ten years, and of the process which led him to write Revolt in Southern Rhodesia. Intended as both history and as historiography, Writing Revolt is also about the ways in which politics and history interacted. The men with whom Ranger discussed Zimbabwean history were the leaders of African nationalism; his seminar papers were sent to prisons and into restricted areas. Both they and he were making political as well as intellectual discoveries. The book also includes a brief account of Ranger's life before he went to Africa.