This Reader aims to reveal the ideals and the principles, on which modern societies are based. These are, of course, political in the sense that they underpin the life of the polis - of that political society, in which people live, in which people live, communicate and interact as citizens. Dealing with modern societies, the story here is the story of the West. The West is based on equality and the respect of human rights and civic freedoms. Elsewhere, it is power, traditions or religions that from the basis of human rights and human organisation. The Reader traces the evolution of this right from the beginning - from ... |
|
|
A reading of Hegel 's "Philosophy of Right". ... "From Logic to Politics" is a study of a promise: the promise of philosophy as universal science that could comprehend, connect and guide, and of politics made transparent for thinking. Hegel's "Philosophy of Right" is built on that promise, and set on the goal of grasping its time and providing the ground of modern politics int he idea of right. The fulfilment of this task is made possible in the light of the first, fundamental science, which for Hegel, has to replace metaphysics the "Science of Logic". This is, therefore, a ... |
|
|
It has become a truism that you may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you. Politics is inescapable because the term denotes, in its widest sense, the way in which relations of power are constructed in a given society. And there is no escaping power in the relations between human beings. In this volume we have attempted to unveil the origins, evolution and meaning of key political terms, as well as to outline the debates around each one. It is our conviction that this effort will help not only our students but also the general public to become fruitfully involved in current politics in the ... |
|
|
Книга 2 от поредицата "Bulgarian Academic Monographs". ... The disintegration of the totalitarian-communist system has led to a total crisis of society, a radical and dramatic restructuring, a reassessment of all values, a clearly evident prevalence of negatively defined freedom. For the Balkan region, these general conditions were further complicated by the neighborhood of different ethno-religious communities. Ethnic mobilization, various cultural, religious and political tensions, are rooted here both in the history of the region’s cultural and religious identities and in the totalitarian system of the recent ... |
|
|
"This book was begun in the quiet, news - free, cold winter days of January 2015 and completed amid the heat of summer, when again news took a holiday, in August and September 2015. Given that it is a slim volume, it is not that I am a slow writer, on the contrary; there was a hiatus of seven months between the ending of chapter three and the start of work on chapter four. The news business makes its demands makes it's demands on the editor of a news website..." Foreword and Acknowledgements Clive Leviev - Sawyer was a senior political journalist in South Africa before moving to Bulgaria at the end of 2001 ... |
|
|
Изданието се предлага на български и английски език. ... "Исус Христос - власт и политика" представлява задълбочено и същевременно модерно описание на библейския произход на понятия като поведенчески модели, лидерство и лидерски практики, послания и тяхното въздействие, власт и властови амбиции, рейтинг и обществено доверие. Alexander Urumov was born in 1969. He holds a master's degree in Bulgarian studies from Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski". Urumov has worked in public communications and media for over twenty years and has accumulated extensive professional experience as journalist and ... |
|
|
This textbook is designed for students taking a university degree in International Relations (IR), European Studies (ES) and Political Science (PS) at Bulgarian universities, including the University of National and World Economy (UNWE). Another potential target group of users are students majoring in journalism, law or management who need to understand and express key concepts in politics, economics and international relations. Students with an advanced level of proficiency in English will gain most benefit from this textbook. The latter has been graded as advanced level, considering that a basic prerequisite for ... |
|
|
"The book is intended for use by Cl+ users of the English language and in this case University students. It may be assumed that the students will have the background knowledge of the subject Political Science before they use this book. The book is intended as a course book giving them, the students, practice in using all aspects of the English language, Speaking, Use of English, Reading, Listening and Writing. The purpose of the book from the student perspective should be a tool which they can use to enhance their learning experience. This I believe is something that the writer tried to do. Students need to have a ... |
|
|
What History Reveals About Our Future. ... How does a democracy die? What can we do to save our own? What lessons does history teach us? In the 21st century democracy is threatened like never before. Drawing insightful lessons from across history - from Pinochet's murderous Chilean regime to Erdogan's quiet dismantling in Turkey - Levitsky and Ziblatt explain why democracies fail, how leaders like Trump subvert them today and what each of us can do to protect our democratic rights. "Anyone who is concerned about the future of democracy should read this brisk, accessible book. Anyone who is not concerned ... |
|
|
The aim of this book is to give UNWE students of Economics and Business, as well as those doing a degree in Administration and Management, the opportunity to improve their command of English for examination and career purposes. Through text and task the book acquaints students with a variety of settings to which they will be exposed academically and professionally - from the environment of higher education, through the framework of British and American government, to economic and business concepts. The book is divided into fourteen units, each focusing on a particular topic with a range of basic and specific vocabulary. ... |
|
|
In traditional societies, the individual exists only as far as taking its place in a group, a place that is often destined from birth in a social hierarchy. It is governed by the collective beliefs, rules and norms shared by all present that are not in dispute, because they come "from above" - transcendence based on social connections and "pre" - mythical past and valuable. The modern man of the XXI-the century chooses his preferred beliefs and values in a pluralistic world, where conflicting values co-exist and are subject to the critique of reason. The past is no longer a perfect world, ... |
|
|
Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of Paul Atreides−who would become known as Maud'Dib and of a great family's ambition to bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream. A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, Dune won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction. The mass-market movie tie-in edition of Frank Herbert’s science fiction masterpiece, featuring film key art from the major motion picture Dune: part two. ... |
