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May 30, 2024 · Professor William H. Sewell Jr. is the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago and a Trustee of the Institute for Advanced Study.
6 days ago · The ‘distinction between the past and the present that constitutes “the founding principle of history” rests on something other than a mere priority in time; it reflects an abiding awareness that different historical entities exist in different historical contexts’ (p. 3).
2 days ago · No one else writes anthropological theory so clear, so down-to-earth, or so accessible to non-anthropologists."--William H. Sewell Jr., author of Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation, "At once challenging and admirably accessible, these essays trace the thinking of one of anthropology's most notable practitioners as she ...
3 days ago · John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 7 May 1873) [1] was an English philosopher, political economist, politician and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, he contributed widely to social theory, political theory, and political economy.
4 days ago · In The Future of History Alan Munslow tackles the big problem facing historians in the 21st century, the problem of whether history as we know it has a future and, if not, what historians should do about that. Munslow sees the main problem as methodological and, while this book does not solve that problem, it makes it inescapable, and provides ...
May 30, 2024 · The thrust of the book’s argument, that 1688–9 was the first modern revolution, is made in the light of a wide-ranging analysis of the literature on revolutions. The criteria for a revolution are set out and, it is suggested, centre on state modernisation programmes.
May 25, 2024 · The German thinker found his beliefs about what logic is, where its place is in the system of knowledge, how it should be exercised, and, thus, how it is to guide, constrain, and generally...
