歴史・理論

■映像はすべてを語っていた■JFK暗殺から60年、アメリカ史そのものを問う！■なぜアメリカの大統領暗殺の真相を隠さねばならなかったのか？

Diving into topics like the surprise election of Donald Trump, the destruction of social and political norms, and the rise of China, Fukuyama deftly explains the plight of liberal democracy and explores how we might prevent its further decline....

Although populism is ultimately part of democracy, populist movements constitute an increasing challenge to democratic politics. Comparing political trends across different countries, this compelling audiobook debates what the long-term consequences of this challenge could be....

The 20th century witnessed the triumph of democratic capitalism in the industrialized West, with widespread popular support for both free markets and representative elections. Today, that political consensus appears to be breaking down....

The role of intellectuals in racial strife is here explored in an international context that puts the American experience in a wholly new light....

Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”postmodernism”. Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “low” from market ideology to architecture, from painting to “punk” film, from video art to literature.

Without question one of the most significant books in modern history, The Communist Manifesto is a brief, populist pamphlet....

To understand world politics, you need to understand how states think. Are states rational? Much of international relations theory assumes that they are. But many scholars believe that political leaders rarely act rationally....

In April 1917, as Tsar Nicholas II's abdication sent shockwaves across war-torn Europe, the future leader of the Bolshevik revolution, Vladimir Lenin, was far away, exiled in Zurich....

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this piercing work distills 3,000 years of the history of power into 48 well-explicated laws....

Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States has sold over 2.5 million copies and is still required reading in some high school and college classrooms. But its polemic rewriting of American history as a story of oppression is an agenda-driven fairy tale....

In this translation of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle’s foundational work on ethics, happiness, and virtue is brought to life in fresh, accessible language designed for 21st-century listeners.

The world’s leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimistic history of human progress toward equality despite crises, disasters, and backsliding, a perfect introduction to the ideas developed in his monumental earlier books....

We thought we knew the story of the twentieth century. For many in the West, after the two world conflicts and the long cold war, the verdict was clear: democratic values had prevailed over dictatorship....

In the 16th century, control of colonies and gold bullion gave Spain the edge...

This Very Short Introduction introduces listeners to the key concepts of political philosophy: authority, democracy, freedom and its limits, justice, feminism, multiculturalism, and nationality....

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that on all men are created equal on, that they are endowed by Creator with certain unalienable Rights. 天ノ人ヲ生ズルハ億兆皆同一轍ニテ、之ニ附与スルニ動カス可カラザルノ通義ヲ以テス「天は人の上に人を造らず、人の下に人を造らず」

Thomas Paine was one of the greatest political propagandists in history....

Groundbreaking scientific analysis that breaks the JFK assassination wide open!...

Charlie Wilson's War is the untold story behind the last battle of the Cold War and how it fueled the rise of militant Islam....