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  • An Analysis of Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan
    Jason Xidias / Jeremy Kleidosty
    Thomas Hobbes is a towering figure in the history of modern thought and political philosophy. He remains best remembered for his 1651 treatise on government, Leviathan, a work that shows at the very best the reasoning skills of a deeply original and creative thinker. Creative thinking is all about taking a novel approach to questions and problems - showing them in a new light. ...
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  • An Analysis of W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk
    Jason Xidias
    W.E.B Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk is a seminal work in the field of sociology, a classic of American literature - and a solid example of carefully-structured reasoning. One of the most important texts ever written on racism and black identity in America, the work contains powerful arguments that illustrate the problem of the position of black people in the US at the turn o...
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  • An Analysis of Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History and the Last Man
    Ian Jackson / Jason Xidias
    Francis Fukuyama’s controversial 1992 book The End of History and the Last Man demonstrates an important aspect of creative thinking: the ability to generate hypotheses and create novel explanations for evidence. In the case of Fukuyama’s work, the central hypothesis and explanation he put forward were not, in fact, new, but they were novel in the academic and historical contex...
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  • An Analysis of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Why We Can’t Wait
    Jason Xidias
    Martin Luther King’s policy of non-violent protest in the struggle for civil rights in the United States during the second half of the twentieth century led to fundamental shifts in American government policy relating to segregation, and a cultural shift in the treatment of African Americans. King’s 1964 book Why We Can’t Wait creates strong, well-structured arguments as to why...
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  • An Analysis of David C. Kang’s China Rising
    Jason Xidias / Matteo Dian
    A critical analysis of David C. Kang’s China Rising, which is a fine example of an author making use of creative thinking skills to reach a conclusion that flies in the face of traditional thinking.The conventional view that the book opposed, known in international relations as ’realism,’ was that the rise of any new global power results in global or regional instability. As su...
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  • An Analysis of Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks
    Jason Xidias / Lorenzo Fusaro
    An important Marxist work, Prison Notebooks (1948) argues that we must understand societies both in terms of their economic relationships and their cultural beliefs. ...
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  • An Analysis of John C. Calhoun’s A Disquisition on Government
    Etienne Stockland / Jason Xidias
    Nineteenth-century American politician John C. Calhoun occupies a paradoxical place in the history of political thought - and of critical thinking. On one hand, he is remembered as a committed advocate of slavery, consistently espousing views that are now considered indefensible and abhorrent. On the other, the political theories that Calhoun used to defend the social injustice...
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  • An Analysis of Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man
    Jason Xidias / Mariana Assis
    Thomas Paine’s 1791 Rights of Man is an impassioned political tract showing how the critical thinking skills of evaluation and reasoning can, and must, be applied to contentious issues. Divided into two parts, Rights of Man is, first, a response to Edmund Burke’s arguments against the French Revolution, put forward in his Reflections on the Revolution in France - also available...
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  • An Analysis of Max Weber’s Politics as a Vocation
    Jason Xidias / Tom McClean / William Brett
    German sociologist Max Weber’s 1919 lecture Politics as a Vocation is widely regarded as a masterpiece of political theory and sociology. Its central strength lies in Weber’s deployment of masterful interpretative skills to power his discussion of modern politics.Interpretation involves understanding both the meaning of evidence and the meaning of terms - questioning definition...
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  • An Analysis of Robert A. Dahl’s Who Governs? Democracy and Power in an American City
    Astrid Noren Nilsson / Jason Xidias
    American political theorist Robert Dahl’s 1961 work of political theory exhibits deep levels of creative thinking. When Dahl wrote, the American system of liberal democracy was generally considered to be shaped by a small group of powerful individuals who dominate because they are wealthy and influential. But by connecting the evidence in a new way in Who Governs? Dahl argued c...
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  • An Analysis of John Lewis Gaddis’s We Now Know
    Jason Xidias / Scott Gilfillan
    John Lewis Gaddis had written four previous books on the Cold War by the time he published We Now Know - so the main thrust of his new work was not so much to present new arguments as to re-examine old ones in the light of new evidence that began emerging from behind the Iron Curtain after 1990. In this respect, We Now Know can be seen as an important exercise in evaluation; Ga...
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  • An Analysis of Eric Foner’s Reconstruction
    Jason Xidias
    ’Reconstruction’ is the name given to the period that, beginning shortly before the end of the American Civil War and running until 1877, saw the frustration of federal government’s attempts to integrate the newly freed slaves into the American political and economic system. It ended in frustration, disillusionment and also violence, with individual southern states denying righ...
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  • An Analysis of Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities
    Jason Xidias
    Some people imagine that nationhood is as old as civilization itself, but Anderson argues that 'nation' and 'nationalism' are products of the communication technologies of the modern age. With the invention and spread of printing, local languages gradually replaced Latin as the language of print. ...
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