John Hoffman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3942400 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Hoffman |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoffman |
| SIGNATURE | HOFFMAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Introduction to Political Theory
This vibrant and significantly revised new edition is a comprehensive and accessible text for studying political theory in a changing world. Bringing together classic and contemporary political concepts and ideologies into one book, it introduces the major approaches to political issues that have shaped our world, and the ideas that form the currency of political debate. Consistently, it relates political ideas to political realities through effe…
Chapitre III: Approche linguistique
Comment identifier la langue utilise par les traducteurs du Sam Kok ? Nous pouvons dire que c'est du malais , tout en prcisant qu'il s'agit de celui en usage aux Indes nerlandaises au dbut du XXe sicle. Cependant, en tant que langue commerciale dans l'Archipel, ce malais diffre selon les rgions du fait de l'influence des langues locales. John Hoffman propos de la diversit des idiomes de l'Archipel a crit sur le ton de la plaisanterie qu' la fin d…
Introduction to Political Theory
Introduction to Political Theory is a text for the 21st century. It shows students why an understanding of theory is crucial to an understanding of issues and events in a rapidly shifting global political landscape. Bringing together classic and contemporary political concepts and ideologies into one book, this new text introduces the major approaches to political issues that have shaped the modern world, and the ideas that form the currency of p…
Increasing Educational Attainment and Aspiration in an Underserved Community: The Perspective of Urban-Community Leaders
Reflections on the concept of progress – and Zimbabwe
The notion of progress is best understood as a concept which is contradictory and on-going. Writers such as John Gray are wrong to conclude that every notion of progress has to be mechanical and unilinear. Progress is what I call a 'momentum concept' – an on-going, unstoppable process. In the case of Zimbabwe, the attainment of political independence was a vital step but the struggle for democracy and self-government will continue in a post-Mugab…
Quiet Diplomacy’ or Appeasement? South African Policy towards Zimbabwe
This article offers a critical examination of South Africa's policy of ‘quiet diplomacy' towards Zimbabwe since 2000, with the reasons behind it, especially the role of Thabo Mbeki, and considers possible alternatives. It argues that liberal values in Africa are usually prioritised at the abstract level in charters and declarations such as those of the African Union (AU), the Southern African Development Community (SADC), and the New Partnership …
Citizenship beyond the State
This is a critical introduction to the concept of citizenship which challenges the notion that citizenship has to be defined as membership of a state. Hoffman presents a realistic argument for a stateless model of citizenship
Reconstructing Diplomacy
Conventional views on diplomacy emphasise the centrality of the state. This article will argue that the state is incoherent, and that this incoherence necessarily extends itself to statist diplomacy. Traditional concepts of diplomacy note the tension between negotiation and violence, so that if we are to make use of the conciliatory potential of diplomatic practice, we have to look to rework radically the concept of diplomacy. A rigorous distinct…
Redefining coercion and constraint
2002). Redefining coercion and constraint. Contemporary Politics: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 203-217
Defining Feminism
Feminism is sometimes seen either as multiple or singular as though we have to make a choice along ideological as well as philosophical lines. Feminism, I shall argue, is both multiple and singular, since ‘liberal’, ‘socialist’ and ‘radical’ feminisms are distinctive feminisms that can and should be assessed according to the extent to which they contribute positively to the development of a post-patriarchal society. The same holds for the philoso…
Is there a case for a feminist critique of the state
Can We Define Sovereignty
Two recent works on sovereignty have argued that the term is indefinable and that all we can do is to analyse the definitions of others The argument rightly centres upon the problematic link between sovereignty and the state. However it does not follow that because the whole notion of state sovereignty is problematic, sovereignty itself cannot be defined. This article suggests that a way out of this blind alley is to detach the idea of sovereignt…
Capitalist Democracies and Democratic States: Oxymorons or Coherent Concepts
Non-Historic Nations” and the National Question: A South African Perspective
WOULD AGREE WITH EPHRAIM NIMNI (1989) that one can identify (at least the basis for) coherent theory of the national question in the work of Marx and Engels. Nimni is right to assume that (in some sense) the problem raised by the question of non-historic nations is an integral part of this theory. Here, however, our agreement ends. Nimni contends that Marx's and Engels' views on the national question are rooted in three wider theoretical position…
Labour, Capital and Society / Travail, Capital et Société
Gramsci and Culture
The Problem of the Ruling Class in Classical Marxist Theory: Some Conceptual Preliminaries
The Historical Materialism Discussion: The Dialectic of Abstraction and Concentration in Historical Materialism
Karl Popper
A Foreign Investment: Indies Malay to 1901
n o ta b le d iv erg en ce from th e im p erial norm.By c o n tr a s t, th e P ortu gu ese, S panish, E n g
Australia and East Timor∗
On theology's cognitive claims: A. J. Ayer revisited
A Foreign Investment: Indies Malay to 1901
n o ta b le d iv erg en ce from th e im p erial norm.By c o n tr a s t, th e P ortu gu ese, S panish, E n g
Quiet Diplomacy’ or Appeasement? South African Policy towards Zimbabwe
This article offers a critical examination of South Africa's policy of ‘quiet diplomacy' towards Zimbabwe since 2000, with the reasons behind it, especially the role of Thabo Mbeki, and considers possible alternatives. It argues that liberal values in Africa are usually prioritised at the abstract level in charters and declarations such as those of the African Union (AU), the Southern African Development Community (SADC), and the New Partnership …
Reconstructing Diplomacy
Conventional views on diplomacy emphasise the centrality of the state. This article will argue that the state is incoherent, and that this incoherence necessarily extends itself to statist diplomacy. Traditional concepts of diplomacy note the tension between negotiation and violence, so that if we are to make use of the conciliatory potential of diplomatic practice, we have to look to rework radically the concept of diplomacy. A rigorous distinct…
Defining Feminism
Feminism is sometimes seen either as multiple or singular as though we have to make a choice along ideological as well as philosophical lines. Feminism, I shall argue, is both multiple and singular, since ‘liberal’, ‘socialist’ and ‘radical’ feminisms are distinctive feminisms that can and should be assessed according to the extent to which they contribute positively to the development of a post-patriarchal society. The same holds for the philoso…
Is there a case for a feminist critique of the state
The Problem of the Ruling Class in Classical Marxist Theory: Some Conceptual Preliminaries
Increasing Educational Attainment and Aspiration in an Underserved Community: The Perspective of Urban-Community Leaders
Reflections on the concept of progress – and Zimbabwe
The notion of progress is best understood as a concept which is contradictory and on-going. Writers such as John Gray are wrong to conclude that every notion of progress has to be mechanical and unilinear. Progress is what I call a 'momentum concept' – an on-going, unstoppable process. In the case of Zimbabwe, the attainment of political independence was a vital step but the struggle for democracy and self-government will continue in a post-Mugab…
Can We Define Sovereignty
Two recent works on sovereignty have argued that the term is indefinable and that all we can do is to analyse the definitions of others The argument rightly centres upon the problematic link between sovereignty and the state. However it does not follow that because the whole notion of state sovereignty is problematic, sovereignty itself cannot be defined. This article suggests that a way out of this blind alley is to detach the idea of sovereignt…
Capitalist Democracies and Democratic States: Oxymorons or Coherent Concepts
Non-Historic Nations” and the National Question: A South African Perspective
WOULD AGREE WITH EPHRAIM NIMNI (1989) that one can identify (at least the basis for) coherent theory of the national question in the work of Marx and Engels. Nimni is right to assume that (in some sense) the problem raised by the question of non-historic nations is an integral part of this theory. Here, however, our agreement ends. Nimni contends that Marx's and Engels' views on the national question are rooted in three wider theoretical position…
On theology's cognitive claims: A. J. Ayer revisited
Australia and East Timor∗
A Foreign Investment: Indies Malay to 1901
n o ta b le d iv erg en ce from th e im p erial norm.By c o n tr a s t, th e P ortu gu ese, S panish, E n g
Karl Popper
The Historical Materialism Discussion: The Dialectic of Abstraction and Concentration in Historical Materialism
Gramsci and Culture
The Problem of the Ruling Class in Classical Marxist Theory: Some Conceptual Preliminaries
Labour, Capital and Society / Travail, Capital et Société
Non-Historic Nations” and the National Question: A South African Perspective
WOULD AGREE WITH EPHRAIM NIMNI (1989) that one can identify (at least the basis for) coherent theory of the national question in the work of Marx and Engels. Nimni is right to assume that (in some sense) the problem raised by the question of non-historic nations is an integral part of this theory. Here, however, our agreement ends. Nimni contends that Marx's and Engels' views on the national question are rooted in three wider theoretical position…
Capitalist Democracies and Democratic States: Oxymorons or Coherent Concepts
Can We Define Sovereignty
Two recent works on sovereignty have argued that the term is indefinable and that all we can do is to analyse the definitions of others The argument rightly centres upon the problematic link between sovereignty and the state. However it does not follow that because the whole notion of state sovereignty is problematic, sovereignty itself cannot be defined. This article suggests that a way out of this blind alley is to detach the idea of sovereignt…
Is there a case for a feminist critique of the state
Defining Feminism
Feminism is sometimes seen either as multiple or singular as though we have to make a choice along ideological as well as philosophical lines. Feminism, I shall argue, is both multiple and singular, since ‘liberal’, ‘socialist’ and ‘radical’ feminisms are distinctive feminisms that can and should be assessed according to the extent to which they contribute positively to the development of a post-patriarchal society. The same holds for the philoso…
Redefining coercion and constraint
2002). Redefining coercion and constraint. Contemporary Politics: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 203-217
Reconstructing Diplomacy
Conventional views on diplomacy emphasise the centrality of the state. This article will argue that the state is incoherent, and that this incoherence necessarily extends itself to statist diplomacy. Traditional concepts of diplomacy note the tension between negotiation and violence, so that if we are to make use of the conciliatory potential of diplomatic practice, we have to look to rework radically the concept of diplomacy. A rigorous distinct…
Citizenship beyond the State
This is a critical introduction to the concept of citizenship which challenges the notion that citizenship has to be defined as membership of a state. Hoffman presents a realistic argument for a stateless model of citizenship
Quiet Diplomacy’ or Appeasement? South African Policy towards Zimbabwe
This article offers a critical examination of South Africa's policy of ‘quiet diplomacy' towards Zimbabwe since 2000, with the reasons behind it, especially the role of Thabo Mbeki, and considers possible alternatives. It argues that liberal values in Africa are usually prioritised at the abstract level in charters and declarations such as those of the African Union (AU), the Southern African Development Community (SADC), and the New Partnership …
Reflections on the concept of progress – and Zimbabwe
The notion of progress is best understood as a concept which is contradictory and on-going. Writers such as John Gray are wrong to conclude that every notion of progress has to be mechanical and unilinear. Progress is what I call a 'momentum concept' – an on-going, unstoppable process. In the case of Zimbabwe, the attainment of political independence was a vital step but the struggle for democracy and self-government will continue in a post-Mugab…
Increasing Educational Attainment and Aspiration in an Underserved Community: The Perspective of Urban-Community Leaders
Introduction to Political Theory
Introduction to Political Theory is a text for the 21st century. It shows students why an understanding of theory is crucial to an understanding of issues and events in a rapidly shifting global political landscape. Bringing together classic and contemporary political concepts and ideologies into one book, this new text introduces the major approaches to political issues that have shaped the modern world, and the ideas that form the currency of p…
Chapitre III: Approche linguistique
Comment identifier la langue utilise par les traducteurs du Sam Kok ? Nous pouvons dire que c'est du malais , tout en prcisant qu'il s'agit de celui en usage aux Indes nerlandaises au dbut du XXe sicle. Cependant, en tant que langue commerciale dans l'Archipel, ce malais diffre selon les rgions du fait de l'influence des langues locales. John Hoffman propos de la diversit des idiomes de l'Archipel a crit sur le ton de la plaisanterie qu' la fin d…
Introduction to Political Theory
This vibrant and significantly revised new edition is a comprehensive and accessible text for studying political theory in a changing world. Bringing together classic and contemporary political concepts and ideologies into one book, it introduces the major approaches to political issues that have shaped our world, and the ideas that form the currency of political debate. Consistently, it relates political ideas to political realities through effe…
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