A Tolerable Anarchy
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A Tolerable Anarchy
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Author : Jedediah Purdy
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2009-03-03
A Tolerable Anarchy written by Jedediah Purdy and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-03 with Political Science categories.
In A Tolerable Anarchy, Jedediah Purdy traces the history of the American understanding of freedom, an ideal that has inspired the country’s best—and worst—moments, from independence and emancipation to war and economic uncertainty. Working from portraits of famous American lives, like Frederick Douglas and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Purdy asks crucial questions about our relationship to liberty: Does capitalism perfect or destroy freedom? Does freedom mean following tradition, God’s word, or one’s own heart? Can a nation of individuals also be a community of citizens? This is history that speaks plainly to our lives today, urging readers to explore our understanding of our country and ourselves, and a provocative look at one of America’s cherished principles.
A Tolerable Anarchy
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Author : Jedediah Purdy
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2009
A Tolerable Anarchy written by Jedediah Purdy and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Liberty categories.
From a leading young intellectual and the author of For Common Things: a thoughtful and provocative look at the history and meaning of American freedom. Freedom has always been an essential part of American identity, shaping both our personal lives and our political beliefs. Now, Jedediah Purdy traces this ideal from the American Revolution to today's debates over national security, economic opportunity, and personal liberty. This book shows how freedom has inspired the country's best and worst moments--courage and emancipation, but also fear, delusion, and pointless war. Purdy grounds his theme in the stories of individuals: Frederick Douglass urging Americans to extend freedom to slaves; Ralph Waldo Emerson arguing for self-fulfillment as an essential part of liberty; reformers and presidents struggling to redefine citizenship in a fast-changing world. He asks essential questions: Does capitalism perfect or destroy freedom? Does freedom mean following God's word, tradition, or one's own heart? Can a nation of individualists also be a community of citizens? Throughout, he shows the paradox at the heart of American freedom: believing we have mastery of our own lives, we are increasingly thwarted by economic and political forces beyond our control. A Tolerable Anarchy is a book of history that speaks plainly to our lives today, urging us to claim our tradition of freedom in all its vitality.
For Common Things
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Author : Jedediah Purdy
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2010-11-24
For Common Things written by Jedediah Purdy and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-24 with Philosophy categories.
Jedediah Purdy calls For Common Things his "letter of love for the world's possibilities." Indeed, these pages--which garnered a flurry of attention among readers and in the media--constitute a passionate and persuasive testament to the value of political, social, and community reengagement. Drawing on a wide range of literary and cultural influences--from the writings of Montaigne and Thoreau to the recent popularity of empty entertainment and breathless chroniclers of the technological age--Purdy raises potent questions about our stewardship of civic values. Most important, Purdy offers us an engaging, honest, and bracing reminder of what is crucial to the healing and betterment of society, and impels us to consider all that we hold in common.
Anarchy And Order
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Author : Herbert Read
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
Anarchy And Order written by Herbert Read and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with categories.
Fidelity Constraint
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Author : Lawrence Lessig
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-04-03
Fidelity Constraint written by Lawrence Lessig and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-03 with Law categories.
The fundamental fact about our Constitution is that it is old -- the oldest written constitution in the world. The fundamental challenge for interpreters of the Constitution is how to read that old document over time. In Fidelity & Constraint, legal scholar Lawrence Lessig explains that one of the most basic approaches to interpreting the constitution is the process of translation. Indeed, some of the most significant shifts in constitutional doctrine are products of the evolution of the translation process over time. In every new era, judges understand their translations as instances of "interpretive fidelity," framed within each new temporal context. Yet, as Lessig also argues, there is a repeatedly occurring countermove that upends the process of translation. Throughout American history, there has been a second fidelity in addition to interpretive fidelity: what Lessig calls "fidelity to role." In each of the cycles of translation that he describes, the role of the judge -- the ultimate translator -- has evolved too. Old ways of interpreting the text now become illegitimate because they do not match up with the judge's perceived role. And when that conflict occurs, the practice of judges within our tradition has been to follow the guidance of a fidelity to role. Ultimately, Lessig not only shows us how important the concept of translation is to constitutional interpretation, but also exposes the institutional limits on this practice. The first work of both constitutional and foundational theory by one of America's leading legal minds, Fidelity & Constraint maps strategies that both help judges understand the fundamental conflict at the heart of interpretation whenever it arises and work around the limits it inevitably creates.
Anarchy
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
Anarchy written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Anarchism categories.
Anarchy And Legal Order
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Author : Gary Chartier
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013
Anarchy And Legal Order written by Gary Chartier and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Law categories.
This book elaborates and defends law without the state. It explains why the state is illegitimate, dangerous and unnecessary.
Against Anarchy
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Author : Cord-Christian Casper
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2020-08-24
Against Anarchy written by Cord-Christian Casper and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-24 with History categories.
'Against Anarchy' investigates the function of Anarchism in Early Modernist political fiction. The study explains how political novels from 1886 to 1911 narrate and evaluate the function of Anarchists as embodiments of a radical space beyond politics. The literary prevalence of Anarchists has so far not been connected systematically to its literary and political functions. The study addresses this research gap in detailed analyses of a radical theme in narratives by Joseph Conrad, Henry James, and G.K. Chesterton. It shows that each novel presents strategies of demarcation that allow turn-of-the-century Britain to project its cultural anxieties upon an imagined other, the dreaded figure labelled ‘Anarchist’. The political radical is set up as the foil against which comforting self-descriptions can be maintained. Rather than merely reproducing this boundary work, however, the novels also evaluate its function, both for the respective political system and for their own narrative capabilities — and present the consequences incurred by the loss of an anarchist outside. 'Against Anarchy' is a thorough cultural historiography of the politically other and marginal. At the same time, the study demonstrates that close attention to the specific literary image of Anarchism allows for a re-evaluation of political thought beyond its immediate historical moment — a literary political theory in its own right.
Anarchy In Action
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Author : Colin Ward
language : en
Publisher: PM Press
Release Date : 2018-01-15
Anarchy In Action written by Colin Ward and has been published by PM Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-15 with Political Science categories.
The argument of this book is that an anarchist society, a society which organizes itself without authority, is always in existence, like a seed beneath the snow, buried under the weight of the state and its bureaucracy, capitalism and its waste, privilege and its injustices, nationalism and its suicidal loyalties, religious differences and their superstitious separatism. Anarchist ideas are so much at variance with ordinary political assumptions and the solutions anarchists offer so remote, that all too often people find it hard to take anarchism seriously. This classic text is an attempt to bridge the gap between the present reality and anarchist aspirations, “between what is and what, according to the anarchists, might be.” Through a wide-ranging analysis—drawing on examples from education, urban planning, welfare, housing, the environment, the workplace, and the family, to name but a few—Colin Ward demonstrates that the roots of anarchist practice are not so alien or quixotic as they might at first seem but lie precisely in the ways that people have always tended to organize themselves when left alone to do so. The result is both an accessible introduction for those new to anarchism and pause for thought for those who are too quick to dismiss it. For more than thirty years, in over thirty books, Colin Ward patiently explained anarchist solutions to everything from vandalism to climate change—and celebrated unofficial uses of the landscape as commons, from holiday camps to squatter communities. Ward was an anarchist journalist and editor for almost sixty years, most famously editing the journal Anarchy. He was also a columnist for New Statesman, New Society, Freedom, and Town and Country Planning.
Community Anarchy And Liberty
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Author : Michael Taylor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
Community Anarchy And Liberty written by Michael Taylor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with categories.