Lament For Democracy And Other Essays
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Lament For Democracy And Other Essays
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Author : John Cooke
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2020-01-12
Lament For Democracy And Other Essays written by John Cooke and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The essays in this volume are, at first sight, a curiously varied assortment. Written solely for personal pleasure, without intention or expectation of publication, many have long lain forgotten, gathering digital dust over many years. Except for those covering aspects of Balinese culture and history, they possess no unifying theme to justify inclusion. They range from the semi-academic to the frivolous, from the serious to the trivial. One essay explores an unexpected connection between narcissism and travel, another considers possibilities of life in the hereafter. Art and Disability is discussed next to atomic weapons, high crimes and nuclear misdemeanors. A comic village dispute in the depths of rural France is juxtaposed against the dramatic discovery of a new-found family uncovered by untangling threads of DNA. It is manifestly a strange collection, offered without excuse or apology in the hope that readers may perhaps find something to interest or amuse.
Fugitive Democracy
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Author : Sheldon S. Wolin
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2018-11-13
Fugitive Democracy written by Sheldon S. Wolin and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-13 with Political Science categories.
An authoritative collection of the most important writings of an influential political thinker Sheldon Wolin was one of the most influential and original political thinkers of the past fifty years. In Fugitive Democracy, the breathtaking range of Wolin’s scholarship, political commitment, and critical acumen are on full display in this authoritative and accessible collection of essays. This book brings together his most important writings, from classic essays to his late radical essays on American democracy such as "Fugitive Democracy," in which he offers a controversial reinterpretation of democracy as an episodic phenomenon distinct from the routinized political management that passes for democracy today. Wolin critically engages a diverse range of political theorists, and grapples with topics such as power, modernization, the sixties, revolutionary politics, and inequality, all the while showcasing enduring commitment to writing civic-minded theoretical commentary on the most pressing political issues of the day. Fugitive Democracy offers enduring insights into many of today’s most pressing political predicaments, and introduces a whole new generation of readers to this provocative figure in contemporary political thought.
Sublime Lunacy
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Author : John Cooke
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2020-01-10
Sublime Lunacy written by John Cooke and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Sublime Lunacy is a collection of random anecdotes and recollections resurrected in old age from a musty attic full of memories-often in response to gentle prompting from Bacchus. From a childhood encounter with a U-Boat in mid-Atlantic, to incarceration in a Macedonian gaol; from the joys of foot safaris in Africa, to the delight of hearing pure Elizabethan English in the high pastures of the Zagros Mountains; from the rigours of an English Public School education, to the dangerous freedoms of undergraduate life at Oxford; from rock climbing on crags and colleges, to dining with Japanese royalty. Sublime Lunacy combines travel and exploration with stories of natural history and scientific research. It is presented for public scrutiny in the hope that readers might find something to interest or amuse among this residue of a life well spent.
Liberty And Democracy
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Author : Hartley Burr Alexander
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2023-07-18
Liberty And Democracy written by Hartley Burr Alexander and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-18 with categories.
Alexander's essays are a powerful testament to the enduring importance of democracy in times of crisis. Drawing on his deep knowledge of history and philosophy, he makes a compelling case for the essential role that individual freedom and collective action must play in the struggle for a just and peaceful world. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Prospects Of Democracy And Other Essays
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Author : Alfred Zimmern
language : en
Publisher: London, Chatto
Release Date : 1929
The Prospects Of Democracy And Other Essays written by Alfred Zimmern and has been published by London, Chatto this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1929 with International cooperation categories.
Liberty And Democracy
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-02-18
Liberty And Democracy written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-18 with History categories.
Democracy And Vision
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Author : Aryeh Botwinick
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2018-06-05
Democracy And Vision written by Aryeh Botwinick and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-05 with Philosophy categories.
American democracy faces severe challenges today, as everyday life gathers pace, national borders become increasingly porous, and commodity culture becomes more dominant. Democracy and Vision assembles a cast of prominent political theorists to consider the problems confronting political life by reviewing, assessing, and expanding on the ideas of one of the most influential political thinkers of the past forty years, Sheldon Wolin. The book consists of three sections linked by the underlying theme of Wolin's monumental effort to define ''the political'' and the conditions of democratic life. In the first, Nicholas Xenos, George Kateb, Fred Dallmayr, and Charles Taylor focus, in particular, on whether mass political participation, sustainable in times of upheaval as what Wolin aptly termed ''fugitive democracy,'' can be buoyed by political institutions during periods of stability. In the second section, Wendy Brown, Aryeh Botwinick, Melissa A. Orlie, and Anne Norton examine the relevance of Wolin's ideas to current debates about, for example, social diversity and the commercialization of culture. In the last, Stephen K. White, Kirstie M. McClure, Michael J. Shapiro, and J. Peter Euben address globalization and temporality in relation to Wolin's narrative of decline, asking, among other things, whether citizenship today must incorporate a cosmopolitan dimension. These essays--and an introduction by William Connolly that lucidly outlines Wolin's thought and the deep uncertainty about political theory in the 1960s that did much to inspire his work--offer unprecedented insights into Wolin's lament that modernity has meant the loss of the political.
Privilege And Liberty And Other Essays In Political Philosophy
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Author : Aurel Kolnai
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 1999-10-27
Privilege And Liberty And Other Essays In Political Philosophy written by Aurel Kolnai and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-10-27 with Political Science categories.
We are currently witnessing an increasingly influential counterrevolution in political theory, evident in the dialectical return to classical political science pioneered most prominently by Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin. In this context, the work of the relatively unknown Aurel Kolnai is of great importance. Kolnai was one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century to place the restoration of common-sense evaluation and philosophical realism at the center of his philosophical and political itinerary. In this volume, Daniel J. Mahoney presents Kolnai's major writings in political philosophy, writings that explore - in ways that are diverse but complementary - Kolnai's critique of progressive or egalitarian democracy. The title essay contains Kolnai's fullest account of the limits of liberty understood as emancipation from traditional, natural, or divine restraints. 'The Utopian Mind,' a pr_cis of Kolnai's critique of utopianism in a posthumous book of the same title, appears here for the first time. 'Conservative and Revolutionary Ethos,' Kolnai's remarkable 1972 essay comparing conservative and revolutionary approaches to political life, appears for the first time in English translation. The volume also includes a critically sympathetic evaluation of Michael Oakeshott's Rationalism in Politics and an incisive criticism of Jacques Maritain's efforts to synthesize Christian orthodoxy and progressive politics. Privilege and Liberty and Other Essays in Political Philosophy is a searching critique of political utopianism, as well as a pathbreaking articulation of conservative constitutionalism as the true support for human liberty properly understood. It is a major contribution to Christian and conservative political reflection in our time.
Democracy And The Mass Media
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Author : Judith Lichtenberg
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1990-05-25
Democracy And The Mass Media written by Judith Lichtenberg 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 1990-05-25 with Philosophy categories.
These essays discuss US policy in regulating the media and the reconciliation of the First Amendment.
Civil Rights And The Paradox Of Liberal Democracy
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Author : Bradley C. S. Watson
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 1999
Civil Rights And The Paradox Of Liberal Democracy written by Bradley C. S. Watson and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Philosophy categories.
In Civil Rights and the Paradox of Liberal Democracy, Bradley Watson demonstrates the paradox of liberal democracy: that its cornerstone principles of equality and freedom are principles inherently directed toward undermining it. Modernity, beyond bringing definition to political equality, unleashed a whirlwind of individualism, which feeds the soul's basic impulse to rule without limitationincluding the limitation of consent. Here Watson begins his analysis of the foundations of liberalism, looking carefully and critically at the moral and political philosophies that justify modern civil rights litigation. He goes on to examine the judicial manifestations of the paradox of liberal democracy, seeking to bring a broad philosophical coherence to legal decision making in the United States and Canada. Finally, Watson illuminates the extent to which this decision making is in tension with liberal democracy, and outlines proposals for reform.