Requiem For Modern Politics
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Requiem For Modern Politics
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Author : William Ophuls
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-05-20
Requiem For Modern Politics written by William Ophuls and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-20 with Political Science categories.
This long-promised sequel to Ophuls’s influential and controversial classic Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity is an equally provocative critique of the liberal philosophy of government. Ophuls contends that the modern political paradigm—that is, the body of political concepts and beliefs bequeathed to us by the Enlightenment—is no longer intellectually tenable or practically viable. Our attempt to live individualistically, hedonistically, and rationally has failed utterly, causing a comprehensive crisis that is at once political, military, economic, ecological, ethical, psychological, and spiritual. Liberal politics has abandoned virtue, rejected community, and flouted nature, thereby becoming the author of its own demise. By exposing the intrinsically contradictory and self-destructive character of Hobbesian political systems, Ophuls subverts our conventional wisdom at every turn. Indeed, his impassioned text reads more like a Greek tragedy than a conventional political argument. He critiques feminism, multiculturalism, the welfare state, and a host of other “liberal” shibboleths—but Ophuls is not yet another neoconservative. The aim of his thesis is far more radical and progressive, offering a political vision that entirely transcends the categories of liberal thought. His is a Thoreauvian vision of a “politics of consciousness” rooted in ecology as the moral and intellectual basis for governance in the twenty-first century. Ophuls holds that a polity based on a renewed erotic connection with nature offers a genuine solution to this crisis of contemporary civilization and that only within such a polity will it be possible to fulfill the worthy liberal goal of individual self-development. Ophuls’s work will interest and challenge a wide spectrum of readers, though it will not necessarily be well liked or easily accepted. No one will put down this book with his or her settled convictions about American culture intact, nor will readers ever again take modern civilization and its survival for granted.
Plato S Revenge
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Author : William Ophuls
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2011-08-19
Plato S Revenge written by William Ophuls and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-19 with Science categories.
A provocative essay that imagines a truly ecological future based on political transformation rather than the superficialities of “sustainability.” In this provocative call for a new ecological politics, William Ophuls starts from a radical premise: “sustainability” is impossible. We are on an industrial Titanic, fueled by rapidly depleting stocks of fossil hydrocarbons. Making the deck chairs from recyclable materials and feeding the boilers with biofuels is futile. In the end, the ship is doomed by the laws of thermodynamics and by the implacable biological and geological limits that are already beginning to pinch. Ophuls warns us that we are headed for a postindustrial future that, however technologically sophisticated, will resemble the preindustrial past in many important respects. With Plato's Revenge, Ophuls, author of Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity, envisions political and social transformations that will lead to a new natural-law politics based on the realities of ecology, physics, and psychology. In a discussion that ranges widely—from ecology to quantum physics to Jungian psychology to Eastern religion to Western political philosophy—Ophuls argues for an essentially Platonic politics of consciousness dedicated to inner cultivation rather than outward expansion and the pursuit of perpetual growth. We would then achieve a way of life that is materially and institutionally simple but culturally and spiritually rich, one in which humanity flourishes in harmony with nature.
Modern Politics
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Author : Eric Rowe
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-03-31
Modern Politics written by Eric Rowe and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-31 with Political Science categories.
Modern Politics (1969) is an introductory study of politics, with an emphasis on politics as a study in which the work particularly of sociologists and psychologists is increasingly relevant. It reflects the transfer of political study away from politics as the description and evaluation of ‘legal’ governments and their policies, towards politics as the study of the behaviour of individuals and groups who participate in the making and execution of public policy.
Desolation And Enlightenment
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Author : Ira Katznelson
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2003
Desolation And Enlightenment written by Ira Katznelson and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945). categories.
In this major intellectual history, Ira Katznelson examines the works of Hannah Arendt, Robert Dahl, Richard Hofstadter, Harold Lasswell, Charles Lindblom, Karl Polanyi, and David Truman, detailing their engagement with the larger project of reclaiming the West's moral bearing.
Modern Politics And Government
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Author : Alan R. Ball
language : en
Publisher: Chatham House Publishers
Release Date : 1994
Modern Politics And Government written by Alan R. Ball and has been published by Chatham House Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Political Science categories.
Some 150,000 copies of this book have been sold around the world, making Alan Ball's Modern Politics and Government one of the most widely used introductory texts available. Clearly written and straightforward, it demands no prior knowledge and is equally suitable for political science students and those taking a politics course as part of another social science degree. Starting from the definition of politics and the history of its study, it proceeds to introduce a variety of approaches and substantive aspects of political life, drawing examples from a wide range of states and political systems. The author discusses such basic concepts as power, authority, legitimacy, and political culture. He analyzes the characteristics underlying the different systems, including the post-communist systems that have emerged in the former USSR and Eastern Europe since 1989. The book looks at the major elements of the political process, judiciaries, and the political role of the military. The final part has been rewritten to analyze fully the nature of political change in the light of new approaches in political science and the collapse of communism.
A Dictionary Of Modern Politics
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Author : David Professor Robertson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-04-22
A Dictionary Of Modern Politics written by David Professor Robertson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-22 with Philosophy categories.
A comprehensive guide to the complex ideology/terminology which surrounds the world of politics. * Well over 500 extensive definitions * Defines political theories, dogmas and phraseologies * Terms such as Pacifism, Proportional Representation, Jihad, Son of Star Wars, Third Way and Consensual are explained clearly and succinctly * Invaluable for anyone concerned with politics or current affairs.
A Dictionary Of Modern Politics
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Author : David Robertson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 1993
A Dictionary Of Modern Politics written by David Robertson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Political Science categories.
"A Dictionary of Modern Politics", Third Edition, is a comprehensive guide to the complex ideology/terminology which surrounds the world of politics. It includes well over 500 extensive definitions and defines political theories, dogmas and phraseologies. It explains those ideas and institutions frequently referred to in the media, but rarely understood by the non-specialist. Terms such as peace-keeping, proportional representation, jihad, son of star wars, third way and consensual politics are explained clearly and succinctly. The dictionary is invaluable for anyone concerned with politics or current affairs.
A Guide To Modern Politics
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Author : George Douglas Howard Cole
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1936
A Guide To Modern Politics written by George Douglas Howard Cole and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1936 with Political science categories.
Rethinking The Foundations Of Modern Political Thought
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Author : Annabel Brett
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-12-07
Rethinking The Foundations Of Modern Political Thought written by Annabel Brett 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 2006-12-07 with Political Science categories.
Quentin Skinner's classic study The Foundations of Modern Political Thought was first published by Cambridge in 1978. This was the first of a series of outstanding publications that have changed forever the way the history of political thought is taught and practised. Rethinking the Foundations of Modern Political Thought looks afresh at the impact of the original work, asks why it still matters, and considers a number of significant agendas that it still inspires. A very distinguished international team of contributors has been assembled, including John Pocock, Richard Tuck and David Armitage, and the result is an unusually powerful and cohesive contribution to the history of ideas, of interest to large numbers of students of early modern history and political thought. In conclusion, Skinner replies to each chapter and presents his own thoughts on the latest trends and the future direction of the history of political thought.
Introduction To Modern Politics
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Author : Ferdinand Aloys Hermens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
Introduction To Modern Politics written by Ferdinand Aloys Hermens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with Political Science categories.