Revolution And Its Discontents
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Revolution And Its Discontents
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Author : Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-02-21
Revolution And Its Discontents written by Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi 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 2019-02-21 with History categories.
With a focus on the political elite, Sadeghi-Boroujerdi analysis the intellectual and political trajectory of post-revolutionary Iranian reformism.
Terror And Its Discontents
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Author : Caroline Weber
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2003-01-01
Terror And Its Discontents written by Caroline Weber and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-01 with History categories.
Camille Desmoulins, a journalist writing under the Montagnard regime of 1793-94, remarked that France's government had replaced "the language of democracy" with "the cold poison of fear, which paralyzed thought in the bottom of people's souls, and prevented it from pouring forth at the tribunal, or in writing." How this happened, how the Reign of Terror reached even into the realms of thought and language, is the subject of Caroline Weber's book, a revealing look into the paradoxical embargo on free expression that underpinned the Robespierrists' self-proclaimed "despotism of liberty" during the French Revolution. Weber examines Jean-Jacques Rousseau's and the Robespierrists' articulation of a series of initiatives designed to curtail and control the dissemination of alternative political and philosophical messages in the republic. Here Weber underscores the internal contradictions and limitations of an enterprise that promised universal freedom while oppressing particularism, and that railed against the very language that it was compelled to adopt as a principal political tool. The book then focuses on two eloquent contemporary critics of this phenomenon, Desmoulins and the Marquis de Sade, the infamous libertine author. Weber demonstrates how Desmoulins reconfigured the Montagnard regime's rhetoric to conjure up a political system based on tolerance, not terror, and how Sade deftly parodied the Robespierrists' brutality and hypocrisy, proposing a republic based on the ruthless elimination of dissident voices and on the unabashed celebration of despotism and bloodshed. A balanced account of how the "discourse of totality" actually restricted particular freedoms in the wake of theFrench Revolution, this book provides a highly original--and timely--exposition of the political uses of rhetoric and of the links between language and power.
Italy And Its Discontents 1980 2001
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Author : Paul Ginsborg
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2003-01-30
Italy And Its Discontents 1980 2001 written by Paul Ginsborg and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-30 with History categories.
In this long-awaited book (already a major bestseller in Italy) Ginsborg has created a fascinating, sophisticated and definitive account of how Italy has coped, or failed to cope, with the past two decades. Contemporary Italy strongly mirrors Britain - the countries have roughly the same extent, population size and GNP - and yet they are fantastically different. Ginsborg sees this difference as most fundamentally clear in the role of the family and it is the family which is at the heart of Italian politics and business. Anyone wishing to understand contemporary Italy will find it essential to have this enormously attractive and intelligent book.
Representation And Its Discontents
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Author : Azade Seyhan
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1992-02-24
Representation And Its Discontents written by Azade Seyhan and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-02-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
"An admirable accomplishment of rare intellectual rigor."—Hinrich C. Seeba, University of California, Berkeley
The Digital Age And Its Discontents
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Author : Matteo Stocchetti
language : en
Publisher: Helsinki University Press
Release Date : 2020-08-11
The Digital Age And Its Discontents written by Matteo Stocchetti and has been published by Helsinki University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-11 with Social Science categories.
Three decades into the ‘digital age’, the promises of emancipation of the digital ‘revolution’ in education are still unfulfilled. Furthermore, digitalization seems to generate new and unexpected challenges – for example, the unwarranted influence of digital monopolies, the radicalization of political communication, and the facilitation of mass surveillance, to name a few. This volume is a study of the downsides of digitalization and the re-organization of the social world that seems to be associated with it. In a critical perspective, technological development is not a natural but a social process: not autonomous from but very much dependent upon the interplay of forces and institutions in society. While influential forces seek to establish the idea that the practices of formal education should conform to technological change, here we support the view that education can challenge the capitalist appropriation of digital technology and, therefore, the nature and direction of change associated with it. This volume offers its readers intellectual prerequisites for critical engagement. It addresses themes such as Facebook’s response to its democratic discontents, the pedagogical implications of algorithmic knowledge and quantified self, as well as the impact of digitalization on academic profession. Finally, the book offers some elements to develop a vision of the role of education: what should be done in education to address the concerns that new communication technologies seem to pose more risks than opportunities for freedom and democracy.
Winners And Losers Of The Information Revolution
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Author : Bernard Carl Rosen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Winners And Losers Of The Information Revolution written by Bernard Carl Rosen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Elite (Social sciences) categories.
Innovation And Its Discontents
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Author : Adam B. Jaffe
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2011-05-27
Innovation And Its Discontents written by Adam B. Jaffe 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 2011-05-27 with Business & Economics categories.
The United States patent system has become sand rather than lubricant in the wheels of American progress. Such is the premise behind this provocative and timely book by two of the nation's leading experts on patents and economic innovation. Innovation and Its Discontents tells the story of how recent changes in patenting--an institutional process that was created to nurture innovation--have wreaked havoc on innovators, businesses, and economic productivity. Jaffe and Lerner, who have spent the past two decades studying the patent system, show how legal changes initiated in the 1980s converted the system from a stimulator of innovation to a creator of litigation and uncertainty that threatens the innovation process itself. In one telling vignette, Jaffe and Lerner cite a patent litigation campaign brought by a a semi-conductor chip designer that claims control of an entire category of computer memory chips. The firm's claims are based on a modest 15-year old invention, whose scope and influenced were broadened by secretly manipulating an industry-wide cooperative standard-setting body. Such cases are largely the result of two changes in the patent climate, Jaffe and Lerner contend. First, new laws have made it easier for businesses and inventors to secure patents on products of all kinds, and second, the laws have tilted the table to favor patent holders, no matter how tenuous their claims. After analyzing the economic incentives created by the current policies, Jaffe and Lerner suggest a three-pronged solution for restoring the patent system: create incentives to motivate parties who have information about the novelty of a patent; provide multiple levels of patent review; and replace juries with judges and special masters to preside over certain aspects of infringement cases. Well-argued and engagingly written, Innovation and Its Discontents offers a fresh approach for enhancing both the nation's creativity and its economic growth.
The Cause The American Revolution And Its Discontents 1773 1783
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Author : Joseph J. Ellis
language : en
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Release Date : 2021-09-21
The Cause The American Revolution And Its Discontents 1773 1783 written by Joseph J. Ellis and has been published by Liveright Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-21 with History categories.
New York Times Book Review — Editors’ Choice • Chicago Tribune — "60 Best Reads for Right Now" • St. Louis Post-Dispatch — "50 Fall Books You Should Consider Reading" Challenging conventional wisdom, The Cause offers a “necessary” (John S. Gardner, Guardian) account of the origins and clashing ideologies of America’s revolutionary era. For Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Joseph J. Ellis, The Cause marks the culmination of a lifetime of engagement with the founding era, completing a trilogy of books that began with Founding Brothers. Here Ellis, countering popular histories that romanticize the “Spirit of ’76,” demonstrates through “evocative profiles of British loyalists, slaves, Native Americans and soldiers uncertain of what was being founded” (Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune) that the rebels fought not for a nation but under the mantle of “The Cause,” a mutable, conveniently ambiguous principle all but destined to give rise to the warring factions of later American history. Combining action-packed tales of North American military campaigns with characteristically trenchant insight, The Cause “deftly foreshadows all the issues that would complicate America’s trajectory” (Richard Stengel, New York Times Book Review), forcing us to finally reconsider the story we have long told ourselves about our origins—as a people, and as a nation. “At the intersection of his expertise and our need for coherence about our national founding arrives historian Joseph J. Ellis. . . . Ellis is no apologist, but he is a chronicler of the entire revolution, its best aspirations, its worst contradictions, and its ongoing dilemmas.” —Hugh Hewitt, Washington Post
Modern Liberty And Its Discontents
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Author : Pierre Manent
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 1998
Modern Liberty And Its Discontents written by Pierre Manent and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Philosophy categories.
In this book, distinguished French philosopher Pierre Manent addresses a wide range of subjects, including the Machiavellian origins of modernity, Tocqueville's analysis of democracy, the political role of Christianity, the nature of totalitarianism, and the future of the nation-state. As a whole, the book constitutes a meditation on the nature of modern freedom and the permanent discontents which accompany it. Modern Liberty and its Discontents is both an important contribution to an understanding of modern society, and a significant contribution to political philosophy in its own right.
Utopia S Discontents
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Author : Faith Hillis
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021
Utopia S Discontents written by Faith Hillis 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 2021 with History categories.
Utopia's Discontents provides the first synthetic treatment of the Russian revolutionary emigration before the Revolution. It argues that neighborhoods created by Russian exiles became sites of revolutionary experimentation that offered their residents a taste of their anticipated utopian future.