Lament For Democracy And Other Essays

Author : John Cooke
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359356168
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book LAMENT FOR DEMOCRACY AND OTHER ESSAYS written by John Cooke and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-01-12 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Sheldon S. Wolin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691183279
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fugitive Democracy written by Sheldon S. Wolin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : John Cooke
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0359948502
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sublime Lunacy written by John Cooke and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Hartley Burr Alexander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberty and Democracy written by Hartley Burr Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hartley Burr Alexander
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781020853074
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberty and Democracy written by Hartley Burr Alexander and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Alfred Zimmern
Publisher : London, Chatto
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prospects of Democracy, and Other Essays written by Alfred Zimmern and published by London, Chatto. This book was released on 1929 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Astra Taylor
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1250179858
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy May Not Exist, But We'll Miss It When It's Gone written by Astra Taylor and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is democracy really? What do we mean when we use the term? And can it ever truly exist?Astra Taylor, hailed as a “New Civil Rights Leader” by the Los Angeles Times, provides surprising answers. There is no shortage of democracy, at least in name, and yet it is in crisis everywhere we look. From a cabal of plutocrats in the White House to gerrymandering and dark-money compaign contributions, it is clear that the principle of government by and for the people is not living up to its promise. The problems lie deeper than any one election cycle. As Astra Taylor demonstrates, real democracy—fully inclusive and completely egalitarian—has in fact never existed. In a tone that is both philosophical and anecdotal, weaving together history, theory, the stories of individuals, and interviews with such leading thinkers as Cornel West and Wendy Brown, Taylor invites us to reexamine the term. Is democracy a means or an end, a process or a set of desired outcomes? What if those outcomes, whatever they may be—peace, prosperity, equality, liberty, an engaged citizenry—can be achieved by non-democratic means? In what areas of life should democratic principles apply? If democracy means rule by the people, what does it mean to rule and who counts as the people? Democracy's inherent paradoxes often go unnamed and unrecognized. Exploring such questions, Democracy May Not Exist offers a better understanding of what is possible, what we want, why democracy is so hard to realize, and why it is worth striving for.

Author : Judith Lichtenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521388177
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy and the Mass Media written by Judith Lichtenberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-05-25 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays discuss US policy in regulating the media and the reconciliation of the First Amendment.

Author : Leland Harper
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648893953
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crisis of American Democracy: Essays on a Failing Institution written by Leland Harper and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in “The Crisis of American Democracy: Essays on a Failing Institution” seek to answer central questions about American democracy, such as: if American democracy is failing, what are the causes of this failure? What are the consequences? And what can be done to fix it? These standalone essays present diverse perspectives on some of the impediments to achieving a true democracy in the present-day United States of America, as well as prescriptions for overcoming these obstacles. Leading academics from across North America, contribute their perspectives on this timely debate.

Author : Aryeh Botwinick
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691074666
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy and Vision written by Aryeh Botwinick and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-22 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.