Liberalism In An Illiberal Age

Author : Jack Mendelsohn
Publisher : Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
ISBN 13 : 9781558965058
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Being Liberal in an Illiberal Age written by Jack Mendelsohn and published by Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. This book was released on 2006 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eugene Lubot
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 0313232563
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberalism in an Illiberal Age written by Eugene Lubot and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1982-11-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eugene Lubot
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberalism in an Illiberal Age written by Eugene Lubot and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1982-11-19 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Donato Venosa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom Will Win—if Free Men Act! written by Robert Donato Venosa and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A proper understanding of liberal internationalism requires an appreciation of both its domestic and international aspects. This dissertation reconstructs and evaluates the debates on international order that occurred within the most influential non-state foreign policy organizations in Britain and the United States between the 1930s and the 1950s—the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA) and the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). The members of these two organizations played an integral role in the project to contrive a coherent intellectual framework for the largely incoherent and contentious system of liberal internationalism that the Allies had tried to impose in 1919. One of the hallmarks of liberal states is the prominence of non-state elites in the policymaking process. These non-state elites—just as much as the liberal internationalism they played an indispensable role in propagating—played a crucial role in the formation of a new foreign policy orthodoxy within the United States and Great Britain. But the nature and extent of the relationship between the liberal state and its non-state elites is contentious. In contrast with liberal and Marxist theorists—who argue that the liberal state is weak in comparison with either civil society or capitalist interests—I argue that the relationship between the liberal state and the CFR/Chatham House was one of symbiosis rather than of simple domination by one over the other. While the state in each instance was always the senior partner and always decided policy, the CFR and Chatham House nevertheless provided useful—arguably indispensable—functions for the liberal state in the formation and implementation of foreign policy.

Author : Raymond Aron
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412839907
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking Politically written by Raymond Aron and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking Politically brings together a series of remarkable interviews with Raymond Aron that form a political history of our time. Ranging over an entire lifetime, from his youthful experience with the rise of Nazi totalitarianism in Berlin to the denouement of the cold war, Aron meditates on the threats to liberty and reason in the bloody twentieth century. In addition to the interviews published in the original edition, Thinking Politically incorporates three interviews never before published in book form. This supplemental material clarifies Aron's role as a voice of prudential reason in an unreasonable age and allows unparalleled access to the principal influences on Aron's thought. The volume concludes with "Democratic States and Totalitarian States," an address by Aron to the French Philosophical Society as well as the accompanying debate with Jacques Maritain, Victor Basch, and other intellectuals.

Author : Ron Lipsman
Publisher : Ron Lipsman
ISBN 13 : 9780595463206
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberal Hearts and Conservative Brains written by Ron Lipsman and published by Ron Lipsman. This book was released on 2007 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Talk radio hosts seem to believe conservatives are from Mars and liberals are from Venus-two different species, in other words. Ron Lipsman's new book uses a mix of rational analysis and personal history to suggest there may be deeper psychological laws at work here that help shape our worldviews. He's on to something " -Elias Crim, Publishing Consultant. Professor Lipsman argues for a correlation between age and political philosophy, which asserts that young people tend to gravitate toward liberalism while older people are usually more comfortable with conservatism; and that, additionally, among the people who change their political preference over time, more go from liberal to conservative than vice versa; and finally, he assesses the strengths of these trends; examines the most interesting counter-examples to these trends--namely, premature conservatives and aging liberals-and explains what motivates them; presents a history of the liberal/conservative divide in America and then augments it with an assessment of its current status as well as a prediction of its future; "An insightful and witty examination of the values and beliefs that divide liberals and conservatives in America today. A penetrating look at the concept of the 'aging liberal', especially as it pertains to the Jewish and academic communities." -Bruce Bartlett, nationally syndicated columnist

Author : Fareed Zakaria
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393247694
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Defense of a Liberal Education written by Fareed Zakaria and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CNN host and best-selling author Fareed Zakaria argues for a renewed commitment to the world’s most valuable educational tradition. The liberal arts are under attack. The governors of Florida, Texas, and North Carolina have all pledged that they will not spend taxpayer money subsidizing the liberal arts, and they seem to have an unlikely ally in President Obama. While at a General Electric plant in early 2014, Obama remarked, "I promise you, folks can make a lot more, potentially, with skilled manufacturing or the trades than they might with an art history degree." These messages are hitting home: majors like English and history, once very popular and highly respected, are in steep decline. "I get it," writes Fareed Zakaria, recalling the atmosphere in India where he grew up, which was even more obsessed with getting a skills-based education. However, the CNN host and best-selling author explains why this widely held view is mistaken and shortsighted. Zakaria eloquently expounds on the virtues of a liberal arts education—how to write clearly, how to express yourself convincingly, and how to think analytically. He turns our leaders' vocational argument on its head. American routine manufacturing jobs continue to get automated or outsourced, and specific vocational knowledge is often outdated within a few years. Engineering is a great profession, but key value-added skills you will also need are creativity, lateral thinking, design, communication, storytelling, and, more than anything, the ability to continually learn and enjoy learning—precisely the gifts of a liberal education. Zakaria argues that technology is transforming education, opening up access to the best courses and classes in a vast variety of subjects for millions around the world. We are at the dawn of the greatest expansion of the idea of a liberal education in human history.

Author : Lionel Trilling
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590175514
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Liberal Imagination written by Lionel Trilling and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-07-18 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Liberal Imagination is one of the most admired and influential works of criticism of the last century, a work that is not only a masterpiece of literary criticism but an important statement about politics and society. Published in 1950, one of the chillier moments of the Cold War, Trilling’s essays examine the promise —and limits—of liberalism, challenging the complacency of a naïve liberal belief in rationality, progress, and the panaceas of economics and other social sciences, and asserting in their stead the irreducible complexity of human motivation and the tragic inevitability of tragedy. Only the imagination, Trilling argues, can give us access and insight into these realms and only the imagination can ground a reflective and considered, rather than programmatic and dogmatic, liberalism. Writing with acute intelligence about classics like Huckleberry Finn and the novels of Henry James and F. Scott Fitzgerald, but also on such varied matters as the Kinsey Report and money in the American imagination, Trilling presents a model of the critic as both part of and apart from his society, a defender of the reflective life that, in our ever more rationalized world, seems ever more necessary—and ever more remote.

Author : Peter Marber
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317291344
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of Liberal Arts in the Global Age written by Peter Marber and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advanced and developing countries across the globe are embracing the liberal arts approach in higher education to foster more innovative human capital to compete in the global economy. Even as interest in the tradition expands outside the United States, can the democratic philosophy underlying the liberal arts tradition be sustained? Can developing countries operating under heavy authoritarian systems cultivate schools predicated on open discussion and debate? Can entrenched specialist systems in Europe and Asia successfully adopt the multidisciplinary liberal arts model? These are some of the questions put to leading scholars and senior higher education practitioners within this edited collection. Beginning with historical context, international contributors explore the contours of liberal arts education amid public calls for change in the United States, the growing global interest in the approach outside the United States, as well as the potential of liberal arts philosophy in a global knowledge economy.

Author : Meir Hatina
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526142937
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arab liberal thought in the modern age written by Meir Hatina and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The provides in-depth analysis of Arab liberalism, which, although lacking public appeal and a compelling political underpinning, still sustained viability over time and remained a constant part of the Arab landscape.