Passions Politics And The Limits Of Society

Author : Heikki Haara
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110679868
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Passions, Politics and the Limits of Society written by Heikki Haara and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1st part of the volume engages with the theme of inclusion and exclusion in the history of ideas from different perspectives. The 2nd part of the volume discusses debates on natural law, human nature and political economy in early-modern Europe. Its contributions explore the sorts of political and moral visions that were relevant in post-Hobbesian moral philosophy and the development of economic thought.

Author : American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. Meeting
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814794114
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Toleration and Its Limits written by American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. Meeting and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Jean Bethke Elshtain
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268161143
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Augustine and the Limits of Politics written by Jean Bethke Elshtain and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now with a new foreword by Patrick J. Deneen. Jean Bethke Elshtain brings Augustine's thought into the contemporary political arena and presents an Augustine who created a complex moral map that offers space for loyalty, love, and care, as well as a chastened form of civic virtue. The result is a controversial book about one of the world's greatest and most complex thinkers whose thought continues to haunt all of Western political philosophy. What is our business "within this common mortal life?" Augustine asks and bids us to ask ourselves. What can Augustine possibly have to say about the conditions that characterize our contemporary society and appear to put democracy in crisis? Who is Augustine for us now and what do his words have to do with political theory? These are the underlying questions that animate Jean Bethke Elshtain's fascinating engagement with the thought and work of Augustine, the ancient thinker who gave no political theory per se and refused to offer up a positive utopia. In exploring the questions, Why Augustine, why now? Elshtain argues that Augustine's great works display a canny and scrupulous attunement to the here and now and the very real limits therein. She discusses other aspects of Augustine's thought as well, including his insistence that no human city can be modeled on the heavenly city, and further elaborates on Hannah Arendt's deep indebtedness to Augustine's understanding of evil. Elshtain also presents Augustine's arguments against the pridefulness of philosophy, thereby linking him to later currents in modern thought, including Wittgenstein and Freud.

Author : Damián J. Fernández
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292725201
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cuba and the Politics of Passion written by Damián J. Fernández and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2000-12-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cuban politics has long been remarkable for its passionate intensity, and yet few scholars have explored the effect of emotions on political attitudes and action in Cuba or elsewhere. This book thus offers an important new approach by bringing feelings back into the study of politics and showing how the politics of passion and affection have interacted to shape Cuban history throughout the twentieth century. Damián Fernández characterizes the politics of passion as the pursuit of a moral absolute for the nation as a whole. While such a pursuit rallied the Cuban people around charismatic leaders such as Fidel Castro, Fernández finds that it also set the stage for disaffection and disconnection when the grand goal never fully materialized. At the same time, he reveals how the politics of affection-taking care of family and friends outside the formal structures of government-has paradoxically both undermined state regimes and helped them remain in power by creating an informal survival network that provides what the state cannot or will not.

Author : Christopher Bickerton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134113862
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics Without Sovereignty written by Christopher Bickerton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The classical doctrine of sovereignty is widely seen as totalitarian, producing external aggression and internal repression. This book attempts to challenge the trend in international relations scholarship - the common antipathy to sovereignty. It is suitable for scholars of political science, international relations, security studies, and others." -- WorldCat.

Author : Bruce Shefrin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000301710
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future Of U.s. Politics In An Age Of Economic Limits written by Bruce Shefrin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-18 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the future of U.S. politics begins with an in-depth examination of the political, social, and economic dynamics of the present. Dr. Shefrin demonstrates that economic growth has been a key element in maintaining political stability by diverting the attention of materially deprived groups away from disruptive political activity. Examining the interaction of technological and political forces in the physical and social environment, he argues that an expectation of economic limits is reasonable—and perhaps undeniable—and focuses on the changes in the political system that can be anticipated in a no-growth or slow-growth society. Dr. Shefrin employs a nondeterministic "social choice" approach to reach the conclusion that, because the shape of the future is of major political significance, it will be the focus of intense political conflict. The four scenarios he presents reflect the major alternative directions possible for U.S. society, according to current social theory. Dr. Shefrin feels that the conflict among supporters of these alternatives will constitute the politics of the future.

Author : Cheryl Hall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135336474
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Trouble With Passion written by Cheryl Hall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political theorists have long argued that passion has no place in the political realm where reason reigns supreme. But, is this dichotomy between reason and passion sustainable? Does it underestimate the indispensable role of passion in a fully democratic society? Drawing upon Plato, Rousseau, and contemporary feminist theorists, Cheryl Hall argues that passion is an essential component of a just political community and that the need to educate passion together with reason is paramount. Trouble with Passion provides a compelling defense of the crucial place of passion in politics.

Author : Andrew Sabl
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400825008
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ruling Passions written by Andrew Sabl and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should politicians act? When should they try to lead public opinion and when should they follow it? Should politicians see themselves as experts, whose opinions have greater authority than other people's, or as participants in a common dialogue with ordinary citizens? When do virtues like toleration and willingness to compromise deteriorate into moral weakness? In this innovative work, Andrew Sabl answers these questions by exploring what a democratic polity needs from its leaders. He concludes that there are systematic, principled reasons for the holders of divergent political offices or roles to act differently. Sabl argues that the morally committed civil rights activist, the elected representative pursuing legislative results, and the grassroots organizer determined to empower ordinary citizens all have crucial democratic functions. But they are different functions, calling for different practices and different qualities of political character. To make this case, he draws on political theory, moral philosophy, leadership studies, and biographical examples ranging from Everett Dirksen to Ella Baker, Frances Willard to Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King Jr. to Joe McCarthy. Ruling Passions asks democratic theorists to pay more attention to the "governing pluralism" that characterizes a diverse, complex democracy. It challenges moral philosophy to adapt its prescriptions to the real requirements of democratic life, to pay more attention to the virtues of political compromise and the varieties of human character. And it calls on all democratic citizens to appreciate "democratic constancy": the limited yet serious standard of ethical character to which imperfect democratic citizens may rightly hold their leaders--and themselves.

Author : Wiktor Osiatyński
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521110270
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights and Their Limits written by Wiktor Osiatyński and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-21 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that human rights should be balanced with other values that are indispensable for social harmony and personal happiness.

Author : Mary Anne Franks
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503609103
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cult of the Constitution written by Mary Anne Franks and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A powerful challenge to the prevailing constitutional orthodoxy of the right and the left . . . A deeply troubling and absolutely vital book” (Mark Joseph Stern, Slate). In this provocative book, Mary Anne Franks examines the thin line between constitutional fidelity and constitutional fundamentalism. The Cult of the Constitution reveals how deep fundamentalist strains in both conservative and liberal American thought keep the Constitution in the service of white male supremacy. Franks demonstrates how constitutional fundamentalists read the Constitution selectively and self-servingly, thus undermining the integrity of the document as a whole. She goes on to argue that economic and civil libertarianism have merged to produce a deregulatory, “free-market” approach to constitutional rights that achieves fullest expression in the idealization of the Internet. The fetishization of the first and second amendments has blurred the boundaries between conduct and speech and between veneration and violence. But the Constitution itself contains the antidote to fundamentalism. The Cult of the Constitution lays bare the dark, antidemocratic consequences of constitutional fundamentalism and urges readers to take the Constitution seriously, not selectively.