Trump And Political Philosophy

Author : Angel Jaramillo Torres
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319744453
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trump and Political Philosophy written by Angel Jaramillo Torres and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to recover from ancient and modern thinkers valuable arguments about statesmanship, leadership, and tyranny which illuminate reassessments of political science and practice after the election of Donald Trump. Like almost everyone else, contemporary political scientists were blind-sided by the rise of Trump. No one expected a candidate to win who repeatedly violated both political norms and the conventional wisdom about campaign best practices. Yet many of the puzzles that Trump’s rise presents have been examined by the great political philosophers of the past. For example, it would come as no surprise to Plato that by its very emphasis on popularity, democracy creates the potential for tyranny via demagoguery. And, perhaps no problem is more alien to empirical political science than asking if statesmanship entails virtue or if so, in what that virtue consists: This is a theme treated by Plato, Aristotle, and Machiavelli, among others. Covering a range of thinkers such as Confucius, Plutarch, Kant, Tocqueville, and Deleuze, the essays in this book then seek to place the rise of Trump and the nature of his political authority within a broader institutional context than is possible for mainstream political science.

Author : Marc Benjamin Sable
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319744275
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trump and Political Philosophy written by Marc Benjamin Sable and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to address the relation of political philosophy and Donald Trump as a political phenomenon through the notions of patriotism, cosmopolitanism, and civic virtue. Political philosophers have been prescient in explaining trends that may explain our political misgivings. Madison warned during the debates on the Constitution that democracies are vulnerable to factions based on passion for personalities and beliefs; various continental thinkers have addressed the problem of nihilism—the modern loss of faith in objective standards of truth and morality—that in Max Weber’s analysis pointed to the importance of charisma, in Carl Schmitt’s to the idea that politics is essentially rooted in the definition of friends and enemies, and in early Heidegger resulted in the emphasis on the enduring significance of local, rather than cosmopolitan values. The former concerns—regarding demagoguery, charisma and nihilism—will enable an evaluation of Trump as a political character, while the latter concerns—regarding the status of universal versus local values—will enable us to evaluate the content of “Trumpism.” Taken together, these essays seek to advance the public conversation about the relationship between the rise of Trump and the ideological forces that seek to justify that rise.

Author : Andrew Fiala
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538160498
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tyranny from Plato to Trump written by Andrew Fiala and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power grabs, partisan stand-offs, propaganda, and riots make for tantalizing fiction, but what do we do when that drama becomes a reality all around us? For a country founded as an escape from British tyranny, the United States seems to have devolved into a land where tyrants rise to power, sycophants blindly follow, and the entire nation suffers. As ancient Greek philosophers warned us, chaotic tragedy unfolds in the absence of reason, and the only cure is a return to wisdom and virtue. America’s founding fathers knew this lesson all too well and dreamed of an enlightened citizenry guided by better-than-ideological dictators. Using contemporary events to illuminate universal human weaknesses, Andrew Fiala charts the perennial history of tyrannical takeovers and the masses who support them and ultimately suffer under their rule. Ultimately, Fiala also points to a solution. Knowing the cyclical nature of tyranny, we can build safeguards against our worst inclinations and keep alive the freedoms our founding fathers envisioned for this nation.

Author : Philip Morningwood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Philosophy and Accomplishments of President Donald J. Trump written by Philip Morningwood and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes in exquisite detail the political thoughts of president Donald Trump. The range of topics is wide: taxes, defense, immigration, women's rights, climate change, foreign relations, technology, to name a few.

Author : Alain Badiou
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509536094
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trump written by Alain Badiou and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States sent shockwaves across the globe. How was such an outcome even possible? In two lectures given at American universities in the immediate aftermath of the election, the leading French philosopher Alain Badiou helps us to make sense of this extraordinary occurrence. He argues that Trump's victory was the symptom of a global crisis made up of four characteristics: the triumph of a brutal form of global capitalism, the decomposition of the established political elite, the growing frustration and disorientation that many people feel today, and the absence of a compelling alternative vision. It was in this context that Trump could emerge as a new kind of political figure that was both inside and outside the political order, a member of the Republican Party who, at the same time, represents something outside the system. The progressive political challenge now is to create something new that offers people a real choice, a radical alternative based on principles of universality and equality. This concise account of the meaning of Trump should be read by everyone who wants to understand what is happening in our world today.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004431608
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Question of Truth in the Era of Trump written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utilizes critical theory perspectives to examine the construction of truth and relativism with a focus on the role of the media in the wake of the 2016 election.

Author : Aaron James
Publisher : Doubleday
ISBN 13 : 0385542046
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Assholes: A Theory of Donald Trump written by Aaron James and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make America Great Again? Donald Trump is an asshole is a fact widely agreed upon—even by his supporters, who actually like that about him. But his startling political rise makes the question of just what sort of asshole he is, and how his assholedom may help to explain his success, one not just of philosophical interest but of almost existential urgency. Enter the philosopher Aaron James, author of the foundational text in the burgeoning field of Asshole Studies: the bestselling Assholes: A Theory. In this brisk and trenchant inquiry into the phenomenon that is Donald Trump, James places the man firmly in the typology of the asshole (takes every advantage, entrenched sense of entitlement, immune to criticism); considers whether, in the Hobbesian world we seem to inhabit, he might not somehow be a force for good—i.e., the Stronger Asshole; and offers a suggestion for how the bonds of our social contract, spectacularly broken by Trump’s (and Ted Cruz’s) disdain for democratic civility, might in time be repaired. You will never think about Donald Trump and his Art of the Deal the same way after reading this book. And, like it or not, think about him we must.

Author : Zachary Callen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 081225208X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Political Development and the Trump Presidency written by Zachary Callen and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a book about Trump's presidency that makes a brief for the subfield of American political development (in the field of political science). Four factors are considered in this book: (1) the American political party system and partisanship; (2) the saliency of race; (3) the role of the state in American politics; and (4) the fate of democracy"--

Author : Bradley S. Klein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000572536
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Citizenship After Trump written by Bradley S. Klein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Citizenship After Trump, political theorists Bradley S. Klein and Scott G. Nelson explore the meaning of community in the context of intense political polarization, the surge of far-right nationalism and deepening divisions during the coronavirus pandemic. With both Trumpism and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic greatly testing American democracy, the authors examine the political, economic and cultural challenges that remain after the Trump Administration’s exceedingly inept leadership response. They explore the promise and limits of democracy relative to long-standing traditions of American political thought. The book argues that all Americans should consider the claims of citizenship amidst the forces consolidating today around narrow conceptions of race, nation, ethnicity and religion—each of which imperils the institutions of democracy and strikes at the heart of the country’s political culture. Chapters on the media, political economy, fascism and social democracy explore what Americans have gotten so wrong politically and considers what kind of vision can, in the years ahead, lead the country out of a truly dangerous impasse. Citizenship After Trump is an invaluable and timely resource for self-critical analysis and will stimulate focused discussions about as yet unexplored regions of America’s political history.

Author : Shmuel Nili
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198872186
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosophizing the Indefensible written by Shmuel Nili and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-25 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophizing the indefensible asks what distinctive contributions political philosophers might make when reflecting on blatant moral failures in public policy - the kinds of failures that philosophers usually dismiss as theoretically un-interesting, even if practically important. This book argues that political philosophers can and should craft “strategic” arguments for public policy reforms, showing how morally urgent reforms can be grounded, for the sake of discussion, even in problematic premises associated with their opponents. The book starts by developing the general contours of this approach - defending its general moral value in a democratic society, and examining how far one might go in strategically deploying dubious or even repugnant premises in debating public affairs. The book then applies strategic theorizing to a set of diverse policy issues. These range from the abortion debate and financial regulation in the United States, through controversies surrounding the participation of Arab parties in Israel's political process, to global issues, such as commercial ties with oil-rich dictatorships, and the bearing of such ties on global climate change.