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Sale: $19.96
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Manufacturer: Humanity Press/prometheus Bk
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David Conway
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Publisher: Humanity Press/prometheus Bk
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Publication Date: 1998-10-05
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: Political philosophy is widely regarded as having been revived by the publication in 1971 of John Rawls' "Theory of Justice". That work defended welfare state liberalism, at that time the prevailing orthodoxy. A challenge was put to this orthodoxy by the publication in 1974 of Robert Nozick's "Anarchy, State and Utopia". In arguing minimal government to be morally superior to all rivals, Nozick helped reawaken interest in classical liberal ideas. Ever since, the ideal of minimal government has been under assault from three principal sets of critics. First, egalitarian welfare liberals find intolerable the level of inequality it allows. Second, communitarians claim it destroys community. Third, conservatives allege it undermines the basis for the patriotic allegiance on which they claim states rely for legitimacy and stability. "Classical Liberalism" defends minimum government against these charges, arguing it best advances human well being.
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Price: $45.00
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Sale: $8.50
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Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: John T. Kneebone
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Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 302.23220975
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Publication Date: 1985-12-01
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Reading Level: 232
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Description: Before the Civil Rights movement, southern liberal journalists played a crucial role in shaping southern thought on race and racism. John Kneebone presents a richly detailed intellectual history of southern racial liberalism between World War I and World War II by examining the works of five leading southern journalists—Gerald W. Johnson, Baltimore Evening Sun; George Fort Milton, Chattanooga News; Virginius Dabney, Richmond Times-Dispatch; Hodding Carter, Greenville (Miss.) Delta Democrat-Times; and Ralph McGill, Atlanta Constitution. The South's leading liberal journalists came from varied backgrounds and lived in different regions of the South, but all had one characteristic in common: as public advocates of southern liberalism, each spoke as a southerner with deep roots in the southern past. Yet their editorials were not intended solely for local audiences; they wrote essays for national and regional journals of opinion as well, and each of these men published important books on the South and its history. Through their writings, they gained reputations throughout the country as articulate spokesmen for southern liberalism. Their essays, editorials, books, and letters provide rich and abundant sources for studying the changing patterns of southern liberal thought in the critical years from the 1920s to the 1940s. Moreover, these journalists were members of southern liberal organizations—Will W. Alexander's Commission on Interracial Cooperation, the Southern Commission on the Study of Lynching, the Southern Policy Committee, the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, and the Southern Regional Council—and so they helped devise the reform programs that they in turn publicized. While they believed that social and economic change in the modern South required reform of race relations, the journalists felt that these reforms could be accommodated within the framework of racial segregation. The protests of blacks against segregation during World War II challenged that way of thinking and created a crisis for southern liberals. Kneebone analyzes this crisis and the disconnection between the southern liberalism of the 1920s and 1930s and the Civil Rights movement.
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $4.95
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ronald Beiner
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320
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Publication Date: 1995-10-09
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: In the wake of the revolutions of 1989, the ongoing political turmoil in the Soviet Union, and the democratization of most of Latin America, what is the task of political theorists?
Ronald Beiner's invigorating critique of liberal theory and liberal practices takes on the shibboleths of modern Western discourse. He confronts the aridity of liberal societies that possess incommensurable "values" and "rights," but no principles. To Beiner, this neutralist view is both a false description of liberal society and an incoherent political ideal. Rather, he encourages the theorist to remain faithful to the important task of questioning and criticism, instead of serving as a source of ideological reassurance about our own superiority.
Beiner looks to the Socratic tradition for guidance. Permitting ethos to replace values, and discourse about "the good" to replace talk about "rights," the theorist is able to reorder social priorities. Considered in this light, the liberal political philosophy of the 1970s and 1980s appears insufficiently Socratic, as does a liberal way of life that presents itself as a model of imitation.
Polemical, impassioned, and brilliantly argued, What's the Matter with Liberalism? is essential reading for everyone who cares about contemporary theory and the future of liberal society.
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Price: $48.00
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Sale: $18.40
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Manufacturer: Edinburgh University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Andrea Baumeister
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Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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Edition: 0
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320
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Publication Date: 2000-09-15
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: This texbook introduces the challenge posed by the proponents of diversity to liberalist theorists such as Rawls, Raz and Kymlicka, and outlines their responses to this challenge.
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Price: $23.00
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Sale: $20.71
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Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Charles Arthur Willard
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320.5
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Publication Date: 1996-08-01
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Reading Level: 394
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Description: In this witty and provocative study of democracy and its critics, Charles Willard debunks liberalism, arguing that its exaggerated ideals of authenticity, unity, and community have deflected attention from the pervasive incompetence of "the rule of experts." He proposes a ground of communication that emphasizes common interests rather than narrow disputes.
The problem of "unity" and the public sphere has driven a wedge between libertarians and communitarians. To mediate this conflict, Willard advocates a shift from the discourse of liberalism to that of epistemics. As a means of organizing the ebb and flow of consensus, epistemics regards democracy as a family of knowledge problems—as ways of managing discourse across differences and protecting multiple views.
Building a bridge between warring peoples and warring paradigms, this book also reminds those who presume to instruct government that they are obliged to enlighten it, and that to do so requires an enlightened public discourse.
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Price: $130.00
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Sale: $79.95
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 261.708822
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Publication Date: 1994-03-25
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: Liberalism and Catholicism are two of the most important forces shaping the contemporary political culture of the United States. This book explores what is at stake as they encounter each other in new contexts today and what a fresh conversation between them promises for the future of American public life. It is based on the conviction that both traditions continue to have much to learn from each other and that both would contribute more constructively to the resolution of the problems facing the nation if they were to do so.
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Price: $47.50
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Sale: $3.53
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Manufacturer: Cornell University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: James Hoopes
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Publisher: Cornell University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 320.51
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Publication Date: 1998-06
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Reading Level: 192
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Description: Did modern American social thought take a wrong turn when it followed John Dewey and William James? In this searching history of early twentieth-century political theory, James Hoopes suggests that, contrary to conventional wisdom, these pragmatic philosophers did not provide the basis for a socially-minded political theory. Dewey and James did not provide intellectual safeguards against the amoral acceptance of realpolitik and managerial elitism that has given liberalism a bad name. Hoopes finds a more substantial basis for liberal political theory in the communitarian-based pragmatism of Charles Sanders Peirce. Had modern social thought been influenced by Peirce, argues Hoopes, society could be seen as a set of interpretive relationships rather than a collection of discrete interests to be managed from the top down by elitist experts. Hoopes traces the influence of James and Dewey in the thought of Walter Lippman, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Mary Parker Follett. He concludes with a critical examination of contemporary thinkers, most notably Richard Rorty, who believe that James and Dewey offered the most socially useful philosophy within the pragmatic tradition. Combining philosophy, political theory, history, and close textual analysis in original ways, Community Denied offers a bold departure from previous studies of the subject and demonstrates the damage done to liberalism by reliance on a philosophy with no way of truly conceptualizing community.
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Manufacturer: University of Minnesota Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Alex Callinicos
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Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 335.433
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Publication Date: 1990-12
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Reading Level: 128
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $23.26
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Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 361.61
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Publication Date: 1996-10-01
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: When his 1965 report to President Johnson, "The Negro Family: The Case For National Action," identified the breakdown of the traditional family as a major cause of African-American poverty and crime, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan was roundly attacked by liberals for "blaming the victims." Since then the debate has shifted in his direction and he has been in the forefront of many debates on welfare. His latest book on the subject mixes historical perspective, personal reminiscence, and his comments on the state of welfare today. His focus remains the family, and particularly the problem of illegitimacy and single welfare mothers, whom he believes trapped in dependency by the current system. Moynihan is hard on successive administrations for failing to heed his warnings. Contrarily he berates the Clinton administration too for its attempt at reform in 1996, predicting dire consequences.
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Price: $20.76
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Sale: $40.45
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Manufacturer: Comerford & Miller
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Race Mathews
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Publisher: Comerford & Miller
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Publication Date: 1999-09-21
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Reading Level: 32
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