Download or read book Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time written by Harold Laski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harold J. Laski saw World War Two as a period of revolutionary change as profound as any in the modern history of the human race. In his view, the period's inner nature was as significant in its essentials as those which saw the fall of the Roman Empire; the birth in the Reformation of capitalist society; or, as in 1789, the final chapter in the dramatic rise of the middle class to power. All of these were not revolutions made by thinkers, though some of them may have foreseen its coming, but of ordinary people who shaped the large outlines of the direction of these changes. Laski held that revolutions of our time have been rooted in all that goes to give its present character to our society. We can recognize its advent and prepare for it; in that event, we might build a civilization richer and more secure than any of which we so far have knowledge. Or we may chose to resist its onset; in which case, it will appear to some future generation that our age has sought rather to sweep back the tides of the ocean than to oppose the decrees of men. The curse of our social order is its persistent inequalities. Either we must find ourselves able to co-operate in their removal, or we shall move rapidly to conflict about them. Laski argues that the middle class must co-operate with workers in essential revisions, as the aristocracy was wise enough to do a century ago over the Reform Bill, or violent revolution will be unleashed by means that transforms the ends of either party to the conflict in view. This is the choice that lies before us. Just how accurate or wide of the mark Laski was is brilliantly articulated in the critical introduction by Sidney A. Pearson, Jr.
Download or read book Collected Works of Harold Laski written by Harold J. Laski and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time written by Harold Joseph Laski and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Reflections on the Revolution of our Time Works of Harold J Laski written by Harold J. Laski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Laski’s most important book after A Grammar of Politics. It discusses, on a grand scale, every aspect of American public life. Laski surveys American traditions and the American spirit, political institutions, the entire educational, religious, economic and social scene, America as a world power, and Americanism as a principle of civilisation. Laski’s unsurpassed knowledge of American constitutional, social and cultural history is set in the perspective of his deep study of comparative constitutional history and political theory. He was one of very few people to see U.S. politics from the inside, as a result of his friendships with Roosevelt, Brandeis and Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Download or read book The Works of Harold J Laski written by Harold Laski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-09 with total page 5735 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set comprises works spanning Laski's career as a political thinker and the volumes re-issued here examine the questions of how government might be made more open and accountable and how the broad-based properity necessary to democracy might be assured. These remain central questions for both established and emerging democracies. Studies in the Problem of Sovereignty (1917), Authority in the Modern State (1919), and The Foundations of Sovereignty (1921) are all works which expand Laski's pluralist doctrine of the State; a theory then applied in modified form in A Grammar of Politics (1925). Communism (1927) argues against the concept of a Western Communist revolution. Democracy in Crisis (1933) and the more optimistic Reflections on the Constitution (1951) result from the defeat of Labour in 1931 and the onset of the Slump, at which point Laski rejected pluralism in favour of Marxist theory. Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time (1949) predicts a "revolution by consent" arising from the common war-effort. Also included are An Introduction to Politics (1931), The Rise of European Liberalism (1936) Parliamentary Government in England (1938), The Danger of Being a Gentleman (1939), Programme for Victory (1941), The Strategy of Freedom (1942) and The Dilemma of Our Times (1952).
Download or read book Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time written by Harold Joseph Laski and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dilemma of Our Times Works of Harold J Laski written by Harold J. Laski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-24 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, originally published in 1952, unfinished and perhaps imperfect, is the last book of one of the most acute political thinkers of the twentieth century. Laski’s earlier optimism about a swing to the Left was beginning to be reversed, and in this volume he saw the defects of his previous optimistic surveys, which, in his opinion, still had value, but needed to be brought up-to-date and consquently he began to write an additional chapter which was never completed. It remains a valuable last word of an author who for thirty years was respected and listened to on the topic of civilisation’s survial through change.
Download or read book Critical theory and demagogic populism written by Paul K. Jones and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Populism is a powerful force today, but its full scope has eluded the analytical tools of both orthodox and heterodox ‘populism studies’. This book provides a valuable alternative perspective. It reconstructs in detail for the first time the sociological analyses of US demagogues by members of the Frankfurt School and compares these with contemporary approaches. Modern demagogy emerges as a key under-researched feature of populism, since populist movements, whether 'left' or 'right', are highly susceptible to 'demagogic capture'. The book also details the culture industry’s populist contradictions – including its role as an incubator of modern demagogues – from the 1930s through to today’s social media and ‘Trumpian psychotechnics’. Featuring a previously unpublished text by Adorno on modern demagogy as an appendix, it will be of interest to researchers and students in critical theory, sociology, politics, German studies, philosophy and history of ideas, as well as all those concerned about the rise of demagogic populism today.
Download or read book Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham written by Harold J. Laski and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-13 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originating from a Jewish manufacturing family in Manchester, Harold Joseph Laski was educated at New College, Oxford. After eloping with a Christian bride, Laski took a sojourn North America, notably lecturing briefly at Harvard (1916-1920), where he wrote his first books. Harold Joseph Laski was hired at the L.S.E. to supplement and eventually succeed Graham Wallas in political science in 1920. Laski would become one of the leading spirits of the institution. A dedicated socialist, Laski was always involved in politics, particularly in the 1930s. From 1922, he sat on the executive committee of the Fabian Society and then was elevated, in 1936, to the executive committee of the British Labour Party (he was chairman in 1945-1946). Major Works of Harold J. Laski Studies in the Problem of Sovereignty, 1917 "The Problem of Administrative Areas," 1918, Smith College Studies Authority in the Modern State, 1919 Political Thought in England, from Locke to Bentham, 1920 Karl Marx, 1921. The Foundations of Sovereignty and other essays, 1921 A Grammar of Politics, 1925. Socialism and Freedom, 1925 The British Cabinet, a study of its personnel, 1928 Liberty in the Modern State, 1930 Democracy in Crisis, 1933 Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time, 1943 Faith, Reason and Civilization, 1944. The American Democracy, 1948.
Download or read book Authority in the Modern State written by Harold Joseph Laski and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume is some sort the sequel to a book on the problem of sovereignty which I published in March, 1917."--Preface.
Download or read book Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time written by Harold Joseph Laski and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Liberty in the Modern State written by Harold Joseph Laski and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Studies in the Problem of Sovereignty written by Harold Joseph Laski and published by New Haven, Yale University Press. This book was released on 1917 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dilemma of Our Times written by Harold J. Laski and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Collected Works of Harold Laski written by Harold Joseph Laski and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Karl Marx written by Harold Joseph Laski and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
