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Book The Realist Revival

Download or read book The Realist Revival written by American Federation of Arts and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Politics Recovered

Download or read book Politics Recovered written by Matt Sleat and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is political theory political enough? Or does a tendency toward abstraction, idealization, moralism, and utopianism leave contemporary political theory out of touch with real politics as it actually takes place, and hence unable to speak meaningfully to or about our world? Realist political thought, which has enjoyed a significant revival of interest in recent years, seeks to avoid such pitfalls by remaining attentive to the distinctiveness of politics and the ways its realities ought to shape how we think and act in the political realm. Politics Recovered brings together prominent scholars to develop what it might mean to theorize politics “realistically.” Intervening in philosophical debates such as the relationship between politics and morality and the role that facts and emotions should play in the theorization of political values, the volume addresses how a realist approach aids our understanding of pressing issues such as global justice, inequality, poverty, political corruption, the value of democracy, governmental secrecy, and demands for transparency. Contributors open up fruitful dialogues with a variety of other realist approaches, such as feminist theory, democratic theory, and international relations. By exploring the nature and prospects of realist thought, Politics Recovered shows how political theory can affirm reality in order to provide meaningful and compelling answers to the fundamental questions of political life.

Book Value  Conflict  and Order

Download or read book Value Conflict and Order written by Edward Hall and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-08-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the purpose of political philosophy to articulate the moral values that political regimes would realize in a virtually perfect world and show what that implies for the way we should behave toward one another? That model of political philosophy, driven by an effort to draw a picture of an ideal political society, is familiar from the approach of John Rawls and others. Or is political philosophy more useful if it takes the world as it is, acknowledging the existence of various morally non-ideal political realities, and asks how people can live together nonetheless? The latter approach is advocated by “realist” thinkers in contemporary political philosophy. In Value, Conflict, and Order, Edward Hall builds on the work of Isaiah Berlin, Stuart Hampshire, and Bernard Williams in order to establish a political realist’s theory of politics for the twenty-first century. The realist approach, Hall argues, helps us make sense of the nature of moral and political conflict, the ethics of compromising with adversaries and opponents, and the character of political legitimacy. In an era when democratic political systems all over the world are riven by conflict over values and interests, Hall’s conception is bracing and timely.

Book Firestorms of Revival

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bob Griffin
  • Publisher : Charisma Media
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 1599790645
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Firestorms of Revival written by Bob Griffin and published by Charisma Media. This book was released on 2006 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the ten characteristics of revival, and see the move of God change not only your ministry, but your community.

Book Revival in Romance and Realism

Download or read book Revival in Romance and Realism written by Grace Winona Kemp Woods and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dirt Road Revival

Download or read book Dirt Road Revival written by Chloe Maxmin and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Democratic Party left rural America behind. This urgent rallying cry shows how Democrats can win back and empower overlooked communities that have been pushing politics to the right—and why long-term progressive political power depends on it. Through 2 successful elections in rural red districts that few thought could be won by a Democrat, twentysomethings Maine state senator Chloe Maxmin (D-District 13) and campaign manager Canyon Woodward saw how the Democratic Party has focused for too long on the interests of elite leaders and big donors, forcing the party to abandon the concerns of rural America—jeopardizing climate justice, racial equity, economic justice, and more. Dirt Road Revival looks at how we got here and lays out a road map for progressive campaigns in rural America to build an inclusive, robust, grassroots politics that fights for equity and justice across our country. First, Maxmin and Woodward detail how rural America has been left behind. They explore rural healthcare, economic struggle, brain drain, aging communities, whiteness and racism, education access, broadband, Big Agriculture, and more. Drawing on their own experiences, they paint a picture of rural America today and pinpoint the strategic failures of Democrats that have caused the party to lose its rural foothold. Next, they tell the story of their successful campaigns in the most rural county in the most rural state in the nation. In 2018, Maxmin became the only Democrat to ever win Maine House District 88 and then unseated the highest-ranking Republican in Maine —the Senate Minority Leader—in 2020, making her the youngest woman senator in Maine’s history. Finally, Maxmin and Woodward distill their experiences into concrete lessons that can be applied to rural districts across the country to build power from the state and local levels on up. They lay out a new long-term vision for Democrats to rebuild trust and win campaigns in rural America by translating progressive values to a rural context, moving beyond the failed strategies of establishment consultants and utilizing grassroots-movement organizing strategies to effectively engage moderate rural voters.

Book Revival in Romance and Realism

Download or read book Revival in Romance and Realism written by Mrs. Henry M. Woods and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Kierkegaard  Language and the Reality of God

Download or read book Kierkegaard Language and the Reality of God written by Steven Shakespeare and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2001: Debate about the reality of God risks becoming an arid stalemate. An unbridgeable gulf seems to be fixed between realists, arguing that God exists independently of our language and beliefs, and anti-realists for whom God-language functions to express human spiritual ideals, with no reference to a reality external to the faith of the believer. Soren Kierkegaard has been enlisted as an ally by both sides of this debate. Kierkegaard, Language and the Reality of God presents a new approach, exploring the dynamic nature of Kierkegaard's texts and the way they undermine neat divisions between realism and anti-realism, objectivity and subjectivity. Showing that Kierkegaard's understanding of language is crucial to his practice of communication, and his account of the paradoxes inherent in religious discourse, Shakespeare argues that Kierkegaard advances a form of 'ethical realism' in which the otherness of God is met in the making of liberating signs. Not only are new perspectives opened on Kierkegaard's texts, but his own contribution to ongoing debates is affirmed in its vital, creative and challenging significance.

Book God is Back

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Micklethwait
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9781594202131
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book God is Back written by John Micklethwait and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the street and in the corridors of power, religion is surging worldwide. From Russia to Turkey to India, nations that swore off faith in the last century--or even tried to stamp it out--are now run by avowedly religious leaders. This book examines this new world, from exorcisms in São Paulo to religious skirmishing in Nigeria, to televangelism in California and house churches in China. Since the Enlightenment, intellectuals have assumed that modernization would kill religion--and that religious America is an oddity. As these authors argue, religion and modernity can thrive together, and America is becoming the norm. The failure of communism and the rise of globalism helped spark the global revival, but, above all, 21st century religion is being fueled by a very American emphasis on competition and a customer-driven approach to salvation, and its destabilizing effects can already be seen far from Iraq or the World Trade Center.--From publisher description.

Book The Marx Revival

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  • Author : Marcello Musto
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2020-06-18
  • ISBN : 1107117925
  • Pages : 431 pages

Download or read book The Marx Revival written by Marcello Musto and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international set of eminent scholars examine the contemporary relevance and continuing contribution of Marx's work. This indispensable volume presents Marx's theories in a new light, both for specialists who might think they already know everything about Marx and for a new generation of readers who are approaching his work for the first time.

Book The Revival of Pragmatism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Morris Dickstein
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 1998-11-23
  • ISBN : 9780822322450
  • Pages : 468 pages

Download or read book The Revival of Pragmatism written by Morris Dickstein and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-23 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVAn assessment, by a distinguished panel of experts, on the impact of pragmatism on contemporary thought./div

Book Poetry and Philosophy from Homer to Rousseau

Download or read book Poetry and Philosophy from Homer to Rousseau written by S. Haines and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible and jargon-free book features readings of over 20 key texts and authors in Western poetry and philosophy, including Homer, Plato, Beowulf , Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare and Rousseau. Simon Haines presents a thought-provoking and theoretically aware account of Western literature and philosophy, arguing that the history of both can be seen as a struggle between two different conceptions of the self: the 'romantic' (or dualist) vs the 'realist' or ('extended').

Book Variant

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  • Author : Robison Wells
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2011-10-04
  • ISBN : 0062093517
  • Pages : 206 pages

Download or read book Variant written by Robison Wells and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benson Fisher thought that a scholarship to Maxfield Academy would be the ticket out of his dead-end life. He was wrong. Now he’s trapped in a school that’s surrounded by a razor-wire fence. A school where video cameras monitor his every move. Where there are no adults. Where the kids have split into groups in order to survive. Where breaking the rules equals death. But when Benson stumbles upon the school’s real secret, he realizes that playing by the rules could spell a fate worse than death, and that escape—his only real hope for survival—may be impossible.

Book Janeites

    Book Details:
  • Author : Deidre Lynch
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2020-07-21
  • ISBN : 0691216088
  • Pages : 245 pages

Download or read book Janeites written by Deidre Lynch and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last decade, as Jane Austen has moved center-stage in our culture, onto best-seller lists and into movie houses, another figure has slipped into the spotlight alongside her. This is the "Janeite," the zealous reader and fan whose devotion to the novels has been frequently invoked and often derided by the critical establishment. Jane Austen has long been considered part of a great literary tradition, even legitimizing the academic study of novels. However, the Janeite phenomenon has not until now aroused the curiosity of scholars interested in the politics of culture. Rather than lament the fact that Austen today shares the headlines with her readers, the contributors to this collection inquire into why this is the case, ask what Janeites do, and explore the myriad appropriations of Austen--adaptations, reviews, rewritings, and appreciations--that have been produced since her lifetime. The articles move from the nineteenth-century lending library to the modern cineplex and discuss how novelists as diverse as Cooper, Woolf, James, and Kipling have claimed or repudiated their Austenian inheritance. As case studies in reception history, they pose new questions of long-loved novels--as well as new questions about Austen's relation to Englishness, about the boundaries between elite and popular cultures and amateur and professional readerships, and about the cultural work performed by the realist novel and the marriage plot. The contributors are Barbara M. Benedict, Mary A. Favret, Susan Fraiman, William Galperin, Claudia L. Johnson, Deidre Lynch, Mary Ann O'Farrell, Roger Sales, Katie Trumpener, and Clara Tuite.

Book Political Science in History

Download or read book Political Science in History written by James F. Farr and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-04-28 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, scholars take up the challenge of disciplinary history by exploring the themes and movements that have shaped political science today.

Book The Business Revival

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  • Author : D. Brandon Haire
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-02-10
  • ISBN : 9781732625259
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book The Business Revival written by D. Brandon Haire and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the pages of this book, Susan Peters offers honest, poignant, and haunting images of the fight against human trafficking. As you read these stories, you will be inspired, angered, hopeful, and motivated by what the Unbound team has encountered. In the end, Susan and the team hope you will do something - even if it is just one thing - to make a difference for victims in your neighborhood who may be overlooked by everyone else.

Book Realist Watercolors

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Arthur
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 42 pages

Download or read book Realist Watercolors written by John Arthur and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: