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Liberals and Cannibals

Author : Steven Lukes
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784786489
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Liberals and Cannibals written by Steven Lukes and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can the tension between relativism and the moral universalism current in contemporary politics be resolved within the framework of liberalism? How is liberal society to interpret the diversity of morals? Is pluralism the appropriate response? How does pluralism differ from the widely condemned ethnocentric relativism-"liberalism for the Liberals, cannibalism for the cannibals"? Confronting liberal thought with its own limitations, Steven Lukes' work is more relevant than ever. While recognizing the dangers of moral imperialism, Lukes argues that a relativist position based on identifying clearly distinct cultural and moral communities is incoherent. Drawing on work in anthropology and philosophy, he examines the nature of social justice, the politics of identity and human rights theory.

Liberals and Cannibals

Author : Steven Lukes
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784786497
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Liberals and Cannibals written by Steven Lukes and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With debates on the meaning of “liberal society” more heated than ever, this is a timely re-issue of a classic text Can the tension between relativism and the moral universalism current in contemporary politics be resolved within the framework of liberalism? How is liberal society to interpret the diversity of morals? Is pluralism the appropriate response? How does pluralism differ from the widely condemned ethnocentric relativism—“liberalism for the Liberals, cannibalism for the cannibals”? Confronting liberal thought with its own limitations, Steven Lukes’ work is more relevant than ever. While recognizing the dangers of moral imperialism, Lukes argues that a relativist position based on identifying clearly distinct cultural and moral communities is incoherent. Drawing on work in anthropology and philosophy, he examines the nature of social justice, the politics of identity and human rights theory.

The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat

Author : Steven Lukes
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1839763973
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat written by Steven Lukes and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A whirlwind tour through the utopias of modernity The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat is a brilliant fictional excursion through Western political philosophy from one of our most original thinkers. Professor Caritat, a middle-aged Candide, walks naively from his native land to the neighbouring countries of Utilitaria, Communitaria, and Libertaria on a quest to find the best of all possible worlds. Freed from the confines of his ivory tower, this wandering intellectual is made to confront the perplexed state of modern thinking in a dazzling comedy of ideas.

Liberalism

Author : Paul Joseph Kelly
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745632904
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Liberalism written by Paul Joseph Kelly and published by Polity. This book was released on 2005 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

Author : Andre Bernard
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0446931268
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (469 download)

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Download or read book Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes written by Andre Bernard and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2000-09-21 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Hank Aaron to King Zog, Mao Tse-Tung to Madonna, Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes features more than 2,000 people from around the world, past and present, in all fields. These short anecdotes provide remarkable insight into the human character. Ranging from the humorous to the tearful, they span classical history, recent politics, modern science and the arts. Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes is a gold mine for anyone who gives speeches, is doing research, or simply likes to browse. As an informal tour of history and human nature at its most entertaining & instructive, this is sure to be a perennial favorite for years to come.

Life Among the Cannibals

Author : Sen. Arlen Specter
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429952903
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Life Among the Cannibals written by Sen. Arlen Specter and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing memoir of how Washington is changing---and not for the better During a storied thirty-year career in the U.S. Senate, Arlen Specter rose to Judiciary Committee chairman, saved and defeated Supreme Court nominees, championed NIH funding, wrote watershed crime laws, always staying defiantly independent, "The Contrarian," as Time magazine billed him in a package of the nation's ten-best Senators. It all ended with one vote, for President Obama's stimulus, when Specter broke with Republicans to provide the margin of victory to prevent another Depression. Shunned by the GOP faithful, Specter changed parties, giving Democrats a sixty-vote supermajority and throwing Washington into a tailspin. He kept charging, taking the first bursts of Tea Party fire at public meetings on Obama's health care--reform plan. Undaunted, Specter cast the key vote for the health plan. In Life Among the Cannibals, Specter candidly describes the battles that led to his party switch, his tough transition, the unexpected struggles and duplicity that he faced, and his tumultuous campaign and eventual defeat in the 2010 Pennsylvania Democratic primary. Taking us behind the scenes in the Capitol, the White House, and on the campaign trail, he shows how the rise of extremists---in both parties---has displaced tolerance with purity tests, purging centrists, and precluding moderate, bipartisan consensus.

Religion and the Political Imagination

Author : Ira Katznelson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139493175
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Religion and the Political Imagination written by Ira Katznelson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory of secularisation became a virtually unchallenged truth of twentieth-century social science. First sketched out by Enlightenment philosophers, then transformed into an irreversible global process by nineteenth-century thinkers, the theory was given substance by the precipitate drop in religious practice across Western Europe in the 1960s. However, the re-emergence of acute conflicts at the interface between religion and politics has confounded such assumptions. It is clear that these ideas must be rethought. Yet, as this distinguished, international team of scholars reveal, not everything contained in the idea of secularisation was false. Analyses of developments since 1500 reveal a wide spectrum of historical processes: partial secularisation in some spheres has been accompanied by sacralisation in others. Utilising new approaches derived from history, philosophy, politics and anthropology, the essays collected in Religion and the Political Imagination offer new ways of thinking about the urgency of religious issues in the contemporary world.

Trusting in Reason

Author : Preston King
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135758549
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Trusting in Reason written by Preston King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, for the first time, brings together important essays on the work of Martin Hollis, from many different perspectives.

American Liberalism

Author : John McGowan
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807885086
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book American Liberalism written by John McGowan and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2007-10-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans live in a liberal democracy. Yet, although democracy is widely touted today, liberalism is scorned by both the right and the left. The United States stands poised between its liberal democratic tradition and the illiberal alternatives of liberalism's critics. John McGowan argues that Americans should think twice before jettisoning the liberalism that guided American politics from James Madison to the New Deal and the Great Society. In an engaging and informative discussion, McGowan offers a ringing endorsement of American liberalism's basic principles, values, and commitments. He identifies five tenets of liberalism: a commitment to liberty and equality, trust in a constitutionally established rule of law, a conviction that modern societies are irreducibly plural, the promotion of a diverse civil society, and a reliance on public debate and deliberation to influence others' opinions and actions. McGowan explains how America's founders rejected the simplistic notion that government or society is necessarily oppressive. They were, however, acutely aware of the danger of tyranny. The liberalism of the founders distributed power widely in order to limit the power any one entity could exercise over others. Their aim was to provide for all an effective freedom that combined the right to self-determination with the ability to achieve one's self-chosen goals. In tracing this history, McGowan offers a clear vision of liberalism's foundational values as America's best guarantee today of liberty and the peace in which to exercise it.

Modus Vivendi Liberalism

Author : David McCabe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139484028
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Modus Vivendi Liberalism written by David McCabe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A central task in contemporary political philosophy is to identify principles governing political life where citizens disagree deeply on important questions of value and, more generally, about the proper ends of life. The distinctively liberal response to this challenge insists that the state should as far as possible avoid relying on such contested issues in its basic structure and deliberations. David McCabe critically surveys influential defenses of the liberal solution and advocates modus vivendi liberalism as an alternative defense of the liberal state. Acknowledging that the modus vivendi approach does not provide the deep moral consensus that many liberals demand, he defends the liberal state as an acceptable compromise among citizens who will continue to see it as less than ideal. His book will interest a wide range of readers in political philosophy and political theory.

Into the Cannibal's Pot

Author : Ilana Mercer
Publisher : Bytech Services
ISBN 13 : 9780984907014
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Into the Cannibal's Pot written by Ilana Mercer and published by Bytech Services. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The daughter of a leading anti-apartheid activist blows the lid off the new South Africa." -- T.p.

Liberalism and Hegemony

Author : Jean-Francois Constant
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442693061
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Liberalism and Hegemony written by Jean-Francois Constant and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-04-07 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2000, Ian McKay, a highly respected historian at Queen's University, published an article in the Canadian Historical Review entitled "The Liberal Order Framework: A Prospectus for a Reconnaissance of Canadian History." Written to address a crisis in Canadian history, this detailed, programmatic, and well-argued article had an immediate impact on the field. Proposing that Canadian history should be mapped through a process of reconnaisance, and that the Canadian state should be understood as a project of liberal rule in North America, the essay prompted debate immediately upon publication. Liberalism and Hegemony assembles some of Canada's finest historians to continue the debate sparked by McKay's essay. The essays collected here explore the possibilities and limits presented by "The Liberal Order Framework" for various segments of Canadian history, and within them, the paramount influence of liberalism throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is debated in the context of aboriginal history, environmental history, the history of the family, the development of political thought and ideas, and municipal governance. Like McKay's "The Liberal Order Framework," which is included in this volume with a response to recent criticism, Liberalism and Hegemony is a fascinating foray into current historical thought and provides the historical community with a book that will act both as a reference and a guide for future research.

How to be a Green Liberal

Author : Simon A. Hailwood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317489209
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book How to be a Green Liberal written by Simon A. Hailwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is often claimed by environmental philosophers and green political theorists that liberalism, the dominant tradition of western political philosophy, is too focused on the interests of human individuals to give due weight to the environment for its own sake. In "How to be a Green Liberal", Simon Hailwood challenges this view and argues that liberalism can embrace a genuinely 'green', non-instrumental view of nature. The book's central claim is that nature's 'otherness', its being constituted of independent entities and processes that do not reflect our purposes, is a basis for value and can be incorporated within liberal political philosophy as a fundamental commitment alongside human freedom and equality. Hailwood argues that the conceptual resources already exist within mainstream liberalism for a thoroughly non-instrumental perspective. Adopting a rigorous philosophical approach Hailwood tackles a wide range of themes across environmental ethics, including holistic theories, deep ecology, eco-feminism and eco-anarchism, as well as issues in value theory and political philosophy more generally. In making the case for liberalism's green credentials "How to be a Green Liberal" is a formidable challenge to recent green political theory and will be required reading not only for students of political philosophy but for all those interested in the natural world and man's relationship to it.

Cannibal Capitalism

Author : Michael C. Hill
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111817531X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book Cannibal Capitalism written by Michael C. Hill and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unbiased look at how the economic practices of corporations, leaders, and government are severely damaging the American way of life Most of us have lived our lives by the rules—going to school, investing in real estate, and building careers—but the so-called Great Recession has changed everything. Cannibal Capitalism: How Big Business and the Feds Are Ruining America answers the questions on everyone's lips; what happened and where do we go from here? Unlike in most other recent instances of financial turbulence, when this crisis hit, the country turned on itself economically, with the powerhouses—corporations, business leaders, and government—throwing the everyman under the bus. In an effort to avoid becoming slightly less rich, the super-rich effectively cannibalized the true engines of growth in the economy, in the process putting the bottom ninety-nine percent of the population at serious risk of losing everything. Cannibal Capitalism fights back, arguing that to really recover we need to educate our children, invest in our small businesses, use our inflated money to develop real things that build real wealth, and get back to exporting in a big way. Takes a thoughtful look at how income and wealth disparity, industry consolidation, anticompetitive business practices, political ideological extremism, and the hoarding of existing wealth are destroying the wealth building capacity of the nation and the promise of ideal capitalism Examines the financial crisis and its fallout in a clear, no-nonsense way Explains what we can do to fix a broken system and come out on top The economic crisis rocking the foundations of the international financial system has had a disproportionately devastating affect on the average person. Angry, afraid, and confused, regular people are looking for answers and Cannibal Capitalism is here to help, illustrating how the super-rich did everything in their power to stay safe at the expense of everyone else.

The Limits of Liberal Multiculturalism

Author : A. Vitikainen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137404620
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book The Limits of Liberal Multiculturalism written by A. Vitikainen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Limits of Liberal Multiculturalism provides a timely analysis of some of the weaknesses, as well as the successes, of the liberal multicultural project. It also takes a step forward by developing a pluralist, individual-centred approach to allocating minority rights in practice.

Isaiah Berlin’s Cold War Liberalism

Author : Jan-Werner Müller
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811327939
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Isaiah Berlin’s Cold War Liberalism written by Jan-Werner Müller and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-21 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a succinct re-examination of Berlin’s Cold War liberalism, at a time when many observers worry about the emergence of a new Cold War. Two chapters look closely at Berlin’s liberalism in a Cold War context, one carefully analyses whether Berlin was offering a universal political theory – and argues that he did indeed (already at the time of the Cold War there were worries that Berlin was a kind of relativist). It will be of value for scholars of the cold war and of security issues in contemporary Asia, as well as students of history and philosophy.

The Dividing Line Between Success and Failure

Author : Gerrit Voermann
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825876685
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Dividing Line Between Success and Failure written by Gerrit Voermann and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2006 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Second World War, liberalism has been much stronger in the Netherlands than in Germany. The present volume compares the development of liberalism in both countries - which took place under quite different conditions and without much mutual interaction - from the early beginnings in the nineteenth century down to the twenty-first century. It tries to explain why Dutch liberals are nowadays doing better than their German counterparts.