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Never Mind about the Bourgeoisie

Author : Gillian Dooley
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443857653
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Never Mind about the Bourgeoisie written by Gillian Dooley and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Medlin met the novelist Iris Murdoch at Oxford in 1961 when he joined New College as a Research Fellow, and they remained friends for the remainder of her life, though after he left Oxford they only met once again. This correspondence published here covers a period of more than twenty years. In his letters, Medlin regaled Murdoch with Australian jokes, travel stories and anecdotes, and answered her many questions about Australian flora and fauna, and the Australian vernacular. She in turn quizzed him about his radical politics, and they agreed to disagree about Marxism and the bourgeoisie. In 1992, she wrote a review of his radical environmental monograph Human Nature, Human Survival for an Australian newspaper, and the full text of that review (only one-quarter of which was published at the time) is also published in this book. Medlin, born in 1927, was already in his mid-thirties when he arrived at New College. He had not had a typical academic career. He spent his early years in outback Australia as a store-keeper, kangaroo shooter, stockyard builder, horse-breaker and drover. He returned to Adelaide in the early 1950s and studied Philosophy. After graduation, a scholarship took him to Oxford. On his return to Australia, he was appointed to the chair of Philosophy at the new Flinders University (founded in 1966). Iris Murdoch’s correspondence with Brian Medlin is the record of a deeply affectionate relationship between two highly intelligent, articulate and philosophically sophisticated beings.

Bourgeois Equality

Author : Deirdre N. McCloskey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022652793X
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Bourgeois Equality written by Deirdre N. McCloskey and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-10-13 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last 200 years have witnessed a 100-fold leap in well-being. Deirdre McCloskey argues that most people today are stunningly better off than their forbearers were in 1800, and that the rest of humanity will soon be. A purely materialist, incentivist view of economic change does not explain this leap. We have now the third in McCloskey's three-volume opus about how bourgeois values transformed Europe. Volume 3 nails the case for that transfiguration, telling us how aristocratic virtues of hierarchy were replaced by bourgeois virtues (more precisely, by attitudes toward virtues) that made it possible for ordinary folk with novel ideas to change the way people, farmed, manufactured, traveled, ruled themselves, and fought. It is a dramatic story, and joins a dramatic debate opened up by Thomas Piketty in his best-selling Capital in the 21st Century. McCloskey insists that economists are far too preoccupied by capital and saving, arguing against the position (of Piketty and most others) that capital induces a tendency to get more, that money reproduces itself, that riches are created from riches. Not so, our intrepid McCloskey shows. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, among the biggest wealth accumulators in our era, didn't get rich through the magic of compound interest on capital. They got rich through intellectual property, creating billions of dollars from virtually nothing. Capital was no more important an ingredient to the original Apple or Microsoft than cookies or cucumbers. The debate is between those who think riches are created from riches versus those who, with McCloskey, think riches are created from rags, between those who see profits as a generous return on capital, or profits coming from innovation that ultimately benefits us all.

Black Bourgeoisie

Author : Franklin Frazier
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684832410
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Black Bourgeoisie written by Franklin Frazier and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-02-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, [1957].

Dynamics of World History

Author : Christopher Dawson
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497651409
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Dynamics of World History written by Christopher Dawson and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In scope and in vision Christopher Dawson’s historiography ranks with the work of men like Spengler, Northrop, and Toynbee. Several major themes run through Dawson’s work, but perhaps his most unique contribution was his insistence on the importance of religion in shaping and sustaining civilizations. Religion, Dawson believed, is the great creative force in any culture, and the loss of a society’s historic religion therefore portends a process of social dissolution. For this reason, Dawson concluded that Western society must find a way to revitalize its spiritual life if it is to avoid irreversible decay. Progress, the real religion of modernity, is insufficient to sustain cultural health. And an ahistorical, secularized Christianity is an oxymoron, a pseudo-religion only nominally related to the historic religion of the West. Dawson maintained that the hope of the present age lay in the reconciliation of the religious tradition of Christianity with the intellectual tradition of humanism and the new knowledge about man and nature provided by modern science. Dynamics of World History shows that though such a task may be difficult, it is not impossible.

The Bourgeois Virtues

Author : Deirdre Nansen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226556670
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book The Bourgeois Virtues written by Deirdre Nansen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a century and a half, the artists and intellectuals of Europe have scorned the bourgeoisie. And for a millennium and a half, the philosophers and theologians of Europe have scorned the marketplace. The bourgeois life, capitalism, Mencken’s “booboisie” and David Brooks’s “bobos”—all have been, and still are, framed as being responsible for everything from financial to moral poverty, world wars, and spiritual desuetude. Countering these centuries of assumptions and unexamined thinking is Deirdre McCloskey’s The Bourgeois Virtues, a magnum opus that offers a radical view: capitalism is good for us. McCloskey’s sweeping, charming, and even humorous survey of ethical thought and economic realities—from Plato to Barbara Ehrenreich—overturns every assumption we have about being bourgeois. Can you be virtuous and bourgeois? Do markets improve ethics? Has capitalism made us better as well as richer? Yes, yes, and yes, argues McCloskey, who takes on centuries of capitalism’s critics with her erudition and sheer scope of knowledge. Applying a new tradition of “virtue ethics” to our lives in modern economies, she affirms American capitalism without ignoring its faults and celebrates the bourgeois lives we actually live, without supposing that they must be lives without ethical foundations. High Noon, Kant, Bill Murray, the modern novel, van Gogh, and of course economics and the economy all come into play in a book that can only be described as a monumental project and a life’s work. The Bourgeois Virtues is nothing less than a dazzling reinterpretation of Western intellectual history, a dead-serious reply to the critics of capitalism—and a surprising page-turner.

Iris Murdoch and the Political

Author : Gary Browning
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192659561
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Iris Murdoch and the Political written by Gary Browning and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-25 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iris Murdoch is a celebrated philosopher and novelist. Was she a political theorist? Many say that she focused upon the personal and the moral at the expense of the social and the political. However, this book argues the contrary. Murdoch had lifelong interests in politics, just as she did in literature and philosophy. She saw historical experience as the foundation upon which the inter-linked activities of literature, philosophy and politics are based. In reading Murdoch we get a clear insight into the nature of the modern political world. From an early political radicalism to a later anti-utopianism, Murdoch reacted to the great political events of the twentieth century, notably the Holocaust, the rise and fall of ideologies, sexual repression, and the realities of totalitarianism. Her political philosophy conceptualized relations between moral and political spheres, and her novels deal imaginatively with questions of migration, refugees, sexuality and freedom. Her letters and journals provide moment to moment reactions to major political events. Iris Murdoch and the Political presents a lively discussion of Iris Murdoch and her political thought, taking in the nature of socialist thought, the New Left and liberalism in the UK in the latter part of the twentieth century. The book is based upon a wide variety of sources, including Murdoch's journals, letters, reviews, essays, novels and books. It draws upon scholarship in philosophy, literature and intellectual history in developing a coherent sense of how Murdoch theorized the political.

Rhetorical Style and Bourgeois Virtue

Author : Mark Garrett Longaker
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271074779
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Rhetorical Style and Bourgeois Virtue written by Mark Garrett Longaker and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the British Enlightenment, the correlation between effective communication and moral excellence was undisputed—so much so that rhetoric was taught as a means of instilling desirable values in students. In Rhetorical Style and Bourgeois Virtue, Mark Garrett Longaker explores the connections between rhetoric and ethics in the context of the history of capitalism. Longaker’s study lingers on four British intellectuals from the late seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century: philosopher John Locke, political economist Adam Smith, rhetorical theorist Hugh Blair, and sociologist Herbert Spencer. Across one hundred and fifty years, these influential men sought to mold British students into good bourgeois citizens by teaching them the discursive habits of clarity, sincerity, moderation, and economy, all with one incontrovertible truth in mind: the free market requires virtuous participants in order to thrive. Through these four case studies—written as biographically focused yet socially attentive intellectual histories—Longaker portrays the British rhetorical tradition as beholden to the dual masters of ethics and economics, and he sheds new light on the deliberate intellectual engineering implicit in Enlightenment pedagogy.

The State and Revolution

Author : Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The State and Revolution written by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mind vs. Money

Author : Alan Kahan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351505262
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Mind vs. Money written by Alan Kahan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past 150 years, Western intellectuals have trumpeted contempt for capitalism and capitalists. They have written novels, plays, and manifestos to demonstrate the evils of the economic system in which they live. Dislike and contempt for the bourgeoisie, the middle classes, industry, and commerce have been a prominent trait of leading Western writers and artists. Mind vs. Money is an analytical history of how and why so many intellectuals have opposed capitalism. It is also an argument for how this opposition can be tempered. Historically, intellectuals have expressed their rejection of capitalism through many different movements, including nationalism, anti-Semitism, socialism, fascism, communism, and the 1960s counterculture. Hostility to capitalism takes new forms today. The anti-globalization, Green, communitarian, and New Age movements are all examples. Intellectuals give such movements the legitimacy and leadership they would otherwise lack. What unites radical intellectuals of the nineteenth century, communists and fascists of the twentieth, and anti-globalization protestors of the twenty-first, along with many other intellectuals not associated with these movements, is their rejection of capitalism. Kahan argues that intellectuals are a permanently alienated elite in capitalist societies. In myriad forms, and on many fronts, the battle between Mind and Money continues today. Anti-Americanism is one of them. Americans like to see their country as a beacon of freedom and prosperity. But in the eyes of many European and American intellectuals, when America is identified with capitalism, it is transformed from moral beacon into the "Great Satan." This is just one of the issues Mind vs. Money explores. The conflict between Mind and Money is the great, unresolved conflict of modern society. To end it, we must first understand it.

Shimmering Details, Volume II

Author : Péter Nádas
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374611653
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book Shimmering Details, Volume II written by Péter Nádas and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magnum opus of one of Europe's greatest living writers. In Shimmering Details, Volume II, Péter Nádas delves deeper into his and his parents’ lives during the tumultuous years spanning the rise of Hungarian communism in 1948 to the brutal suppression of the 1956 uprising. Zeroing in on this critical period—which overlapped with the formative years of his childhood—Nádas concludes his monumental history of a family whose own experiences and fortunes are deeply intertwined with two centuries of Hungarian history. This second volume is a composite portrait of life lived at the nexus of world-historical forces—a jewel-like study that holds up different facets of the human experience to the light of Nádas’s singular prose style. What emerges is a memoir of unusual insight and exceptional power. Hailed by Deborah Eisenberg as an “extraordinary writer,” Nádas has confirmed his place among Europe’s greatest living authors.

Democrat World 2008-10

Author : James Clark
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1257097989
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Democrat World 2008-10 written by James Clark and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Politics and Trade in Britain, 1776-1914

Author : Gordon Bannerman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000895920
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Politics and Trade in Britain, 1776-1914 written by Gordon Bannerman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-27 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume takes up the story of exacerbated political divisions from 1841 onwards, with a clearer demarcation in political life caused at least partly by commercial policy considerations. Ultimately, the success of free trade policies, implemented by Sir Robert Peel after 1841, saw the reconfiguration of political parties and had lasting effects and impact on party politics. Yet in the period up to 1879, there was a broad consensus on maintaining the free trade settlement of 1846. This period, often seen as a ‘free trade interlude’ book-ended by a far more complex range of opinions, policies, and strategies surrounding commercial policy, was characterised by British manufacturing expansion, deeper penetration of foreign and colonial markets, and the adoption of freer trade policies by foreign nations. Ultimately, none of these developments lasted in the long term. By the end of 1879, commercial policy was again controversial. The type of sources in this volume include correspondence from The Panmure Papers, the Later Correspondence of Lord John Russell, and diary material from Lord Ashley and John Bright. There is also a considerable body of material from newspapers, including the Morning Chronicle, Northern Star, Manchester Guardian, and Liverpool Mercury. Manuscript materials from Richard Cobden, John Benjamin Smith, and Lord John Russell among others are also present.

Intellectuals and Society

Author : Kameshwar Choudhary
Publisher : Popular Prakashan
ISBN 13 : 9788171548750
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (487 download)

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Download or read book Intellectuals and Society written by Kameshwar Choudhary and published by Popular Prakashan. This book was released on 2004 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book About Intellectuals/Teachers Is Divided Into 7 Chapters And Appendix. The Chapters Are-Intellectuals And Society-Indian Intellectual After Independence-Methodology And The Sample-Class Structure-Ideology-Ruling Class And Teachers-Summary And Conclusions. Has A Large Number Of Charts, Figures Tables And A Map.

Underground Spirit: 1973 to 1982

Author : Gémino H. Abad
Publisher : UP Press
ISBN 13 : 9715426387
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Underground Spirit: 1973 to 1982 written by Gémino H. Abad and published by UP Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume anthology is the sequel to Upon Our Own Ground (2008).

The Art of Civilization

Author : Didier Maleuvre
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349948691
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Civilization written by Didier Maleuvre and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-22 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Didier Maleuvre argues that works of art in Western societies from Ancient Greece to the interconnected worlds of the Digital Age have served to rationalize and normalize an engagement with bourgeois civilization and the city. Maleuvre details that the history of art itself is the history civilization, giving rise to the particular aesthetics and critical attitudes of respective moments and movements in changing civilizations in a dialogical mode. Building a visual cultural account of shifting forms of culture, power, and subjectivity, Maleuvre illustrates how art gave a pattern and a language to the model of social authority rather than simply functioning as a reflective one. Through a broad cultural study of the relationship between humanity, art, and the culture of civilization, Maleuvre introduces a new set of paradigms that critique and affirm the relationship between humanity and art, arguing for it as an engine of social reproduction that transforms how culture is inhabited.

Progressive Inequality

Author : David Huyssen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674419529
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Progressive Inequality written by David Huyssen and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Progressive Era has been seen as a seismic event that reduced the gulf between America's rich and poor. Progressive Inequality cuts against the grain of this view, showing how initiatives in charity, organized labor, and housing reform backfired, reinforcing class biases, especially the notion that wealth derives from individual merit.

The Ideologies of African American Literature

Author : Robert E. Washington
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742509504
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Ideologies of African American Literature written by Robert E. Washington and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the long-held assumption that African American literature aptly reflects black American social consciousness. Offering a novel sociological approach, Washington delineates the social and political forces that shaped the leading black literary works. Washington shows that deep divisions between political thinkers and writers prevailed throughout the 20th century. Visit our website for sample chapters!