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The Art of the Impossible

Author : Václav Havel
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Art of the Impossible written by Václav Havel and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1997 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no shortage of politicians who make a habit of shooting from the hip, but it is much rarer to find one who speaks from the heart. Vaclav Havel knows no other way to speak, or to write. Both as a dissident and as a playwright it was his sworn purpose for many years to combat evil with nothing but truth. As president of Czechoslovakia, and now of the Czech Republic, he has clung to that habit, refusing to turn over either his conscience or his voice to political handlers and professional speechwriters. Instead he assumes the additional burden--for him, it is a distinct pleasure--of composing all of his oratory. Audiences from New York to New Delhi, Oslo to Tokyo, have been the luckier for his decision. This volume consists of thirty-five of these essays, written between the years 1990 and 1996, that manage to be both profoundly personal and profoundly political. Havel writes of totalitarianism, its miseries and the nonetheless difficult emergence from it. He describes how his country and the other postcommunist countries are learning democracy from scratch and are encountering obstacles from inside and out. He marvels at the single technology-driven civilization that envelops the globe, and the challenges this presents to multicultural realities. He invokes the duty of every person alive to prevent hatred and fear from derailing history ever again. He acknowledges "the advantage it is for doing a good job as president to know that I do not belong in the position and that I can at any moment, and justifiably, be removed from it." And he reminds us that--contrary to all appearances--common sense, moderation, responsibility, good taste, feeling, instinct, and conscience arenot alien to politics, but are the very key to its long-term success.

The Impossible State

Author : Wael B. Hallaq
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231530862
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Impossible State written by Wael B. Hallaq and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wael B. Hallaq boldly argues that the "Islamic state," judged by any standard definition of what the modern state represents, is both impossible and inherently self-contradictory. Comparing the legal, political, moral, and constitutional histories of premodern Islam and Euro-America, he finds the adoption and practice of the modern state to be highly problematic for modern Muslims. He also critiques more expansively modernity's moral predicament, which renders impossible any project resting solely on ethical foundations. The modern state not only suffers from serious legal, political, and constitutional issues, Hallaq argues, but also, by its very nature, fashions a subject inconsistent with what it means to be, or to live as, a Muslim. By Islamic standards, the state's technologies of the self are severely lacking in moral substance, and today's Islamic state, as Hallaq shows, has done little to advance an acceptable form of genuine Shari'a governance. The Islamists' constitutional battles in Egypt and Pakistan, the Islamic legal and political failures of the Iranian Revolution, and similar disappointments underscore this fact. Nevertheless, the state remains the favored template of the Islamists and the ulama (Muslim clergymen). Providing Muslims with a path toward realizing the good life, Hallaq turns to the rich moral resources of Islamic history. Along the way, he proves political and other "crises of Islam" are not unique to the Islamic world nor to the Muslim religion. These crises are integral to the modern condition of both East and West, and by acknowledging these parallels, Muslims can engage more productively with their Western counterparts.

Be Realistic, Demand the Impossible

Author : Mike Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781608462179
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (621 download)

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Download or read book Be Realistic, Demand the Impossible written by Mike Davis and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike Davis delivers a brilliant defense of the Occupy movement and offers pragmatic advice to the 99%.

Demanding the Impossible

Author : Slavoj Žižek
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745672280
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Demanding the Impossible written by Slavoj Žižek and published by Polity. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Based on live interviews, this book captures 'Zi'zek at his best, elucidating such topics as the uprisings of the Arab Spring, the global financial crisis, populism in Latin America, the rise of China, and even the riddle of North Korea. While analyzing our present predicaments, 'Zi'zek also explores possibilities for change. A key obligation in our troubled times, 'Zi'zek argues, is to dare to ask fundamental questions: we must reflect and theorize anew, and always be prepared to rethink and redefine the limits of the possible."--

Demanding the Impossible?

Author : David Morland
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Demanding the Impossible? written by David Morland and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1997 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines the relationship between anarchism's notion of human nature and its vision of a future stateless society by way of three 19th-century social anarchists: Proudhon, Bakunin and Kropotkin. It demonstrates that social anarchism operates a conception of human nature that assumes the existence of both egoism and sociability, and therefore provides a realistic assessment of human nature. The book concludes by exploring the possibilities for a reconceptualization of the anarchist conception of human nature that would help overcome the problems identified by the author and point the way for future development of anarchist thought.

Toward a Politics of The (Im)Possible

Author : Anirban Das
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 0857285696
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book Toward a Politics of The (Im)Possible written by Anirban Das and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book works at the intersection of two related yet different fields. One is the heterogeneous feminist effort to question universal forms of knowing. The second field follows from this conundrum: how does one think of the body when s/he speaks of embodiment? ‘Toward a Politics of the (Im)Possible’ engages the forefront of contemporary thought on the body, while remaining mindful of the requirements of a feminist approach.

Demand the Impossible

Author : Tom Moylan
Publisher : Ralahine Utopian Studies
ISBN 13 : 9783034307529
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Demand the Impossible written by Tom Moylan and published by Ralahine Utopian Studies. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Critical Utopia - The Utopian Imagination - The Literary Utopia -Joanna Russ, The Female Man - Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed - Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time - Samuel R. Delany, Triton - And we are here as on a darkling plain: Reconsidering Utopia in Huxley's Island -Reflections on Demand the Impossible.

Political Constructivism

Author : Peri Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134299001
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Political Constructivism written by Peri Roberts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-10-25 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political Constructivism is concerned with the justification of principles of political justice in the face of pluralism. Contemporary accounts of multiculturalism, pluralism and diversity have challenged the capacity of political theory to impartially justify principles of justice beyond the boundaries of particular communities. In this original account, Peri Roberts argues that political constructivism defends a conception of objective and universal principles that set normative limits to justifiable political practice. Political Constructivism explores this understanding in two ways. Firstly, by engaging with constructivist thinkers such as John Rawls and Onora O’Neill in order to lay out a basic understanding of what constructivism is. Secondly, the author goes on to defend a particular account of political constructivism that justifies a universal primary constructivism alongside the many secondary constructions in which we live our everyday lives. In doing so he outlines an understanding of principled pluralism which accepts diversity whilst at the same time recognising its limits. This volume will be of particular interest to students and researchers of political theory and political philosophy.

The Politics of Well-Being

Author : Anthony M. Clohesy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367617325
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Well-Being written by Anthony M. Clohesy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of Well-Being argues that the relationship between well-being and ethical life has been overlooked. The more specific argument of the book is that ethical life requires political engagement, and the emergence of a society committed to critical thinking. It is argued that these conditions allow for our ordination and confirmation as ethical subjects. While well-being can be experienced in different ways, it is claimed that, after experience of ethical life, a more sustainable form of it is revealed to us, a form which we would be drawn to preserve, a form which can be constituted as an object of hope. While the book draws on philosophical themes, its main focus is political. This is because its primary objective is to identify and to examine what needs to be done in order to realise ethical life. Its main focus in this respect is the identification and examination of the barriers which need to be overcome if ethical life is to be realised. It is acknowledged that this will not be an easy task. Indeed, it may be an impossible task. However, despite these barriers, and despite the dark days we are living through, the book is a call to hope rather than a surrender to despair. This book will be of interest to students of politics, psychology, cultural studies, philosophy, and sociology, as well as anyone else interested in exploring new ideas about how the make the world a better place.

American Difference

Author : Lori M. Poloni-Staudinger
Publisher : CQ Press
ISBN 13 : 1544357796
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book American Difference written by Lori M. Poloni-Staudinger and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining democracies from a comparative perspective helps us better understand why politics—or, as Harold Lasswell famously said, "who gets what, when, and how"—differ among democracies. American Difference: A Guide to American Politics in Comparative Perspective takes the reader through different aspects of democracy—political culture, institutions, interest groups, political parties, and elections—and, unlike other works, explores how the United States is both different from and similar to other democracies. The fully updated Second Edition has been expanded to include several new chapters and discussion on civil liberties and civil rights, constitutional arrangements, elections and electoral institutions, and electoral behavior. This edition also includes data around the 2016 general election and 2018 midterm election.

Henry Fielding, Political Writer

Author : Thomas R. Cleary
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889201315
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)

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Book Synopsis Henry Fielding, Political Writer by : Thomas R. Cleary

Download or read book Henry Fielding, Political Writer written by Thomas R. Cleary and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 1984-05-30 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accurate and comprehensive study of the political aspects of Fielding’s art has been sorely needed. As a result of decades of work by literary scholars and a series of great historians, such a study is finally possible. This volume addresses that need, and, in the light of a recent revival of interest in Fielding’s work, it arrives most opportunely. The author offers here a wide-ranging focus and a firm grip on the shifting complexities of Fielding’s political situations—the loyalties and enmities, factional alignments and fractious rhetoric—that allow a satisfactory understanding of Fielding’s political writing. Political writing in Fielding’s day, as in ours, was topical, concerned with evanescent problems and day-to-day needs that were familiar to contemporaries, but that are now recaptured only with greatest difficulty. This study constitutes a thorough reconstruction of Fielding’s political context and extricates from the context Fielding’s own political endeavours. Cleary’s work will make many of Felding’s previously unstudied work accessible to students and scholars of eighteenth-century English literature. A necessary point of reference to both literary specialists and historians concerned with eighteenth-century England.

Handbook of Environmental Psychology and Quality of Life Research

Author : Ghozlane Fleury-Bahi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319314165
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Environmental Psychology and Quality of Life Research written by Ghozlane Fleury-Bahi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook presents a broad overview of the current research carried out in environmental psychology which puts into perspective quality of life and relationships with living spaces, and shows how this original analytical framework can be used to understand different environmental and societal issues. Adopting an original approach, this Handbook focuses on the links with other specialties in psychology, especially social and health psychology, together with other disciplines such as geography, architecture, sociology, anthropology, urbanism and engineering. Faced with the problems of society which involve the quality of life of individuals and communities, it is fundamental to consider the relationships an individual has with his different living spaces. This issue of the links between quality of life and environment is becoming increasingly significant with, at a local level, problems resulting from different types of annoyances, such as pollution and noise, while, at a global level, there is the central question of climate change with its harmful consequences for humans and the planet. How can the impact on well-being of environmental nuisances and threats (for example, natural risks, pollution, and noise) be reduced? How can the quality of life within daily living spaces (home, cities, work environments) be improved? Why is it important to understand the psychological issues of our relationship with the global environment (climatic warming, ecological behaviours)? This Handbook is intended not only for students of various disciplines (geography, architecture, psychology, town planning, etc.) but also for social decision-makers and players who will find in it both theoretical and methodological perspectives, so that psychological and environmental dimensions can be better taken into account in their working practices.

Towards Economic and Political Justice in South Africa

Author : David Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Towards Economic and Political Justice in South Africa written by David Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conference report comprising the keynote statements and transcript of discussions on multi-race relations in South Africa R - focuses on racial policy issues, incl. Trends and directions for the future, considers priorities regarding democracy, social change, avoidance of conflict and racial discrimination, etc. References. Conference held in johannesburg 1979 jul.

The Politics of Disclosure, 1674-1725

Author : Rebecca Bullard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317314131
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Disclosure, 1674-1725 written by Rebecca Bullard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of the 'secret history', a polemical form of historiography which flourished in England during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

Debating Political Reform in China

Author : Suisheng Zhao
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317473299
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Debating Political Reform in China written by Suisheng Zhao and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growing disconnect between China's market-oriented economy with its emerging civil society, and the brittle, anacronistic, and authoritarian state has given rise to intense discussion and debate about political reform, not only by Western observers, but also among Chinese intellectuals. While some expect China's political reform to lead to democratization, others have proposed to strengthen the institution of single-party rule and provide it with a solid legal base. This book brings the ongoing debate to life and explores the options for political reform. Offering the perspectives of both Western and Chinese scholars, it presents the controversial argument for building a consultive rule of law regime as an alternative to liberal democracy. It provides several critiques of this thesis, and then tests the thesis through empirical studies on the development of the rule of law in China.

Rousseau’s Rejuvenation of Political Philosophy

Author : Nelson Lund
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319413902
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Rousseau’s Rejuvenation of Political Philosophy written by Nelson Lund and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-17 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reads Jean-Jacques Rousseau with a view toward deepening our understanding of many political issues alive today, including the place of women in society, the viability of traditional family structures, the role of religion and religious freedom in nations that are becoming ever more secular, and the proper conduct of American constitutional government. Rousseau has been among the most influential modern philosophers, and among the most misunderstood. The first great philosophic critic of the Enlightenment, he sought to revive political philosophy as it was practiced by Plato, and to make it useful in the modern world. His understanding of politics rests on deep and often prescient reflections about the nature of the human soul and the relationship between our animal origins and the achievements of civilization. This book demonstrates that the implications Rousseau drew from those reflections continue to deserve serious attention.

Paul, Philosophy, and the Theopolitical Vision

Author : Douglas Harink
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1606086626
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Paul, Philosophy, and the Theopolitical Vision written by Douglas Harink and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-02-12 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The apostle Paul was a man of many journeys. We are usually familiar with the geographical ones he made in his own time. This volume traces others--Paul's journeys in our time, as he is co-opted or invited to travel (sometimes as abused slave, sometimes as trusted guide) with modern and recent Continental philosophers and political theorists. Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Benjamin; Taubes, Badiou, Zizek, and Agamben--Paul journeys here among the philosophers. In these essays you are invited to travel with them into the regions of philosophy, hermeneutics, political theory, and theology. You will certainly hear the philosophers speak. But Paul will not remain silent. Above the sounds of the journey his voice comes through, loud and clear.