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Author : Herb Schultz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982351673
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Culture Justly Scrutinized written by Herb Schultz and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susanna de Beer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198878923
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book The Renaissance Battle for Rome written by Susanna de Beer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Renaissance Battle for Rome examines the rhetorical battle fought simultaneously between a wide variety of parties (individuals, groups, authorities) seeking prestige or legitimacy through the legacy of ancient Rome—a battle over the question of whose claims to this legacy were most legitimate. Distinguishing four domains—power, morality, cityscape and literature—in which ancient Rome represented a particularly powerful example, this book traces the contours of this rhetorical battle across Renaissance Europe, based on a broad selection of Humanist Latin Poetry. It shows how humanist poets negotiated different claims on behalf of others and themselves in their work, acting both as "spin doctors" and "new Romans", while also undermining competing claims to this same idealized past. By so doing this book not only offers a new understanding of several aspects of the Renaissance that are usually considered separately, but ultimately allows us to understand Renaissance culture as a constant negotiation between appropriating and contesting the idea and ideal of "Rome."
Author : Richard K. Matthews
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Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Virtue, Corruption, and Self-interest written by Richard K. Matthews and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea for this volume developed from The Lawrence Henry Gipson Institute for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Lehigh University. The Gipson Institute was established in 1972 as a memorial to the outstanding historian who was the recipient of the 1950 Bancroft Prize and the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for selected volumes in his British Empire Series. The chief aim of the Gipson Institute has been to promote an understanding of the eighteenth century from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
Author : Peter Jones
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719088728
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (887 download)
Download or read book Virtue to Venality written by Peter Jones and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtue to Venality examines the problem of corruption in British urban society and politics between 1930 and 1995. It is not a conventional study of the politics of local government since it seeks to place corruption in urban societies in a wider cultural context. The accounts of corruption in Glasgow – a British Chicago – as well as the major corruption scandals of John Poulson and T. Dan Smith show how Labour-controlled towns and cities were especially vulnerable to corrupt dealings. By contrast the case of Dame Shirley Porter in the City of Westminster in the late 1980s reveals that Conservative-controlled councils were also vulnerable since in London the stakes of the political struggle were especially intense. This book will be of special interest to students of history and politics and those who are concerned about the growth of corruption in British political culture.
Author : Stephen Miller
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526148366
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Feudalism, venality, and revolution written by Stephen Miller and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Alexis de Tocqueville’s influential work on the Old Regime and the French Revolution, royal centralisation had so weakened the feudal power of the nobles that their remaining privileges became glaringly intolerable to commoners. This book challenges the theory by showing that when Louis XVI convened assemblies of landowners in the late 1770s and 1780s to discuss policies needed to resolve the budgetary crisis, he faced widespread opposition from lords and office holders. These elites regarded the assemblies as a challenge to their hereditary power over commoners. The king’s government comprised seigneurial jurisdictions and venal offices. Lordships and offices upheld inequality on behalf of the nobility and bred the discontent motivating the people to make the French Revolution.
Author : Jon Elster
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069114981X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book France Before 1789 written by Jon Elster and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "France before 1789 presents the main features of the prodigiously complex social system of the ancien regime which proceeded the French Revolution. In doing so Jon Elster goes beyond formal institutions to show how they worked in practice. He draws on a host of examples and contemporary texts to illuminate the perverse and sometimes pathological effects of this system and seeks to provide a detailed analysis of the political institutions that undergirded it. Whereas Tocqueville, in his famous analysis of the ancient regime, wanted to understand the old regime as a prelude to revolution, Elster views it as a prelude to constitution-making prompted by and intended to resolve these perversities. He views these as overlapping, yet important enough to render distinct. In addition to defending a particular set of substantive propositions about the conditions which led to the Constituent Assembly, Elster argues for a specific methodological approach to history, which emphasizes supplementing the historian's craft with approaches from the social sciences. Ultimately, he does not claim to answer the historians' questions better than they do. But he does aspire to ask and sometimes answer questions that historians have not formulated in order to better understand one of the most significant examples of collective decision-making history offers us"--
Author : C. Farrelly
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349600733
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (496 download)
Download or read book Virtue Jurisprudence written by C. Farrelly and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first authoritative text on virtue jurisprudence - the belief that the final end of law is not to maximize preference satisfaction or protect certain rights and privileges, but to promote human flourishing. Scholars of law, philosophy and politics illustrate here the value of the virtue ethics tradition to modern legal theory.
Author : Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee
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Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Universal History from the Creation of the World to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Contury written by Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charly Coleman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 080479121X
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Virtues of Abandon written by Charly Coleman and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: France in the eighteenth century glittered, but also seethed, with new goods and new ideas. In the halls of Versailles, the streets of Paris, and the soul of the Enlightenment itself, a vitriolic struggle was being waged over the question of ownership—of property, of position, even of personhood. Those who championed man's possession of material, spiritual, and existential goods faced the successive assaults of radical Christian mystics, philosophical materialists, and political revolutionaries. The Virtues of Abandon traces the aims and activities of these three seemingly disparate groups, and the current of anti-individualism that permeated theology, philosophy, and politics throughout the period. Fired by the desire to abandon the self, men and women sought new ways to relate to God, nature, and nation. They joined illicit mystic cults that engaged in rituals of physical mortification and sexual license, committed suicides in the throes of materialist fatalism, drank potions to induce consciousness-altering dreams, railed against the degrading effects of unfettered consumption, and ultimately renounced the feudal privileges that had for centuries defined their social existence. The explosive denouement was the French Revolution, during which God and king were toppled from their thrones.
Author : Peter S. Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781706411
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)
Download or read book From Virtue to Venality written by Peter S. Jones and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title examines the problem of corruption in British urban society and politics between 1930 and 1995. It is not a conventional study of the politics of local government since it seeks to place corruption in urban societies in a wider cultural context. It reclaims the study of corruption from political scientists and sociologists for historians but provides theoretical explanations of the causes of corruption testing them against real cases.--Résumé de l'éditeur.
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Total Pages : 1154 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book House documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee
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Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Universal History written by Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael J. Sandel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674287444
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Democracy’s Discontent written by Michael J. Sandel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-28 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned political philosopher updates his classic book on the American political tradition to address the perils democracy confronts today. The 1990s were a heady time. The Cold War had ended, and America’s version of liberal capitalism seemed triumphant. And yet, amid the peace and prosperity, anxieties about the project of self-government could be glimpsed beneath the surface. So argued Michael Sandel, in his influential and widely debated book Democracy’s Discontent, published in 1996. The market faith was eroding the common life. A rising sense of disempowerment was likely to provoke backlash, he wrote, from those who would “shore up borders, harden the distinction between insiders and outsiders, and promise a politics to ‘take back our culture and take back our country,’ to ‘restore our sovereignty’ with a vengeance.” Now, a quarter century later, Sandel updates his classic work for an age when democracy’s discontent has hardened into a country divided against itself. In this new edition, he extends his account of America’s civic struggles from the 1990s to the present. He shows how Democrats and Republicans alike embraced a version of finance-driven globalization that created a society of winners and losers and fueled the toxic politics of our time. In a work celebrated when first published as “a remarkable fusion of philosophical and historical scholarship” (Alan Brinkley), Sandel recalls moments in the American past when the country found ways to hold economic power to democratic account. To reinvigorate democracy, Sandel argues in a stirring new epilogue, we need to reconfigure the economy and empower citizens as participants in a shared public life.
Author : James Delaney
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847144160
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)
Download or read book Rousseau and the Ethics of Virtue written by James Delaney and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-09-15 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Jacques Rousseau is an enigmatic figure in many ways. There is much debate about whether he was an advocate of the Enlightenment project or a critic of it. Sometimes Rousseau seems to be arguing against traditional values and hierarchies. But elsewhere he seems to be an enemy of progress altogether. This book explains Rousseau's true place in the Enlightenment by paying particular attention to his account of virtue. Virtue ethics is one of the main branches in moral philosophy, and its most famous advocate is Aristotle. Many recent philosophers have tried to revive virtue ethics, most notably Alasdair MacIntyre in his 1984 book, After Virtue. MacIntyre argues that the Enlightenment project was doomed to fail precisely because Enlightenment philosophers had discarded Aristotle. They do this by rejecting Aristotle's claim that all things are, by nature, directed towards some proper end. The enlightenment figures whom MacIntyre discusses at length in his critique are Hume, Kant, and Kierkegaard. And while Rousseau is mentioned as an Enlightenment thinker, very little attention is paid to him. This book puts Rousseau's ethics into historical perspective, showing that Rousseau shares important characteristics with his contemporaries as well as with the tradition of Aristotle. The dichotomy set up by MacIntyre and others between the ethics of the ancient tradition and that of the Enlightenment is oversimplified. By taking a serious look at Rousseau's ethics, we can see that he forms a bridge between these two rich traditions in the history of Western philosophy.
Author : Dr. Carolyn LaDelle Bennett
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
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Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (694 download)
Download or read book Are There No Champions? Yes and No written by Dr. Carolyn LaDelle Bennett and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are there no Champions - Yes and No a work in politics, public affairs, and the press exploring and contrasting acts of aggression (patriots for hire) characteristic of decorated false “champions” in the contemporary era; and acts of peace and life-risking courage of true champions (mainly women) two centuries earlier.
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Author : Joseph Mendham
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Total Pages : 222 pages
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Total Pages : 486 pages
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