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Zero Hunger

Political Culture and Antipoverty Policy in Northeast Brazil

By: Aaron Michael Ansell

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Political Culture and Antipoverty Policy in Northeast Brazil

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Zero Hunger: Political Culture and Antipoverty Policy in Northeast Brazil

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1469613972

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The Deed is Everything

Nietzsche on Will and Action

By: Aaron Ridley

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The Deed is Everything

Nietzsche on Will and Action

By: Aaron Ridley

Nietzsche is often held to be an extreme sceptic about human agency, keen to debunk it along every dimension. He dismisses the ideas of freedom, autonomy and morality, we are told, and even the very existence of agents or selves. This book sets out the opposite view. Ridley argues that Nietzsche is committed to an 'expressivist' conception of agency, a conception that allows him to develop highly distinctive accounts not only of freedom, autonomy and morality, but also of selfhood. In the course of the argument, the text revisits a variety of central Nietzschean themes including self-creation, the sovereign individual, will to power, Kantian and Christian morality, and amor fati often to unexpected effect. The Nietzsche who emerges from this book has a clear, if demanding, conception of human agency and a robust commitment to the value of human excellence in all of its forms. This comprehensive study of Nietzsche and the expressivist conception of agency is important reading for all Nietzsche scholars and philosophers of action, but is also of more general interest to academics and students in philosophy.

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Oxford University Press

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0192559389

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Baudelaire's Bitter Metaphysics

Anti-Nihilist Readings by Fondane, Benjamin, and Sartre

By: Aaron Brice Cummings

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Baudelaire's Bitter Metaphysics

Anti-Nihilist Readings by Fondane, Benjamin, and Sartre

By: Aaron Brice Cummings

Baudelaire’s Bitter Metaphysics: Anti-Nihilist Readings by Fondane, Benjamin, and Sartre reconstructs a philosophical trialogue that might have been expected to take place between Benjamin Fondane, Walter Benjamin, and Jean-Paul Sartre over their philosophical readings of Charles Baudelaire, an exchange preempted by the untimely deaths of two of the interlocutors during the Nazi holocaust. Why did three of Europe’s sharpest minds respond to the terror of 1933-45 by writing about a long-dead poet? Aaron Brice Cummings argues that Fondane, Benjamin, and Sartre turned to the poet of nihilism’s abyss because they recognized a fact of cultural history that remains relevant today: until sometime in the 2080s, the literary world will have to confront (even if to deny) the two-century window forecast by Nietzsche as the age of cultural and existential nihilism. Accordingly, the author examines the bitter metaphysics latent in Baudelaire’s motifs of the abyss, clocks, brutes, streets, and bored dandies. In so doing, this book confronts the nothingness which modern life encounters in the heart of art, ethics, ideality, time, memory, history, urban life, and religion.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1666961760

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9781666961768

Can We Say No?

The Challenge of Rationing Health Care

By: Henry J. Aaron,William B. Schwartz

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The Challenge of Rationing Health Care

By: Henry J. Aaron,William B. Schwartz

Examines the use of rationing as a means to curb health care spending, using the experience of Great Britain to highlight the promises and pitfalls of this approach"--Provided by publisher.

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Brookings Institution Press

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0815701209

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9780815701200

Born to Rule

The Making and Remaking of the British Elite

By: Aaron Reeves,Sam Friedman

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Born to Rule

The Making and Remaking of the British Elite

By: Aaron Reeves,Sam Friedman

A uniquely data-rich analysis of the British elite from the Victorian era to today: who gets in, how they get there, what they like and look like, where they go to school, and what politics they perpetuate. Think of the British elite and familiar caricatures spring to mind. But are today’s power brokers a conservative chumocracy, born to privilege and anointed at Eton and Oxford? Or is a new progressive elite emerging with different values and political instincts? Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman combed through a trove of data in search of an answer, scrutinizing the profiles, interests, and careers of over 125,000 members of the British elite from the late 1890s to today. At the heart of this meticulously researched study is the historical database of Who’s Who, but Reeves and Friedman also mined genealogical records, examined probate data, and interviewed over 200 leading figures from a wide range of backgrounds and professions to uncover who runs Britain, how they think, and what they want. What they found is that there is less movement at the top than we think. Yes, there has been some progress on including women and Black and Asian Brits, but those born into the top 1 percent are just as likely to get into the elite today as they were 125 years ago. What has changed is how elites present themselves. Today’s elite pedal hard to convince us they are perfectly ordinary. Why should we care? Because the elites we have affect the politics we get. While scholars have long proposed that the family you are born into, and the schools you attend, leave a mark on the exercise of power, the empirical evidence has been thin—until now.

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Harvard University Press

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0674297717

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Zero Hunger

Political Culture and Antipoverty Policy in Northeast Brazil

By: Aaron Michael Ansell

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Political Culture and Antipoverty Policy in Northeast Brazil

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Zero Hunger

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Can We Say No?

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