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The Parable of the Tribes

The Problem of Power in Social Evolution, Second Edition

By: Andrew Bard Schmookler

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The Parable of the Tribes

The Problem of Power in Social Evolution, Second Edition

By: Andrew Bard Schmookler

This is a new view of the role of power in social evolution. It shows how, as human societies evolved, intersocietal conflicts necessarily developed, and how humanity can choose peace over war.

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SUNY Press

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0791424200

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9780791424209

Out of Weakness

Healing the Wounds That Drive Us to War

By: Andrew Schmookler

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Out of Weakness

Healing the Wounds That Drive Us to War

By: Andrew Schmookler

“A wide-ranging and deeply thoughtful meditation on the psychological sources of the danger to humanity created by the advent of weapons of mass destruction. It draws on a vast range of sources including psychology, anthropology, literature, philosophy, and religion, and is expressed with eloquence and grace.”—Dr. Jerome Frank, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins Medical School, author of Sanity and Survival “A remarkably thorough analysis of the proposition that is our beliefs, conscious and unconscious, which have made war inevitable–and that a change in those assumptions (including the unconscious ones) can free us from the scourge…This is a very hopeful book about a subject that leads many to despair…I believe it will be a most useful contribution to the dialogue about our national security dilemma.”—Willis Harman, President, Institute of Noetic Sciences, author ofAn Incomplete Guide to the Future

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Bantam

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0307785548

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9780307785541

Debating the Good Society

A Quest to Bridge America's Moral Divide

By: Andrew Bard Schmookler

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Debating the Good Society

A Quest to Bridge America's Moral Divide

By: Andrew Bard Schmookler

Debating the Good Society probes two questions lying at the heart of the ongoing culture war incontemporary America: Where does goodness come from, and how is goodsocial order to be achieved? Through the ingenious means of a fictional Internet conversation among two dozen or so Americans from various walks of life and every shade of the ideological spectrum, Debating the Good Society probes two questions lying at the heart of the ongoing culture war in contemporary America: Where does goodness come from, and how is good social order to be achieved? Traditionalists and conservatives, who tend to view human nature as inherently sinful, argue that good order must be imposed from above, by parental authority and ruling powers, by the forces of law and tradition, and, ultimately, by God. Counterculturalists and liberals, who tend to believe in the inherent goodness of human nature, claim that well-supported children will develop into well-ordered adults and that adults empowered to make their own choices will form a healthy, well-ordered society. These opposing visions underlie a host of current controversies, including philosophies of child-rearing and education, social and political policy, sexual morality, and the evolution-creation debate. By exposing the limitations of both points of view, Andrew Bard Schmookler shows how the culture war presents a challenge to all Americans. This challenge is to integrate the half-truths advanced by both sides into a higher wisdom, one that promises to take the American experiment—to see whether humans can enjoy both the blessings of liberty and the fruits of good order—to the next level of its evolution, toward which it has been straining for the better part of a century.

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MIT Press

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0262264536

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9780262264532

The Parable of the Tribes

The Problem of Power in Social Evolution, Second Edition

By: Andrew Bard Schmookler

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The Problem of Power in Social Evolution, Second Edition

By: Andrew Bard Schmookler

This is a new view of the role of power in social evolution. It shows how, as human societies evolved, intersocietal conflicts necessarily developed, and how humanity can choose peace over war.

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SUNY Press

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Out of Weakness

Healing the Wounds That Drive Us to War

By: Andrew Schmookler

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Healing the Wounds That Drive Us to War

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Debating the Good Society

A Quest to Bridge America's Moral Divide

By: Andrew Bard Schmookler

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A Quest to Bridge America's Moral Divide

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Conversion and the Rehabilitation of the Penal System

A Theological Rereading of Criminal Justice

By: Andrew Skotnicki

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Conversion and the Rehabilitation of the Penal System

A Theological Rereading of Criminal Justice

By: Andrew Skotnicki

The Cincinnati Penal Congress of 1870 ushered in the era of "progressive" penology: the use of statistical and social scientific methodologies, commitment to psychiatric and therapeutic interventions, and a new innovation--the reformatory--as the locus for the application of these initiatives. The prisoner was now seen as a specimen to be analyzed, treated, and properly socialized into the triumphal current of American social and economic life. The Progressive rehabilitative initiatives succumbed in the 1970s to withering criticism from the proponents of equally futile strategies for addressing "the crime problem": retribution, deterrence, and selective incapacitation. The early Christian community developed a methodology for correcting human error that featured the unprecedented belief that a period of time spent in a given penitential locale, with the aid and encouragement of the community, was sufficient in and of itself to heal the alienation and self-loathing caused by sin and to lead an individual to full reincorporation into the community. The "correctional" practice was based upon the conviction that cooperative sociability--or conversion--is possible, regardless of the specific offense, without any need to inflict suffering, or to use the act of punishment as a warning to potential offenders, or to undertake programmatic interventions into the lives of the incarcerated for the purpose of rehabilitating them. Andrew Skotnicki contends that the modern practice of criminal detention is a protracted exercise in needless violence predicated upon two foundational errors. The first is an inability to see the imprisoned as human beings fully capable of responding to an affirmative accompaniment rather than maltreatment and invasive forms of therapy. The second is a pervasive dualism that constructs a barrier between detainees and those empowered to supervise, rehabilitate, and punish them. In this book, Skotnicki argues that the criminal justice system can only be rehabilitated by eliminating punishment and policies based upon deterrence, rehabilitation, and the incapacitation of the urban poor and returning to the original justification for the practice of confinement: conversion.

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Oxford University Press

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0190880856

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Fool's Gold

The Fate of Values in a World of Goods

By: Andrew Bard Schmookler

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The Fate of Values in a World of Goods

By: Andrew Bard Schmookler

The author analyzes the system that regards nothing as sacred, that marketing now accepts that which was once considered as sin, and as a consequence, nothing is of value

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Harpercollins

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0062508288

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9780062508287

Living Posthumously

Confronting the Loss of Vital Powers

By: Andrew Bard Schmookler

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Living Posthumously

Confronting the Loss of Vital Powers

By: Andrew Bard Schmookler

Using his own once-debilitating illness as the basis for his thoughts, the author explores how men and women find ways to deal with their own mortality

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262

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Henry Holt

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0805038574

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9780805038576

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The Parable of the Tribes

The Parable of the Tribes

Out of Weakness

Out of Weakness

Debating the Good Society

Debating the Good Society

The Parable of the Tribes

The Parable of the Tribes

Out of Weakness

Out of Weakness

Debating the Good Society

Debating the Good Society

Conversion and the Rehabilitation of the Penal System

Conversion and the Rehabilitation of the Penal System

Fool's Gold

Fool's Gold

Living Posthumously

Living Posthumously

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