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Nationalism and the Moral Psychology of Community

By: Bernard Yack

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Nationalism and the Moral Psychology of Community

By: Bernard Yack

Nationalism is one of modern history’s great surprises. How is it that the nation, a relatively old form of community, has risen to such prominence in an era so strongly identified with the individual? Bernard Yack argues that it is the inadequacy of our understanding of community—and especially the moral psychology that animates it—that has made this question so difficult to answer. Yack develops a broader and more flexible theory of community and shows how to use it in the study of nations and nationalism. What makes nationalism such a powerful and morally problematic force in our lives is the interplay of old feelings of communal loyalty and relatively new beliefs about popular sovereignty. By uncovering this fraught relationship, Yack moves our understanding of nationalism beyond the oft-rehearsed debate between primordialists and modernists, those who exaggerate our loss of individuality and those who underestimate the depth of communal attachments. A brilliant and compelling book, Nationalism and the Moral Psychology of Community sets out a revisionist conception of nationalism that cannot be ignored.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226944689

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The Longing for Total Revolution

Philosophic Sources of Social Discontent from Rousseau to Marx and Nietzsche

By: Bernard Yack

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The Longing for Total Revolution

Philosophic Sources of Social Discontent from Rousseau to Marx and Nietzsche

By: Bernard Yack

Bernard Yack seeks to identify and account for the development of a form of discontent held in common by a large number of European philosophers and social critics, including Rousseau, Schiller, the young Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche. Yack contends that these individuals, despite their profound disagreements, shared new perspectives on human freedom and history, and that these perspectives gave their discontent its peculiar breadth and intensity. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.

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0520375882

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The Longing for Total Revolution

Philosophic Sources of Social Discontent from Rousseau to Marx and Nietzsche

By: Bernard Yack

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Philosophic Sources of Social Discontent from Rousseau to Marx and Nietzsche

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The Problems of a Political Animal

Community, Justice, and Conflict in Aristotelian Political Thought

By: Bernard Yack

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The Problems of a Political Animal

Community, Justice, and Conflict in Aristotelian Political Thought

By: Bernard Yack

A bold new interpretation of Aristotelian thought is central to Bernard Yack's provocative new book. He shows that for Aristotle, community is a conflict-ridden fact of everyday life, as well as an ideal of social harmony and integration. From political justice and the rule of law to class struggle and moral conflict, Yack maintains that Aristotle intended to explain the conditions of everyday political life, not just, as most commentators assume, to represent the hypothetical achievements of an idealistic "best regime." By showing how Aristotelian ideas can provide new insight into our own political life, Yack makes a valuable contribution to contemporary discourse and debate. His work will excite interest among a wide range of social, moral, and political theorists. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993. A bold new interpretation of Aristotelian thought is central to Bernard Yack's provocative new book. He shows that for Aristotle, community is a conflict-ridden fact of everyday life, as well as an ideal of social harmony and integration. From political j

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Nationalism and the Moral Psychology of Community

By: Bernard Yack

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Life Is Not Fair...

And Everything Else They Forget to Teach in School

By: Bill Bernard

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Life Is Not Fair...

And Everything Else They Forget to Teach in School

By: Bill Bernard

This is the one book that can end your adolescent's angst and show the world as it really works. Written in a clear voice that tells teenagers what the mean world is really about, Life is Not Fair... explains what they need to know and do to become happy, successful and mature adults. It explores complex issues without any mumbo jumbo, and teaches teenagers how to think about relationships, family, friends, sex, drugs, money, taxes, spin, timing and luck. Life is Not Fair... also encourages the reader to consider their place in the world, and how they can have more fun, make more money and be lucky by simply learning to think better. In brief, it is not what to think, but how to think, which makes this book unique and valuable. This is a book that parents can share with their children, and it includes the voices of young people who talk about the challenges and problems they face. Chapters include: There are no "free" lunches Life's a bitch, then you die Don't believe your own BS Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son!

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1402250983

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Critique and Praxis

By: Bernard E. Harcourt

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Critique and Praxis

By: Bernard E. Harcourt

Critical philosophy has always challenged the division between theory and practice. At its best, it aims to turn contemplation into emancipation, seeking to transform society in pursuit of equality, autonomy, and human flourishing. Yet today’s critical theory often seems to engage only in critique. These times of crisis demand more. Bernard E. Harcourt challenges us to move beyond decades of philosophical detours and to harness critical thought to the need for action. In a time of increasing awareness of economic and social inequality, Harcourt calls on us to make society more equal and just. Only critical theory can guide us toward a more self-reflexive pursuit of justice. Charting a vision for political action and social transformation, Harcourt argues that instead of posing the question, “What is to be done?” we must now turn it back onto ourselves and ask, and answer, “What more am I to do?” Critique and Praxis advocates for a new path forward that constantly challenges each and every one of us to ask what more we can do to realize a society based on equality and justice. Joining his decades of activism, social-justice litigation, and political engagement with his years of critical theory and philosophical work, Harcourt has written a magnum opus.

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Columbia University Press

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0231551452

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9780231551458

In the Beginning Was the Deed

Realism and Moralism in Political Argument

By: Bernard Williams

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In the Beginning Was the Deed

Realism and Moralism in Political Argument

By: Bernard Williams

Bernard Williams is remembered as one of the most brilliant and original philosophers of the past fifty years. Widely respected as a moral philosopher, Williams began to write about politics in a sustained way in the early 1980s. There followed a stream of articles, lectures, and other major contributions to issues of public concern--all complemented by his many works on ethics, which have important implications for political theory. This new collection of essays, most of them previously unpublished, addresses many of the core subjects of political philosophy: justice, liberty, and equality; the nature and meaning of liberalism; toleration; power and the fear of power; democracy; and the nature of political philosophy itself. A central theme throughout is that political philosophers need to engage more directly with the realities of political life, not simply with the theories of other philosophers. Williams makes this argument in part through a searching examination of where political thinking should originate, to whom it might be addressed, and what it should deliver. Williams had intended to weave these essays into a connected narrative on political philosophy with reflections on his own experience of postwar politics. Sadly he did not live to complete it, but this book brings together many of its components. Geoffrey Hawthorn has arranged the material to resemble as closely as possible Williams's original design and vision. He has provided both an introduction to Williams's political philosophy and a bibliography of his formal and informal writings on politics. Those who know the work of Bernard Williams will find here the familiar hallmarks of his writing--originality, clarity, erudition, and wit. Those who are unfamiliar with, or unconvinced by, a philosophical approach to politics, will find this an engaging introduction. Both will encounter a thoroughly original voice in modern political theory and a searching approach to the shape and direction of liberal political thought in the past thirty-five years.

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Princeton University Press

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140082673X

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9781400826735

Illusion of Order

The False Promise of Broken Windows Policing

By: Bernard E. Harcourt

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Illusion of Order

The False Promise of Broken Windows Policing

By: Bernard E. Harcourt

This is the first book to challenge the broken-windows theory of crime, which argues that permitting minor misdemeanors, such as loitering and vagrancy, to go unpunished only encourages more serious crime. The theory has revolutionized policing in the United States and abroad, with its emphasis on policies that crack down on disorderly conduct and aggressively enforce misdemeanor laws. The problem, argues Bernard Harcourt, is that although the broken-windows theory has been around for nearly thirty years, it has never been empirically verified. Indeed, existing data suggest that it is false. Conceptually, it rests on unexamined categories of law abiders and disorderly people and of order and disorder, which have no intrinsic reality, independent of the techniques of punishment that we implement in our society. How did the new order-maintenance approach to criminal justice--a theory without solid empirical support, a theory that is conceptually flawed and results in aggressive detentions of tens of thousands of our fellow citizens--come to be one of the leading criminal justice theories embraced by progressive reformers, policymakers, and academics throughout the world? This book explores the reasons why. It also presents a new, more thoughtful vision of criminal justice.

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Harvard University Press

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0674038312

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9780674038318

The Holocaust's Ghost

Writings on Art, Politics, Law and Education

By: F. C. DeCoste,Bernard Schwartz

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The Holocaust's Ghost

Writings on Art, Politics, Law and Education

By: F. C. DeCoste,Bernard Schwartz

Numerous scholars explore the moral, aesthetic, and political outcomes of the Holocuast from the perspectives of various academic backgrounds, including: art, literature, political science, education and history.

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University of Alberta

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0888643373

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The Problems of a Political Animal

Community, Justice, and Conflict in Aristotelian Political Thought

By: Bernard Yack

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Community, Justice, and Conflict in Aristotelian Political Thought

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Webster's New World College Dictionary

By: Victoria Neufeldt,David Bernard Guralnik

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Webster's New World College Dictionary

By: Victoria Neufeldt,David Bernard Guralnik

Offers hundreds of new words and meanings, including many unique to American English, with thousands of examples of current usage.

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0028603338

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Book's by Bernard Yack

Nationalism and the Moral Psychology of Community

Nationalism and the Moral Psychology of Community

The Longing for Total Revolution

The Longing for Total Revolution

The Longing for Total Revolution

The Longing for Total Revolution

The Problems of a Political Animal

The Problems of a Political Animal

Nationalism and the Moral Psychology of Community

Nationalism and the Moral Psychology of Community

Life Is Not Fair...

Life Is Not Fair...

Critique and Praxis

Critique and Praxis

In the Beginning Was the Deed

In the Beginning Was the Deed

Illusion of Order

Illusion of Order

The Holocaust's Ghost

The Holocaust's Ghost

The Problems of a Political Animal

The Problems of a Political Animal

Webster's New World College Dictionary

Webster's New World College Dictionary

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