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Our Politics, Our Selves?

Liberalism, Identity, and Harm

By: Peter Digeser

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Our Politics, Our Selves?

Liberalism, Identity, and Harm

By: Peter Digeser

Is statecraft soulcraft? Should we look to our souls and selves in assessing the quality of our politics? Is it the business of politics to cultivate, shape, or structure our internal lives? Summarizing and answering the major theoretical positions on these issues, Peter Digeser formulates a qualified permission to protect or encourage particular forms of human identity. Public discourse on politics should not preclude talk about the role of reason in our souls or the importance of wholeness and community to our selves or the significance of autonomy for individuals. However, those who seek to place only their own conception of the self or soul within the reach of politics are as mistaken as those who would completely preclude such matters from the political realm. In proposing this view, Digeser responds to communitarians, classical political rationalists, and genealogists who argue that liberal culture fragments, debases, or normalizes our selves. He also critically analyzes perfectionist liberals who justify liberalism by virtue of its ability to cultivate autonomy and authenticity, as well as liberal neutralists who wish to avoid altogether the problem of selfcraft. All these, he argues, fall short in some way in defining the extent to which politics should be concerned with the self.

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Princeton University Press

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1400821711

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Our Politics, Our Selves?

Liberalism, Identity, and Harm

By: Peter Digeser

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Liberalism, Identity, and Harm

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Defending Constantine

The Twilight of an Empire and the Dawn of Christendom

By: Peter J. Leithart

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Defending Constantine

The Twilight of an Empire and the Dawn of Christendom

By: Peter J. Leithart

Peter Leithart weighs what we've been taught about Constantine and claims that in focusing on these historical mirages we have failed to notice the true significance of Constantine and Rome baptized. He reveals how beneath the surface of this contested story there lies a deeper narrative--a tectonic shift in the political theology of an empire--with far-reaching implications.

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InterVarsity Press

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083086816X

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9780830868162

Between Babel and Beast

America and Empires in Biblical Perspective

By: Peter J. Leithart

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Between Babel and Beast

America and Empires in Biblical Perspective

By: Peter J. Leithart

The United States is one of history's great Christian nations, but our unique history, success, and global impact have seduced us into believing we are something more--God's New Israel, the new order of the ages, the last best hope of mankind, a redeemer nation. Using the subtle categories that arise from biblical narrative, Between Babel and Beast analyzes how the heresy of Americanism inspired America's rise to hegemony while blinding American Christians to our failures and abuses of power. The book demonstrates that the church best serves the genuine good of the United States by training witnesses--martyr-citizens of God's Abrahamic empire.

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169

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1725245809

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9781725245808

Political Forgiveness

By: P. E. Digeser,Peter Digeser

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Political Forgiveness

By: P. E. Digeser,Peter Digeser

It centers on the capacity of victims and creditors to release transgressors and debtors from their moral and financial debts. "If justice is a matter of receiving one's due," he says, "then political forgiveness entails releasing one's due." Neverthless, political forgiveness remains connected to justice in important ways.".

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Cornell University Press

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0801438101

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9780801438103

Contesting the Corporation

Struggle, Power and Resistance in Organizations

By: Peter Fleming,André Spicer

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Contesting the Corporation

Struggle, Power and Resistance in Organizations

By: Peter Fleming,André Spicer

In an age when large corporations dominate the economic and political landscape, it is tempting to think that their power goes largely unchecked. Originally published in 2007, Contesting the Corporation counters this view by showing that today's corporations are driven by political struggle, power plays and attempts to resist control. Building on a wide range of theoretical sources, Fleming and Spicer present an analysis of the different ways in which power operates within the modern workplace. They begin by building a theoretical perspective that synthesizes previous investigations of power and resistance, identifying struggle as a key concept. Each chapter illustrates a different dimension of workplace struggle through an array of original empirical studies relating to sexuality, cynicism, new social movements and new-wave trade unionism. The book concludes by demonstrating that social justice claims underlie even the most innocuous forms of resistance, helping to transform some of the largest modern corporations.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107320968

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9781107320963

Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds

A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 2

By: Peter Adamson

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Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds

A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 2

By: Peter Adamson

Peter Adamson offers an accessible, humorous tour through a period of eight hundred years when some of the most influential of all schools of thought were formed: from the third century BC to the sixth century AD. He introduces us to Cynics and Skeptics, Epicureans and Stoics, emperors and slaves, and traces the development of Christian and Jewish philosophy and of ancient science. Chapters are devoted to such major figures as Epicurus, Lucretius, Cicero, Seneca, Plotinus, and Augustine. But in keeping with the motto of the series, the story is told 'without any gaps,' providing an in-depth look at less familiar topics that remains suitable for the general reader. For instance, there are chapters on the fascinating but relatively obscure Cyrenaic philosophical school, on pagan philosophical figures like Porphyry and Iamblichus, and extensive coverage of the Greek and Latin Christian Fathers who are at best peripheral in most surveys of ancient philosophy. A major theme of the book is in fact the competition between pagan and Christian philosophy in this period, and the Jewish tradition also appears in the shape of Philo of Alexandria. Ancient science is also considered, with chapters on ancient medicine and the interaction between philosophy and astronomy. Considerable attention is paid also to the wider historical context, for instance by looking at the ascetic movement in Christianity and how it drew on ideas from Hellenic philosophy. From the counter-cultural witticisms of Diogenes the Cynic to the subtle skepticism of Sextus Empiricus, from the irreverent atheism of the Epicureans to the ambitious metaphysical speculation of Neoplatonism, from the ethical teachings of Marcus Aurelius to the political philosophy of Augustine, the book gathers together all aspects of later ancient thought in an accessible and entertaining way.

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600

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OUP Oxford

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0191043907

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Through the Eye of a Needle

Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD

By: Peter Brown

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Through the Eye of a Needle

Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD

By: Peter Brown

Through the Eye of a Needle is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in the waning days of the Roman Empire.

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Princeton University Press

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069115290X

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9780691152905

Political Forgiveness

By: P. E. Digeser,Peter Digeser

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By: P. E. Digeser,Peter Digeser

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Cornell University Press

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Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman

By: Peter Weiss

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Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman

By: Peter Weiss

Peter Weiss (1916-1982) was virtually unknown in the mid-1960s when Peter Brook made Marat/Sade into a film. The weaving of time, space, plot, real-and-imagined characters, sexual liberation, and surrealist imagery made Marat/Sade a sensation. Little did audiences realize that this counterculture classic was written by a German Jew. At that time, Weiss was also at work on a play about Auschwitz: The Investigation. These two dramas are in this volume along with The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman. All are cogently introduced and edited by Robert Cohen.

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334

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A&C Black

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0826409636

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9780826409638

Time to Mend

By: Peter Millar

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Time to Mend

By: Peter Millar

A book of reflections reaffirming the fundamental connection between belief in God and commitment to and awareness of God's world, and calling us to recommit ourselves to the way of love in our uncertain times.

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Wild Goose Publications

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1849522588

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Book's by Peter Digeser

Our Politics, Our Selves?

Our Politics, Our Selves?

Our Politics, Our Selves?

Our Politics, Our Selves?

Defending Constantine

Defending Constantine

Between Babel and Beast

Between Babel and Beast

Political Forgiveness

Political Forgiveness

Contesting the Corporation

Contesting the Corporation

Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds

Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds

Through the Eye of a Needle

Through the Eye of a Needle

Political Forgiveness

Political Forgiveness

Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman

Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman

Time to Mend

Time to Mend

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