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Wounds that Will Not Heal

Affirmative Action and Our Continuing Racial Divide

By: Russell Nieli

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Wounds that Will Not Heal

Affirmative Action and Our Continuing Racial Divide

By: Russell Nieli

Racial preference policies first came on the national scene as a response to black poverty and alienation in America as dramatically revealed in the destructive urban riots of the late 1960s. From the start, however, preference policies were controversial and were greeted by many, including many who had fought the good fight against segregation and Jim Crow to further a color-blind justice, with a sense of outrage and deep betrayal. In the more than forty years that preference policies have been with us little has changed in terms of public opinion, as polls indicate that a majority of Americans continue to oppose such policies, often with great intensity. In Wounds That Will Not Heal political theorist Russell K. Nieli surveys some of the more important social science research on racial preference policies over the past two decades, much of which, he shows, undermines the central claims of preference policy supporters. The mere fact that preference policies have to be referred to through an elaborate system of euphemisms and code words-- "affirmative action," "diversity," "goals and timetables," "race sensitive admissions"-- tells us something, Nieli argues, about their widespread unpopularity, their tendency to reinforce negative stereotypes about their intended beneficiaries, and their incompatibility with core principles of American justice. Nieli concludes with an impassioned plea to refocus our public attention on the "truly disadvantaged" African American population in our nation's urban centers--the people for whom affirmative action policies were initially instituted but whose interests, Nieli charges, were soon forgotten as the fruits of the policies were hijacked by members of the black and Hispanic middle class. Few will be able to read this book without at least questioning the wisdom of our current race-based preference regime, which Nieli analyses with a penetrating gaze and an eye for cant that will leave few unmoved.

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Encounter Books

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1594035822

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Wittgenstein: From Mysticism to Ordinary Language

A Study of Viennese Positivism and the Thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein

By: Russell Nieli

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Wittgenstein: From Mysticism to Ordinary Language

A Study of Viennese Positivism and the Thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein

By: Russell Nieli

Wittgenstein: From Mysticism to Ordinary Language presents the Tractatus as a work of mystic theology intended to direct the reader to a transcendental plane from which human existence can be viewed from the divine perspective. More than any other work on Wittgenstein, this study integrates text material with personal biographical information, especially information dealing with his spiritual and psychological states. The result is a fresh, coherent, and extremely illuminating picture of Wittgenstein, successfully avoiding the pitfalls of either psychological reductionism or unfaithfulness to the text. It is bold without being reckless, passionately argued without being doctrinaire, and makes a very powerful and persuasive case for its main thesis.

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State University of New York Press

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1438414714

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Wounds that Will Not Heal

Affirmative Action and Our Continuing Racial Divide

By: Russell Nieli

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Affirmative Action and Our Continuing Racial Divide

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Adam Smith's Pluralism

Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments

By: Jack Russell Weinstein

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Adam Smith's Pluralism

Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments

By: Jack Russell Weinstein

In this thought-provoking study, Jack Russell Weinstein suggests the foundations of liberalism can be found in the writings of Adam Smith (1723-1790), a pioneer of modern economic theory and a major figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. While offering an interpretive methodology for approaching Smith's two major works, "The Theory of Moral Sentiments "and "The Wealth of Nations," Weinstein argues against the libertarian interpretation of Smith, emphasizing his philosophies of education and rationality. Weinstein also demonstrates that Smith should be recognized for a prescient theory of pluralism that prefigures current theories of cultural diversity.

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Yale University Press

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0300163754

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Wittgenstein: From Mysticism to Ordinary Language

A Study of Viennese Positivism and the Thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein

By: Russell Nieli

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A Study of Viennese Positivism and the Thought of Ludwig Wittgenstein

By: Russell Nieli

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The Life and Ideas of James Hillman

Volume III: Soul in the World

By: Dick Russell

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The Life and Ideas of James Hillman

Volume III: Soul in the World

By: Dick Russell

Volume III of Dick Russell’s monumental biography, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, takes up the final decades of the pioneering depth psychologist’s explorations of “Soul in the World.” Hillman’s twenty-three-year relationship and ultimately marriage to visual artist Margot McLean provides the backdrop for the diversity of his wide-ranging pursuits—where the aesthetic and the imagination become central motifs for the founder of archetypal psychology. Hillman’s cultural explorations resulted in six provocative books between 1991 and 2004, including The Soul’s Code that became an international bestseller. He also took up themes of therapy, the business world, aging, ecology and war. In public lectures he traversed a still broader path, delving into everything from architecture to pornography. This volume examines, through the eyes of the participants, the controversial Festival of Archetypal Psychology at Notre Dame University. It analyzes the complex and often fraught relationship with German psychologist and Jungian analyst Wolfgang Giegerich. It looks at Hillman’s unique collaborative efforts with Thomas Moore, Michael Ventura and bell hooks, along with Hillman’s penchant for making unusual friends. Why was Hillman more popular in Italy and Japan than in his native America? His many travels to, and deep affinity for, these two vastly different countries is explored in depth. Was Hillman a good analyst? A compelling classroom instructor? What kind of father was he? Interviews with many of Hillman’s patients, as well as colleagues at the institute where he taught and with several of his children, reveal the man’s strengths as well as weaknesses. The biography culminates with Hillman’s surprising discovery that his predecessor C.G. Jung’s Red Book presaged where he was seeking to move psychology. In his eighties, how Hillman faced physical failings and ultimately death serve as life lessons for anyone confronting their own mortality.

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1956763570

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Bare-faced Messiah

The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard

By: Russell Miller

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Bare-faced Messiah

The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard

By: Russell Miller

A no-holds-barred look at the author of "Dianetics" and the founder of the Church of Scientology counters many of the notions and images of Hubbard put forth by his church

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Henry Holt

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0805006540

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Wounds that Will Not Heal

Wounds that Will Not Heal

Wittgenstein: From Mysticism to Ordinary Language

Wittgenstein: From Mysticism to Ordinary Language

Wounds that Will Not Heal

Wounds that Will Not Heal

Adam Smith's Pluralism

Adam Smith's Pluralism

Wittgenstein: From Mysticism to Ordinary Language

Wittgenstein: From Mysticism to Ordinary Language

The Life and Ideas of James Hillman

The Life and Ideas of James Hillman

Bare-faced Messiah

Bare-faced Messiah

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