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Political Romanticism

by Carl Schmitt

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 Carl Schmitt (1888-1985), the author of such books as Political Theology and The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (both published in English by The MIT Press), was one of the leading political and legal theorists of the twentieth century. His critical discussions of liberal democratic ideals and institutions continue to arouse controversy, but even his opponents concede his uncanny sense for the basic problems of modern politics. Political Romanticism is a historical study that, like all of Schmitt''s major works, offers a fundamental political critique. In it, he defends a concept of political action based on notions of good and evil, justice and injustice, and attacks the political passivity entailed by the romanticization of experience. The book has three strands. The first is an attack on received notions of the origins of the Romantic Movement. Schmitt argues that this movement represents a secularization, subjectification, and privatization in which God is replaced by the emancipated, private individual of the bourgeois social order. The second is an assault on political romanticism that includes a broader attack on the new European bourgeoisie, which Schmitt characterizes as the historical bearer of the movement. The third strand is a defense of political conservatism and a refutation of the view that political romanticism is intrinsically linked with romanticism. Here Schmitt argues that the political romantic is tied not to positions but to aesthetics, and can therefore as easily become a Danton as a Frederick the Great. Guy Oakes''s introduction places the book in historical context and also suggests its continuing relevance through his discussion of the latest outcropping of political romanticism in the late 1960s, intriguingly brought out in his example of Norman Mailer as a political romantic.
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Adorno'S Negative Dialectic - Philosophy And The Possibility Of Critical Rationality

by Brian O'Connor

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 An analysis of how Adorno's "pure" philosophy can be seen to provide a justification of the rationality required by critical theory.
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Fate And Utopia In German Sociology, 1870-1923

by Harry Liebersohn e Thomas Mccarthy

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 Fate and Utopia in German Sociology provides a lucid introduction to a major sociological tradition in Western thought. It is an intellectual history of five scholars—Ferdinand Tönnies, Ernst Troeltsch, Max Weber, Georg Simmel, and Georg Lukács—who created modern German sociology over the course of fifty years, from 1870 to 1923.Liebersohn portrays his subjects as thinkers who were deeply immersed in the politics and poetry of their time, and whose sociology benefited in unexpected ways from sources as diverse as medieval mysticism and Nietzsche''s Birth of Tragedy. He maps out their shared sociological discourse, shaped in response to the fragmentation they perceived in public life, in education and the arts, and in Protestant religious life.German sociology has generally been interpreted as having a tragic perspective on modern society (as implied by the pervasive idiom of "fate"); Liebersohn argues that this sense of fate was matched by an underlying utopian hope for an end to fragmentation, rooted for all of his subjects in the Lutheran idea of community.The book''s five biographical chapters are structured to discuss ideas of community, society, and personality in the work of the individual discussed, while there is a general movement among the chapters from community to society to socialism. Many specific texts are discussed, and the overall orientation is one of intellectual history rather than sociological analysis.
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Beyond Hegel And Nietzsche - Philosophy, Culture, And Agency

by Elliot L. Jurist

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 Elliot Jurist places Hegel and Nietzsche in conversation with each other, reassessing their relationship in a way that affirms its complexity.
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Between Philosophy And Social Science - Selected Early Writings

by Max Horkheimer

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 These essays reveal another side of Horkheimer, focusing on his remarkable contributions to critical theory in the 1930s.Max Horkheimer is well known as the director of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research and as a sometime collaborator with Theodor Adorno, especially on their classic Dialectic of Enlightenment. These essays reveal another side of Horkheimer, focusing on his remarkable contributions to critical theory in the 1930s. Included are Horkheimer''s inaugural address as director of the Institute, in which he outlines the interdisciplinary research program that would dominate the initial phase of the Frankfurt School, his first full monograph, and a number of other pieces published in the 1930s. The essays, most of which have not appeared in English before, are surprisingly relevant to current post-philosophy debates, notably "On the Problem of Truth," with its focus on pragmatism, and "The Rationalism Debate in Current Philosophy," a sustained critique of the post-Cartesian philosophy of consciousness. Horkheimer''s 1933 critique of Kantian ethics, "Materialism and Morality," is of particular interest given the current reaction to the neo-Kantian aspect of Habermas''s work. There are also essays relevant to the current foundations debate within Continental philosophy, and the rationality/relativism question is sustained throughout the volume.
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Communicative Action And Rational Choice

by Joseph Heath

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 Brings Jurgen Habermas's theory of communicative action into dialogue with the most sophisticated articulation of the instrumental conception of practical rationality-modern rational choice theory.
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Between Facts And Norms - Contributions To A Discourse Theory Of Law And Democracy

by Jürgen Habermas

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 In Between Facts and Norms, Jürgen Habermas works out the legal and political implications of his Theory of Communicative Action (1981), bringing to fruition the project announced with his publication of The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere in 1962. This new work is a major contribution to recent debates on the rule of law and the possibilities of democracy in postindustrial societies, but it is much more. The introduction by William Rehg succinctly captures the special nature of the work, noting that it offers a sweeping, sociologically informed conceptualization of law and basic rights, a normative account of the rule of law and the constitutional state, an attempt to bridge normative and empirical approaches to democracy, and an account of the social context required for democracy. Finally, the work frames and caps these arguments with a bold proposal for a new paradigm of law that goes beyond the dichotomies that have afflicted modern political theory from its inception and that still underlie current controversies between so-called liberals and civic republicans. The book includes a postscript written in 1994, which restates the argument in light of its initial reception, and two appendixes, which cover key developments that preceded the book. Habermas himself was actively involved in the translation, adapting the text as necessary to make it more accessible to English-speaking readers.
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Prisms

by Theodor W. Adorno

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 Prisms, essays in cultural criticism and society, is the work of a critic and scholar who has had a marked influence on contemporary American and German thought. It displays the unusual combination of intellectual depth, scope, and philosophical rigor that Adorno was able to bring to his subjects, whether he was writing about astrology columns in Los Angeles newspapers, the special problems of German academics immigrating to the United States during the Nazi years, or Hegel''s influence on Marx.In these essays, Adorno explores a variety of topics, ranging from Aldous Huxley''s Brave New World and Kafka''s The Castle to Jazz, Bach, Schoenberg, Proust, Veblen''s theory of conspicuous consumption, museums, Spengler, and more. His writing throughout is knowledgeable, witty, and at times archly opinionated, but revealing a sensitivity to the political, cultural, economic, and aesthetic connections that lie beneath the surfaces of everyday life.Prisms is included in the series, Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought, edited by Thomas McCarthy.
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Cogent Science In Context - The Science Wars, Argumentation Theory, And Habermas

by William Rehg

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 Examines what makes scientific arguments cogent - that is, strong and convincing - and how we should assess that cogency. This book proposes a multidimensional, context-sensitive framework both for understanding the cogency of scientific arguments and for conducting interdisciplinary assessments of the cogency of actual scientific arguments.
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Re-Presenting The Good Society

by Maeve Cooke

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 A proposal for negotiating the tension between an anti-authoritarian impulse and a guiding idea of context-transcending validity in critical social theory. This title addresses the justificatory dilemma facing critical social theories: how to maintain an idea of context-transcending validity without violating anti-authoritarian impulses.
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Democracy Across Borders - From Dêmos To Dêmoi

by James Bohman

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 Democracy is both exalted as the "best means to realize human rights" and seen as weakened because of globalization and delegation of authority beyond the nation-state. This book argues that democracies face a period of renewal and transformation and that democracy itself needs redefinition according to a new transnational ideal.
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The Structural Transformation Of The Public Sphere - Inquiry Into A Category Of Bourgeois Society

by Jürgen Habermas

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 This is Jurgen Habermas's most concrete historical-sociological book and one of the key contributions to political thought in the postwar period.
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Theory And Politics - Studies In The Development Of Critical Theory

by Helmut Dubiel

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 This important study of the relationship between historical developments and the work of the scholars associated with the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research yields fascinating insights into the actual workings of the Institute and the relationships among its members.
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The Boulevard Book - History, Evolution, Design Of Multiway Boulevards

by Allan B. Jacobs, Elizabeth Macdonald e Yodan Rofe

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Adorno'S Aesthetic Theory - The Redemption Of Illusion

by Lambert (Professor Of Philosophy, Institute For Christian Studies) Zuidervaart

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Public Deliberation - Pluralism, Complexity And Democracy

by James (Saint Louis University) Bohman

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 Bohman develops a realistic model of deliberation by gradually introducing and analyzing the major tests facing deliberative democracy: cultural pluralism, social inequalities, social complexity, and community-wide biases and ideologies.
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Invention - The Care And Feeding Of Ideas

by Norbert (Massachusetts Institute Of Technology) Wiener

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 An insider's view of the history of discovery and invention.
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The Semblance Of Subjectivity - Essays In Adorno'S Aesthetic Theory

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 The essays are organized around the twin themes of semblance and subjectivity. Whereas the concept of semblance, or illusion, points to Adorno's links with Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud, the concept of subjectivity recalls his lifelong struggle with a philosophy ofconsciousness stemming from Kant, Hegel, and Lukacs.
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Life Support - The Environment And Human Health

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 A solutions-oriented examination of the connections between environmental degradation and human health.
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Theory Of Incomplete Markets

by Martine Quinzii e Michael (University Of S California) Magill

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 Provides a unified framework for analyzing the real, financial, and monetary sectors of an economy.
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Losing Ground - American Environmentalism At The Close Of The Twentieth Century

by Mark Dowie

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 In this text Mark Dowie reveals the inside stories behind American environmentalism's triumphs and failures, in an attempt to explain why, what was once a promising political movement, is now being pushed to what he considers to be the brink of irrelevance.
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Technology 2001 - The Future Of Computing And Communications

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 "A major contribution to the most important American debate of the 1990s-a 'must read.'"Clyde V. Prestowitz, President, Economic Strategy Institute, and author of Trading Places: How We Are Giving Our Future To Japan
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Preparing For Peace - Military Identity, Value Orientations And Professional Military Education

by Volker Franke

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 A survey of the social, political and professional attitudes and values of cadets at the US Military Academy at West Point. By comparing cadets' responses across classes, he assesses the effects of military socialization on their commitment to the military's dual-mission purpose.
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Bint Arab - Arab And Arab American Women In The United States

by Evelyn Shakir

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 Drawing on primary sources such as club minutes, census records and interviews, this text explores the experience of late 19th- and early 20th-century immigrant women from Lebanon and Syria. The author considers the contrast between this and the experience of their daughters and granddaughters.
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