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Nihilistic Times - Thinking With Max Weber

by Wendy Brown

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 Wendy Brown diagnoses a late-modern nihilism that trivializes valuesâ€"including truth itselfâ€"and reduces politics to narcissism and power-mongering. Rereading Max Weber, who saw a similar predicament in his own time, Brown seeks to reground political action in responsibility and reorient classrooms to the critical thinking citizens need today.
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Nihilistic Times - Thinking With Max Weber

by Wendy Brown

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 Wendy Brown diagnoses a late-modern nihilism that trivializes valuesâ€"including truth itselfâ€"and reduces politics to narcissism and power-mongering. Rereading Max Weber, who saw a similar predicament in his own time, Brown seeks to reground political action in responsibility and reorient classrooms to the critical thinking citizens need today.
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Nihilistic Times - Thinking With Max Weber

by Wendy Brown

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 Wendy Brown diagnoses a late-modern nihilism that trivializes valuesâ€"including truth itselfâ€"and reduces politics to narcissism and power-mongering. Rereading Max Weber, who saw a similar predicament in his own time, Brown seeks to reground political action in responsibility and reorient classrooms to the critical thinking citizens need today.
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Case For Irony

by Jonathan Lear

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 "Vanity Fair" has declared the Age of Irony over. Joan Didion has lamented that Obama s United States is an irony-free zone." Here Jonathan Lear argues that irony is one of the tools we use to live seriously, to get the hang of becoming human. It forces us to experience disruptions in our habitual ways of tuning out of life, but comes with a cost.
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Happiness, Death, And The Remainder Of Life

by Jonathan Lear

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 Separated by millennia, Aristotle and Sigmund Freud gave us disparate but compelling pictures of the human condition. But if, with Jonathan Lear, we scrutinize these thinkers' attempts to explain human behavior in terms of a higher principleâ€"whether happiness or deathâ€"the pictures fall apart.
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Citizens Divided - Campaign Finance Reform And The Constitution

by Robert C. Post

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 First Amendment defenders greeted the Courtâ€™s Citizens United ruling with enthusiasm, while electoral reformers recoiled in disbelief. Post offers a constitutional theory that seeks to reconcile these sharply divided camps, and he explains how the case might have been decided in a way that would preserve free speech and electoral integrity.
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Interpretation And Social Criticism

by Michael Walzer

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 In succinct and engaging fashion Michael Walzer demystifies the activity of the social critic, providing a philosophical framework for understanding social criticism as social practice.
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Frontiers Of Justice - Disability, Nationality, Species Membership

by Martha C. Nussbaum

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 Taking up three urgent problems of social justiceâ€"those with physical and mental disabilities, all citizens of the world, and nonhuman animalsâ€"neglected by current theories and thus harder to tackle in practical terms, Martha Nussbaum seeks a theory of social justice that can guide us to a richer, more responsive approach to social cooperation.
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Atlas Of The Year 1000

by John Man

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 Atlas of the Year 1000 takes readers on a voyage of discovery around the world at the turn of the last millennium, when for the first time the world was in essence a unity, when peoples reached out to create links and put isolated cultures unwittingly in touch.
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The Tanner Lectures On Human Values, Volume 36

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 The Tanner Lectures on Human Values was established by the American scholar, industrialist, and philanthropist Obert Clark Tanner. Volume 36 features lectures given during the academic year 2015-2016 at the University of Oxford, Princeton University, Stanford University, the University of Utah, Yale University, and Ochanomizu University, Tokyo.
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Citizens Divided - Campaign Finance Reform And The Constitution

by Robert C. Post

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 First Amendment defenders greeted the Courtâ€™s Citizens United ruling with enthusiasm, while electoral reformers recoiled in disbelief. Post offers a constitutional theory that seeks to reconcile these sharply divided camps, and he explains how the case might have been decided in a way that would preserve free speech and electoral integrity.
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101 Games That Keep Kids Coming - Get-To-Know-You Games For Ages 3-12

by Jolene L. Roehlkepartain

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 Easy-to-use games for helping children build friendships and community
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A Concise History Of Christian Doctrine

by Justo L. Gonzalez

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 Provides an introduction to the core Christian doctrines, the historical context in which they arose, and their importance to contemporary Christian belief and practice. This book is useful for students in church history, historical theology, and systematic theology classes in college/university settings, as well as seminaries/theological schools.
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Endgame - Secret Talks And The End Of Apartheid

by Willie Esterhuyse

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A Case For Irony

by Jonathan Lear

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 "Vanity Fair" has declared the Age of Irony over. Joan Didion has lamented that Obama s United States is an irony-free zone." Here Jonathan Lear argues that irony is one of the tools we use to live seriously, to get the hang of becoming human. It forces us to experience disruptions in our habitual ways of tuning out of life, but comes with a cost.
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The Decline And Fall Of The American Republic

by Bruce Ackerman

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 Bruce Ackerman shows how the institutional dynamics of the last half-century have transformed the American presidency into a potential platform for political extremism, and proposes a series of reforms that will minimize, if not eliminate, the risks going forward.
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Happiness, Death, And The Remainder Of Life

by Jonathan Lear

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 Separated by millennia, Aristotle and Sigmund Freud gave us disparate but compelling pictures of the human condition. But if, with Jonathan Lear, we scrutinize these thinkers' attempts to explain human behavior in terms of a higher principleâ€"whether happiness or deathâ€"the pictures fall apart.
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The Trouble With Confucianism

by Wm. Theodore De Bary

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 In East and Southeast Asia, as well as China, people are asking, â€œWhat does Confucianism have to offer today?â€ For some, Confucius is still the symbol of a reactionary and repressive past; for others, he is the humanist admired by generations of scholars and thinkers, East and West, for his ethical system and discipline.
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American Citizenship - The Quest For Inclusion

by Judith N. Shklar

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 Shklar identifies the right to vote and the right to work as the defining social rights and primary sources of public respect. She demonstrates that in recent years, although all Americans profess their devotion to the work ethic, earning remains unavailable to many who feel and are consequently treated as less than full citizens.

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