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Book SynopsisThis book presents a non-cosmopolitan theory of global justice. In contrast to theories that seek to extend principles of social justice, such as equality of opportunity or resources, to the world as a whole, it argues that in a world made up of self-determining national communities, a different conception is needed. The book presents and defends an account of national responsibility which entails that nations may justifiably claim the benefits that their decisions and policies produce, while also being held liable for harms that they inflict on other peoples. Such collective responsibility extends to responsibility for the national past, so the present generation may owe redress to those who have been harmed by the actions of their predecessors. Global justice, therefore, must be understood not in terms of equality, but in terms of a minimum set of basic rights that belong to human beings everywhere. Where these rights are being violated or threatened, remedial responsibility may fallTrade ReviewReview from previous edition This book may become the one against which cosmopolitans define their position, but it offers a great deal more than that; in particular a theory of global justice which gives nationhood a central place, and a nuanced and insightful analysis of the idea of responsibility. * Political Studies Review *Table of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. Cosmopolitanism ; 3. Global Egalitarianism ; 4. Two Concepts of Responsibility ; 5. National Responsibility ; 6. Inheriting Responsibilities ; 7. Human Rights: Setting the Global Minimum ; 8. Immigration and Territorial Rights ; 9. Responsibilities to the World's Poor ; 10. Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Index

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Book SynopsisBarack Obama is often lauded as a ''pragmatist,'' yet when most people employ the term, they mean it in the vaguest sense: that he''s practical and willing to compromise to get things done. However, the public philosophy of pragmatism, which has been the subject of a rich revival in the past couple of decades, is far more than this. First developed in the late nineteenth century, pragmatism is primarily a way of thinking--an anti-dualist philosophy that attempts to overcome the dichotomies between self and object, nature and culture, mind and body, theory and practice, and fact and value. When applied to governance, pragmatists advocate the use of tactics like third party mediation and problem-solving to achieve anti-dualist principles: cosmopolitan localism, analytical holism, progressive conservatism, and processual structuralism. In Pragmatist Governance, Chris Ansell begins with a theory of the concept and then explains why the approach is ideal for addressing today''s governance problems. For instance, while many think that bureaucracy''s unchecked growth is the fundamental problem facing democracy today, pragmatism suggests the opposite: that public agencies can effectively manage the relationship between governance and democracy if they focus on building consent for public problem-solving. Ansell argues that wishing away bureaucracy will not do given what we know about the indispensible role of institutions in contemporary governance. Utilizing pragmatist concepts, Ansell rethinks the design of institutions, arguing that they are neither the simple products of rational design that can be endlessly tinkered with nor ''congealed taste''--where institutions represent the timeless customs and values of a people. Along with overcoming this dualism, Ansell also challenges us to rethink our approach to governance. Instead of moving from one extreme to the other--from bureaucracy to ''post-bureaucracy'' or ''public entrepreneurialism''--pragmatism would not merely seek to replace one (hierarchical bureaucracy) with the other (a ''flat,'' entrepreneurial organization), but rather to hitch the two approaches together in an innovative amalgam where organizational leaders constantly interact with and learn from street-level bureaucrats. Pragmatist Governance concludes that if government is to regain public trust, the technical knowledge of experts must be brought together with sensitivity to local problems, situations, and knowledge. The answer lies not, however, in a diminished bureaucracy. That may only deepen distrust. Rather, the emphasis should be on taking the best of both sides to find innovative and effective ways to solve enduring public problems.Trade ReviewThroughout Pragmatist Democracy, Ansell skilfully integrates the writings of theorists from a variety of disciplines. The broad scope and eclectic range of sources and topics make the book accessible to scholers from a variety of disciplines - one could imagine this book as a central text in advanced courses in public administration, political science, public policy, sociology or organization studies. * Keith F. Snider, Public Administration *Ansell has done an impressive job, and this work should be indispensable for anyone interested in the concrete political implications of pragmatism. * Loren Goldman, University of California, Berkeley *Table of Contents1. Democratic Governance in a Pragmatist Key ; 2. Institutions ; 3. Large-Scale Institutional Change ; 4. Organizations ; 5. Problem-Solving ; 6. Recursiveness ; 7. Power and Responsibility ; 8. Consent ; 9. Collaborative Governance ; 10. Problem-Solving Democracy

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Book SynopsisThis book lays out foundations for a science of morals. Binmore uses game theory as a systematic tool for investigating ethical matters. He reinterprets classical social contract ideas within a game-theory framework and generates new insights into the fundamental questions of social philosophy. In contrast to the previous writing in moral philosophy that relied on vague notion such as societal well-being and moral duty, Binmore begins with individuals; rational decision-makers with the ability to emphasize with one another. Any social arrangement that prescribes them to act against their interests will become unstable and eventually will be replaced by another, until one is found that includes worthwhile actions for all individuals involved.Trade Reviewa worthwhile addition to the growing literature on the evolution and nature of fairness norms. * William F. Harms, Philosophy in Review *Table of ContentsPREFACE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

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Book SynopsisEqual opportunity is a powerful idea, and one with extremely broad appeal in contemporary politics, political theory, and law. But what does it mean? On close examination, the most attractive existing conceptions of equal opportunity turn out to be impossible to achieve in practice, or even in theory. As long as families are free to raise their children differently, no two people''s opportunities will be equal; nor is it possible to disentangle someone''s abilities or talents from her background advantages and disadvantages. Moreover, given different abilities and disabilities, different people need different opportunities, confounding most ways of imagining what counts as equal.This book proposes an entirely new way of thinking about the project of equal opportunity. Instead of focusing on the chimera of literal equalization, we ought to work to broaden the range of opportunities open to people at every stage in life. We can achieve this in part by loosening the bottlenecks that constTrade ReviewThis breakthrough book rethinks equality from the ground up, turning the spotlight on unexplored bottlenecks in the pursuit of a more just society. A fundamental contribution. * Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University *Fishkin's book is a must read for anybody interested in egalitarianism in general and equality of opportunity in particular. Fishkin's is an energising voice in the literature on equal opportunity * Avner De Shalit, Journal of Ecclesiastical History *Joseph Fishkin develops the 'bottleneck' metaphor into a powerful lens for understanding the structure of opportunity in our society, and thereby recasts the 'equal opportunity' project in a way that is both novel and resonant with deeply rooted intuitions about fairness. * Cynthia Estlund, Catherine A. Rein Professor of Law, New York University School of Law *Bottlenecks breaks a major step forward in conceptualizing how to promote meaningful opportunities for human flourishing in a world of pluralism as well as inequality. It is a breath of fresh air amidst stale debates over abstract conceptions of equaliy-but more importantly, it charts a path of conceptual and policy development that has enormous promise. * Rogers M. Smith, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania *Joseph Fishkin offers a new and important framework for defining equal opportunity - one that gets beyond questions of 'merit.' If what looks like 'merit' is more often than not a result of advantages that can be bought, how can opportunities ever be 'equal'? Fishkin provides an original answer, suggesting new ways to open up opportunities by loosening the bottlenecks that are holding people back. * Lani Guinier, Bennett Boskey Professor of Law, Harvard Law School *Bottlenecks reinvigorates the concept of equal opportunity by simultaneously engaging with its complications and attempting to simplify its ambitions. Fishkin's observations about human development also advance the social model of disability, in which disability is seen not as fundamentally physiological but rather as socially constructed. * Michigan Law Review *Fishkin has interesting things to say about such concerns in a wide-ranging work. Even if unconvincing for some, it provides rich food for thought on how we can think more clearly about equal opportunities. * Thom Brooks, Political Studies Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; A. How We Think About Equal Opportunity ; B. Opportunity Pluralism ; C. Implications of the Theory ; Chapter I: Equal Opportunity and Its Problems ; I.A. Conceptions of Equal Opportunity ; I.A.1. Rawlsian Equal Opportunity & Starting Gate Theories ; I.A.2. Tests, Bias, and <"Formal-Plus>" ; I.A.3. Luck Egalitarianism and Natural Talents ; I.A.4. Talent, Luck, and Dworkin ; I.B. Beyond Distributive Justice: Opportunities and Flourishing ; I.C. Four Problems for Equal Opportunity ; I.C.1. The Problem of the Family ; i. Parental Advantages ; ii. Mitigation and Compensation ; iii. Families and the Principle of Fair Life Chances ; I.C.2. The Problem of Merit ; i. An Admissions Example ; ii. Merit for Luck Egalitarians ; iii. Roemer's EOp Proposal and the Limits of Merit ; iv. Merit and Self ; I.C.3. The Problem of the Starting Gate ; i. Limits of the Ex Ante Perspective ; ii. Compounded Advantage and the Concatenation of Opportunities ; iii. Focus on the Youngest? ; iv. Them That's Got Shall Get ; I.C.4. The Problem of Individuality ; i. Schaar's Nightmare and Nozick's Dream ; ii. Toward A Different Kind of Equal Opportunity ; Chapter II: Opportunities and Human Development ; II.A. Natural Difference in Political Theory ; II.B. Intrinsic Differences, Nature, and Nurture ; II.B.1. Intrinsic Difference Claims ; II.B.2. Models of Nature and Nurture ; II.B.3. Not Even Separate ; II.C. The Trouble with <"Normal>" ; II.C.1. There Is No <"Normal>" ; II.C.2. The Flynn Effect: An Object Lesson in the Role of Environment ; II.D. An Iterative Model of Human Development ; II.D.1. Developing Capacities ; II.D.2. Interaction with Family and Society ; II.D.3. Interaction With the World of Employment ; II.E. The Trouble With <"Equal>" ; II.E.1. A Simple Equalization Problem ; II.E.2. What if We Don't All Have the Same Goal? ; II.E.3. The Endogeneity of Preferences and Goals ; II.E.4. Essential Developmental Opportunities ; Chapter III: Opportunity Pluralism ; III.A. Unitary and Pluralistic Opportunity Structures ; III.A.1 Individuality and Pluralism ; III.A.2 Positional Goods and Competitive Roles ; III.A.3. The Anti-Bottleneck Principle ; III.A.4. Who Controls The Opportunity Structure? ; III.B. The Dynamics of Bottlenecks ; III.B.1. Types of Bottlenecks ; III.B.2. Legitimate Versus Arbitrary Bottlenecks ; III.B.3. Severity of Bottlenecks ; III.B.4. How Many People Are Affected By This Bottleneck? ; III.B.5. What To Do About Bottlenecks ; III.B.6. Bottlenecks and the Content of Jobs ; III.B.7. Situating Bottlenecks Within the Opportunity Structure as a Whole ; III.B.8. Bottlenecks, Efficiency, and Human Capital ; III.B.9. Potential Benefits of Bottlenecks ; III.C. Flourishing, Perfectionism, and Priority ; III.C.1. Equal Opportunity Without a Common Scale ; III.C.2. Thin Perfectionism and Autonomy ; Chapter IV: Applications ; IV.A. Class as Bottleneck ; IV.A.1. Fear of Downward Mobility: A Parable About How Inequality Matters ; IV.A.2. College as Bottleneck ; IV.A.3. Segregation and Integration: A Story of Networks and Norms ; IV.B. Freedom and Flexibility in the World of Work ; IV.B.1. Flexibility, Job Lock, and Entrepreneurialism ; IV.B.2. Workplace Flexibility and Gender Bottlenecks ; IV.C. Bottlenecks and Antidiscrimination Law ; IV.C.1 Some Cutting-Edge Statutes and Their Implications ; IV.C.2. Whom Should Antidiscrimination Law Protect? ; IV.C.3. An Example: Appearance Discrimination ; IV.C.4. Bottlenecks, Groups, and Individuals ; IV.C.5. How Should Antidiscrimination Law Protect? ; Conclusion ; Acknowledgments ; Index

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Book SynopsisFrom Gandhi''s movement to win Indian independence to the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011, an expanding number of citizens have used nonviolent action to win political goals. While such events have captured the public imagination, they have also generated a new surge of scholarly interest in the field of nonviolence and civil resistance studies. Although researchers have produced new empirical data, theories, and insights into the phenomenon of nonviolent struggle, the field is still quite unfamiliar to many students and scholars. In Nonviolent Struggle: Theories, Strategies, and Dynamics, sociologist Sharon Nepstad provides a succinct introduction to the field of civil resistance studies, detailing its genesis, key concepts and debates, and a summary of empirical findings. Nepstad depicts the strategies and dynamics at play in nonviolent struggles, and analyzes the factors that shape the trajectory and outcome of civil resistance movements. The book draws on a vast array of historical examples, including the U.S. civil rights movement, the Indonesian uprising against President Suharto, the French Huguenot resistance during World War II, and Cesar Chavez''s United Farm Workers. Nepstad describes both principled and pragmatic nonviolent traditions and explains various categories of nonviolent action, concluding with an assessment of areas for future research. A comprehensive treatment of the philosophy and strategy of nonviolent resistance, Nonviolent Struggle is essential reading for students, scholars, and anyone with a general interest in peace studies and social change.Trade ReviewIt is not an easy task to capture a moving target, but Nepstad has successfully done so, having effectively woven the different threads of this emerging field together. Nonviolent Struggle provides a comprehensive overview of this still under-researched phenomenon and in that sense is clearly one of the foundational academic works... Nonviolent Struggle is a must-read for scholars, students, practitioners and anyone with a general interest in conflict transformation, peace studies, social change and social movements. * Siddharth Tripathi, Democratization *Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures ; Preface ; Acknowledgements ; Chapter 1: What Nonviolence Is and What It Is Not ; Chapter 2: Religious and Ethical Positions on Violence and Nonviolence ; Chapter 3: The Strategy of Nonviolent Resistance ; Chapter 4: Types of Nonviolent Action ; Chapter 5: Dynamics of Nonviolent Struggles ; Chapter 6: Outcomes and Consequences of Nonviolent Struggles ; Chapter 7: Armed Forces, Defections, and Nonviolent Change ; Chapter 8: The Global Diffusion of Nonviolence ; Chapter 9: Future Directions in Civil Resistance Research ; Appendix: Discussion Questions ; Endnotes ; Glossary of Terms ; References

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Book SynopsisIt is commonly observed that behind many of the political and cultural issues that we face today there are impoverished conceptions of freedom, which, according to D. C. Schindler, we have inherited from the classical liberal tradition without a sufficient awareness of its implications. Freedom from Reality presents a critique of the deceptive and ultimately self-subverting character of the modern notion of freedom, retrieving an alternative view through a new interpretation of the ancient tradition. While many have critiqued the inadequacy of identifying freedom with arbitrary choice, this book seeks to penetrate to the metaphysical roots of the modern conception by going back, through an etymological study, to the original sense of freedom.Schindler begins by uncovering a contradiction in John Locke's seminal account of human freedom. Rather than dismissing it as a mere academic problem, Schindler takes this contradiction as a key to understanding the strange paradoxTrade Review"This is a brilliant, incredibly erudite, and rigorously argued book. D. C. Schindler's fundamental contribution is the working out of autonomy described as the flight from reality. Nobody has defended this account of the trajectory of modern liberalism more ably than he has. It is a huge and complete accomplishment by one of the most magnificent thinkers of our time." —Peter Lawler, Dana Professor in Government, Berry College"D. C. Schindler is probably the best Catholic philosophical theologian of his generation in the Anglophone world. In short, this book is an account and diagnosis of the rise of a modern concept of 'liberty' . . . and of an alternative vision drawn from classical and Christian tradition. It makes a better and more controlled case than any other book I know of dealing with these issues, and opens new perspectives on Locke and whole heritage of modern moral and political history." —David Bentley Hart, Templeton Fellow, Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study"Among the sacred cows of the modern age, a certain idea of individual freedom and political liberty has pride of place. D. C. Schindler unravels its genealogy in John Locke, exposes its self-defeating character, and pleads for a retrieval of a fuller conception, rooted in classical Greek philosophy. He thereby contributes to the healing of our intellectual, cultural, and social diseases. A daring and necessary enterprise." —Rémi Brague, University of Paris–Sorbonne and Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich"Schindler’s book is a brilliant tour de force of political and moral reasoning. A most timely and stringent analysis of modernity’s confused and calamitous dissociation of freedom and the good, Schindler’s book will be ranked with similarly intentioned, highly influential works by Polanyi, MacIntyre, and Gadamer." —Thomas Pfau, Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of English and professor of Germanic Languages & Literatures, Duke University"As a critique of deep currents of modern thought, Schindler’s masterful study does just what it should: it brings us into a position to understand and assess divergences at the level of fundamental principles, and to recognize their consequences. His lucid explication of 'the diabolical'—the mimicry of truth that plunges us ever deeper into unreality—sheds much-needed light into the abyss of inescapable contradictions Locke bequeathed to liberal society in his revolutionary re-conception of liberty and the will. Schindler is one of the best guides available to a revivified classical philosophy that restores the soul and reality to the communion they were made for." —Mark Shiffman, Villanova University"This book critiques modernity’s prioritization of the concept of freedom over the good in philosophical thought. Schindler . . . argues that modernity delinks the good from freedom and substitutes the latter for the former. Paradoxically, this substitution leads to contradictions and even to fragmentation of society. As a solution, the author proposes a return to the classical conception of the good central to the thought of Plato and Aristotle. There, the good is symbolic—from the Greek sym-ballò meaning 'to join together'—whereas the modern is diabolical, from the Greek dia-ballò meaning 'to divide.' . . . the scholarship is superb." —Choice“Many decades ago, Scottish-born philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre published After Virtue, a spirited defense of traditional virtue-based ethics. It was an enormously important book and has had a major influence in the area of modern moral philosophy. Schindler’s book is [of] similar significance.” —News Weekly"I thank Schindler for this backfiring book that left me overwhelmed by Locke’s brilliance." —National Review"Freedom from Reality belongs in a certain upper echelon of contemporary philosophical works, sitting on a bookshelf somewhere between After Virtue and Modernity in Crisis. . . . [I]n helping us to remember our place within the larger symbolic order of reality, the book makes itself a symbol of that same order. It contains the very wisdom that it expresses." —Public Discourse“Truth be told, David C. Schindler has made a signal contribution to our understanding of Locke.” —Law & Liberty“This book will appeal to students and scholars of political philosophy (especially political theorists), philosophers in the continental or historical traditions, and cultural critics with a philosophical bent.” —Law and Religion Forum“D.C. Schindler’s Freedom from Reality provides both an assessment and a path forward, and with great dexterity. . . . Schindler has done a great service in pointing the way forward and thinking about how we can fruitfully recover the best of the classical tradition and present it to the modern world.” —New Oxford Review"Schindler’s study of the contrast between classical and modern freedom is a fascinating and much needed account to understand our predicament and our possible futures. . . . Whether we chose a 'symbolic' or a 'diabolical' account of freedom in our political, cultural, and economic life is yet to be determined. Reading Freedom from Reality will help us make this choice." —VoeglinView"A sophisticated and penetrating study of modern liberty, comparable to Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue or George Grant’s English-Speaking Justice." —Reading ReligionTable of ContentsPreface: What is Good? Part 1. John Locke and the Dialectic of Power 1. Locke’s (Re-)conception of Freedom 2. The Political Conquest of the Good in the Second Treatise Part 2. Modern Liberty as a Flight from the Real 3. The Basic Shape of Modern Liberty 4. Symbolical Order and Diabolical Subversion 5. “A Society of Devils” Part 3. Retrieving the Origin as the Essence of Freedom 6. Starting Over and Starting After: A First Foundation in Plato and Aristotle 7. Plato: The Golden Thread of Freedom 8. Aristotle: Freedom as Liberality Conclusion

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Book SynopsisAn examination of the political thinkers Hannah Arendt and Albert Camus. Isaac shows that both writers advanced the idea of a democratic civil society made up of self-limiting groups. While they criticized typical institutions of democratic politics, they favoured alternative forms of organization.Table of ContentsHumanity at zero hour; Totalitarianism and the intoxication of power; The ambiguities of humanism; Revolt and foundations of politics; Rebellion and democratic politics; Swimming against the tide; Rebellious politics reconsidered.

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Book SynopsisA takedown of the GOP’s deceitful propaganda machine from the blogger of Salon’s Unclaimed Territory and the author of the New York Times bestsellers How Would a Patriot Act? and A Tragic Legacy.Ever since the cowboy image of Ronald Reagan was sold to Americans, the Republican Party has used the same John Wayne imagery to support its candidates and take elections. We all know how they govern, but the right-wing propaganda machine is very adept at hijacking debate and marketing their candidates as effectively as the Marlboro Man. For example: Myth: The Republican nominee is an upstanding, regular guy who shares the values of the common man.Reality: He divorced his first wife in order to marry a young multimillionaire heiress whose family then funded his political career. Myth: Republicans are strong on defense and will keep us safe.Reality: They prey on f

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Book Synopsis"The best explanation that I have seen for our distinctive combination of faith, hope and naiveté concerning the governmental process." —Michael Kamman, Washington PostTrade Review"[A] provocative new study. . . . In a series of brilliant chapters, [Morgan] probes the myths that sustained eighteenth-century American notions of liberty." -- Keith Thomas - New York Review of Books"Edmund S. Morgan . . . [is] a man with a rare gift for telling the story of the past simply and elegantly without sacrificing its abundant complexity. . . . The story he tells is of enormous interest and importance." -- Pauline Meier - New York Times Book Review

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Book SynopsisOne of the most far-reaching examinations of militant Islam written to date.Trade Review"A singular and alarming insight into ideological Islam and the nurturing—at home—of the extremist and terrorist threat." -- National Post"An extraordinarily useful compendium of basic information and analysis...easily readable by the nonspecialist, yet engaging for scholars as well." -- National Review"Blunt and passionate." -- Judith Miller - New York Times"[Pipes is] an authoritative commentator on the Middle East." -- Wall Street Journal"Unlike other Middle East experts, Daniel Pipes did not need to reinvent himself or revise his opinions after September 11th." -- Robert Kaplan, author of Warrior Politics and Balkan Ghosts"Brilliantly demonstrates how Pipes knows his subject." -- Steven Emerson, author of American Jihad

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Book SynopsisThe decline of social mobility and the rise of income inequality - to say nothing of the extraordinary social, political, and economic developments of the Bush and Obama presidencies - have convinced many that the American Dream is no more. This is the concern that Cal Jillson addresses in The American Dream: In History, Politics, and Fiction.

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Book SynopsisRestricted to the shorthand of ‘sex, drugs, and rock’n' roll’, the counterculture would seem to be a brief, vibrant stretch of the 1960s. But the American counterculture, as this book clearly demonstrates, was far more than a historical blip and its impact continues to resonate.Trade ReviewWith great clarity, precision, and impeccable documentation, Damon R. Bach has crafted an important corrective to the myths, stereotypes, and long-held misconceptions about the sixties counterculture. Impressive in its scope and depth, The American Counterculture offers a highly accessible account of a movement that encompassed both hippies and allied cultural dissidents, interacted with other social movements of the period, extended from the coasts to the heartland, inhabited both rural and urban spaces, and shifted its orientation from cultural change to engagement with a wide range of political concerns. Moving beyond monolithic, static accounts of 'hippies,' the book brings to life a movement that was continually evolving in response to other social and political currents, lasted well beyond the sixties, and left an indelible imprint on American society. Compelling and original, this book will no doubt attract the interest of scholars and students as well as the general public." —Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo, author of Daughters of Aquarius: Women of the Sixties Counterculture"The American Counterculture offers a sweeping synthesis of an important national story. With brisk pacing and a wide geographical reach, Damon Bach's book is especially valuable for its analysis of the relationship between cultural hippies and the New Left activists and the incontrovertible evidence it provides that the counterculture was not simply a bicoastal movement; it truly spread across the entire nation and made a lasting impact on American culture and politics. This is 'a trip' worth taking." —Sherry L. Smith, author of Hippies, Indians and the Fight for Red Power"The American Counterculture is like a wild road trip around the United States of the Long Sixties, with stops at familiar haunts like Haight-Ashbury and the Lower East Side as well as hidden hideaways like Portland’s Lair Hill Park, Lawrence’s Strawberry Fields head shop, and the offices of Atlanta’s Great Speckled Bird. Bach reminds us of how pervasive the counterculture became over its brief, brilliant run, and he brings a motley array of voices and sources to the project. This is an essential book for anyone wanting to understand the full scope of sixties-era youth culture." —Blake Slonecker, author of A New Dawn for the New Left: Liberation News Service, Montague Farm, and the Long Sixties"In 2017, at a conference on the 1967 Summer of Love, historians of the 1960s revisited San Francisco and lamented that no one had written the ‘big book’ on the counterculture, a book that takes readers beyond the clichÉs of sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll and examines the rise, development, demise, and legacies of the hippies. They wanted a book based on hippie documents that investigates the counterculture's relations with other movements of the 1960s, from the New Left to the antiwar movement to ecology to women’s liberation. Good news readers—this is it! Damon Bach’s American Counterculture: A History of Hippies and Cultural Dissidents is a tour de force that will become the go-to book that examines—and explains—the hippies." —Terry H. Anderson, author of The Movement and the Sixties: Protest in America from Greensboro to Wounded Knee

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Book SynopsisDragon in Ambush by Jeremy Ingalls is a critique and new translation of the first twenty poems of Mao Zedong's published poetry. This seminal work stands out from previous translations of Mao's poems in seeing them as an expression of his core political beliefs, rather than for their poetic effect. Instead, Dr. Ingalls shows in consummate detail that Mao was careful and deliberate in employing imagery in his poetry to lay out procedures for political supremacy in which the central drive was his will to psychological domination. That is, domination of the minds of others is the unifying theme of Mao's verse-sequence. The crux of Prof. Ingalls' work lies in her focus on the symbolism in the poems. The poems are, in Mao's use of them as a means of communication, meaningless on their surface. No image, however seemingly commonplace, is ever employed for merely lyrical or aesthetic description. Every image functions as a factor in an entirely political calculus. According to Dr. Ingalls, Trade ReviewCarefully translating and analyzing Mao's first 20 published poems for their political expression, the late Ingalls (poet, scholar, editor, and translator) presents Mao's poetry as an extension of his political thought rather than simply a leisure activity. After all, within China, poems had a long history of playing a role as political gauges. Part 1 establishes the historical and literary background needed to understand Mao's poems and his desire to become China's next emperor. Part 2 provides a more detailed literary, ideological, and textural analysis of each poem through Ingalls's examination of the ideas and words that explain the 'paradox that [Mao] understands but which ... he does not expect all of his readers to perceive.' This is an exceptionally well-written text, with extensive analytical notes, a bibliography, and a glossary of characters used. Readers do not have to be familiar with Mao's poems, but to fully benefit from this work, readers must be familiar with Mao's other writings and the writings of his contemporaries, with Chinese literary tradition, and with Chinese history from ancient times through the 20th century. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty. * CHOICE *Dragon in Ambush is immensely detailed. . . .[The author's] emphasis is a much-needed corrective to the work of the many earlier translators and compilers, Chinese and foreign, who have been far too reverential toward Mao. Ingalls surpasses her predecessors in the detail and erudition of her work, and in the end conveys a sense of the inner Mao that is more credible than theirs. * The New York Review Of Books *Ingalls provides a seminal translation of twenty of Mao’s poems, which will be of interest to many scholars across multiple fields. Her assertion that Mao intended to deliver a series of military and political messages for potential successors, which combine to endorse a strategy of ruthless psychological domination, represents a thought-provoking proposition, albeit one which may have been formed using subjective interpretations and a teleological approach. The work has considerable merit. * E-International Relations *Jeremy Ingalls’s translations and analysis may be. . . .informative and educative to government policy makers and researchers, scholars, and students seeking to understand the impact of Mao Zedong on his country. It would also provide readers with the fundamentals in discovering why the People’s Republic of China in the twentieth-first century has advanced to the level of a colossal global power. * Asian Affairs *Jeremy Ingalls’ translation and explication of Mao Zedong’s poems is an extraordinary work, so full of information that it seems bursting at its roughly 500-page seams. . . .Ingalls book is a rich source of information about Mao’s poetic work, and in some respects his personal and political philosophy. * Modern Chinese Literature and Culture *Table of ContentsPreface Part 1: Recognizing the Terrain Chapter 1: Methods of Approach Chapter 2: A Rationale for Ruthlessness Part 2: Mao’s Poems 1 – 20 Section A: A Dragon Bides His Time, 1925-1929 Poem 1 Changsha Poem 2 Yellow Crane Tower Poem 3 Jingangshan Poem 4 Chiang’s War Section B: Hidden Dragon, 1929-1934 Poem 5: Double Yang Poem 6: New Year’s Day Poem 7: On the Road to Guangchang Poem 8: From Tingzhou toward Changsha Poem 9: Eluding the First Major Encirclement Poem 10: Eluding the Second Major Encirclement Poem 11: Dabodi Poem 12: Huichang Section C: Dragon in the Field, 1935-1949 Poem 13: Loushan Barrier Gate Poems 14, 15, 16: Mountain Poems Poem 17: The Long March Poem 18: Kunlun Poem 19: Six Turns’ Mountain Poem 20: Snow

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Book SynopsisWhen a totalitarian group seizes power, one of the first institutions it creates is a secret political police. Since the birth of modern totalitarianism, in country after country, secret political police have been the predominant instruments of power, used to consolidate power, neutralize the opposition, and erect a one-party state. Yet, when these same totalitarian regimes have liberalized or collapsed, the secret political police have often managed to survive and even remain relevant. Dismantling Tyranny: Transitioning Beyond Totalitarian Regimes provides a groundbreaking exploration of this survival tendency in seven formerly communist regimes in the former Soviet Union and Latin America - and the lessons these transformations hold for future democratic revolutions. But Dismantling Tyranny is also much more: it is a guidebook designed to empower, inform, and guide future transitions toward democracy for those political leaders with the initiative, and courage, to embark upon such Trade Review... a most interesting book. -- Georgie Anne GeyerTable of ContentsPart 1 Preface Part 2 Introduction: The Centrality of the Secret Police Chapter 3 Russia: Death and Resurrection of the KGB Chapter 4 Czech Republic: Cui Bono, Cui Podest? Chapter 5 East Germany: The Stasi and De-Stasification Chapter 6 Estonia: Toward Post-Communist Reconstruction Chapter 7 Lithuania: A Problem of Disclosure Chapter 8 Nicaragua: Tropical Chekists Chapter 9 Poland: Continuity and Change Chapter 10 Conclusion: Past as Prologue

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Book SynopsisA pioneering account demystifying Marxist dialectics and critiquing key materialist thinkers.Table of Contentsintroduction by Frank Furedi Franz Jakubowski: an introductory note CONSCIOUSNESS AND BEING I The Critique of Hegelian Idealism The Critique of Feuerbach's Materialism II The Marxian problematic of base and superstructure Base Superstructure The Dialectical Relationship III Distortion and renewal by Marx's followers The Distortion of the Question by the Epigones The Beginnings of Renewal FALSE AND CORRECT CONSCIOUSNESS IV Alienation and reification The Self-alienation of Man and Commodity Fetishism Reification in Base and Superstructure V Ideology Ideology and the Concept of the Concrete Totality Ideology and the Classes of Bourgeois Society VI Proletarian Class consciousness The Proletariat as Subject-Object in Capitalism Class Ideology and Class Consciousness Marxism as Ideology and as Humanism Notes Index

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Book SynopsisAn accessible introduction to the methods, theory and ideas of the radical French thinkerTrade Review'A brilliant, long overdue book. It shows once and for all that Guattari was not merely one half of one of the twentieth century's greatest intellectual collaborations, but also a powerful thinker in his own right' -- Ian Buchanan, Professor of Critical and Cultural Theory, Cardiff University, founding editor of the Deleuze Studies Journal'Provides valuable insight into the ideas that animated Guattari's thought as well as his life. It is a superb introduction to key concepts such as schizoanalysis, transversality, a-signifying semiotics and various kinds of machine' -- Professor Paul Patton, University of New South Wales'Offers us so effective a critical introduction to the work of Guattari that it leads its reader to think that the century of crisis in which we are currently immersed could well be Guattarian' -- Professor Eric Alliez, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University. Author of The Signature of the World: What is Deleuze and Guattari's Philosophy? (2004) and Capital Times (1994)Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Formation of a Young Militant 2. Transversality and Politics 3. Subjectivity, Art, and Ecosophy 4. A-signifying Semiotics 5: Informatic Striation 6. Minor Cinema 7. Affect and Epilepsy Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisAn accessible and comprehensive overview of the ideas of Karl Marx that elucidates his theories and suggests crucial alternatives to capitalismTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Rebel with a Cause 2. A for Profit Society 3. Alienation 4. Social Class 5. Gender and Race 6. How We are Kept in Line 7. Historical Materialism 8. Crash: How the System Implodes 9. Utopia or Revolution 10. After the Revolution 11. The Economics of Socialism 12. Into the Beyond Notes Guide to Further Reading Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHow media and government across the globe manipulate our understanding of ChinaTrade Review'Mobo Gao is one of the most creative and stimulating thinkers on contemporary Chinese issues today. This splendid book on fundamental questions about what China is maintains his ability to target key questions which might often be asked, but seldom treated in such elegantly provocative fashion' -- Kerry Brown, Professor of Chinese Studies and Director, Lau China Institute'Mobo Gao intervenes in the increasingly tense ideological exchange that has accompanied China's challenge to the global hegemony of the West. Intimately familiar with the intellectual terrain in both worlds, Gao offers unique insights, at once indignant and introspective' -- Joel Andreas, John Hopkins University, author of Rise of the Red Engineers: The Cultural Revolution and the Origins of China's New Class'A bold, revisionist account citing much historical evidence and presenting interpretations that challenge mainstream views of China ...Gao makes a provocative case that will spark vigourous debate about the country and its leaders' motives' -- Dorothy J. Solinger, Professor Emerita, University of California, Irvine'This book engages a fundamental question in politics and history concerning discursive power. It is forcefully argued and highly stimulating. The compelling case Mobo Gao makes deserves broad attention for its significance and urgency in debating the hegemonic ascendance of revisionist historiography' -- Lin Chun, author of China and Global Capitalism: Reflections on Marxism, History and Contemporary Politics (2013)Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Scholarship, National Interest and Conceptual Paradigm 2. China, What China? 3. Chinese? Who are the Chinese? 4. Intellectual Poverty of the Chinese Neo-Enlightenment 5. The Coordinated Efforts in Constructing China 6. Why is the Cultural Revolution Cultural? 7. Why is the Cultural Revolution Revolutionary? The Legacies 8. Clashing Views of the Great Leap Forward 9. National Interest and Transnational Interest: The Political and Intellectual Elite in the West 10. Geopolitics and National Interest I: China’s Foreign Policy and Domestic Politics 11. Geopolitics and National Interest II: The South China Sea Disputes Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis1. The book challenges the ways in which ideology-critique has ascribed 'irrational' grounds to why people often believe false or debatable theories 2. Boudon offers a comprehensive overview of theories of ideology and formulates a controversial framework for the analysis of ideology 3.Table of ContentsForeword. Prologue. 1. A Question (among others) on Ideology. Part I 2. What is Ideology? 3. Is Homo Ideologicus (always) Irrational? 4. Journey Round a Table. Part II 5. Outline of a Restricted Theory of Ideology. 6. Ideology, Social Position and Dispositions. 7. Ideology and Communication. 8. Science and Ideology. Part III 9. Two Case Studies. 10. Against Scepticism. Notes. Index.

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Book SynopsisPer-Arne Bodin is Professor of Slavic Languages at Stockholm University. Mikhail Suslov is Assistant Professor of Russian History and Politics at University of Copenhagen.Trade ReviewSuslov and Bodin have assembled a comprehensive guide to some very strange (but very fascinating) worlds. Some of them are frightening to visit, but the book’s readers could not be in better hands. * Eliot Borenstein, Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, New York University, USA *Speculative fiction does not just imagine the future of Putin’s Russia – one of its primary tasks is to process the traumatic legacy of the Soviet Union’s collapse. Thus it is not a coincidence, or a trick of marketing, that makes speculative fiction of all sorts (utopian, dystopian, science fiction, fantasy, alt-history, horror) the most widely read literature in Russia today. This volume is a much-needed guide to key authors and trends in post-Soviet utopian writing. * Yvonne H. Howell, Professor of Russian and International Studies, University of Richmond, USA *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION: Per-Arne Bodin and Mikhail Suslov PART 1 Chapter 1: Alternative Russian Revolution: Viacheslav Rybakov and Kir Bulychev, Go Koshino Chaper 2: Ressentiment and post-traumatic syndrome in Russian post-Soviet speculative fiction: Two trends, Maria Galina Chapter 3: Telluro-Cosmic Imperial Utopia and Contemporary Russian Art, Maria Engström Chapter 4: Lazarus on the Ark: Heterotopias in the Novels of Vladimir Sharov and Evgenii Vodolazkin, Muireann Maguire PART 2 Chapter 5: Conservative science fiction in contemporary Russian literature and politics, Mikhail Suslov Chapter 6: Othering Russia: Eduard Limonov’s Retrofuturistic (Anti-) Utopia, Andrei Rogatchevski Chapter 7: Religio-political utopia by Iana Zavatskaia, Anastasia V. Mitrofanova Chapter 8: “Respectable Xenophobia:”Science Fiction, Utopia and Conspiracy, Viktor Shnirel’man PART 3 Chapter 9: Church Slavonic in Russian dystopias and utopias, Per-Arne Bodin Chapter 10: Contested Utopias: Language Ideologies in Valerii Votrin’s Logoped, Ingunn Lunde Chapter 11: ‘Londongrad’ as a Linguistic Imaginary: Russophone migrants in the UK in the work of Michael Idov and Andrei Ostalsky, Lara Ryazanova-Clarke PART 4 Chapter 12: ‘Provinces, Piety, and Promotional Putinism: Mapping Aleksandr Prokhanov’s Counter-Utopian Russia’, Edith W. Clowes Chapter 13: Parameters of Space-Time and Degrees of (Un)-Freedom: Dmitry Bykov’s ZhD, Sofya Khagi Chapter 14: The new “norma”: Vladimir Sorokin’s Telluria and post-utopian science fiction, Mark Lipovetsky AFTERWARD: Back to the Future, Forward to the Past? An Afterword on Explorations in Russian Science Fiction and Fantasy, Kåre Johan Mjør, Sanna Turoma SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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Book SynopsisChristopher Solomon is an analyst specializing in Middle East history and politics, and works for a US defense consultancy in Washington, D.C., USA.Trade ReviewA needed analysis of a dynamic group pursuing political change ... This book should be required for advanced students navigating the modern history of the Levant. * Choice *Provides the reader with an accessible and comprehensive overview of the [SSNP's] history. * The Middle East Journal *Chris Solomon provides an insightful and invaluable account into one of the oldest political movements in the Levant. Abundant with assassinations, betrayals and military coups, there is no dull moment in the history of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party which continues to be very relevant today as Solomon demonstrates in this book. It is a vital resource for anyone aiming to understand Levantine politics and modern history. -- Rim Turkmani, London School of Economics and Political Science, UKIn Search of Greater Syria is interesting, bright, eloquent and readable, presenting the reader with the first comprehensive picture of the history of the SSNP. This is therefore a must-read book for anyone seeking to learn the history of the party but also the turbulent history of Syria and Lebanon. * Eyal Zisser, Tel Aviv University, Israel *In Search of Greater Syria is the most detailed account ever written on the fascinating political movement of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party.Christopher Solomon analyses with great skill how this relatively small anti-sectarian and secular party, which eschewed ethnicity and language in favor of history and territory, has been attractive for people from minorities in both Syria and Lebanon. He shows eloquently how the SSNP developed from a fierce competitor of the Ba’th Party in Syria during the 1950s, into being its ally during the Syrian civil war (which started in 2011). While the SNNP over the decades pragmatically scaled down its original ideal of a wider Fertile Crescent unity (including Iraq) in favor of a more restricted unity of a Greater Syria (including Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine), the pan-Arab ideals of the Ba’th regime in Syria likewise faded down in favor of a kind of pan-Syrianism, as a result of which both parties, ideologically speaking, came closer to one another. This study shows convincingly that the SSNP will be an essential factor to watch in the future, as long as this party does not overplay its hand, as a result of which it would risk renewed persecution. -- Nikolaos van Dam, former Dutch ambassador and author of Destroying a Nation: The Civil War in Syria.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction and why the SSNP matters Chapter 2: The Party of the Martyr Chapter 3: The SSNP’s Ideology Chapter 4: The SSNP’s beginnings in Syria Chapter 5: Under the shadow of Nasser Chapter 6: The Lebanese Civil War Chapter 7: From guerillas to politicians, the SSNP in Lebanese politics Chapter 8: The SSNP in the Syrian Civil War Chapter 9: Women, youth, and social media Chapter 10: The SSNP’s future in Syria Key figures and factions A list of SSNP presidents A timeline of the SSNP's factions and historic splits

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Book SynopsisProblems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation contains the first systematic comparative analysis of the process of democratic consolidation in southern Europe and the southern cone of South America, and it is the first book to ground post-Communist Europe within the literature of comparative politics and democratic theory.Trade ReviewAn absolutely major work that represents probably the most significant contribution to the burgeoning literature on democratization over the past decade and the most ambitious effort to move the debate beyond the seminal work on transition, Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Prospects for Democracy by Guillermo O'Donnell, Philippe Schmitter, and Laurence Whitehead (1986), by considering the problem of democratization in light of the dramatic regime changes in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. -- Gerardo L. Munck Slavic ReviewTable of ContentsList of Figures, Tables, and ExhibitsPreface and AcknowledgmentsPart I: Theoretical OverviewChapter 1. Democracy and its ArenasChapter 2. "Stateness," Nationalism, and Democratization Chapter 3. Modern Nondemocratic RegimesChapter 4. The Implications of Prior Regime Type for Transition Paths and Consolidation TasksChapter 5. Actors and ContextsPart II: Southern Europe: Completed ConsolidationsChapter 6. The Paradigmatic Case of Reforma Pactada–Ruptura Pactada: SpainChapter 7. From Interim Government to Simultaneous Transition and Consolidation: Portugal Chapter 8. Crisis of a Nonhierarchical Military Regime: GreeceChapter 9. Southern Europe: Concluding ReflectionsPart III: South America: Constrained TransitionsChapter 10. A Risk-Prone Consolidated Democracy: UruguayChapter 11. Crises of Efficacy, Legitimacy, and Democratic State "Presence": Brazil Chapter 12. From an Impossible to a Possible Democratic Game: ArgentinaChapter 13. Incomplete Transition/Near Consolidation? ChileChapter 14. South America: Concluding ReflectionsPart IV: Post-Communist Europe: The Most Complex Paths and TasksChapter 15. Post-Communism's PrehistoriesChapter 16. Authoritarian Communism, Ethical Civil Society, and Ambivalent Political Society: PolandChapter 17. Varieties of Post-Totalitarian Regimes: Hungary, Czechoslovakia, BulgariaChapter 18. The Effects of Totalitarianism-cum-Sultanism on Democratic Transition: RomaniaChapter 19. The Problems of "Stateness" and Transitions: The USSR and RussiaChapter 20. When Democracy and the Nation-State Are Conflicting Logics: Estonia and LatviaChapter 21. Post-Communist Europe: Concluding Comparative ReflectionsIndex

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Book SynopsisPresents an argument that white Southerners did not begin to formulate a national identity until it became evident that the Confederacy was destined to fight a lengthy war against the Union. This book also demonstrates that an attachment to a symbolic or sentimental Confederacy existed independent of the political Confederacy.

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