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Grin Publishing Eine Kindergrundsicherung als zentrale Manahme
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Bod Third Party Titles Maßnahmen zur Haushaltskonsolidierung in Deutschland
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Kritik Des Antisemitismus in Der Gegenwart:
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Afd & Fpo: Antisemitismus, Volkischer
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Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Political Populism: Handbook of Concepts,
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Communalism Press Art as Politics: The Future of Art and Community
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MER Paper Kunsthalle Some Use for Your Broken Clay Pots
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Valiz Commonism: A New Aesthetics of the Real
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Valiz Passivity: Between Indifference and Pacifism
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Oxford University Press Fighting for France
Book SynopsisFighting for France is a ground-breaking examination of violence in French politics in the interwar period. During these years, a range of groups at the political extremes employed physical aggression against their enemies and threatened to bring about the violent demise of the democratic regime. Until now, historians have denied and downplayed the frequency and seriousness of French political violence in favour of an interpretation that emphasises France''s weddedness to democracy. Fighting for France demonstrates that the democratic culture of the late Third Republic co-existed with a culture of violence in which the physical punishment of rivals and opponents was considered acceptable. Drawing on the narratives constructed around outbreaks of violence, the book reconstructs the lived experience of fighting and the sense that contemporaries made of conflict. It examines violence in a variety of settings, from the street to the factory floor. A range of actors come under investigationTrade Review...this is an important piece of research that will help historians gain a greater understanding not just of French political culture in this period but also of the relationship between violence and democratic political culture in Europe more broadly. * Karine Varley, H-Net *Millington contributes a nuanced exploration of the circumstances in which violence took place in France, and the political cultures that both nurtured and constrained its use. * Joan Tumblety, European History Quarterly *Fighting or France is sure to be of interest to specialists in French twentieth-century politics and political culture, as well as to those with an interest in the comparative study of democracies' responses to political extremism in the era of fascism. It could serve as a readable and engaging supplementary text for an undergraduate course on Europe in the era of the World Wars, and could also be used to provoke productive discussion about the similarities and differences between political violence in interwar Europe and in our own time. * Drew Flanagan, H-France *
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The University of Chicago Press The Common Cause
Book SynopsisEuropeans and Americans tend to hold the opinion that democracy is a uniquely Western inheritance. In this book, the authors recover stories of an alternate version, describing a transnational history of democracy in the first half of the twentieth century through the lens of ethics in the broad sense of disciplined self-fashioning.Trade Review"Drawing on an unusual mix of archives, and moving fluidly between dynamic analysis and vivid historical narrative, this study is a major contribution to current debates on the relation of ethics to politics. An important and original book." (Amanda Anderson, Brown University)"
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The University of Chicago Press Black Visions
Book SynopsisA comprehensive analysis of the complex relationship of black political thought to black political identity and behaviour. The book identifies which political ideologies are supported by blacks, then traces their historical roots and examines their effects on black public opinion.
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The University of Chicago Press Black Visions The Roots of Contemporary
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive analysis of the complex relationships between black political thought and black political identity and behaviour illuminates the history and role of this plays in shaping political debate in America.
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The University of Chicago Press Political Style The Artistry of Power
Book SynopsisThis study analyzes four dominant political styles: realist; courtly; republican; and bureaucratic. It examines political artistry in figures from antiquity to the modern day, and discusses the problems faced by each style, as well as the social and moral consequences of each style's success.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Ch. 1: Introduction Ch. 2: No Superficial Attractions and Ornaments: The Invention of Modernity in Machiavelli's Realist Style Ch. 3: No One Is in Charge Here: Ryszard Kapuscinski's Anatomy of the Courtly Style Ch. 4: In Oratory as in Life: Civic Performance in Cicero's Republican Style Ch. 5: A Boarder in One's Own Home: Franz Kafka's Parables of the Bureaucratic Style Ch. 6: Conclusion Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Sins of the Fathers Germany Memory Method
Book SynopsisNational identity and political legitimacy always involve a delicate balance between remembering and forgetting. All nations have elements in their past that they would prefer to pass over the catalog of failures, injustices, and horrors committed in the name of nations, if fully acknowledged, could create significant problems for a country trying to move on and take action in the present. Yet denial and forgetting carry costs as well. Nowhere has this precarious balance been more potent, or important, than in the Federal Republic of Germany, where the devastation and atrocities of two world wars have weighed heavily in virtually every moment and aspect of political life. The Sins of the Fathers confronts that difficulty head-on, exploring the variety of ways that Germany's leaders since 1949 have attempted to meet this challenge, with a particular focus on how those approaches have changed over time. Jeffrey K. Olick asserts that other nations are looking to Germany as an example of h
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The University of Chicago Press The Object of Labor Commodification In Socialist
Book SynopsisExploring the effects of social change thrust upon communities against their will, this book examines the history of agrarian labour in Hungary from World War I to the early 1980s. It argues that socialist policies themselves played a crucial role in the development of capitalism.
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The University of Chicago Press Beyond Ideology
Book SynopsisThe congressional agenda includes many issues about which liberals and conservatives generally agree. Even over these matters, though, Democratic and Republican senators tend to fight with each other. This book argues that many partisan battles are rooted in competition for power rather than disagreement over the rightful role of government.Trade Review"Innovative, interesting, and important, Beyond Ideology gives us rich new insights on an institution about which we still know relatively little compared with the House. It is a substantial contribution that sheds new light on complex relationships and offers engaging illustrations drawn from political interactions on legislation." - David W. Rohde, Duke University"
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The University of Chicago Press Accounting for Fundamentalisms V 4 The Dynamic
Book SynopsisFeaturing treatments of fundamentalist movements in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, and Buddhism, the authors describe the organization of these movements and the ways in which their ideologies shift over time in response to changing political and social environments.
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The University of Chicago Press Fundamentalisms Comprehended
Book SynopsisThe authors test the theory that fundamentalisms in all religions share common characteristics. Several essays reconsider the project's original definition of fundamentalism as a reactive, absolutist, and comprehensive mode of anti-secular religious activism.
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The University of Chicago Press Gandhi The Traditional Roots of Charisma
Book SynopsisThe Rudolphs' analysis reveals that Gandhi's charisma was deeply rooted in the aspects of Indian tradition that he interpreted for his time. They key to his political influence was his ability to realize in both his daily life and his public actions, cultural ideals that many Indians honored but could not enact themselvesideals such as the traditional Hindu belief that a person's capacity for self-control enhances his capacity to control his environment. Appealing to shared expectations and recognitions, Gandhi was able to revitalize tradition while simultaneously breaking with some of its entrenched values, practices, and interests. One result was a self-critical, ethical, and inclusive nationalist movement that eventually led to independence.
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The University of Chicago Press Leave Me Alone and Ill Make You Rich
Book SynopsisTrade Review"For those unable to devote the time to reading The Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Dignity, and Bourgeois Equality, McCloskey has teamed here with Carden to write a popular version. While the argument is the same—namely that respect for human liberty is what led to the Great Enrichment—this book is not a Reader’s Digest condensed version of the trilogy. Carden and McCloskey use this opportunity to make the ideas of the trilogy more contemporary. They do so in two ways. Current policy proposals, such as Senator Elizabeth Warren’s proposal for a 2 percent tax on the wealthy, are used where appropriate. Modern examples, from changes to the television set as owned by the TV Simpsons family to a long list of failed business ideas that wasted resources, such as the New Coke or Trump Airlines, are added to the mix alongside McCloskey's literary and historical examples. Even readers of McCloskey's three prior volumes will find much to enjoy in this updated reprise. Recommended." * Choice *“At a time when the mood—and reality—of the times is swinging toward state intervention in the economy—and rightly so, given the potentially Hobbesian world to which the combination of market power and pandemic have brought us—it’s all the more important to keep an open mind and take these arguments from economic liberty seriously. . . . The sweep of McCloskey’s historical knowledge is such that the book is just a good read (if you like the tone), and a fraction of the length of the [Bourgeois] trilogy!” -- Diane Coyle * The Enlightened Economist *"This thought-provoking work is recommended for economics faculty and students, and researchers in economics and history to ‘think differently’ about these respected disciplines.” * Library Journal *"For half a century Deirdre McCloskey has been a member of the starting lineup of economic history. The author of numerous books and hundreds of research papers and essays, her magnum opus is the monumental 'Bourgeois Trilogy' that appeared between 2006 and 2016 and laid out her view of economic history and much else in about 2,000 pages. The slim volume here, co-authored with Art Carden, summarizes her views of what she has termed the 'Great Enrichment' and makes it accessible to a wider public. In every way, this comparatively slim volume is vintage McCloskey: written in a rather informal conversational style, she states her views in her inimitable crystal-clear prose." * EH-Net *"Read this book and learn why you must know the truth, what truth you need to know, and why the freedom it brings has made almost everyone better off than their parents and grandparents." -- Vernon L. Smith, Chapman University and 2002 Nobel Laureate in Economics"If you are feeling down about the state of the world or pessimistic about its prospects then this is the book to cheer you up. McCloskey and Carden show how much off everyone is today compared to everyone who lived before, and how this is explained not by the usual suspects such as institutions, or capitalism or the profits of slavery and colonialism, or the exploitation of natural resources, but simply by the practice of liberty, letting people be and allowing them to do their thing (and, crucially, to innovate). They also show how fashionable pessimism about the future is wrong in all its modish variants—as it has been since 1798. This is a work for economists, historians, and anyone who wants to understand why the world has become so much better for human beings in the last two hundred and fifty years and is set to continue doing so." -- Stephen Davies, Institute of Economic Affairs“There is nobody writing today who mixes erudition and eloquence, or wit and wisdom as richly as McCloskey. Together with Carden, she has now found another virtue: brevity. This is the book I want all young people to read to understand how and why they are so much better off than any previous generation.” -- Matt Ridley, author of How Innovation Works and The Rational OptimistTable of ContentsPreface Part I Poverty Is on the Run 1 Liberalism Liberated 2 It’s the End of the World as They Knew It, and You Should Feel Pretty Good 3 Nostalgia and Pessimism Worsen Poverty 4 Under Liberalism the Formerly Poor Can Flourish Ethically and Spiritually 5 Consider the Possibility That Your Doubts Might Be Mistaken 6 Pessimism Has Been since 1800 a Rotten Predictor 7 Even about the Environment 8 In Fact, None of the Seven Old Pessimisms Makes a Lot of Sense 9 Nor Do the Three New Ones 10 So to Get Better, the World Had Better Keep Its Ethical Wits about It 11 And True Liberalism Celebrates a Life Beyond WealthPart II Enrichment Didn’t Come for the Reasons You Imagine 12 Liberal Ideas, Not European Horrors or Heroism, Explain the Great Enrichment 13 Liberalism Supported Innovism and the Profit Test 14 The Great Enrichment Did Not Come from Resources or Railways or Property Rights 15 Nor Thrift or “Capitalism” 16 Schooling and Science Were Not the Fairy Dust 17 It Wasn’t Imperialism 18 Nor Slavery 19 Nor Wage Slavery Ended by Unions and RegulationPart III It Came Because Ideas, Ethics, Rhetoric, and Ideology Changed 20 The Talk and the Deals Changed in Northwestern Europe 21 That Is, Ethics and Rhetoric Changed 22 “Honest” Shows the Change 23 And “Happiness” Itself Changed 24 The Change in Valuation Showed in English Plays, Poems, and NovelsPart IV The Causes of the Causes Were Not Racial or Ancient 25 Happy Accidents Led to the Revaluation 26 And Then Old Adam Smith Revealed / The Virtues of the Bourgeois Deal Acknowledgments Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Dynamic Partisanship How and Why Voter Loyalties
Book SynopsisKollman and Jackson take a deep dive into the ebbs and flows of partisanship and political identification in the US, the UK, Australia, and CanadaTable of ContentsContents Preface Chapter 1. Introduction: Why Study Dynamic Partisanship? Chapter 2. Partisanship: Meaning and Measurement Chapter 3. Consistent Partisanship Models Chapter 4. The United States Chapter 5. Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom: The Setup Chapter 6. Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom: Results Chapter 7. Explaining Partisanship Dynamics Chapter 8. Parties and Partisanship References Index
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The University of Chicago Press Dynamic Partisanship
Book SynopsisKollman and Jackson take a deep dive into the ebbs and flows of partisanship and political identification in the US, the UK, Australia, and CanadaTable of ContentsContents Preface Chapter 1. Introduction: Why Study Dynamic Partisanship? Chapter 2. Partisanship: Meaning and Measurement Chapter 3. Consistent Partisanship Models Chapter 4. The United States Chapter 5. Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom: The Setup Chapter 6. Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom: Results Chapter 7. Explaining Partisanship Dynamics Chapter 8. Parties and Partisanship References Index
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The University of Chicago Press American Exceptionalism A New History of an Old
Book SynopsisA powerful dissection of a core American myth. Trade Review"American Exceptionalism is a much-needed, erudite, wide-ranging, and persuasive study. There are many books addressing American exceptionalism but none like this. It is the most critically astute, synthetic, interdisciplinary, and balanced of all the studies made of the topic."-- "John Corrigan, author of Religious Intolerance, America, and the World: A History of Forgetting and Remembering"Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Peculiar Tale of American Exceptionalism Chapter 1: The Puritans and American Chosenness Chapter 2: Looking Back, Looking Forward: Remembering the Revolution Chapter 3: Cultural Nationalism and the Origins of American Exceptionalism Chapter 4: Lyman Beecher, Personal Identity, and the Christian Republic Chapter 5: Women and Exceptionalism: The Self-Made Woman and the Power of Catharine Beecher Chapter 6: Race, Anglo-Saxonism, and Manifest Destiny Chapter 7: In the Hands of an Angry God: The Antislavery Jeremiad and the Origins of the Christian Nation Chapter 8: Fin de Siècle Challenges: The Frontier, Labor, and American Imperialism Chapter 9: Two Isms: Americanism and Socialism Chapter 10: The Dream and the Century: The Liberal Exceptionalism of the New Deal State, 1930s–1960s Chapter 11: The Newly Chosen Nation: Exceptionalism from Reagan to Trump Afterword Acknowledgments Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Cultural Revolution and PostMao Reforms A
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The University of Chicago Press Nationalists Cosmopolitans and Popular Music in
Book SynopsisThis work focuses on the development of a unique style of music - combining the electric guitar with indigenous Shona music - that emerged in Zimbabwe during the 1980s. Turino examines this emergence of cosmopolitan culture among the black middle classes, and how it influenced politics.
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The University of Chicago Press Calamities of Exile Three Nonfiction Novellas
Book SynopsisA collection of narratives examining the stories of three expatriates - an Iraqi, Czech and an Afrikaner - who have suffered for speaking out in opposition to the totalitarian regimes holding sway in their homeland. The book explores the nature of modern totalitarianism and exile.
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The University of Chicago Press Why the American Century
Book SynopsisExploring the struggles of the American elites as they tried to maintain a democratic, modern mass society, this text reveals the limits of a system ultimately benefiting an abstract average consumer. It exposes the internal contradictions that would undermine Americans' belief in their ideology.
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John Wiley & Sons Teaching Anticommunism
Book SynopsisA revealing portrait of an international anticommunist crusader whose life presaged the role of religion in right-wing American politics today.Trade Review“Teaching Anticommunism is a first-class piece of historical scholarship. It opens new avenues for scholarship and serves as a model for further research for the politics and culture of the early Cold War era.” American Historical Review“A sober, detailed, and fair-minded portrait of an organization that attracted wealthy donors, numerous public figures, and thousands of middleclass, religious Americans to combat the Communist menace. [It] provides as thorough an accounting of the CACC’s successes and failures as we will ever need and suggests the ways the organization foreshadowed the rise of the “new right” of the 1980s.” Journal of Cold War Studies“[Villeneuve’s] arguments connecting [the CACC and the US Right] are substantial and richly supported with evidence [and] shed light on a larger phenomenon and movement in US history. Artfully presented and diligently cited, this book adds a unique perspective to Cold War and US conservative history.” Cold War History“Teaching Anticommunism builds a strong case that Schwarz and the CACC played key roles in forging the arguments against communism that had significant influence in the United States and across the globe.” Church History« Outre son caractère instructif, cette monographie se distingue par son ton explicatif et nuancé. Qui plus est, la qualité de la recherche ne fait aucun doute : non seulement l’auteur a-t-il consulté quantité de sources secondaires judicieuses (travaux de Ellen Schrecker, Lisa McGirr, Andrew Hartman, Richard Horwitz, Allan Lichtman, etc.), mais encore faut-il ajouter qu’il a scrupuleusement examiné les bulletins de la CACC et pris connaissance de maints journaux. Il a aussi procédé au dépouillement de plusieurs fonds d’archives, parmi lesquels figurent en particulier ceux de William Buckley Jr., Barry Goldwater [entre autres]. …cette pertinente et originale monographie [constitue] un apport précieux à l’historiographie de ces fascinantes années d’après-guerre chez nos voisins du Sud. » Bulletin d’histoire politique
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McGill-Queen's University Press Young Subjects Children StateBuilding and Social
Book SynopsisAcross the metropole, the colonies, and the wider eighteenth-century world, French children and youth participated in a diverse set of state-building initiatives, social reform programs, and imperial expansion efforts. Young Subjects explores the lives and experiences of these youth, revealing their role as active and vital agents in the shaping of early modern France.Trade Review“Young Subjects details the daily lives of children with rare richness. This is a very impressive piece of scholarship that shows how indispensable the history of childhood is to understanding France, its empire, and the early modern state.” Bianca Premo, Florida International University and author of Children of the Father King: Youth, Authority, and Legal Minority in Colonial Lima
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McGill-Queen's University Press Jacobitism in Britain and the United States
Book SynopsisIn the late nineteenth century a resurgent Jacobite movement emerged in Britain, and later the United States, as resistance to the liberal democracies of Victorian Britain and Gilded Age America. Jacobitism in Britain and the United States, 1880–1910 explores the rise and fall of Anglo-American Jacobitism and the movement’s ideas and concerns.Trade Review“Michael J. Connolly takes the American Jacobites seriously in way that has not been done before. The Jacobites stretched the bounds of American political debate into areas few scholars have contemplated. This work adds a new dimension to our understanding of anti-modernism and opens a new chapter in scholarship on Jacobitism.” Geoffrey Plank, University of East Anglia and author of An Unsettled Conquest: The British Campaign against the Peoples of Acadia
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Columbia University Press Ideology and Revolution in Modern Europe An
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Columbia University Press Neorealism and Neoliberalism The Contemporary
Book SynopsisEssays by prominent political theorists representing the two dominant schools of international relations, neoliberalism and neorealism.Table of ContentsContributors Acknowledgments Part I. Introduction 1. Neoliberlaism, Neorealism, and World Politics by David A. Baldwin Part II. The Neoliberal Challenge and Neorealist Response 2. Coordination and Collaboration: Regimes in an Anarchic World by Arthur Stein 3. International Cooperation in Economic and Security Affairs by Charles Lipson 4. Achieving Cooperation Under Anarchy: Strategies and Institutions by Robert Axelrod and Robert O. Keohane 5. Anarchy and the Limits of Cooperation: A Realist Critique of the Newest Liberal Institutionalism by Joseph M. Grieco Part III. Extension of the Debate 6. The Assumption of Anarchy in International Relations Theory: A Critique by Helen Milner 7. Relative Gains and the Pattern of International Cooperation by Duncan Snidal 8. Absolute and Relative Gains in Internatioanl Relations Theory by Robert Powell 9. Global Communications and National Power: Life on the Pareto Frontier by Stephen D. Krasner 10. Do Relative Gains Matter? American's Response to Japanese Industrial Policy by Michael Mastanduno Part IV. Reflections on the Debate 11. Institutional Tehroy and the Realist Challenge After the Cold War by Robert O. Keohane 12. Understanding the Problem of International Cooperation: The Limits of Neoliberal Institutionalism and the Future of Realist Theory by Joesph M Grieco Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHighly recommended. Choice Harvey certainly succeeds in furthering the academic debate on cosmopolitanism by crisply introducing an intriguing and original line of critical inquiry. The Hedgehog ReviewTable of ContentsPreface Prologue Part One: Universal Values 1. Kant's Anthropology and Geography 2. The Postcolonial Critique of Liberal Cosmopolitanism 3. The Flat World of Neoliberal Utopianism 4. The New Cosmopolitans 5. The Banality of Geographical Evils Part Two: Geographical Knowledges 6. Geographical Reason 7. Spacetime and the World 8. Places, Regions, Territories 9. The Nature of Environment Epilogue: Geographical Theory and the Ruses of Geographical Reason Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Modernism at the Barricades
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewModernism at the Barricades is an erudite, wide-ranging, and provocative exploration of the twentieth-century avant-garde in all of its rich and multifaceted guises and incarnations. As Bronner shows, modernism sought to dash the beautiful illusions of art for art's sake to produce a resurrection of lived experience amid the ruins of a declining bourgeois civilization. If this ambitious aesthetic program 'failed,' it was, as Bronner demonstrates, a magnificent failure from which we stand to learn much today. -- Richard Wolin, Graduate Center, City University of New York, and author of The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s A champion of clarity with a style to match, Stephen Eric Bronner has produced a capacious and fascinating survey of some of modernism's greatest achievements. It is also, miraculously, a genealogy and an inspiration for cultural politics today. Bronner's book goes back to basics, enabling us to feel what it felt like when 'make it new' was new. With his trademark verve, ambition, and deep erudition, he not only covers the whole of modernism but also stands up for a beleaguered modernity. -- Bruce Robbins, Columbia University, author of Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State A work of scope and substance that merits serious attention from modernist scholars everywhere. -- David Weir Modernism/Modernity An unusually compelling and provocative, book that draws on [Bronner's] extensive knowledge of the artistic and political movements of the twentieth century... A smart, engaging, and compelling book... wonderful. -- Simon Stow New Political Science [A] thought-provoking book. -- Sean Sayers H-SocialismsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Modernist Impulse: Subjectivity 2. Modernism in Context: Notes for a Political Aesthetic 3. Experiencing Modernism: A Short History of Expressionist Painting 4. The Modernist Spirit: On the Correspondence Between Arnold Schoenberg and Wassily Kandinsky 5. Modernism in Motion: F. T. Marinetti and Italian Futurism 6. Ecstatic Modernism: The Paintings of Emil Nolde 7. Modernism 8. Modernism Changes the World: The Russian Avant-Garde and the Revolution 9. Modernists in Power: The Literati and the Bavarian Revolution 10. Exhibiting Modernism: Paris and Berlin 11. The Modernist Adventure: Political Reflections on a Cultural Legacy Notes Indexix 2/2/2012 05_bron15822_00_toc.doc:
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Columbia University Press Modernism at the Barricades
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewModernism at the Barricades is an erudite, wide-ranging, and provocative exploration of the twentieth-century avant-garde in all of its rich and multifaceted guises and incarnations. As Bronner shows, modernism sought to dash the beautiful illusions of art for art's sake to produce a resurrection of lived experience amid the ruins of a declining bourgeois civilization. If this ambitious aesthetic program 'failed,' it was, as Bronner demonstrates, a magnificent failure from which we stand to learn much today. -- Richard Wolin, Graduate Center, City University of New York, and author of The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s A champion of clarity with a style to match, Stephen Eric Bronner has produced a capacious and fascinating survey of some of modernism's greatest achievements. It is also, miraculously, a genealogy and an inspiration for cultural politics today. Bronner's book goes back to basics, enabling us to feel what it felt like when 'make it new' was new. With his trademark verve, ambition, and deep erudition, he not only covers the whole of modernism but also stands up for a beleaguered modernity. -- Bruce Robbins, Columbia University, author of Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State A work of scope and substance that merits serious attention from modernist scholars everywhere. -- David Weir Modernism/Modernity An unusually compelling and provocative, book that draws on [Bronner's] extensive knowledge of the artistic and political movements of the twentieth century... A smart, engaging, and compelling book... wonderful. -- Simon Stow New Political Science [A] thought-provoking book. -- Sean Sayers H-SocialismsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Modernist Impulse: Subjectivity 2. Modernism in Context: Notes for a Political Aesthetic 3. Experiencing Modernism: A Short History of Expressionist Painting 4. The Modernist Spirit: On the Correspondence Between Arnold Schoenberg and Wassily Kandinsky 5. Modernism in Motion: F. T. Marinetti and Italian Futurism 6. Ecstatic Modernism: The Paintings of Emil Nolde 7. Modernism 8. Modernism Changes the World: The Russian Avant-Garde and the Revolution 9. Modernists in Power: The Literati and the Bavarian Revolution 10. Exhibiting Modernism: Paris and Berlin 11. The Modernist Adventure: Political Reflections on a Cultural Legacy Notes Indexix 2/2/2012 05_bron15822_00_toc.doc:
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Columbia University Press Starve and Immolate
Book SynopsisTells the story of leftist political prisoners in Turkey who waged a deadly struggle against the introduction of high security prisons by forging their lives into weapons.Trade ReviewCombining original theorizing with state-of-the-art ethnography, Banu Bargu gives us a rare inside look at political practices that are increasingly salient but little understood. At once a case study of a Turkish prison death fast, and a bold conceptualization of broader phenomena of "necroresistance," her book analyzes the practice of actors who, lacking anything but their bodies, turn themselves into "human weapons." Simultaneously humane and sober, engaged and precise, Starve and Immolate is a riveting read and a tour de force. -- Nancy Fraser. Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics, New School for Social Research, Einstein Fellow, Freie Universitat-Berlin, Global Justice Chair, College d'etudes mondiales, Paris This meticulously researched and beautifully written book immerses readers in two worlds: Turkish prison resistance and the contemporary theory that might illuminate its meanings. Banu Bargu teaches theory as she goes but also presses hard on every theorist and concept in her arsenal, from Marx to Mbembe, from theological politics to biopolitics, to extract what she needs for a compelling argument. With Starve and Immolate, an original, powerful, and fearless new political thinker arrives on the scene. -- Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley Starve and Immolate interweaves a sensitive ethnography of disembodiment and deft political theory to lucidly reconstruct the constitutive antagonisms of Turkish political culture as archived in prison hunger strikes. With trenchant critiques of biopower, sovereignty, and the prison-military-industrial complex, Bargu crafts a materialist theory of constitutive power in stark collision with biologizing and faux humanitarian force. Bargu situates 'necroresistance' within the securocratic drives of a counterinsurgent culture of the state within and beyond Turkey. She expands our comprehension of how such threshold acts can build political literacies and polities able to risk the body for a politics of life beyond biopower. -- Allen Feldman, New York University, author of Formations of Violence: The Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Ireland This extraordinary book movingly and effectively describes and analyzes the history of the death fast movement in the early years of the twenty-first century in Turkey. It is a treasure trove of material, both empirical and theoretical, making it at once a wonderful (though grim) account and a thoughtful reflection on what prisons do and how they do it, as well as what forms of resistance are effective or even possible when and where. -- Laleh Khalili, SOAS, University of London, author of Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies Starve and Immolate is an original and excellent book in the field of political theory. Banu Bargu's attempt to approach the 'death fast' or 'weaponization of body' as politically motivated forms of resistance opens up interesting and innovative spaces for us to rethink the concepts of sovereignty, power, politics, and resistance. -- Fuat Keyman, Sabanci University Starve and Immolate is more than a rigorously documented account of a major resistance movement; it is a complex and erudite, yet lucid, theoretical analysis of the politics of life and death that draws upon, but ultimately moves beyond (among others), Foucault's and Agamben's readings of sovereignty and biopolitics to make a major contribution to thinking about relations of power and resistance in contemporary society... A much-discussed literature is made fresh again through Bargu's impressive skill... Radical Philosophy ...a sophisticated and meticulously documented analysis...this book offers an invaluable contribution to the existing literature on power and resistance. -- Basak Can New Perspectives on Turkey In this remarkable book, Bargu frames a political ethnography of hunger strikes in Turkish prisions with debates about Foucault's critique of biopolitical power... Elegantly written and argued, this text is a compelling empirical and theoretical contribution. Choice [A] stunning book about extreme resistance in Turkish prisons. Contemporary Political TheoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: The Death Fast Struggle and the Weaponization of Life 1. Biosovereignty and Necroresistance 2. Crisis of Sovereignty 3. The Biosovereign Assemblage and Its Tactics 4. Prisoners in Revolt 5. Marxism, Martyrdom, and Memory 6. Contentions Within Necroresistance Conclusion: From Chains to Bodies Notes Bibliography Index
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Columbia University Press Starve and Immolate
Book SynopsisTells the story of leftist political prisoners in Turkey who waged a deadly struggle against the introduction of high security prisons by forging their lives into weapons.Trade ReviewCombining original theorizing with state-of-the-art ethnography, Banu Bargu gives us a rare inside look at political practices that are increasingly salient but little understood. At once a case study of a Turkish prison death fast, and a bold conceptualization of broader phenomena of "necroresistance," her book analyzes the practice of actors who, lacking anything but their bodies, turn themselves into "human weapons." Simultaneously humane and sober, engaged and precise, Starve and Immolate is a riveting read and a tour de force. -- Nancy Fraser. Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics, New School for Social Research, Einstein Fellow, Freie Universitat-Berlin, Global Justice Chair, College d'etudes mondiales, Paris This meticulously researched and beautifully written book immerses readers in two worlds: Turkish prison resistance and the contemporary theory that might illuminate its meanings. Banu Bargu teaches theory as she goes but also presses hard on every theorist and concept in her arsenal, from Marx to Mbembe, from theological politics to biopolitics, to extract what she needs for a compelling argument. With Starve and Immolate, an original, powerful, and fearless new political thinker arrives on the scene. -- Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley Starve and Immolate interweaves a sensitive ethnography of disembodiment and deft political theory to lucidly reconstruct the constitutive antagonisms of Turkish political culture as archived in prison hunger strikes. With trenchant critiques of biopower, sovereignty, and the prison-military-industrial complex, Bargu crafts a materialist theory of constitutive power in stark collision with biologizing and faux humanitarian force. Bargu situates 'necroresistance' within the securocratic drives of a counterinsurgent culture of the state within and beyond Turkey. She expands our comprehension of how such threshold acts can build political literacies and polities able to risk the body for a politics of life beyond biopower. -- Allen Feldman, New York University, author of Formations of Violence: The Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Ireland This extraordinary book movingly and effectively describes and analyzes the history of the death fast movement in the early years of the twenty-first century in Turkey. It is a treasure trove of material, both empirical and theoretical, making it at once a wonderful (though grim) account and a thoughtful reflection on what prisons do and how they do it, as well as what forms of resistance are effective or even possible when and where. -- Laleh Khalili, SOAS, University of London, author of Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies Starve and Immolate is an original and excellent book in the field of political theory. Banu Bargu's attempt to approach the 'death fast' or 'weaponization of body' as politically motivated forms of resistance opens up interesting and innovative spaces for us to rethink the concepts of sovereignty, power, politics, and resistance. -- Fuat Keyman, Sabanci University Starve and Immolate is more than a rigorously documented account of a major resistance movement; it is a complex and erudite, yet lucid, theoretical analysis of the politics of life and death that draws upon, but ultimately moves beyond (among others), Foucault's and Agamben's readings of sovereignty and biopolitics to make a major contribution to thinking about relations of power and resistance in contemporary society... A much-discussed literature is made fresh again through Bargu's impressive skill... Radical Philosophy ...a sophisticated and meticulously documented analysis...this book offers an invaluable contribution to the existing literature on power and resistance. -- Basak Can New Perspectives on Turkey In this remarkable book, Bargu frames a political ethnography of hunger strikes in Turkish prisions with debates about Foucault's critique of biopolitical power... Elegantly written and argued, this text is a compelling empirical and theoretical contribution. Choice [A] stunning book about extreme resistance in Turkish prisons. Contemporary Political TheoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: The Death Fast Struggle and the Weaponization of Life 1. Biosovereignty and Necroresistance 2. Crisis of Sovereignty 3. The Biosovereign Assemblage and Its Tactics 4. Prisoners in Revolt 5. Marxism, Martyrdom, and Memory 6. Contentions Within Necroresistance Conclusion: From Chains to Bodies Notes Bibliography Index
£28.50
Columbia University Press The Ecocentrists
Book SynopsisKeith Makoto Woodhouse offers a nuanced history of radical environmentalism in the late-twentieth-century United States. Focusing especially on the group Earth First!, The Ecocentrists explores how it challenged civilization but glossed over the ways economic inequality and social difference defined people’s relationships to the nonhuman world.Trade ReviewWoodhouse deftly brings together the intellectual history of the many threads of American environmentalism with the thinkers, the activists, the organizations, and the issues that have charged environmental politics since the 1960s. Required reading for anyone with a serious interest in the history of environmental activism and thought. -- James Morton Turner, Wellesley CollegeThis book is a profound achievement. In The Ecocentrists, Keith Woodhouse examines ecocentrism within and up against traditions of radical American protest, politics, and action. Deepening our understanding of radical environmentalism well beyond any previous study, the book lays to rest caricature and misinformation. Each chapter—each page—will make you think hard. -- William Deverell, University of Southern CaliforniaA compelling story about the enigmatic journey of environmentalism since the 1960s, The Ecocentrists shines a bright light on the radical potential and heartbreaking pitfalls of Americans’ ecological crusades. Highlighting the historic and contemporary tensions within the environmental movement between localism and globalism, populism and elitism, freedom and limits, and humanism and misanthropy, Woodhouse provides essential reading for anyone interested in thinking through how efforts to create a healthier planet can be made as just and humane as possible. -- Darren Frederick Speece, author of Defending Giants: The Redwood Wars and the Transformation of American Environmental PoliticsThe Ecocentrists captures eloquently the human stories of those who stood up for the nonhuman world. Keith Woodhouse’s willingness to take seriously the most radical members of the environmental movement yields fresh ways of understanding conventional environmental politics. A smart, rigorous, and brilliant book. -- Kendra Smith-Howard, University of AlbanyInsightful and well-grounded in the literature, this is required reading for historians of environmentalism and modern political movements and, for the general reader, a stimulating introduction to an urgent area of popular concern. * Publishers Weekly *His book is strongest when it contextualizes radical environmentalism in relation to broader ideologies (liberalism, conservatism, libertarianism, anarchism)....Recommended. * Choice *This outstanding and extensively researched work, covers a wide range of ideas and personalities; an essential addition for all environmental collections. * Library Journal (starred review) *In the era of climate change, Woodhouse wonders if the ecocentrists’ narrative of crisis is the only one that can create a clear-eyed view of the problem, as well as the political and popular will to mobilize against it. * Los Angeles Review of Books *A well-crafted expansion of our understanding of the environmental movement, and it reminds us that, while there areno easy answers to our current moment of environmental crisis, we are not the first to have wrestled with the difficult questions about human freedom and our relationships with the more-than-human world. * H-Environment *A superb history of radical environmentalism in the United States. -- Benjamin Kunkel * New Republic *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. Ecology and Revolutionary Thought2. Crisis Environmentalism3. A Radical Break4. Public Lands and the Public Good5. Earth First! Against Itself6. The Limits and Legacy of RadicalismConclusionNotesIndex
£75.15
Columbia University Press The Scaffolding of Sovereignty
Book SynopsisThe Scaffolding of Sovereignty deploys a comparative and theoretically rich conception of sovereignty to reconsider the different schemes on which it has been based or renewed, the public stages on which it is erected or destroyed, and the images and ideas on which it rests.Trade ReviewThat sovereign power is often fragile and never established once and for all is the startling proposition that organizes this spectacularly interesting sequence of investigations. Sovereignty is impossible to study, the essays propose, without attention to its 'scaffolding,' defined as all the symbolic management that power continually requires. Leaping across time and spanning the world, The Scaffolding of Sovereignty showcases scholarly gems that together reflect how the crown of sovereignty is kept in place-and sometimes slips. -- Samuel Moyn, Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law and Professor of History, Harvard University coeditor of "Global Intellectual History" This volume showcases the best of global intellectual history. Sovereignty emerges as a complex force: aesthetically layered, politically mutable, historically contingent, and consistently elusive. At the same time, despite the apparent Eurocentrism of the concept's recent lineage, readers will come away convinced of the importance of sovereignty as an analytical category, key to making sense of political culture in world history and political thought in global context. -- Lauren Benton, author of A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in World History, 1400-1900 Joining performance studies with philosophy, theology, and ethnography, the figure of the scaffold aptly evokes the symbolic supports and global visibility of sovereignty today. The contributors to this ambitious collection of essays fearlessly disclose recurrent features of sovereignty across time and space, often beginning immanently with the cosmic cartographies generated by particular regimes and projected in aesthetic displays, liturgical exercises, and citational enterprises that reveal common themes in the global drama of majesty. -- Julia Reinhard Lupton, University of California, Irvine This is a wide-ranging, stimulating, challenging collection of essays. -- Jerrold Seigel, William J. Kenan, Jr., Professor of History Emeritus at New York University.Table of ContentsForeword, by Dick Howard Editors' Introduction, by Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Nicole Jerr Part I. Stages Preface 1. Sad Stories of the Death of Kings: Sovereignty and Its Constraints in Greek Tragedy and Elsewhere, by Glenn W. Most 2. Contested Sovereignty: Heaven, the Monarch, the People, and the Intellectuals in Traditional China, by Yuri Pines 3. Nurhaci's Gambit: Sovereignty as Concept and Praxis in the Rise of the Manchus, by Nicola Di Cosmo 4. The Living Image of the People, by Jason Frank Part II. Courts Preface 5. Public Health, the State, and Religious Scholarship: Sovereignty in Idris al-Bidlisi's Arguments for Fleeing the Plague, by Justin Stearns 6. The Dancing Despot: Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the Performative Symbolism of Power, by Stanca Scholz-Cionca 7. Liberal Constitutionalism and the Sovereign Pardon, by Bernadette Meyler 8. The Vanishing Slaves of Paris: The Lettre de Cachet and the Emergence of an Imperial Legal Order in Eighteenth-Century France, by Miranda Spieler 9. Re-touching the Sovereign: Biochemistry of Perpetual Leninism, by Alexei Yurchak Part III. Acts Preface 10. Hijra and Exile: Islam and Dual Sovereignty in Qing China, by Zvi Ben-Dor Benite 11. The Neurology of Regicide: Decapitation Experiments and the Science of Sovereignty, by Cathy Gere 12. The "Millennium" of 1857: The Last Performance of the Great Mughal, by A. Azfar Moin 13. Exit the King? Modern Theater and the Revolution, by Nicole Jerr Part IV. Shifts Preface 14. Revolution in Permanence and the Fall of Popular Sovereignty, by Dan Edelstein 15. Exile Within Sovereignty: Critique of "The Negation of Exile" in Israeli Culture, by Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin 16. Affective Sovereignty, International Law, and China's Legal Status in the Nineteenth Century, by Li Chen 17. The Sovereignty of the New Man After Wagner: Artist and Hero, Symbolic History, and the Staging of Origins, by Stefanos Geroulanos List of Contributors Index
£102.00
Columbia University Press Marx After Marx
Book SynopsisRevisiting Marx’s seminal conception of capital and production to better critique our diverse global economies.Trade ReviewHarry Harootunian is singularly qualified to give us a Marxism adequate to the conditions of a genuine 'world' (as against a Hegelian 'universalist') history in a global age. The Marx who emerges from this book is a nuanced, empirical, and genuinely historical thinker instead of the pseudo-scientific 'philosopher of history' met with in textbook accounts of Western Marxism. -- Hayden White, University of California, Santa Cruz This is a landmark study within Marxist thought. Drawing largely on Marx's later works for its conceptual tools and theoretical method, Marx After Marx analyzes how different regions under differing circumstances cast a plurality of developmental forms all under the general code of capitalist accumulation. -- Michael Dutton, author of Policing Chinese Politics: A History Harootunian's reading of Marx, in particular, is a revelation and should put to rest the facile assumption that Marx's conception of the historical is reducible to the banalities of modernization theory. Marx After Marx is a provocative and important intervention in a critical conjuncture by a major scholar. -- William Haver, translator of Nishida Kitaro's Ontology of Production: Three EssaysTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Deprovincializing Marx 1. Marx, Time, History 2. Marxism's Eastward Migration 3. Opening to the Global South 4. Theorizing Late Development and the "Persistence of Feudal Remnants": Wang Yanan, Yamada Moritaro, and Uno Kozo 5. Colonial/Postcolonial Afterword: World History and the Everyday Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Political Ideology and Social Work
Book SynopsisMitchell Rosenwald provides a comprehensive examination of the role of politics in the social work profession. Considering both clinical and policy work, this book also offers recommendations for encouraging political reconciliation in order to strengthen the profession.Trade ReviewDespite frequent appeals to diversity and social justice, social work discourse largely overlooks the role political ideology has played and continues to play in shaping its philosophical goals and theories of practice. Mitchell Rosenwald’s book helps fill this gap with sharp insights that have important relevance for the contemporary profession. -- Michael Reisch, University of MarylandRosenwald explores political diversity, an important but neglected area of social work practice and education. His insights can help students grapple with what to do and why when their political ideology and their practice responsibilities collide. Educators and students will find much to use in this book. -- Richard Hoefer, The University of Texas at ArlingtonRosenwald’s compelling, well-grounded, and contextualized look at political diversity among social workers throughout the profession’s history fills an important gap in the professional literature. Timely, well-written, and replete with useful examples, this book offers strategies that promote open dialogue and respectful disagreement within the classroom and at the policy level. -- Cassandra L. Bransford, Binghamton UniversityTable of ContentsForewordPreface1. The Landscape of Political Diversity and Social Work2. The Evolution of the Profession in Political Context3. Research on Political Diversity and Social Work4. Social Work Education and Political Diversity5. Political Ideology and Social Work Practice6. A Model for Reconciling Political Diversity Among Social Workers7. Revisiting the Landscape of Political Diversity in Social WorkEpilogueAppendix: Sample Syllabus on Political Diversity and Social WorkAcknowledgmentsNotesReferencesIndex
£80.00
Columbia University Press Political Ideology and Social Work
Book SynopsisMitchell Rosenwald provides a comprehensive examination of the role of politics in the social work profession. Considering both clinical and policy work, this book also offers recommendations for encouraging political reconciliation in order to strengthen the profession.Trade ReviewDespite frequent appeals to diversity and social justice, social work discourse largely overlooks the role political ideology has played and continues to play in shaping its philosophical goals and theories of practice. Mitchell Rosenwald’s book helps fill this gap with sharp insights that have important relevance for the contemporary profession. -- Michael Reisch, University of MarylandRosenwald explores political diversity, an important but neglected area of social work practice and education. His insights can help students grapple with what to do and why when their political ideology and their practice responsibilities collide. Educators and students will find much to use in this book. -- Richard Hoefer, The University of Texas at ArlingtonRosenwald’s compelling, well-grounded, and contextualized look at political diversity among social workers throughout the profession’s history fills an important gap in the professional literature. Timely, well-written, and replete with useful examples, this book offers strategies that promote open dialogue and respectful disagreement within the classroom and at the policy level. -- Cassandra L. Bransford, Binghamton UniversityTable of ContentsForewordPreface1. The Landscape of Political Diversity and Social Work2. The Evolution of the Profession in Political Context3. Research on Political Diversity and Social Work4. Social Work Education and Political Diversity5. Political Ideology and Social Work Practice6. A Model for Reconciling Political Diversity Among Social Workers7. Revisiting the Landscape of Political Diversity in Social WorkEpilogueAppendix: Sample Syllabus on Political Diversity and Social WorkAcknowledgmentsNotesReferencesIndex
£22.50
Columbia University Press Political Uses of Utopia
Book SynopsisContemporary political theorists from Europe and North America open an overdue debate on the ties between politics and utopianism.Trade ReviewUtopian students and scholars will recognize that they must own this book and digest, confront, and come to terms with the various arguments and interpretations of utopia. -- Peter G. Stillman, Vassar College In an era suffering from stale political choices, utopian thinking is showing signs of life. Political Uses of Utopia offers up a rich smorgasbord of recent efforts to make relevant the utopian project. With a generous selection of newly translated pieces by French, German, and Spanish scholars, this collection joins the debate on the future of utopian thought. S. D. Chrostowska and James D. Ingram should be saluted for editing this exemplary volume. -- Russell Jacoby, author of The End of Utopia, University of California, Los Angeles This is a remarkable collection of essays on the critical import and significance of utopia and utopianism for politics. The range and depth of the contributions in this carefully curated collection is simply peerless. -- Antonio Y. Vazquez-Arroyo, Rutgers University-Newark This is a fine addition to the burgeoning literature on utopias and utopianism; wide-ranging in its scope, and with an international range of distinguished contributors. An excellent introduction sets up the agenda. -- Vincent Geoghegan, emeritus professor of political theory, Queen's University, Belfast This timely book, a sensitively coordinated collocation of some of the most important voices in contemporary political theory, is a fascinating and at times thrilling intervention in the ongoing but currently pressing debate about the concept of utopia and its uses and abuses. In addition to reimparting a vital sense of intellectual excitement to the term utopia, this collection discovers in it a political and philosophical richness for which today it is all too rarely credited. -- Matthew Beaumont, University College London This is an important book which bridges the "disjuncture between utopia and politics," a gap which has grown as the expanding study of Utopia in North America is increasingly considered "not as a kind of political theory, but, as an artistic and cultural phenomena." This collection of essays from different political currents takes as its organizing principle "that utopianism must have something more, and something more specific, to offer politics and political reflection." A needed contribution, it will prove indispensable for all those who are trying to ground the desire for another world in political theory. -- Peter Fitting, University of TorontoTable of ContentsIntroduction: Utopia and Politics, by James D. Ingram Part I. Reviving Utopia 1. The History of Utopia and the Destiny of Its Critique, by Miguel Abensour 2. Is the Classic Concept of Utopia Ready for the Future?, by Richard Saage 3. Utopia and Natural Illusions, by Francisco Fernandez Buey Part II. Questioning Utopia 4. Marx and Utopia, by Franck Fischbach 5. General Wish or General Will? Political Possibility and Collective Capacity from Rousseau Through Marx, by Peter Hallward 6. After Utopia, Imagination?, by Etienne Balibar 7. A Strange Fate for Politics: Jameson's Dialectic of Utopian Thought, by John Grant Part III. Utopia and Radical Politics 8. The Reality of Utopia, by Michele Riot-Sarcey 9. Negativity and Utopia in the Global Justice Movement, by Michael Lowy 10. Utopianism and Prefiguration, by Ruth Kinna Part IV. Permanence of Utopia 11. The Senses and Uses of Utopia, by Jacques Ranciere 12. Realism, Wishful Thinking, Utopia, by Raymond Geuss 13. Desire and Shipwreck: Powers of the Vis Utopica, by Etienne Tassin Coda 14. Utopia, Alibi, by S. D. Chrostowska List of Contributors Index
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Columbia University Press Judge Thy Neighbor Denunciations in the Spanish
Book SynopsisFrom the Spanish Inquisition to Nazi Germany to the United States today, ordinary people have often chosen to turn in their neighbors to the authorities. In Judge Thy Neighbor, Patrick Bergemann provides a theoretical framework for understanding the motives for denunciations in terms of institutional structures and incentives.Trade ReviewOverall, Judge Thy Neighbor is full of rich details and thoughtful observations on a phenomenon that sociologists pay little attention to, despite the prevalence of denunciation in the past and present. * American Journal of Sociology *An important illustration of how much we can learn from combining middle-range theory and comparisons within well contextualized historical case studies. Bergemann skillfully moves beyond the work of historians by forging theoretical connections between denunciation and different forms of social control across space and time. * Social Forces *A terrific book. It greatly improves our understanding of repressive structures and social conflict. It is also an excellent example of comparative thinking, with some very good data, providing fresh insight to historical cases on which a lot of ink has been spilled. * Contemporary Sociology *Social scientists neglect negative interpersonal ties. While lab experiments on the willing assumption of malevolent authority open a window on this topic, Bergemann is the first to examine betrayal and denunciation to the authorities in natural settings, and to theorize the common causes and patterns over the centuries. A fascinating opening into a dark side of human behavior. -- Mark Granovetter, Joan Butler Ford Professor, Stanford UniversityThe nastiest feature of living in oppressive regimes is the pressure to denounce other people. But Bergemann shows some surprising patterns. Regimes can be inundated with unreliable information and petty grievances, and some incentives have more costs than others. This history is highly relevant in today’s era of whistleblowers, snitching, and online accusations. -- Randall Collins, author of Interaction Ritual ChainsDenunciation is more pervasive than we think, yet remains poorly studied and understood. Using three case studies, Bergemann advances new hypotheses and helps shed light on this intriguing social phenomenon. -- Stathis N. Kalyvas, author of The Logic of Violence in Civil WarResearch on deviance typically focuses on those who violate prevailing norms. Bergemann turns the camera around: What if the real deviants are the accusers, not the accused? By applying alternative theoretical models to three historical cases, Bergemann identifies the viral strains in epidemics of denunciation, with stunning new insights. This exquisitely crafted study is a must-read not only for students of social control but for anyone who wonders if law enforcement should be crowdsourced. -- Michael Macy, Goldwin Smith Professor of Arts and Sciences, Cornell UniversityThere have been case studies of the Inquisition and lots of work on the Gestapo, but the explanations in all of those are ad hoc and make no effort to generalize beyond their single cases. Judge Thy Neighbor offers a theory that I expect will both transform future work on these and other cases of denunciations and influence broader social-science analyses of group dynamics, social movements, and microsocial relations. -- Richard Lachmann, State University of New York at AlbanyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1. A Theory of Denunciation2. The Spanish Inquisition3. Romanov Russia4. Nazi Germany5. Denunciations: Present and FutureNotesReferencesIndex
£80.39
Columbia University Press Judge Thy Neighbor Denunciations in the Spanish
Book SynopsisFrom the Spanish Inquisition to Nazi Germany to the United States today, ordinary people have often chosen to turn in their neighbors to the authorities. In Judge Thy Neighbor, Patrick Bergemann provides a theoretical framework for understanding the motives for denunciations in terms of institutional structures and incentives.Trade ReviewOverall, Judge Thy Neighbor is full of rich details and thoughtful observations on a phenomenon that sociologists pay little attention to, despite the prevalence of denunciation in the past and present. * American Journal of Sociology *An important illustration of how much we can learn from combining middle-range theory and comparisons within well contextualized historical case studies. Bergemann skillfully moves beyond the work of historians by forging theoretical connections between denunciation and different forms of social control across space and time. * Social Forces *A terrific book. It greatly improves our understanding of repressive structures and social conflict. It is also an excellent example of comparative thinking, with some very good data, providing fresh insight to historical cases on which a lot of ink has been spilled. * Contemporary Sociology *Social scientists neglect negative interpersonal ties. While lab experiments on the willing assumption of malevolent authority open a window on this topic, Bergemann is the first to examine betrayal and denunciation to the authorities in natural settings, and to theorize the common causes and patterns over the centuries. A fascinating opening into a dark side of human behavior. -- Mark Granovetter, Joan Butler Ford Professor, Stanford UniversityThe nastiest feature of living in oppressive regimes is the pressure to denounce other people. But Bergemann shows some surprising patterns. Regimes can be inundated with unreliable information and petty grievances, and some incentives have more costs than others. This history is highly relevant in today’s era of whistleblowers, snitching, and online accusations. -- Randall Collins, author of Interaction Ritual ChainsDenunciation is more pervasive than we think, yet remains poorly studied and understood. Using three case studies, Bergemann advances new hypotheses and helps shed light on this intriguing social phenomenon. -- Stathis N. Kalyvas, author of The Logic of Violence in Civil WarResearch on deviance typically focuses on those who violate prevailing norms. Bergemann turns the camera around: What if the real deviants are the accusers, not the accused? By applying alternative theoretical models to three historical cases, Bergemann identifies the viral strains in epidemics of denunciation, with stunning new insights. This exquisitely crafted study is a must-read not only for students of social control but for anyone who wonders if law enforcement should be crowdsourced. -- Michael Macy, Goldwin Smith Professor of Arts and Sciences, Cornell UniversityThere have been case studies of the Inquisition and lots of work on the Gestapo, but the explanations in all of those are ad hoc and make no effort to generalize beyond their single cases. Judge Thy Neighbor offers a theory that I expect will both transform future work on these and other cases of denunciations and influence broader social-science analyses of group dynamics, social movements, and microsocial relations. -- Richard Lachmann, State University of New York at AlbanyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1. A Theory of Denunciation2. The Spanish Inquisition3. Romanov Russia4. Nazi Germany5. Denunciations: Present and FutureNotesReferencesIndex
£23.75
Columbia University Press Living with Hate in American Politics and
Book SynopsisJeffrey Israel offers an innovative argument for the power of playfulness in popular culture to make our capacity for coexistence imaginable. He explores how people from different backgrounds can pursue justice together, even as they play with their divisive grudges, prejudices, and desires in their cultural lives.Trade ReviewHow can a more perfect American union be attained given our legacy of historical group injustices and corresponding enduring group antagonisms? In this brilliantly original synthesis of insights from political philosophy, moral psychology, and Jewish American humor, Jeffrey Israel argues that through 'play'—not a facile (and unachievable) national Kumbaya reconciliation, but a reenacting of grudges in a bracketed psychological space backgrounding the political—we can at least come to live with each other in a way that recognizes our common vulnerable humanity. -- Charles W. Mills, author of Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial LiberalismIn the post-World War II era, Jews, many of them the children of immigrants, moved into a prominent place in the production of the nation's popular culture and sought to make sense of their relationship with the many other kinds of Americans with whom they shared their society. Drawing on a deep and nuanced understanding of this history, Jeffrey Israel makes a compelling case for the importance of play in allowing Americans to live together. -- Hasia Diner, author of We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945–1962Jeffrey Israel has written an amazing book. He wants us to love America in a distinctly political register that ties our individual flourishing to the flourishing of every compatriot. Political love is essential to realizing the promise of justice. But he knows that political love must live alongside historically rooted animosities that deeply divide us. Israel squares this apparent circle with play. In play, we give full-throated voice to our animosities: we engage them, with no thought of transcending them. Seems too good to be true? Start with the beautiful chapter on Lenny Bruce, and then go for a great ride. -- Joshua Cohen, author of The Arc of the Moral Universe and Other EssaysReality might fall short of the ideal, but Jeffrey Israel does not. Living with Hate in American Politics and Religion is so wonderfully fluid that it feels as though Israel is reading a scholarly bedtime story. -- Martin Kavka, author of Jewish Messianism and the History of PhilosophyA brilliant new paradigm...from the pulpit to the seat of government, Israel's model may be the reality of the future American Dream. Essential. * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword, by Martha C. NussbaumAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Loving and Hating America Since the 1990s1. Jewishness, Race, and Political Emotions2. The Fact of Fraught Societies I: The Problem of Remainders3. The Fact of Fraught Societies II: The Problem of Reproduction and the Missing Link Problem4. The Capability of Play5. Playing in Fraught Societies6. Lenny Bruce and the Intimacy of Play7. Philip Roth Tells the Greatest Jewish Joke Ever Told8. All in the Family in the Moral History of AmericaEpilogue: Losing Our “Religion” in the Domain of PlayNotesIndex
£80.39
Columbia University Press Living with Hate in American Politics and
Book SynopsisJeffrey Israel offers an innovative argument for the power of playfulness in popular culture to make our capacity for coexistence imaginable. He explores how people from different backgrounds can pursue justice together, even as they play with their divisive grudges, prejudices, and desires in their cultural lives.Trade ReviewHow can a more perfect American union be attained given our legacy of historical group injustices and corresponding enduring group antagonisms? In this brilliantly original synthesis of insights from political philosophy, moral psychology, and Jewish American humor, Jeffrey Israel argues that through 'play'—not a facile (and unachievable) national Kumbaya reconciliation, but a reenacting of grudges in a bracketed psychological space backgrounding the political—we can at least come to live with each other in a way that recognizes our common vulnerable humanity. -- Charles W. Mills, author of Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial LiberalismIn the post-World War II era, Jews, many of them the children of immigrants, moved into a prominent place in the production of the nation's popular culture and sought to make sense of their relationship with the many other kinds of Americans with whom they shared their society. Drawing on a deep and nuanced understanding of this history, Jeffrey Israel makes a compelling case for the importance of play in allowing Americans to live together. -- Hasia Diner, author of We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945–1962Jeffrey Israel has written an amazing book. He wants us to love America in a distinctly political register that ties our individual flourishing to the flourishing of every compatriot. Political love is essential to realizing the promise of justice. But he knows that political love must live alongside historically rooted animosities that deeply divide us. Israel squares this apparent circle with play. In play, we give full-throated voice to our animosities: we engage them, with no thought of transcending them. Seems too good to be true? Start with the beautiful chapter on Lenny Bruce, and then go for a great ride. -- Joshua Cohen, author of The Arc of the Moral Universe and Other EssaysReality might fall short of the ideal, but Jeffrey Israel does not. Living with Hate in American Politics and Religion is so wonderfully fluid that it feels as though Israel is reading a scholarly bedtime story. -- Martin Kavka, author of Jewish Messianism and the History of PhilosophyA brilliant new paradigm...from the pulpit to the seat of government, Israel's model may be the reality of the future American Dream. Essential. * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword, by Martha C. NussbaumAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Loving and Hating America Since the 1990s1. Jewishness, Race, and Political Emotions2. The Fact of Fraught Societies I: The Problem of Remainders3. The Fact of Fraught Societies II: The Problem of Reproduction and the Missing Link Problem4. The Capability of Play5. Playing in Fraught Societies6. Lenny Bruce and the Intimacy of Play7. Philip Roth Tells the Greatest Jewish Joke Ever Told8. All in the Family in the Moral History of AmericaEpilogue: Losing Our “Religion” in the Domain of PlayNotesIndex
£22.00
