Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta Wilson Carey McWilliams
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Democracy and Its Friendly Critics
In this edited collection, Peter Lawler presents a lucid and comprehensive introduction to a diverse set of political issues according to Tocqueville. Democracy and Its Friendly …
The Idea of Fraternity in America
“A complex, intellectually jarring, and valuable book, one which reveals how early America became her true self as we now know her.” —Kirkus Reviews The United States is currently …
Democratic Soul
In 1973, Wilson Carey McWilliams (1933--2005) published The Idea of Fraternity in America, a groundbreaking book that argued for an alternative to America's dominant philosophy of …
Redeeming Democracy in America
Wherever we turn in America today, we see angry citizens disparaging government, distrusting each other, avoiding civic life, and professing a hatred of politics and politicians of …
A Mask for Privilege
Why in America should the most sinister of European social diseases have taken root? Why should that disease have spread from its seemingly anachronistic beginning in the Gilded …
The Active Society Revisited
The Active Society, published in 1968, is the most ambitious book in Amitai Etzioni's remarkable career. It is sociology in the grand tradition, with at least one foot outside its …
Democracy and the Claims of Nature
Can democrats be environmentalists? Democracy and the Claims of Nature tackles the core questions raised by the intersection of our democratic and environmental commitments, …
Autonomy and Order
The Communitarian Movement asserts that America and other Western societies overemphasize individual rights and underemphasize collective responsibilities. In the debate between …
Democracy's Literature
American literature is profoundly, almost inescapably political. America's most thoughtful authors long ago realized that it was through the novel, the novella, and the story that …
Mask for Privilege
Why in America should the most sinister of European social diseases have taken root? Why should that disease have spread from its seemingly anachronistic beginning in the Gilded …
Idea of Fraternity in America
"e;A complex, intellectually jarring, and valuable book, one which reveals how early America became her true self as we now know her."e; -Kirkus ReviewsThe United States is …
Beyond the Politics of Disappointment: American Elections 1980-1998
A provocative evaluation of electoral trends--distrust of government, desire for a renewal of the American dream, decreasing voter turnout, support for self-government, debate over …