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The Vital Center
Author | : Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. |
Publsiher | : Transaction Large Print |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-09-30 |
Genre | : Communism |
ISBN | : 1412855632 |
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The Vital Center is an eloquent and incisive defense of liberal democracy against its rivals to the left and to the right, communism and fascism. Originally published in 1949, it shows how the failures of free society led to the disenchantment of the masses with democracy, and sharpened the appeal of totalitarian solutions. The book calls for a radical reconstruction of the democratic polity based on a realistic understanding of human limitations and frailties.
What Happened to the Vital Center
Author | : Nicholas Jacobs,Sidney Milkis |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Executive power |
ISBN | : 9780197603512 |
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Gradually, the moderating influence that parties played in structuring campaigns and the policy process eroded to the point where extreme polarization dominated and decision-making power migrated to the presidency. Weakened parties were increasingly dominated by presidents and their partnerships with social activists, leading to a gridlocked system characterized by the politics of demonization and demagoguery. Executive-centered parties more easily ignore the sorts of moderating voices that had prevailed in an earlier era. While the Republican Party is more susceptible to the dangers of populism than the Democrats, both parties are animated by a presidency-led, movement-centered vision of democracy. After tracing this history, the authors dismiss calls to return to some bygone era. .
Moderates
Author | : David S. Brown |
Publsiher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2016-10-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781469629247 |
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The fierce polarization of contemporary politics has encouraged Americans to read back into their nation's past a perpetual ideological struggle between liberals and conservatives. However, in this timely book, David S. Brown advances an original interpretation that stresses the critical role of moderate statesmen, ideas, and alliances in making our political system work. Beginning with John Adams and including such key figures as Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., and Bill Clinton, Brown charts the vital if uneven progress of centrism through the centuries. Moderate opposition to both New England and southern secessionists during the early republic and later resistance to industrial oligarchy and the modern Sunbelt right are part of this persuasion's far-reaching legacy. Time and again moderates, operating under a broad canopy of coalitions, have come together to reshape the nation's electoral landscape. Today's bitter partisanship encourages us to deny that such a moderate tradition is part of our historical development--one dating back to the Constitutional Convention. Brown offers a less polemical and far more compelling assessment of our politics.
The Vital Center
Author | : Arthur Meier Schlesinger |
Publsiher | : Transaction Pub |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1560009896 |
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With a new introduction by the author The Vital Center is an eloquent and incisive defense of liberal democracy against its rivals to the left and to the right, communism and fascism. It shows how the failures of free society had led to the mass escape from freedom and sharpened the appeal of totalitarian solutions. It calls for a radical reconstruction of the democratic faith based on a realistic understanding of human limitation and frailty.
The Twilight of World Capitalism
Author | : William Z. Foster |
Publsiher | : New York : International Publishers |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : Capitalism |
ISBN | : UOM:39015068646929 |
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The Politics of Freedom
Author | : David Boaz |
Publsiher | : Cato Institute |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781933995144 |
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Author David Boaz discusses the roots of American freedom, the growing libertarian vote in America, the arrogance of politicians, and everything from taxes and education to terrorism and the war on drugs.
Vibrant Matter
Author | : Jane Bennett |
Publsiher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2010-01-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780822391623 |
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In Vibrant Matter the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. Bennett argues that political theory needs to do a better job of recognizing the active participation of nonhuman forces in events. Toward that end, she theorizes a “vital materiality” that runs through and across bodies, both human and nonhuman. Bennett explores how political analyses of public events might change were we to acknowledge that agency always emerges as the effect of ad hoc configurations of human and nonhuman forces. She suggests that recognizing that agency is distributed this way, and is not solely the province of humans, might spur the cultivation of a more responsible, ecologically sound politics: a politics less devoted to blaming and condemning individuals than to discerning the web of forces affecting situations and events. Bennett examines the political and theoretical implications of vital materialism through extended discussions of commonplace things and physical phenomena including stem cells, fish oils, electricity, metal, and trash. She reflects on the vital power of material formations such as landfills, which generate lively streams of chemicals, and omega-3 fatty acids, which can transform brain chemistry and mood. Along the way, she engages with the concepts and claims of Spinoza, Nietzsche, Thoreau, Darwin, Adorno, and Deleuze, disclosing a long history of thinking about vibrant matter in Western philosophy, including attempts by Kant, Bergson, and the embryologist Hans Driesch to name the “vital force” inherent in material forms. Bennett concludes by sketching the contours of a “green materialist” ecophilosophy.