Author: Stephen Carter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The author of "Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby" and "The Culture of Disbelief" proves that manners matter to the future of America. Not an exercise in abstract philosophizing, this book delivers an agenda for the practical implementation of civility in contemporary life.
Civility
Author: Stephen Carter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The author of "Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby" and "The Culture of Disbelief" proves that manners matter to the future of America. Not an exercise in abstract philosophizing, this book delivers an agenda for the practical implementation of civility in contemporary life.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The author of "Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby" and "The Culture of Disbelief" proves that manners matter to the future of America. Not an exercise in abstract philosophizing, this book delivers an agenda for the practical implementation of civility in contemporary life.
The Case for Civility
Author: Os Guinness
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006174008X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
In a world torn apart by religious extremism on the one side and a strident secularism on the other, no question is more urgent than how we live with our deepest differences—especially our religious and ideological differences. The Case for Civility is a proposal for restoring civility in America as a way to foster civility around the world. Influential Christian writer and speaker Os Guinness makes a passionate plea to put an end to the polarization of American politics and culture that—rather than creating a public space for real debate—threatens to reverse the very principles our founders set into motion and that have long preserved liberty, diversity, and unity in this country. Guinness takes on the contemporary threat of the excesses of the Religious Right and the secular Left, arguing that we must find a middle ground between privileging one religion over another and attempting to make all public expression of faith illegal. If we do not do this, Guinness contends, Western civilization as we know it will die. Always provocative and deeply insightful, Guinness puts forth a vision of a new, practical "civil and cosmopolitan public square" that speaks not only to America's immediate concerns but to the long-term interests of the republic and the world.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006174008X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
In a world torn apart by religious extremism on the one side and a strident secularism on the other, no question is more urgent than how we live with our deepest differences—especially our religious and ideological differences. The Case for Civility is a proposal for restoring civility in America as a way to foster civility around the world. Influential Christian writer and speaker Os Guinness makes a passionate plea to put an end to the polarization of American politics and culture that—rather than creating a public space for real debate—threatens to reverse the very principles our founders set into motion and that have long preserved liberty, diversity, and unity in this country. Guinness takes on the contemporary threat of the excesses of the Religious Right and the secular Left, arguing that we must find a middle ground between privileging one religion over another and attempting to make all public expression of faith illegal. If we do not do this, Guinness contends, Western civilization as we know it will die. Always provocative and deeply insightful, Guinness puts forth a vision of a new, practical "civil and cosmopolitan public square" that speaks not only to America's immediate concerns but to the long-term interests of the republic and the world.
Uncommon Decency
Author: Richard J. Mouw
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830869069
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Few if any people in the evangelical world have conversed as widely and sensitively as Richard Mouw. That's why Mouw can write here so wisely and helpfully about what Christians can appreciate about pluralism, the theological basis for civility, and how we can communicate with people who disagree with us on the issues that matter most.
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830869069
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Few if any people in the evangelical world have conversed as widely and sensitively as Richard Mouw. That's why Mouw can write here so wisely and helpfully about what Christians can appreciate about pluralism, the theological basis for civility, and how we can communicate with people who disagree with us on the issues that matter most.
Hatred and Racism (Past and Present)
Author: Larry F. Murphy
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1728362237
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 988
Book Description
This book was written to provide consolation, in particularly, to the millions in Christ Jesus and others who are profoundly sickened, frustrated, irritated, broken-hearted about the immoral actions and fifthly languages of Donald J. Trump, both before and after becoming president of the United States of America, who has managed to avoid justice due to him through the help of cunning, clever, scheming, devious, and disingenuous attorneys of his own nature.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1728362237
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 988
Book Description
This book was written to provide consolation, in particularly, to the millions in Christ Jesus and others who are profoundly sickened, frustrated, irritated, broken-hearted about the immoral actions and fifthly languages of Donald J. Trump, both before and after becoming president of the United States of America, who has managed to avoid justice due to him through the help of cunning, clever, scheming, devious, and disingenuous attorneys of his own nature.
THE 10 UNIVERSAL LAWS OF SUCCESS
Author: Christopher E. L. Toote, Ph.D.
Publisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 1456651862
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
THE 10 UNIVERSAL LAWS OF SUCCESS is the compilation of the most powerful, comprehensive expressions experienced by humankind. Knowledge and activation of these laws initiate, foster, and create an inevitable oasis of wealth, success, and happiness. Every person who applies these laws will fulfill their dreams and aspirations. These are laws, not theories. The outcome is certain because laws give the anticipated results repeatedly when the right principles are applied. Christopher E. L. Toote has shared information in THE 10 UNIVERSAL LAWS OF SUCCESS that will help you expand your thinking, explore your creativity, tap your true potential, know your purpose, and live a fulfilled, successful, healthy, and happy life. You will find yourself reading this book often as a reminder of your full potentiality, your Creator, the role of the universe, your overflowing blessings, your impact on humanity, and the amazing success that awaits you.
Publisher: eBookIt.com
ISBN: 1456651862
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
THE 10 UNIVERSAL LAWS OF SUCCESS is the compilation of the most powerful, comprehensive expressions experienced by humankind. Knowledge and activation of these laws initiate, foster, and create an inevitable oasis of wealth, success, and happiness. Every person who applies these laws will fulfill their dreams and aspirations. These are laws, not theories. The outcome is certain because laws give the anticipated results repeatedly when the right principles are applied. Christopher E. L. Toote has shared information in THE 10 UNIVERSAL LAWS OF SUCCESS that will help you expand your thinking, explore your creativity, tap your true potential, know your purpose, and live a fulfilled, successful, healthy, and happy life. You will find yourself reading this book often as a reminder of your full potentiality, your Creator, the role of the universe, your overflowing blessings, your impact on humanity, and the amazing success that awaits you.
Mere Civility
Author: Teresa M. Bejan
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674545494
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
A New Statesman Best Book of the Year A Church Times Book of the Year We are facing a crisis of civility, a war of words polluting our public sphere. In liberal democracies committed to tolerating active, often heated disagreement, the loss of this virtue appears critical. Most modern appeals to civility follow arguments by Hobbes or Locke by proposing to suppress disagreement or exclude views we deem “uncivil” for the sake of social harmony. By comparison, mere civility—a grudging conformity to norms of respectful behavior—as defended by Rhode Island’s founder, Roger Williams, might seem minimal and unappealing. Yet Teresa Bejan argues that Williams’s outlook offers a promising path forward in confronting our own crisis, one that challenges our fundamental assumptions about what a tolerant—and civil—society should look like. “Penetrating and sophisticated.” —James Ryerson, New York Times Book Review “Would that more of us might learn to look into the past with such gravity and humility. We might end up with a more (or mere) civil society, yet.” —Los Angeles Review of Books “A deeply admirable book: original, persuasive, witty, and eloquent.” —Jacob T. Levy, Review of Politics “A terrific book—learned, vigorous, and challenging.” —Alison McQueen, Stanford University
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674545494
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
A New Statesman Best Book of the Year A Church Times Book of the Year We are facing a crisis of civility, a war of words polluting our public sphere. In liberal democracies committed to tolerating active, often heated disagreement, the loss of this virtue appears critical. Most modern appeals to civility follow arguments by Hobbes or Locke by proposing to suppress disagreement or exclude views we deem “uncivil” for the sake of social harmony. By comparison, mere civility—a grudging conformity to norms of respectful behavior—as defended by Rhode Island’s founder, Roger Williams, might seem minimal and unappealing. Yet Teresa Bejan argues that Williams’s outlook offers a promising path forward in confronting our own crisis, one that challenges our fundamental assumptions about what a tolerant—and civil—society should look like. “Penetrating and sophisticated.” —James Ryerson, New York Times Book Review “Would that more of us might learn to look into the past with such gravity and humility. We might end up with a more (or mere) civil society, yet.” —Los Angeles Review of Books “A deeply admirable book: original, persuasive, witty, and eloquent.” —Jacob T. Levy, Review of Politics “A terrific book—learned, vigorous, and challenging.” —Alison McQueen, Stanford University
Miss Manners
Author: Judith Martin
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 9780609801581
Category : Etiquette
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For those citizens clamoring for a return to civility, Miss Manners has revised, edited, and updated her most authoritative work on how to behave like a decent member of society. Line drawings.
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 9780609801581
Category : Etiquette
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For those citizens clamoring for a return to civility, Miss Manners has revised, edited, and updated her most authoritative work on how to behave like a decent member of society. Line drawings.
Satire in an Age of Realism
Author: Aaron Matz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139488317
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
As nineteenth-century realism became more and more intrepid in its pursuit of describing and depicting everyday life, it blurred irrevocably into the caustic and severe mode of literature better named satire. Realism's task of portraying the human became indistinguishable from satire's directive to castigate the human. Introducing an entirely new way of thinking about realism and the Victorian novel, Aaron Matz refers to the fusion of realism and satire as 'satirical realism': it is a mode in which our shared folly and error are so entrenched in everyday life, and so unchanging, that they need no embellishment when rendered in fiction. Focusing on the novels of Eliot, Hardy, Gissing, and Conrad, and the theater of Ibsen, Matz argues that it was the transformation of Victorian realism into satire that granted it immense moral authority, but that led ultimately to its demise.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139488317
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
As nineteenth-century realism became more and more intrepid in its pursuit of describing and depicting everyday life, it blurred irrevocably into the caustic and severe mode of literature better named satire. Realism's task of portraying the human became indistinguishable from satire's directive to castigate the human. Introducing an entirely new way of thinking about realism and the Victorian novel, Aaron Matz refers to the fusion of realism and satire as 'satirical realism': it is a mode in which our shared folly and error are so entrenched in everyday life, and so unchanging, that they need no embellishment when rendered in fiction. Focusing on the novels of Eliot, Hardy, Gissing, and Conrad, and the theater of Ibsen, Matz argues that it was the transformation of Victorian realism into satire that granted it immense moral authority, but that led ultimately to its demise.
The Cambridge History of the English Novel
Author: Robert L. Caserio
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316175103
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
Book Description
The Cambridge History of the English Novel chronicles an ever-changing and developing body of fiction across three centuries. An interwoven narrative of the novel's progress unfolds in more than fifty chapters, charting continuities and innovations of structure, tracing lines of influence in terms of themes and techniques, and showing how greater and lesser authors shape the genre. Pushing beyond the usual period-centered boundaries, the History's emphasis on form reveals the range and depth the novel has achieved in English. This book will be indispensable for research libraries and scholars, but is accessibly written for students. Authoritative, bold and clear, the History raises multiple useful questions for future visions of the invention and re-invention of the novel.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316175103
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
Book Description
The Cambridge History of the English Novel chronicles an ever-changing and developing body of fiction across three centuries. An interwoven narrative of the novel's progress unfolds in more than fifty chapters, charting continuities and innovations of structure, tracing lines of influence in terms of themes and techniques, and showing how greater and lesser authors shape the genre. Pushing beyond the usual period-centered boundaries, the History's emphasis on form reveals the range and depth the novel has achieved in English. This book will be indispensable for research libraries and scholars, but is accessibly written for students. Authoritative, bold and clear, the History raises multiple useful questions for future visions of the invention and re-invention of the novel.
Violence and Civility
Author: Étienne Balibar
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231527187
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
In Violence and Civility, Étienne Balibar boldly confronts the insidious causes of violence, racism, nationalism, and ethnic cleansing worldwide, as well as mass poverty and dispossession. Through a novel synthesis of theory and empirical studies of contemporary violence, the acclaimed thinker pushes past the limits of political philosophy to reconceive war, revolution, sovereignty, and class. Through the pathbreaking thought of Derrida, Balibar builds a topography of cruelty converted into extremism by ideology, juxtaposing its subjective forms (identity delusions, the desire for extermination, and the pursuit of vengeance) and its objective manifestations (capitalist exploitation and an institutional disregard for life). Engaging with Marx, Hegel, Hobbes, Clausewitz, Schmitt, and Luxemburg, Balibar introduces a new, productive understanding of politics as antiviolence and a fresh approach to achieving and sustaining civility. Rooted in the principles of transformation and empowerment, this theory brings hope to a world increasingly divided even as it draws closer together.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231527187
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
In Violence and Civility, Étienne Balibar boldly confronts the insidious causes of violence, racism, nationalism, and ethnic cleansing worldwide, as well as mass poverty and dispossession. Through a novel synthesis of theory and empirical studies of contemporary violence, the acclaimed thinker pushes past the limits of political philosophy to reconceive war, revolution, sovereignty, and class. Through the pathbreaking thought of Derrida, Balibar builds a topography of cruelty converted into extremism by ideology, juxtaposing its subjective forms (identity delusions, the desire for extermination, and the pursuit of vengeance) and its objective manifestations (capitalist exploitation and an institutional disregard for life). Engaging with Marx, Hegel, Hobbes, Clausewitz, Schmitt, and Luxemburg, Balibar introduces a new, productive understanding of politics as antiviolence and a fresh approach to achieving and sustaining civility. Rooted in the principles of transformation and empowerment, this theory brings hope to a world increasingly divided even as it draws closer together.