Author: Ian Higgins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521418143
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
A contextual reassessment of Swift's political writing concentrating on A Tale of a Tub and Gulliver's Travels.
Swift's Politics
Author: Ian Higgins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521418143
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
A contextual reassessment of Swift's political writing concentrating on A Tale of a Tub and Gulliver's Travels.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521418143
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
A contextual reassessment of Swift's political writing concentrating on A Tale of a Tub and Gulliver's Travels.
Political Philosophy
Author: Adam Swift
Publisher: Polity
ISBN: 0745652379
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Bringing political philosophy out of the ivory tower and within the reach of all, this book provides us with the tools to cut through the complexity of modern politics.
Publisher: Polity
ISBN: 0745652379
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Bringing political philosophy out of the ivory tower and within the reach of all, this book provides us with the tools to cut through the complexity of modern politics.
Cultural Relativism and International Politics
Author: Derek Robbins
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1473910951
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
"The political and academic worlds are fractured by two competing discourses: the universalism of human rights and cultural relativism. This fracture is represented by the deep separation of cultural analysis and theories of international politics. Derek Robbins in a brilliant interrogation of European thinkers from Montesquieu to Pierre Bourdieu seeks to replace cultural relativism with cultural relationism as a step towards reconciling Enlightenment universalism and anthropological insistence on cultural difference. Inter alia he reflects on the tensions between political and social science and takes up the challenge from Raymond Aron to construct a sociology of international relations. A dazzling achievement." - Bryan S. Turner, The Graduate Center, CUNY Through historical studies of some of the work of Montesquieu, Comte, Durkheim, Boas, Morgenthau, Aron and Bourdieu, Derek Robbins examines the changing and competing conceptualisations of the political and the social in the Western European intellectual tradition. He suggests that we are now experiencing a new ‘dissociation of sensibility’ in which political thought and its consequences in action have become divorced from social and cultural experience. Developing further the ideas of Bourdieu which he has presented in books and articles over the last twenty years, Robbins argues that we need to integrate the recognition of cultural difference with the practice of international politics by accepting that the ‘field’ of international political discourse is a social construct which is contingent on encounters between diverse cultures. ‘Everything is relative’ (Comte) and ‘everything is social’ (Bourdieu), not least international politics.
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1473910951
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
"The political and academic worlds are fractured by two competing discourses: the universalism of human rights and cultural relativism. This fracture is represented by the deep separation of cultural analysis and theories of international politics. Derek Robbins in a brilliant interrogation of European thinkers from Montesquieu to Pierre Bourdieu seeks to replace cultural relativism with cultural relationism as a step towards reconciling Enlightenment universalism and anthropological insistence on cultural difference. Inter alia he reflects on the tensions between political and social science and takes up the challenge from Raymond Aron to construct a sociology of international relations. A dazzling achievement." - Bryan S. Turner, The Graduate Center, CUNY Through historical studies of some of the work of Montesquieu, Comte, Durkheim, Boas, Morgenthau, Aron and Bourdieu, Derek Robbins examines the changing and competing conceptualisations of the political and the social in the Western European intellectual tradition. He suggests that we are now experiencing a new ‘dissociation of sensibility’ in which political thought and its consequences in action have become divorced from social and cultural experience. Developing further the ideas of Bourdieu which he has presented in books and articles over the last twenty years, Robbins argues that we need to integrate the recognition of cultural difference with the practice of international politics by accepting that the ‘field’ of international political discourse is a social construct which is contingent on encounters between diverse cultures. ‘Everything is relative’ (Comte) and ‘everything is social’ (Bourdieu), not least international politics.
Race to the Swift
Author: Jung-en Woo
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231071475
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A comprehensive and original account of the rise of Korea's developmental state, Race to the Swift by Jung-en Woo argues that Korea's industrial growth is neither a miracle nor a cultural mystery, but the outcome of a previously misunderstood political economy.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231071475
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A comprehensive and original account of the rise of Korea's developmental state, Race to the Swift by Jung-en Woo argues that Korea's industrial growth is neither a miracle nor a cultural mystery, but the outcome of a previously misunderstood political economy.
Swift and Science
Author: G. Lynall
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137016965
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
It is thought that Swift was opposed to the new science that heralded the beginning of the modern age, but this book interrogates that assumption, tracing the theological, political, and socio-cultural resonances of scientific knowledge in the early eighteenth century, and considering what they can reveal about Swift's imagination.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137016965
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
It is thought that Swift was opposed to the new science that heralded the beginning of the modern age, but this book interrogates that assumption, tracing the theological, political, and socio-cultural resonances of scientific knowledge in the early eighteenth century, and considering what they can reveal about Swift's imagination.
Politics and Literature in the Age of Swift
Author: Claude Rawson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521190150
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
A wide range of new approaches to Swift's literary and political achievement in its English and Irish contexts.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521190150
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
A wide range of new approaches to Swift's literary and political achievement in its English and Irish contexts.
Jonathan Swift
Author: Eugene Hammond
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611496101
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 841
Book Description
Jonathan Swift: Our Dean (along with its companion, Jonathan Swift: Irish Blow-in) aspires to be the most accurate and engaging critical biography of Jonathan Swift ever. It builds on the thorough research of Irvin Ehrenpreis’s highly regarded 1962–1983 three-volume biography, but re-interprets Swift’s life and works by re-assessing his 1714–1720 repudiating the pretender while remaining friends with many who did not, by acknowledging that he likely had a physical affair with Esther Vanhomrigh between 1719 and 1723, by questioning whether in any sense he was a misanthrope, by noting his real care for Esther Johnson in her final illness, and by emphasizing the mutual love between Swift and his caretakers during his final difficult years.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611496101
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 841
Book Description
Jonathan Swift: Our Dean (along with its companion, Jonathan Swift: Irish Blow-in) aspires to be the most accurate and engaging critical biography of Jonathan Swift ever. It builds on the thorough research of Irvin Ehrenpreis’s highly regarded 1962–1983 three-volume biography, but re-interprets Swift’s life and works by re-assessing his 1714–1720 repudiating the pretender while remaining friends with many who did not, by acknowledging that he likely had a physical affair with Esther Vanhomrigh between 1719 and 1723, by questioning whether in any sense he was a misanthrope, by noting his real care for Esther Johnson in her final illness, and by emphasizing the mutual love between Swift and his caretakers during his final difficult years.
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Author: James Alan Downie
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Political Philosophy
Author: Adam Swift
Publisher: Polity
ISBN: 0745635326
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
A guidebook about political philosophy, focusing on the following aspects: Social justice, liberty, equality, community, and democracy.
Publisher: Polity
ISBN: 0745635326
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
A guidebook about political philosophy, focusing on the following aspects: Social justice, liberty, equality, community, and democracy.
Unfit For Command
Author: John E. O'Neill
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1596981105
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
"What sort of combination of hypocrite and paradox is John Kerry?" asks this heated critique of the Democratic presidential candidate’s Vietnam–era military service and antiwar activism. O’Neill, a lawyer and swift boat veteran, and Corsi, an expert on Vietnam antiwar movements, show how Kerry misrepresented his wartime exploits and is therefore incompetent to serve as commander in chief. Buttressed by interviews with Navy veterans who patrolled Vietnam’s waters, some along with Kerry, readers will discover how he exaggerated minor injuries, self-inflicted others, wrote fictitious diary entries and filed "phony" reports of his heroism under fire—all in a calculated quest to secure career-enhancing combat medals.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1596981105
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
"What sort of combination of hypocrite and paradox is John Kerry?" asks this heated critique of the Democratic presidential candidate’s Vietnam–era military service and antiwar activism. O’Neill, a lawyer and swift boat veteran, and Corsi, an expert on Vietnam antiwar movements, show how Kerry misrepresented his wartime exploits and is therefore incompetent to serve as commander in chief. Buttressed by interviews with Navy veterans who patrolled Vietnam’s waters, some along with Kerry, readers will discover how he exaggerated minor injuries, self-inflicted others, wrote fictitious diary entries and filed "phony" reports of his heroism under fire—all in a calculated quest to secure career-enhancing combat medals.