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  • Praxis der Achtsamkeit

    Schlüsselbegriffe der Care-Ethik

    Der Spruch "yes, we care" zeigt: Gesellschaftlich gibt es ein großes Interesse an Achtsamkeit, Sorge und Verantwortung. Dennoch lässt die philosophische Ethik diese scheinbar privaten Themen meist unberücksichtigt. Das Buch eröffnet neue Perspektiven, indem es die in verschiedenen europäischen Ländern entwickelte Ethik der Achtsamkeit und Sorge - "Ethics of Care" - transdisziplinär präsentiert. Im ... Read more

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  • Social Movements and American Political Institutions

    Series series People, Passions, and Power: Social Movements, Interest Organizations, and the P
    Social movements in the United States are important political actors because of their scale and duration, their generation of new ideas and understandings of existing problems, their ability to mobilize those who were previously passive citizens, and the impetus they provide for restructuring and broadening the agenda of American politics. This volume combines chapters by a distinguished group of ... Read more

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  • Elusive Archives

    Material Culture in Formation

    Series series Material Culture Perspectives
    The essays that comprise Elusive Archives raise a common question: how do we study material culture when the objects of study are transient, evanescent, dispersed or subjective? Such things resist the taxonomic protocols that institutions, such as museums and archives, rely on to channel their acquisitions into meaningful collections. What holds these disparate things together here are the ... Read more

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  • When the People Speak:Deliberative Democracy and Public Consultation

    Deliberative Democracy and Public Consultation

    by James Fishkin ...
    All over the world democratic reforms have brought power to the people-but under conditions where the people have little opportunity to think about the power that they exercise. Do we want a democracy inspired by Madison or by Madison Avenue? A democracy animated by deliberation or by manipulation? This book examines each of the principal democratic theories and makes the case for a democracy in ... Read more

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  • The Imperative of Integration

    A powerful new argument for reviving the ideal of racial integrationMore than forty years have passed since Congress, in response to the Civil Rights Movement, enacted sweeping antidiscrimination laws in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. As a signal achievement of that legacy, in 2008, Americans elected their first African American ... Read more

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  • Disconnect: The Breakdown of Representation in American Politics

    The Breakdown of Representation in American Politics

    Series series The Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series
    Red states, blue states . . . are we no longer the United States? Morris P. Fiorina here examines today’s party system to reassess arguments about party polarization while offering a cogent overview of the American electorate.Building on the arguments of Fiorina’s acclaimed Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America, this book explains how contemporary politics differs from that of previous eras ... Read more

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  • Landscape Theory

    Edited by Rachel DeLue, James Elkins ...
    Series series The Art Seminar
    Artistic representations of landscape are studied widely in areas ranging from art history to geography to sociology, yet there has been little consensus about how to understand the relationship between landscape and art. This book brings together more than fifty scholars from these multiple disciplines to establish new ways of thinking about landscape in art. ... Read more

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  • Democracy When the People Are Thinking

    Revitalizing Our Politics Through Public Deliberation

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  • American Eden

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  • The State of Democratic Theory

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    What should we expect from democracy, and how likely is it that democracies will live up to those expectations? In The State of Democratic Theory, Ian Shapiro offers a critical assessment of contemporary answers to these questions, lays out his distinctive alternative, and explores its implications for policy and political action.Some accounts of democracy's purposes focus on aggregating ... Read more

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  • Mapping The Democratic Forest: The Postsouthern Spaces of William Eggleston

    An article from Southern Cultures 17:2, The Photography Issue

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    Eggleston, the iconoclastic and colorful groundbreaker, imbues the mundane with vibrancy.This article appears in the Summer 2011 issue of Southern Cultures:The Photography Issue. “When the color photographs of William Eggleston first appeared at the Museum of Modern Art in 1976, the boldness of Eggleston’s palette and his disregard for the conventions of black-and-white photography were shocking; ... Read more

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