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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “bob pepperman taylor”
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  • Liberal Education and Democracy

    by Bob Pepperman Taylor ...
    Liberal Education and Democracy addresses three vital arguments for liberal education and its integral relationship to democracy.Liberal education is currently under attack as both politically subversive and economically impractical. In Liberal Education and Democracy, Bob Pepperman Taylor evaluates both the defenses that have been offered for liberal education and the complex relationship between ... Read more

    $28.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lessons from "Walden"

    Thoreau and the Crisis of American Democracy

    by Bob Pepperman Taylor ...
    Original and passionate, Lessons from Walden presents a wide-ranging inquiry into the nature and implications in the works of Henry David Thoreau.Henry David Thoreau’s works are a backbone of American political philosophy, but how do his ideas translate into the tumultuous modern political landscape? Bob Pepperman Taylor closely examines Walden and Civil Disobedience, focusing on the philosophical ... Read more

    $22.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Citizenship and Democratic Doubt

    The Legacy of Progressive Thought

    by Bob Pepperman Taylor ...
    Series series American Political Thought
    Much of the world today views America as an imperialist nation bent on global military, economic, and cultural domination. At home few share this negative view, largely because of a widespread belief in the irreproachable purity of our goals. Bob Pepperman Taylor, however, argues that our moral self-righteousness may potentially imperil our democratic ideals and threaten democracy itself by ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • The Routledge Guidebook to Thoreau's Civil Disobedience

    by Bob Pepperman Taylor ...
    Series series The Routledge Guides to the Great Books
    Since its publication in 1849, Henry David Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience has influenced protestors, activists and political thinkers all over the world. Including the full text of Thoreau’s essay, The Routledge Guidebook to Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience explores the context of his writing, analyses different interpretations of the text and considers how posthumous edits to Civil Disobedience have ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Our Limits Transgressed

    Environmental Political Thought in America

    by Bob Pepperman Taylor ...
    Series series American Political Thought
    Is democracy hazardous to the health of the environment?Addressing this and related questions, Bob Pepperman Taylor analyzes contemporary environmental political thought in America. He begins with the premise that environmental thinking is necessarily political thinking because environmental problems, both in their cause and effect, are collective problems. They are also problems that signal ... Read more

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  • America's Bachelor Uncle

    by Bob Pepperman Taylor ...
    Series series American Political Thought
    Emphatically revisionist, Bob Pepperman Taylor reveals a Thoreau most people never knew existed. Contrary to conventional views, Taylor argues that Thoreau was one of America's most powerful and least understood political thinkers, a man who promoted community and democratic values, while being ever vigilant against the evils of excessive or illegitimate authority.Still widely viewed as a ... Read more

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    by Patrick J. Deneen ...
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    Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded?Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth century—fascism, communism, and liberalism—only the last remains. This has created a peculiar situation in which liberalism’s proponents tend to forget that it is an ideology and not the natural end-state of human political evolution. As Patrick Deneen argues in this provocative book, liberalism is ... Read more

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  • Postethnic America

    Beyond Multiculturalism

    by David A Hollinger ...
    Sympathetic with the new ethnic consciousness, Hollinger argues that the conventional liberal toleration of all established ethnic groups no longer works because it leaves unchallenged the prevailing imbalance of power. Yet the multiculturalist alternative does nothing to stop the fragmenting of American society into competing ethnic enclaves, each concerned primarily with its own well-being. ... Read more

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  • Women and Work

    Feminism, Labour, and Social Reproduction

    by Susan Ferguson ...
    Series series Mapping Social Reproduction Theory
    Feminism is once again on the political agenda. Across the world women are taking to the streets to protest unfair working conditions, abortion laws, and sexual violence. They are demanding decent wages, better schools and free childcare. But why do some feminists choose to fight for more women CEOs, while others fight for a world without CEOs?To understand these divergent approaches, Susan ... Read more

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  • Suffer the Children

    A Theoretical Foundation for the Human Rights of the Child

    by Richard P. Hiskes ...
    In 1973, Hillary Rodham Clinton famously stated that "children's rights" is a slogan in search of a definition, used to bolster various arguments for peace and for specific rights, but without any coherent conception of children as political beings. In 1989, the United Nations established the basis for this definition in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), a document every nation in ... Read more

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  • A Conflict of Visions

    Ideological Origins of Political Struggles

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    **The landmark explanation of the competing visions of human nature that lie at the heart of our political conflicts“A classic of a very special kind...Reading it is like looking up at the night sky and discovering a new constellation.” —Christian Science Monitor**Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably ... Read more

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  • The Thoreau You Don't Know

    What the Prophet of Environmentalism Really Meant

    by Robert "Sully" Sullivan ...
    Robert Sullivan, the New York Times bestselling author of Rats and Cross Country, delivers a revolutionary reconsideration of Henry David Thoreau for modern readers of the seminal transcendentalist. Dispelling common notions of Thoreau as a lonely eccentric cloistered at Walden Pond, Sullivan (whom the New York Times Book Review calls "an urban Thoreau") paints a dynamic picture of Thoreau as the ... Read more

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