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  • Compromising the Ideals of Science

    by R. Sassower ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This books examines the conditions under which scientists compromised the ideals of science, and elucidates these with reference to the challenges of profit motives and national security concerns. The book also offers suggestions for changing the political and economic conditions under which the integrity of science and its ethos can be practiced. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Digital Exposure

    Postmodern Postcapitalism

    by R. Sassower ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book adopts an explicitly postmodernist perspective of the digital revolution. While exploring issues relating to the re-creation of social life in the digital world, its main focus is on the political economy and in particular the extent to which the paradigms of capitalism and socialism can be mapped as postcapitalism onto this new world. ... Read more

    $59.39 USD

  • The Price of Public Intellectuals

    by R. Sassower ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a historically-informed survey critically outlining sociological, psychological, political, and economic approaches to the role of public intellectuals. Sassower suggests how the state might financially support the essential work of public intellectuals so as to critically engage the public and improve public policies. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Democratic Problem-Solving

    Dialogues in Social Epistemology

    by Justin Cruickshank, Raphael Sassower ...
    Series series Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society
    To what extent is neoliberalism undermining democracy and distorting the values of science? Can and should science be treated as an exemplar for a more dialogic democracy? Are universities and public intellectuals able to develop a more dialogically engaged public? What role should there be for ‘experts’ in a more dialogic democracy? Does information and communications technology present a ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • A Sanctuary of Their Own

    Intellectual Refugees in the Academy

    by Raphael Sassower ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives Series: A Book Series Dedicated to Paulo Freire
    What is at stake in compromising the Enlightenment ideals of a liberal education with new educational policies engendered by a neo-liberalized, global marketplace? Richly grounding his arguments in the social philosophy of European and American intellectuals, Raphael Sassower explores Western culture's long-standing ambivalence toward 'the life of the mind.' He shows how and why this historical ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Solo

    Postmodern Explorations

    by Raphael Sassower ...
    Solo: Postmodern Explorations provides a postmodern approach to technoscience and economics. Sassower pulls together postmodern motifs and attitudes with his own experience to provide a unique perspective on political history and economics. Solo raises the question of whether it is possible to be an objective observer and what that means for scholarship, especially when it concerns making ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • The Quest for Prosperity

    Reframing Political Economy

    by Raphael Sassower ...
    Envisioning a different mode of economic relations requires a rethinking of the classical frames of references we commonly take for granted. The implicit assumptions that we carry into critical debates are the stumbling blocks for finding useful solutions to age-old economic problems. And these impediments constrict our political imagination.This book asks what are these frames of references? How ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Manorial Capitalism, Enslavement, and the Logic of Dividuation

    by Raphael Sassower ...
    Manorial Capitalism, Enslavement, and the Logic of Dividuation proffers three perspectives on the plantation slave economy of the Antebellum South. The first explores the paternal function as exemplified in the structural authority of the lord of the manor both symbolically and operationally. This figure of masculine authority persisted from the Medieval period to orchestrate what is called here ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Confronting Disaster

    An Existential Approach to Technoscience

    by Raphael Sassower ...
    Contemporary society is rife with instability. Our active and invasive study of genetics has given life to one of the great specters of biological science: the clone. The scarcity of natural energy sources has led to an increased manipulation of atomic or nuclear energy and regressive environmental policies, resulting in a greater sense of danger for everyone. The promises of economic ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Political Blind Spots

    Reading the Ideology of Images

    by Louis Cicotello, Raphael Sassower ...
    In order to better understand the conditions of the twenty-first century Raphael Sassower and Louis Cicotello revisit the twentieth century in Political Blind Spots: Reading the Ideology of Images. Sassower and Cicotello revisit some of the most significant periods in art and politics in the twentieth century paying close attention to the relationship between aesthetics and politics. ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Religion and Sports in American Culture

    by Jeffrey Scholes, Raphael Sassower ...
    Religion and Sports in American Culture explores the relationship between religion and modern sports in America. Whether found in the religious purpose of ancient Olympic Games, in curses believed to plague the Chicago Cubs, or in the figure of Tim Tebow, religion and sports have been and are still tightly intertwined. While there is widespread suspicion that sports are slowly encroaching on the ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Postcapitalism

    Moving Beyond Ideology in America's Economic Crisis

    by Raphael Sassower ...
    Debates over the role of government have intensified in the wake of America's deepest financial crisis since the Depression. This book suggests new ways of moving forward based on the policies and principles that have worked in the past. Sassower shows how American pragmatism has guided the more successful financial policies undertaken during the past century. This means that from the workplace to ... Read more

    $59.99 USD