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Eros in Plato, Rousseau, and Nietzsche

Cooper, Laurence D.

Human beings are restless souls, ever driven by an insistent inner force not only to have more but to be more-to be infinitely more. Various philosophers have emphasized this type of ceaseless striving in their accounts of humanity, as in Spinoza's notion of conatus and Hobbes's identification of "a...

The Constitution and Public Policy in U.S. History

Zelizer, Julian E.

A collection of essays that discuss the legal and constitutional debates over matters of policy throughout United States history.

Imperfect Oracle

Brown, Theodore L.

Science and its offshoot, technology, enter into the very fabric of our society in so many ways that we cannot imagine life without them. We are surrounded by crises and debates over climate change, stem-cell research, AIDS, evolutionary theory and "intelligent design," the use of DNA in solving cri...

A Rhetorical Conversation

Finkin, Jordan D.

This book is about Jewish language. The fact that Jews speak and write in distinctive ways is well known. (The journalist Mike Royko called it "Hebonics.") These forms of expression actually draw from many sources and have been employed in popular culture from Henry Roth's Call It Sleep to the novel...

Rhapsody of Philosophy

Statkiewicz, Max

This book proposes to rethink the relationship between philosophy and literature through an engagement with Plato's dialogues. The dialogues have been seen as the source of a long tradition that subordinates poetry to philosophy, but they may also be approached as a medium for understanding how to o...

Political Activists in America

Teske, Nathan

Through vivid portrayals of political activists, Political Activists in America offers a fresh analysis of why people become involved in polities. Based on interviews with environmental, social justice, and pro-life activists, the book argues, contrary to both popular opinion and the main approaches...

Made in Mexico

Gauss, Susan M.

The experiment with neoliberal market-oriented economic policy in Latin America, popularly known as the Washington Consensus, has run its course. With left-wing and populist regimes now in power in many countries, there is much debate about what direction economic policy should be taking, and there...

Governing Disorder

Zanotti, Laura

The end of the Cold War created an opportunity for the United Nations to reconceptualize the rationale and extent of its peacebuilding efforts, and in the 1990s, democracy and good governance became legitimizing concepts for an expansion of UN activities. The United Nations sought not only to democr...

Knowing Otherwise

Shotwell, Alexis

Prejudice is often not a conscious attitude: because of ingrained habits in relating to the world, one may act in prejudiced ways toward others without explicitly understanding the meaning of one's actions. Similarly, one may know how to do certain things, like ride a bicycle, without being able to...

Democratic Professionalism

Dzur, Albert W.

Bringing expert knowledge to bear in an open and deliberative way to help solve pressing social problems is a major concern today, when technocratic and bureaucratic decision making often occurs with little or no input from the general public. Albert Dzur proposes an approach he calls "democratic pr...

The Problems and Promise of Commercial Society

Rasmussen, Dennis C.

Adam Smith is popularly regarded as the ideological forefather of laissez-faire capitalism, while Rousseau is seen as the passionate advocate of the life of virtue in small, harmonious communities and as a sharp critic of the ills of commercial society. But, in fact, Smith had many of the same worri...

Peruvian Rebel

Weaver, Kathleen

As the Left reawakens in Latin America following widespread disillusionment with neoliberal efforts to apply "shock therapy" to local economies, this story of the exemplary life of a major Peruvian activist and literary figure of an earlier era is particularly timely. Magda Portal (1900-1989) played...