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  • Ideology and Utopia

    de Karl Mannheim ...
    Traducido por Louis Wirth ...
    This book is concerned with the problem of how men actually think. The aim of these studies is to investigate not how thinking appears in textbooks on logic, but how it really functions in public life and in politics as an instrument of collective action.Philosophers have too long concerned themselves with their own thinking. When they wrote of thought, they had in mind primarily their own history ... Leer más

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  • The Torment of Secrecy

    The Background and Consequences of American Secruity Policies

    de Edward Shils ...
    Edward Shils's The Torment of Secrecy is one of the few minor classics to emerge from the cold war years of anticommunism and McCarthyism in the United States. Mr. Shils's "torment" is not only that of the individual caught up in loyalty and security procedures; it is also the torment of the accuser and judge. This essay in sociological analysis and political philosophy considers the cold war ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • The Order of Learning

    Essays on the Contemporary University

    Edición de Edward Shils ...
    The Order of Learning considers the problems facing higher education by focusing on main underlying factors: the relationship of higher education to government, academic freedom, and the responsibilities of the academic profession, among others. Edward Shils argues that higher education has a central role in society, and that distractions, such as pressures from government, disinterest of students ... Leer más

    $45.99 USD

  • A Fragment of a Sociological Autobiography

    The History of My Pursuit of a Few Ideas

    de Edward Shils ...
    Edward Shils was one of the giants of sociological theory in the period after World War II. In this autobiography, written three years before his death in 1995, Shils reflects on the remarkable range of his life's work and activities, including founding and editing the journal "Minerva", being a central figure in the Congress of Cultural Freedom, serving as a founding member of the editorial board ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • A Dream Deferred

    How Social Work Education Lost Its Way and What Can be Done

    de Howard Karger, Edward Shils ...
    From its inception in the late nineteenth century, social work has struggled to carry out the complex, sometimes contradictory, functions associated with reducing suffering, enhancing social order, and social reform. Since then, social programs like the implementation of welfare and the expansion of the service economy-which should have augured well for American social work-instead led to a ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Order of Learning

    Essays on the Contemporary University

    de Edward Shils ...
    The Order of Learning considers the problems facing higher education by focusing on main underlying factors: the relationship of higher education to government, academic freedom, and the responsibilities of the academic profession, among others. Edward Shils argues that higher education has a central role in society, and that distractions, such as pressures from government, disinterest of students ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • Methodology of Social Sciences

    de Max Weber ...
    Traducido por Edward Shils, Henry Finch ...
    Max Weber wrote these methodological essays in the closest intimacy with actual research and against a background of constant and intensive meditation on substantive problems in the theory and strategy of the social sciences. They were written between 1903 and 1917, the most productive of Max Weber's life, when he was working on his studies in the sociology of religion and Wirtschaft und ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

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  • Drawing the Line Once Again

    Paul Goodman's Anarchist Writings

    de Paul Goodman, Taylor Stoehr ...
    Five years after his death in 1972, Paul Goodman was characterized by anarchist historian George Woodcock as “the only truly seminal libertarian thinker in our generation.” In this new PM Press initiative, Goodman’s literary executor Taylor Stoehr has gathered together nine core texts from his anarchist legacy to future generations.Here will be found the “utopian essays and practical proposals” ... Leer más

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  • Liberalism and Its Discontents

    de Francis Fukuyama ...
    A short book about the challenges to liberalism from the right and the left by the bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order.Classical liberalism is in a state of crisis. Developed in the wake of Europe’s wars over religion and nationalism, liberalism is a system for governing diverse societies, which is grounded in fundamental principles of equality and the rule of law. It emphasizes ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

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  • Why Liberalism Failed

    de Patrick J. Deneen ...
    Series series Politics and Culture
    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 ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Understanding Marxism

    de Richard D. Wolff ...
    Why should we pay attention to the great social critics like Marx? Americans, especially now, confront serious questions and evidences that our capitalist system is in trouble. It clearly serves the 1% far, far better than what it is doing to the vast mass of the people. Marx was a social critic for whom capitalism was not the end of human history. It was just the latest phase and badly needed the ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • The Rights Revolution

    de Michael Ignatieff ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    With an updated preface by the author.Since the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, rights have become the dominant language of the public good around the globe. Indeed, rights have become the trump card in every argument. Long-standing fights for aboriginal rights, the issue of preserving the linguistic heritage of minorities, and same-sex marriage have steered our ... Leer más

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