The Individual And Utopia
Download The Individual And Utopia full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free The Individual And Utopia ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads.
Author |
: Clint Jones |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 356 |
Release |
: 2016-03-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317027584 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317027582 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Individual and Utopia by : Clint Jones
Central to the idea of a perfect society is the idea that communities must be strong and bound together with shared ideologies. However, while this may be true, rarely are the individuals that comprise a community given primacy of place as central to a strong communal theory. This volume moves away from the dominant, current macro-level theorising on the subject of identity and its relationship to and with globalising trends, focusing instead on the individual’s relationship with utopia so as to offer new interpretive approaches for engaging with and examining utopian individuality. Interdisciplinary in scope and bringing together work from around the world, The Individual and Utopia enquires after the nature of the utopian as citizen, demonstrating the inherent value of making the individual central to utopian theorizing and highlighting the methodologies necessary for examining the utopian individual. The various approaches employed reveal what it is to be an individual yoked by the idea of citizenship and challenge the ways that we have traditionally been taught to think of the individual as citizen. As such, it will appeal to scholars with interests in social theory, philosophy, literature, cultural studies, architecture, and feminist thought, whose work intersects with political thought, utopian theorizing, or the study of humanity or human nature.
Author |
: Cameron Ellis |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 337 |
Release |
: 2015 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1315556758 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781315556758 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Individual and Utopia by : Cameron Ellis
Author |
: Clint Jones |
Publisher |
: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages |
: 361 |
Release |
: 2015-03-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781472428967 |
ISBN-13 |
: 147242896X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Individual and Utopia by : Clint Jones
Central to the idea of a perfect society is the idea that communities must be strong and bound together with shared ideologies. However, while this may be true, rarely are the individuals that comprise a community given primacy of place as central to a strong communal theory. This volume moves away from the dominant, current macro-level theorising on the subject of identity and its relationship to and with globalising trends, focusing instead on the individual’s relationship with utopia so as to offer new interpretive approaches for engaging with and examining utopian individuality. Interdisciplinary in scope and bringing together work from around the world, The Individual and Utopia enquires after the nature of the utopian as citizen, demonstrating the inherent value of making the individual central to utopian theorizing and highlighting the methodologies necessary for examining the utopian individual. The various approaches employed reveal what it is to be an individual yoked by the idea of citizenship and challenge the ways that we have traditionally been taught to think of the individual as citizen. As such, it will appeal to scholars with interests in social theory, philosophy, literature, cultural studies, architecture and feminist thought, whose work intersects with political thought, utopian theorizing, or the study of humanity or human nature.
Author |
: Samuel Moyn |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 346 |
Release |
: 2012-03-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674256521 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674256522 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Last Utopia by : Samuel Moyn
Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.
Author |
: Richard Francis |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0801473802 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780801473807 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Transcendental Utopias by : Richard Francis
New England Transcendentalism was a vibrant and many-sided movement whose members are probably best remembered for their utopian experiments, their attempts to reconcile the contingent world of history with what they perceived as the stable and patterned world of nature. Richard Francis has written the first book to explore in detail the ideological basis of the three famous experiments during the 1840s: Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and Henry David Thoreau's "community of one" on the shores of Walden Pond.Francis suggests that at the heart of Transcendentalism was a belief that all phenomena are connected in a repetitive sequence. The task was to explain how human society could be reordered to benefit from this seriality. Some members of the movement believed in evolutionary progress, whereas others hoped to be the agents of a sudden millennial transformation. They differed, as well, in their views as to whether the fundamental social unit was the individual, the family, the phalanstery, or the community. The story of the three communities was, inevitably, also the story of particular individuals, and Francis highlights the lives and ideas of such leaders as George Ripley, W. H. Channing, Bronson Alcott, Charles Lane, and Theodore Parker. The consistent underlying beliefs of the New England Transcendentalists have exerted a powerful influence on American intellectual and cultural history ever since.
Author |
: Mark Goodale |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2009-05-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780804771214 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0804771219 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Surrendering to Utopia by : Mark Goodale
Surrendering to Utopia is a critical and wide-ranging study of anthropology's contributions to human rights. Providing a unique window into the underlying political and intellectual currents that have shaped human rights in the postwar period, this ambitious work opens up new opportunities for research, analysis, and political action. At the book's core, the author describes a "well-tempered human rights"—an orientation to human rights in the twenty-first century that is shaped by a sense of humility, an appreciation for the disorienting fact of multiplicity, and a willingness to make the mundaneness of social practice a source of ethical inspiration. In examining the curious history of anthropology's engagement with human rights, this book moves from more traditional anthropological topics within the broader human rights community—for example, relativism and the problem of culture—to consider a wider range of theoretical and empirical topics. Among others, it examines the link between anthropology and the emergence of "neoliberal" human rights, explores the claim that anthropology has played an important role in legitimizing these rights, and gauges whether or not this is evidence of anthropology's potential to transform human rights theory and practice more generally.
Author |
: Robert Nozick |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 386 |
Release |
: 1974 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780631197805 |
ISBN-13 |
: 063119780X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Anarchy, State, and Utopia by : Robert Nozick
Robert Nozicka s Anarchy, State, and Utopia is a powerful, philosophical challenge to the most widely held political and social positions of our age ---- liberal, socialist and conservative.
Author |
: José Esteban Muñoz |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 2009-11-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780814757284 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0814757286 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cruising Utopia by : José Esteban Muñoz
Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session
Author |
: Joseph Heath |
Publisher |
: Penguin Canada |
Total Pages |
: 378 |
Release |
: 2002-05-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780143181712 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0143181718 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Efficient Society by : Joseph Heath
In this fascinating account of what makes Canada such a successful society, Joseph Heath celebrates the much-maligned value of efficiency and asks some searching questions about the forces that threaten to undermine our quality of life. Canada is an efficient society, much more efficient than our neighbour to the south, where personal liberty takes precedence over collective well-being. This is one of the reasons, Heath argues, that the United Nations Annual Human Development Report consistently ranks Canada as the best place in the world to live. But this efficiency is under siege. Can we resist the allure of short-sighted tax cuts? Can we maintain our quality of life in the face of relentless pressure to increase our productivity - both at work and at home? This is a profound and important look at how government and business conspire to improve our lives - and at the dramatic changes that will decide our social and economic future.
Author |
: B. F. Skinner |
Publisher |
: Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 321 |
Release |
: 2005-07-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781603840361 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1603840362 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Walden Two by : B. F. Skinner
A reprint of the 1976 Macmillan edition. This fictional outline of a modern utopia has been a center of controversy ever since its publication in 1948. Set in the United States, it pictures a society in which human problems are solved by a scientific technology of human conduct.