The Pragmatic Revolt in Politics

The Pragmatic Revolt in Politics
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Total Pages : 614
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Synopsis The Pragmatic Revolt in Politics by : William Yandell Elliott

The Pragmatic Revolt in Politics

The Pragmatic Revolt in Politics
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Total Pages : 568
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Synopsis The Pragmatic Revolt in Politics by : William Yandell Elliott

The Concept of the Political

The Concept of the Political
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 150
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ISBN-10 : 0226738868
ISBN-13 : 9780226738864
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Synopsis The Concept of the Political by : Carl Schmitt

In this, his most influential work, legal theorist and political philosopher Carl Schmitt argues that liberalism's basis in individual rights cannot provide a reasonable justification for sacrificing oneself for the state. This edition of the 1932 work includes the translator's introduction (by George Schwab) which highlights Schmitt's intellectual journey through the turbulent period of German history leading to the Hitlerian one-party state. It also includes Leo Strauss's analysis of Schmitt's thesis and a foreword by Tracy B. Strong placing Schmitt's work into contemporary context.

The Great Revolt

The Great Revolt
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Publisher : Forum Books
Total Pages : 338
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ISBN-10 : 9781524763701
ISBN-13 : 1524763705
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Synopsis The Great Revolt by : Salena Zito

A CNN political analyst and a Republican strategist reframe the discussion of the “Trump voter” to answer the question, What’s next? NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY FOREIGN AFFAIRS • “Unlike most retellings of the 2016 election, The Great Revolt provides a cohesive, non-wild-eyed argument about where the Republican Party could be headed.”—The Atlantic Political experts were wrong about the 2016 election and they continue to blow it, predicting the coming demise of the president without pausing to consider the durability of the winds that swept him into office. Salena Zito and Brad Todd have traveled over 27,000 miles of country roads to interview more than three hundred Trump voters in ten swing counties. What emerges is a portrait of a group of citizens who span job descriptions, income brackets, education levels, and party allegiances, united by their desire to be part of a movement larger than themselves. They want to put pragmatism before ideology and localism before globalism, and demand the respect they deserve from Washington. The 2016 election signaled a realignment in American politics that will outlast any one president. Zito and Todd reframe the discussion of the “Trump voter” to answer the question, What’s next?

The Crisis of Democratic Theory

The Crisis of Democratic Theory
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Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages : 346
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ISBN-10 : 9780813146034
ISBN-13 : 0813146038
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Synopsis The Crisis of Democratic Theory by : Edward A. Purcell, Jr.

All but forgotten except as a part of nostalgic lore, American canals during the first half of the nineteenth century provided a transportation network that was vital to the development of the new nation. They lowered transportation costs, carried a vast grain trade from western farms to eastern ports, delivered Pennsylvania coal to New York, and carried thousands of passengers at what seemed effortless speed. Along their courses sprang up new towns and cities and with them new economic growth. Canals for a Nation brings together in one volume a survey of all the major American canals. Here are accounts of innovative engineering, of near heroic figures who devoted their lives to canals, and of canal projects that triumphed over all the uncertainties of the political process.

Imagining the American Polity, Second Edition

Imagining the American Polity, Second Edition
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Publisher : State University of New York Press
Total Pages : 421
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ISBN-10 : 9781438495903
ISBN-13 : 1438495900
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Synopsis Imagining the American Polity, Second Edition by : John G. Gunnell

Americans have long prided themselves on living in a country that serves as a beacon of democracy to the world, but from the time of the founding they have also engaged in debates over what the criteria for democracy are as they seek to validate their faith in the United States as a democratic regime. In this book John Gunnell shows how the academic discipline of political science has contributed in a major way to this ongoing dialogue, thereby playing a significant role in political education and the formulation of popular conceptions of American democracy. Gunnell traces the dynamics of conceptual change and continuity as American political science evolved from a focus in the nineteenth century on the idea of the state, through the emergence of a pluralist theory of democracy in the 1920s and its transfiguration into liberalism in the mid- 1930s, up to the rearticulation of pluralist theory in the 1950s and its resurgence, yet again, in the 1990s. Along the way he explores how political scientists have grappled with a fundamental question about popular sovereignty: Does democracy require a people and a national democratic community, or can the requisites of democracy be achieved through fortuitous social configurations coupled with the design of certain institutional mechanisms?

Politics and Progress

Politics and Progress
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Publisher : Lexington Books
Total Pages : 184
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ISBN-10 : 0739106562
ISBN-13 : 9780739106563
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Synopsis Politics and Progress by : Dennis J. Mahoney

Mahoney describes the emergence of American political science as a separate academic discipline in the era between the Civil War and the First World War, with the pivotal event of the founding of the American Political Science Association in 1903. His book, a testament to the integrity of American political science, chronicles its intellectual and cultural development.

The Tragedy of Political Science

The Tragedy of Political Science
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 360
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ISBN-10 : 0300037600
ISBN-13 : 9780300037609
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Synopsis The Tragedy of Political Science by : David M. Ricci

"This book is both a comprehensive review and a thoughtful critique of the development of political science as an academic discipline in this century. David Ricci eloquently describes the tragic dilemma of political science in America: when political scholars deal with politics in a scientific fashion, they reveal facts that contradict democratic expectations; when the same scholars seek to justify those expectations, their moral arguments carry little professional weight."--Jacket.

Damn Great Empires!

Damn Great Empires!
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 265
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ISBN-10 : 9780190626631
ISBN-13 : 0190626631
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Synopsis Damn Great Empires! by : Alexander Livingston

Damn Great Empires! offers a new perspective on the works of William James by placing his encounter with American imperialism at the center of his philosophical vision. This book reconstructs James's overlooked political thought by treating his anti-imperialist Nachlass -- his speeches, essays, notes, and correspondence on the United States' annexation of the Philippines -- as the key to unlocking the political significance of his celebrated writings on psychology, religion, and philosophy. It shows how James located a craving for authority at the heart of empire as a way of life, a craving he diagnosed and unsettled through his insistence on a modern world without ultimate foundations. Livingston explores the persistence of political questions in James's major works, from his writings on the self in The Principles of Psychology to the method of Pragmatism, the study of faith and conversion in The Varieties of Religious Experience, and the metaphysical inquiries in A Pluralistic Universe. Against the conventional view of James as a thinker who remained silent on questions of politics, this book places him in dialogue with a transatlantic critique of modernity, as well as with champions and critics of American imperialism, from Theodore Roosevelt to W. E. B. Du Bois, in order to excavate James's anarchistic political vision. Bringing the history of political thought into conversation with contemporary debates in political theory, Damn Great Empires! offers a fresh and original reexamination of the political consequences of pragmatism as a public philosophy.

The Crisis of Democratic Theory

The Crisis of Democratic Theory
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Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages : 344
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ISBN-10 : 9780813146041
ISBN-13 : 0813146046
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Synopsis The Crisis of Democratic Theory by : Edward A. PurcellJr.

Widely acclaimed for its originality and penetration, this award-winning study of American thought in the twentieth century examines the ways in which the spread of pragmatism and scientific naturalism affected developments in philosophy, social science, and law, and traces the effects of these developments on traditional assumptions of democratic theory.