Reconsidering Cb Macpherson
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Author |
: Phillip Hansen |
Publisher |
: University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages |
: 387 |
Release |
: 2016-01-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781442630611 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1442630612 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reconsidering C.B. MacPherson by : Phillip Hansen
C.B. Macpherson occupies an ambiguous place in contemporary political thought. Though his work is well known, it remains on the margins of current democratic theory. That marginalization, Phillip Hansen argues, comes from our failure to appreciate the underlying philosophical dimension of Macpherson’s work. Identifying and exploring Macpherson’s systematic critique of the liberal claim that the individual is the “proprietor of his own person or capacities, owing nothing to society for them,” Reconsidering C.B. Macpherson highlights his affinities to Herbert Marcuse, Max Horkheimer, and the Frankfurt School. This stimulating reappraisal illustrates the importance of Macpherson’s classic books, including The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism and Democratic Theory, and demonstrates how much his work has to offer to the future of political and social thought.
Author |
: Phillip Birger Hansen |
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: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2015 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1442630604 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781442630604 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reconsidering C.B. Macpherson by : Phillip Birger Hansen
"This manuscript seeks to provide a fresh and comprehensive re-interpretation of the ideas of the world-renowned Canadian Political theorist, C.B. Macpherson."--
Author |
: Frank Cunningham |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 207 |
Release |
: 2018-09-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783319949208 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3319949209 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Political Thought of C.B. Macpherson by : Frank Cunningham
Central to the thought of C.B. Macpherson (1911-1987) are his critique of the culture of ‘possessive individualism’ and his defence of liberal-democratic socialism. Resurgence of interest in his works is in reaction to the rise of neoliberalism and efforts to find an alternative to societies dominated by capitalist markets. Macpherson’s theories are explained and applied to 21st century challenges.
Author |
: Eric W. Sager |
Publisher |
: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2021-01-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780228005957 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0228005957 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Inequality in Canada by : Eric W. Sager
In Inequality in Canada Eric Sager considers one of the defining – but hardest to define – ideas of our era and traces its different meanings and contexts across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Sager shows how the idea of inequality arose in the long evolution in Britain and the United States from classical economics to the emerging welfare economics of the twentieth century. Within this transatlantic frame, inequality took a distinct form in Canada: different iterations of the idea appear in Protestant critiques of wealth, labour movements, farmer-progressive politics, the social gospel, social Catholicism in Quebec, English-Canadian political economy, and political and intellectual justifications of the social security state. A tradition of idealist thought persisted in the twentieth century, sustaining the idea of inequality despite deep silences among Canadian economists. Sager argues that inequality goes beyond the distribution of income and wealth: it is the idea that there are wide gaps between rich and poor, that the gaps are both an economic problem and a social injustice, and that when inequality appears, it is as a problem that can be either eliminated or reduced. It is precisely because inequality appears in different contexts, and because it changes, Sager reasons, that we can begin to perceive the contours and cleavages of inequality in our time. In our century, a political solution to inequality may rest on the recovery of an ethical ideal and egalitarian politics that have long preoccupied the history of Canadian thought.
Author |
: Ato Sekyi-Otu |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 309 |
Release |
: 2018-08-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780429878022 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0429878028 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Left Universalism, Africacentric Essays by : Ato Sekyi-Otu
Left Universalism, Africacentric Essays presents a defense of universalism as the foundation of moral and political arguments and commitments. Consisting of five intertwined essays, the book claims that centering such arguments and commitments on a particular place, in this instance the African world, is entirely compatible with that foundational universalism. Ato Sekyi-Otu thus proposes a less conventional mode of Africacentrism, one that rejects the usual hostility to universalism as an imperialist Eurocentric hoax. Sekyi-Otu argues that universalism is an inescapable presupposition of ethical judgment in general and critique in particular, and that it is especially indispensable for radical criticism of conditions of existence in postcolonial society and for vindicating visions of social regeneration. The constituent chapters of the book are exhibits of that argument and question some fashionable conceptual oppositions and value apartheids. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in the fields of social and political philosophy, contemporary political theory, postcolonial studies, African philosophy and social thought.
Author |
: Brian Caterino |
Publisher |
: University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages |
: 354 |
Release |
: 2019-08-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781487505462 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1487505469 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Critical Theory, Democracy, and the Challenge of Neoliberalism by : Brian Caterino
Using ideas derived from the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, this book develops key elements of a radical theory of democracy that challenges both the assumptions and commitments of contemporary neo-liberalism.
Author |
: Wendy Brown |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 181 |
Release |
: 2019-07-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231550536 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231550537 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis In the Ruins of Neoliberalism by : Wendy Brown
Across the West, hard-right leaders are surging to power on platforms of ethno-economic nationalism, Christianity, and traditional family values. Is this phenomenon the end of neoliberalism or its monstrous offspring? In the Ruins of Neoliberalism casts the hard-right turn as animated by socioeconomically aggrieved white working- and middle-class populations but contoured by neoliberalism’s multipronged assault on democratic values. From its inception, neoliberalism flirted with authoritarian liberalism as it warred against robust democracy. It repelled social-justice claims through appeals to market freedom and morality. It sought to de-democratize the state, economy, and society and re-secure the patriarchal family. In key works of the founding neoliberal intellectuals, Wendy Brown traces the ambition to replace democratic orders with ones disciplined by markets and traditional morality and democratic states with technocratic ones. Yet plutocracy, white supremacy, politicized mass affect, indifference to truth, and extreme social disinhibition were no part of the neoliberal vision. Brown theorizes their unintentional spurring by neoliberal reason, from its attack on the value of society and its fetish of individual freedom to its legitimation of inequality. Above all, she argues, neoliberalism’s intensification of nihilism coupled with its accidental wounding of white male supremacy generates an apocalyptic populism willing to destroy the world rather than endure a future in which this supremacy disappears.
Author |
: Crawford Brough Macpherson |
Publisher |
: New York : Oxford University Press, 1972, 1975 printing. |
Total Pages |
: 67 |
Release |
: 1972 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0195015347 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780195015348 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Real World of Democracy by : Crawford Brough Macpherson
In The Real World of Democracy, C. B. Macpherson examines the rival ideas of democracy - the communist, Third World, and Western-liberal variants - and their impacts on one another. Macpherson, who was a professor of political science at the University of Toronto and an Officer of the Order of Canada, suggests that the West need not fear any challenge to liberal democracy if it is prepared to re-examine and alter its own values.
Author |
: Carol C. Gould |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2004-08-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521541271 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521541275 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights by : Carol C. Gould
In her new book Carol Gould addresses the fundamental issue of democratizing globalization, that is to say of finding ways to open transnational institutions and communities to democratic participation by those widely affected by their decisions.The book develops a framework for expanding participation in crossborder decisions, arguing for a broader understanding of human rights and introducing a new role for the ideas of care and solidarity at a distance. Accessibly written with a minimum of technical jargon this is a major new contribution to political philosophy.
Author |
: Karl Widerquist |
Publisher |
: Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2016-12-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780748678679 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0748678670 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy by : Karl Widerquist
How modern philosophers use and perpetuate myths about prehistoryThe state of nature, the origin of property, the origin of government, the primordial nature of inequality and war why do political philosophers talk so much about the Stone Age? And are they talking about a Stone Age that really happened, or is it just a convenient thought experiment to illustrate their points?Karl Widerquist and Grant S. McCall take a philosophical look at the origin of civilisation, examining political theories to show how claims about prehistory are used. Drawing on the best available evidence from archaeology and anthropology, they show that much of what we think we know about human origins comes from philosophers imagination, not scientific investigation.Key FeaturesShows how modern political theories employ ambiguous factual claims about prehistoryBrings archaeological and anthropological evidence to bear on those claimsTells the story of human origins in a way that reveals many commonly held misconceptions