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Politics of Petulance
America in an Age of Immaturity
Av Alan Wolfe
Inbunden, 2018
229 kr
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How did we get into this mess? Every morning, many Americans ask this as, with a cringe, they pick up their phones and look to see what terrible thing President Trump has just said or done. Regardless of what he’s complaining about or whom he’s attacking, a second question comes hard on the heels …
Politics of Petulance
America in an Age of Immaturity
Av Alan Wolfe
Häftad, 2019
191 kr
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How did we get into this mess? Every morning, many Americans ask this as, with a cringe, they pick up their phones and look to see what terrible thing President Trump has just said or done. Regardless of what he's complaining about or whom he's attacking, a second question comes hard on the heels …
Transformation of American Religion
Av Alan Wolfe
Häftad, 2005
194 kr
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American religion - like talk of God - is omnipresent. Popular culture is awash in religious messages, from the singing cucumbers and tomatoes of the animated VeggieTales series to the bestselling "Left Behind" books to the multiplex sensation The Passion of the Christ. In The Transformation of …
Does American Democracy Still Work?
Av Alan Wolfe
Häftad, 2007
418 kr
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Why Americans should be concerned about recent changes in their democracyThe past few decades have brought a shift in the nature of American democracy—an alarming shift that threatens such liberal democratic values as respect for pluralism, acceptance of the separation of powers, and recognition of …
Future of Liberalism
Av Alan Wolfe
E-bok, 2009
110 kr
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A compelling and deeply felt exploration and defense of liberalism: what it actually is, why it is relevant today, and how it can help our society chart a forward course. The Future of Liberalism represents the culmination of four decades of thinking and writing about contemporary politics by Alan …
Political Evil
What It Is and How to Combat It
Av Alan Wolfe
E-bok, 2011
121 kr
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A timely, eye-opening examination of political evil, a concept widely misunderstood and desperately in need of clarification in our ever more chaotic world. In an age of genocide, terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and torture, evil threatens us in ways radically different from tsunamis and financial …
Moral Freedom
The Search for Virtue in a World of Choice
Av Alan Wolfe
Häftad, 2002
279 kr
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What is the difference between right and wrong? What does it mean to lead a good life? How binding is the marriage vow? What are your obligations to an employer? To your friends? To yourself? Is it always immoral to tell a lie? "[A]n alert and knowledgeable social critic," Alan Wolfe asked …
Intellectual in Public
Av Alan Wolfe
E-bok, 2010
390 kr
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A new collection of essays from one of the most courageous and honest thinkers writing today ". . . proof that the spirit of the free-ranging public intellectual is still very much alive." - Newsday "Alan Wolfe is one of liberalism''s last and most loyal sons. His mind is naturally decent and …
Human Difference
Animals, Computers, and the Necessity of Social Science
Av Alan Wolfe
Häftad, 1994
400 kr
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"An eloquent and exquisitely reasoned plea for a social science based on what is distinctively human about human beings - their capacity to create meaning by the forms of interpretation that make human culture possible. This book is a lively attack on the growing anti humanism of so much …
Whose Keeper?
Social Science and Moral Obligation
Av Alan Wolfe
Häftad, 1989
614 kr
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Whose Keeper? is a profound and creative treatise on modernity and its challenge to social science. Alan Wolfe argues that modern liberal democracies, such as the United States and Scandinavia, have broken with traditional sources of mortality and instead have relied upon economic and political …
Whose Keeper?
Social Science and Moral Obligation
Av Alan Wolfe
E-bok, 1989
433 kr
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Whose Keeper? is a profound and creative treatise on modernity and its challenge to social science. Alan Wolfe argues that modern liberal democracies, such as the United States and Scandinavia, have broken with traditional sources of mortality and instead have relied upon economic and political …
Whose Keeper?
Social Science and Moral Obligation
Av Alan Wolfe
Inbunden, 1989
1156 kr
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Whose Keeper? is a profound and creative treatise on modernity and its challenge to social science. Alan Wolfe argues that modern liberal democracies, such as the United States and Scandinavia, have broken with traditional sources of mortality and instead have relied upon economic and political …
Human Difference
Animals, Computers, and the Necessity of Social Science
Av Alan Wolfe
E-bok, 1993
468 kr
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Are we losing touch with our humanity? Yes, contends Alan Wolfe in this provocative critique of modern American intellectual life. From ecology, sociobiology, and artificial intelligence to post-modernism and the social sciences, Wolfe examines the antihumanism underlying many contemporary academic …
School Choice
The Moral Debate
Av Alan Wolfe
Häftad, 2002
602 kr
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School choice has lately risen to the top of the list of potential solutions to America's educational problems, particularly for the poor and the most disadvantaged members of society. Indeed, in the last few years several states have held referendums on the use of vouchers in private and parochial …
Return to Greatness
How America Lost Its Sense of Purpose and What It Needs to Do to Recover It
Av Alan Wolfe
Inbunden, 2005
954 kr
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Has America, in its quest for goodness, sacrificed its sense of greatness? In this sharp-witted, historically informed book, veteran political observer Alan Wolfe argues that most Americans show greater concern with saving the country's soul than with making the nation great. Wolfe castigates both …
Religion and Democracy in the United States
Danger or Opportunity?
Häftad, 2010
526 kr
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The United States remains a deeply religious country and religion plays an inextricably critical role in American politics. Controversy over issues such as abortion is fueled by opposition in the Catholic Church and among conservative Protestants, candidates for the presidency are questioned about …
At Home in Exile
Why Diaspora Is Good for the Jews
Av Alan Wolfe
E-bok, 2014
223 kr
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An eloquent, controversial argument that says, for the first time in their long history, Jews are free to live in a Jewish state—or lead secure and productive lives outside it Since the beginnings of Zionism in the twentieth century, many Jewish thinkers have considered it close to heresy to …
Is There a Culture War?
A Dialogue on Values and American Public Life
Av James Davison Hunter, Alan Wolfe
Häftad, 2006
276 kr
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In the wake of a bitter presidential campaign and in the face of numerous divisive policy questions, many Americans wonder if their country has split in two. People are passionately choosing sides on contentious issues such as the invasion of Iraq, gay marriage, stem-cell research, and the right to …
Is There a Culture War?
A Dialogue on Values and American Public Life
Av James Davison Hunter, Alan Wolfe
E-bok, 2007
305 kr
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In the wake of a bitter presidential campaign and in the face of numerous divisive policy questions, many Americans wonder if their country has split in two. People are passionately choosing sides on contentious issues such as the invasion of Iraq, gay marriage, stem-cell research, and the right to …
School Choice
The Moral Debate
Av Alan Wolfe
E-bok, 2009
832 kr
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School choice has lately risen to the top of the list of potential solutions to America''s educational problems, particularly for the poor and the most disadvantaged members of society. Indeed, in the last few years several states have held referendums on the use of vouchers in private and …
Return to Greatness
How America Lost Its Sense of Purpose and What It Needs to Do to Recover It
Av Alan Wolfe
E-bok, 2009
685 kr
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Has America, in its quest for goodness, sacrificed its sense of greatness? In this sharp-witted, historically informed book, veteran political observer Alan Wolfe argues that most Americans show greater concern with saving the country''s soul than with making the nation great. Wolfe castigates both …
Religion and Democracy in the United States
Danger or Opportunity?
E-bok, 2010
698 kr
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The United States remains a deeply religious country and religion plays an inextricably critical role in American politics. Controversy over issues such as abortion is fueled by opposition in the Catholic Church and among conservative Protestants, candidates for the presidency are questioned about …
Gambling
Mapping the American Moral Landscape
Häftad, 2009
770 kr
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Why has gambling become so accepted in the U.S. when other historical vices, like smoking and drinking, continue to evoke morality-based opposition? That simple but intriguing question guides this path-breaking volume, the first interdisciplinary academic study of gambling. Led by the renowned Alan …
Marginalized in the Middle
Av Alan Wolfe
Inbunden, 1996
288 kr
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In this text Alan Wolfe moves from the "golden age" of social criticism of the 1940s and 1950s to the social sciences of today, all in an effort to understand how and why social criticism should be done at all. Addressing volatile social issues such as gender, pornography, race, welfare, …
Marginalized in the Middle
Av Alan Wolfe
Häftad, 1998
262 kr
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Addressing volatile social issues such as gender, pornography, race, welfare, immigration, and schooling, Alan Wolfe examines the ills of American society in the 1990s. He shows that it is possible to be critical and fair at the same time, and concludes that social criticism does not lie within the …
Intellectual in Public
Av Alan Wolfe
Häftad, 2004
279 kr
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A new collection of essays from one of the most courageous and honest thinkers writing today"The question of the public intellectual is very much in the air again," writes Alan Wolfe. As one of our eminent social commentators, Wolfe should know; he's been writing, with fierce intellectual …
