Описание: In this important book, a leading authority in the field of social theory and communication shows how scientific practice is a rhetorical and narrative activity, a story well told. Richard Harvey Brown develops the idea of science as narration, casts various scientific disciplines as literary genres, and argues that expert knowledge of any kind is a form of power. He then explains how a narrative view of science can help integrate science within a democratic civic discourse. Brown shows why social science knowledge is as much a rhetorical enterprise as is the social reality that it describes. He construes laboratory science, physics, ethnography, sociology, philosophy, and astronomy as genres, narratives, and other rhetorical practices, and thereby portrays science as a special kind of narrative discourse that generates theories and shapes their validity and significance. He next focuses on the political dimensions of science, including the politics of psychology in the United States, showing how power and knowledge shape, limit, and infuse each other. Brown argues that this linguistically and socially constructed character of knowledge does not undermine its truth value but rather reaffirms the moral status and political responsibilities of its practitioners. In one important chapter, written with Robert Brulle, he explores the movement for environmental justice in the United States, showing how ordinary people can use science as part of a larger civic narration. Brown concludes by discussing how the rationality of science can be preserved even as it is subsumed within a rational and moral civic discourse.
Автор: MacDonald Donald Название: Democratic Architecture ISBN: 1941806880 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781941806883 Издательство: ACC-distribution titles Рейтинг: Цена: 3621 р. Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: `Democratic Architecture` offers viable & affordable solutions to our country`s ongoing housing problems. The book deals with tough urban problems and raises questions not just about housing policy, but about larger political and ethical issues as well. It provides a critique of the various approaches to post-war housing and then puts forth a numbe
America's political system is dysfunctional. While this is a widely held view, it is a problem that--so far--has proved intractable. After every election, voters discover yet again that political "leaders" are simply quarreling in a never-ending battle between the two warring tribes, the Republicans and Democrats. In this critically important book, a distinguished statesman and thinker identifies exactly how our political and governing systems reward intransigence, discourage compromise, and undermine our democracy. He then describes exactly what must be done to banish the negative effects of partisan warfare from our political system.
As a former congressman, Mickey Edwards witnessed firsthand how important legislative battles can devolve into struggles not over principle but over party advantage. He offers graphic examples of how this problem has intensified and reveals how political battles have become nothing more than conflicts between party machines. Edwards's solutions--specific, practical, fair, and original--show the way to break the stranglehold of the political party system. "The Parties Versus the People" offers hope for a fundamental renewal of American democracy.
Автор: Morone Название: Democratic Wish ISBN: 0300074654 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780300074659 Издательство: Yale University Press Цена: 4193 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This text reinterprets more than 200 years of American political history as the interplay between the public's dread of government power and its yearning for
communal democracy. The revised edition includes a new final chapter on contemporary populism, government bashing and democratic wishes.
Автор: Brown Название: Toward a Democratic Science ISBN: 0300067070 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780300067071 Издательство: Yale University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 4764 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This text aims to demonstrate how scientific practice is a rhetorical and narrative activity. The author develops the idea of science as narration, casts various
scientific disciplines as literary genres, and argues that expert knowledge of any kind is a form of power.
Описание: Contrasts European `centralized` constitutional court model, in which one court system is used to adjudicate constitutional questions, with a decentralized model, such as that of the United States, in which courts deal with both constitutional and non-constitutional questions.
Автор: Shapiro Название: Democratic Justice ISBN: 0300078250 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780300078251 Издательство: Yale University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 4764 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Democracy and justice are often mutually antagonistic ideas, but Ian Shapiro shows how and why they should be pursued together. Justice must be sought
democratically if it is to garner legitimacy in the modern world, and democracy must be justice-promoting if it is to sustain allegiance over time.
Описание: A preeminent scholar explores the evolution of the Christian worldview and argues that it no longer offers a satisfactory vision for our democratic, multicultural society
Описание: The Philippine dictatorship of Ferdinand E. Marcos was characterized by family-based rule and corruption. This sultanistic regime--in which the ruler exercised power freely, without loyalty to any ideology or institution--had to be brought down because Marcos would never step down. In this book Mark Thompson analyzes how Marcos' opponents in the political and economic elite coped with this situation and why their struggle resulted in a transition to democracy through "people power" rather than through violence and revolution. Based on 150 interviews that Thompson conducted with key participants and on unpublished materials collected during his five trips to the Philippines, the book sheds new light on the transition process. Thompson reveals how anti-Marcos politicians backed a terrorist campaign by social democrats and then, after its failure, joined a "united front" with the communists. But when opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino, Jr., was assassinated in 1983, the politicians were able to draw on public outrage and challenge Marcos at the polls. The opposition's "moral crusade" brought down Marcos and enabled the new president, Corazon C. Aquino, to consolidate democracy despite the troubling legacies of the dictatorship. Thompson argues that the Philippines' long-standing democratic tradition and the appeal that honest government had to the Filipinos were important elements in explaining the peaceful transition process.
Описание: Oxford University political theorist Stein Ringen offers a thought-provoking meditation on the art of democratic rule: how does a government persuade the people to accept its authority? Every government must make unpopular demands of its citizens, from levying taxes to enforcing laws and monitoring compliance to regulations. The challenge, Ringen argues, is that power is not enough; the populace must also be willing to be led. Ringen addresses this political conundrum unabashedly, using the United States and Britain as his prime examples, providing sharp opinions and cogent analyses on how the culture of national obedience is created and nurtured. He explores the paths leaders must choose if they wish to govern by authority rather than power, or, as the philosopher Immanuel Kant put it, to "maintain order in a nation of devils."
Автор: Shapiro Название: Democratic Justice ISBN: 0300089082 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780300089080 Издательство: Yale University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 4574 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Democracy and justice are often mutually antagonistic ideas, but in this innovative book Ian Shapiro shows how and why they should be pursued together.
Justice must be sought democratically if it is to garner legitimacy in the modern world, he claims, and democracy must be justice-promoting if it is to sustain allegiance over time.
Democratic Justice meets these criteria, offering an attractive vision of a practical path to a better future.
Wherever power is exercised in human affairs, Shapiro argues, the
lack of democracy will be experienced as injustice. The challenge is to democratize social relations so as to diminish injustice, but to do this in ways that are compatible with people's
values and goals. Shapiro shows how this can be done in different phases of the human life cycle, from childhood through the adult worlds of work and domestic life, retirement, old age,
and approaching death.
He spells out the implications for pressing debates about authority over children, the law of marriage and divorce, population control, governing the
firm, basic income guarantees, health insurance, retirement policies, and decisions made by and for the infirm elderly. This refreshing encounter between political philosophy and
practical politics will interest all those who aspire to bequeath a more just world to our children than the one we have inherited.
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