Author: Daniel I. O'Neill
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027104764X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
"A collection of essays that discuss the writings of Carole Pateman, with emphasis on her theories of democracy and feminism"--Provided by publisher.
Illusion of Consent
Author: Daniel I. O'Neill
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027104764X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
"A collection of essays that discuss the writings of Carole Pateman, with emphasis on her theories of democracy and feminism"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027104764X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
"A collection of essays that discuss the writings of Carole Pateman, with emphasis on her theories of democracy and feminism"--Provided by publisher.
Necessary Illusions
Author: Noam Chomsky
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780896083660
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Argues that the media serves the needs of those in power rather than performing a watchdog role, and looks at specific cases and issues
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780896083660
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Argues that the media serves the needs of those in power rather than performing a watchdog role, and looks at specific cases and issues
Illusion of Consent
The Illusion of the Free Press
Author: John Charney
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1509908889
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This book explores the relationship between truth and freedom in the free press. It argues that the relationship is problematic because the free press implies a competition between plural ideas, whereas truth is univocal. Based on this tension the book claims that the idea of a free press is premised on an epistemological illusion. This illusion enables society to maintain that the world it perceives through the press corresponds to the world as it actually exists, explaining why defenders of the free press continue to rely on its capacity to discover the truth, despite economic conditions and technological innovations undermining much of its independence. The book invites the reader to reconsider the philosophical foundations, constitutional justifications, and structure and functions of the free press, and whether the institution can, in fact, realise both freedom and truth. It will be of great interest to anyone concerned in the role and value of the free press in the modern world.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1509908889
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This book explores the relationship between truth and freedom in the free press. It argues that the relationship is problematic because the free press implies a competition between plural ideas, whereas truth is univocal. Based on this tension the book claims that the idea of a free press is premised on an epistemological illusion. This illusion enables society to maintain that the world it perceives through the press corresponds to the world as it actually exists, explaining why defenders of the free press continue to rely on its capacity to discover the truth, despite economic conditions and technological innovations undermining much of its independence. The book invites the reader to reconsider the philosophical foundations, constitutional justifications, and structure and functions of the free press, and whether the institution can, in fact, realise both freedom and truth. It will be of great interest to anyone concerned in the role and value of the free press in the modern world.
Manufacturing Consent
Author: Edward S. Herman
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307801624
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
An intellectual dissection of the modern media to show how an underlying economics of publishing warps the news.
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307801624
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
An intellectual dissection of the modern media to show how an underlying economics of publishing warps the news.
The Illusion of Love
Author: David P. Celani
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231100373
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Examines the attraction between abuser and victim which results in disorders and dangerous attractions on both sides, considering the typical personalities involved in patterns of neglect.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231100373
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Examines the attraction between abuser and victim which results in disorders and dangerous attractions on both sides, considering the typical personalities involved in patterns of neglect.
Empire of Illusion
Author: Chris Hedges
Publisher: Knopf Canada
ISBN: 0307398587
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Pulitzer prize–winner Chris Hedges charts the dramatic and disturbing rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy and illusion. Chris Hedges argues that we now live in two societies: One, the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world, that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other, a growing majority, is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. In this “other society,” serious film and theatre, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins. In the tradition of Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Hedges navigates this culture — attending WWF contests as well as Ivy League graduation ceremonies — exposing an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion.
Publisher: Knopf Canada
ISBN: 0307398587
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Pulitzer prize–winner Chris Hedges charts the dramatic and disturbing rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy and illusion. Chris Hedges argues that we now live in two societies: One, the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world, that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other, a growing majority, is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. In this “other society,” serious film and theatre, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins. In the tradition of Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Hedges navigates this culture — attending WWF contests as well as Ivy League graduation ceremonies — exposing an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion.
History and Illusion in Politics
Author: Raymond Geuss
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521000437
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The distinguished political philosopher Raymond Geuss examines critically the central topics in Western political thought. In a series of analytic chapters he discusses the state, authority, violence and coercion, the concept of legitmacy, liberalism, toleration, freedom, democracy, and human rights. He argues that the liberal democratic state committed to the defense of human rights is in fact a confused conjunction of disparate elements. This is a profound and concise essay on the basic structure of contemporary politics, written throughout in voice that is skeptical, engaged, and clear.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521000437
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The distinguished political philosopher Raymond Geuss examines critically the central topics in Western political thought. In a series of analytic chapters he discusses the state, authority, violence and coercion, the concept of legitmacy, liberalism, toleration, freedom, democracy, and human rights. He argues that the liberal democratic state committed to the defense of human rights is in fact a confused conjunction of disparate elements. This is a profound and concise essay on the basic structure of contemporary politics, written throughout in voice that is skeptical, engaged, and clear.
The Political is Political
Author: Lorna Finlayson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1783482885
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Nobody should really have to point out that political philosophy is political. Yet in this highly original and provocative book Lorna Finlayson argues that in fact it is necessary to do so. Offering a critique of mainstream liberal political philosophy through close, critical engagement with a series of specific debates and arguments, Finlayson analyzes the way in which apparently neutral methodological devices such as “charitable interpretation” and “constructive criticism” function so as to protect against challenges to the status quo. At each stage, Finlayson demonstrates that political philosophy is suffering from a complex process of “de-politicization.” Even in cases where it appears that the dominant framework of liberal political philosophy is being strongly challenged—as, for example, in the case of the ‘realist’ critique of “ideal theory”—this book argues that the debate is set up in such a way as to impose strict limits on the kind of dissent that is possible. Only by dragging these hidden presuppositions into the foreground can we arrive at a clear-eyed appreciation of such debates, and perhaps look beyond the artificially constricted landscape in which they seek to confine us.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1783482885
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Nobody should really have to point out that political philosophy is political. Yet in this highly original and provocative book Lorna Finlayson argues that in fact it is necessary to do so. Offering a critique of mainstream liberal political philosophy through close, critical engagement with a series of specific debates and arguments, Finlayson analyzes the way in which apparently neutral methodological devices such as “charitable interpretation” and “constructive criticism” function so as to protect against challenges to the status quo. At each stage, Finlayson demonstrates that political philosophy is suffering from a complex process of “de-politicization.” Even in cases where it appears that the dominant framework of liberal political philosophy is being strongly challenged—as, for example, in the case of the ‘realist’ critique of “ideal theory”—this book argues that the debate is set up in such a way as to impose strict limits on the kind of dissent that is possible. Only by dragging these hidden presuppositions into the foreground can we arrive at a clear-eyed appreciation of such debates, and perhaps look beyond the artificially constricted landscape in which they seek to confine us.
Colonial Subjects
Author: Peter Pels
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472087464
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Probes the relationship between the conditions of colonial "modernization" and the methods of anthropological knowledge
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472087464
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Probes the relationship between the conditions of colonial "modernization" and the methods of anthropological knowledge