Holding the Center - In Defense of Political Trimming

List of contents

Preface Acknowledgements 1Light from Other Minds 2Deconstructing Left and Right: The Case for Bipartisanship 3The President On and Off Base 4Occupy Wall Street and the Question of Leadership 5Manichean Rhetoric and Political Practice 6The Extremes: Two of a Kind 7Tzvetan Todorov's Humanism 8Reason and Politics 9Our Consuming Problem 10Individualism versus Equality 11Billy Budd and the World's Imperfection: A Literary Digression 12Progress and Present-mindedness in the Writing of History Appendix: Charles Savile's Descendant Index

About the author

Eugene Goodheart

Summary

Politicians and pundits often scorn polarization and compromise the intransigence of the former and the feebleness of the latter without suggesting an alternative way

Product details

• Authors: Goodheart, Eugene Goodheart, Goodheart Eugene
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.10.2017
• EAN: 9781138510630
• ISBN: 978-1-138-51063-0
• No. of pages: 221
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, Politics & government, Politics and government, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state