Holding the Center - In Defense of Political Trimming

Zusammenfassung Politicians and pundits often scorn polarization and compromise—the intransigence of the former and the feebleness of the latter—without suggesting an alternative way Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceAcknowledgements1"Light from Other Minds"2Deconstructing Left and Right: The Case for Bipartisanship3The President On and Off Base4Occupy Wall Street and the Question of Leadership5Manichean Rhetoric and Political Practice6The Extremes: Two of a Kind7Tzvetan Todorov's Humanism8Reason and Politics9Our Consuming Problem10Individualism versus Equality11Billy Budd and the World's Imperfection: A Literary Digression12Progress and Present-mindedness in the Writing of HistoryAppendix: Charles Savile's DescendantIndex ...

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• Autori: Eugene Goodheart, Goodheart Eugene
• Editore: Transaction Publishers
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 15.03.2013
• EAN: 9781412849814
• ISBN: 978-1-4128-4981-4
• Pagine: 242
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, Politics & government, Politics and government