Public vistas, private visions
Author : Doris Abby Platzker
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Page : 450 pages
File Size : 23,34 MB
Release : 1966
Category : American fiction
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Author : Doris Abby Platzker
Publisher :
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 23,34 MB
Release : 1966
Category : American fiction
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Author : Mark Sydney Cladis
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 12,9 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231139694
Mark S. Cladis pinpoints the origins of contemporary notions of the public and private and their relationship to religion in the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. His thesis cuts across many fields and issues-philosophy of religion, women's studies, democratic theory, modern European history, American culture, social justice, privacy laws, and notions of solitude and community-and wholly reconsiders the political, cultural, and legal nature of modernity in relation to religion. Turning to Rousseau's Garden, its inhabitants, the Solitaires, and the question of restoration and redemption that preoccupied much of Rousseau's thought, Cladis examines how Rousseau addressed the tension between the joys and moral obligations of social engagement and the desire for solitude. He was caught between two possibilities: active involvement in the creation of an enlightened and humane society or extrication from social entanglements in favor of cultivating a spiritual interior life. Yet Rousseau did not view this conflict as a desperate division. Rather, for him it was a moral struggle to be endured by those who had fallen from the Garden. For this edition Cladis has added a substantive introduction that discusses the role of religion in contemporary democratic societies, particularly in American public life. Cladis proposes four models of thinking about religion in public and champions what he calls spiritual democracy-a dynamic, culturally specific, and progressive democracy. Cladis argues that spiritual democracy refers not only to a society's legal codes and principles but also to its democratic culture and symbols and its daily practices and institutions. It encompasses the nation's character, diverse identities, and a distinctivel exchange between the nation's public vision and citizens' complex, private lives.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1466 pages
File Size : 34,35 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Copyright
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Author : Jane Brettle
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,76 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780719041211
Combines exciting new visual imagery from women artists and the work of leading women theorists, in a multi-disciplinary examination of the body.
Author : Maureen Whitebrook
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,71 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Art
ISBN :
In recent years, the practice of teaching political theory through literature and the arts has become widespread. Taken together, the essays in this book, written by 9 prominent practitioners, review the state of the art in this emerging field, dealing with the general nature of connections between political theory and literature and visual arts, with an eye to its political content and meaning. The contributors consider what makes a literary work political, political values and literature, literature, politics and feminism and the way in which particular novels comment on political thought and behaviour. A particular focus of the volume is the way in which political ideas particular to the American political culture are expressed in American novels - both in classic works and in modern novels and popular fiction.
Author : Anne E. Yentsch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 35,61 MB
Release : 1994-05-12
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780521467308
This book is a unique archaeological study of a British aristocratic family in eighteenth century Chesapeake.
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Page : 16 pages
File Size : 43,17 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Government publications
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Publisher :
Page : 1502 pages
File Size : 24,12 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Corporations
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Author : Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
Publisher :
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 17,70 MB
Release : 1965
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Author : William H. Rollins
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 20,8 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472108091
The story of a successful citizens' movement to protect the land and encourage a culture of environmental respect in pre-World War I Germany