Holding the Center: In Defense of Political Trimming

ISBN-13: 9781138510630 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 221 str.

Eugene Goodheart

Opis

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

Spis treści

Preface
Acknowledgements
1"Light 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

O autorze

Eugene Goodheart