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A Tolerable Anarchy: Rebels, Reactionaries, and the Making of American Freedom
ISBN: 9781400095841 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In A Tolerable Anarchy, Jedediah Purdy traces the history of the American understanding of freedom, an ideal that has inspired the country s best and worst moments, from independence and emancipation to war and economic uncertainty. Working from portraits of famous American lives, like Frederick Douglas and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Purdy asks crucial questions about our relationship to liberty: Does capitalism perfect or destroy freedom? Does freedom mean following tradition, God s word, or one s own heart? Can a nation of individuals also be a community of citizens? This is history that...
In A Tolerable Anarchy, Jedediah Purdy traces the history of the American understanding of freedom, an ideal that has inspired the country s be...
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This Land Is Our Land: The Struggle for a New Commonwealth
ISBN: 9780691195643 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) A leading environmental thinker explores how people might begin to heal their fractured and contentious relationship with the land and with each other. From the coalfields of Appalachia and the tobacco fields of the Carolinas to the public lands of the West, Purdy shows how the land has always united and divided Americans.
A leading environmental thinker explores how people might begin to heal their fractured and contentious relationship with the land and with each other...
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Being America: Liberty, Commerce, and Violence in an American World
ISBN: 9780375727559 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Having risen to national attention with his first book, For Common Things," " Jedediah Purdy now cements his claim to being one of the most arresting public intellectuals of his generation. In Being America, Purdy turns his erudition and unique perspective to America's relationship with a world that both admires and hates it.
Purdy has absorbed insights from people around the world: Westernized Egyptians who consider Osama bin Laden a hero, an urbane Indian who espouses gay rights and the most thuggish kind of Hindu nationalism, Cambodian sweat-shop workers, and others. Out of these... Having risen to national attention with his first book, For Common Things," " Jedediah Purdy now cements his claim to being one of the most arresting ...
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After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene
ISBN: 9780674979864 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) An Artforum Best Book of the Year Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. Henceforth, the world we will inhabit is the one we have made. Geologists have called this new planetary epoch the Anthropocene, the Age of Humans. The geological strata we are now creating record industrial emissions, industrial-scale crop pollens, and the disappearance of species driven to extinction. Climate change is planetary engineering without design. These facts of the Anthropocene are scientific, but its shape and meaning are questions for... An Artforum Best Book of the Year Nature no longer exists apart from humanity. Henc... |
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Die Welt und wir
ISBN: 9783518076385 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2020 / 187 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) »Ein kurzes Buch von enormer Kraft, geschrieben von einem außergewöhnlichen Autor und Denker.« Robert Macfarlane »Die Welt und wir ist bewegend, erschütternd und inspirierend.« Elizabeth Kolbert Die USA sind ein gespaltenes Land: Auf der einen Seite werden Forderungen nach einem Green New Deal, nach einer allgemeinen Krankenversicherung und besserer öffentlicher Bildung immer lauter. Auf der anderen Seite sorgt Präsident Trump mit seinem Versprechen, den »Krieg gegen die Kohle« zu beenden, mit Steuererleichterungen für... »Ein kurzes Buch von enormer Kraft, geschrieben von einem außergewöhnlichen Autor und Denker.« Robert Macfarlane |
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For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today
ISBN: 9780375706912 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Jedediah Purdy calls For Common Things his "letter of love for the world's possibilities." Indeed, these pages--which garnered a flurry of attention among readers and in the media--constitute a passionate and persuasive testament to the value of political, social, and community reengagement. Drawing on a wide range of literary and cultural influences--from the writings of Montaigne and Thoreau to the recent popularity of empty entertainment and breathless chroniclers of the technological age--Purdy raises potent questions about our stewardship of civic values.
Most important, Purdy... Jedediah Purdy calls For Common Things his "letter of love for the world's possibilities." Indeed, these pages--which garnered a flurry of atte...
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Meaning of Property: Freedom, Community, and the Legal Imagination
ISBN: 9780300171440 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In his latest book, Jedediah Purdy takes up a question of deep and lasting importance: why is property ownership a value to society? His answer returns us to the foundations of American society and enables us to interpret the writings of the patron saint of liberal economics, Adam Smith, in a wholly new light. Unlike Milton Friedman and other free-market scholars, who consider property a key to efficient markets, Purdy draws upon Smith's theories to argue that the virtues of wealth are social rather than economic. In Purdy's view, ownership does much more than shield one from government... In his latest book, Jedediah Purdy takes up a question of deep and lasting importance: why is property ownership a value to society? His answer ret... |
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This Land Is Our Land: The Struggle for a New Commonwealth
ISBN: 9780691216799 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) A leading environmental thinker explores how people might begin to heal their fractured and contentious relationship with the land and with each other. From the coalfields of Appalachia and the tobacco fields of the Carolinas to the public lands of the West, Purdy shows how the land has always united and divided Americans.
A leading environmental thinker explores how people might begin to heal their fractured and contentious relationship with the land and with each other...
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Democratic Vistas: Reflections on the Life of American Democracy
ISBN: 9780300102567 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In this thought-provoking collection, leading scholars explore democracy in the United States from a sweeping variety of perspectives. A dozen contributors consider the nature and prospects of democracy as it relates to the American experience--free markets, religion, family life, the Cold War, higher education, and more. These probing essays bring American democracy into fresh focus, complete with its idealism, its moral greatness, its disappointments, and its contradictions. Based on DeVane lectures delivered at Yale University, these writings examine large themes and ask important... In this thought-provoking collection, leading scholars explore democracy in the United States from a sweeping variety of perspectives. A dozen cont... |
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