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Politics without stories : the liberal predicament /
"Liberal candidates, scholars, and activists mainly promote pragmatism rather than large and powerful narratives - which may be called 'alpha stories' for their commanding presence over time. Alternatively, conservative counterparts to such liberals tend to promote their policy prefer...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Introduction; The Liberal Predicament; The Basic Dichotomy; The Impasse; Two Disclaimers; Political Science Findings; My Inclinations; 1 Political Stories; Two Questions; The Electoral Problem; Collective Action; The Categorical Heuristic; Conservative Stories; The Liberal Shortfall; Defining Stories; The Problem of Power; The Mystery of Resonance; Measuring the Power of a Story; Common Sense; Alpha Stories; Levels of Analysis; National and Partisan; Liberal Testimonies; Charles Schumer; Alan Wolfe
- Jeffrey IsaacMoving On; 2 Liberal Books; Scholars; John Kenneth Galbraith; Christopher Lasch; Neil Postman; Robert Reich; Bruce Ackerman; Publicists; Naomi Wolf; Robert Kuttner; Barbara Ehrenreich; Thomas Frank; Jonathan Chait; Politicians; Gary Hart; Barbara Boxer; John Kerry; Rahm Emanuel and Bruce Reed; The Bottom Line; The List Syndrome; 3 Philosophical Impotence; Conservative Philosophers; The Empirical Temptation; Philosophers; The Protagonists; John Rawls; Amartya Sen; Michael Walzer; Richard Rorty; Ronald Dworkin; Shortcomings; Jargon; Competition; Relativism; Style; Missing Politics
- The Gap Remains4 Weber's Disenchantment; Disagreements; Skepticism; Disenchantment; The Sequence; Humanism; Enlightenment Variations; European Detours; America's Political Moment; The Liberal Tradition; The Present Matrix; Separation; The Case Of Progressivism; 5 Dewey's Pragmatism; Pragmatism; Charles Peirce (1839-1914); William James (1842-1910); Typically American; John Dewey (1859-1952); Science; The Scientific Community; Democracy; Political Lessons; Against Storytelling; Pragmatic Humanism; The Rub; Philosophical Pragmatism; Liberal Politicians; Liberal Journalists; The Bottom Line
- 6 Shklar's FearFear; The Conservative Alternative; The Liberal Project; The Conservative Sidestep; Philosophy Over Politics; Church and State; Lilla's Gloss; 7 Liberal Outrage; Humanism Versus Conservative Alpha Stories; Wants Versus Needs; Liberal Books; Overkill?; Silent Spring; The Feminine Mystique; The Making of a Counterculture; The Limits To Growth; News From Nowhere; The Fate of the Earth; The Predatory Society; Satisfaction Guaranteed; Chain Reaction; The Way We Never Were; More Liberal Books; One World, Ready or Not; The Heat is On; Race to Incarcerate
- The McDonaldization Of SocietyOff Center; Gun Show Nation; Washington Rules; 13 Bankers; The Shallows; The Price of Inequality; Coming Apart; 8 The List Syndrome; The Original Questions; Obama As Exemplar; Obama's Pragmatism; Promoting Pragmatism; Projecting Pragmatism; The First Obama; The Second Obama; Domestic Proposals; Foreign Policy; The Second Term; The 2012 Campaign; The Liberal Mood; Old and New Individualism; Conservative Responses; The Counterculture; Multiculturalism; A Common Enemy; A New Conservative Story; The Current Impasse; 9 The Great Retreat; Obama; The Move to Growth