The Marxist Philosophy of Ernst Bloch

Politics & Social Sciences

Hudson, Wayne

Philosophy

St.Martins

Tyrone Rashon Williams's excitement about the first day of school wanes when he sees that everyone is wearing the same new sneakers he is so proud of, but it gets worse when a new student arrives who has his exact same name.

Just For You!: The Two Tyrones

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

Teaching Resources

This title aims to transform the way Australians understand republicanism. It offers Australian viewpoints, from the famous to the obscure, the official to the flagrantly informal, the rhetorical to the ridiculous. The authors argue that the republic has a place in Australia's future, but only if it is founded on inclusion.

Australian Republicanism: A Reader

History

McKenna, Mark

Australia & Oceania

Melbourne University Publishing

In East and Southeast Asia, the creation of civil society is a crucial yet most difficult issue. Europeans have had the luxury of centuries in a slow-moving world characterised by weak governments in which the foundation institutions, norms and values of civil society could ferment and develop. Asia, however, faces this task when a nation's currency can devalue in seconds, destabilising its government, and when states have far more effective means of surveillance, suppression and terror. This book examines these issues and shows that a better understanding of civil society in the Asian context is central to promoting contemporary political, social and economic reform in Asia. It will appeal to students and teachers of politics, law and sociology because it provides new perspectives on how to understand civil society drawing on Asian examples, as well as indications for rethinking what civil society means in Asia. Individual chapters combine theoretical and empirical issues in a way which fills a major gap in the literature. Henceforth, works about 'civil society' will need to take more account of the Asian evidence and Asianists will need to have a clear idea of what civil society in Asia means.

Civil Society in Asia: In Search of Democracy and Development in Bangladesh (Law, Ethics and Governance)

Asia

Routledge

Arguing that there is a pronounced loss of social direction in Western countries, manifested by a lack of coherent political and social ideals, a fatalist passivity and acceptance of social fragmentation, the author of this text asserts that social reform can be renewed by a reform of Utopia which challenges neo-liberalism without attempting to revive the authoritarianism of the Old Left. This reform of Utopia rejects any unified account of Utopia and breaks with the perfectionism and futurism of modern Utopian thought. On the other hand, it insists that the management of forms of social idealism is important because social idealism can play a crucial part in envisaging alternative arrangements, in mobilizing groups and institutions to act, and in planning how ethical objectives will be concretely realized. To this extent, a "decentred Utopianism", which has no single unified and totalizing ethical vision, can play an important contemporary role, especially if it is focused on concrete micro-reforms rather than fantasies of revolution. This decentred Utopianism can challenge neo-liberalism and offer more than the managerialism of some versions of the Third Way. A decentred Utopianism does not suggest that Utopianism is the answer to manifold problems. Likewise, it takes for granted that different Utopias conflict and do not tend to a future unity. In contrast to modern European Utopianism, a decentred Utopianism seeks to show how Utopian perspectives and practices can contribute to social, cultural and political reform without promoting totalizing mentalities. Hence, it takes a middle path between those who demand that all social phenomena be judged by principles (and usually the same principles), and those (the so-called postmodernists) who promote social arrangements "without principles" (Marquard 1990 and 1991, Frazer 1989). It does not propose a totalizing form of "critique". Instead, it appeals to a minimal philosophical anthropology to justify judgements about whether specific arrangements promote human flourishing.

The Reform of Utopia (Law, Ethics and Governance)

Ashgate Pub Ltd

Politically, Islam in Indonesia is part of a rich multi-cultural mix. Religious tolerance is seen as the cornerstone of relations between different faiths - and moderation is built into the country's constitutional framework. However, the advent of democracy coupled with the impact of the South-East Asian economic collapse in 1997, and the arrival of a tough new breed of Middle Eastern Islamic preachers, sowed the seeds of the current challenge to Indonesia's traditionally moderate form of Islam. This volume explores the extent to which moderate Indonesian Islam is able to assimilate leading concepts from Western political theory. The essays in the collection explore how concepts from Western political theory are compatible with a liberal interpretation of Islamic universals and how such universals can form the basis for a contemporary approach to the protection of human rights and the articulation of a modern Islamic civil society.

Islam Beyond Conflict: Indonesian Islam and Western Political Theory (Law, Ethics and Governance)

Reference

Volume after volume they write, with their won understanding, never giving thought to the only book ever written that has the answers for the home and everyone included in the home. That book is the Word of God. It holds no theories, only truth. The truth, not another theory, makes up the contents of this most excellent presentation on the Christian home. Any member of the family who desires a better understanding of the Christian home will profit greatly by making a thorough study of Wayne Hudson's presentation. Clearly he has presented the position of the father, mother and children in a truthful, scriptural presentation.

Beams of Our House

World

St Aztec Pub

Islam Beyond Conflict (Law, Ethics and Governance)

Interprets the works of an important group of writers known as 'the English deists'. This title argues that this interpretation reads Romantic conceptions of religious identity into a period in which it was lacking. It contextualizes these writers within the early Enlightenment, which was multivocal, plural and in search of self definition.

The English Deists (The Enlightenment World)

Enlightenment and Modernity: The English Deists and Reform (The Enlightenment World)

The writers known as the English deists were not simply religious controversialists, but agents of reform who contributed to the emergence of modernity. This title claims that these writers advocated a failed ideology which itself declined after 1730. It argues for an evolution of their ideas into a more modern form.

Enlightenment and Modernity (The Enlightenment World)

Religion & Spirituality

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