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Learning one's native tongue : citizenship, contestation, and conflict in America
\"Tracy Strong explores the development of the concept of American citizenship and of what it means to belong to this country, beginning with the Puritans in the 17th century and continuing to the present day. He examines in detail the conflicts over what citizenship means as reflected in the writings and speeches of America's leading thinkers and leaders ranging from John Winthrop and Roger Williams, to Thomas Jefferson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Franklin Roosevelt, among others who have participated in our cultural and political debates. We see how the requirements and demands of citizenship have been discussed and better understand how groups are defined into and out of the American nation\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rousseau is most often read either as a theorist of individual authenticity or as a communitarian. In this book, he is neither. Instead, Rousseau is understood as a theorist of the common person. In Strong's understanding, Rousseau's use of 'common' always refers both to that which is common and to that which is ordinary, vulgar, everyday. For Strong, Rousseau resonates with Kant, Hegel, and Marx, but he is more modern like Emerson, Nietzsche, Eittegenstein, and Heidegger. Rousseau's democratic individual is an ordinary self, paradoxically multiple and not singular. In the course of exploring this contention, Strong examines Rousseau's fear of authorship (though not of authority), his understanding of the human, his attempt to overcome the scandal that relativism posed for politics, and the political importance of sexuality.
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ADVANCE GUARD FOR THE Y.M.C.A
The foreign Christian presence in China in the first 40 years of this century increasingly appears to have been an important contributing factor in the slow development of the Chinese revolution between 1911 and 1949. Some sense of this can be gathered from John Hersey's fine novel ''The Call.'' Yet that book and most others on the subject remain focused on the men who lived for their ''call.'' Grace Service's memoir, ''Golden Inches,'' helps us understand that often behind those men, making their work possible, were equally extraordinary women. What support it was - a kind of marriage that seems to have all but disappeared in our time. ''I thought I had given you certainty when I brought you to China,'' Service remarked apologetically to his wife in 1934, after being ''demobilized'' by the Y.M.C.A. in response to economic pressures. Such a vision of ''certainty'' could only be that which a shared sense of vocation can bring. By the time the Services had reached Chengdu (by boat, up the Yangtze) in 1905, their first-born, an infant daughter, had died of dysentery and Bob had contracted a severe case of malaria; within a year, Grace had at least one miscarriage. They still knew no Chinese.
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The Barbarism of reason : Max Weber and the twilight of enlightenment
The recent renewal of interest in Max Weber evidences an attempt to enlist his thought in the service of a renewed dream of Enlightenment individualism. Yet he was the first twentieth-century thinker to fully appreciate the pervasiveness and ambiguity of rationalization which threatened to undermine the hopes of the Enlightenment.
Asher Horowitz and Terry Maley present a collection of essays tracing the contemporary significance of Weber's work for the tradition of Enlightenment political thought and its critiques. In its critical inquiry into Weber's thought, The Barbarism of Reason continues the exploration of the limits and prospects of politics in a rationalizing society.
The first section comprises a set of both historical and philosophical reflections on the political implications of Weber's central concepts such as disenchantment, rationality, and affectivity, the historical understanding, meaning, and domination. The second section examines the institutional and historical context that framed Weber's inquiries into structures of the modern mode of domination, as well as his understanding of the nature of the modern state. Among the topics broached are Weber's strategic intervention into the development of the liberal theory of the state as well as a critical examination of the theoretical and pre-theoretical roots of his construction of the subject. Another of the essays reveals the schizophrenic structure of modern subjectivity. The third and last section attempts to trace the vicissitudes of Weber's seminal problems concerning rationalization, power, and disenchantment through some of the most important responses to his work in the twentieth century.
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