Challenges To Authority

Author : Françoise Pascal
Publisher : Renaissance Society of America
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : French drama
ISBN : 0866985301

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Challenges to Traditional Authority by Françoise Pascal Pdf

The second half of the seventeenth century marked the first major breakthrough for women playwrights in France, as some of them succeeded in getting their works staged, published and taken seriously by critics and authority figures. The four works included here, translated into English for the first time, represent the diversity of genres cultivated by these writers, while reflecting both the cultural milieu of the era and a concern for the status of women. Françoise Pascal's Endymion, a tragicomedy with special effects, daringly reexamines a classical myth. Marie-Catherine Desjardins's Nitetis, a historical tragedy, focuses on the plight of a virtuous and astute queen married to an evil tyrant. Antoinette Deshoulières's Genseric, also a historical tragedy, rejects prevailing models of male heroism and of conventional tragic plots. Catherine Durand's proverb comedies contain a scathing critique of aristocratic mores and give voice to women's desires for emancipation.

Author : Open University
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0300082207

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The Renaissance in Europe - Challenges to Authority by Open University Pdf

Author : Frances Fax Piven
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780742563407

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Challenging Authority by Frances Fax Piven Pdf

Argues that ordinary people exercise extraordinary political courage and power in American politics when, frustrated by politics as usual, they rise up in anger and hope, and defy the authorities and the status quo rules that ordinarily govern their daily lives. By doing so, they disrupt the workings of important institutions and become a force in American politics. Drawing on critical episodes in U.S. history, Piven shows that it is in fact precisely at those seismic moments when people act outside of political norms that they become empowered to their full democratic potential.

Author : Peter Elmer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300082150

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Challenges to Authority by Peter Elmer Pdf

The evolution and reception of the Renaissance was mediated by developments in various other spheres of early modern life and culture. Foremost among these were the religious changes initiated by the Protestant Reformation, which are discussed in the opening chapters of this book. Religious and cultural developments in Germany are contrasted with sixteenth-century Spain and are further explored through the study of the picaresque novel Lazarillo de Tormes. Subsequent chapters explore the Renaissance fascination with witchcraft and demonology in both learned discourse (Pico’s Strix) and popular drama (The Witch of Edmonton). The volume concludes with a study of one of the most influential and provocative writers of the sixteenth century, Michel de Montaigne, whose Essays provide stimulating material for a reassessment of the impact of the Renaissance on contemporary thought.

Author : Catharine MacMillan,Charlotte Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108429238

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Challenges to Authority and the Recognition of Rights by Catharine MacMillan,Charlotte Smith Pdf

A unique volume demonstrating how law changes by reason of challenges to authority which seek the recognition of rights.

Author : Gregory S. Prince
Publisher : Continuum
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131667441

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Teach Them to Challenge Authority by Gregory S. Prince Pdf

Eminent educator Greg Prince examines how colleges should set an example of behaviour to students in order to maximise their success. The author investigates both the national and international implications and reveals how these simple measures will revitalise not only the world of education but also wider society.

Author : Leon Rosselson
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781629633985

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That Precious Strand of Jewishness That Challenges Authority by Leon Rosselson Pdf

“For my parents and grandparents, Jewish identity, in religion, culture and language, was a given. Not so for me. I’m not religious, not a Zionist, so in what consists my Jewishness? Is a love of chopped liver and a belief that chicken soup cures all ills enough? And does it matter? This is the story of my search for answers. It is an argument with myself, with song lyrics to embellish the argument.” Like so many of those others in Britain of Jewish lineage, songwriter and award-winning folk singer Leon Rosselson is descended from antecedents who fled pogroms in eastern Europe. Pertinently, he questions what being a Jew means—is it adherence to Judaism as a religion, an ethnicity, a citizen of Israel, or someone who eats “chicken soup with knedlach”? He describes clearly and with historical insight how any concept of “Jewishness” can involve all of those things and more. In his own life, he has decided to pick and choose from this tradition and history and build on what he deems to be the progressive, humane, and universalist values of that Jewish background. Rosselson is a strong supporter of Palestinian rights, seeing in the victimization of Palestinians by the state of Israel parallels with historical Jewish persecution. He concludes this short essay by stating: “I share with the growing number of Jews in the diaspora who place solidarity with the oppressed above demands of tribalism and with those in Israel who dare to stand against the powers that be.”

Author : Rosow, Stephen J.,Andreopoulos, George
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788977692

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Reconfigurations of Authority, Power and Territoriality by Rosow, Stephen J.,Andreopoulos, George Pdf

Expansive and engaging, this book investigates the fluidity of sites of power and authority in global politics. Examining the key shifts and turns of politics in globally oriented spaces since the end of the Cold War, contributions from leading scholars explore the continually shifting parameters of global governance.

Author : Andrew Jewett
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780674987913

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Science under Fire by Andrew Jewett Pdf

Americans have long been suspicious of experts and elites. This new history explains why so many have believed that science has the power to corrupt American culture. Americans today are often skeptical of scientific authority. Many conservatives dismiss climate change and Darwinism as liberal fictions, arguing that “tenured radicals” have coopted the sciences and other disciplines. Some progressives, especially in the universities, worry that science’s celebration of objectivity and neutrality masks its attachment to Eurocentric and patriarchal values. As we grapple with the implications of climate change and revolutions in fields from biotechnology to robotics to computing, it is crucial to understand how scientific authority functions—and where it has run up against political and cultural barriers. Science under Fire reconstructs a century of battles over the cultural implications of science in the United States. Andrew Jewett reveals a persistent current of criticism which maintains that scientists have injected faulty social philosophies into the nation’s bloodstream under the cover of neutrality. This charge of corruption has taken many forms and appeared among critics with a wide range of social, political, and theological views, but common to all is the argument that an ideologically compromised science has produced an array of social ills. Jewett shows that this suspicion of science has been a major force in American politics and culture by tracking its development, varied expressions, and potent consequences since the 1920s. Looking at today’s battles over science, Jewett argues that citizens and leaders must steer a course between, on the one hand, the naïve image of science as a pristine, value-neutral form of knowledge, and, on the other, the assumption that scientists’ claims are merely ideologies masquerading as truths.

Author : Peter Elmer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300082207

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Challenges to Authority by Peter Elmer Pdf

The evolution and reception of the Renaissance was mediated by developments in various other spheres of early modern life and culture. Foremost among these were the religious changes initiated by the Protestant Reformation, which are discussed in the opening chapters of this book. Religious and cultural developments in Germany are contrasted with sixteenth-century Spain and are further explored through the study of the picaresque novel Lazarillo de Tormes. The place of Renaissance science or natural philosophy is also the subject of critical evaluation in this book. Case studies on the anatomical revolution, Galileo and court patronage, and Paracelsus illustrate new approaches in the field. Subsequent chapters explore the Renaissance fascination with witchcraft and demonology in both learned discourse (Pico's Strix) and popular drama (The Witch of Edmonton). The volume concludes with a study of one of the most influential and provocative writers of the sixteenth century, Michel de Montaigne, whose Essays provide stimulating material for a reassessment of the impact of the Renaissance on contemporary thought. This volume is the third in a series of three texts designed for the Open University course The Renaissance in Europe: A Cultural Enquiry.

Author : Bill Leigh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1780251262

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Challenges to Your Authority by Bill Leigh Pdf

Author : Frank Furedi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781107469891

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Authority by Frank Furedi Pdf

Concern with authority is as old as human history itself. Eve's sin was to challenge the authority of God by disobeying his rule. Frank Furedi explores how authority was contested in ancient Greece and given a powerful meaning in Imperial Rome. Debates about religious and secular authority dominated Europe through the Middle Ages and the Reformation. The modern world attempted to develop new foundations for authority – democratic consent, public opinion, science – yet Furedi shows that this problem has remained unresolved, arguing that today the authority of authority is questioned. This historical sociology of authority seeks to explain how the contemporary problems of mistrust and the loss of legitimacy of many institutions are informed by the previous attempts to solve the problem of authority. It argues that the key pioneers of the social sciences (Marx, Durkheim, Simmel, Tonnies and especially Weber) regarded this question as one of the principal challenges facing society.

Author : Roger Cotterrell,Maksymilian Del Mar
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781784711627

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Authority in Transnational Legal Theory by Roger Cotterrell,Maksymilian Del Mar Pdf

The increasing transnationalisation of regulation – and social life more generally – challenges the basic concepts of legal and political theory today. One of the key concepts being so challenged is authority. This discerning book offers a plenitude of resources and suggestions for meeting that challenge.

Author : Tony Porter,Karsten Ronit
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781438431581

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Challenges of Global Business Authority, The by Tony Porter,Karsten Ronit Pdf

Business is being globalized with an immense speed, but are democratic practices and decision-making structures keeping pace? Contrary to those who see democracy as irrelevant or impossible at the global level, The Challenges of Global Business Authority analyzes three dimensions of democracy- participation, accountability, and transparency-in many transnational mechanisms that seek to align global business interests with the public interest. Looking beyond these mechanisms, this volume seeks to explore the fundamental issues affecting the relationship between democracy and global business authority, such as the structural power of business itself, and the contestations over the boundary between public and private. The essays in this volume provide concrete ways that business can be made more publicly accountable to allow democratic practices to take on a more permanent role in the global business world.

Author : James M. Kouzes,Barry Z. Posner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781119687016

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Everyday People, Extraordinary Leadership by James M. Kouzes,Barry Z. Posner Pdf

Learn how you can tackle everyday leadership challenges regardless of your title, position, or authority with this insightful resource A book about leadership for people who are not in formal or hierarchical leadership positions, Everyday People, Extraordinary Leadership provides readers with a comprehensive and practical approach to addressing leadership challenges, no matter the setting or circumstance. Esteemed scholars and sought-after consultants Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner adapt their trademark The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® framework to today’s more horizontal workplace, showing people that leadership is not about where you are in the organization; it’s about how you behave and what you do. Everyday People, Extraordinary Leadership draws on the authors’ deep well of research and practical experience to cover key subjects: The essence of making a difference in any role, setting, or situation The difference between positions of authority and leadership The importance of self-development in leadership development This book is perfectly applicable and accessible for anyone who wants to improve their own leadership potential and who isn’t yet in an official leadership role. Everyday People, Extraordinary Leadership offers authoritative new insights, original case studies and examples, and practical guidance for those individuals who want to make a difference. You supply the will, and this book will supply the way.