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Author : Bruce Gary
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 171735260X
This book is an attempt to update Freud's "Civilization and its Discontents" using modern sociobiology theory. My approach is so unusual that I doubt anyone will agree with it, but "Hey, I tried."
Author : Robert G. Boatright,Timothy J. Shaffer,Sarah Sobieraj,Dannagal Goldthwaite Young
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351051965
The state of political discourse in the United States today has been a subject of concern for many Americans. Political incivility is not merely a problem for political elites; political conversations between American citizens have also become more difficult and tense. The 2016 presidential elections featured campaign rhetoric designed to inflame the general public. Yet the 2016 election was certainly not the only cause of incivility among citizens. There have been many instances in recent years where reasoned discourse in our universities and other public venues has been threatened. This book was undertaken as a response to these problems. It presents and develops a more robust discussion of what civility is, why it matters, what factors might contribute to it, and what its consequences are for democratic life. The authors included here pursue three major questions: Is the state of American political discourse today really that bad, compared to prior eras; what lessons about civility can we draw from the 2016 election; and how have changes in technology such as the development of online news and other means of mediated communication changed the nature of our discourse? This book seeks to develop a coherent, civil conversation between divergent contemporary perspectives in political science, communications, history, sociology, and philosophy. This multidisciplinary approach helps to reflect on challenges to civil discourse, define civility, and identify its consequences for democratic life in a digital age. In this accessible text, an all-star cast of contributors tills the earth in which future discussion on civility will be planted.
Author : Robin Tolmach Lakoff,Sachiko Ide
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902725382X
LC number: 2005048400
Author : Christine T. Sistare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Civics
ISBN : UOM:39076002391857
Contributors from philosophy and political science discuss the observation that civility, civic virtue, tolerance, and socio-cultural unity have declined while exploring the nature of civil society, the conflict between individual liberty and the common good, and the role of law and government policy in weaving the threads of the social fabric. From publisher description.
Author : Keith Thomas
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781512602821
Keith Thomas's earlier studies in the ethnography of early modern England, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and The Ends of Life, were all attempts to explore beliefs, values, and social practices in the centuries from 1500 to 1800. In Pursuit of Civility continues this quest by examining what English people thought it meant to be "civilized" and how that condition differed from being "barbarous" or "savage." Thomas shows that the upper ranks of society sought to distinguish themselves from their social inferiors by distinctive ways of moving, speaking, and comporting themselves, and that the common people developed their own form of civility. The belief of the English in their superior civility shaped their relations with the Welsh, the Scots, and the Irish, and was fundamental to their dealings with the native peoples of North America, India, and Australia. Yet not everyone shared this belief in the superiority of Western civilization; the book sheds light on the origins of both anticolonialism and cultural relativism. Thomas has written an accessible history based on wide reading, abounding in fresh insights, and illustrated by many striking quotations and anecdotes from contemporary sources.
Author : Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : IND:30000107650743
Author : Deborah Cameron
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134960644
In this book, Cameron explores popular attitudes towards language and examines the practices by which people attempt to regulate its use. She also argues that popular discourse about language values serves a function for those engaged in it.
Author : Shelley D. Lane
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781442261860
Understanding Everyday Incivility delves into the day-to-day annoying behaviors that color our interactions with other people, such as the use of crude language in public, family members who claim that they’re “just teasing” and we’re “too sensitive,” coworkers who constantly interrupt us, and inflammatory remarks posted on social media sites. Shelley D. Lane explores what is considered uncivil behavior, why we label some acts as crude or selfish while others are deemed polite and proper, and how these labels often change from one context to the next. She highlights the power dynamics at play in our interactions and explains how “rude” behavior can sometimes be beneficial—and “polite” behavior can be detrimental. Rather than a simplistic manual of manners, Lane provides the tools to understand everyday incivility and strategies for responding effectively and appropriately.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 0817943137
Author : Steven B. Smith
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : 9780300198393
11 Flaubert and the Aesthetics of the Antibourgeois -- 12 The Apocalyptic Imagination: Nietzsche, Sorel, Schmitt -- 13 The Tragic Liberalism of Isaiah Berlin -- 14 Leo Strauss on Philosophy as a Way of Life -- 15 The Political Teaching of Lampedusa's The Leopard -- 16 Mr. Sammler's Redemption -- Part Four: Conclusion -- 17 Modernity and Its Doubles -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z
Author : Janet A. Flammang
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780252076732
This book explores the idea that table activities--the mealtime rituals of food preparation, serving, and dining--lay the foundation for a proper education on the value of civility, the importance of the common good, and what it means to be a good citizen. The arts of conversation and diplomatic speech are learned and practiced at tables, and a political history of food practices recasts thoughtfulness and generosity as virtues that enhance civil society and democracy. In our industrialized and profit-centered culture, however, foodwork is devalued and civility is eroding. Looking at the field of American civility, Janet A. Flammang addresses the gendered responsibilities for foodwork's civilizing functions and argues that any formulation of "civil society" must consider food practices and the household. To allow space for practicing civility, generosity, and thoughtfulness through everyday foodwork, Americans must challenge the norms of unbridled consumerism, work-life balance, and domesticity and caregiving. Connecting political theory with the quotidian activities of the dinner table, Flammang discusses practical ideas from the "delicious revolution" and Slow Food movement to illustrate how civic activities are linked to foodwork, and she points to farmers' markets and gardens in communities, schools, and jails as sites for strengthening civil society and degendering foodwork.
Author : Jose Luis Marti,Samantha Besson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351945462
Drawing on political, legal, national, post-national, as well as American and European perspectives, this collection of essays offers a diverse and balanced discussion of the current arguments concerning deliberative democracy. Its contributions' focus on discontent, provide a critical assessment of the benefits of deliberation and also respond to the strongest criticisms of the idea of democratic deliberation. The essays consider the three basic questions of why, how and where to deliberate democratically. This book will be of value not only to political and democratic theorists, but also to legal philosophers and constitutional theorists, and all those interested in the legitimacy of decision-making in national and post-national pluralistic polities.
Author : Lawrence J. Friedman,Mark D. McGarvie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 052181989X
This book presents professional historians addressing the dominant issues and theories offered to explain the history of American philanthropy and its role in American society. The essays develop and enlighten the major themes proposed by the books' editors, oftentimes taking issue with each other in the process. The overarching premise is that philanthropic activity in America has its roots in the desires of individuals to impose their visions of societal ideals or conceptions of truth upon their society. To do so, they have organized in groups, frequently defining themselves and their group's role in society in the process.
Author : William Keith,Robert Danisch
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780271088594
From the pundits to the polls, nearly everyone seems to agree that US politics have rarely been more fractious, and calls for a return to “civil discourse” abound. Yet it is also true that the requirements of polite discourse effectively silence those who are not in power, gaming the system against the disenfranchised. What, then, should a democracy do? This book makes a case for understanding civility in a different light. Examining the history of the concept and its basis in communication and political theory, William Keith and Robert Danisch present a clear, robust analysis of civil discourse. Distinguishing it from politeness, they claim that civil argument must be redirected from the goal of political comity to that of building and maintaining relationships of minimal respect in the public sphere. They also take into account how civility enables discrimination, indicating conditions under which uncivil resistance is called for. When viewed as a communication practice for uniting people with differences and making them more equal, civility is transformed from a preferable way of speaking into an essential component of democratic life. Guarding against uncritical endorsement of civility as well as skepticism, Keith and Danisch show with rigor, nuance, and care that the practice of civil communication is both paradoxical and sorely needed. Beyond Civility is necessary reading for our times.
Author : James Calvin Davis
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725271326
How can celebrating the "holy days" of American culture help us to understand what it means to be both Christian and American? In timely essays on Super Bowl Sunday, Mother's Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving, and other holidays of the secular calendar, James Calvin Davis explores the wisdom that Christian tradition brings to our sense of American identity, as well as the ways in which American culture might prompt us to discern the imperatives of faith in new ways. Rather than demonizing culture or naively baptizing it, Davis models a bidirectional mode of reflection, where faith convictions and cultural values converse with and critique one another. Focusing on topics like politics, race, parenting, music, and sports, these essays remind us that culture is as much human accomplishment and gift as it is a challenge to Christian values, and there is insight to be discovered in a theologically astute investment in America's "holy days."
