Conscience Of The Nation

Author : Richard Jacquemond
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9774161017

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Conscience of the Nation by Richard Jacquemond Pdf

Artfully combining social and literary history, this unique study explores the dual loyalties of contemporary Egyptian authors from the 1952 Revolution to the present day. Egypt's writers have long had an elevated idea of their social mission, considering themselves 'the conscience of the nation.' At the same time, modern Egyptian writers work under the liberal conception of the writer borrowed from the European model. As a result, each Egyptian writer treads the tightrope between authority and freedom, social commitment and artistic license, loyalty to the state and to personal expression, in an ongoing quest for an elusive literary ideal. With these fundamentals in mind, Conscience of the Nation examines Egyptian literary production over the past fifty years, surveying works by established writers, as well as those of dozens of other authors who are celebrated in Egypt but whose writings are largely unknown to the foreign reader. Novelists and poets, scriptwriters and playwrights, critics and journalists all have battled with and tried to resolve the tensions inherent in the conflicting forces of self and society.

Author : Giuseppina Iacona Lobo
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487512705

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Writing Conscience and the Nation in Revolutionary England by Giuseppina Iacona Lobo Pdf

Examining works by well-known figures of the English Revolution, including John Milton, Oliver Cromwell, Margaret Fell Fox, Lucy Hutchinson, Thomas Hobbes, and King Charles I, Giuseppina Iacono Lobo presents the first comprehensive study of conscience during this crucial and turbulent period. Writing Conscience and the Nation in Revolutionary England argues that the discourse of conscience emerged as a means of critiquing, discerning, and ultimately reimagining the nation during the English Revolution. Focusing on the etymology of the term conscience, to know with, this book demonstrates how the idea of a shared knowledge uniquely equips conscience with the potential to forge dynamic connections between the self and nation, a potential only amplified by the surge in conscience writing in the mid-seventeenth-century. Iacono Lobo recovers a larger cultural discourse at the heart of which is a revolution of conscience itself through her readings of poetry, prose, political pamphlets and philosophy, letters, and biography. This revolution of conscience is marked by a distinct and radical connection between conscience and the nation as writers struggle to redefine, reimagine, and even render anew what it means to know with as an English people.

Author : Ronald Reagan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X000747038

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Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation by Ronald Reagan Pdf

Author : Jonathan Kozol
Publisher : Crown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780770435660

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Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol Pdf

Amazing Grace is Jonathan Kozol’s classic book on life and death in the South Bronx—the poorest urban neighborhood of the United States. He brings us into overcrowded schools, dysfunctional hospitals, and rat-infested homes where families have been ravaged by depression and anxiety, drug-related violence, and the spread of AIDS. But he also introduces us to devoted and unselfish teachers, dedicated ministers, and—at the heart and center of the book—courageous and delightful children. The children we come to meet through the friendships they have formed with Jonathan defy the stereotypes of urban youth too frequently presented by the media. Tender, generous, and often religiously devout, they speak with eloquence and honesty about the poverty and racial isolation that have wounded but not hardened them. Amidst all of the despair, it is the very young whose luminous capacity for love and transcendent sense of faith in human decency give reason for hope.

Author : Ken Gormley
Publisher : Perseus Books
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015040536396

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Archibald Cox by Ken Gormley Pdf

On the Harvard faculty he was the nation's foremost expert in labor law, and he became the top academic adviser to the handsome young senator from Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy.

Author : Tim LaHaye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0842380906

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A Nation Without a Conscience by Tim LaHaye Pdf

It didn't happen overnight-but a slow, steady growth of secular influences have established a culture that our forefathers wouldn't recognize. We can point out the danger, the causes of the problem, and practical steps each of us can take to return decency justice.

Author : Roberta Lexier,Stephanie Bangarth,Jonathan Weier
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781771133937

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Party of Conscience by Roberta Lexier,Stephanie Bangarth,Jonathan Weier Pdf

Surveying the field of political history in Canada, one might assume that the politics of the nation have been shaped solely by the Liberal and Conservative parties. Relatively little attention has been paid to the contributions of the CCF and NDP in Canadian politics. This collection remedies this imbalance with a critical examination of the place of social democracy in Canadian history and politics. Bringing together the work of politicians, think tank members, party activists, union members, scholars, students, and social movement actors in important discussions about social democracy delving into an array of topics including municipal, provincial, and national issues, labour relations, feminism, contemporary social movements, war and society, security issues, and the media, Party of Conscience reminds Canadians of the important contributions the CCF and NDP have made to a progressive, compassionate idea of Canada.

Author : James T. Draper
Publisher : Baptist Sunday School Board
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0805415300

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The Conscience of a Nation by James T. Draper Pdf

Author : Clayborne Carson,Kris Shepard
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780759520080

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A Call to Conscience by Clayborne Carson,Kris Shepard Pdf

This companion volume to "A Knock At Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr". includes the text of his most well-known oration, "I Have a Dream", his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize, and "Beyond Vietnam", a powerful plea to end the ongoing conflict. Includes contributions from Rosa Parks, Aretha Franklin, the Dalai Lama, and many others.

Author : Timothy Sandefur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 1939709032

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The Conscience of the Constitution by Timothy Sandefur Pdf

"Timothy Sandefur's insightful new book provides a dramatic new challenge to the status quo of constitutional law and argues a vital truth: our Constitution was written not to empower democracy, but to secure liberty. Yet the overemphasis on democracy by today's legal community-rather than the primacy of liberty, as expressed in the Declaration of Independence-has helped expand the scope of government power at the expense of individual rights. Now, more than ever, the Declaration of Independence should be the framework for interpreting our fundamental law. It is the conscience of the Constitution."--Amazon's website.

Author : Paul Krugman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780393067118

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The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman Pdf

"The most consistent and courageous—and unapologetic—liberal partisan in American journalism." —Michael Tomasky, New York Review of Books In this "clear, provocative" (Boston Globe) New York Times bestseller, Paul Krugman, today's most widely read economist, examines the past eighty years of American history, from the reforms that tamed the harsh inequality of the Gilded Age and the 1920s to the unraveling of that achievement and the reemergence of immense economic and political inequality since the 1970s. Seeking to understand both what happened to middle-class America and what it will take to achieve a "new New Deal," Krugman has created his finest book to date, a "stimulating manifesto" offering "a compelling historical defense of liberalism and a clarion call for Americans to retake control of their economic destiny" (Publishers Weekly). "As Democrats seek a rationale not merely for returning to power, but for fundamentally changing—or changing back—the relationship between America's government and its citizens, Mr. Krugman's arguments will prove vital in the months and years ahead." —Peter Beinart, New York Times

Author : James Bartleman
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459741140

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A Matter of Conscience by James Bartleman Pdf

A novel of love and betrayal dealing with the biggest issues facing Canada’s Indigenous peoples today. In the summer of 1972, a float plane carrying a team of child welfare officials lands on a river flowing through the Yellow Dog Indian reserve. Their mission is to seize the twin babies of an Indigenous couple as part of an illegal scheme cooked up by the federal government to adopt out tens of thousands of Native children to white families. The baby girl, Brenda, is adopted and raised by a white family in Orillia. Meanwhile, that same summer, a baby boy named Greg is born to a white middle-class family. At the age of eighteen, Greg leaves home for the first time to earn money to help pay for his university expenses. He drinks heavily and becomes embroiled in the murder of a female student from a residential school. The destinies of Brenda and Greg intersect in this novel of passion, confronting the murder and disappearance of Indigenous women and the infamous Sixties Scoop.

Author : ʻAlāʼ Aswānī
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9774248627

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the yacoubian building by ʻAlāʼ Aswānī Pdf

The Yacoubian Building holds all that Egypt was and has become over the 75 years since its namesake was built on one of downtown Cairo's main boulevards. From the pious son of the building's doorkeeper and the raucous, impoverished squatters on its roof, via the tattered aristocrat and the gay intellectual in its apartments, to the ruthless businessman whose stores occupy its ground floor, each sharply etched character embodies a facet of modern Egypt -- where political corruption, ill-gotten wealth, and religious hypocrisy are natural allies, where the arrogance and defensiveness of the powerful find expression in the exploitation of the weak, where youthful idealism can turn quickly to extremism, and where an older, less violent vision of society may yet prevail. Alaa Al Aswany's novel caused an unprecedented stir when it was first published in 2002 and has remained the world's best selling novel in the Arabic language since.

Author : Ann Wright,Susan Dixon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1608465845

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Dissent: Voices of Conscience by Ann Wright,Susan Dixon Pdf

Stories of men and women, who risked careers, reputations, and even freedom for truth.

Author : Tom Mueller
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780698405103

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Crisis of Conscience by Tom Mueller Pdf

"A call to arms and to action, for anyone with a conscience, anyone alarmed about the decline of our democracy." — New York Times-bestselling author Wendell Potter "Powerful...His extensively reported tales of individual whistleblowers and their often cruel fates are compelling...They reveal what it can mean to live in an age of fraud." — The Washington Post "Tom Mueller's authoritative and timely book reveals what drives a few brave souls to expose and denounce specific cases of corruption. He describes the structural decay that plagues many of our most powerful institutions, putting democracy itself in danger." —George Soros A David-and-Goliath story for our times: the riveting account of the heroes who are fighting a rising tide of wrongdoing by the powerful, and showing us the path forward. We live in a period of sweeping corruption -- and a golden age of whistleblowing. Over the past few decades, principled insiders who expose wrongdoing have gained unprecedented legal and social stature, emerging as the government's best weapon against corporate misconduct--and the citizenry's best defense against government gone bad. Whistleblowers force us to confront fundamental questions about the balance between free speech and state secrecy, and between individual morality and corporate power. In Crisis of Conscience, Tom Mueller traces the rise of whistleblowing through a series of riveting cases drawn from the worlds of healthcare and other businesses, Wall Street, and Washington. Drawing on in-depth interviews with more than two hundred whistleblowers and the trailblazing lawyers who arm them for battle--plus politicians, intelligence analysts, government watchdogs, cognitive scientists, and other experts--Mueller anatomizes what inspires some to speak out while the rest of us become complicit in our silence. Whistleblowers, we come to see, are the freethinking, outspoken citizens for whom our republic was conceived. And they are the models we must emulate if our democracy is to survive.