Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : History
ISBN : BL:A0023255073
Democratic Vistas
Walt Whitman
Democratic Vistas
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Democratic Vistas
Walt Whitman
Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Democracy
ISBN : UOM:39015006980489
Democratic Vistas by Walt Whitman Pdf
Democratic Vistas
Marlene Park,Gerald E. Markowitz
Author : Marlene Park,Gerald E. Markowitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Art
ISBN : IND:39000005508515
Democratic Vistas by Marlene Park,Gerald E. Markowitz Pdf
Democratic Vistas
Walt Whitman
Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781587299230
Democratic Vistas by Walt Whitman Pdf
"Written in the aftermath of the American Civil War during the ferment of national Reconstruction, Walt Whitman's Democratic Vistas remains one of the most penetrating analyses of democracy ever written. Now available for the first time in a facsimile of the original 1870-1871 edition, with an introduction and annotations by noted Whitman scholar Ed Folsom that illuminate the essay's historical and cultural contexts, this searing analysis of American culture offers readers today the opportunity to argue with Whitman over the nature of democracy and the future of the nation." --Book Jacket.
Democratic Vistas
Jedediah Purdy,Anthony T. Kronman,Cynthia Farrar
Author : Jedediah Purdy,Anthony T. Kronman,Cynthia Farrar
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780300130485
Democratic Vistas by Jedediah Purdy,Anthony T. Kronman,Cynthia Farrar Pdf
In this thought-provoking collection, leading scholars explore democracy in the United States from a sweeping variety of perspectives. A dozen contributors consider the nature and prospects of democracy as it relates to the American experience—free markets, religion, family life, the Cold War, higher education, and more. These probing essays bring American democracy into fresh focus, complete with its idealism, its moral greatness, its disappointments, and its contradictions. Based on DeVane lectures delivered at Yale University, these writings examine large themes and ask important questions: Why do democratic societies, and the United States in particular, tolerate profound economic inequality? Has the United States ever been truly democratic? How has democratic aspiration influenced the development of practices as diverse as education, religious worship, and family life? With deep insights and lively discussion, the authors expand our understanding of what democracy has meant in the past, how it functions now, and what its course may be in the future.
Two Rivulets. Including Democratic Vistas, Centennial Songs, and Passage to India
Walt Whitman
Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385506138
Two Rivulets. Including Democratic Vistas, Centennial Songs, and Passage to India by Walt Whitman Pdf
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Two rivulets, including Democratic vistas, Centennial songs, and Passage to India [and As a strong bird on pinions free, and Memoranda during the war. Author's ed
Walt Whitman
Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:591050005
Two rivulets, including Democratic vistas, Centennial songs, and Passage to India [and As a strong bird on pinions free, and Memoranda during the war. Author's ed by Walt Whitman Pdf
LEAVES OF GRASS
WALT WHITMAN
Author : WALT WHITMAN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
LEAVES OF GRASS by WALT WHITMAN Pdf
The Pragmatic Whitman
Stephen John Mack
Author : Stephen John Mack
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781587294242
The Pragmatic Whitman by Stephen John Mack Pdf
In this surprisingly timely book, Stephen Mack examines Whitman’s particular and fascinating brand of patriotism: his far-reaching vision of democracy. For Whitman, loyalty to America was loyalty to democracy. Since the idea that democracy is not just a political process but a social and cultural process as well is associated with American pragmatism, Mack relies on the pragmatic tradition of Emerson, James, Dewey, Mead, and Rorty to demonstrate the ways in which Whitman resides in this tradition. Mack analyzes Whitman's democratic vision both in its parts and as a whole; he also describes the ways in which Whitman's vision evolved throughout his career. He argues that Whitman initially viewed democratic values such as individual liberty and democratic processes such as collective decision-making as fundamental, organic principles, free and unregulated. But throughout the 1860s and 1870s Whitman came to realize that democracy entailed processes of human agency that are more deliberate and less natural—that human destiny is largely the product of human effort, and a truly humane society can be shaped only by intelligent human efforts to govern the forces that would otherwise govern us. Mack describes the foundation of Whitman’s democracy as found in the 1855 and 1856 editions of Leaves of Grass, examines the ways in which Whitman’s 1859 sexual crisis and the Civil War transformed his democratic poetics in “Sea-Drift,” “Calamus,” Drum-Taps,and Sequel to Drum-Taps, and explores Whitman’s mature vision in Democratic Vistas, concluding with observations on its moral and political implications today. Throughout, he illuminates Whitman's great achievement—learning that a full appreciation for the complexities of human life meant understanding that liberty can take many different and conflicting forms—and allows us to contemplate the relevance of that achievement at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
The Art of the Impossible
Václav Havel
Author : Václav Havel
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Current Events
ISBN : UOM:39015041041230
The Art of the Impossible by Václav Havel Pdf
There is no shortage of politicians who make a habit of shooting from the hip, but it is much rarer to find one who speaks from the heart. Vaclav Havel knows no other way to speak, or to write. Both as a dissident and as a playwright it was his sworn purpose for many years to combat evil with nothing but truth. As president of Czechoslovakia, and now of the Czech Republic, he has clung to that habit, refusing to turn over either his conscience or his voice to political handlers and professional speechwriters. Instead he assumes the additional burden--for him, it is a distinct pleasure--of composing all of his oratory. Audiences from New York to New Delhi, Oslo to Tokyo, have been the luckier for his decision. This volume consists of thirty-five of these essays, written between the years 1990 and 1996, that manage to be both profoundly personal and profoundly political. Havel writes of totalitarianism, its miseries and the nonetheless difficult emergence from it. He describes how his country and the other postcommunist countries are learning democracy from scratch and are encountering obstacles from inside and out. He marvels at the single technology-driven civilization that envelops the globe, and the challenges this presents to multicultural realities. He invokes the duty of every person alive to prevent hatred and fear from derailing history ever again. He acknowledges "the advantage it is for doing a good job as president to know that I do not belong in the position and that I can at any moment, and justifiably, be removed from it." And he reminds us that--contrary to all appearances--common sense, moderation, responsibility, good taste, feeling, instinct, and conscience arenot alien to politics, but are the very key to its long-term success.
Specimen Days
Michael Cunningham
Author : Michael Cunningham
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374706241
Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham Pdf
In each section of Michael Cunningham's bold new novel, his first since The Hours, we encounter the same group of characters: a young boy, an older man, and a young woman. "In the Machine" is a ghost story that takes place at the height of the industrial revolution, as human beings confront the alienating realities of the new machine age. "The Children's Crusade," set in the early twenty-first century, plays with the conventions of the noir thriller as it tracks the pursuit of a terrorist band that is detonating bombs, seemingly at random, around the city. The third part, "Like Beauty," evokes a New York 150 years into the future, when the city is all but overwhelmed by refugees from the first inhabited planet to be contacted by the people of Earth. Presiding over each episode of this interrelated whole is the prophetic figure of the poet Walt Whitman, who promised his future readers, "It avails not, neither time or place . . . I am with you, and know how it is." Specimen Days is a genre-bending, haunting, and transformative ode to life in our greatest city and a meditation on the direction and meaning of America's destiny. It is a work of surpassing power and beauty by one of the most original and daring writers at work today.
A Democratic Enlightenment
Morton Schoolman
Author : Morton Schoolman
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781478009054
A Democratic Enlightenment by Morton Schoolman Pdf
In A Democratic Enlightenment Morton Schoolman proposes aesthetic education through film as a way to redress the political violence inflicted on difference that society constructs as its racialized, gendered, Semitic, and sexualized other. Drawing on Voltaire, Diderot, and Schiller, Schoolman reconstructs the genealogical history of what he calls the reconciliation image—a visual model of a democratic ideal of reconciliation he then theorizes through Whitman's prose and poetry and Adorno's aesthetic theory. Analyzing The Help (2011) and Gentleman's Agreement (1947), Schoolman shows how film produces a more advanced image of reconciliation than those originally created by modernist artworks. Each film depicts violence toward racial and ethnic difference while also displaying a reconciliation image that aesthetically educates the public about how the violence of constructing difference as otherness can be overcome. Mounting a democratic enlightenment, the reconciliation image in film illuminates a possible politics for challenging the rise of nationalism's violence toward differences in all their diversity.
Democratic Vistas, and Other Papers
Walt Whitman
Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Democracy
ISBN : OCLC:20589870
Democratic Vistas, and Other Papers by Walt Whitman Pdf
Critical Companion to Walt Whitman
Charles M. Oliver
Author : Charles M. Oliver
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781438108582
Critical Companion to Walt Whitman by Charles M. Oliver Pdf
Presents a complete reference to the life and works of Walt Whitman.
Curricular Landscapes, Democratic Vistas
William G. Tierney
Author : William G. Tierney
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1989-09-26
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015015472601
Curricular Landscapes, Democratic Vistas by William G. Tierney Pdf
William G. Tierney offers a different way of thinking about the curriculum in post-secondary curriculum than is customary. Through an in-depth analysis of seven ethnographic case studies, the author demonstrates how the curriculum itself is a cultural product which institutions of higher education construct socially. The manner in which the individual institution defines its curriculum, Tierney argues, commits it to certain philosophical and ideological choices, whether these are overtly recognized or not. It is the result of a year's research that included over 250 interviews at seven colleges in universities throughout the U.S. The volume concludes with recommendations administrators and faculty may employ in the effort to advance democracy in their colleges and universities. Organized around the theme of institutional curricula acting as a critical agent for preparing students to participate in the democratic sphere, the book begins by providing a conceptual map for the chapters which follow. Both curricular and cultural theories are reviewed and discussed. The next two sections explore the archaeology of the curriculum at the seven institutions under study. After examining the ways in which participants at the seven colleges and universities view different curricular concepts, the author illustrates how the individuals view one another's actions about the curriculum. As he demonstrates, the curriculum often becomes contested terrain because of the cultural constructions different groups develop about one another and toward the curriculum. Finally, the author offers an interpretation and analysis of the different curricula of the seven institutions, concluding with a discussion of how organizational participants might assume the roles of transformative leaders who create new curricular paths and directions for their organizations.
