Literature For A Society Of Equals

Author : Daniel S. Malachuk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Equality in literature
ISBN : 1032494301

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"Literature for a Society of Equals defends modern equality and seeks its best literature. It accuses equality's supposed friends on the left of attenuating this world-redefining relationship into a collection of rights and goods to distribute, secularizing it even as the right keeps sacralizing hierarchies, and optimistically handing it over to time to make it happen. In contrast, loyal to equality as modernity's revolutionary invention, the writers examined here-from Mary Shelley to Gwendolyn Brooks to Ta-Nehisi Coates-envision "relational equality" as lately recovered by philosophers like Elizabeth Anderson and historians like Pierre Rosanvallon. Literary scholars need to reread these "pessimist egalitarians," too, though, for the discipline has failed them in the same three ways: i.e., attenuating and secularizing these writers' portraits of equality but most of all insisting the sympathy generated by reading these texts will, with enough time, "expand the circle" of humanity. For students and teachers of literature at the university level, this volume is a guide to those writings that champion equality as relational, sacred, and ours-not time's-to realize"--

Author : Daniel S. Malachuk
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000962963

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Literature for a Society of Equals by Daniel S. Malachuk Pdf

Literature for a Society of Equals defends modern equality and seeks its best literature. It accuses equality’s supposed friends on the left of attenuating this world-redefining relationship into a collection of rights and goods to distribute, secularizing it even as the right keeps sacralizing hierarchies, and optimistically handing it over to time to make it happen. In contrast, loyal to equality as modernity’s revolutionary invention, the writers examined here—from Mary Shelley to Gwendolyn Brooks to Ta-Nehisi Coates—envision "relational equality" as lately recovered by philosophers like Elizabeth Anderson and historians like Pierre Rosanvallon. Literary scholars need to reread these "pessimist egalitarians," too, though, for the discipline has failed them in the same three ways: i.e., attenuating and secularizing these writers’ portraits of equality but most of all insisting the sympathy generated by reading these texts will, with enough time, "expand the circle" of humanity. For students and teachers of literature at the university level, this volume is a guide to those writings that champion equality as relational, sacred, and ours—not time's—to realize.

Author : Jonathan Rothwell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691206431

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A Republic of Equals by Jonathan Rothwell Pdf

In this provocative book, economist Jonathan Rothwell draws on the latest empirical evidence from across the social sciences to demonstrate how rich democracies have allowed racial politics and the interests of those at the top to subordinate justice. He looks at the rise of nationalism in Europe and the United States, revealing how this trend overlaps with racial prejudice and is related to mounting frustration with a political status quo that thrives on income inequality and inefficient markets. But economic differences are by no means inevitable. Differences in group status by race and ethnicity are dynamic and have reversed themselves across continents and within countries. Inequalities persist between races in the United States because Black Americans are denied equal access to markets and public services. Meanwhile, elite professional associations carve out privileged market status for their members, leading to compensation in excess of their skills.

Author : Jeremy Waldron
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674659766

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One Another’s Equals by Jeremy Waldron Pdf

An enduring theme of Western philosophy is that we are all one another’s equals. Yet the principle of basic equality is woefully under-explored in modern moral and political philosophy. What does it mean to say we are all one another’s equals? Jeremy Waldron confronts this question fully and unflinchingly in a major new multifaceted account.

Author : Emma Wolf
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 101977651X

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Other Things Being Equal by Emma Wolf Pdf

This novel offers a rare perspective on the history of women's rights and suffrage, as seen through the eyes of a young female journalist in early 20th century America. The book explores the challenges and triumphs of the women's movement, and the ways in which women struggled to gain equal rights and recognition in a male-dominated society. It is a powerful and inspiring work that will resonate with readers who care about gender equality and social justice. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : James Lindley Wilson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691190914

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Democratic Equality by James Lindley Wilson Pdf

Showing how equality of authority is essential to relating equally as citizens, the author explains why the U.S. Senate and Electoral College are urgently in need of reform, why proportional representation is not a universal requirement of democracy, how to identify racial vote dilution and gerrymandering in electoral districting, how to respond to threats to democracy posed by wealth inequality, and how judicial review could be more compatible with the democratic ideal.

Author : Richard Wilkinson,Kate Pickett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781608193417

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The Spirit Level by Richard Wilkinson,Kate Pickett Pdf

It is common knowledge that, in rich societies, the poor have worse health and suffer more from almost every social problem. This book explains why inequality is the most serious problem societies face today.

Author : Mariano Longo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351811705

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Emotions through Literature by Mariano Longo Pdf

Engaging with the wide sociological literature on emotions, this book explores the social representation of emotions, their management and their effects by making reference to creative sources. With a specific focus on literary narrative, including the works of figures such as Dante, Austen, Manzoni, Tolstoy and Kundera, the author draws out the capacity of literary works to describe and represent both the external aspects of social relations and the inner motivations of the involved actors. An interdisciplinary study that combines sociology, narratology, philosophy, historical analysis and literary criticism, Emotions through Literature invites us to re-think the role of emotions in sociological analysis, employing literary narratives to give plausible intellectual responses to the double nature of emotions, their being both individual and social.

Author : Ayn Rand
Publisher : Ayn Rand Institute Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780996010139

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Anthem by Ayn Rand Pdf

About this Edition This 2021-2022 Digital Student Edition of Ayn Rand's Anthem was created for teachers and students receiving free novels from the Ayn Rand Institute, and includes a historic Q&A with Ayn Rand that cannot be found in any other edition of Anthem. In this Q&A from 1979, Rand responds to questions about Anthem sent to her by a high school classroom. About Anthem Anthem is Ayn Rand’s “hymn to man’s ego.” It is the story of one man’s rebellion against a totalitarian, collectivist society. Equality 7-2521 is a young man who yearns to understand “the Science of Things.” But he lives in a bleak, dystopian future where independent thought is a crime and where science and technology have regressed to primitive levels. All expressions of individualism have been suppressed in the world of Anthem; personal possessions are nonexistent, individual preferences are condemned as sinful and romantic love is forbidden. Obedience to the collective is so deeply ingrained that the very word “I” has been erased from the language. In pursuit of his quest for knowledge, Equality 7-2521 struggles to answer the questions that burn within him — questions that ultimately lead him to uncover the mystery behind his society’s downfall and to find the key to a future of freedom and progress. Anthem anticipates the theme of Rand’s first best seller, The Fountainhead, which she stated as “individualism versus collectivism, not in politics, but in man’s soul.”

Author : Ronald Dworkin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Law
ISBN : 0674008103

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Sovereign Virtue by Ronald Dworkin Pdf

Equality is the endangered species of political ideals. Even left-of-center politicians reject equality as an ideal: government must combat poverty, they say, but need not strive that its citizens be equal in any dimension. In his new book Ronald Dworkin insists, to the contrary, that equality is the indispensable virtue of democratic sovereignty. A legitimate government must treat all its citizens as equals, that is, with equal respect and concern, and, since the economic distribution that any society achieves is mainly the consequence of its system of law and policy, that requirement imposes serious egalitarian constraints on that distribution. What distribution of a nation's wealth is demanded by equal concern for all? Dworkin draws upon two fundamental humanist principles--first, it is of equal objective importance that all human lives flourish, and second, each person is responsible for defining and achieving the flourishing of his or her own life--to ground his well-known thesis that true equality means equality in the value of the resources that each person commands, not in the success he or she achieves. Equality, freedom, and individual responsibility are therefore not in conflict, but flow from and into one another as facets of the same humanist conception of life and politics. Since no abstract political theory can be understood except in the context of actual and complex political issues, Dworkin develops his thesis by applying it to heated contemporary controversies about the distribution of health care, unemployment benefits, campaign finance reform, affirmative action, assisted suicide, and genetic engineering.

Author : Alan Thomas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190602116

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Republic of Equals by Alan Thomas Pdf

This study of property-owning democracy argues that a society in which capital is universally accessible to all citizens uniquely meets the demands of justice. It defends a renovated form of capitalism in which the free market is no longer a threat to social democratic values, but is potentially convergent with them.

Author : Anne Phillips
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691226163

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Unconditional Equals by Anne Phillips Pdf

Why equality cannot be conditional on a shared human “nature” but has to be for all For centuries, ringing declarations about all men being created equal appealed to a shared human nature as the reason to consider ourselves equals. But appeals to natural equality invited gradations of natural difference, and the ambiguity at the heart of “nature” enabled generations to write of people as equal by nature while barely noticing the exclusion of those marked as inferior by their gender, race, or class. Despite what we commonly tell ourselves, these exclusions and gradations continue today. In Unconditional Equals, political philosopher Anne Phillips challenges attempts to justify equality by reference to a shared human nature, arguing that justification turns into conditions and ends up as exclusion. Rejecting the logic of justification, she calls instead for a genuinely unconditional equality. Drawing on political, feminist, and postcolonial theory, Unconditional Equals argues that we should understand equality not as something grounded in shared characteristics but as something people enact when they refuse to be considered inferiors. At a time when the supposedly shared belief in human equality is so patently not shared, the book makes a powerful case for seeing equality as a commitment we make to ourselves and others, and a claim we make on others when they deny us our status as equals.

Author : Thomas More
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : EAN:8596547685586

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Utopia by Thomas More Pdf

Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.

Author : Madras literary society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 996 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555024029

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The Journal [afterw.] The Madras journal of literature and science, ed. by J.C. Morris by Madras literary society Pdf

Author : Asiatic society of Bombay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1819
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555066429

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Transactions of the Literary society of Bombay by Asiatic society of Bombay Pdf