The Ideal Society And Its Enemies

Author : Miles Fairburn
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781775581871

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The Ideal Society and Its Enemies by Miles Fairburn Pdf

In this challenging and provocative study of the nature of settler society in 19th-century New Zealand, Fairburn focuses on the lives of the common people and presents a rigorous and original description of the place and time which is radically different from those of previous historians. An important book that will have a major impact on our understanding of New Zealand's past, it is also a significant contribution to the study of new societies.

Author : Michael Ignatieff,Stefan Roch
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789633862704

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Rethinking Open society by Michael Ignatieff,Stefan Roch Pdf

The key values of the Open Society - freedom, justice, tolerance, democracy and respect for knowledge - are increasingly under threat in today's world. As an effort to uphold those values, this volume brings together some of the key political, social and economic thinkers of our time to re-examine the Open Society closely in terms of its history, its achievements and failures, and its future prospects. Based on the lecture series Rethinking Open Society, which took place between 2017 and 2018 at the Central European University, the volume is deeply embedded in the history and purpose of CEU, its Open Society mission, and its belief in educating sceptical but passionate citizens. This volume aims to inspire students, researchers and citizens around the world to critically engage with Open Society values and to defend them wherever they are at risk. The volume features contributions from, among others: Dorothee Bohle, Timothy Garton Ash, Jacques Rupnik, Steven Walt, Erica Benner, Robert Kaplan, Andras Sajo, Roger Scruton, Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, and Pierre Rosanvallon.

Author : Karl Raimund Popper
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0691019681

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The Open Society and Its Enemies: The spell of Plato by Karl Raimund Popper Pdf

Popper was born in 1902 to a Viennese family of Jewish origin. He taught in Austria until 1937, when he emigrated to New Zealand in anticipation of the Nazi annexation of Austria the following year, and he settled in England in 1949. Before the annexation, Popper had written mainly about the philosophy of science, but from 1938 until the end of the Second World War he focused his energies on political philosophy, seeking to diagnose the intellectual origins of German and Soviet totalitarianism. The Open Society and Its Enemies was the result. In the book, Popper condemned Plato, Marx, and Hegel as "holists" and "historicists"--a holist, according to Popper, believes that individuals are formed entirely by their social groups; historicists believe that social groups evolve according to internal principles that it is the intellectual's task to uncover. Popper, by contrast, held that social affairs are unpredictable, and argued vehemently against social engineering. He also sought to shift the focus of political philosophy away from questions about who ought to rule toward questions about how to minimize the damage done by the powerful. The book was an immediate sensation, and--though it has long been criticized for its portrayals of Plato, Marx, and Hegel--it has remained a landmark on the left and right alike for its defense of freedom and the spirit of critical inquiry.

Author : Miles Fairburn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:878924322

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Author : Karl Raimund Popper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0691071276

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Open Society and Its Enemies. Volume 2 by Karl Raimund Popper Pdf

Popper was born in 1902 to a Viennese family of Jewish origin. He taught in Austria until 1937, when he emigrated to New Zealand in anticipation of the Nazi annexation of Austria the following year, and he settled in England in 1949. Before the annexation, Popper had written mainly about the philosophy of science, but from 1938 until the end of the Second World War he focused his energies on political philosophy, seeking to diagnose the intellectual origins of German and Soviet totalitarianism. The Open Society and Its Enemies was the result. In the book, Popper condemned Plato, Marx, and Hegel as "holists" and "historicists"--a holist, according to Popper, believes that individuals are formed entirely by their social groups; historicists believe that social groups evolve according to internal principles that it is the intellectual's task to uncover. Popper, by contrast, held that social affairs are unpredictable, and argued vehemently against social engineering. He also sought to shift the focus of political philosophy away from questions about who ought to rule toward questions about how to minimize the damage done by the powerful. The book was an immediate sensation, and--though it has long been criticized for its portrayals of Plato, Marx, and Hegel--it has remained a landmark on the left and right alike for its defense of freedom and the spirit of critical inquiry.

Author : Gregory G. C. Moore
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317811671

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The Open Society and its Enemies in East Asia by Gregory G. C. Moore Pdf

The ideas contained in Karl Popper’s The Open Society and Its Enemies—one of the most important tracts in political philosophy in the twentieth century—are relevant to anyone seeking to understand the recent history of the East Asian economies. Even though Popper wrote his tract to provide an explanation for both the rise and objectionable nature of totalitarian regimes in Europe in the twentieth century, many of the arguments that he advanced in this European context also explain the social, political and economic relationships that are seen in modern South Eastern Asian economies. The narrative of this book is driven by a research agenda that is inter-disciplinary in nature, since to make the link between the Popperian framework and East Asian socio-economic relationships the contributing authors needed to draw upon research fields as far apart as political philosophy and East-Asian studies. With one or two exceptions, however, nearly all of the contributing authors have a background in economics, and this background is reflected in the way that they have sought to tackle the research question. This book is, in short, an inter-disciplinary exercise undertaken from an economics perspective, and hence it may best be described as an exercise in political economy rather than pure analytical economics. The novelty of juxtaposing Popperian ideas with a discussion of social, political and economic development in South East Asia makes this narrative of interest to both political philosophers and specialists in South East Asian economies. The key insight drawn from the analysis is that although Karl Popper’s The Open Society and Its Enemies was a product of a European time and place, it is also relevant to anyone seeking to understand the recent history of the East Asian economies.

Author : Miles Fairburn
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781869405113

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The Ideal Society and Its Enemies by Miles Fairburn Pdf

The Ideal Society and its Enemies is a challenging and provocative study of the nature of settler society in nineteenth-century New Zealand, in which Fairburn focuses attention on the lives of the common people and presents a rigorous and original description of the place and time. His views differ radically from those of previous historians. His work explores the characteristics of New Zealand's settler society, the types of social organisation and culture that the European colonists created in a remote and unfamiliar land, as well as the problems facing the new society. Fairburn argues that in the process by which the settlers coped with these problems and adapted social beliefs and attitudes to handle them, the foundations of modern New Zealand society were laid. This important book will have a major impact on how we understand New Zealand's past and is a significant contribution to the study of new societies.

Author : Judith Binney
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781927131091

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The Shaping of History by Judith Binney Pdf

The writing of history will only flourish if there is a vehicle for its publication: such was Sir Keith Sinclair’s vision when he founded The New Zealand Journal of History in 1967. Since then the journal has been the conduit for a flow of remarkable history writing. The Shaping of History brings together a selection of essays from its first 30 years by some of the nation’s best-known historians, including Judith Binney, Tipene O’Regan, Claudia Orange, Barbara Brookes, Alan Ward, Jock Phillips and Jamie Belich. Their sharp analysis and great storytelling make the collection an essential resource for understanding how New Zealand history is shaped.

Author : Karl Popper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135627119

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After The Open Society by Karl Popper Pdf

In this long-awaited volume, Jeremy Shearmur and Piers Norris Turner bring to light Popper's most important unpublished and uncollected writings from the time of The Open Society until his death in 1994. After The Open Society: Selected Social and Political Writings reveals the development of Popper's political and philosophical thought during and after the Second World War, from his early socialism through to the radical humanitarianism of The Open Society. The papers in this collection, many of which are available here for the first time, demonstrate the clarity and pertinence of Popper's thinking on such topics as religion, history, Plato and Aristotle, while revealing a lifetime of unwavering political commitment. After The Open Society illuminates the thought of one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers and is essential reading for anyone interested in the recent course of philosophy, politics, history and society.

Author : John Stuart Mill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Liberty
ISBN : HARVARD:32044024786071

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On Liberty by John Stuart Mill Pdf

Author : Shelley Richardson
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781760460594

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Family Experiments by Shelley Richardson Pdf

Family Experiments explores the forms and undertakings of ‘family’ that prevailed among British professionals who migrated to Australia and New Zealand in the late nineteenth century. Their attempts to establish and define ‘family’ in Australasian, suburban environments reveal how the Victorian theory of ‘separate spheres’ could take a variety of forms in the new world setting. The attitudes and assumptions that shaped these family experiments may be placed on a continuum that extends from John Ruskin’s concept of evangelical motherhood to John Stuart Mill’s rational secularism. Central to their thinking was a belief in the power of education to produce civilised and humane individuals who, as useful citizens, would individually and in concert nurture a better society. Such ideas pushed them to the forefront of colonial liberalism. The pursuit of higher education for their daughters merged with and, in some respects, influenced first-wave colonial feminism. They became the first generation of colonial, middle-class parents to grapple not only with the problem of shaping careers for their sons but also, and more frustratingly, what graduate daughters might do next.

Author : D. Pool,Arunachalam Dharmalingam,Janet Sceats
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781775581994

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The New Zealand Family from 1840 by D. Pool,Arunachalam Dharmalingam,Janet Sceats Pdf

An authoritative demographic history of the New Zealand family from 1840–2005, this reference is a collection of statistics that interprets the changing role of the family and its members. Using detailed research spanning 165 years, the authors chart the move from the large family of the 19th century to the baby boom, the increase in family diversity, and the modern trend towards unsustainably small families. This analysis of society helps trace changing attitudes and the structure of society by noting the reasons for and consequences of the demographic changes.

Author : J. C. Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1983-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521275512

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Utopia and the Ideal Society by J. C. Davis Pdf

This text provides a major study for all those working in the fields of 16th- and 17th-century political and social thought.

Author : Karl Raimund Popper
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780415282369

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The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Raimund Popper Pdf

Popper's legendary attack on the philosophies of Plato, Hegel and Marx prophesied the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and exposed the fatal flaws of socially engineered political systems. Available here in a special single volume edition.

Author : Ben Schrader
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780947492441

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The Big Smoke by Ben Schrader Pdf

'Unlike in Europe, North America, Australia and elsewhere, urban history has never been sustained as a distinct field of scholarship in New Zealand. This is surprising, considering that since the early twentieth century most New Zealanders have lived in towns and cities – 86 per cent were urban in 2014. Yet we know surprisingly little about these urban dwellers and the spaces in which they lived.' The pursuit of city life is one of the most important untold stories of New Zealand. The Big Smoke is the first comprehensive history to tell this story, presenting a dynamic and highly illustrated account of city life from 1840 to 1920. It explores such questions as: what did cities look like and how did they change; why were women especially drawn to live in cities; in what ways did Māori experience and shape cities; how far was the street a living room and stage for city life; and why did New Zealand so quickly become a nation of townspeople? At a time of national debate over housing and the growth of our cities, Ben Schrader’s superb new history reveals how our urban origins have shaped the people we are today. Available in paperback and ebook formats from booksellers and using the ‘Buy’ buttons on this page. For more information on these purchase options please visit our Sales FAQs page or contact us.