The Political Self

Author : Rod Tweedy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429921766

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The Political Self by Rod Tweedy Pdf

This book explores how our social and economic contexts profoundly affect our mental health and wellbeing, and how modern neuroscientific and psychodynamic research can both contribute to and enrich our understanding of these wider discussions. It therefore looks both inside and outside - indeed one of the main themes of The Political Self is that the conceptually discrete categories of 'inner' and 'outer' in reality constantly interact, shape, and inform each other. Severing these two worlds, it suggests, has led both to a devitalised and dissociated form of politics, and to a disengaged and disempowering form of therapy and analysis.

Author : Laurence Thomas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-02-20
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780521854177

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The Family and the Political Self by Laurence Thomas Pdf

The Family and the Political Self explores insights on the human desire to have children.

Author : Anna Elisabetta Galeotti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108423724

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Political Self-Deception by Anna Elisabetta Galeotti Pdf

Explores self-deception and its consequences for political decision-making.

Author : K. M. Fierke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107029231

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Political Self-Sacrifice by K. M. Fierke Pdf

This book examines a variety of different forms of political self-sacrifice, including hunger strikes, self-burning, and non-violent martyrdom.

Author : Nicholas Michelsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317375883

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Politics and Suicide by Nicholas Michelsen Pdf

Politics and Suicide argues that whilst the historical lineage of suicidal politics is recognised, the fundamental significance of autodestruction to the political remains under examined. It contends that practices like suicide-bombing do not simply embody a strange or abnormal ‘suicidal’ articulation of the political, but rather, that the existence of suicidal politics tells us something fundamental about the political as such and thinking about political violence more broadly. Recent world events have emphatically shown our need for tools with which to develop better understandings of the politics of suicide. Through the exploration of several arresting case-studies, including the ‘Kamikaze’ bombers of World War Two, Jan Palach’s self-immolation in 1969, Cold War nuclear deterrence, and the suicide-terrorist attacks of 9/11 Michelsen asks how we might talk of a political suicide in any of these contexts. The book charts how political processes ‘go suicidal’, and asks how we might still consider them to be political in such a case. It investigates how suicide can function as ‘politics’. A strong contribution to the fields of philosophy and international relations theory, this work will also be of interest to students and scholars of political theory and terrorism & political violence.

Author : Jason Weeden,Robert Kurzban
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781400851966

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The Hidden Agenda of the Political Mind by Jason Weeden,Robert Kurzban Pdf

Why your political views are more self-serving than you think When it comes to politics, we often perceive our own beliefs as fair and socially beneficial, while seeing opposing views as merely self-serving. But in fact most political views are governed by self-interest, even if we usually don't realize it. Challenging our fiercely held notions about what motivates us politically, this book explores how self-interest divides the public on a host of hot-button issues, from abortion and the legalization of marijuana to same-sex marriage, immigration, affirmative action, and income redistribution. Expanding the notion of interests beyond simple economics, Jason Weeden and Robert Kurzban look at how people's interests clash when it comes to their sex lives, social status, family, and friends. Drawing on a wealth of data, they demonstrate how different groups form distinctive bundles of political positions that often stray far from what we typically think of as liberal or conservative. They show how we engage in unconscious rationalization to justify our political positions, portraying our own views as wise, benevolent, and principled while casting our opponents' views as thoughtless and greedy. While many books on politics seek to provide partisans with new ways to feel good about their own side, The Hidden Agenda of the Political Mind illuminates the hidden drivers of our politics, even if it's a picture neither side will find flattering.

Author : Christopher Heath Wellman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521849152

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A Theory of Secession by Christopher Heath Wellman Pdf

This 2005 book presents an argument for the right of groups to secede, offering a thorough and unapologetic defense.

Author : Kristina Roepstorff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415520645

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The Politics of Self-determination by Kristina Roepstorff Pdf

There have been an increasing number of self-determination conflicts where sub-state groups challenge existing state authority. This book explains how self-determination can exercised beyond the decolonisation process and demonstrates that rather than a threat to international peace and stability, it has strong potential as a tool for conflict prevention and resolution.

Author : Roderick Tweedy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 036732850X

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The Political Self by Roderick Tweedy Pdf

This book explores how our social and economic contexts profoundly affect our mental health and wellbeing, and how modern neuroscientific and psychodynamic research can both contribute to and enrich our understanding of these wider discussions. It therefore looks both inside and outside - indeed one of the main themes of The Political Self is th

Author : Yannick Vanderborght
Publisher : Presses univ. de Louvain
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9782874632754

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Arguing about Justice by Yannick Vanderborght Pdf

Fifty of today's finest thinkers were asked to let their imaginations run free to advance new ideas on a wide range of social and political issues. They did so as friends, on the occasion of Philippe Van Parijs's sixtieth birthday.

Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138709158

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The Political Self by Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

Author : Markus Daechsel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781134383719

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The Politics of Self-Expression by Markus Daechsel Pdf

The 1930s to 1950s witnessed the rise and dominance of a political culture across much of North India which combined unprecedented levels of mobilization and organization with an effective de-politicization of politics. On the one hand obsessed with world events, people also came to understand politics as a question of personal morality and achievement. In other words, politics was about expressing the self in new ways and about finding and securing an imaginary home in a fast-moving and often terrifying universe. The scope and arguments of this book make an innovative contribution to the historiography of modern South Asia, by focusing on the middle-class milieu which was the epicentre of this new political culture.

Author : Mabel Berezin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501722141

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Making the Fascist Self by Mabel Berezin Pdf

In her examination of the culture of Italian fascism, Mabel Berezin focuses on how Mussolini's regime consciously constructed a nonliberal public sphere to support its political aims. Fascism stresses form over content, she believes, and the regime tried to build its political support through the careful construction and manipulation of public spectacles or rituals such as parades, commemoration ceremonies, and holiday festivities. The fascists believed they could rely on the motivating power of spectacle, and experiential symbols. In contrast with the liberal democratic notion of separable public and private selves, Italian fascism attempted to merge the public and private selves in political spectacles, creating communities of feeling in public piazzas. Such communities were only temporary, Berezin explains, and fascist identity was only formed to the extent that it could be articulated in a language of pre-existing cultural identities. In the Italian case, those identities meant the popular culture of Roman Catholicism and the cult of motherhood. Berezin hypothesizes that at particular historical moments certain social groups which perceive the division of public and private self as untenable on cultural grounds will gain political ascendance. Her hypothesis opens a new perspective on how fascism works.

Author : Heinz Eulau
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0674687604

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Politics, Self, and Society by Heinz Eulau Pdf

How to deal with the relationship between the individual and society as it reveals itself through politics is the large theme of these erudite and stylish essays by a leading scholar whose lifelong concerns have included political behavior, decision-making by groups, and legislative deportment. Truly interdisciplinary in his approach, Heinz Eulau has drawn on all the social sciences in his thirty years of research into the political behavior of citizens in the mass and of legislative elites at the state and local levels of government. Utilizing a variety of social and political theories--theories of reference group behavior, social role, organization, conflict, exchange functions and purposive action--he enriches the methodology of political science while tackling substantive issues such as social class behavior in elections, public policies in American cities, the structures of city councils, and the convergence of politics and the legal system. Eulau is ranked among the few scholars who have shaped the agenda of political science, and his latest work should also prove valuable for sociologists, social psychologists, and theorists of the social sciences.

Author : Tracy B. Strong
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780814779262

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The Self and the Political Order by Tracy B. Strong Pdf

From the immemorial humans have lived together in groups. What it means to be a human being has no other basis than the interactions that take place in these groups. Politics then is the shaping of the necessary fact of social interaction. This volume concerns itself with the role of the individual in this social and political order. Including selections from both classical writers such as Plato, and contemporary scholars such as George Kareb, Michael Sandel, and Donna Haraway, the work examines one of the most fundemental questions of human society: what part do individual desires and concerns play, and what part should they play, in political society? How can we negotiate the relation between individuals and society, between the will of one and the mandate of the multitude? Strong's lengthy introduction provides an excellent framework that serves to unify these semial writings.