books by Amy Gutmann     books:     Amy Gutmann      The Lives of Animals J. M. Coetzee Princeton Univ Pr, 1999 Creative Context for Animal Rights Review This small book provides a wonderfully insightful perspective on the issues surrounding compassion and respect for animals. It reviews some of the main arguments, but in the context of two lectures given by an aging academician. Adding to the substance of her ...             On Risk and Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006 Hurricane Katrina not only devastated a large area of the nation's Gulf coast, it also raised fundamental questions about ways the nation can, and should, deal with the inevitable problems of economic risk and social responsibility. This volume gathers leading experts to examine lessons that Hurricane Katrina teaches us about better assessing, ...             Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry (The University Center for Human Values Series) Michael Ignatieff Princeton University Press, 2003 Excellent, insightful Ignatieff offers a measured, limited, and explicitly political, i.e., dialogic, nondogmatic, nonmetaphysical, pragmatic, approach to human rights advocacy and questions of international jurisdiction. Excellent, compelling, convincing. I can't say I'm entirely ...             Multiculturalism: Examining the politics of recognition Charles Taylor Princeton University Press, 1994 A timely debate, with an emphasis on the philosophical. One web page which I recently encountered urged the USA to adopt an official policy of multiculturalism, and thereby become the first great nation to make this postmodern leap; ahead of the U.K., and all of the other states which have considered such a move. Yet ...             Ethics and Politics: Cases and Comments Amy Gutmann, Dennis F. Thompson Wadsworth Publishing, 2005 "Ethics and Politics": An Eye-Opening Study When one hears the phrase "political morality", one is inclined to throw it off as an oxymoron. This set of case studies, compiled and commented on by Professors Amy Gutmann (of the esteemed Princeton University) and Dennis Thompson (of a small liberal arts college ...             Democratic Education (Princeton Paperbacks) Amy Gutmann Princeton University Press, 1999 Who should have the authority to shape the education of citizens in a democracy? This is the central question posed by Amy Gutmann in the first book-length study of the democratic theory of education. The author tackles a wide range of issues, from the democratic case against book banning to the role of teachers' unions in education, as well as ...             Democracy and Disagreement Amy Gutmann, Dennis Thompson Belknap Press, 1998 How can Democracy live with inner conflicts 'Democeracy and disagreement' contributes a great deal to the current discussion in political philosophy, regarding the ways democracy should confront the disagreements inside it. It stand in contrast both to 'procedural democracy' - which insist on the ...             Color Conscious Kwame Anthony Appiah, Amy Gutmann Princeton University Press, 1998 "In order to get beyond racism..." This is a terrific book. In clear and persuasive terms, Appiah begins the book by explaining how "race" is a fiction, but "racism" is a fact. This seeming paradox presents the difficult challenge that Gutmann then addresses in the second half of the book. On one ...             A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law (The University Center for Human Values Series) Antonin Scalia Princeton University Press, 1998 A Lot of Strong Points With a Few Frustrations I think the largest challenge facing Scalia was turning his simple philosophy into an entire book. When interpreting the constitution we should look at its original meaning. There it is in 11 words. Scalia manages to expound on his theory a little bit by ...             Why Deliberative Democracy? Amy Gutmann, Dennis Thompson Princeton University Press, 2004 The most widely debated conception of democracy in recent years is deliberative democracy--the idea that citizens or their representatives owe each other mutually acceptable reasons for the laws they enact. Two prominent voices in the ongoing discussion are Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson. In Why Deliberative Democracy? , they move the debate ...             Goodness and Advice (The University Center for Human Values Series) Judith Jarvis Thomson Princeton University Press, 2003 a peculiar book There is a rather peculiar book. Thompson's main goal is to criticize consequentialism but it appears that most consequentialists don't even accept the consequentialism that is her target, namely some kind of view that says we should promote *goodness simpliciter*, ...             The Malaise of Modernity Charles; Gutmann, Amy Taylor House of Anansi Pr, 1998             Identity in Democracy Amy Gutmann Princeton University Press, 2003 Written by one of America's leading political thinkers, this is a book about the good, the bad, and the ugly of identity politics.Amy Gutmann rises above the raging polemics that often characterize discussions of identity groups and offers a fair-minded assessment of the role they play in democracies. She addresses fundamental questions of ...             Democracy and the Welfare State Princeton University Press, 1988 The essays in this volume explore the moral foundations and the political prospects of the welfare state in the United States. Among the questions addressed are the following: Has public support for the welfare state faded? Can a democratic state provide welfare without producing dependency on welfare? Is a capitalist (or socialist) economy ...             Freedom of Association Princeton University Press, 1998 Reviving interest in an under-studied subject For a long time the theoretical literature on freedom of association was mostly limited to labor unions. Since the fall of Communism and the rise of the neo-Tocquevillean civil society literature, there has been much more attention to voluntary associations in ...          products you might be interested in search for books association, deliberative, disagreement, interpretation, multiculturalism, recognition      toavi.com    web we recommend "Ethics and Politics": An Eye-Opening Study randomly chosen book: The Bar on the Seine (Penguin Mysteries)