books about: collectivism

books about: collectivism

books:

Collectivism

Political Order and the Plural Structure of Society (Emory University Studies in Law and Religion)
Rockne M. McCarthy

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1991

This excellent volume explores three forms of pluralist theory?those based on historical doctrines of custom and tradition, Catholic doctrines of natural law and subsidiarity, and Calvinist doctrines of sphere sovereignty and creation?and compares and evaluates each of these forms of pluralism within the context of American thought.

Creating Young Martyrs: Conditions That Make Dying in a Terrorist Attack Seem Like a Good Idea (Contemporary ...

Alice LoCicero, Samuel J Sinclair

Praeger Security International General Interest-Cloth, 2008

A multi-facteded approach to a terribly complex problem
I know the author and expected to find the book interesting, but I was truly blown away by the way that this book shines many different lights-- from scholarly to intensely personal -- on this terrible tragedy. In a fairly slim volume I learned about the current ...

Individualism and Collectivism (New Directions in Social Psychology)
Harry C. Triandis

Westview Press, 1995

An examination of the differences between collectivists (those who view themselves primarily as part of a whole, and who are motivated by the norms and duties imposed by the collective entity) and individualists (those who are motivated by their own preferences and needs).

Self and Society: Narcissism, Collectivism, and the Development of Morals
Drew Westen

Cambridge University Press, 1985

The relation between individual and collective processes is central to the social sciences, yet difficult to conceptualize because of the necessity of crossing disciplinary boundaries. The result is that researchers in different disciplines construct their own implicit, and often unsatisfactory, models of either individual or collective phenomena, ...

SERVILE STATE, THE

HILAIRE BELLOC

Liberty Fund Inc., 1977

The Servile State Versus The Distributivist Society.
In this liberty classic, the Catholic intellectual Hilaire Belloc writes that the present system of capitalism is likely to give rise to something new, the servile state, because of inherent instabilities within it. Belloc defines this state as, "That arrangement of ...

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1998

One of the scariest books I have ever read.
"Brave New World" is a novel of a particular, possible, future and has been a 'classic' since the 1940s. Today (2008), that 'future' still seems all too possible. I think it is one of the scariest books I have ever read. "1984" was one of the other scariest books. ...

Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited

Aldous Huxley

HarperCollins, 2004

Mood controlling pills and uniformity
As I watch the commercials for Zoloft and other psychiatric drugs that are frequently encouraged to the general public today thanks to advertising, I can't help but smell the essence of the stew descibed by Huxley in this wonderful book simmering in our own modern ...

Complicity: Ethics and Law for a Collective Age (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law)

Christopher Kutz

Cambridge University Press, 2007

an important book for our times
Kutz's discussion of important social issues, stemming from our involvement in each other's lives, makes this a must read. Although written by a scholar, the author's style is clear and understandable.

Collectivism after Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1945

Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2007

Spanning the globe from Europe, Japan, and the United States to Africa, Cuba, and Mexico, Collectivism after Modernism explores the ways in which collectives function within cultural norms, social conventions, and corporate or state-sanctioned art. Together, these essays demonstrate that collectivism survives as an influential artistic practice ...

Rethinking Industrial Relations: Mobilization, Collectivism and Long Waves (Routledge Studies in Employment ...
John Kelly

Routledge, 1998

This book is a wide-ranging, radical and highly innovative critique of the prevailing orthodoxies within industrial relations and human resource management. It contains a detailed examination of the evolution of industrial relations arguing that the area is often under-theorised and influenced by the policy agenda of the state or employers.

The Good Society
Walter Lippmann

Transaction Publishers, 2004

The Good Society is a critical text in the history of liberalism. Initially a series of articles published in a variety of Lippmann's favorite magazines, as the whole evolved, it became a frontal assault against totalitarian tendencies within American society. Lippmann took to task those who sought to improve the lot of mankind by undoing the work ...

Discourse and Knowledge: Defence of a Collectivist Ethics
Janna Thompson

Routledge, 1998

Thompson claims there is a correct solution to ethical controversies and that discourse is required for the very process of reaching correct conclusions about ethical matters.

The Last Individual: The Ascendancy of the Sociomaniacal Mindset
Trenton Fervor

iUniverse, Inc., 2007

There pervades today, a disturbing zealotry with which the sociopolitical culture has imagined for itself a prerogative to divest the individual of his rightful sovereignty and discretion, and to foist upon him an often-arbitrary excess of compulsions and impositions. What seems to be emerging in contemporary life is a mentality that could be ...

Britain Against Itself: The Political Contradictions of Collectivism
Samuel, H. Beer

W. W. Norton & Company, 1982

Anthem

Waking Lion Press, 2008

Unprofessional paragraph formatting, plus unspecified "additions"
This is a review of the Kindle edition published by the Waking Lion Press, not a review of the novel itself. The paragraph formatting of this edition is unprofessional. The first line of most paragraphs is not even indented, nor is there any additional spacing ...