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Author: Edward H. Buehrig Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1003835945 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 132
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First published 1986, The Perversity of Politics talks about the perverse nature of political behaviour. Highly paradoxical, the seeking of advantage is of dual character, consisting not only in the spoils of conquest but in the rewards of co-operation. These two facets of politics pose the perennial question of why co-operation’s inviting prospects have never yet immunized politics- domestic and international- against the perils and sacrifices of conflict. The book finds an answer in the notion of the power overtone. Quest for security, more than immediate gratification, involves maneuver by individuals and groups for future freedom of action. The perversity of politics is heightened by sources of conflict that defy ultimate solution. Of ancient vintage is the uneasy relationship of attraction and repulsion between religion and state, each side uncertain as to where advantage lies. Nor is perversity dispelled by the social sciences, themselves caught in the dogmatics of nature versus nature, typified in the fundamentally different approaches to governance by James Madison and Karl Marx. Citing the American experience in particular the final chapter contends that democratic government is best designed to abate the power overtone and to mitigate conflict. This is a must read for students of political studies and political sociology.
Author: Edward H. Buehrig Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1003835945 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 132
Book Description
First published 1986, The Perversity of Politics talks about the perverse nature of political behaviour. Highly paradoxical, the seeking of advantage is of dual character, consisting not only in the spoils of conquest but in the rewards of co-operation. These two facets of politics pose the perennial question of why co-operation’s inviting prospects have never yet immunized politics- domestic and international- against the perils and sacrifices of conflict. The book finds an answer in the notion of the power overtone. Quest for security, more than immediate gratification, involves maneuver by individuals and groups for future freedom of action. The perversity of politics is heightened by sources of conflict that defy ultimate solution. Of ancient vintage is the uneasy relationship of attraction and repulsion between religion and state, each side uncertain as to where advantage lies. Nor is perversity dispelled by the social sciences, themselves caught in the dogmatics of nature versus nature, typified in the fundamentally different approaches to governance by James Madison and Karl Marx. Citing the American experience in particular the final chapter contends that democratic government is best designed to abate the power overtone and to mitigate conflict. This is a must read for students of political studies and political sociology.
Author: Joshua Gunn Publisher: ISBN: 022671344X Category : Communication Languages : en Pages : 211
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"When Trump became president, much of the country was repelled by what they saw as the vulgar spectacle of his ascent, the perversion of the highest office in the land. In his bold, groundbreaking book Political Perversion, rhetorician Joshua Gunn argues that this "mean-spirited turn" in American politics (of which Trump is the paragon) is best understood as a structural perversion enhanced primarily by the speed of communication technologies. Drawing on insights from critical theory, media ecology, and psychoanalysis, Gunn argues that perverse rhetorics dominate not only the political sphere but also our daily interactions with others, in person and online. From sexting to campaign rhetoric, Gunn shows how technology has changed our ways of relating (and not relating) to others and has engendered infantile and sadistic forms of provocation and enjoyment. In this book, Trump is only the tip of a sinister, rapidly growing iceberg, one to which we ourselves unwittingly contribute on a daily basis"--
Author: Norman Myers Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 264
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Much of the global economy depends on large scale government intervention in the form of subsidies, many of which are perverse in that they damage economies and environments. This study offers a view of subsidies world-wide with focus on the extent, causes and consequences of perverse subsidies.
Author: Elizabeth Grosz Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317325451 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 288
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Exploring the fields of architecture, philosophy, and queer theory, Grosz shows how feminism and cultural analysis have conceptually stripped bodies of their specificity, their corporeality, and the vestigal traces of their production as bodies. She investigates the work of Michel Foucault, Teresa de Lauretis, Gilles Deleuze, Judith Butler and Alphonso Lingi, considering their work by examining the ways in which the functioning of bodies transforms understandings of space and time, knowledge and desire. Grosz moves toward a radical consideration of bodies and their relationship to transgression and perversity.
Author: Bradford Borden Publisher: ISBN: 9781414032931 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 184
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When young Jean Cameron Kirkland's tenth birthday arrived in 1934, the Great Depression was still in effect. Money was scarce, yet life on the Kirklands' small farm in piedmont North Carolina seemed to Cammie entirely satisfactory. The Kirkland gardens and livestock kept them supplied with plenty of food; Farmington School, the Grange, and Wesley Chapel Church provided continual community activities and entertainment for the entire Pino Community; and the Kirkland and Cameron kin aunts, and uncles, cousins and grandparents were very near and dear. This account of the year in which Cammie reached her "First Decade" describes her family's everyday farm life, the toys that Cammie and her cousin Ben made out of odds and ends, the games they played, and the songs they sang. It includes stories about an almost-sabotaged school operetta, a birthday hot-dog roast, an attempt at marketing "bug shells," the revenge of an insulted pig, a big family reunion, and a Christmas hayride.
Author: Joseph L. Esposito Publisher: Lexington Books ISBN: 0739173634 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 391
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The political project of pragmatism has focused primarily on its defense of democracy as the best political system to maintain and improve human well-being over lifetimes and generations. Pragmatism Politics and Perversity: Democracy and the American Party Battle describes this project of Peirce, Dewey, Hook, and Rorty, and combines it with Charles Beard's study of the party battle as the most determinative influence upon American democracy. The book updates and confirms Beard's hypothesis that the history of the party battle is a chronicle of perverse schemes and self-inflicted wounds - the most salient to date being the American Civil War - because it reflects a ceaselessly disruptive contest over the creation of two largely incompatible political states: nation state and market state. The book supports its thesis with detailed historical accounts of the formation of the Constitution and early federal judiciary, the sedition trials and political schemes of the 1790s, the frustration of market state Whigs to attract white working-class voters by exploiting their religious identities, the reckless machinations of Whig Republicans in precipitating a national crisis over a contrived threat of oligarchy and white slavery, and the ideological oscillations of the Supreme Court from market state to nation state jurisprudence and back again. To reduce perversity in political rhetoric and free up pragmatic democratic practices, the book proposes a robust neo-Madisonian view of free speech, where political actors and their surrogates are not only free to speak and write, but are also obligated to explain, retract, and revise what they have said and written.
Author: Norman Myers Publisher: Island Press ISBN: 9781610914024 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 300
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Outlines hundreds of examples of perverse subsidies that are granted at the expense of the environment. Addresses the implications of perverse subsidies in six leading sectors and shows how these subsidies undercut economies and environments alike.
Author: Gavin Walker Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 082237420X Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 264
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In The Sublime Perversion of Capital Gavin Walker examines the Japanese debate about capitalism between the 1920s and 1950s, using it as a "prehistory" to consider current discussions of uneven development and contemporary topics in Marxist theory and historiography. Walker locates the debate's culmination in the work of Uno Kōzō, whose investigations into the development of capitalism and the commodification of labor power are essential for rethinking the national question in Marxist theory. Walker's analysis of Uno and the Japanese debate strips Marxist historiography of its Eurocentric focus, showing how Marxist thought was globalized from the start. In analyzing the little-heralded tradition of Japanese Marxist theory alongside Marx himself, Walker not only offers new insights into the transition to capitalism, the rise of globalization, and the relation between capital and the formation of the nation-state; he provides new ways to break Marxist theory's impasse with postcolonial studies and critical theory.
Author: William Bradford Borden Publisher: Author House ISBN: 1468510843 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 188
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American Perveristy: Sex, Politics and Religion is a book that has vast appeal to all sectors of American life and, therefore, the rest of the world. It is a book that hooks the reader because of its selection of ten contemporary icons: Hugh Hefner, Jennifer Lopez, Eminem, Oprah, Michael Jordan, Michael Jackson, George W.Bush, Tom Brokaw, Madonna, and Billy Graham. It is a book that keeps the reader fascinated because it blends sex, politics and religion. It is a book that challenges and intrigues readers because of its controversy and message. It is a book of hope, of passion, and of nuance. It is a book that at times is subtle and at other times is literally in your face. It is a book that challenges the left and the right, as well as everything in between. American Perversity: Sex, Politics and Religion is a book the author has poured his heart and soul into. He realizes that many authors do the same. Yet, it is a book that is so different from anything ever written. It is a book you owe yourself the pleasure of experiencing. It is a book that will question your very existence and your place in the world. It is a once in a lifetime journey. http://www.AmericanPerversity.com
Author: Edward H. Buehrig
Author: Edward H. Buehrig
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