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Associations and Democracy (Real Utopias Project, V. 1)
Joel Rogers, Paul Q. Hirst, ...

Verso, 1995

Throughout the West, democracy is under fire. "Government is part of the problem, not the solution" is a common refrain. As the tasks of the state become more complex and the size of polities larger, the institutional forms of liberal democracy developed in the 19th century seem increasingly unable to cope. Rather than seeking to deepen the democratic character of politics, much energy in recent years has been directed as reducing the role of ...

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America

13 reviews
Ira Katznelson

W. W. Norton & Company, 2005

LBJ was the one who really freed the slaves
Just finished an outstanding book by Ira Katznelson on the untold history of racial inequality in America. Those who oppose affirmative action should get it and see who has really benefitted from The New Deal, the Fair Deal, Social Security and the GI Bill after WWII. I cannot see how anyone can read this book and not agree with me that Lincoln did not free the slaves. The slaves were not freed ...

The Cold War & the University: Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years

10 reviews
Noam Chomsky, Laura Nader, ...

New Press, 1998

A very important compilation
Viewing a political era from a particular point of view, from a subjective perspective can often manage to shed light on much more. The experiences reported by the individuals in this book are extremely well written stories that transcend the bounds of what at first seems a narrow topic. Still, if you have a particular interest in education and the politics of universities and colleges, you ...

Political Science: The State of the Discipline, Centennial Edition

1 review

W. W. Norton & Company, 2002

You have to read this book
For everyone interested in the actual state of Political Science (especially in the US), this is a must. The most important topics of Political Science are discussed, starting with an historical overview of the main subjects and then discussing the actual situation in that part of the discipline. An overwheming source of information. This book deserves to be recommended to every professional ...

Liberalism's Crooked Circle
Ira Katznelson, Adam Michnik

Princeton University Press, 1996

This book is a profoundly moving and analytically incisive attempt to shift the terms of discussion in American politics. It speaks to the intellectual and political weaknesses within the liberal tradition that have put the United States at the mercy of libertarian, authoritarian populist, nakedly racist, and traditionalist elitist versions of the right-wing; and it seeks to identify resources that can move the left away from the stunned ...

Liberal Beginnings: Making a Republic for the Moderns
Andreas Kalyvas, Ira Katznelson

Cambridge University Press, 2008

The book examines the origins and development of the modern liberal tradition and explores the relationship between republicanism and liberalism between 1750 and 1830. The authors consider the diverse settings of Scotland, the American colonies, the new United States, and France and examine the writings of six leading thinkers of this period: Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, James Madison, Thomas Paine, Germaine de Staël, and Benjamin Constant. The ...

Marxism and the City (Marxist Introductions)
Ira Katznelson

Oxford University Press, USA, 1992

Defeated in the East and discredited in the West, Marxism has broken down as an ideology as well as a guide to governance. For all its profound and infirming flaws as a total ensemble of understanding and rule, Marxism remains an important tool for comprehending and questioning key aspects of modernity. In this work, Katznelson critically analyzes the development of Marxist scholarship on cities in the last quarter century. He not only ...

Evil & Politics.: An article from: Daedalus
Ira Katznelson

American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2002

This digital document is an article from Daedalus, published by American Academy of Arts and Sciences on January 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1764 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Evil & Politics. Author: Ira ...

Desolation and Enlightenment (Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures)
Ira Katznelson

Columbia University Press, 2003

During and especially after the Second World War, a group of leading scholars who had been perilously close to the war's devastation joined others fortunate enough to have been protected by distance in an effort to redefine and reinvigorate Western liberal ideals for a radically new age. Treating evil as an analytical category, they sought to discover the sources of twentieth-century horror and the potentialities of the modern state in the wake ...