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The past year has seen a resurgence of interest in the political
thinker Hannah Arendt, “the theorist of beginnings,” whose work
probes the logics underlying unexpected transformations—from
totalitarianism to revolution. A work of striking originality, The
Human Condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it
first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern
humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of
the actions of which it is capable. The problems Arendt identified
then—diminishing human agency and political freedom, the paradox
that as human powers increase through technological and humanistic
inquiry, we are less equipped to control the consequences of our
actions—continue to confront us today. This new edition,
published to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of its original
publication, contains Margaret Canovan’s 1998 introduction and a
new foreword by Danielle Allen. A classic in political and social
theory, The Human Condition is a work that has proved both timeless
and perpetually timely.
First appearing in The New Yorker, Danielle Allen's Cuz announced
the arrival of one of our most gifted literary memoirists. In this
"compassionate retelling of an abjectly tragic story" (New York
Times), Danielle Allen-a prize-winning scholar-recounts her heroic
efforts to rescue Michael Alexander Allen, her beloved baby cousin,
who was arrested at fifteen for an attempted carjacking. Tried as
an adult and sentenced to thirteen years, Michael served eleven.
Three years later, he was dead. Why did this gifted young man, who
dreamed of being a firefighter and a writer, end up murdered? Why
did he languish in prison? And why at fifteen was he in an alley in
South Central Los Angeles, holding a gun while trying to steal
someone's car? Hailed as a "literary miracle" (Washington Post),
this fierce family memoir makes mass incarceration nothing less
than a new American tragedy.
Featured on the front page of the New York Times, Our Declaration
is already regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise
of American democracy through our founding text. Combining a
personal account of teaching the Declaration with a vivid evocation
of the colonial world between 1774 and 1777, Allen, a political
philosopher renowned for her work on justice and citizenship
reveals our nation's founding text to be an animating force that
not only changed the world more than two-hundred years ago, but
also still can. Challenging conventional wisdom, she boldly makes
the case that the Declaration is a document as much about political
equality as about individual liberty. Beautifully illustrated
throughout, Our Declaration is an "uncommonly elegant, incisive,
and often poetic primer on America's cardinal text" (David M.
Kennedy).
From leading thinker Danielle Allen, a bold and urgent articulation
of a new political philosophy: power-sharing liberalism. At a time
of great social and political turmoil, when many residents of the
leading democracies question the ability of their governments to
deal fairly and competently with serious public issues, and when
power seems more and more to rest with the wealthy few, this book
reconsiders the very foundations of democracy and justice. Scholar
and writer Danielle Allen argues that the surest path to a just
society in which all are given the support necessary to flourish is
the protection of political equality; that justice is best achieved
by means of democracy; and that the social ideals and
organizational design principles that flow from recognizing
political equality and democracy as fundamental to human well-being
provide an alternative framework not only for justice but also for
political economy. Allen identifies this paradigm-changing new
framework as "power-sharing liberalism." Liberalism more broadly is
the philosophical commitment to a government grounded in rights
that both protect people in their private lives and empower them to
help govern public life. Power-sharing liberalism offers an
innovative reconstruction of liberalism based on the principle of
full inclusion and non-domination-in which no group has a monopoly
on power-in politics, economy, and society. By showing how we all
might fully share power and responsibility across all three
sectors, Allen advances a culture of civic engagement and
empowerment, revealing the universal benefits of an effective
government in which all participate on equal terms.
Defining a just economy in a tenuous social-political time. If we
can agree that our current social-political moment is tenuous and
unsustainable-and indeed, that may be the only thing we can agree
on right now-then how do markets, governments, and people interact
in this next era of the world? A Political Economy of Justice
considers the strained state of our political economy in terms of
where it can go from here. The contributors to this timely and
essential volume look squarely at how normative and positive
questions about political economy interact with each other-and from
that beginning, how to chart a way forward to a just economy. A
Political Economy of Justice collects fourteen essays from
prominent scholars across the social sciences, each writing in one
of three lanes: the measures of a just political economy; the role
of firms; and the roles of institutions and governments. The result
is a wholly original and urgent new benchmark for the next stage of
our democracy.
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated some of the strengths of our
society, including the rapid development of vaccines. But the
pandemic has also exposed its glaring weaknesses, such as the
failure of our government to develop and quickly implement
strategies for tracing and containing outbreaks as well as
widespread public distrust of government prompted by often
confusing and conflicting choices-to mask, or not to mask. Even
worse is that over half a million deaths and the extensive economic
devastation could have been avoided if the government had been
prepared to undertake comprehensive, contextually-sensitive
policies to stop the spread of the disease. In Democracy in the
Time of Coronavirus, leading political thinker Danielle Allen
untangles the US government's COVID-19 victories and failures to
offer a plan for creating a more resilient democratic polity-one
that can better respond to both the present pandemic and future
crises. Looking to history, Allen also identifies the challenges
faced by democracies in other times that required strong government
action. In an analysis spanning from ancient Greece to the
Reconstruction Amendments and the present day, Allen argues for the
relative effectiveness of collaborative federalism over
authoritarian compulsion and for the unifying power of a common
cause. But for democracy to endure, we-as participatory
citizens-must commit to that cause: a just and equal social
contract and support for good governance.
What happened at Pearl Harbor? What really happened? The Japanese
attack on Pearl Harbor is one of those rare moments where, in the
space of a few hours, the "hinge of Fate" turned and the course of
history was utterly changed. Nearly eight decades later, it has
become one of those events which almost everyone knows of, but
hardly anyone seems to know about. How-and why-did the Empire of
Japan and the United States of America collide on blood and flames
that Sunday morning when the sun rose and the bombs fell? Pearl:
The 7th Day of December 1941 is the story of how America and Japan,
two nations with seemingly little over which to quarrel, let peace
slip away, so that on that "day which will live in infamy," more
than 350 dive bombers, high-level bombers, torpedo planes, and
fighters of the Imperial Japanese Navy did their best to cripple
the United States Navy's Pacific Fleet, killing 2,403 American
servicemen and civilians, and wounding another 1,178. It's a story
of emperors and presidents, diplomats and politicians, admirals and
generals - and it's also the tale of ordinary sailors, soldiers,
and airmen, all of whom were overtaken by a rush of events that
ultimately overwhelmed them. Pearl shows the real reasons why the
America's political and military leaders underestimated Japan's
threat America's security, and why their Japanese counterparts
ultimately felt compelled to launch the Pearl Harbor attack. Pearl
offers more than superficial answers, showing how both sides
blundered their way through arrogance, over-confidence, racism,
bigotry, and old-fashioned human error to arrive at the moment when
the Japanese were convinced that there was no alternative to war.
Once battle is joined, Pearl then takes the reader into the heart
of the attack, where the fighting men of both nations showed that
neither side had a monopoly on heroism, courage, cowardice, or
luck, as they fought to protect their nations.
Defining a just economy in a tenuous social-political time. If we
can agree that our current social-political moment is tenuous and
unsustainable-and indeed, that may be the only thing we can agree
on right now-then how do markets, governments, and people interact
in this next era of the world? A Political Economy of Justice
considers the strained state of our political economy in terms of
where it can go from here. The contributors to this timely and
essential volume look squarely at how normative and positive
questions about political economy interact with each other-and from
that beginning, how to chart a way forward to a just economy. A
Political Economy of Justice collects fourteen essays from
prominent scholars across the social sciences, each writing in one
of three lanes: the measures of a just political economy; the role
of firms; and the roles of institutions and governments. The result
is a wholly original and urgent new benchmark for the next stage of
our democracy.
You have been summoned. Life is complicated, and sometimes we feel
stuck or adrift. But God has been at work in your life, and he's
still working in you. God is calling men to a deeper life of faith,
surrender and commitment. You can learn to recognize where he's
leading you and what he's calling you to become. Leadership coach
Daniel Allen knows what it's like to be summoned by God. He shares
how he heard God's wake-up call on his life and what it takes to
find a life of fulfillment, passion and purpose. This honest guide
gives practical, real-life advice for shaping a godly view of
manhood, building character and growing in spiritual practices and
leadership. From his own experience, Allen addresses common
pitfalls that trip men up and shows how you can thrive in your
faith, vocation and relationships. Including a four-session study
guide for men, this book shows how God is shaping you into a
leader, and that he is sending you out to serve others around you.
There's more to this life. Step up and answer the call to deeper
discipleship.
Around the globe, democracy appears broken. With political and
socioeconomic inequality on the rise, we are faced with the urgent
question of how to better distribute power, opportunity, and wealth
in diverse modern societies. This volume confronts the dilemma
head-on, exploring new ways to combat current social hierarchies of
domination. Using examples from the United States, India, Germany,
and Cameroon, the contributors offer paradigm-changing approaches
to the concepts of justice, identity, and social groups while also
taking a fresh look at the idea that the demographic make-up of
institutions should mirror the make-up of a populace as a whole.
After laying out the conceptual framework, the volume turns to a
number of provocative topics, among them the pernicious tenacity of
implicit bias, the logical contradictions inherent to the idea of
universal human dignity, and the paradoxes and problems surrounding
affirmative action. A stimulating blend of empirical and
interpretive analyses, Difference without Domination urges us to
reconsider the idea of representation and to challenge what it
means to measure equality and inequality.
"I spent eighteen years in a group that taught me to hate myself.
You cannot be queer and a Jehovah's Witness-it's one or the other."
Daniel Allen Cox grew up with firm lines around what his religion
considered unacceptable: celebrating birthdays and holidays; voting
in elections, pursuing higher education, and other forays into
independent thought. Their opposition to blood transfusions would
have consequences for his mother, just as their stance on
homosexuality would for him. But even years after whispers of his
sexual orientation reached his congregation's presiding elder,
catalyzing his disassociation, the distinction between "in" and
"out" isn't always clear. Still in the midst of a lifelong
disentanglement, Cox grapples with the group's cultish tactics-from
gaslighting to shunning-and their resulting harms-from simmering
anger to substance abuse-all while redefining its concepts through
a queer lens. Can Paradise be a bathhouse, a concert hall, or a
room full of books? With great candour and disarming
self-awareness, Cox takes readers on a journey from his early days
as a solicitous door-to-door preacher in Montreal to a stint in New
York City, where he's swept up in a scene of photographers and
hustlers blurring the line between art and pornography. The
culmination of years spent both processing and avoiding a
complicated past, I Felt the End Before It Came reckons with memory
and language just as it provides a blueprint to surviving a litany
of Armageddons.
"Don't talk to strangers" is the advice long given to children by
parents of all classes and races. Today it has blossomed into a
fundamental precept of civic education, reflecting interracial
distrust, personal and political alienation, and a profound
suspicion of others. In this powerful and eloquent essay, Danielle
Allen, a 2002 MacArthur Fellow, takes this maxim back to Little
Rock, rooting out the seeds of distrust to replace them with "a
citizenship of political friendship."
Returning to the landmark "Brown v. Board of Education" decision of
1954 and to the famous photograph of Elizabeth Eckford, one of the
Little Rock Nine, being cursed by fellow "citizen" Hazel Bryan,
Allen argues that we have yet to complete the transition to
political friendship that this moment offered. By combining brief
readings of philosophers and political theorists with personal
reflections on race politics in Chicago, Allen proposes strikingly
practical techniques of citizenship. These tools of political
friendship, Allen contends, can help us become more trustworthy to
others and overcome the fossilized distrust among us.
Sacrifice is the key concept that bridges citizenship and trust,
according to Allen. She uncovers the ordinary, daily sacrifices
citizens make to keep democracy working--and offers methods for
recognizing and reciprocating those sacrifices. Trenchant,
incisive, and ultimately hopeful, "Talking to Strangers" is nothing
less than a manifesto for a revitalized democratic citizenry.
"Allen understands that democracy originates in the subjective
dimension of everyday life, and she focuses on what she calls our
'habit of citizenship'--the ways we often unconsciously regard
andinteract with fellow citizens. . . . [Her] focus on race is
entirely appropriate."--Nick Bromell, "Boston"" Review
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Around the globe, democracy appears broken. With political and
socioeconomic inequality on the rise, we are faced with the urgent
question of how to better distribute power, opportunity, and wealth
in diverse modern societies. This volume confronts the dilemma
head-on, exploring new ways to combat current social hierarchies of
domination. Using examples from the United States, India, Germany,
and Cameroon, the contributors offer paradigm-changing approaches
to the concepts of justice, identity, and social groups while also
taking a fresh look at the idea that the demographic make-up of
institutions should mirror the make-up of a populace as a whole.
After laying out the conceptual framework, the volume turns to a
number of provocative topics, among them the pernicious tenacity of
implicit bias, the logical contradictions inherent to the idea of
universal human dignity, and the paradoxes and problems surrounding
affirmative action. A stimulating blend of empirical and
interpretive analyses, Difference without Domination urges us to
reconsider the idea of representation and to challenge what it
means to measure equality and inequality.
'Basement of Wolves' follows the adventures of a paranoid Hollywood
actor trying to escape the spotlight.
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