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Legitimizing Authority places the American state apparatus back in
the foreground to rethink the development of the country’s
government in the context of its unfulfilled promise of equality.
The book argues that the tensions between calls for equality and
the simultaneous tolerance of inequality, have accompanied the rise
of modern mass society, and, with it, of liberal democracy. Vormann
and Lammert emphasize that government has played and continues to
play a decisive role in calibrating the relationship between the
interior and the exterior of the nation, moving between an
extractive state, a taxation state, and a welfare state over time
in order to expand social access and political participation inside
the national community – while tolerating conditions that
continue to belie the historical promise of equality. The authors
draw on a range of literatures that transcend disciplinary
boundaries to reveal how exploitative practices have been accepted.
They conclude that the legitimization crises of the present must be
comprehended through understanding how legitimation was always
maintained by a state apparatus active at multiple scales and in
multiple policy fields. This interdisciplinary book is addressed to
a broad audience across disciplines, including political science,
political economy, political history, comparative politics,
international politics, international relations, American Political
Development (APD), and cultural studies.
Bhikhu Parekh As creative and reflective agents, human beings seek
meaning in their lives, and develop more or less coherent views of
the world or cultures in terms of which to organize their personal
and collective lives. When different groups of individuals within
the same society subscribe to different ways of thought, they face
the crucial question of how to deal with their cultural diversity
and sustain a shared common life. Premodern societies took a
relatively relaxed view of diversity and generally opted for a
looser union. Modernity brought with it a very different approach
to the subject. This is reflected in, among other things, the
institution of the modern state, especially the liberal democracy
which represents one way of constituting it. Liberal democracy has
exercised a decisive influence on our political and moral
imagination for the past three centuries. Unlike premodern
societies which took the community as their starting point and
defined the individual in terms of it, it takes the individual as
the ultimate and irreducible unit of, and thus conc- tually and
ontologically prior to society. The latter is taken to consist of
in- viduals, and refers to the totality of its members and their
formal and informal relationships. Individual are the sole and
equal sources of moral claims, and social and political
institutions are judged in terms of their ability to safeguard and
promote individual interests.
The post-Cold War era was marked by the emergence of unprecedented
new networks of international private trade, cooperation, and
circulation of goods that promised to render the state nearly
obsolete--at least in theory. The essays collected in this book
dissect the notions of this so-called "smart economy," revealing
the crucial role that government interventions still play in
facilitating the production and the global flow of goods. The
contributors focus particularly on the role played by the United
States, often incorrectly assumed to be the most liberal and least
interventionist in the global order. More than a mere market fixer,
the United States has long assumed an outsized position in
expediting the global circulation of goods through its supply
chains and communication channels. Drawing from such diverse fields
as political science, urban sociology, and cultural studies,
Contours of the Illiberal State takes a broad interdisciplinary
look at how nations became active market enablers.
Liberal democracies on both sides of the Atlantic find themselves
approaching a state of emergency, beset by potent populist
challenges of the right and left. But what exactly lies at the core
of widespread dissatisfaction with the status quo? And how can the
challenge be overcome? In Democracy in Crisis, Christian Lammert
and Boris Vormann argue that the rise of populism in North Atlantic
states is not the cause of a crisis of governance but its result.
This crisis has been many decades in the making and is intricately
linked to the rise of a certain type of political philosophy and
practice in which economic rationality has hollowed out political
values and led to an impoverishment of the political sphere more
broadly. The process began in the 1980s, when the United States and
Great Britain decided to unleash markets in the name of economic
growth and democracy. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, several
countries in Europe followed suit and marketized their educational,
social, and healthcare systems, which in turn increased inequality
and fragmentation. The result has been a collapse of social
cohesion and trust that the populists promise to address but only
make worse. Looking to the future, Lammert and Vormann conclude
their analysis with concrete suggestions for ways politics can once
again be placed in the foreground, with markets serving social
relations rather than the reverse.
Aus europaischer Perspektive wachst die soziale Ungleichheit in
den Vereinigten Staaten vor allem deswegen, weil der
Wohlfahrtsstaat dort nur rudimentar ausgebildet ist. Tatsachlich
investiert aber kaum ein anderes Land mehr Geld in die
Altersabsicherung und Gesundheitsfursorge. Rechnet man
bildungspolitische Ausgaben und betriebliche Sozialleistungen mit
ein, fliessen etwa 60 Prozent des Gesamthaushalts der USA in den
Bereich Soziales. Die vorliegende Einfuhrung raumt nicht nur mit
einigen gangigen Vorurteilen auf. Sie bietet auch als einziges
deutschsprachiges Uberblickswerk einen kritischen und gut
strukturierten Einblick in die widerspruchliche und komplexe
Realitat des amerikanischen Wohlfahrtsstaates von den theoretischen
und empirischen Grundlagen der gegenwartigen Sozialpolitik uber die
anhaltenden heftigen Kontroversen, die sie begleiten, bis hin zu
einzelnen Politikfeldern. Ein Grundlagenwerk fur das Verstandnis
der US-Gesellschaft und ihres Sozial- und Wirtschaftsmodells."
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Momente der Ergriffenheit erleben Frauen und Paare in der Zeit vom
Kinderwunsch bis zum Wochenbett. Es sind Momente der Hoffnung,
Gluckseligkeit, Krise, Entscheidung, Momente des Innehaltens oder
des Abschiednehmens. Schwangerschaft, Geburt und Elternwerden sind
sind mehr als nur physiologische ubergange, die eine medizinische
Begleitung benoetigen. Der umfassende Lebensubergang kann eine
spirituelle Dimension erreichen, nicht nur wenn unvorhergesehene
Ereignisse existenzielle Krisen ausloesen. Das Buch richtet sich an
alle Berufsgruppen, die in ihrer Arbeit Schwangere und werdende
Eltern begleiten und in krisenhaften Situationen an ihre Grenzen
stossen. Die Autorinnen und Autoren schoepfen dank ihrer
Tatigkeiten, beispielsweise in der Aus- und Fortbildung von
Hebammen und Beratenden, aus ihren vielfaltigen Erfahrungen. Sie
bieten Anleitung zur spirituellen Begleitung bei Schwangerschaft
und Geburt ebenso wie zum Erleben der eigenen spirituellen
Kompetenz. Diese Kompetenz zum Einsatz zu bringen und Zugang zur
eigenen Spiritualitat zu finden, ist Intention des Buches. Neben
wissenschaftlichen Einfuhrungen und Erfahrungsberichten von Eltern
und Begleitenden bieten neun Momente der Ergriffenheit
Bildmeditationen sowie Impulse und Rituale als Inspirationen fur
die eigene Praxis. Das Buch ist auf vielfaltige religioese sowie
transreligioese Zugange hin angelegt.
The study of historical Buddhism in premodern and early modern
Southeast Asia stands at an exciting and transformative juncture.
Interdisciplinary scholarship is marked by a commitment to the
careful examination of local and vernacular expressions of Buddhist
culture as well as to reconsiderations of long-standing questions
concerning the diffusion of and relationships among varied texts,
forms of representation, and religious identities, ideas, and
practices. The twelve essays in this collection, written by leading
scholars in Buddhist Studies and Southeast Asian history,
epigraphy, and archaeology, comprise the latest research in the
field to deal with the dynamics of mainland and (pen)insular
Buddhism between the sixth and nineteenth centuries C.E. Drawing on
new manuscript sources, inscriptions, and archaeological data, they
investigate the intellectual, ritual, institutional,
sociopolitical, aesthetic, and literary diversity of local
Buddhisms, and explore their connected histories and contributions
to the production of intraregional and transregional Buddhist
geographies.
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