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Ten years after the results of the Cash and Counseling
Demonstration and Evaluation were released, this book assesses the
impact of this study, which developed individualized plans for
helping people with disabilities to stay independent in the
community. The study was the first wide-scale test of people with
disabilities managing their own budgets and results from the
random-controlled trial demonstrated significant positive outcomes,
encouraging the US federal and state governments to provide this
option as part of their community-based care programs. This volume
looks at what people with disabilities and their caregivers are
saying about this option ten years removed from the study, and what
the latest research shows in terms of what it will take to improve
this approach, making the option available for all people with
disabilities. The contributions also discuss what needs remain
unmet even when people can manage their own budgets, and present
participants' and their family caregivers' views on what support
broker activities really help (or hurt). Finally, the book
summarizes the results of a project involving the Council of Social
Work Education and nine schools of social work to develop modules
to train future social workers on person-centred planning and
participant direction. Of interest to those researchers studying
social care with a focus on disabilities, this book would also be
of use to those training social workers and support staff. The
chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of
Gerontological Social Work and Home Health Care Services Quarterly.
This volume brings together leading thinkers who offer reflections
on the place of Western civilization in the academy, at a time when
there is indifference or even antipathy toward the study of the
West at most institutions of higher learning. Alternative
narratives-including multiculturalism, diversity, and
sustainability-have come to the fore in the stead of Western
civilization. The present volume is designed to explore the roots,
extent, and long-term consequences of this educational climate: How
and why did undergraduate education turn its back on what was once
an important component of its mission? To what extent has such
change affected the experience of undergraduates and the ability of
colleges to educate citizens of a constitutional republic? What are
the likely individual and social outcomes of such a shift in
educational priorities? The volume's theme is, and will continue to
be, the subject of national scholarly and media attention.
In Politics and Progress, author Dennis J. Mahoney describes the
emergence of American political science as a separate academic
discipline in the era between the Civil War and the First World
War, with the pivotal event of the founding of the American
Political Science Association in 1903. His book, a testament to the
integrity of American political science, chronicles its
intellectual and cultural development. According to Mahoney,
American political science borrowed its ideas from European,
especially German, political science. Subsequently, it was
influenced by the notion of scientific progress as exemplified in
the writings of American pragmatists and progressivist politics.
Mahoney notes that institutionalization in the American academy
necessarily required the displacement of earlier approaches to
politics, including the tradition of political philosophy and the
political science of the American founding. As the discipline grew,
it was characterized by its drive toward organization and
professionalism, the study of administration (as contrasted with
policymaking) and a seemingly ceaseless quest for a distinctive
scientifically oriented methodology. These characteristics are
maintained in contemporary mainstream political science. Politics
and Progress marks an important chapter in American intellectual
history and is a vital resource for political scientists
researching their roots.
In Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Daniel Mahoney presents a philosophical
perspective on the political condition of modern man through an
exegesis and analysis of Solzhenitsyn's work. Mahoney demonstrates
the tremendous, yet often unappreciated, impact of Solzhenitsyn's
writing on twentieth century thinking through an examination of the
writer's profoundly important critique of communist totalitarianism
in a judicious and original mix of western and Russian, Christian
and classical wisdom.
We are currently witnessing an increasingly influential
counterrevolution in political theory, evident in the dialectical
return to classical political science pioneered most prominently by
Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin. In this context, the work of the
relatively unknown Aurel Kolnai is of great importance. Kolnai was
one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century to place the
restoration of common-sense evaluation and philosophical realism at
the center of his philosophical and political itinerary. In this
volume, Daniel J. Mahoney presents Kolnai's major writings in
political philosophy, writings that explore - in ways that are
diverse but complementary - Kolnai's critique of progressive or
egalitarian democracy. The title essay contains Kolnai's fullest
account of the limits of liberty understood as emancipation from
traditional, natural, or divine restraints. 'The Utopian Mind, ' a
pr, cis of Kolnai's critique of utopianism in a posthumous book of
the same title, appears here for the first time. 'Conservative and
Revolutionary Ethos, ' Kolnai's remarkable 1972 essay comparing
conservative and revolutionary approaches to political life,
appears for the first time in English translation. The volume also
includes a critically sympathetic evaluation of Michael Oakeshott's
Rationalism in Politics and an incisive criticism of Jacques
Maritain's efforts to synthesize Christian orthodoxy and
progressive politics. Privilege and Liberty and Other Essays in
Political Philosophy is a searching critique of political
utopianism, as well as a pathbreaking articulation of conservative
constitutionalism as the true support for human liberty properly
understood. It is a major contribution to Christian and
conservative political reflection in our ti
Ten years after the results of the Cash and Counseling
Demonstration and Evaluation were released, this book assesses the
impact of this study, which developed individualized plans for
helping people with disabilities to stay independent in the
community. The study was the first wide-scale test of people with
disabilities managing their own budgets and results from the
random-controlled trial demonstrated significant positive outcomes,
encouraging the US federal and state governments to provide this
option as part of their community-based care programs. This volume
looks at what people with disabilities and their caregivers are
saying about this option ten years removed from the study, and what
the latest research shows in terms of what it will take to improve
this approach, making the option available for all people with
disabilities. The contributions also discuss what needs remain
unmet even when people can manage their own budgets, and present
participants' and their family caregivers' views on what support
broker activities really help (or hurt). Finally, the book
summarizes the results of a project involving the Council of Social
Work Education and nine schools of social work to develop modules
to train future social workers on person-centred planning and
participant direction. Of interest to those researchers studying
social care with a focus on disabilities, this book would also be
of use to those training social workers and support staff. The
chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of
Gerontological Social Work and Home Health Care Services Quarterly.
In this edited collection, Peter Lawler presents a lucid and
comprehensive introduction to a diverse set of political issues
according to Tocqueville. Democracy and Its Friendly Critics
addresses a variety of modern political and social concerns, such
as the moral dimension of democracy, the theoretical challenges to
democracy in our time, the religious dimension of liberty, and the
meaning of work in contemporary American Life. Taking innovative
and unexpected approaches toward familiar topics, the essays
present engaging insights into a democratic society, and the
contributors include some of today's leading figures in political
philosophy. No other collection on Tocqueville addresses
contemporary American political issues in such a direct and
accessible fashion, making this book a valuable resource for the
study of political theory in America.
In this edited collection, Peter Lawler presents a lucid and
comprehensive introduction to a diverse set of political issues
according to Tocqueville. Democracy and Its Friendly Critics
addresses a variety of modern political and social concerns, such
as the moral dimension of democracy, the theoretical challenges to
democracy in our time, the religious dimension of liberty, and the
meaning of work in contemporary American Life. Taking innovative
and unexpected approaches toward familiar topics, the essays
present engaging insights into a democratic society, and the
contributors include some of today's leading figures in political
philosophy. No other collection on Tocqueville addresses
contemporary American political issues in such a direct and
accessible fashion, making this book a valuable resource for the
study of political theory in America.
In Politics and Progress, author Dennis J. Mahoney describes the
emergence of American political science as a separate academic
discipline in the era between the Civil War and the First World
War, with the pivotal event of the founding of the American
Political Science Association in 1903. His book, a testament to the
integrity of American political science, chronicles its
intellectual and cultural development. According to Mahoney,
American political science borrowed its ideas from European,
especially German, political science. Subsequently, it was
influenced by the notion of scientific progress as exemplified in
the writings of American pragmatists and progressivist politics.
Mahoney notes that institutionalization in the American academy
necessarily required the displacement of earlier approaches to
politics, including the tradition of political philosophy and the
political science of the American founding. As the discipline grew,
it was characterized by its drive toward organization and
professionalism, the study of administration (as contrasted with
policymaking) and a seemingly ceaseless quest for a distinctive
scientifically oriented methodology. These characteristics are
maintained in contemporary mainstream political science. Politics
and Progress marks an important chapter in American intellectual
history and is a vital resource for political scientists
researching their roots.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is almost a forgotten man, a relic of the
Cold War, like some broken and discarded bit of the Berlin Wall. He
is also one of the most important writers of the 20th century, and
has had more direct influence on politics than any author since
Jean Jacques Rousseau. At a critical time after America's loss in
Vietnam, Solzhenitsyn stood as a towering moral force against a
policy of appeasement towards an evil adversary. In this new
edition of Assault on Ideology: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Political
Thought author James F. Pontuso showcases the titanic thought that
understood Marxism to be a vain and ultimately merciless effort to
fulfill the Enlightenment dream of fully conquering and exploiting
nature in order to establish a perfect and just society on earth.
Solzhenitsyn's claim was that Lenin, Stalin, and the Russian people
applied Marx's principles to the letter yielding horrific results.
Pontuso traces the causes of the horrific events of the Great
Terror beginning with Stalin's megalomania, back through the cruel
precedents laid down by Lenin, to the ideology established by Marx,
and ultimately to the philosophy begun in the Enlightenment.
" the entire field of psychological services is moving through a
developmental transformation of significant proportions open
dialogue regarding its diversity is likely to be one of its saving
graces in the centuries to come."
- From the Editor's Conclusion
Updated and expanded from the Journal of Consulting and Clinical
Psychology, Dr. Mahoney has assembled an impressive group of top
psychologists to focus on current developments in cognitive and
constructive psychotherapies. The volume traces the evolution of
cognitive therapy from its origin in behavior modification through
its development and maturation as an integrative system of
therapy.
Concentration camp survivor, former Marxist-Leninist and Lithuanian
patriot, Aleksandras Shtromas devoted his life to understanding
totalitarianism and political change. He was a remarkably prescient
thinker and is probably best known for his prediction of the fall
of the Soviet Union, forecast at a time when the mighty empire
seemed almost invincible. This posthumous collection of writings,
edited by Robert Faulkner and Daniel J. Mahoney, addresses some of
the topics that preoccupied Shtromas throughout his life, including
totalitarian regimes, postcommunist transitions, the fates of the
Baltic states, and the nature of political revolutions. Readers of
Totalitarianism and the Prospects for World Order: Closing the Door
on the Twentieth Century will encounter not just a learned and
impressive scholar, but also a great man who confronted monstrous
evils in his lifetime.
Concentration camp survivor, former Marxist-Leninist and Lithuanian
patriot, Aleksandras Shtromas devoted his life to understanding
totalitarianism and political change. He was a remarkably prescient
thinker and is probably best known for his prediction of the fall
of the Soviet Union, forecast at a time when the mighty empire
seemed almost invincible. This posthumous collection of writings,
edited by Robert Faulkner and Daniel J. Mahoney, addresses some of
the topics that preoccupied Shtromas throughout his life, including
totalitarian regimes, postcommunist transitions, the fates of the
Baltic states, and the nature of political revolutions. Readers of
Totalitarianism and the Prospects for World Order: Closing the Door
on the Twentieth Century will encounter not just a learned and
impressive scholar, but also a great man who confronted monstrous
evils in his lifetime.
In this book, distinguished French philosopher Pierre Manent
addresses a wide range of subjects, including the Machiavellian
origins of modernity, Tocqueville's analysis of democracy, the
political role of Christianity, the nature of totalitarianism, and
the future of the nation-state. As a whole, the book constitutes a
meditation on the nature of modern freedom and the permanent
discontents which accompany it. Manent is particularly concerned
with the effects of modern democracy on the maintenance and
sustenance of substantial human ties. Modern Liberty and its
Discontents is both an important contribution to an understanding
of modern society, and a significant contribution to political
philosophy in its own right.
This is a critical introduction to Raymond Aron's conception of
political science, based on a careful study of one of his central
statements, "The Dawn of Universal History", with collateral
reference to most of his other major works, and with a clear
account of his unfolding thought. Mahoney discusses Aron's
relationship to such political and social thinkers as Aristotle,
Tocqueville, Marx, Strauss and Von Hayek. He shows how Aron
represented in a lively and vigorous way a tradition of political
prudence increasingly under theoretical and practical assault.
Mahoney argues that Aron's notion of political science is superior
to today's reigning social science in scope, rigour and
availability to practical political leaders and citizens.
This book represents perhaps the single most important volume to be
published on the Constitution during the Bicentennial. With over
sixty contributing authors, it brings together the best of American
constitutional scholarship for a comprehensive and provocative
discussion of the Constitution's history, its principles and its
current meaning. Contributing authors to the book range from
historians and political scientists to Congressmen and Supreme
Court Justices. Some of the better-known contributors include
former Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill, former Chief Justice
Warren Burger, Congressman Philip Crane, lawyer Phillis Schlafly,
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Leonard Levy, former United States
Senator Eugene McCarthy, and the venerable dean of United States
historians, Henry Steele Commager. Most of the articles published
in this volume appeared originally as part of the acclaimed New
Federalist Papers newspaper series, which has been used by hundreds
of newspapers across the country since 1984. The book is arranged
into seventeen different sections, each of which focuses on a major
constitutional principle or institution. Topic areas include
federalism, the separation of powers, Congress, the bureaucracy,
the Presidency, the Judiciary, foreign policy, civil rights,
economics, constitutional reform, and the relationship between
church and state. The sections of the book were designed to
parallel the standard subjects covered in an introductory college
course. Co-published with Public Research, Syndicated.
“Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn delineates his idyllic time in rural
Vermont, where he had the freedom to work, spend time with his
family, and wage a war of ideas against the Soviet Union and other
detractors from afar. At his quiet retreat . . . the Nobel laureate
found . . . ‘a happiness in free and uninterrupted work.’”
—Kirkus Reviews This compelling account concludes Nobel
Prize–winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s literary memoirs of his
years in the West after his forced exile from the USSR following
the publication of The Gulag Archipelago. The book reflects both
the pain of separation from his Russian homeland and the chasm of
miscomprehension between him and Western opinion makers. In Between
Two Millstones, Solzhenitsyn likens his position to that of a grain
that becomes lodged between two massive stones, each grinding
away—the Soviet Communist power with its propaganda machine on
the one hand and the Western establishment with its mainstream
media on the other. Book 2 picks up the story of Solzhenitsyn’s
remarkable life after the raucous publicity over his 1978 Harvard
Address has died down. The author parries attacks from the Soviet
state (and its many fellow-travelers in the Western press) as well
as from recent émigrés who, according to Solzhenitsyn, defame
Russian culture, history, and religion. He shares his unvarnished
view of several infamous episodes, such as a sabotaged meeting with
Ronald Reagan, aborted Senate hearings regarding Radio Liberty, and
Gorbachev’s protracted refusal to allow The Gulag Archipelago to
be published back home. There is also a captivating chapter
detailing his trips to Japan, Taiwan, and Great Britain, including
meetings with Margaret Thatcher and Prince Charles and Princess
Diana. Meanwhile, the central themes of Book 1 course through this
volume, too—the immense artistic quandary of fashioning The Red
Wheel, staunch Western hostility to the historical and future
Russia (and how much can, or should, the author do about it), and
the challenges of raising his three sons in the language and spirit
of Russia while cut off from the homeland in a remote corner of
rural New England. The book concludes in 1994, as Solzhenitsyn bids
farewell to the West in a valedictory series of speeches and
meetings with world leaders, including John Paul II, and prepares
at last to return home with his beloved wife Natalia, full of
misgivings about what use he can be in the first chaotic years of
post-Communist Russia, but never wavering in his conviction that,
in the long run, his books would speak, influence, and convince.
This vibrant, faithful, and long-awaited first English translation
of Between Two Millstones, Book 2, will fascinate Solzhenitsyn's
many admirers, as well as those interested in twentieth-century
history, Russian history, and literature in general.
“Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn delineates his idyllic time in rural
Vermont, where he had the freedom to work, spend time with his
family, and wage a war of ideas against the Soviet Union and other
detractors from afar. At his quiet retreat . . . the Nobel laureate
found . . . ‘a happiness in free and uninterrupted work.’”
—Kirkus Reviews This compelling account concludes Nobel
Prize–winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s literary memoirs of his
years in the West after his forced exile from the USSR following
the publication of The Gulag Archipelago. The book reflects both
the pain of separation from his Russian homeland and the chasm of
miscomprehension between him and Western opinion makers. In Between
Two Millstones, Solzhenitsyn likens his position to that of a grain
that becomes lodged between two massive stones, each grinding
away—the Soviet Communist power with its propaganda machine on
the one hand and the Western establishment with its mainstream
media on the other. Book 2 picks up the story of Solzhenitsyn’s
remarkable life after the raucous publicity over his 1978 Harvard
Address has died down. The author parries attacks from the Soviet
state (and its many fellow-travelers in the Western press) as well
as from recent émigrés who, according to Solzhenitsyn, defame
Russian culture, history, and religion. He shares his unvarnished
view of several infamous episodes, such as a sabotaged meeting with
Ronald Reagan, aborted Senate hearings regarding Radio Liberty, and
Gorbachev’s protracted refusal to allow The Gulag Archipelago to
be published back home. There is also a captivating chapter
detailing his trips to Japan, Taiwan, and Great Britain, including
meetings with Margaret Thatcher and Prince Charles and Princess
Diana. Meanwhile, the central themes of Book 1 course through this
volume, too—the immense artistic quandary of fashioning The Red
Wheel, staunch Western hostility to the historical and future
Russia (and how much can, or should, the author do about it), and
the challenges of raising his three sons in the language and spirit
of Russia while cut off from the homeland in a remote corner of
rural New England. The book concludes in 1994, as Solzhenitsyn bids
farewell to the West in a valedictory series of speeches and
meetings with world leaders, including John Paul II, and prepares
at last to return home with his beloved wife Natalia, full of
misgivings about what use he can be in the first chaotic years of
post-Communist Russia, but never wavering in his conviction that,
in the long run, his books would speak, influence, and convince.
This vibrant, faithful, and long-awaited first English translation
of Between Two Millstones, Book 2, will fascinate Solzhenitsyn's
many admirers, as well as those interested in twentieth-century
history, Russian history, and literature in general.
In his newest book, Daniel J. Mahoney offers refreshing historical
antidotes to the displays of despotism in today's political arena.
"A brilliantly written and researched tribute to the pantheon of
classically trained and thinking men of action." -Victor Davis
Hanson In The Statesman as Thinker, Daniel J. Mahoney provides
thoughtful and elegant portraits of statesmen who struggled to
preserve freedom during times of crisis: Cicero using all the
powers of rhetoric to preserve republican liberty in Rome against
Caesar's encroaching autocracy; Burke defending ordered liberty
against Jacobin tyranny in revolutionary France; Tocqueville
defending liberty and human dignity against blind reaction,
democratic impatience, and revolutionary fanaticism; Lincoln
preserving the American republic and putting an end to chattel
slavery; Churchill defending liberty and law and opposing Nazi and
Communist despotism; de Gaulle defending the honor of France during
World War II; and Havel fighting Communism before 1989 and then
leading the Czech Republic with dignity and grace. Mahoney makes
sense of the mixture of magnanimity and moderation that defines the
statesman as thinker at his or her best. That admirable mixture of
greatness, courage, and moderation owes much to classical and
Christian wisdom and to the noble desire to protect the inheritance
of civilization against rapacious and destructive despotic regimes
and ideologies.
This first English translation of Pierre Manent’s profound and
strikingly original book La loi naturelle et les droits de
l’homme is a reflection on the central question of the Western
political tradition. In six chapters, developed from the
prestigious Étienne Gilson lectures at the Institut Catholique de
Paris, and in a related appendix, Manent contemplates the steady
displacement of the natural law by the modern conception of human
rights. He aims to restore the grammar of moral and political
action, and thus the possibility of an authentically political
order that is fully compatible with liberty. Manent boldly
confronts the prejudices and dogmas of those who have repudiated
the classical and Christian notion of “liberty under law” and
in the process shows how groundless many contemporary appeals to
human rights turn out to be. Manent denies that we can generate
obligations from a condition of what Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau
call the “state of nature,” where human beings are absolutely
free, with no obligations to others. In his view, our
ever-more-imperial affirmation of human rights needs to be
reintegrated into what he calls an “archic” understanding of
human and political existence, where law and obligation are
inherent in liberty and meaningful human action. Otherwise we are
bound to act thoughtlessly and in an increasingly arbitrary or
willful manner. Natural Law and Human Rights will engage students
and scholars of politics, philosophy, and religion, and will
captivate sophisticated readers who are interested in the question
of how we might reconfigure our knowledge of, and talk with one
another about, politics.
Russian Nobel prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) is
widely acknowledged as one of the most important figures-and
perhaps the most important writer-of the last century. To celebrate
the centenary of his birth, the first English translation of his
memoir of the West, Between Two Millstones, Book 1, is being
published. Fast-paced, absorbing, and as compelling as the earlier
installments of his memoir The Oak and the Calf (1975), Between Two
Millstones begins on February 13, 1974, when Solzhenitsyn found
himself forcibly expelled to Frankfurt, West Germany, as a result
of the publication in the West of The Gulag Archipelago.
Solzhenitsyn moved to Zurich, Switzerland, for a time and was
considered the most famous man in the world, hounded by journalists
and reporters. During this period, he found himself untethered and
unable to work while he tried to acclimate to his new surroundings.
Between Two Millstones contains vivid descriptions of
Solzhenitsyn's journeys to various European countries and North
American locales, where he and his wife Natalia ("Alya") searched
for a location to settle their young family. There are fascinating
descriptions of one-on-one meetings with prominent individuals,
detailed accounts of public speeches such as the 1978 Harvard
University commencement, comments on his television appearances,
accounts of his struggles with unscrupulous publishers and agents
who mishandled the Western editions of his books, and the KGB
disinformation efforts to besmirch his name. There are also
passages on Solzhenitsyn's family and their property in Cavendish,
Vermont, whose forested hillsides and harsh winters evoked his
Russian homeland, and where he could finally work undisturbed on
his ten-volume dramatized history of the Russian Revolution, The
Red Wheel. Stories include the efforts made to assure a proper
education for the writer's three sons, their desire to return one
day to their home in Russia, and descriptions of his extraordinary
wife, editor, literary advisor, and director of the Russian Social
Fund, Alya, who successfully arranged, at great peril to herself
and to her family, to smuggle Solzhenitsyn's invaluable archive out
of the Soviet Union. Between Two Millstones is a literary event of
the first magnitude. The book dramatically reflects the pain of
Solzhenitsyn's separation from his Russian homeland and the chasm
of miscomprehension between him and Western society.
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