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This book provides a comprehensive examination of the police role
from within a broader philosophical context. Contending that the
police are in the midst of an identity crisis that exacerbates
unjustified law enforcement tactics, Luke William Hunt examines
various major conceptions of the police-those seeing them as
heroes, warriors, and guardians. The book looks at the police role
considering the overarching societal goal of justice and seeks to
present a synthetic theory that draws upon history, law, society,
psychology, and philosophy. Each major conception of the police
role is examined in light of how it affects the pursuit of justice,
and how it may be contrary to seeking justice holistically and
collectively. The book sets forth a conception of the police role
that is consistent with the basic values of a constitutional
democracy in the liberal tradition. Hunt's intent is that
clarifying the police role will likewise elucidate any constraints
upon policing strategies, including algorithmic strategies such as
predictive policing. This book is essential reading for thoughtful
policing and legal scholars as well as those interested in
political philosophy, political theory, psychology, and related
areas. Now more than ever, the nature of the police role is a
philosophical topic that is relevant not just to police officials
and social scientists, but to everyone.
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the police role
from within a broader philosophical context. Contending that the
police are in the midst of an identity crisis that exacerbates
unjustified law enforcement tactics, Luke William Hunt examines
various major conceptions of the police-those seeing them as
heroes, warriors, and guardians. The book looks at the police role
considering the overarching societal goal of justice and seeks to
present a synthetic theory that draws upon history, law, society,
psychology, and philosophy. Each major conception of the police
role is examined in light of how it affects the pursuit of justice,
and how it may be contrary to seeking justice holistically and
collectively. The book sets forth a conception of the police role
that is consistent with the basic values of a constitutional
democracy in the liberal tradition. Hunt's intent is that
clarifying the police role will likewise elucidate any constraints
upon policing strategies, including algorithmic strategies such as
predictive policing. This book is essential reading for thoughtful
policing and legal scholars as well as those interested in
political philosophy, political theory, psychology, and related
areas. Now more than ever, the nature of the police role is a
philosophical topic that is relevant not just to police officials
and social scientists, but to everyone.
Individualism is arguably the most vital tenet of American national
identity: American cultural heroes tend to be mavericks and
nonconformists, and independence is the fulcrum of the American
origin story. But in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth
centuries, a number of American artists, writers, and educational
philosophers cast imitation and emulation as central to the linked
projects of imagining the self and consolidating the nation.
Tracing continuities between literature, material culture, and
pedagogical theory, William Huntting Howell uncovers an America
that celebrated the virtues of humility, contingency, and
connection to a complex whole over ambition and distinction.
Against Self-Reliance revalues and rethinks what it meant to be
repetitive, derivative or pointedly generic in the early republic
and beyond. Howell draws on such varied sources as Benjamin
Franklin's programs for moral reform, Phillis Wheatley's devotional
poetry, David Rittenhouse's coins and astronomical machines,
Benjamin Rush's psychological and political theory, Susanna
Rowson's schoolbooks, and the novels of Charles Brockden Brown and
Herman Melville to tease out patterns of dependence in early
America. With its incisive critique of America's storied heroic
individualism, Against Self-Reliance argues that the arts of
dependence were-and are-critical to the project of American
independence.
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