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Author | : Paul Berman |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2007-04-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0393352773 |
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The author of the best-selling Terror and Liberalism on the rise to power of the generation of 1968. The student uprisings of 1968 erupted not only in America but also across Europe, expressing a distinct generational attitude about politics, the corrupt nature of democratic capitalism, and the evil of military interventions. Yet, thirty-five years later, many in that radical generation had come into conventional positions of power: among them Bill Clinton (who reportedly stayed up all night reading this book) and Joschka Fischer, foreign minister of Germany. During a 1970s street protest, Fischer was photographed beating a cop to the ground; during the 1990s, he was supporting Clinton in a NATO-led military intervention in the Balkans. Here Paul Berman, "one of America's best exponents of recent intellectual history" (The Economist), masterfully traces the intellectual and moral evolution of an impassioned generation—and gives an acute analysis of what it means to go to war in the name of democracy and human rights.
Author | : Paul Berman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004-06 |
Genre | : Politicians |
ISBN | : 9781932360417 |
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Described as 'One of America's best exponents of recent intellectual history' by The Economist, Berman uses the case of a famous - and notorious - German politician in a dazzling dissection of radical left politics then and now. In light of the international reactions to some photographs of Joschka in a fight published in 2001, noteably what the French newspaper Liberation called 'The Trial of the Generation of 68', he launches a crucial question for Western democracies today: was the violence-tinged radicalism in America and Europe in 1968 a force for social good or ill?
Author | : Heinrich Böll |
Publisher | : McGraw-Hill Companies |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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A young woman's association with a hunted man makes her the target of a journalist determined to grab headlines by portraying her as an evil woman. As the attacks on her escalate and she becomes the victim of anonymous threats, Katharina sees only one way out of her nightmare.
Author | : Paul Berman |
Publisher | : Melville House |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2010-04-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1935554980 |
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Twenty years ago, Ayatollah Khomeini called for the assassination of Salman Rushdie—and writers around the world instinctively rallied to Rushdie’s defense. Today, according to writer Paul Berman, “Rushdie has metastasized into an entire social class”—an ever-growing group of sharp-tongued critics of Islamist extremism, especially critics from Muslim backgrounds, who survive only because of pseudonyms and police protection. And yet, instead of being applauded, the Rushdies of today (people like Ayan Hirsi Ali and Ibn Warraq) often find themselves dismissed as “strident” or as no better than fundamentalist themselves, and contrasted unfavorably with representatives of the Islamist movement who falsely claim to be “moderates.” How did this happen? In THE FLIGHT OF THE INTELLECTUALS, Berman—“one of America’s leading public intellectuals” (Foreign Affairs)—conducts a searing examination into the intellectual atmosphere of the moment and shows how some of the West’s best thinkers and journalists have fumbled badly in their efforts to grapple with Islamist ideas and violence. Berman’s investigation of the history and nature of the Islamist movement includes some surprising revelations. In examining Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, he shows the rise of an immense and often violent worldview, elements of which survives today in the brigades of al-Qaeda and Hamas. Berman also unearths the shocking story of al-Banna’s associate, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who collaborated personally with Adolf Hitler to incite Arab support of the Nazis’ North African campaign. Echoes of the Grand Mufti’s Nazified Islam can be heard among the followers of al-Banna even today. In a gripping and stylish narrative Berman also shows the legacy of these political traditions, most importantly by focusing on a single philosopher, who happens to be Hassan al-Banna’s grandson, Oxford professor Tariq Ramadan—a figure widely celebrated in the West as a “moderate” despite his troubling ties to the Islamist movement. Looking closely into what Ramadan has actually written and said, Berman contrasts the reality of Ramadan with his image in the press. In doing so, THE FLIGHT OF THE INTELLECTUALS sheds light on a number of modern issues—on the massively reinvigorated anti-Semitism of our own time, on a newly fashionable turn against women’s rights, and on the difficulties we have in discussing terrorism—and presents a stunning commentary about the modern media’s peculiar inability to detect and analyze some of the most dangerous ideas in contemporary society.
Author | : Paul Berman |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2004-05-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780393325553 |
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He calls for a "new radicalism" and a "liberal American interventionism" to promote democratic values throughout the world - a vigorous new politics of American liberalism."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Richard Tres |
Publisher | : Beacon Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2019-04-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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The Kaiser fined him for his writings; he refused to pay. The Weimar Republic charged him with treason for publishing the truth about their illegal military build-up. He fought them in court and went to prison. In early 1933, when Hitler took power, journalist Carl von Ossietzky was one of the first thrown into the new concentration camps. In order to get him out of Germany, Ossietzky’s friends nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize. Never thinking he would win, they hoped to create enough international uproar to force Hitler to free the journalist he was torturing. Ossietzky won the Nobel Peace Prize for 1935. But Hitler still would not let his captive go. This is Carl von Ossietzky’s story.
Author | : Robert Meister |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0231150377 |
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The way in which mainstream human rights discourse speaks of such evils as the Holocaust, slavery, or apartheid puts them solidly in the past. Its elaborate techniques of "transitional" justice encourage future generations to move forward by creating a false assumption of closure, enabling those who are guilty to elude responsibility. This approach to history, common to late-twentieth-century humanitarianism, doesn't presuppose that evil ends when justice begins. Rather, it assumes that a time before justice is the moment to put evil in the past. Merging examples from literature and history, Robert Meister confronts the problem of closure and the resolution of historical injustice. He boldly challenges the empty moral logic of "never again" or the theoretical reduction of evil to a cycle of violence and counterviolence, broken only once evil is remembered for what it was. Meister criticizes such methods for their deferral of justice and susceptibility to exploitation and elaborates the flawed moral logic of "never again" in relation to Auschwitz and its evolution into a twenty-first-century doctrine of the Responsibility to Protect.
Author | : Keith W. Faulkner |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780820481159 |
Download Deleuze and the Three Syntheses of Time Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In the most important theory of time since Heidegger, Deleuze challenges Kant's unity of apperception, as well as the phenomenological account of time. This book, using the principles of structuralism, exposes how Freud's unconscious mechanisms synthesize time. It also gives a vibrant and original account of Deleuze's theory of the pure Event using detailed examples from Hamlet and Oedipus, as well as Nietzsche's doctrine of the eternal return. This book is essential reading for students and scholars who wish to understand Deleuze's dissolved subject as well as our modern sense of fragmented time.
Author | : Paul Hockenos |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0195181832 |
Download Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Joschka Fischer evolved from a 1960s radical to become one of the first elected Greens in the 1980s, then later Germany's foreign minister. Beginning in the ruins of postwar Germany, this volume offers both a biography of Fischer and an alternative history of postwar Germany.
Author | : Hans Kundnani |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190245506 |
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Introduction: The return of history? -- The German question -- Idealism and realism -- Continuity and change -- Perpetrators and victims -- Economics and politics -- Europe and the world -- Conclusion: Geo-economic semi-hegemony.