Modern and American Dignity
Title | Modern and American Dignity PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Lawler |
Publisher | |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Human rights |
ISBN |
Modern and American Dignity
Title | Modern and American Dignity PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Augustine Lawler |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2023-10-10 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 168451682X |
A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
Dignity
Title | Dignity PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Arnade |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2019-06-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0525534733 |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A profound book.... It will break your heart but also leave you with hope." —J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy "[A] deeply empathetic book." —The Economist With stark photo essays and unforgettable true stories, Chris Arnade cuts through "expert" pontification on inequality, addiction, and poverty to allow those who have been left behind to define themselves on their own terms. After abandoning his Wall Street career, Chris Arnade decided to document poverty and addiction in the Bronx. He began interviewing, photographing, and becoming close friends with homeless addicts, and spent hours in drug dens and McDonald's. Then he started driving across America to see how the rest of the country compared. He found the same types of stories everywhere, across lines of race, ethnicity, religion, and geography. The people he got to know, from Alabama and California to Maine and Nevada, gave Arnade a new respect for the dignity and resilience of what he calls America's Back Row--those who lack the credentials and advantages of the so-called meritocratic upper class. The strivers in the Front Row, with their advanced degrees and upward mobility, see the Back Row's values as worthless. They scorn anyone who stays in a dying town or city as foolish, and mock anyone who clings to religion or tradition as naïve. As Takeesha, a woman in the Bronx, told Arnade, she wants to be seen she sees herself: "a prostitute, a mother of six, and a child of God." This book is his attempt to help the rest of us truly see, hear, and respect millions of people who've been left behind.
Dignity
Title | Dignity PDF eBook |
Author | Remy Debes |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 437 |
Release | 2017-06-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0190677546 |
In everything from philosophical ethics to legal argument to public activism, it has become commonplace to appeal to the idea of human dignity. In such contexts, the concept of dignity typically signifies something like the fundamental moral status belonging to all humans. Remarkably, however, it is only in the last century that this meaning of the term has become standardized. Before this, dignity was instead a concept associated with social status. Unfortunately, this transformation remains something of a mystery in existing scholarship. Exactly when and why did "dignity" change its meaning? And before this change, was it truly the case that we lacked a conception of human worth akin to the one that "dignity" now represents? In this volume, leading scholars across a range of disciplines attempt to answer such questions by clarifying the presently murky history of "dignity," from classical Greek thought through the Middle Ages and Enlightenment to the present day.
Bourgeois Dignity
Title | Bourgeois Dignity PDF eBook |
Author | Deirdre N. McCloskey |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 588 |
Release | 2011-11-15 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0226556743 |
Arguing that the biggest economic story of our times is how China & India have embraced neoliberalism, Deirdre McCloskey suggests that economic change depends less on foreign trade, investment or material causes, & a whole lot more on ideas & what people believe.
Dignity in Exile
Title | Dignity in Exile PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Weissman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 9781550962994 |
Provides information on Dignity Village, the first city-sanctioned homeless community located in Portland, Oregon.
Identity
Title | Identity PDF eBook |
Author | Francis Fukuyama |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Pages | 203 |
Release | 2018-09-11 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0374717486 |
The New York Times bestselling author of The Origins of Political Order offers a provocative examination of modern identity politics: its origins, its effects, and what it means for domestic and international affairs of state In 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American institutions were in decay, as the state was progressively captured by powerful interest groups. Two years later, his predictions were borne out by the rise to power of a series of political outsiders whose economic nationalism and authoritarian tendencies threatened to destabilize the entire international order. These populist nationalists seek direct charismatic connection to “the people,” who are usually defined in narrow identity terms that offer an irresistible call to an in-group and exclude large parts of the population as a whole. Demand for recognition of one’s identity is a master concept that unifies much of what is going on in world politics today. The universal recognition on which liberal democracy is based has been increasingly challenged by narrower forms of recognition based on nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, or gender, which have resulted in anti-immigrant populism, the upsurge of politicized Islam, the fractious “identity liberalism” of college campuses, and the emergence of white nationalism. Populist nationalism, said to be rooted in economic motivation, actually springs from the demand for recognition and therefore cannot simply be satisfied by economic means. The demand for identity cannot be transcended; we must begin to shape identity in a way that supports rather than undermines democracy. Identity is an urgent and necessary book—a sharp warning that unless we forge a universal understanding of human dignity, we will doom ourselves to continuing conflict.