Ordered liberty [[electronic resource] ] : rights, responsibilities, and virtues / / James E. Fleming and Linda C. McClain

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462801803321
• Autore: Fleming James E
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2013
• ISBN: 0-674-07074-7; 0-674-06745-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (371 pages)
• Altri autori (Persone): McClainLinda C
• Disciplina: 320.01/1
• Soggetti: Civil rights - United States; Constitutional law - United States; Civics; Civil society - United States; Cultural pluralism - United States; Liberalism - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- 1 Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues -- 2 Rights and Irresponsibility -- 3 Taking Responsibilities as well as Rights Seriously -- 4 Civil Society's Role in Cultivating the "Seedbeds of Virtue" -- 5 Government's Role in Promoting Civic Virtues -- 6 Conflicts between Liberty and Equality -- 7 Autonomy versus Moral Goods -- 8 Minimalism versus Perfectionism -- 9 The Myth of Strict Scrutiny for Fundamental Rights -- Epilogue: Pursuing Ordered Liberty -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Many have argued in recent years that the U.S. constitutional system exalts individual rights over responsibilities, virtues, and the common good. Answering the charges against liberal theories of rights, James Fleming and Linda McClain develop and defend a civic liberalism that takes responsibilities and virtues-as well as rights-seriously. They provide an account of ordered liberty that protects basic liberties stringently, but not absolutely, and permits government to encourage responsibility and inculcate civic virtues without sacrificing personal ; autonomy to collective determination. The battle over same-sex marriage is one of many current controversies the authors use to defend their understanding of the relationship among rights, responsibilities, and virtues. Against accusations that same-sex marriage severs the rights of marriage from responsible sexuality, procreation, and parenthood, they argue that same-sex couples seek the same rights, responsibilities, and goods of civil marriage that opposite-sex couples pursue. Securing their right to marry respects individual autonomy while also promoting moral goods and virtues. Other issues to which they apply their idea of civic liberalism include reproductive freedom, the proper roles and regulation of civil society and the family, the education of children, and clashes between First Amendment freedoms (of association and religion) and antidiscrimination law. Articulating common ground between liberalism and its critics, Fleming and McClain develop an account of responsibilities and virtues that appreciates the value of diversity in our morally pluralistic constitutional democracy.

Il carbone : le possibilità di sviluppo di una alternativa energetica al petrolio / a cura di Pietro Genco ; presentazione di Sergio Vaccà

• Record Nr.: UNISALENTO991002015529707536
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Milano : F. Angeli, [1976]
• Descrizione fisica: 179 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
• Collana: Economia delle fonti di energia
• Altri autori (Persone): Genco, Pietro; Vaccà, Sergio
• Disciplina: 338.27
• Soggetti: Carboni
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Italiano
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

American arabesque [[electronic resource] ] : Arabs, Islam, and the 19th-century imaginary / / Jacob Rama Berman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779154803321
• Autore: Berman Jacob Rama
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : New York University Press, c2012
• ISBN: 0-8147-2321-7; 0-8147-8951-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (287 p.)
• Collana: America and the long 19th century
• Disciplina: 810.9/3529927
• Soggetti: American literature - 19th century - History and criticism; National characteristics, American, in literature; Islam in literature; Arabs - Race identity; National characteristics, American - History - 19th century; Arabs in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Guest Figures -- The Barbarous Voice of Democracy -- Pentimento Geographies -- Poe's Arabesque -- American Moors and the Barbaresque -- Arab Masquerade : Mahjar Identity Politics and Trans-nationalism -- Afterword: Haunted Houses.
• Sommario/riassunto: American Arabesque examines representations of Arabs, Islam and the Near East in nineteenth-century American culture, arguing that these representations play a significant role in the development of American national identity over the century, revealing largely unexplored exchanges between these two cultural traditions that will alter how we understand them today.Moving from the period of America’s engagement in the Barbary Wars through the Holy Land travel mania in the years of Jacksonian expansion and into the writings of romantics such as Edgar Allan Poe, the book argues that not only were Arabs and Muslims prominently featured in nineteenth-century literature, but that the differences writers established between figures such as Moors, Bedouins, Turks and Orientals provide proof of the transnational scope of domestic racial politics. Drawing on both English and Arabic ; language sources, Berman contends that the fluidity and instability of the term Arab as it appears in captivity narratives, travel narratives, imaginative literature, and ethnic literature simultaneously instantiate and undermine definitions of the American nation and American citizenship.