1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910813568603321

Autore

Braybrooke David

Titolo

Moral objectives, rules, and the forms of social change / / David Braybrooke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1998

©1998

ISBN

1-281-99543-6

9786611995430

1-4426-7736-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (381 p.)

Collana

Toronto Studies in Philosophy

Disciplina

170

Soggetti

Ethics

Social ethics

Electronic books.

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

; pt. I. Moral Objectives. ; 1. Needs and Interests. ; 2. Two Conceptions of Needs in Marx's Writings. ; 3. Diagnosis and Remedy in Marx's Doctrine of Alienation. ; 4. The Meaning of Participation and of Demands for It. ; 5. Work: A Cultural Ideal Ever More in Jeopardy. ; 6. From Economics to Aesthetics: The Rectification of Preferences. ; 7. Preferences Opposed to the Market: Grasshoppers vs Ants on Security, Inequality, and Justice. ; 8. Liberalism, Statistics, and the Presuppositions of Utilitarianism. ; 9. Justice and Injustice in Business. ; 10. Making Justice Practical. ; 11. The Common Good -- ; pt. II. Rules. ; 12. No Rules without Virtues; No Virtues without Rules.

Sommario/riassunto

"Fruit from forty years' writing, these essays by David Braybrooke take up an assortment of practical concerns that ethics brings into politics: people's interests; needs along with preferences; work and commitment to work; participation in social life. Essays follow on justice and the common good. Parts II and III of the book deal with settled social rules, devices for securing the objectives just treated. Part II shows that rules go hand in hand with virtues, and, in social



phenomena, with causal regularities. Part III captures dialectic in history in a logical analysis of how rules (policies) can be prudent by keeping within incremental limits, yet imaginative enough to escape the recent embarrassments generated by social choice theory."--Jacket.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910972108203321

Autore

Reed Ishmael <1938->

Titolo

Going too far : essays about America's nervous breakdown / / Ishmael Reed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal, : Baraka Books, 2012

ISBN

9781926824598

1926824598

9781926824581

192682458X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Disciplina

300

305.896073

Soggetti

African Americans - Social conditions - 21st century

African Americans in popular culture

Racism - United States

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; INTRODUCTION; Going There; PART I Chief Executive and Chief Exorcist, Too?; President Obama and the New Secession; BLACK MEN AND THE WHITE LEFT Why Some White Progressives Make Me Sick; What Progressives Don't Understand About Obama; OBAMA, HIS "BASE" AND THE JIM CROW MEDIA Joan Walsh's Twitter Brawl With Herself; VOTING WITH HARD HATS Brown Shirts, Black Shirts, T-Shirts; Ethnic Studies in the Age of the Tea Party; My School Curricula; The Beginnings of Black Studies; The Age of the Tea Party; TWO TEA BAGGERS A Fly on the Wall

PART II "Coonery and Buffoonery"HOLLYWOOD'S ENDURING MYTH OF



THE BLACK MALE SEXUAL PREDATOR The Selling of Precious; Fade to White; The NAACP House of Shame; The Wire Goes to College; Diminutive Playwright Tackles Criminal Justice Dragon; Trouble Beside the Bay; "She Wanted It"; PART III As Relayed By Themselves; BEING BLACK AND "DIFFICULT" IN HOLLYWOOD An Interview with Lou Gossett, Jr.1; At Work: Ishmael Reed on Juice!; THE RETURN OF THE NIGGER BREAKERS: A GHETTO READING AND WRITTING RAT RESPONDS TO HIS CRITICS Jill Nelson Interviews Ishmael Reed; An Interview with Terry McMillan

MUSICIAN AND COMPOSER WITHOUT BORDERS An Interview with David Murray WHERE ARE THE "PIRATES" COMING FROM? An Interview with Nuruddin Farah; WATERMILL AT GDANSK The U.S. Puts Its Best Foot Forward

Sommario/riassunto

Challenging a prevailing attitude, this account disputes the idea that racism is no longer a factor in American life. Based on cultural and literary evidence-including Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn-it argues that, in some ways, the United States very much resembles the country of the 1850's. Not only are the representations of blacks in popular culture throwbacks to the days of minstrelsy, but politicians are also raising stereotypes reminiscent of those which fugitive slaves found it necessary to combat: that African Americans are lazy,