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Reading Leo Strauss - Politics, Philosophy, Judaism - Steven B. Smith

Shows that Leo Strauss' defense of liberal democracy was closely connected to his skepticism of both the extreme Left and extreme Right. It assesses Strauss's attempt to direct teaching of political science away from examination of mass behavior and interest-group politics and toward study of philosophical principles on which politics are based.

DKK 323.95

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Extreme-occident - French Intellectuals and America - Jean-Philippe Mathy

A systematic examination of French texts that address matters relating to America. The book shows how prominent French intellectuals have represented America as myth and metaphor, covering the entire ideological spectrum from Maurras to Duhamel, and from Sartre to Aron.

DKK 389.95

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The Partisan Sort - How Liberals Became Democrats and Conservatives Became Rlicans - Matthew Levendusky

As Washington elites drifted toward ideological poles over a few decades, did ordinary Americans follow their lead? This book reveals that we have responded to this trend - but not, for the most part, by becoming more extreme ourselves.

DKK 303.95

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For the Sake of the Children - The Social Organization of Responsibility in the Hospital and the Home - Carol A. Heimer

Examines the organization of social responsibility in the USA, in particular of critically ill newborn children. Drawing on medical records and interviews with parents and medical staff, the book investigates two neonatal intensive care units, showing the traumas of extreme medical measures.

DKK 461.95

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Poverty and the Quest for Life - Spiritual and Material Striving in Rural India - Bhrigupati Singh

The Indian subdistrict of Shahabad, located in the southeastern tip of Rajasthan, is an area of extreme poverty. It is the home of the Sahariyas, classified as Rajasthan's only \primitive tribe.\ The author organizes his study around two themes: power and ethics, through which he explores a complex terrain of material and spiritual forces.

DKK 268.95

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Neoliberal Apartheid - Palestine/Israel and South Africa after 1994 - Andy Clarno

This is the first comparative analysis of the political transitions in South Africa and Palestine since the 1990s. Clarno s study is grounded in impressive ethnographic fieldwork, taking him from South African townships to Palestinian refugee camps, where he talked to a wide array of informants, from local residents to policymakers, political activists, business representatives, and local and international security personnel. The resulting inquiry accounts for the simultaneous development of extreme..

DKK 976.95

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Radical American Partisanship - Mapping Violent Hostility, Its Causes, and the Consequences for Democracy - Nathan P. Kalmoe

\On January 6 we witnessed what many of us consider a failed insurrection at the US Capitol. But others think this was political violence in service of the preservation of our democracy. When did our political views become extreme? When did guns and violence become a feature of American politics? Nathan Kalmoe and Lily Mason have been researching the increase in radical partisanship in American politics and the associated increasing propensity to support or engage in violence through a series of..

DKK 927.95

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The Great Derangement - Climate Change and the Unthinkable - Amitav Ghosh

\Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since In an Antique Land, Ghosh examines our inability--at the level of literature, history, and politics--to grasp the scale and violence of climate change. The extreme nature of today's climate events, Ghosh asserts, makes them peculiarly resistant to contemporary modes of..

DKK 170.95

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