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Contemporary society
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01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: A balanced selection of a variety of perspectives on the hotly contested role of science and technology in contemporary society will clarify this vital debate for both specialists and non-specialists.
Abstract: Is science our most precious possession or has our culture elevated science into a false idol? Is technology a useful servant or a malign genie? These questions are at the centre of the 'science wars' currently being waged over the role and future of science and technology in our society. This balanced selection of a variety of perspectives on the hotly contested role of science and technology in contemporary society will clarify this vital debate for both specialists and non-specialists.
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31 Mar 2017
TL;DR: Byung-Chul Han as discussed by the authors argues that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other in a world of fetishized individualism and technologically mediated social interaction, it is the Other that is eradicated, not the self.
Abstract: An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other. Byung-Chul Han is one of the most widely read philosophers in Europe today, a member of the new generation of German thinkers that includes Markus Gabriel and Armen Avanessian. In The Agony of Eros, a bestseller in Germany, Han considers the threat to love and desire in today's society. For Han, love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other. In a world of fetishized individualism and technologically mediated social interaction, it is the Other that is eradicated, not the self. In today's increasingly narcissistic society, we have come to look for love and desire within the "inferno of the same." Han offers a survey of the threats to Eros, drawing on a wide range of sources-Lars von Trier's film Melancholia, Wagner's Tristan und Isolde,Fifty Shades of Grey, Michel Foucault (providing a scathing critique of Foucault's valorization of power), Martin Buber, Hegel, Baudrillard, Flaubert, Barthes, Plato, and others. Han considers the "pornographication" of society, and shows how pornography profanes eros; addresses capitalism's leveling of essential differences; and discusses the politics of eros in today's "burnout society." To be dead to love, Han argues, is to be dead to thought itself. Concise in its expression but unsparing in its insight, The Agony of Eros is an important and provocative entry in Han's ongoing analysis of contemporary society. This remarkable essay, an intellectual experience of the first order, affords one of the best ways to gain full awareness of and join in one of the most pressing struggles of the day: the defense, that is to say-as Rimbaud desired it-the "reinvention" of love. -from the foreword by Alain Badiou
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26 Jul 2004
TL;DR: The evolution of the American welfare state can be traced back to the 19th century: 1789-1902 as discussed by the authors, when Social Welfare Policy in the Progressive Era was introduced.
Abstract: 1 The Symbiotic and Uneasy Relationship: Clients, Social Workers, and the Welfare State 2 Making the American Welfare State More Humane-Past, Present, and Future 3 Fashioning a New Society in the Wilderness 4 Social Welfare Policy in the 19th Century: 1789-1902 5 Social Reform in the Progressive Era 6 Social Policy to Address the Worst Economic Catastrophe in US History 7 The Era of Federal Social Services: The New Frontier and the Great Society 8 The Paradoxical Era: 1968-1980 9 The Conservative Counterrevolution in the Era of Reagan and Bush, Sr 10 Reluctance Illustrated: Policy Uncertainty During the Clinton Administration 11 George W Bush's Quest for Realignment 12 Would President Barack Obama Reverse the Cycle of History? 13 Why Has the American Welfare State Been Reluctant-And What Can We Do about It? 14 Using Knowledge of the Evolution of the American Welfare State to Improve Your Professional Practice
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01 Jan 1980
TL;DR: The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The political and ideological turmoil of the late 1960's stimulated among Anglo-American philosophers a new interest in applying moral philosophy to the problems of contemporary society, and a search for critical perspectives on Marx and Marxist thought. These essays, originally published in Philosophy & Public Affairs, contribute to both these areas in the form of new Marxist scholarship and in illuminating the way in which Marxist criticism and social theory bear on contemporary analytic moral philosophy and current moral problems.Originally published in 1980.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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