A compelling, and enlightening, look at feminist anarchism, describing 'what ought to be--and what could be.'
In this acclaimed exploration of the search for "authentic" individual identity, Marshall Berman explores the historical experiences and needs out of which this new radicalism arose.
Uwe Johnson (1934-1984) is the author of Jahrestage, a four-volume novel, which Die Zeit has placed on its list of the one hundred great books in world literature. He has...
Any bond with another of a servile nature cannot be legitimate, for we do not have the authority to create such a bond. Next, Locke contends that individuals are naturally governed by reason. Though in modern times this may not seem to ...
Inspired by F.A. Hayek’s Individualism and Economic Order, this book also stands in contrast to the themes of that work, by emphasizing that collective action works differently from the way the market works.
The Roots of American Individualism traces the origins of individualist ideas to the turbulent political controversies of the Jacksonian era (1820–1850) and explores their enduring influence on American politics and culture.
The book offers a conversation with Nietzsche rather than a consideration of the secondary literature, yet it takes to task many prevalent approaches to his work, and contests especially the way we often restrict our encounter with him to ...
This book explores the possibility of rediscovering the original, transformative potential of individualism.
948 With regard to the most famous of such guarantees , the Magna Carta , Alan Harding finds that it was the last of many such medieval negotiated relationships and not the first bill of individual rights . He writes that it was " the ...
Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877, updated ed. (New York: HarperPerennial ... Quoted in Cohen, The Reconstruction of American Liberalism, 1865–1914, 211. See also Lears, Rebirth of a Nation, 262. 22.
Led by a group of former Trotskyites and confessed former communists—people such as Whittaker Chambers, John Chamberlain, James Burnham, and Frank Meyer—this tribe denounced communism as a corrupt moral system, and recognized in ...