The Tragedy of State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Tragedy of State write by J. W. Lever. This book was released on 2019-08-13. The Tragedy of State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The domination of the state over the lives of individuals is, arguably, a problem of the present-day world. In this book, first published in 1971, the author finds essentially the same problem in Jacobean tragedy in the shape it assumed during the rise of the first European nation-states. The English dramatists of the early seventeenth century a
The Tragedy of Russia's Reforms
The Tragedy of Russia's Reforms - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Tragedy of Russia's Reforms write by Peter Reddaway. This book was released on 2001. The Tragedy of Russia's Reforms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the birth of the Russian state, focusing on Yeltsin's disastrous policies, which brought on an economic collapse almost twice as severe as America's Great Depression.
The Lessons of Tragedy
The Lessons of Tragedy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lessons of Tragedy write by Hal Brands. This book was released on 2019-02-26. The Lessons of Tragedy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A “brilliant” examination of American complacency and how it puts the nation’s—and the world’s—security at risk (The Wall Street Journal). The ancient Greeks hard-wired a tragic sensibility into their culture. By looking disaster squarely in the face, by understanding just how badly things could spiral out of control, they sought to create a communal sense of responsibility and courage—to spur citizens and their leaders to take the difficult actions necessary to avert such a fate. Today, after more than seventy years of great-power peace and a quarter-century of unrivaled global leadership, Americans have lost their sense of tragedy. They have forgotten that the descent into violence and war has been all too common throughout human history. This amnesia has become most pronounced just as Americans and the global order they created are coming under graver threat than at any time in decades. In a forceful argument that brims with historical sensibility and policy insights, two distinguished historians argue that a tragic sensibility is necessary if America and its allies are to address the dangers that menace the international order today. Tragedy may be commonplace, Brands and Edel argue, but it is not inevitable—so long as we regain an appreciation of the world’s tragic nature before it is too late. “Literate and lucid—sure to interest to readers of Fukuyama, Huntington, and similar authors as well as students of modern realpolitik.” —Kirkus Reviews
The Tragedy of Optimism
The Tragedy of Optimism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Tragedy of Optimism write by Steven S. Schwarzschild. This book was released on 2018-01-29. The Tragedy of Optimism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Steven S. Schwarzschild (1924–1989) was arguably the leading expositor of German-Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen (1842–1918), undertaking a lifelong effort to reintroduce Cohen's thought into contemporary philosophical discourse. In The Tragedy of Optimism, George Y. Kohler brings together all of Schwarzschild's work on Cohen for the first time. Schwarzschild's readings of Cohen are unique and profound; he was conversant with both worlds that shaped Cohen's thought, neo-Kantian German idealism and Jewish theology. The collection covers a wide range of subjects, from ethics, socialism, the concept of human selfhood, and the mathematics of the infinite to more explicitly Jewish themes. This volume includes two of Schwarzschild's previously unpublished manuscripts and a scholarly introduction by Kohler. Schwarzschild shows that despite its seeming defeat by events of the twentieth century, Cohen's optimism about human progress is a rational, indeed necessary, path to peace.
The Tragedy of American Compassion
The Tragedy of American Compassion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Tragedy of American Compassion write by Marvin Olasky. This book was released on 1994-02-01. The Tragedy of American Compassion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a book of hope at a time when just about everyone but Marvin Olasky has lost hope. The topic is poverty and the underclass. The profound truth that Marvin Olasky forces us to confront is that the problems of the underclass are not caused by poverty. Some of them are exacerbated by poverty, but we know that they need not be caused by poverty, for poverty has been the condition of the vast majority of human communities since the dawn of history, and they have for the most part been communities of stable families, nurtured children, and low crime. It is wrong to think that writing checks will end the problems of the underclass, or even reduce them. - Preface.
