Freedom and Responsibility in the American Way of Life
Author: Carl Lotus Becker
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Published: 1960
Total Pages: 135
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Author: Carl Lotus Becker
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Published: 1960
Total Pages: 135
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lawrence M. Mead
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 2019-04-23
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 1641770414
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBurdens of Freedom presents a new and radical interpretation of America and its challenges. The United States is an individualist society where most people seek to realize personal goals and values out in the world. This unusual, inner-driven culture was the chief reason why first Europe, then Britain, and finally America came to lead the world. But today, our deepest problems derive from groups and nations that reflect the more passive, deferential temperament of the non-West. The long-term poor and many immigrants have difficulties assimilating in America mainly because they are less inner-driven than the norm. Abroad, the United States faces challenges from Asia, which is collective-minded, and also from many poorly-governed countries in the developing world. The chief threat to American leadership is no longer foreign rivals like China but the decay of individualism within our own society. The great divide is between the individualist West, for which life is a project, and the rest of the world, in which most people seek to survive rather than achieve. This difference, although clear in research on world cultures, has been ignored in virtually all previous scholarship on American power and public policy, both at home and abroad. Burdens of Freedom is the first book to recognize that difference. It casts new light on America's greatest struggles. It re-evaluates the entire Western tradition, which took individualism for granted. How to respond to cultural difference is the greatest test of our times.
Author: American Library Association
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Published: 1953
Total Pages: 16
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Eugene Peterson
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2011-10-27
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1444702718
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn inspiring book on the spirituality of following Christ. Continuing Peterson's major evaluation of contemporary Christian spirituality, THE JESUS WAY asks what it means to authentically follow Christ in the modern world. As with other books in the series, THE JESUS WAY is written for both academic and serious lay audiences. Challenging but rewarding, it combines first-rate scholarship with illustrations drawn from raw human experience. Also available in the Spiritual Theology series: Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places, Eat This Book, The Word Made Flesh and Practise Resurrection.
Author: Carl Lotus Becker
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Published: 2013-01
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9781258536305
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAddress Delivered On April, 27, 1940. The Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Of The Charter Of Cornell University.
Author: Daniel Fridman
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2016-11-30
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1503600262
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“A refreshing and rigorous analysis of financial self-help that gets to the heart of identity formation in neoliberalism . . . sociology at its best.” —Peter Miller, London School of Economics In this era where dollar value signals moral worth, Daniel Fridman paints a vivid portrait of Americans and Argentinians seeking to transform themselves into people worthy of millions. Following groups who practice the advice from financial success bestsellers, Fridman illustrates how the neoliberal emphasis on responsibility, individualism, and entrepreneurship binds people together with the ropes of aspiration. Freedom from Work delves into a world of financial self-help in which books, seminars, and board games reject “get rich quick” formulas and instead suggest to participants that there is something fundamentally wrong with who they are, and that they must struggle to correct it. Fridman analyzes three groups who exercise principles from Rich Dad, Poor Dad by playing the board game Cashflow and investing in cash-generating assets with the goal of leaving the rat race of employment. Fridman shows that the global economic transformations of the last few decades have been accompanied by popular resources that transform the people trying to survive—and even thrive. “A gifted observer, Fridman’s ethnographic account uncovers a unique blend of morality and economics in self-help groups pursuing their dream of financial freedom. This book contributes to economic and cultural sociology but will also fascinate general readers.” —Viviana A. Zelizer, Lloyd Cotsen ’50 Professor of Sociology, Princeton University “A wonderful portrait of how financial technologies of the self work in modern culture.” —Marion Fourcade, University of California, Berkeley
Author: Harry Browne
Publisher: Liamworks
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780965603676
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Freedom is living your life the way you want to live it. This book shows how you can have that freedom now - without having to change the world or the people around you."--Jacket
Author: Carl Lotus Becker
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Published: 1945
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Amartya Sen
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2011-05-25
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 030787429X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century. Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population. Releasing the idea of individual freedom from association with any particular historical, intellectual, political, or religious tradition, Sen clearly demonstrates its current applicability and possibilities. In the new global economy, where, despite unprecedented increases in overall opulence, the contemporary world denies elementary freedoms to vast numbers--perhaps even the majority of people--he concludes, it is still possible to practically and optimistically restain a sense of social accountability. Development as Freedom is essential reading.
Author: Arthur C. Brooks
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
Published: 2012-05-08
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 046502940X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArgues that the Obama administration has used the economic crises to move away from free enterprise and offers a way back via sound public policy.