The Quest for Legitimacy
The Quest for Legitimacy

Author: Jamie Weiner

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2022-06-28

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1119868289

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Discover how the children of prominent families pursue their own path while contributing to their family’s legacy In The Quest for Legitimacy: How Children of Prominent Families Discover Their Unique Place in the World, accomplished family and private wealth consultant Dr. James Weiner delivers a unique and eye-opening discussion of the Rising Generation’s quest for self-determination in the shadow of a larger-than-life family. The author relies on qualitative research conducted on wealthy families to explore topics like: Rites of passage in prominent families and what liberation for young family members actually looks and feels like Separating from and returning to your family while finding people to trust on your journey How to deal with the long shadows cast by wealthy family members Perfect for members of wealthy and accomplished families, as well as the people who advise them, The Quest for Legitimacy is an essential read for anyone navigating the complex dynamics of accomplished families.

The Quest for Legitimacy in Chinese Politics
The Quest for Legitimacy in Chinese Politics

Author: Lanxin Xiang

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-09-03

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1000699765

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Xiang explains the nature and depth of the legitimacy crisis facing the government of China, and why it is so frequently misunderstood in the West. Arguing that it is more helpful to understand the quest for legitimacy in China as an eternally dynamic process, rather than to seek resolutions in constitutionalism, Xiang examines the understanding of legitimacy in Chinese political philosophy. He posits that the current crisis is a consequence of the incompatibility of Confucian Republicanism and Soviet-inspired Bolshevism. The discourse on Chinese political reform tends to polarize, between total westernization on the one hand, or the rejection of western influence in all forms on the other. Xiang points to a third solution - meeting western democratic theories halfway, avoiding another round of violent revolution. This book provides valuable insights for scholars and students of China’s politics and political history.

Unelected Power
Unelected Power

Author: Paul Tucker

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2019-09-10

Total Pages: 662

ISBN-13: 0691196303

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Tucker presents guiding principles for ensuring that central bankers and other unelected policymakers remain stewards of the common good.

Nadir Shah's Quest for Legitimacy in Post-Safavid Iran
Nadir Shah's Quest for Legitimacy in Post-Safavid Iran

Author: Ernest S. Tucker

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9780813029641

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Ascending from obscurity and without dynastic credentials, Nadir Shah tried and failed to establish his right to rule the people of Iran from the 1720s until 1747. This biography of Nadir tells how Nadir Shah's novel strategies influenced successive rulers of Iran in their own defense of power.

Political Legitimacy in Southeast Asia
Political Legitimacy in Southeast Asia

Author: Muthiah Alagappa

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 0804725608

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Despite the end of the Cold War, security continues to be a critical concern of Asian states. Allocations of state revenues to the security sector continue to be substantial and have, in fact, increased in several countries. As Asian nations construct a new security architecture for the Asia-Pacific region, Asian security has received increased attention by the scholarly community. But most of that scholarship has focused on specific issues or selected countries. This book aims to lay the groundwork for a comprehensive, in-depth understanding of Asian security by investigating conceptions of security in sixteen Asian countries. The book undertakes an ethnographic, country-by-country study of how Asian states conceive of their security. For each country, it identifies and explains the security concerns and behavior of central decision makers, asking who or what is to be protected, against what potential threats, and how security policies have changed over time. This inside-out or bottom-up approach facilitates both identification of similarities and differences in the security thinking and practice of Asian countries and exploration of their consequences. The crucial insights into the dynamics of international security in the region provided by this approach can form the basis for further inquiry, including debates about the future of the region.

The Legitimacy of the Modern Age
The Legitimacy of the Modern Age

Author: Hans Blumenberg

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 1985-10-21

Total Pages: 718

ISBN-13: 9780262521055

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In this major work, Blumenberg takes issue with Karl Löwith's well-known thesis that the idea of progress is a secularized version of Christian eschatology, which promises a dramatic intervention that will consummate the history of the world from outside. Instead, Blumenberg argues, the idea of progress always implies a process at work within history, operating through an internal logic that ultimately expresses human choices and is legitimized by human self-assertion, by man's responsibility for his own fate.

Acid Revival
Acid Revival

Author: Danielle Giffort

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 2020-07-21

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1452959773

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A vivid analysis of the history and revival of clinical psychedelic science Psychedelic drugs are making a comeback. In the mid-twentieth century, scientists actively studied the potential of drugs like LSD and psilocybin for treating mental health problems. After a decades-long hiatus, researchers are once again testing how effective these drugs are in relieving symptoms for a wide variety of psychiatric conditions, from depression and obsessive–compulsive disorder to posttraumatic stress disorder and substance addiction. In Acid Revival, Danielle Giffort examines how this new generation of researchers and their allies are working to rehabilitate psychedelic drugs and to usher in a new era of psychedelic medicine. As this team of researchers and mental health professionals revive the field of psychedelic science, they are haunted by the past and by one person in particular: psychedelic evangelist Timothy Leary. Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews with people working on scientific psychedelia, Giffort shows how today’s researchers tell stories about Leary as an “impure” scientist and perform his antithesis to address a series of lingering dilemmas that threaten to rupture their budding legitimacy. Acid Revival presents new information about the so-called psychedelic renaissance and highlights the cultural work involved with the reassembly of dormant areas of medical science. This colorful and accessible history of the rise, fall, and reemergence of psychedelic medicine is infused with intriguing narratives and personalities—a story for popular science aficionados as well as for scholars of the history of science and medicine.

Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music
Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music

Author: Hugh Barker

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2007-01-30

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 0393060780

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Musicians strive to "keep it real"; listeners condemn "fakes"; but does great music really need to be authentic? By investigating this obsession in the last century, this title rethinks what makes popular music work.

Truth Commissions
Truth Commissions

Author: Onur Bakiner

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2016-01-15

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0812247620

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Onur Bakiner evaluates the success of truth commissions in promoting political, judicial, and social change. He argues that even when commissions produce modest change as a result of political constraints, they open new avenues for human rights activism and transform public discourses on memory, truth, justice, and reconciliation.

England's Empty Throne
England's Empty Throne

Author: Paul Strohm

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780300075441

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The methods employed by the Lancastrian usurpers in their attempts to legitimise their dynasty's hold in the English throne included the reburying of the murdered Richard II, the invention of chronicles, prophecies and genealogies, new methods of trial and punishment, the use of spies, and the radical redefinition of treason. Strohm uses both literary and historical analysis to explore this quest for legitimacy, and the importance of symbolic activity to Henry IV and V.