Network Democracy: Conservative Politics and the Violence of the Liberal Age
Author: Jared Giesbrecht File Type: pdf Network Democracy uses the contemporary tools of ecology and network thinking to unearth the ancient, intellectual ruins of traditional conservative thought. Questioning the Wests veneration of freedom, equality, contractual citizenship, economic progress, cosmopolitanism, secular institutionalism, and reason, Jared Giesbrecht illuminates how these ideals fuel violence and insecurity in our high-speed lives. While the modern age witnesses the rise of a violent conservatism in the form of revolutionary movements enacting terror and vengeance for the interventions of the liberal West, this study reveals a different kind of conservatism - one that has emerged in direct conversation with liberal thought. Giesbrecht highlights the need for intermediate institutions and civil enterprises that form relations and traditions independent of the state in order to develop resistance to the insecurity of the liberal age. This book offers not only a poignant critique, but a constructive and peaceable alternative to the violence of both liberalism and reactionary anti-liberalism. Attuned to the new realities of globalization, advanced technology, and social acceleration, Network Democracy is a masterful hybrid of ancient and cutting-edge political philosophy that casts a new light on the values underlying western civilization.
Author: Ekaterina Walter
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From the bestselling authors of The Power of Visual Storytelling comes the highly anticipated follow-up, The Laws of Brand Storytellingthe definitive quick-reading rulebook for how to use the power of storytelling to win over customers hearts, minds, and long-term loyalty We have been sharing stories from the beginning of human civilizationfor good reason. Stories captivate our attention and build communities by bringing ideas, emotions, and experiences to life in a memorable way. This is proving to be an increasingly potent strategy in the era of the connected digital consumer. With consumers more empowered than ever before, your brand isnt what you say it is anymore, it is what consumers say it is. As a result, capturing customers hearts and minds today requires businesses to prioritize emotional connections with customers, to be in the moment, having authentic conversations, to share relevant, inspiring stories that move and motivate people to take action. How? By following these laws The Protagonist Laws Know Who You AreThe Strategy Laws Understand Your GoalsThe Discovery Laws Find Your StoryThe Story-Making Laws Craft Your StoryThe Channel Laws Share Your StoryThe Laws of Engagement Engage with Your Communities Packed with inspiring tips, strategies, and stories from two leading marketing innovators, The Laws of Brand Storytellingshows business leaders and marketing professionals the power storytelling has to positively impact and differentiate your business, attract new customers, and inspire new levels of brand advocacy. The authors lay down the lawliterallyfor readers through a compelling step-by-step process of defining who you are as a brand, setting a clear strategy, sourcing the best stories for your business, and crafting and delivering compelling narratives for maximum effect. Win your customers hearts and minds, and you win their business and their loyalty.
Author: Brook A. Ziporyn
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Tiantai Buddhism emerged from an idiosyncratic and innovative interpretation of the Lotus Sutra to become one of the most complete, systematic, and influential schools of philosophical thought developed in East Asia. Brook A. Ziporyn puts Tiantai into dialogue with modern philosophical concerns to draw out its implications for ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics. Ziporyn explains Tiantais unlikely roots, its positions of extreme affirmation and rejection, its religious skepticism and embrace of religious myth, and its view of human consciousness. Ziporyn reveals the profound insights of Tiantai Buddhism while stimulating philosophical reflection on its unexpected effects. **Review Introduces new stories and expressions of rather arcane and often scholastic teachings, and succeeds in making the subject matter interesting and relevant, for the general reader as well as the specialist. Paul Swanson, author of Foundations of Tien-Tai Philosophy The Flowering of the Two Truths Theory in Chinese Buddhism Those who take the journey with Ziporyn will find a rich and rewarding work, not simply due to the mind-boggling Tiantai doctrine, but also because of Ziporyns respect for the tradition and his extraordinary finesse in presenting its demanding ideas. Publishers Weekly About the Author Brook A. Ziporyn is Professor of Chinese Religion, Philosophy, and Comparative Thought at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago.
Author: Gilbert Ellis Bailey
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Soils Are Rock Waste.Soils were not originally a part of the earths surface, but have been formed slowly by the crumbling and breaking up of the surface rocks into fine particles, such as clay and sand. Sometimes this breaking up occurred where the soils are now found, and the character of the soil is overned by the kind of rock that was left on the surface, while in other cases the rocks and the soil that came from them have been carried thousands of miles and mixed with other material, forming a conglomerate mixture from many sources. The highland and mountain soils in this country have, as a rule, been formed very near the places where they are now found, while the soils in the larger valleys, and along most of the coast line, have resulted from material washed down from the hills and deposited along the level stretches near the sea. Much of the soil of the more northern states has been brought down from Canada by the movement of ice along the surface. This breaking down of the rocks and formation and moving of the soil has taken a long time but this work is yet going on, and the exposed rocks, boulders and ledges in our fields andmountains are yearly being attacked by the different forces, and are slowly yielding up material to help replenish the older soil. Different natural and artificial processes are also going on in the soils that may either improve or injure them. Most of these processes can be controlled by man and made to be hisservant, so that he can become a great factor in the formation of profitable soil.
Author: Martin Ebner
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The World Wide Web is changing the way we use technology, bringing e-learning and teaching to a whole new dimension of collaboration and communication. Looking Toward the Future of Technology-Enhanced Education Ubiquitous Learning and the Digital Native bridges the gap between technology and education by presenting innovative research on the future of education. An essential reference on e-learning, this scholarly publication examines current research in technology enhanced learning, provides new didactic models for education, and discusses the newest technologies and their impact on education.
Author: Teodor Mladenov
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In the decades following the collapse of state socialism at the end of 1980s, disabled people in Central and Eastern Europe endured economic marginalisation, cultural devaluation and political disempowerment. Some of the mechanisms producing these injustices were inherited from state socialism, while others emerged with postsocialist neoliberalisation.State socialism promised social security guaranteed by the public, and postsocialist neoliberalisation promised independent living underpinned by the market. This book argues that both promises failed as far as disabled people were concerned, drawing on a wide range of scholarly reports and analyses, policy documents, legislation, and historical accounts, as well as on disability studies and social justice theory. Besides differences, the book also illuminates continuities between state socialism and postsocialist capitalism, providing on this basis a more general and historically grounded critique of contemporary neoliberalisation and its impact on individual and collective life.The book will appeal to anyone interested in disability studies and postsocialism, as well as social policy, social movements and critical theory. It will also be of interest to professionals involved in disability-related service provision, as well as to disability activists and policy makers. **
Author: The Hertie School Of Governance
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The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2008-9 was the greatest economic stress test since the 1940s. It put not only financial markets and currencies at risk entire economies and political systems were threatened as the GFC soon revealed major governance shortcomings and weaknesses felt across a wide spectrum of policy fields. Globalization seemed in jeopardy, the Washington Consensus of neoliberal policies broken, and democratic backsliding set in as populism and protectionism began to take root. The GFC triggered many responses to improve governance through reforms and regulatory measures of many kinds across a wide range of fields most prominently in finance and banking, but also in fiscal policy, trade, labor markets and social security. Ten years after the GFC, the 2018 * Governance Report takes stock and asks How have countries fared, and are they better prepared to avoid or withstand another crisis of GFC proportions? To answer this question, the 2018 * Report focuses on the performance of countries before and after the GFC. Using elaborate indicator and data systems, applying state-of-the-art analytics, and covering a wide range of countries, it offers a systematic comparison of governance performance from three perspectives What public goods are being provided, at what quality and to what effect? How ready are countries to address governance challenges in the context of globalization? What are the administrative capacities of the public sector? With measures taken before the GFC and today, these perspectives on governance performance provide important benchmarks for measuring both resilience and progress and can assist policymakers in designing effective solutions. **
Author: Steven Weinberg
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The classic of contemporary science writing by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist explains what happened when the universe began, and how we know.Science writing at its best.--Martin Gardner, New York Review of BooksWeinberg builds such a convincing case...that one comes away from his book feeling not only that the idea of an original cosmic explosion is not crazy but that any other theory appears scientifically irrational.--Jeremy Bernstein, The New YorkerThe book is the first I have seen to have put the details, both historical and conceptual, of the origin of the Universe within the grasp of the general reader.--Isaac AsimovA