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In: City, Culture and Society, Band 5, Heft 4, S. 11-20
ISSN: 1877-9166
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 59, Heft 3, S. 954-955
ISSN: 1468-2508
In: Ageing international, Band 20, Heft 3, S. 3-6
ISSN: 1936-606X
In: Polity, Band 6, Heft 1, S. 71-86
ISSN: 1744-1684
In: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture 10
Positive Rights in a Republic of Talk will appeal to philosophers and social scientists interested in issues of rights and social justice, and to graduate students and journalists seeking a critical survey of the field. Innumerable recent books have addressed the issues of rights and social justice, but none combines the comprehensiveness, disinterestedness, and brevity found in this work. Positive Rights in a Republic of Talk: -is unique in its critical, let-the-chips-fall-where-they-may approach; -is untainted with special pleading for specific philosophical schools or social policies; -is distinctive in its range, examining the views of classical as well as contemporary thinkers and trendy as well as more established approaches; -is relentless in its confrontation of the abstract with the concrete; -discusses positive rights in such contexts as health care, education, foreign aid, homelessness, welfare, and disaster relief policies; -is distinctive in its prose, which is vivid, engaging, clear, occasionally funny, and never pompous or engorged with jargon; -can be read and enjoyed by serious non-specialists as well as specialists
In: The journal of popular culture: the official publication of the Popular Culture Association, Band 44, Heft 3, S. 473-488
ISSN: 1540-5931
In: The journal of popular culture: the official publication of the Popular Culture Association, Band 46, Heft 5, S. 1008-1028
ISSN: 1540-5931
In: Urban affairs review, Band 37, Heft 4, S. 543-574
ISSN: 1552-8332
The authors study the representation of the U.S. suburb projected by movies and trace the development of these suburban images from the early movies of a century ago through the 1990s, noting how films have influenced and reflected public discourse on suburbs. Suburbs have evolved, becoming more varied and complex, more self-sufficient and more interdependent, the dominant mode of U.S. residential living, and the most widely embraced path to the "good life." Yet postwar intellectuals have long dismissed the bourgeois utopia as inauthentic consumption centers and conformity factories. Moviemakers have taken these critiques to heart, initially with friendly satires and later with aggressive, often vicious attacks.
In: Political studies: the journal of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 71-79
ISSN: 1467-9248
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 59, Heft 3, S. 954
ISSN: 0022-3816
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 59, Heft 3, S. 954
ISSN: 0022-3816