The Great Debate

The Great Debate
Author: Yuval Levin
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2013-12-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0465040942

An acclaimed portrait of Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the origins of modern conservatism and liberalism In The Great Debate, Yuval Levin explores the roots of the left/right political divide in America by examining the views of the men who best represented each side at its origin: Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine. Striving to forge a new political path in the tumultuous age of the American and French revolutions, these two ideological titans sparred over moral and philosophical questions about the nature of political life and the best approach to social change: radical and swift, or gradual and incremental. The division they articulated continues to shape our political life today. Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the basis of our political order and Washington's acrimonious rifts today, The Great Debate offers a profound examination of what conservatism, progressivism, and the debate between them truly amount to.

What Pragmatism Was

What Pragmatism Was
Author: F. Thomas Burke
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2013-06-14
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0253009545

F. Thomas Burke examines the writings of William James and Charles S. Peirce to determine how the original "maxim of pragmatism" was understood differently by these two earliest pragmatists. Burke reconciles these differences by casting pragmatism as a philosophical stance that endorses distinctive conceptions of belief and meaning. In particular, a pragmatist conception of meaning should be understood as both inferentialist and operationalist in character. Burke unravels a complex early history of this philosophical tradition, discusses contemporary conceptions of pragmatism found in current US political discourse, and explores what this quintessentially American philosophy means today.

Kit's Kingdom

Kit's Kingdom
Author: Barbara M. Freeman
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 217
Release: 1989-11-15
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0773573607

This first title in the Carleton Women's Experience Series looks at the lively writing of Kit Coleman, best known as the first accredited North American female war correspondent for her coverage of the Spanish-American War of 1898. The author outlines how Coleman created "Kit" of "Woman's Kingdom" in the Toronto Mail as a journalist adventurous enough to cover a war, and motherly enough to write a popular advice column.

The Life of the Very REV. Thomas N. Burke, O.P

The Life of the Very REV. Thomas N. Burke, O.P
Author: William John Fitzpatrick
Publisher: Sagwan Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2018-02-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781377310497

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