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Intro -- Mimesis and Reason: Habermas's Political Philosophy -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Reason and Mimesis -- I. The Postmetaphysical Condition of Reason -- II. Mimesis -- III. Mimesis Against Disenchantment -- IV. Mimesis as Re-Enchantment? -- V. Toward a Reconstruction of Communicative Action -- Chapter 2: Mimesis in Communicative Action: Habermas and Plato -- I. Modernity and Its Anti-Mimetic Cogito -- II. Divine Mimesis -- III. Prosaic Mimesis -- IV. Poetic Mimesis -- V. The Manner of Mimesis -- VI. The Grammar of Mimesis -- VII. Toward the Affective Bond of Understanding -- Chapter 3: The Subject in Communicative Action: Habermas and George Herbert Mead -- I. Two Phases of the Self: I and Me -- II. The Individuated Self -- III. From Play to Game -- IV. From Image to Symbol -- V. I the Artist -- VI. Mead's Anti-Mimesis -- VII. Habermas's Intersubjective Ego -- Chapter 4: The Experience of Mimesis: Habermas and Walter Benjamin -- I. Weberian Pneuma -- II. Experience -- III. Lament for Experience (Erfahrung) Lost -- IV. Shock and Wisdom in Postauratic Experience -- V. Postauratic Experience as Mimesis in Language -- VI. Habermas's Benjaminian Experience -- VII. Conclusions -- Coda: Habermas and the Affective Bond of Understanding -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

One of few serious academic studies of Chomsky's political writing, this volume addresses many key issues in political theory through an engagement with Chomsky's ideas. Subjects covered include equality and freedom, politics and the media.

This concise book examines the decline and erosion of UMNO as a dominant political party of Malaysia through the perspective of Ibn Khaldun's theory of asabiyyah and umran. It uses the qualitative method of data collection from Ibn Khaldun's original works. After discussing Ibn Khaldun's theory of asabiyyah and umran, UMNOs umranic contributions and erosion of Malay asabiyyah are discussed in detail. The research outlines how asabiyyah led to UMNOs rise to prominence, gain of political power, bringing of progress and development of Malaysia to an umranic stage before it started to decline and erode in concordance with the five stages of Ibn Khaldun's theory of rise and fall of civilizations. This book highlights that early leaders of UMNO played significant role in fostering group feeling and solidarity of the Malays (asabiyyah). Asabiyyah was the engine that propelled UMNO to transform the Malays and Malaysia to an umranic society. In conclusion, the later leaders of UMNO contributed to weakening of the Malay asabiyyah and the fall of UMNO from power in the 14th General Elections in 2018. The process of UMNOs decline and erosion of political power is primarily caused by the leaders failures and shortcomings. The author, a Malaysian lawyer and long-standing Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, Minister of Justice, Minister of Defence, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Minister of Home Affairs in the Barisan Nasional in Malaysia, concludes with the recommendation that for UMNO to be relevant again in the current political landscape, it must initiate new and serious approaches and initiatives to change itself and must focus on good governance and rule of law in a multi-ethnic Malaysian society. Relevant to scholars and practitioners in political science, sociology, and Islamic studies, this book is a landmark commentary on contemporary Malaysian politics, drawing from the author's own experience as a member of parliament in his various ministerial positions over three decades.

Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- The Great National and Transnational Communicator: Eleanor Roosevelt's Use of Radio to Promote Peace and Understanding -- A Radio Pioneer and Educator -- An Embedded Broadcaster -- A Special Connection -- "Mrs. Roosevelt Goes on Tour": Eleanor Roosevelt's Soft Diplomacy During World War II -- The First Lady as a Public Diplomat -- From Public Diplomat to Citizen Diplomat -- Active Citizenship -- Eleanor Roosevelt in Yugoslavia Between Wedge Strategy and Cold War Internationalism -- From Enemies to Partners -- July 1953: "We Took a Short Trip on the State Yacht in the Adriatic" -- A Special Relationship? -- Behind the Iron Curtain: Eleanor Roosevelt's Visit to Poland in 1960 -- Liberalism Meets Radicalism: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Internationalization of the Black Liberation Struggle -- Sympathy, Not Endorsement -- The Person Versus the Diplomat -- "We Charge Genocide" -- Dancing Barefoot and Politicizing Dance at the White House: Eleanor Roosevelt and Martha Graham's Collaboration During the Rise of Fascism in Europe -- Imagining, Dancing, and Fighting the Spanish Civil War -- "We Will Meet Again" -- Dancing Modern at the White House -- "I Know What You Are Doing for Other People Too": Dutch Journalist Mary Pos Reaches Out to Eleanor Roosevelt -- Popular Travel Journalist and Speaker -- A First Press Conference at the White House -- Women-Only Press Meetings -- Women at Work and Women in the World -- Roosevelt's Cautious and Pragmatic Diplomacy -- Eleanor Roosevelt's Autofabrication as Gendered Premediation of a Female Presidency -- Genealogy of a Political Career on the Edge of the Establishment -- The Logic of Premediation: Eleanor Roosevelt's Foreshadowing of Future Feminist Issues -- Eleanor Roosevelt's Casual Unawareness in Cultural Memory.

"John Locke is widely perceived as a foundational figure within the liberal tradition. This book investigates the competing purposes that informed Locke's political philosophy, not all of which resulted in outcomes consistent with what we today understand as "liberal" ideals. Locke himself was unaware that he belonged to a "liberal" tradition. Traditions only acquire meaning in retrospect. But many have perceived the development of Locke's political philosophy as involving a smooth evolution from "authoritarian" origins to "liberal" conclusions, beginning with Locke's Two Tracts on Government (1660-62) and culminating in his later political works, the Two Treatises of Government (1689) and A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689). This book advances an interpretation of this development which reveals how, by the time of his mature political writings, Locke sought to advance three competing imperatives within his political philosophy, only two of which were consistent with ideals of individual liberty. The other imperative sustained purposes much more aligned with the "authoritarianism" with which Locke's political philosophy began. The result is a much more complex and variegated understanding of Locke's political philosophy, focusing on its competing purposes. Liberty, Governance and Resistance will be of interest to researchers studying Locke, liberalism, and the history of ideas"--