David Plotke is Professor of Politics at The New School for Social Research. His research examines the dynamics of political movements, focusing on their rise and fall, and the deep societal transformations they can instigate. Plotke's work seeks to understand how power shifts and institutions evolve, drawing insights from both historical and contemporary contexts. His influential approach offers readers fresh perspectives on navigating and comprehending political change.
Focusing on the interplay between Christian resistance and capitalism in Latin America, this work delves into the theological debates shaped by this dynamic. Employing postmodern critical theory from Deleuze and Foucault, it examines capitalism's influence on human desire and the Church's response. The book offers a comprehensive analysis of the evolution, challenges, and potential future of liberation theology in the region, marking it as a significant contribution to the understanding of its rise and decline.
Originally published by Abt Books in 1980, this book brings together most of Daniel Bell's best work in his second career as a sociologist. The essays deal with a diverse range of topics including technology and culture, religion and personal identity, the intellectual and society, and the validity of the concept of class.
"All complex and large-scale societies are organized along certain hierarchies, but the concept of hierarchy has become almost taboo in the modern world. Just Hierarchy contends that this stigma is a mistake. In fact, as Daniel Bell and Wang Pei show, it is neither possible nor advisable to do away with social hierarchies. Drawing their arguments from Chinese thought and culture as well as other philosophies and traditions, Bell and Wang ask which forms of hierarchy are justified and how these can serve morally desirable goals. They look at ways of promoting just forms of hierarchy while minimizing the influence of unjust ones, such as those based on race, sex, or caste. Which hierarchical relations are morally justified and why? Bell and Wang argue that it depends on the nature of the social relation and context. Different hierarchical principles ought to govern different kinds of social relations: what justifies hierarchy among intimates is different from what justifies hierarchy among citizens, countries, humans and animals, and humans and intelligent machines. Morally justified hierarchies can and should govern different spheres of our social lives, though these will be very different from the unjust hierarchies that have governed us in the past. A vigorous, systematic defense of hierarchy in the modern world, Just Hierarchy examines how hierarchical social relations can have a useful purpose, not only in personal domains but also in larger political realms"--Publisher's description
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Dnes již klasická kniha amerického sociologa Daniela Bella, který proslul svou analýzou postindustriální společnosti a tzv. konce ideologie uzavírá jeho trilogii úvahami o stavu a perspektivách společnosti pozdního kapitalismu z hlediska proměn, stavu a perspektiv kultury. U Bella se snoubí pochopení pro radikální změny kulturní produkce a vnímání kultury (nástup modernismu) s obhajobou konzervativních hodnot a poučenou kritikou toho, co Bell chápe jako ohrožení západní civilizace a kultury. Čtenář/ka jistě přečte se stejným zájmem kapitoly třebas o pop-hédonismu, psychedelickém bazaru nebo dyonýské tlupě jako úvahy o profanaci našeho světa a budoucnosti liberálních idejí v něm.
