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  • Liberal Education and Democracy

    Liberal Education and Democracy addresses three vital arguments for liberal education and its integral relationship to democracy.Liberal education is currently under attack as both politically subversive and economically impractical. In Liberal Education and Democracy, Bob Pepperman Taylor evaluates both the defenses that have been offered for liberal education and the complex relationship between ... Read more

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  • Lessons from "Walden"

    Thoreau and the Crisis of American Democracy

    Original and passionate, Lessons from Walden presents a wide-ranging inquiry into the nature and implications in the works of Henry David Thoreau.Henry David Thoreau’s works are a backbone of American political philosophy, but how do his ideas translate into the tumultuous modern political landscape? Bob Pepperman Taylor closely examines Walden and Civil Disobedience, focusing on the philosophical ... Read more

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  • Citizenship and Democratic Doubt

    The Legacy of Progressive Thought

    Series series American Political Thought
    Much of the world today views America as an imperialist nation bent on global military, economic, and cultural domination. At home few share this negative view, largely because of a widespread belief in the irreproachable purity of our goals. Bob Pepperman Taylor, however, argues that our moral self-righteousness may potentially imperil our democratic ideals and threaten democracy itself by ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Guidebook to Thoreau's Civil Disobedience

    Series series The Routledge Guides to the Great Books
    Since its publication in 1849, Henry David Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience has influenced protestors, activists and political thinkers all over the world. Including the full text of Thoreau’s essay, The Routledge Guidebook to Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience explores the context of his writing, analyses different interpretations of the text and considers how posthumous edits to Civil Disobedience have ... Read more

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  • Our Limits Transgressed

    Environmental Political Thought in America

    Series series American Political Thought
    Is democracy hazardous to the health of the environment?Addressing this and related questions, Bob Pepperman Taylor analyzes contemporary environmental political thought in America. He begins with the premise that environmental thinking is necessarily political thinking because environmental problems, both in their cause and effect, are collective problems. They are also problems that signal ... Read more

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  • America's Bachelor Uncle

    Series series American Political Thought
    Emphatically revisionist, Bob Pepperman Taylor reveals a Thoreau most people never knew existed. Contrary to conventional views, Taylor argues that Thoreau was one of America's most powerful and least understood political thinkers, a man who promoted community and democratic values, while being ever vigilant against the evils of excessive or illegitimate authority.Still widely viewed as a ... Read more

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