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Meditations on Modern Political Thought: Masculine/Feminine Themes from Luther to Arendt (Women and Politics.)

Jean Bethke Elshtain

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A fresh and insightful reading of major modern thinkers. 4 out of 5 stars.
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Elshtain rocks. A tremendous writer whose acute philosophical sensibilities she combines with her interest in gender and moral discourse to reveal sophisticated and poignant prose on modern thought. Thinkers examined include: Luther, Weil, Jane Addams, Hegel, Freud, Machiavelli, Kant, and Arendt.

My Head and My Heart: Sex, Love, Life, and the Unconscious

Jorge Dr De Gregorio

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Sex, love, work, how our days and lives unfold--in this extraordinary book, Jorge De Gregorio explores how the human unconscious works, and shows how an understanding of the unconscious can help us assess and change our own behavior, as well as gain insight into the otherwise inexplicable actions of others, including world leaders. "What did I ever see in her?" "Why do I feel and behave this way?" "Why did Bill Clinton risk so much over Monica Lewinsky?" Dr. De Gregorio draws on years of experience as a psychoanalyst to reveal how the dramas in our inner worlds, the important episodes of love and loss, become imprinted in us and are reenacted by us in our daily lives; and how, once we understand that this unconscious "genetic code" is written in our hearts and minds, we can go on to rediscover ourselves, and to create lives of greater originality and freedom.
        Two hundred years ago, Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to himself in which he carried on an imaginary dialogue between what he called "My Head" (the conscious mind, with its rationality and rules) and "My Heart" (the unconscious, the source of our passions, instincts, love, and sexual behavior). Using this letter as a model for knowing ourselves, Dr. De Gregorio discusses why, when it comes to sex and love, "it's never just sex." An interpretation of the Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky affair and of Thomas Jefferson's relationship with Sally Hemings; why insights into the private lives of world leaders often don't seem to match their public personalities; stories about people who discover the unconscious meaning beneath their bizarre behavior; how character and personality can be reconfigured and redefined--these and many other topics are illuminated in this brilliant and provocative book.

The New Propaganda: The Dictatorship of Palaver in Contemporary Politics

James E. Combs, Dan D. Nimmo

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Omens and Oracles: Collective Psychology in the Nuclear Age

Jerry Kroth

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Using depth psychology to develop a globally rooted psychoanalytic perspective, Jerry Kroth explores the psychological underpinnings of events, conflicts, and changes that may have deeper symbolic meanings than we generally suppose. Through his strategy of treating "real" occurrences as dreams arising from the collective unconscious, Kroth is able to derive clues to the significance of present happenings and identify incidents that have accurately predicted subsequent events. Beginning with a dream interpretation approach to the Jim Jones phenomenon, Kroth discusses the power of the trickster archetype in American society. In another chapter, he connects the panic following Orson Welles's 1938 radio broadcast of H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds to a collective dream anticipating the cataclysm of World War II, which was to unfold only eleven months later. In the remaining chapters Kroth sifts through some of the omens and oracles that confront us today, finding many of the same foreboding conclusions. His examination of the Gorbachev revolution from the standpoint of Russian national character and psychohistory yields future scenarios less optimistic than have usually been anticipated. Other topics addressed are the collective dreams and portents encoded in the mass media, the Cambodian disaster as an aspect of the American shadow, and Israel's David-and-Goliath duel with the Palestinians. This incisive work is aimed at alerting us to the fact that consciously perceived events contain vital symbolic information on the psychological "state of the union" and suggest a number of unsettling future scenarios. Appropriate for general readers as well as classes and studies in clinical psychology, social psychology, cultural anthropology, political science, and related fields.

Party, Parliament and Personality: Essays Presented to Hugh Berrington

Peter Jones

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Party, Parliament and Personality is a collection of essays on political psychology from some of the best known names in political science in England (Ivor Crewe, Vincent Wright, Rod Hague, David Hine, Iain McLean). The central focus of the volume is British politics, but the book also contains a number of comparative chapters, including Hague's theories of presidential personality, which explores psychodynamic theories of personality in the context of the US presidency and David Hines' on the political psychology of corruption, which focuses on Italy. The book also presents a number of chapters on political theory, including Albert Weale's on the central nature of disagreement in democratic politics. Party, Parliament and Personality emphasizes the psychology of individual political actors as well as the personalities of political philosophers such as Hobbes and Rousseau.

Passions and Convictions in Matters Political

Lior Barshack

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This text attempts to preserve the Frankfurt School account of fascism, of the 1950s, whilst integrating them into a psychoanalytical model of politics which draws on Kleinian thought. It also defines two other political positions: reconciled and alienated liberalism.

Political Activists in America: The Identity Construction Model of Political Participation

Nathan Teske

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Based on interviews with environmental, social justice and pro-life activists, this book argues that active involvement in politics can be deeply fulfilling. This argument is developed through the "identity construction" approach to political participation. Against the view that political participation is inherently unpleasant, this approach argues that politics can have intrinsic rewards. Political involvement enables activists to become someone who they otherwise would not have been able to become.

Political Behavior and the Local Context:

John W. Books, Charles L. Prysby

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The study of the effects of context--defined here as a geographically bounded social unit--on individuals is a new and rapidly developing field. This unique volume reviews this development both quantitatively and qualitatively, examines how and why individual political behavior can be influenced by various contextual characteristics of the locality in which the individual resides, and proposes a conceptual framework to guide future research. A separate chapter is devoted to exploring methodological problems unique to this field of study. This is the first study to integrate and synthesize the diverse existing research and to provide an overall approach to the field. While the authors' conclusions do not contradict the dominant views in the field, they do challenge prevailing emphases and approaches--stressing the importance of structural and global effects, the utility of an information-flow approach to contextual effects, and new methodological strategies. Even readers without strong statistical backgrounds will find this volume both accessible and informative. The volume first reviews the history of contextual studies, defining contextual analysis, and offering a taxonomy of contextual effects and then reviews relevant literature to integrate, compare, and assess the range of empirical work in the field. Chapter three constructs an overarching approach to the study of context based on the concept of information flow and is followed by a discussion of the methodological difficulties that have made the study of contextual effects a contentious one. The increasingly important area of modeling contextual effects is reviewed next and directions for future research are suggested. The final chapter looks at several understudied areas in contextual effects that could benefit from scholarly attention. Though scholarly, this readable volume is aimed at a broad audience and will be of particular interest to those concerned with political behavior, including political scientists, sociologists, urbanologists, geographers, and social psychologists.

Political Behavior Annual

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Political Cognition: The 19th Annual Carnegie Mellon Symposium on Cognition (Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition)

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