Alfonso J Damico
Biographic Data
| ID | 1015403 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alfonso J Damico |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alfonso J |
| FAMILY NAME | Damico |
| SIGNATURE | DAMICO A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire
Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire. By Wendy Brown. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. 282p. $29.95. Globalization, population migration, multiculturalism, identity politics, 9/11, and the war on terror—if one thinks of tolerance as an art for reconciling differences, then the need for it would seem to be greater than ever. However, tolerance, as T. M. Scanlon argues (The Difficulty of Tolerance, 2003), is …
Patterns of Political Trust and Mistrust: Three Moments in the Lives of Democratic Citizens
It is now well known that there has been a remarkable decline in the number of Americans who believe that the government can be trusted to do the right thing "most of the time." In this paper, we try to identify those experiences and factors that might best account for varying levels of trust and mistrust among citizens. Using a panel study, we learn that early political socialization experiences in school and participation as an adult in communi…
The Democratic Education of Women: High School and Beyond
Schools are often assigned primary responsibility for preparing students for a life of democratic citizenship. In the tradition of Tocqueville and, more recently, Robert Putnam we examine women's high school associational life to explore the factors that distinguish women who are active in their communities and politics from those women who are nonparticipants. Comparing women's participation in high school activities with such life experiences a…
The democratic education of women: High school and beyond
What's Wrong with Liberal Perfectionism
Having dropped the claim of complete neutrality among conceptions of the good life and political values, liberals face anew the question of identifying the defining features of their rhetorical tradition. Through an examination of the works of Joseph Raz and William Galston, this article argues that we gain a better understanding of liberalism's defining features by recalling its historic opposition to perfectionism
Intimacy and Spectacle: Liberal Theory as Political Education. Stephen L. Esquith
Books in Review
Books in Review
Impractical America: Reconsideration of the Pragmatic Lesson
Practicality-a preference for applied ideas, support for policies that work-is an important norm within the discourse and practice of American politics. Examination of John Dewey's ideas forces us to reconsider the implications of this national preference for useful ideas and politics. Pragmatism is not equivalent to a philosophy of what works. Rather, it is a distinct conception of the nature of inquiry and its relationship to the world; a conce…
Is the Problem with Liberalism How It Thinks
As posed here, the question about the liberal mode of thought is occasioned by the work of Lawrence Kohlberg, a developmental psychologist. His claim that different styles of thought are associated with varying capacities for making satisfactory moral judgments has led some to observe that the liberal politics of obligation turns out to be an inferior form of conventional moral reasoning when judged by the more developed postconventional standard…
The Sociology of Justice: Kohlberg and Milgram
Dewey and Marx: On Partisanship and the Reconstruction of Society
There are many similarities between Dewey and Marx, particularly the claim by each to have united theory and practice. But this article argues that the distance between the two remains great. Dewey denies what Marx affirms; namely, that partisanship performs a variety of positive functions in the movement towards a more morally adequate society and in the moral transformation of man. Against Marx, Dewey argues that the "rivalry of parties" must c…
Understanding Modern Government: The Rise and Decline of the American Political Economy. Edward S. Greenberg
Troubled Philosopher: John Dewey and the Struggle for World Peace
Journal Article Troubled Philosopher: John Dewey and the Struggle for World Peace. By Charles F. Hewlett. (Port Washington and Individuality and Community: The Social and Political Thought of John Dewey. By Alfonso J. Damico. (Gainesville Get access John Patrick Diggins John Patrick Diggins University of California, Irvine Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 67, Issue 3, Dec…
Analysis & Advocacy: Pragmatism & the Study of Politics
Professor Damico sympathetically examines Dewey's pragmatism, in the spirit of pragmatism: what are its implications for understanding politics and, uniting analysis and advocacy, for the practice of politics? He perceives difficulties in pragmatism, including its insensitivity to normative discourse, to discovering standards, principles guiding choices. "The political scientist, quite frankly, has more to learn from pragmatism as a mood or attit…
The Ideology of Fascism: The Rationale of Totalitarianism. A. James Gregor
Patterns of Political Trust and Mistrust: Three Moments in the Lives of Democratic Citizens
It is now well known that there has been a remarkable decline in the number of Americans who believe that the government can be trusted to do the right thing "most of the time." In this paper, we try to identify those experiences and factors that might best account for varying levels of trust and mistrust among citizens. Using a panel study, we learn that early political socialization experiences in school and participation as an adult in communi…
Dewey and Marx: On Partisanship and the Reconstruction of Society
There are many similarities between Dewey and Marx, particularly the claim by each to have united theory and practice. But this article argues that the distance between the two remains great. Dewey denies what Marx affirms; namely, that partisanship performs a variety of positive functions in the movement towards a more morally adequate society and in the moral transformation of man. Against Marx, Dewey argues that the "rivalry of parties" must c…
What's Wrong with Liberal Perfectionism
Having dropped the claim of complete neutrality among conceptions of the good life and political values, liberals face anew the question of identifying the defining features of their rhetorical tradition. Through an examination of the works of Joseph Raz and William Galston, this article argues that we gain a better understanding of liberalism's defining features by recalling its historic opposition to perfectionism
The Sociology of Justice: Kohlberg and Milgram
The Democratic Education of Women: High School and Beyond
Schools are often assigned primary responsibility for preparing students for a life of democratic citizenship. In the tradition of Tocqueville and, more recently, Robert Putnam we examine women's high school associational life to explore the factors that distinguish women who are active in their communities and politics from those women who are nonparticipants. Comparing women's participation in high school activities with such life experiences a…
The democratic education of women: High school and beyond
Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire
Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire. By Wendy Brown. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. 282p. $29.95. Globalization, population migration, multiculturalism, identity politics, 9/11, and the war on terror—if one thinks of tolerance as an art for reconciling differences, then the need for it would seem to be greater than ever. However, tolerance, as T. M. Scanlon argues (The Difficulty of Tolerance, 2003), is …
Impractical America: Reconsideration of the Pragmatic Lesson
Practicality-a preference for applied ideas, support for policies that work-is an important norm within the discourse and practice of American politics. Examination of John Dewey's ideas forces us to reconsider the implications of this national preference for useful ideas and politics. Pragmatism is not equivalent to a philosophy of what works. Rather, it is a distinct conception of the nature of inquiry and its relationship to the world; a conce…
Analysis & Advocacy: Pragmatism & the Study of Politics
Professor Damico sympathetically examines Dewey's pragmatism, in the spirit of pragmatism: what are its implications for understanding politics and, uniting analysis and advocacy, for the practice of politics? He perceives difficulties in pragmatism, including its insensitivity to normative discourse, to discovering standards, principles guiding choices. "The political scientist, quite frankly, has more to learn from pragmatism as a mood or attit…
The Ideology of Fascism: The Rationale of Totalitarianism. A. James Gregor
Analysis & Advocacy: Pragmatism & the Study of Politics
Professor Damico sympathetically examines Dewey's pragmatism, in the spirit of pragmatism: what are its implications for understanding politics and, uniting analysis and advocacy, for the practice of politics? He perceives difficulties in pragmatism, including its insensitivity to normative discourse, to discovering standards, principles guiding choices. "The political scientist, quite frankly, has more to learn from pragmatism as a mood or attit…
Understanding Modern Government: The Rise and Decline of the American Political Economy. Edward S. Greenberg
Troubled Philosopher: John Dewey and the Struggle for World Peace
Journal Article Troubled Philosopher: John Dewey and the Struggle for World Peace. By Charles F. Hewlett. (Port Washington and Individuality and Community: The Social and Political Thought of John Dewey. By Alfonso J. Damico. (Gainesville Get access John Patrick Diggins John Patrick Diggins University of California, Irvine Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 67, Issue 3, Dec…
Dewey and Marx: On Partisanship and the Reconstruction of Society
There are many similarities between Dewey and Marx, particularly the claim by each to have united theory and practice. But this article argues that the distance between the two remains great. Dewey denies what Marx affirms; namely, that partisanship performs a variety of positive functions in the movement towards a more morally adequate society and in the moral transformation of man. Against Marx, Dewey argues that the "rivalry of parties" must c…
The Sociology of Justice: Kohlberg and Milgram
Is the Problem with Liberalism How It Thinks
As posed here, the question about the liberal mode of thought is occasioned by the work of Lawrence Kohlberg, a developmental psychologist. His claim that different styles of thought are associated with varying capacities for making satisfactory moral judgments has led some to observe that the liberal politics of obligation turns out to be an inferior form of conventional moral reasoning when judged by the more developed postconventional standard…
Impractical America: Reconsideration of the Pragmatic Lesson
Practicality-a preference for applied ideas, support for policies that work-is an important norm within the discourse and practice of American politics. Examination of John Dewey's ideas forces us to reconsider the implications of this national preference for useful ideas and politics. Pragmatism is not equivalent to a philosophy of what works. Rather, it is a distinct conception of the nature of inquiry and its relationship to the world; a conce…
Books in Review
Books in Review
Intimacy and Spectacle: Liberal Theory as Political Education. Stephen L. Esquith
What's Wrong with Liberal Perfectionism
Having dropped the claim of complete neutrality among conceptions of the good life and political values, liberals face anew the question of identifying the defining features of their rhetorical tradition. Through an examination of the works of Joseph Raz and William Galston, this article argues that we gain a better understanding of liberalism's defining features by recalling its historic opposition to perfectionism
The Democratic Education of Women: High School and Beyond
Schools are often assigned primary responsibility for preparing students for a life of democratic citizenship. In the tradition of Tocqueville and, more recently, Robert Putnam we examine women's high school associational life to explore the factors that distinguish women who are active in their communities and politics from those women who are nonparticipants. Comparing women's participation in high school activities with such life experiences a…
The democratic education of women: High school and beyond
Patterns of Political Trust and Mistrust: Three Moments in the Lives of Democratic Citizens
It is now well known that there has been a remarkable decline in the number of Americans who believe that the government can be trusted to do the right thing "most of the time." In this paper, we try to identify those experiences and factors that might best account for varying levels of trust and mistrust among citizens. Using a panel study, we learn that early political socialization experiences in school and participation as an adult in communi…
Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire
Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire. By Wendy Brown. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. 282p. $29.95. Globalization, population migration, multiculturalism, identity politics, 9/11, and the war on terror—if one thinks of tolerance as an art for reconciling differences, then the need for it would seem to be greater than ever. However, tolerance, as T. M. Scanlon argues (The Difficulty of Tolerance, 2003), is …
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