Bob Pepperman Taylor
Biographic Data
| ID | 1093677 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bob Pepperman Taylor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bob Pepperman |
| FAMILY NAME | Taylor |
| SIGNATURE | TAYLOR B P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vermont |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Death of Learning
But Could You Persuade Us, If We Won't Listen?”
The opening passage of Plato's Republic finds Socrates walking with a young friend and student, Glaucon, in Piraeus, the port of Athens, where they had come to observe a religious festival. They are spotted by another young man, Polemarchus, who sends his slave ahead to ask Socrates to wait for him. What follows is a comic parody of an “arrest,” with Polemarchus pointing out that he has a number of friends with him (including Adeimantus, Glaucon'…
Lessons from Walden
Finding Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau has been read in many ways over the years. In this helpful new study, Richard W. Judd aims to explain “the dynamics of Thoreau's reputation” in American history (p. 2). He suggests that Thoreau's “epigrammatic” writing style has allowed readers to discover “an inexhaustible supply of pithy quotes useful for virtually any occasion” (p. 13). The only way to understand the “essential Thoreau,” he suggests, is to probe “the contex…
Routledge Guidebook to Thoreau's Civil Disobedience
Thinking about Nuclear Power
This article makes two sets of observations about the moral bases of opposition to nuclear power. First, the article distinguishes between survivalist opposition to nuclear power (built on a conviction that the central moral fact about nuclear power is the cataclysmic threat it represents) and a more political opposition that focuses on matters of justice and democratic equality. Second, the article notes that the tension between these two styles…
Democracy and Excess
Research Article| December 01 2010 DEMOCRACY AND EXCESS: Philip Roth's Democratic Citizens Bob Pepperman Taylor Bob Pepperman Taylor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal (2010) 93 (3-4): 313–340. https://doi.org/10.2307/41200933 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Bob Pepperman Taylor; DEMOCRACY AND EXCESS: Philip Roth's Democratic Citizens. Soundin…
America's Bachelor Uncle
Journal Article America's Bachelor Uncle: Thor e au and the American Polity. By Bob Pepperman Taylor. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996. xii, 180 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-7006-0806-0.) Get access Kerry S. Walters Kerry S. Walters Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, December 1997, Page 1078, https://doi.org/10.2307…
America's Bachelor Uncle
Our Limits Transgressed
Journal Article Our Limits Transgressed: Environmental Political Thought in America Get access Our Limits Transgressed: Environmental Political Thought in America. By Taylor Bob Pepperman. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992. xiii + 184 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $25.00.) Susan Rhoades Neel Susan Rhoades Neel Montana State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly…
Our Limits Transgressed
Journal Article Our Limits Transgressed: Environmental Political Thought in America. By Bob Pepperman Taylor. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992. xiv, 184 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-70060542-8.) Get access Char Miller Char Miller Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 3, December 1993, Page 1089, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080475 …
Our Limits Transgressed
Our Limits Transgressed
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 remarkable nature writer but simplistic philosopher with …
Environmental Ethics & Political Theory
This article argues that there are three tendencies in much of contemporary environmental ethics: the reduction of ethical questions to issues of personal consciousness, the almost opposite tendency of extending social and political categories inappropriately to the non-human world, and the view that the fundamental battle is between biocentrism and anthropocentrism. All of these, the author insists, have the effect of deflecting attention from f…
John Dewey and Environmental Thought
Love in the Promised Land
Environmental Ethics & Political Theory
This article argues that there are three tendencies in much of contemporary environmental ethics: the reduction of ethical questions to issues of personal consciousness, the almost opposite tendency of extending social and political categories inappropriately to the non-human world, and the view that the fundamental battle is between biocentrism and anthropocentrism. All of these, the author insists, have the effect of deflecting attention from f…
Love in the Promised Land
John Dewey and Environmental Thought
Environmental Ethics & Political Theory
This article argues that there are three tendencies in much of contemporary environmental ethics: the reduction of ethical questions to issues of personal consciousness, the almost opposite tendency of extending social and political categories inappropriately to the non-human world, and the view that the fundamental battle is between biocentrism and anthropocentrism. All of these, the author insists, have the effect of deflecting attention from f…
Our Limits Transgressed
Our Limits Transgressed
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 remarkable nature writer but simplistic philosopher with …
Our Limits Transgressed
Journal Article Our Limits Transgressed: Environmental Political Thought in America. By Bob Pepperman Taylor. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992. xiv, 184 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-70060542-8.) Get access Char Miller Char Miller Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 3, December 1993, Page 1089, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080475 …
Our Limits Transgressed
Journal Article Our Limits Transgressed: Environmental Political Thought in America Get access Our Limits Transgressed: Environmental Political Thought in America. By Taylor Bob Pepperman. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992. xiii + 184 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $25.00.) Susan Rhoades Neel Susan Rhoades Neel Montana State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly…
America's Bachelor Uncle
Journal Article America's Bachelor Uncle: Thor e au and the American Polity. By Bob Pepperman Taylor. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996. xii, 180 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-7006-0806-0.) Get access Kerry S. Walters Kerry S. Walters Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, December 1997, Page 1078, https://doi.org/10.2307…
America's Bachelor Uncle
Democracy and Excess
Research Article| December 01 2010 DEMOCRACY AND EXCESS: Philip Roth's Democratic Citizens Bob Pepperman Taylor Bob Pepperman Taylor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal (2010) 93 (3-4): 313–340. https://doi.org/10.2307/41200933 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Bob Pepperman Taylor; DEMOCRACY AND EXCESS: Philip Roth's Democratic Citizens. Soundin…
Thinking about Nuclear Power
This article makes two sets of observations about the moral bases of opposition to nuclear power. First, the article distinguishes between survivalist opposition to nuclear power (built on a conviction that the central moral fact about nuclear power is the cataclysmic threat it represents) and a more political opposition that focuses on matters of justice and democratic equality. Second, the article notes that the tension between these two styles…
Routledge Guidebook to Thoreau's Civil Disobedience
Finding Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau has been read in many ways over the years. In this helpful new study, Richard W. Judd aims to explain “the dynamics of Thoreau's reputation” in American history (p. 2). He suggests that Thoreau's “epigrammatic” writing style has allowed readers to discover “an inexhaustible supply of pithy quotes useful for virtually any occasion” (p. 13). The only way to understand the “essential Thoreau,” he suggests, is to probe “the contex…
Lessons from Walden
But Could You Persuade Us, If We Won't Listen?”
The opening passage of Plato's Republic finds Socrates walking with a young friend and student, Glaucon, in Piraeus, the port of Athens, where they had come to observe a religious festival. They are spotted by another young man, Polemarchus, who sends his slave ahead to ask Socrates to wait for him. What follows is a comic parody of an “arrest,” with Polemarchus pointing out that he has a number of friends with him (including Adeimantus, Glaucon'…
The Death of Learning
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