Thomas Halper
Biographic Data
| ID | 1665713 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Halper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Halper |
| SIGNATURE | HALPER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Baruch College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Trainspotters and bullet boys
The Republic in the Metropolis
“Amap of the world that does not include utopia,”declared Oscar Wilde, “is not even worth glancing at.” Even the most casual glance would alight on Plato's Republic, which glows no less fiercely today than in the Athens of some twenty-three centuries ago. How ought a society to be organized, it asks. We would surely want the society to be guided by virtue, Plato observes, but few have the innate natural aptitude plus the education and experience …
Dead Ends
Hobbes in the City
Pleasantville
The authors study the representation of the U.S. suburb projected by movies and trace the development of these suburban images from the early movies of a century ago through the 1990s, noting how films have influenced and reflected public discourse on suburbs. Suburbs have evolved, becoming more varied and complex, more self-sufficient and more interdependent, the dominant mode of U.S. residential living, and the most widely embraced path to the …
To Secure These Rights. Scott Douglas Gerber Original Meanings. Jack N. Rakove
The Big Apple
Research Article| January 01 1977 The Big Apple: A Worm’s-Eye View of New York Thomas Halper Thomas Halper Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1977) 76 (1): 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-76-1-1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Thomas Halper; The Big Apple: A Worm’s-Eye View of New York. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 January 1977…
Politics and Politicization
The Poor as Pawns
We mock the idea of the "deserving poor," which distinguished certain of the poor from all their immoral fellow sufferers who really merited poverty, Halper writes. Now the poor are seen as deserving because they suffer from a poverty not of their own, but of society's, making. The poor ought to attack the existing social system which oppresses them, the intellectuals argue, so the more aggressive segments of the poor are seen as most deserving. …
Politics and Politicization
Pleasantville
The authors study the representation of the U.S. suburb projected by movies and trace the development of these suburban images from the early movies of a century ago through the 1990s, noting how films have influenced and reflected public discourse on suburbs. Suburbs have evolved, becoming more varied and complex, more self-sufficient and more interdependent, the dominant mode of U.S. residential living, and the most widely embraced path to the …
The Poor as Pawns
We mock the idea of the "deserving poor," which distinguished certain of the poor from all their immoral fellow sufferers who really merited poverty, Halper writes. Now the poor are seen as deserving because they suffer from a poverty not of their own, but of society's, making. The poor ought to attack the existing social system which oppresses them, the intellectuals argue, so the more aggressive segments of the poor are seen as most deserving. …
The Poor as Pawns
We mock the idea of the "deserving poor," which distinguished certain of the poor from all their immoral fellow sufferers who really merited poverty, Halper writes. Now the poor are seen as deserving because they suffer from a poverty not of their own, but of society's, making. The poor ought to attack the existing social system which oppresses them, the intellectuals argue, so the more aggressive segments of the poor are seen as most deserving. …
Politics and Politicization
The Big Apple
Research Article| January 01 1977 The Big Apple: A Worm’s-Eye View of New York Thomas Halper Thomas Halper Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1977) 76 (1): 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-76-1-1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Thomas Halper; The Big Apple: A Worm’s-Eye View of New York. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 January 1977…
To Secure These Rights. Scott Douglas Gerber Original Meanings. Jack N. Rakove
Pleasantville
The authors study the representation of the U.S. suburb projected by movies and trace the development of these suburban images from the early movies of a century ago through the 1990s, noting how films have influenced and reflected public discourse on suburbs. Suburbs have evolved, becoming more varied and complex, more self-sufficient and more interdependent, the dominant mode of U.S. residential living, and the most widely embraced path to the …
Hobbes in the City
The Republic in the Metropolis
“Amap of the world that does not include utopia,”declared Oscar Wilde, “is not even worth glancing at.” Even the most casual glance would alight on Plato's Republic, which glows no less fiercely today than in the Athens of some twenty-three centuries ago. How ought a society to be organized, it asks. We would surely want the society to be guided by virtue, Plato observes, but few have the innate natural aptitude plus the education and experience …
Dead Ends
Trainspotters and bullet boys
Sociology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Citation (3 works) · Criminology (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works)