Jedediah Purdy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692506 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jedediah Purdy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jedediah |
| FAMILY NAME | Purdy |
| SIGNATURE | PURDY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duke University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
This Land Is Our Land
From one of our finest writers and leading environmental thinkers, a powerful book about how the land we share divides us—and how it could unite us Today, we are at a turning point as we face ecological and political crises that are rooted in conflicts over the land itself. But these problems can be solved if we draw on elements of our tradition that move us toward a new commonwealth—a community founded on the well-being of all people and the nat…
Normcore
The proliferating "crisis-of-democracy" literature, like The Fast and the Furious franchise, has only one plot. And, like the crash-up car-chase movies, it has not let this fact slow its growth. Likely none of these books would exist—certainly none would be remotely the same—if Hillary Clinton had pulled a hundred thousand more votes out of the Midwest in 2016. All are organized around the shock of Trump's victory and allege a national and intern…
What real difference does the gross domestic product make
After Nature
Mountains of Injustice
Liberal Empire
This essay is an attempt to take the idea of empire seriously as an element in normative political theory. The sudden reappearance of “empire” as a doctrine to be taken seriously had some of the thrill of the forbidden. Who would dare to endorse imperial ambitions as good for their country or, more heretical still, good for the world? Iconoclasm, though, is a short-lived pleasure. Now that the concept of empire has shed its pariah status, the tim…
Being America
The Values of the Market
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He "look" honest - big white thief
Our title is taken from a poem, 'Chained', by the Aboriginal author and activist Kevin Gilbert (1990: 38). The poem gives expression to a contradiction of 'white man law' in Australia: Pinchim wimmen, pinchim land Kill the Blackmen, whiteman grand Him make law for whiteman good Him steal land and Blackman food
Liberal Empire
This essay is an attempt to take the idea of empire seriously as an element in normative political theory. The sudden reappearance of “empire” as a doctrine to be taken seriously had some of the thrill of the forbidden. Who would dare to endorse imperial ambitions as good for their country or, more heretical still, good for the world? Iconoclasm, though, is a short-lived pleasure. Now that the concept of empire has shed its pariah status, the tim…
He "look" honest - big white thief
Our title is taken from a poem, 'Chained', by the Aboriginal author and activist Kevin Gilbert (1990: 38). The poem gives expression to a contradiction of 'white man law' in Australia: Pinchim wimmen, pinchim land Kill the Blackmen, whiteman grand Him make law for whiteman good Him steal land and Blackman food
The Values of the Market
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Liberal Empire
This essay is an attempt to take the idea of empire seriously as an element in normative political theory. The sudden reappearance of “empire” as a doctrine to be taken seriously had some of the thrill of the forbidden. Who would dare to endorse imperial ambitions as good for their country or, more heretical still, good for the world? Iconoclasm, though, is a short-lived pleasure. Now that the concept of empire has shed its pariah status, the tim…
Being America
Mountains of Injustice
After Nature
What real difference does the gross domestic product make
Normcore
The proliferating "crisis-of-democracy" literature, like The Fast and the Furious franchise, has only one plot. And, like the crash-up car-chase movies, it has not let this fact slow its growth. Likely none of these books would exist—certainly none would be remotely the same—if Hillary Clinton had pulled a hundred thousand more votes out of the Midwest in 2016. All are organized around the shock of Trump's victory and allege a national and intern…
This Land Is Our Land
From one of our finest writers and leading environmental thinkers, a powerful book about how the land we share divides us—and how it could unite us Today, we are at a turning point as we face ecological and political crises that are rooted in conflicts over the land itself. But these problems can be solved if we draw on elements of our tradition that move us toward a new commonwealth—a community founded on the well-being of all people and the nat…
Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (2 works) · environmental conditions (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)