Benjamin R Barber
Biographic Data
| ID | 371780 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin R Barber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin R |
| FAMILY NAME | Barber |
| SIGNATURE | BARBER B R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 61 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 146 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 63 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The Conquest of Politics
A Passion for Democracy
Misreading Democracy
Passion for Democracy
Cool Cities
A pointed argument that cities—not nation-states—can and must take the lead in fighting climate change Climate change is the most urgent challenge we face in an interdependent world where independent nations have grown increasingly unable to cooperate effectively on sustainability. In this book, renowned political theorist Benjamin R. Barber describes how cities, by assuming important aspects of sovereignty, can take the lead from faltering natio…
If Mayors Ruled the World
In the face of the most perilous challenges of our time—climate change, terrorism, poverty, and trafficking of drugs, guns, and people—the nations of the world seem paralyzed. The problems are too big, too interdependent, too divisive for the nation-state. Is the nation-state, once democracy's best hope, today democratically dysfunctional? Obsolete? The answer, says Benjamin Barber in this highly provocative and original book, is yes. Cities and …
The Death of Communal Liberty
Switzerland today is faced with a profound dilemma—its village life is dying, a casualty of the collision between communal norms and the need for national survival in an industrial, urbanizing world. Benjamin Barber traces the origins and evolution of communal liberty in the group of alpine villages that make up modern Canton Graubunden, and recreates their poignant thousand-year struggle to maintain this tradition in the face of a hostile enviro…
If Mayors Ruled the World
Expositions of Sacrificial Logic
Kommentar
Internationalizing the Undergraduate Curriculum
The excellent papers in this symposium warrant our close attention for the cardinal reason that they teach citizenship in the global world. They arm us with ideas, concrete techniques, and specialized skill sets to reach this goal. The simple importance of learning to function well in a global society belies the complexity of achieving it. These papers give us tools as well as provide motivation to confront this challenge
The Politics of Political Science
Political theory's relationship with political science over the last 60 years has been fraught with ambiguity and weighed down by epistemological tensions in a manner that suggests an old and extremely prickly marriage. To some, political theory has been nothing less than the theoretical foundation of political science as a discipline-the conceptual and epistemological ground for each and every subfield, cherished and nurtured by tolerant, even e…
Strong Democracy
Since its appearance twenty years ago, Benjamin R. Barber's Strong Democracy has been one of the primary standards against which political science thinking and writing is measured. Defined as the participation of all of the people in at least some aspects of self-government at least some of the time, Strong Democracy offers liberal society a new way of thinking about and of practicing democracy. Contrary to the commonly held view that an excess o…
Imperialism or Interdependence
Louis Hartz
Illusions of Empire
Colossus: The Price ofAmericas Empire. BY NIALL FERGUSON. New York: Penguin Press, 2004, 368 pp. $25.95. Fear's Empire: War, Terrorism, and Democracy. BY BENJAMIN R. BARBER. New York: Norton, 2003, 192 pp. $23.95. Incoherent Empire. BY MICHAEL MANN. New York: Verso, 2003, 284 pp. $25.00. After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order. BY EMMANUEL TODD. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003, 192 pp. $29.95
Which Technology and Which Democracy?
Fear's Empire
Offers a detailed critique of the Bush administration's foreign policy, including arguments about the imposition of democracy on foreign nations and hypocritical actions by America
Lee Hamilton to Deliver Pi Sigma Alpha Lecture
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Can Democracy Survive Globalization
Democracy is far less fragile than we sometimes imagine. Although hard to establish, it is remarkably robust and is corrupted only by dint of persistent effort. Yet, as Rousseau wrote of freedom, once lost, democracy is nearly impossible to regain. Today, the forces of democracy face a new source of corruption all the more sinister because it appears so innocuous, often even identifying itself with the liberty it undermines. Having survived the n…
How Not to Change the World
A Passion for Democracy
First Boston Meeting Breaks All Records
Sheraton Boston, Marriott Copley Place, and the Westin Copley Plaza
Three Scenarios for the Future of Technology and Strong Democracy
Un lugar para todos
A Season of Service
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Three Scenarios for the Future of Technology and Strong Democracy
The Politics of Political Science
Political theory's relationship with political science over the last 60 years has been fraught with ambiguity and weighed down by epistemological tensions in a manner that suggests an old and extremely prickly marriage. To some, political theory has been nothing less than the theoretical foundation of political science as a discipline-the conceptual and epistemological ground for each and every subfield, cherished and nurtured by tolerant, even e…
The New Telecommunications Technology
Internationalizing the Undergraduate Curriculum
The excellent papers in this symposium warrant our close attention for the cardinal reason that they teach citizenship in the global world. They arm us with ideas, concrete techniques, and specialized skill sets to reach this goal. The simple importance of learning to function well in a global society belies the complexity of achieving it. These papers give us tools as well as provide motivation to confront this challenge
Emerging Perspectives on Citizen Participation
Justifying Justice
The intention of this essay is to raise certain questions aboutA Theory of Justicein Rawls's own terms-accepting his premises but examining his reasoning by his own stated criteria. I believe that such an examination will show that the abstract justificatory appeal to an "original position" is unsatisfactory in certain vital psychological and philosophical ways; that the Rawlsian analysis raises problems of comparison and measurement not adequate…
Counter-Ideological Uses of 'Totalitarianism
Can Democracy Survive Globalization
Democracy is far less fragile than we sometimes imagine. Although hard to establish, it is remarkably robust and is corrupted only by dint of persistent effort. Yet, as Rousseau wrote of freedom, once lost, democracy is nearly impossible to regain. Today, the forces of democracy face a new source of corruption all the more sinister because it appears so innocuous, often even identifying itself with the liberty it undermines. Having survived the n…
Participation and Swiss Democracy
AS THE GREAT HISTORIAN LOUIS HARTZ TAUGHT US IN HIS remarkable study The Liberal Tradition in America, anyone wishing to focus on the special character of a regime would do well to begin by taking the measure of what is absent rather than what is present. Like America, Switzerland has long been regarded as an exception to many of the conventional rules of historical and democratic development — Sonderfall Schweiz is how the Swiss portray and perh…
I. How Swiss is Rousseau
Illusions of Empire
Colossus: The Price ofAmericas Empire. BY NIALL FERGUSON. New York: Penguin Press, 2004, 368 pp. $25.95. Fear's Empire: War, Terrorism, and Democracy. BY BENJAMIN R. BARBER. New York: Norton, 2003, 192 pp. $23.95. Incoherent Empire. BY MICHAEL MANN. New York: Verso, 2003, 284 pp. $25.00. After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order. BY EMMANUEL TODD. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003, 192 pp. $29.95
Jihad vs. Mcworld
Louis Hartz
Deconstituting Politics
Toward an I & We Paradigm
Totalitarianism' and Change in Communist Systems
Global Society
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The Nature of Contemporary Political Science
What is the nature of contemporary political science? What shared concerns bind us together as a discipline, providing a common definition and direction to our intellectual enterprise? These questions were on my mind as I organized the section on formal and normative political theory for the 1989 APSA meetings. Initially, I had wanted to sponsor a panel to address the nature of formal and normative theory. I knew I was a bit uncertain about the p…
Spirit's Phoenix and History's Owl or the Incoherence of Dialectics in Hegel's Account of Women
Switzerland
Counter-Ideological Uses of 'Totalitarianism
Totalitarianism in Perspective
Switzerland
Superman and Common Men
Totalitarianism' and Change in Communist Systems
Solipsistic Politics
Justifying Justice
The intention of this essay is to raise certain questions aboutA Theory of Justicein Rawls's own terms-accepting his premises but examining his reasoning by his own stated criteria. I believe that such an examination will show that the abstract justificatory appeal to an "original position" is unsatisfactory in certain vital psychological and philosophical ways; that the Rawlsian analysis raises problems of comparison and measurement not adequate…
Conserving Politics
THE CONVERSATION (AS MICHAEL OAKESHOTT WOULD CALL IT) THAT is political theory finds itself these days starved for interlocutors. There are talkers aplenty, but they do little listening and pursue their several idioms not for the pleasure of language but in order to urge positions and promote interests. Philosophers like Rawls and Nozick join the conversation in order to demonstrate, thanks to the irrefutable logical foundations they presume to d…
The Death of Communal Liberty
Deconstituting Politics
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ‘Preface to Narcisse’
Rousseau, Sociologue de la Connaissance
Strong Democracy
Thin Democracy: The Argument Against Liberalism 1. Thin Democracy: Politics as Zookeeping 2. The Preconceptual Frame: Newtonian Politics 3. The Epistemological Frame: Cartesian Politics 4. The Psychological Frame: Apolitical Man 5. Thin Democracy in the Twentieth Century: The Potential for Pathology Part II. Strong Democracy: The Argument for Citizenship 6. Strong Democracy: Politics as a Way of Living 7. A Conceptual Frame: Politics in the Parti…
Strong Democracy
Emerging Perspectives on Citizen Participation
International Relations and Politics
I. How Swiss is Rousseau
Louis Hartz
The Conquest of Politics
Spirit's Phoenix and History's Owl or the Incoherence of Dialectics in Hegel's Account of Women
Participation and Swiss Democracy
AS THE GREAT HISTORIAN LOUIS HARTZ TAUGHT US IN HIS remarkable study The Liberal Tradition in America, anyone wishing to focus on the special character of a regime would do well to begin by taking the measure of what is absent rather than what is present. Like America, Switzerland has long been regarded as an exception to many of the conventional rules of historical and democratic development — Sonderfall Schweiz is how the Swiss portray and perh…
THREE. Liberal Democracy and the Costs of Consent
Toward an I & We Paradigm
Letter from America—June 1989
THESE ARE UNSETTLED AND UNSETTLING TIMES HERE. THE NEW government of the United States remains un unknown quantity, so that the public eye has been directed outward to Gorbachev's spectacular efforts to free the Soviet Union from the dead weight of bureaucratic communism while simultaneously holding together the disintegrating Federation of Soviet Republics, and inward to the continuing decay of our cities, our environment and our race relations
The Nature of Contemporary Political Science
What is the nature of contemporary political science? What shared concerns bind us together as a discipline, providing a common definition and direction to our intellectual enterprise? These questions were on my mind as I organized the section on formal and normative political theory for the 1989 APSA meetings. Initially, I had wanted to sponsor a panel to address the nature of formal and normative theory. I knew I was a bit uncertain about the p…
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