Gary Brown strávil dvadsaťtri rokov v texaských väzniciach ako učiteľ a poradca. Jeho tvorba čerpá z týchto rozsiahlych skúseností, ponúka hlboký vhľad do života za mrežami a skúma témy vykúpenia a ľudskej odolnosti. Prostredníctvom svojho písania sa Brown snaží osvetliť zložité reality trestného systému a dať hlas tým, ktorí sú často prehliadaní.
Exploring the interdependence of political philosophy, this book connects Hegel to both earlier and later thinkers. It examines Hegel's critical engagement with Plato and Hobbes while also addressing critiques from figures like Stirner, Marx, and Collingwood. Additionally, the work emphasizes Hegel's relevance to modern political thought through comparisons with contemporary philosophers such as Lyotard and Rawls, providing a comprehensive understanding of Hegel's impact on the evolution of political theory.
The book offers a comprehensive analysis of Bob Dylan's political artistry, exploring themes like alienation, protest, and the American Dream throughout his career. Contributions from experts in political theory, literary criticism, and popular culture provide diverse perspectives, including insights from Kant, Adorno, Lyotard, and Collingwood. Rather than adopting a singular approach, the authors collaboratively examine the interplay between Dylan's work and the realms of political theory and practice, enriching the understanding of his impact on society.
The book examines R.G. Collingwood's philosophical ideas through a reinterpretation of Hegel, highlighting Collingwood's unique defense of liberal civilization. It emphasizes his ability to navigate Hegel's teleological historicism by advocating for a flexible understanding of rationality that balances theory and practice. Additionally, the text draws contemporary parallels by contrasting Collingwood's views with those of modern thinkers like Rawls, Lyotard, and MacIntyre, showcasing the ongoing relevance of his philosophy in today's discourse on liberalism.
James Walker Fannin. Illegitimate son. Southern gentleman. Failed businessman. Devoted family man. Illegal slave trader. Courageous martyr. Tarnished hero of the revolution. But what is the rest of the story?Author Gary Brown brings to life a thorough and insightful analysis of this controversial and sometimes misunderstood historical figure, whom most remember as the commander who lost twice as many men as were killed at the Alamo and San Jacinto combined. Now the story can be completely examined with the help of all Fannin's known correspondence during the campaign at Goliad. Read and judge for yourself if history has been fair to James Walker Fannin.
How are we to understand past political thinkers? Is it a matter simply of reading their texts again and again? Do we have to relate past texts of political thought to the contexts in which ideas were composed and in which the aims of past thinkers were formulated? Or should past politicaltheories be deconstructed so as to uncover not what their authors maintain, but what the texts reveal?In this book, theories of interpreting past political thinkers are examined and the interpretive methods of a range of theories are reviewed, including those of Hegel, Marx, Oakeshott, Collingwood, the Cambridge School, Foucault, Derrida and Gadamer. The application of these theories ofinterpretation to notable modern political theorists, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Bentham, Mill, Nietzsche and Beauvoir is then used as a way of understanding modern political thought and of assessing interpretive theories of past political thought. The result is a bookwhich sees the history of modern political thought as more than a procession of political theories but rather as a reflection on the meaning of past political thought and its interpretation. It provides a way of reading the history of modern political thought, in which the question of interpretationmatters both for understanding how we interpret the past but also for considering what it means to undertake political thinking.
In Why Iris Murdoch Matters Gary Browning draws on as yet unpublished archival material to present an unrivalled overview of Murdoch's work and thought. Browning argues for Murdoch's position amongst the key theorists of modern life, and discusses in detail her engagement with the notion of late modernity. Her multiple perspectives on art, philosophy, religion, politics and the self all relate to how she understands the nature of late modernity. Browning lucidly illustrates that through both her thought and fiction we can grasp the significance of issues that remain of paramount importance today: the possibilities of a moral life without foundations, the meaning of philosophy in a post-metaphysical age, the prospects of politics without ideological certainties and the significance of art after realism. A totally original work arguing persuasively that Iris Murdoch not only matters but is absolutely central to how we think through the contemporary age.
