David P Levine: 17 books
Economic Studies (Routledge Revivals)
Contributions to the Critique of Economic Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
First published in 1977, David Levine's Economic Studies offers a critique and reconstruction of the theoretical conception of economic life. The premise of the study is that only an investigation of the system of elementary economic relations - value, capital, production - can overcome the confusion...
Psychoanalysis, Society, and the Inner World
Embedded Meaning in Politics and Social Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Psychoanalysis, Society, and the Inner World explores ideas from psychoanalysis that can be valuable in understanding social processes and institutions and in particular, how psychoanalytic ideas and methods can help us understand the nature and roots of social and political conflict in the contemporary...
by James A. Caporaso, David P. Levine
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 1992
'Political economy' has been the term used for the past 300 years to express the interrelationship between the political and economic affairs of the state. In Theories of Political Economy, first published in 1992, James A. Caporaso and David P. Levine explore some of the more important frameworks...
by David P. Levine
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
In this book, David P. Levine applies psychoanalytic object relations theory to understanding work motivation and the meaning of work. Drawing on the writings of authors such as Donald Winnicott, Otto Kernberg and Melanie Klein, he explores three factors central to our effort to understand work: guilt,...
The Capacity for Ethical Conduct
On psychic existence and the way we relate to others
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
What is the root cause of ethical failure? Why is preoccupation with ethics more a part of the problem than a part of the solution? What makes ethical conduct a natural expression of who we are? What enables us to be ourselves in our relations with others?
Ethical failure has become a significant...
Psychoanalytic Studies of Creativity, Greed, and Fine Art
Making Contact with the Self
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Throughout the history of psychoanalysis, the study of creativity and fine art has been a special concern. Psychoanalytic Studies of Creativity, Greed and Fine Art: Making Contact with the Self makes a distinct contribution to the psychoanalytic study of art by focusing attention on the relationship...
Welfare, Right and the State
A Framework for Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2007
This book develops a creative theoretical framework for understanding the welfare state: the theory of the state and the idea of welfare connected to autonomy.
Written by a well-known expert of political economy and welfare, it explores the nature of welfare and connects welfare not to basic...
Subjectivity in Political Economy
Essays on Wanting and Choosing
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2005
This book explores the way political economy understands human motivation. In it, the author argues that the assumptions typically made by economists regarding want and choice cannot adequately lay a foundation for answering important questions about the design of economic institutions and the appropriate...
by David P. Levine
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
First published in 1997, this volume delves into the most influential theories of economic justice, which ground themselves in utilitarian or related contractarian ideas about the self. These ideas take self-interest to be transparent and unproblematic. Favoured assumptions about the self also make...
A Dangerous Place to Be
Identity, Conflict, and Trauma in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Over the past several decades, colleges and universities in the United States and United Kingdom have made significant commitments to increasing diversity, most notably regarding race and gender. The result has not, however, been an amelioration of conflict over matters of difference. Instead, there...
Dark Fantasy
Regressive Movements and the Search for Meaning in Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Recent trends in politics culminating in the US with the election of Donald Trump both provoked and expressed a troubling intensification of emotion in the body politic. Heightened levels of anger, frustration, and distrust, the dismissal of the norms of politics and policy making, and the prevalence...
Blockheads!
Essays on Ned Block's Philosophy of Mind and Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
New essays on the philosophy of Ned Block, with substantive and wide-ranging responses by Block.
Perhaps more than any other philosopher of mind, Ned Block synthesizes philosophical and scientific approaches to the mind; he is unique in moving back and forth across this divide, doing so with...
by Dr. Ian G. Baird, Corey L. Bell, Dr. Stephen C. Berkwitz
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2016
This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who would be excluded from most Buddhist histories and ethnographies. In addition to monks and nuns, readers...
Teaching America
The Case for Civic Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
In Teaching America, more than 20 leading thinkers sound the alarm over a crisis in citizenship—and lay out a powerful agenda for reform. The book’s unprecedented roster of authors includes Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Senator Jon Kyl, Senator Bob Graham, Secretary Rod Paige, Alan Dershowitz,...
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