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Kryzys moralny czy transformacja wartości? Studium socjologiczne
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ISBN: 8373060278 Year: 2001 Publisher: Lublin Towarzystwo naukowe katolickiego uniwersytetu Lubelskiego

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The broken hearth : reversing the moral collapse of the American family.
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ISBN: 0385499159 Year: 2001 Publisher: New York Doubleday

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Many think it doesn't matter whether we preserve the nuclear family. Some even argue that its dissolution is a good thing - a liberation from repressive patriarchal authority. William J. Bennett maintains that, to the contrary, the dissolution of the American family is the fundamental crisis of our time. Now, in a book as provocative and controversial as his bestselling The Death of Outrage, Bennett presents a timely and much-needed defense of the family.

Not the law's business? An examination of homosexuality, abortion, prostitution, narcotics and gambling in the United States
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ISBN: 0898752418 9780898752410 Year: 2001 Publisher: Honolulu : University Press of the Pacific,

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Henry James and modern moral life
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ISBN: 0521655471 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge university press,

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Public goods, private goods
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ISBN: 0691089035 0691117209 9786612087073 128208707X 1400824826 9781400824823 9780691117201 9780691089034 9780691117201 Year: 2001 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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Much political thinking today, particularly that influenced by liberalism, assumes a clear distinction between the public and the private, and holds that the correct understanding of this should weigh heavily in our attitude to human goods. It is, for instance, widely held that the state may address human action in the ''public'' realm but not in the ''private.'' In Public Goods, Private Goods Raymond Geuss exposes the profound flaws of such thinking and calls for a more nuanced approach. Drawing on a series of colorful examples from the ancient world, he illustrates some of the many ways in which actions can in fact be understood as public or private. The first chapter discusses Diogenes the Cynic, who flouted conventions about what should be public and what should be private by, among other things, masturbating in the Athenian marketplace. Next comes an analysis of Julius Caesar's decision to defy the Senate by crossing the Rubicon with his army; in doing so, Caesar asserted his dignity as a private person while acting in a public capacity. The third chapter considers St. Augustine's retreat from public life to contemplate his own, private spiritual condition. In the fourth, Geuss goes on to examine recent liberal views, questioning, in particular, common assumptions about the importance of public dialogue and the purportedly unlimited possibilities humans have for reaching consensus. He suggests that the liberal concern to maintain and protect, even at a very high cost, an inviolable ''private sphere'' for each individual is confused. Geuss concludes that a view of politics and morality derived from Hobbes and Nietzsche is a more realistic and enlightening way than modern liberalism to think about human goods. Ultimately, he cautions, a simplistic understanding of privacy leads to simplistic ideas about what the state is and is not justified in doing.

The monochrome society
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ISBN: 0691070903 Year: 2001 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Oxford Princeton University Press

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Landscapes of the soul : the loss of moral meaning in American life
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ISBN: 0195134915 9786610534449 1423785061 0198030827 1280534443 0195169441 0199834563 9781423785064 9780195134919 Year: 2001 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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Almost all Americans believe in God. But, the author shows, this belief has little impact on their lives. He finds them unable to see any meaning in life, lacking any heroes, and without a compelling moral vision.

Our Monica, Ourselves : The Clinton Affair and the National Interest
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ISBN: 0814798640 0814798659 0814739288 Year: 2001 Publisher: New York, NY : New York University Press,

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Alongside the O.J. Simpson trial, the affair between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky now stands as the seminal cultural event of the 90s. Alternatively transfixed and repelled by this sexual scandal, confusion still reigns over its meanings and implications. How are we to make sense of a tale that is often wild and bizarre, yet replete with serious political and cultural implications? Our Monica, Ourselves provides a forum for thinking through the cultural, political, and public policy issues raised by the investigation, publicity, and Congressional impeachment proceedings surrounding the affair. It pulls this spectacle out of the framework provided by the conventions of the corporate news media, with its particular notions of what constitutes a newsworthy event. Drawing from a broad range of scholars, Our Monica, Ourselves considers Monica Lewinsky's Jewishness, Linda Tripp's face, the President's penis, the role of shame in public discourse, and what it's like to have sex as the president, as well as specific legal and historical issues at stake in the impeachment of Bill Clinton. Thoughtful but accessible, immediate yet far reaching, Our Monica, Ourselves will change the way we think about the Clinton affair, while helping us reimagine culture and politics writ large. Contributors include: Lauren Berlant, Eric O. Clarke, Ann Cvetkovich, Simone Weil Davis, Lisa Duggan, Jane Gallop, Marjorie Garber, Janet R. Jakobsen, James R. Kincaid, Laura Kipnis, Tomasz Kitlinski, Pawel Leszkowicz, Joe Lockard, Catharine Lumby, Toby Miller, Dana D. Nelson, Anna Marie Smith, Ellen Willis, and Eli Zaretsky.

Liebesfreuden im Mittelalter : Kulturgeschichte der Erotik und Sexualität in Bildern und Dokumenten.
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ISBN: 3572012449 9783572012442 Year: 2001 Publisher: München Orbis

Not in front of the children : "indecency," censorship and the innocence of youth
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ISBN: 0374175454 Year: 2001 Publisher: New York : Hill and Wang,

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