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Mainstream notions of the “American Dream” usually revolve around the ownership of private property, a house of one’s own. Yet for the past 400 years, a large number of Americans have dared to dream bigger and bolder, choosing to live in intentional communities that pooled resources, and they worked to ensure the well-being of all their members. American Community takes us inside forty of the most interesting intentional communities in the nation’s history, from the colonial era to the present day. You will learn about such little-known experiments in cooperative living as the Icarian communities, which took the utopian ideas expounded in a 1840 French novel and put them into practice, ultimately spreading to five states over fifty years. Plus, it covers more recent communities such as Arizona’s Arcosanti, designed by architect Paolo Soleri as a model for ecologically sustainable living. In this provocative and engaging book, Mark Ferrara guides readers through an array of intentional communities that boldly challenged capitalist economic arrangements in order to attain ideals of harmony, equality, and social justice. By shining a light on these forgotten histories, it shows that far from being foreign concepts, communitarianism and socialism have always been vital parts of the American experience.

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What might a viable political alternative to liberal democracy look like? In Against Political Equality, Tongdong Bai offers a possibility inspired by Confucian ideas.Bai argues that domestic governance influenced by Confucianism can embrace the liberal aspects of democracy along with the democratic ideas of equal opportunities and governmental accountability to the people. But Confucianism would give more political decision-making power to those with the moral, practical, and intellectual capabilities of caring for the people. While most democratic thinkers still focus on strengthening equality to cure the ills of democracy, the proposed hybrid regime-made up of Confucian-inspired meritocratic characteristics combined with democratic elements and a quasi-liberal system of laws and rights-recognizes that egalitarian qualities sometimes conflict with good governance and the protection of liberties, and defends liberal aspects by restricting democratic ones. Bai applies his views to the international realm by supporting a hierarchical order based on how humane each state is toward its own and other peoples, and on the principle of international interventions whereby humane responsibilities override sovereignty.Exploring the deficiencies posed by many liberal democracies, Against Political Equality presents a novel Confucian-engendered alternative for solving today's political problems.

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La " pilarisation ", concept venant des Pays-Bas et emprunté au néerlandais " verzuiling ", constitue une des caractéristiques fondamentales de la société belge. Construit historiquement dès le début du 19e siècle sur les clivages philosophique et socio-économique, ce système d'organisation sociale et politique a mené à la construction de milieux sociaux séparés. Ces " piliers ", fondés sur une même idéologie (catholique, laïque, libérale ou socialiste), encadrent les individus du berceau au tombeau au travers d'organisations qui leur sont propres, telles que des écoles, des hôpitaux, des mutualités, des syndicats, des coopératives, des mouvements de jeunesse et parfois un parti. Depuis plusieurs décennies, se pose la question de la dépilarisation. Les changements sociétaux concomitants à une ouverture et à une reconfiguration des piliers ont engendré une restructuration de la société, et ce, notamment, au travers d'une multiplication de nouvelles organisations. Si un processus de dépilarisation semble avoir été entamé dès les années 1960, qu'en est-il aujourd'hui ? Reste-t-il, dans la société belge, des résidus de pilarisation et de quelle façon sont-ils visibles ? À travers de nombreuses études de cas abordant l'action de la société civile, cet ouvrage examine différentes facettes du pays sous l'angle de son rapport à la pilarisation en s'attachant tout particulièrement à prendre en compte les dimensions sociologique, politique et historique du phénomène et en ciblant plus spécifiquement le déclin supposé du clivage philosophique. -- Quatrième de couverture

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