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Heartless World Revisited: Christopher Lasch's Parting Polemic Against The New Class, Kenneth Anderson
Heartless World Revisited: Christopher Lasch's Parting Polemic Against The New Class, Kenneth Anderson
Book Reviews
This obituary essay on the final book by the cultural critic Christopher Lasch appeared in the Times Literary Supplement in 1995. The essay examines Lasch's final work, The Revolt of the Elites, against the rest of his body of writing. In particular, it examines Lasch's populism and stance against the increasingly transnatonal elites loosely characterized as the New Class. It discusses Lasch's emphasis on the family as the locus of what remained a significantly Freudian cultural discourse, and examines the ways in which Lasch saw the family as being taken apart and then reassembled according to the mores of the …
Heartless World Revisited: Christopher Lasch's Parting Polemic Against The New Class, Kenneth Anderson
Heartless World Revisited: Christopher Lasch's Parting Polemic Against The New Class, Kenneth Anderson
Kenneth Anderson
Children's Rights In Intercountry Adoption: Towards A New Goal, S. I. Strong
Children's Rights In Intercountry Adoption: Towards A New Goal, S. I. Strong
Faculty Publications
Each year, hundreds of thousands of children languish in foster or institutional care worldwide, while at the same time, thousands of adults, married and unmarried alike, are denied children because of “shortages.” How did this tragedy occur, and why does it continue to be repeated daily in countries around the world? The unfortunate truth is that many of the legal and societal norms now in place effectively prohibit needy children from finding suitable homes. While potential parents in Western countries cry out for babies of their own, millions of children live in physical and psychological poverty in underfunded orphanages around …
Marriage And Divorce: Legal Foundations, Azizah Y. Al-Hibri
Marriage And Divorce: Legal Foundations, Azizah Y. Al-Hibri
Law Faculty Publications
This unique reference is a comprehensive encyclopedia dedicated to the institutions, religion, politics, and culture in Muslim societies throughout the world. Placing particular emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World contains over 750 articles in four volumes on Muslims in the Arab heartland as well as South and Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Americas.
An invaluable resource, the Encyclopedia offers extensive comparative and systematic analyses of Islamic beliefs, institutions, movements, practices, and peoples on an international scale. The alphabetically arranged articles range from brief 500-word essays to major interpretive and synthetic treatment …
The Supreme Court's Land Use Decisions (Symposium - The Supreme Court And Local Government Law, 1993-94 Term), Leon D. Lazer
The Supreme Court's Land Use Decisions (Symposium - The Supreme Court And Local Government Law, 1993-94 Term), Leon D. Lazer
Scholarly Works
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