Plato.
Summary: Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classic text is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the conversation, other questions are raised: what is goodness?; what is reality?; and what is knowledge? The Republic also addresses the purpose of education and the role of both women and men...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Easton Press 1980
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Dalton, Dennis.
Contents: Part 1. Lecture 1. The Hindu vision of life -- lecture 2. Thucydides and the Peloponnesian war -- lecture 3. Law and rule in Sophocle's Antigone -- lecture 4. Socrates and Socratic quest -- lecture 5. Plato--idealism and power, pt. 1 -- lecture 6. Plato--idealism and power, pt. 2 -- lecture 7. Aristotle's critique of Plato's Republic -- lecture 8. Machiavelli's Theory of power politics.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 1991
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.01 POWGray, John
Summary: Turning his back on neoliberalism, voicing 'the end of history' and the unstoppable spread of liberal values across the globe, Gray's was a lone voice of scepticism. The thinking he criticised would lead to the invasion of Iraq. Today, its folly might seem obvious, but Gray has been trying to warn us for years.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Routledge 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 GRALevin, Yuval.
Summary: "In The Great Debate Yuval Levin explores the origins of the familiar left/right divide in American politics by examining the views of the men who best represent each side of that debate: Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine. In a groundbreaking exploration of the origins of our political order, Levin shows that our political divide did not originate (as many historians argue) in the French...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 LEVMoore, Peter
Summary: "The most famous phrase in American history once looked quite different. "The preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness" was how Thomas Jefferson put it in the first draft of the Declaration, before the first ampersand was scratched out, along with "the preservation of." In a statement as pithy--and contested--as this, a small deletion matters. And indeed, that final,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: City planning that puts people before cars, sculptural museums that are as artistic as the masterpieces they contain, commercial spaces that redefine retail—these are some of the paradigm-shaking ideas of today’s architects at work. This compilation of recent NewsHour segments introduces viewers to Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, Vincent Scully, and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
View online at AVOD
Summary: Furrowed brows, widened eyes, clenched teeth-such signals reveal a great deal about our leaders, and they also influence our reactions to media images. This program investigates ways in which facial expressions and nonverbal communication determine political charisma and power. Presenting examples from a wide range of historical and current sources, the film shows how psychologists diagram and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
View online at AVOD
Judt, Tony
Summary: Offers a narrative of the United States' intellectual history of the past one hundred years by discussing the ideas and thinkers that helped shape the century.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.092 JUDSummary: The global financial crisis has called into question the viability of the American model of capitalism. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have shown the limits of American might. And the spending of the U.S. government has grown hazardously dependent on offshore investors. Is the era of American dominance over? That is the question in this Oxford Union-style debate as panelists make their case....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
View online at AVOD
Summary: Joseph Stalin's almost unfathomable crimes have given him the distinction of being a personification of evil in the 20th century, rivaling Adolf Hitler. This episode of Declassified examines how as the first General Secretary of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union, Stalin was responsible for as many as 20 million Soviet deaths in his purges and infamous Gulag.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
View online at AVOD
Summary: The life, personality, and thought of the 18th-century political philosopher and essayist are examined in this outstanding program. Emphasis is on Rousseau's critique of the inequities and shallowness of French society, and the new values system he developed which promoted individual rights and a return to nature. Rousseau's masterwork, The Social Contract, defined this philosophy and served as...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
View online at AVOD
Summary: This program chronicles the life and work of John Locke, the 17th-century English philosopher and political theorist considered by many to be the first notable thinker of the Enlightenment. Without a doubt, Locke's legacy is vast: his articulation of empiricism laid the intellectual groundwork for an explosion of scientific activity that continues to this day, and his political philosophy is...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
View online at AVOD
Chomsky, Noam.
Summary: In this collection of essays and lectures from 1969 to 2013, many in book form for the first time, Noam Chomsky examines the nature of state power, from the ideologies driving the Cold War to the War on Terror, and reintroduces the moral and legal questions that all too often go unheeded. With unrelenting logic, he holds the arguments of empire up to critical examination and shatters the myths...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 814 CHOSummary: Who should lead the world's only superpower? When is it acceptable to topple another country's leader? Are personal freedom and national security mutually incompatible? The answers to urgent political questions such as these are informed by 23 centuries of discourse that started with The Republic. This program focuses successively on the pivotal ideas of Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Rousseau,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
View online at AVOD
Summary: Thomas More's Utopia, one of the most significant texts of English humanism, has become the ideal for a society based on fundamental human principles of fairness and justice. This program follows the progress of More's intellectual development, from his early friendship with the influential humanist Erasmus of Rotterdam, to his rise to power as a member of Parliament and later Chancellor of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
View online at AVOD
Berlin, Isaiah
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1998
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 192 BERSummary: Linguist, intellect, and activist Noam Chomsky discusses and reflects on the state of the world including the War in Iraq, September 11th, the War on Terror, media manipulation and control, social activism, fear, American foreign policy, and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC NOAHeller, Anne Conover.
Summary: Hannah Arendt, one of the most gifted and provocative voices of her era, was a polarizing cultural theorist--extolled by her peers as a visionary and berated by her critics as a poseur and a fraud. Born in Prussia to assimilated Jewish parents, she escaped from Hitler's Germany in 1933 and is now best remembered for the storm of controversy that arose after the publication of her 1963 New...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ARENDT, HANNAH HELSummary: Few literary works have inspired as diverse and impassioned opinions as Machiavelli's The Prince. While some have denounced it as epitomizing the immorality and cynicism of despotic political rulers, others have considered it a paragon of pragmatism and lucidity in political affairs-including Napoleon Bonaparte, who deemed The Prince the only book that deserved to be read. In this program, the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
View online at AVOD
Summary: What forces drove Chinese capitalism forward and enabled a generation of innovators and business leaders to emerge? Can the tragedy of Tiananmen Square be understood in terms of China's economic, rather than political, development? What is Deng Xiaoping's legacy today? This program addresses those questions as it explores the maturation and impact of Deng's policies. Interviewees include Chen...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
View online at AVOD
Summary: Shortly after the establishment of Bolshevik rule in Russia, brewing conflict threatened the party’s leadership. This program depicts Lenin’s response to those threats through ruthless campaigns against political rivals and foreign forces. Drawing on letters and personal accounts, the film also makes use of dramatic reconstructions and colorized archival footage, portraying the era as those at...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
View online at AVOD
Summary: Patterns of urbanization and poverty are playing an increasingly heavy role in the debate over globalization and market regulation. In a hard-hitting analysis of the issues, this program assembles a wide-ranging set of opinions from scholars and experts-as well as from ordinary individuals around the world who face urban hardships and obstacles to their livelihoods every day. Commentators...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
View online at AVOD
Summary: The impact of Marx on the 20th century was all-pervasive and worldwide, costing tens of millions of lives where Communism was imposed, resulting in brutal wars to contain or expand it, and vastly improving the lives of workers where fear of Communism resulted in social reform. This program looks at the man, at the roots of his philosophy, at the causes and explanations of his philosophical...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
View online at AVOD
Summary: Given the vitality of China's economy today, it is difficult to imagine that Deng Xiaoping's early reforms met any resistance-but they did. This program examines Deng's transformation from a Maoist functionary into the leader who broke from pure Communism and, despite the highest of stakes, reinvented his country. Helping viewers understand Deng's creation of China's Special Economic Zones, the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009