Sentences with phrase «history of political thought at»

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It is to be remembered that Christianity began with an apocalyptic proclamation of the end of history, one which dominated the earliest Christian communities, and one which was renewed at each of the great crises or turning points of Christian history, just as it was renewed in each of our great modern political revolutions, and equally if not more deeply renewed in the advent of our deepest modern thinking and imaginative vision.

His research interests include issues relating to political conduct and corruption, the re-imaging of democracy at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries, the Godwin Diaries, political realism and political ethics, and the history of political thought.

What can we do as educational and cultural workers, at this crucial moment in history, when corporate revenue expands as the job market shrinks, when there is such a callous disregard for human suffering and human life, when the indomitable human spirit gasps for air in an atmosphere of intellectual paralysis, social amnesia, and political quiescence, when the translucent hues of hope seem ever more ethereal, when thinking about the future seems anachronistic, when the concept of utopia has become irretrievably Disneyfied, when our social roles as citizens have become increasingly corporatized and instrumentalized in a world which hides necessity in the name of consumer desire, when media analyses of military invasions is just another infomercial for the US military industrial complex with its huge global arms industry, and when teachers and students alike wallow in absurdity, waiting for the junkyard of consumer life to vomit up yet another panacea for despair?

Academic learning that comes to mind includes more prosaic elements of law, such as contract vs criminal vs administrative law; the developmental history of their own city; recent (50 years) political history of their city; basics of land law; current vs past thinking in urban planning; specific budgetary investigations at both the state and local level; school funding law in their state; essentials of Leadership, EPA impacts on dismantling abandoned structures; economic price theory; or the competitive strengths and weaknesses of their own city or region.

«If you look at the last 50 years, or all of history, of state behaviors and rampant inequity at the state level in U.S. Supreme Court cases, it's reasonable to think you'd see divestment from underserved communities, in favor of either saving money or to redirecting funds to places with more political clout and wealth,» Marchitello said.