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  • Understanding Contemporary American Conservatism
    Joel D. Aberbach
    Contemporary American conservatism - a mélange of ideas, people, and organizations - is difficult to define; even conservatives themselves are unable to agree about its essential meaning. Yet the conservative movement is well financed, exerts strong influence in the Republican Party, inspires followers throughout the land, and has spawned a network of think tanks and media outl...
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  • Major Turning Points in Jewish Intellectual History
    D. Aberbach
    This book analyzes major transformations in Jewish life and thought: from idolatry to exclusive monotheism in the biblical age, from state-based identity to cultural nationalism in the Roman empire; and, in the European Diaspora, from theology to secularism and revived political nationalism in the modern period. Fundamental questions are asked about Jewish survival in a variety...
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  • Major Turning Points in Jewish Intellectual History
    D. Aberbach
    This book analyzes major transformations in Jewish life and thought: from idolatry to exclusive monotheism in the biblical age, from state-based identity to cultural nationalism in the Roman empire; and, in the European Diaspora, from theology to secularism and revived political nationalism in the modern period. Fundamental questions are asked about Jewish survival in a variety...
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    134,32 €

  • In the Web of Politics
    Bert A. Rockman / Joel D. Aberbach
    'Most people think of governmental bureaucracy as a dull subject. Yet for thirty years the American federal executive has been awash in political controversy. From George Wallace's attacks on ''pointy headed bureaucrats,'' to Richard Nixon's ''responsiveness program,'' to the efforts of Al Gore and Bill Clinton to ''reinvent government,'' the people who administer the...
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  • Charisma in Politics, Religion and the Media
    D. Aberbach
    What are the origins of charisma? Are these the same in the various forms of public life, in politics and the media as well as in religion? In this new and radical interpretation of charisma, David Aberbach argues that the basis of charisma in all its forms must be found in the often-obscure symbolic intersection between the inner world of the charismatic and external social an...
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    134,73 €

  • Richard Wagner's Religious Ideas
    Alan D. Aberbach
    Chapter headings include: Early Spiritual Dimensions; Reflection of Mind and Soul (The Flying Dutchman, Tannhäuser, Lohengrin); 'Jesus of Nazareth'; Encounters with the Esoteric (Hafiz and The Ring of the Nibelung; Schopenhauer and Tristan and Isolde; The Influence of Meister Eckhart); To Parsifal; Beyond Parsifal. ...
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    88,64 €

  • Keeping a Watchful Eye
    Joel D. Aberbach
    'Congressional oversight activity has increased dramatically since the early 1970s. Congressional committees now spend more of their time holding hearings to review the activities of federal agencies, and committee staff members are busy collecting information about what goes on during program implementation. This book examines the reasons behind the surprising growth of congre...
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    34,07 €