Author: David S. Allen
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: public, sphere, history, communication, rationalization, corporate, inc, press, law, democracy
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2005-07-04
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0252029755
ISBN-13: 9780252029752

In "Democracy, Inc.", David S Allen exposes the vested interests behind the US slide toward conflating corporate values with public and democratic values. He argues that rather than being institutional protectors of democratic principles, the press and law perversely contribute to the destruction of public discourse in the United States today. Allen utilizes historical, philosophical, sociological, and legal sources to trace America’s gradual embrace of corporate values. He argues that such values, including winning, efficiency, and profitability actually limit democratic involvement by

Authors:Jan E. M. Houben, Karel R. Van Kooij, K. R. van Kooi
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: violence, history, brill, indological, library, cultural, asian, denied, non, rationalization, south
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1999-06
List price: $230.00
ISBN-10: 9004113444
ISBN-13: 9789004113442

Historical and cultural aspects of the tensions between violence and its denial and rationalization in South Asia are taken up in the contributions of this volume. It deals with topics ranging from the origins of the concept of Ahimsa, to the iconography and interpretation of a self-beheading goddess, and violent heroines in Ajneya’s Hindi short stories.