Background
Barber, Benjamin R. was born on August 2, 1939.
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"Powerful and disturbing. No one who cares about the future of our public life can afford to ignore this book."―Jackson Lears A powerful sequel to Benjamin R. Barber's best-selling Jihad vs. McWorld, Consumed offers a vivid portrait of an overproducing global economy that targets children as consumers in a market where there are never enough shoppers and where the primary goal is no longer to manufacture goods but needs. To explain how and why this has come about, Barber brings together extensive empirical research with an original theoretical framework for understanding our contemporary predicament. He asserts that in place of the Protestant ethic once associated with capitalism―encouraging self-restraint, preparing for the future, protecting and self-sacrificing for children and community, and other characteristics of adulthood―we are constantly being seduced into an "infantilist" ethic of consumption.
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Libro incluido en Biblioteca Selecta Forum de Barcelona 2004 En este mundo superpoblado y ruidoso, donde habitan tantas personas, donde se cometen tantos delitos, donde estallan tantas guerras y donde el tiempo es siempre tan escaso, resulta casi imposible localizar y preservar un ámbito común en el que pueda prosperar una
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( Since its appearance twenty years ago, Benjamin R. Barb...)
Since its appearance twenty years ago, Benjamin R. Barber's Strong Democracy has been one of the primary standards against which political science thinking and writing is measured. Defined as the participation of all of the people in at least some aspects of self-government at least some of the time, Strong Democracy offers liberal society a new way of thinking about and of practicing democracy. Contrary to the commonly held view that an excess of democracy can undo liberal institutions, Barber argues that an excess of liberalism has undermined our democratic institutions and brought about the set of crises we still find ourselves struggling against: cynicism about voting, alienation, privatization, and the growing paralysis of public institutions. In a new preface Barber looks at the past twenty years and restates his argument, which seems, sadly, more pressing than ever.
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Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole by Barber, Benjamin R. ( Author ) Paperback Mar- 2008 Paperback Mar- 17- 2008
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Offers liberal society a way of thinking about and of practicing democracy. This title argues that an excess of liberalism has undermined our democratic institutions and brought about the set of crises we find ourselves struggling against: cynicism about voting, alienation, privatization, and the growing paralysis of public institutions.
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Ideas and the presidency flirt with each other, but can they really get along? President Clinton had a romance with big ideas. He intently cultivated intellectuals, seducing them with his characteristic charm and with the promise of real influence on the political stage. Yet most often he disappointed the big thinkers whose advice he sought. Benjamin Barber was first invited to Camp David in 1994, along with other prominent members of the academic community, to participate in a "seminar" with President Clinton on the future of Democratic ideas and ideals. Afterwards, he became a steady informal adviser to the White House. For a politically committed professor like Barber, the opportunity was exhilarating—here was an opportunity to put ideas into action, to link ideas to power. The result was enlightening, if unexpected. The most unpredictable factor was the president himself: a man of astonishing intellectual gifts, a consummate listener and synthesizer of ideas, who nonetheless failed to present a stirring progressive vision or even to craft a memorable speech. With great perceptiveness, wit, and élan, Barber provides a startling meditation on truth and power—and the truth of power, which is the responsibility of the elected not to an idea but to the electorate. He identifies the fault lines that future progressive candidates must straddle if they are to win—and the gift they must have, if they are to be great, of calling forth the best in their fellow citizens. In the end, Barber give us a unique portrait of our compelling and maddening ex-president, and the hopes and disillusionments he represents.
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Barber, Benjamin R. was born on August 2, 1939.
Certified, London School Economic & Political Science, 1959. Bachelor with honors, Grinnell College, Iowa, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Grinnell College, Iowa.
Master of Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1963. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1967.
Professor political science Rutgers University Walt Whitman Center Culture and Politics of Democracy, New Brunswick, 1969—2001. Chair American civilization Ecole Des Hautes Etudes, Paris, 1990-1991. With Princeton University, 1991.
Gershon and Carrol Kekst professor civil society University Maryland, since 2001, Wilson H. Elkins professor, Maryland School Public Affairs and the College Behavioral and Social Sciences. Chairman, chief strategic vision officer Bodies Electric, LLC, 2001—2007. Senior fellow University Southern California Center on Public Diplomacy, since 2005.
Principal Democracy Collaborative. Distinguished senior fellow Demos. President, director CivWorld.
Consultant White House Millennial Committee, Corporation National Service, United States Information Agency, National Endowment of the Humanities, United Nations Educational, European Parliament, Swedish Parliamentary Commission, Mission 2000 (French commission), various political and civic leaders including President Bill Clinton, V.P. Al Gore, Senator Bill Bradley, Germany President Roman Herzog.
(Libro incluido en Biblioteca Selecta Forum de Barcelona 2...)
(Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adult...)
( Ideas and the presidency flirt with each other, but can...)
(Offers liberal society a way of thinking about and of pra...)
( Since its appearance twenty years ago, Benjamin R. Barb...)
( "Powerful and disturbing. No one who cares about the fu...)
Married Leah Kreutzer.