The President as Prisoner

The President as PrisonerThis book focuses, not on the Constitutional balance of power between Congress and the White House a focus that restricts analysis to questions of means but on the more unsettling and often unexamined question of the ends of the presidency and American public policy. It offers a "structural theory" which links what a president can do to the underlying interests behind and ideology of the capitalist state. Structural theory insists upon an encounter

‘alternative’ dressing

Historical examples of all these theories are presented along with hybrid theories such as those of Descartes and Bergson

Offered as a sourcebook for the field

it is a story of two women whose love for each other sustained their political work

the saints of secular faiths and religions

economic and social justice

to meet basic needs

and musicology

I'm really impressed at how much information has been packed into it

and their relationship with gender and social justice

Mary Douglas Vavrus explores the process of representing political women in media

The notion of tacit knowledge reconstructs the modern concept of objectivity while avoiding the self-stultifying effects of "deconstructivist" postmodernism and puts Polanyi on the cutting edge of contemporary philosophy