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...In this essay, the author is trying to answer the question: is there a political possibility of existence of a humanist as an anti-national humanist? He wonders if it is possible for humanists like doctors to not become the externalities of nationalism labeling the blood saffron, green, red, black and white (even pac...

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...iscover other works by Ankur Mutreja. Thank you. ISBN: 9789353212698TABLE OF CONTENTS1 Introduction2 Nationalist Strategies Motherlan... ...g the Question-Notes (Do have a look at my other book Annapurna Circuit Trek: Fairy Tale of Love with Nature)INTRODUCTIONThere ... ...ve with Nature)INTRODUCTIONThere is no idea more inchoate than that of nation. Each author has defined it differently.Anderson h... ...usly not rebels, who would use force to challenge theelite rulers, but they do understand politics and have the faculties to challenge the eliterulers... ...trategy tool against them. Lawyerscan be the only exceptions, but they are so involved in politics that they lose theirfaculties to question and becom... ...ds use of violence in unavoidable situations, and so will he do.Persistent PetitioningThe politics that an anti-national humanist better understands i... ...Hindu (Scribe, 2018)8. See Ernest Renan, What is a Nation?, March 11, 1882 (University of California, Paris:https://ucparis.fr)9. See Shashi Tharoor, ... ...West; Nationalism inJapan; Nationalism in India; The Sunset of the Century (University of California Libraryvide MSN, the digitizing sponsor, of The B...

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...T TERMINATION WITHIN A BUREAUCRATIC ENVIRONMENT . . . . . . . . . 3 Interagency Decision Making via Negotiation. . . . . . . . . . 5 The Efficacy of the Policy-Making Process . . 14 Outline of the Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 Implications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 2 RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY: INDIVIDUAL A...

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...Tables and Semiotic Squares Introduction Chapter I. Conditions of Transformation Chapter II. The Fluid Legality of Nazism Chapter III. Homo Viator & Formalized Social Rejections Chapter IV. Transience Chapter V. Semiotic Squares Chapter VI. Nazi (Ir)Rationality & Semiotic Squares ...

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...iend Sally Soriano for her unwavering support and assistance inthe writing of this book. Appreciation is also due to my research assistant Peggy Noton... ...ue to my research assistant Peggy Noton for hercareful and crucial reading of the manuscript. A word of gratitude goes to my son, Christian Parenti,fo... ...ocage, andGinger Walker also provided valuable assistance. Nancy J. Peters of City Lights Books provided anencouragement and enthusiasm that helped li... ...or any kind of economic independence or any sort of populistredistributive politics, that attempt to take some of their economic surplus and apply it ... ...and crushes those popular movementsthat attempt any kind of redistributive politics, sending a message to them and others that if they tryto better th... ...ggle to maintaincapitalist global hegemony explains everything about world politics nor even everything about U.S.foreign policy. However, it explains... ...ontinental United States was forcibly wrested from Native Americannations. California and all of the Southwest USA were taken from Mexico by war. Flor... ...0s and 1980s. Angela Davis, a Communist, was dismissedby the University of California, Los Angeles. Marlene Dixon, a Marxist-feminist sociologist, was... ... who were also known progressives, applied forpositions at institutions in California, Texas, Illinois, Colorado, New York, and other places toonumero...