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Defending freedom : how we can win the fight for an open society
- Title
- Defending freedom : how we can win the fight for an open society / Ralf Fücks ; translated by Nick Somers.
- Author
- Fücks, Ralf
- Publication
- Cambridge ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, [2019]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Somers, Nick
- Description
- 201 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Confidence in democratic institutions and mainstream politics today is fast eroding. How can we address this? Leading Green politician and thinker Ralf Fücks argues that our current predicament stems from a failure to defend democracy as the guarantor of freedom. In a powerful counter, he outlines the basis for an ambitious democratic renewal"--
- Uniform Title
- Freiheit verteidigen. English
- Alternative Title
- Freiheit verteidigen.
- Subject
- Note
- First published in 2017 as Freiheit Verteidigenin.
- Translated frm the German.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- In place of an introduction : the lie of the land -- Modern and anti-modern -- The long view of democracy -- The left and democracy -- The rise of the anti-liberals -- The migration battlefield -- Dealing with Islam -- No empathy for freedom : the Germans and Ukraine -- The Russia complex -- Modernity and its discontents -- Ecology and freedom -- Civilizing capitalism -- Shaping globalization -- How we can relaunch the EU -- What is at stake.
- Call Number
- JFD 20-92
- ISBN
- 9781509536238
- 150953623X
- 9781509536245
- 1509536248
- LCCN
- 2019011787
- OCLC
- 1096215260
- Author
- Fücks, Ralf, author.
- Title
- Defending freedom : how we can win the fight for an open society / Ralf Fücks ; translated by Nick Somers.
- Publisher
- Cambridge ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, [2019]
- Edition
- English edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Added Author
- Somers, Nick, translator.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Fücks, Ralf, author. Defending freedom English edition. Cambridge ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, [2019] 9781509536252 (DLC) 2019017016
- Research Call Number
- JFD 20-92