[RRE]what I'm interested in, part 20

From: Phil Agre (pagreat_private)
Date: Sat Feb 09 2002 - 17:14:06 PST

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    No feature of RRE polarizes opinion so much as these book lists.
    Book people just like knowing about books, and academics know they
    have a responsibility to read more books than any human being could
    ever possibly read.  They're happy.  But other people don't see the
    point.  Call them shoppers.  They aren't antagonistic toward books,
    but they don't define themselves in terms of books either.  They
    buy books, sure, but they want a shopping guide: recommendations,
    summaries, filtering, top-ten lists, and other things that would be
    too hard to provide on this scale.  I do also provide those things
    sometimes, but I also find it valuable to have lists.
    
    It has never occurred to some of the shoppers, I gather, that they can
    get further information about the books (or most of them) by copying
    and pasting their titles into an online bookstore like Amazon.  Okay,
    fine, nobody is born realizing that.  In fact I often find myself
    not expanding on things (e.g., technical phrases) because I figure
    that people can easily look them up with Web search tools.  It's a new
    world that way.  Nonfiction book titles are reasonably self-explanatory,
    enough that you can browse them quickly and do Web searches on a few.
    
    In any case, the rules are the same as always: books are on this list
    for many reasons, and I don't want to be flamed.  You may wonder why I
    keep repeating these rules; the reason is that people flame me anyway,
    seized by whatever it is that seizes people, and I assume that it's
    despite the rules and not because of them.
    
    
    # A
    
    Mitchell Aboulafia, The Cosmopolitan Self: George Herbert Mead and
    Continental Philosophy, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001.
    
    Bruce A. Ackerman, Social Justice in the Liberal State, New Haven:
    Yale University Press, 1980.
    
    Jeffrey C. Alexander, ed, Real Civil Societies: Dilemmas of
    Institutionalization, London: Sage, 1998.
    
    Anita L. Allen and Milton C. Regan, Jr., eds, Debating Democracy's
    Discontent: Essays on American Politics, Law, and Public Philosophy,
    Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
    
    Hans Thor Andersen, and Ronald Van Kempen, eds, Governing European
    Cities: Social Fragmentation, Social Exclusion and Urban Governance,
    Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2001.
    
    Daniele Archibugi and David Held, eds, Cosmopolitan Democracy: An
    Agenda for a New World Order, Cambridge, MA: Polity Press, 1995.
    
    John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt, Swarming and the Future of Conflict,
    Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2000.
    
    # B
    
    Alain Badiou, Deleuze: The Clamor of Being, translated by Louise
    Burchill, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
    
    C. Edwin Baker, Media, Markets, and Democracy, Cambridge University
    Press, 2001.
    
    Monica Barry and Christine Hallett, eds, Social Exclusion and Social
    Work: Issues of Theory, Policy and Practice, Lyme Regis, UK: Russell
    House, 1998.
    
    Sally Belfrage, Freedom Summer, New York: Viking Press, 1965.
    
    Richard Bellamy, Liberalism and Modern Society: An Historical
    Argument, Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1992.
    
    Jessica Berman, Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism, and the Politics
    of Community, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
    
    Christopher J. Berry, The Idea of Luxury: A Conceptual and Historical
    Investigation, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
    
    Brian Bix, Law, Language, and Legal Determinacy, Oxford: Oxford
    University Press, 1993.
    
    James Bohman and Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, eds, Perpetual Peace: Essays
    on Kant's Cosmopolitan Ideal, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997.
    
    Steven Brint, In an Age of Experts: The Changing Role of Professionals
    in Politics and Public Life, Princeton: Princeton University Press,
    1994.
    
    Agnieszka Bron and Michael Schemmann, eds, Civil Society, Citizenship
    and Learning, Munster: Lit, 2001.
    
    Graeme Browning, Electronic Democracy: Using the Internet to Influence
    American Politics, edited by Daniel J. Weitzner, Wilton, CT: Pemberton
    Press, 1996.
    
    David Byrne, Social Exclusion, Buckingham, UK: Open University Press,
    1999.
    
    # C
    
    Sheila Carapico, Civil Society in Yemen: The Political Economy of
    Activism in Modern Arabia, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
    1998.
    
    Daniel P. Carpenter, The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy:
    Reputations, Networks, and Policy Innovation in Executive Agencies,
    1862-1928, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.
    
    John Cassidy, Dot.Con: The Greatest Story Ever Sold, HarperCollins,
    2002.
    
    Simone Chambers and Will Kymlicka, eds, Alternative Conceptions of
    Civil Society, Princeton University Press, 2001.
    
    Allan J. Cigler and Burdett A. Loomis, eds, Interest Group Politics,
    sixth edition, Congressional Quarterly Books, 2002.
    
    Rodney Clapp, Border Crossings: Christian Trespasses on Popular
    Culture and Public Affairs, Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2000.
    
    Bernard S. Cohn, Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge: The British
    in India, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996.
    
    James S. Coleman, Foundations of Social Theory, Cambridge: Harvard
    University Press, 1990.
    
    Carolyn Corbin, Conquering Corporate Codependence, Englewood Cliffs,
    NJ: Prentice Hall Press, 1993.
    
    # D
    
    Fred D'Agostino, Free Public Reason: Making It Up As We Go, New York:
    Oxford University Press, 1996.
    
    Richard E. Dawson, Kenneth Prewitt, and Karen S. Dawson, Political
    Socialization: An Analytic Study, second edition, Boston: Little,
    Brown, 1977.
    
    Dirk de Meyer, Kristiaan Versluys, and Kristiaan Borret, The Urban
    Condition: Space, Community, and Self in the Contemporary Metropolis,
    Rotterdam: 010, 1999.
    
    Tia DeNora, Music in Everyday Life, Cambridge: Cambridge University
    Press, 2000.
    
    Kanwalroop Kathy Dhanda, Anna Nagurney, and Padma Ramanujam,
    Environmental Networks: A Framework for Economic Decision-Making and
    Policy Analysis, Cheltenham, UK: Elgar, 1999.
    
    Vinay Dharwadker, ed, Cosmopolitan Geographies: New Locations in
    Literature and Culture, New York: Routledge, 2001.
    
    Paul F. Diehl, ed, The Politics of Global Governance: International
    Organizations in an Interdependent World, second edition, Boulder:
    Rienner, 2001.
    
    Joan C. Durrance and Karen E. Pettigrew, Online Community Information:
    Creating a Nexus at Your Library, American Library Association, 2002.
    
    # E
    
    Timothy C. Earle and George T. Cvetkovich, Social Trust: Toward a
    Cosmopolitan Society, Westport, CT: Praeger, 1995.
    
    Michael Edwards and John Gaventa, eds, Global Citizen Action, Boulder:
    Rienner, 2001.
    
    Sean J. A. Edwards, Swarming on the Battlefield: Past, Present, and
    Future, Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 2000.
    
    Christoph Engel and Kenneth H. Keller, eds, Governance of Global
    Networks in the Light of Differing Local Values, Baden-Baden: Nomos,
    2000.
    
    # F
    
    Joseph V. Femia, Against the Masses: Varieties of Anti-Democratic
    Thought Since the French Revolution, Oxford: Oxford University Press,
    2001.
    
    Frank Fischer, Citizens, Experts, and the Environment: The Politics of
    Local Knowledge, Durham: Duke University Press, 2000.
    
    John Fiske, Power Plays, Power Works, London: Verso, 1993.
    
    Pierce J. Flynn, The Ethnomethodological Movement: Sociosemiotic
    Interpretations, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1991.
    
    Thomas M. Franck, The Power of Legitimacy Among Nations, New York:
    Oxford University Press, 1990.
    
    Thomas M. Franck, ed, Delegating State Powers: The Effect of Treaty
    Regimes on Democracy and Sovereignty, Ardsley, NY: Transnational,
    2000.
    
    # G
    
    Ernest Gellner, Legitimation of Belief, London: Cambridge University
    Press, 1974.
    
    Gary Genosko, ed, Deleuze and Guattari: Critical Assessments of
    Leading Philosophers, London: Routledge, 2001.
    
    Jerry H. Gill, The Tacit Mode: Michael Polanyi's Postmodern
    Philosophy, Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000.
    
    Jack Goody, The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society,
    Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
    
    Jack Goody, The Power of the Written Tradition, Washington:
    Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000.
    
    Sue Goss, Making Local Governance Work: Networks, Relationships, and
    the Management of Change, New York: Palgrave, 2001.
    
    # H
    
    Jurgen Habermas, Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse
    Theory of Law and Democracy, translated by William Rehg, Cambridge:
    MIT Press, 1996.
    
    Kenneth L. Hacker and Jan van Dijk, eds, Digital Democracy: Issues of
    Theory and Practice, London: Sage, 2001.
    
    Maurice Halbwachs, On Collective Memory, translated by Lewis A. Coser,
    Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
    
    Robert L. Hale, Freedom Through Law: Public Control of Private
    Governing Power, New York: Columbia University Press, 1952.
    
    Terence C. Halliday and Lucien Karpik, eds, Lawyers and the Rise
    of Western Political Liberalism: Europe and North America From the
    Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries, Oxford: Oxford University Press,
    1997.
    
    Karsten Harries, The Meaning of Modern Art: A Philosophical
    Interpretation, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1968.
    
    Deborah Hauptmann, ed, Cities in Transition, Rotterdam: 010, 2001.
    
    Derek Heater, World Citizenship and Government: Cosmopolitan Ideas
    in the History of Western Political Thought, New York: St. Martin's
    Press, 1996.
    
    Abdelsalam A. Helal, Bert Haskell, Jeffery L. Carter, Richard Brice,
    Darrell Woelk, and Marek Rusinkiewicz, Any Time, Anywhere Computing:
    Mobile Computing Concepts and Technology, Boston: Kluwer, 1999.
    
    Jason D. Hill, Becoming a Cosmopolitan: What It Means to Be a Human
    Being in the New Millennium, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.
    
    Starr Roxanne Hiltz and Murray Turoff, The Network Nation: Human
    Communication via Computer, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1978.
    
    Howard Hotson, Johann Heinrich Alsted, 1588-1638: Between Renaissance,
    Reformation, and Universal Reform, Oxford: Oxford University Press,
    2000.
    
    Howard Hotson, Paradise Postponed: Johann Heinrich Alsted and the
    Birth of Calvinist Millenarianism, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2000.
    
    Kimberly Hutchings and Roland Dannreuther, eds, Cosmopolitan
    Citizenship, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.
    
    Will Hutton and Anthony Giddens, eds, On the Edge: Living With Global
    Capitalism, London: Jonathan Cape, 2000.
    
    Herbert H. Hyman, Political Socialization: A Study in the Psychology
    of Political Behavior, Glencoe, IL: Free Press, 1959.
    
    # I
    
    # J
    
    # K
    
    Richard Y. Kain, Advanced Computer Architecture: A Systems Design
    Approach, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1996.
    
    Andrew Kakabadse and Nada Kakabadse, The Geopolitics of Governance:
    The Impact of Contrasting Philosophies, New York: Palgrave, 2001.
    
    Immanuel Kant, Kant's Political Writings, edited by Hans Reiss,
    translated by H. B. Nisbet, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
    1970.
    
    Stuart A. Kauffman, Investigations, Oxford: Oxford University Press,
    2000.
    
    Allen Kaufman, Lawrence Zacharias, Marvin Karson, Managers vs. Owners:
    The Struggle for Corporate Control in American Democracy, New York:
    Oxford University Press, 1995.
    
    Eleanor Kaufman and Kevin Jon Heller, eds, Deleuze and Guattari: New
    Mappings in Politics, Philosophy, and Culture, Minneapolis: University
    of Minnesota Press, 1998.
    
    David Knoke, Franz Urban Pappi, Jeffrey Broadbent, and Yutaka
    Tsujinaka, Comparing Policy Networks: Labor Politics in the Us,
    Germany, and Japan, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
    
    Timo Kopomaa, The City in Your Pocket: Birth of the Mobile Information
    Society, Tampere, Finland: Gaudeamus Kirja, 2000.
    
    Bruce Kuklick, Philosophy in America: A Cultural and Intellectual
    History, 1720-2000, Oxford University Press, 2002.
    
    # L
    
    Berel Lang, Philosophy and the Art of Writing: Studies in Philosophical
    and Literary Style, Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1983.
    
    Nicholas Lemann, The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How
    It Changed America, New York: Knopf, 1991.
    
    Nicholas Lemann, The Big Test: The Secret History of the American
    Meritocracy, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999.
    
    Meira Levinson, The Demands of Liberal Education, Oxford: Oxford
    University Press, 1999.
    
    Robert E. Litan and Alice M. Rivlin, eds, The Economic Payoff From
    the Internet Revolution, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press,
    2001.
    
    Paul Littlewood, ed, Social Exclusion in Europe: Problems and
    Paradigms, Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 1999.
    
    Joseph Losco and Brian L. Fife, eds, Higher Education in Transition:
    The Challenges of the New Millennium, Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey,
    2000.
    
    Greg Lynn, Animate Form, New York: Princeton Architectural Press,
    1999.
    
    # M
    
    Ali Madanipour, Goran Cars, and Judith Allen, eds, Social Exclusion
    in European Cities: Processes, Experiences, and Responses, London:
    Kingsley, 1998.
    
    Ali Madanipour, Angela Hull and Patsy Healey, eds, The Governance of
    Place: Space and Planning Processes, Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2001.
    
    Philip Brook Manville, The Origins of Citizenship in Ancient Athens,
    Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.
    
    Bernd Marin, ed, Governance and Generalized Exchange: Self-Organizing
    Policy Networks in Action, Frankfurt: Campus, 1990.
    
    Bernd Marin and Renate Mayntz, eds, Policy Networks: Empirical
    Evidence and Theoretical Considerations, Frankfurt: Campus, 1991.
    
    Andrei Marmor, Interpretation and Legal Theory, Oxford: Oxford
    University Press, 1992.
    
    David Marsh and R. A. W. Rhodes, eds, Policy Networks in British
    Government, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
    
    David Marsh, ed, Comparing Policy Networks, Buckingham, UK: Open
    University Press, 1998.
    
    David Mathews, Politics for People: Finding a Responsible Public
    Voice, second edition, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999.
    
    Doug McAdam, Freedom Summer, New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
    
    Noel F. McGinn, ed, Crossing Lines: Research and Policy Networks for
    Developing Country Education, Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996.
    
    John H. McWhorter, The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language,
    Freeman, 2002.
    
    Steven G. Medema, Ronald H. Coase, Houndmills, UK: St. Martin's Press,
    1994.
    
    Steven G. Medema, ed, The Legacy of Ronald Coase in Economic Analysis,
    Aldershot, UK: Elgar, 1995.
    
    Steven G. Medema and Warren J. Samuels, Historians of Economics and
    Economic Thought: The Construction of Disciplinary Memory, London:
    Routledge, 2001.
    
    Alberto Melucci, Nomads of the Present: Social Movements and
    Individual Needs in Contemporary Society, edited by John Keane and
    Paul Mier, London: Hutchinson Radius, 1989.
    
    Heinz-Dieter Meyer and William Lowe Boyd, eds, Education Between
    State, Markets, and Civil Society: Comparative Perspectives, Mahwah,
    NJ: Erlbaum, 2001.
    
    Henry Milner, Civic Literacy: How Informed Citizens Make Democracy
    Work, University Press of New England, 2002.
    
    Rolando Modina, Democratising Development: Civil Society Advocacy in
    South East Asia, London: CIIR, 2000.
    
    John D. Montgomery and Alex Inkeles, eds, Social Capital as a Policy
    Resource, Kluwer, 2001.
    
    Mary S. Morgan and Margaret Morrison, eds, Models As Mediators:
    Perspectives on Natural and Social Sciences, Cambridge: Cambridge
    University Press, 1999.
    
    Ben Morison, On Location: Aristotle's Concept of Place, Oxford
    University Press, 2002.
    
    Mohsen Mostafavi, ed, Structure as Space: Architecture and Engineering
    in the Work of Jorg Conzett, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002.
    
    Jerry Z. Muller, Adam Smith in His Time and Ours: Designing the Decent
    Society, New York: Free Press, 1993.
    
    Enid Mumford, Dangerous Decisions: Problem Solving in Tomorrow's
    World, New York: Kluwer, 1999.
    
    # N
    
    Reviel Netz, The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: A Study in
    Cognitive History, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
    
    Gerhart Niemeyer, Law Without Force: The Function of Politics in
    International Law, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 2001.  Originally
    published in 1941.
    
    # O
    
    Karen O'Brien, Narratives of Enlightenment: Cosmopolitan History From
    Voltaire to Gibbon, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
    
    Graham Orange and Dave Hobbs, eds, International Perspectives on
    Tele-Education and Virtual Learning Environments, Aldershot, UK:
    Ashgate, 2000.
    
    # P
    
    Paul Patton, Deleuze and the Political, London: Routledge, 2000.
    
    John Perry, The Problem of the Essential Indexical: And Other Essays,
    expanded edition, Stanford: CSLI, 2000.
    
    Richard A. Primus, The American Language of Rights, Cambridge:
    Cambridge University Press, 1999.
    
    Murray Print, James Ellickson-Brown, and Abdul Razak Baginda, eds
    Civic Education for Civil Society, London: Asean, 1999.
    
    # Q
    
    # R
    
    Melvin Richter, ed, Political Theory and Political Education,
    Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980.
    
    Thomas R. Rochon, Culture Moves: Ideas, Activism, and Changing Values,
    Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.
    
    Mark J. Roe, Strong Managers, Weak Owners: The Political Roots of
    American Corporate Finance, Princeton: Princeton University Press,
    1994.
    
    Raymond A. Rogers, Solving History: The Challenge of Environmental
    Activism, Montreal: Black Rose, 1998.
    
    Karsten Ronit and Volker Schneider, eds, Private Organisations in
    Global Politics, Routledge, 2001.
    
    Nancy L. Rosenblum, ed, Obligations of Citizenship and Demands of
    Faith: Religious Accommodation in Pluralist Democracies, Princeton:
    Princeton University Press, 2000.
    
    # S
    
    Warren J. Samuels and A. Allan Schmid, eds, Law and Economics: An
    Institutional Perspective, Hingham, MA: Nijhoff, Boston, 1981.
    
    Warren J. Samuels and Steven G. Medema, and Gardiner C. Means,
    Institutionalist and Post Keynesian, Armonk, NY: Sharpe, 1990.
    
    Warren J. Samuels, Steven G. Medema, and A. Allan Schmid, The Economy
    As a Process of Valuation, Cheltenham, UK: Elgar, 1997.
    
    Joseph Sandler, ed, Projection, Identification, Projective
    Identification, Madison, CT: International Universities Press, 1987.
    
    Michael Saward, ed, Democratic Innovation: Deliberation,
    Representation, and Association, London: Routledge, 2000.
    
    R. Keith Sawyer, Creating Conversations: Improvisation in Everyday
    Discourse, Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2001.
    
    A. Allan Schmid, Property, Power, and Public Choice: An Inquiry Into
    Law and Economics, New York: Praeger, 1978.
    
    Donald A. Schon and Martin Rein, Frame Reflection: Toward the
    Resolution of Intractable Policy Controversies, New York: BasicBooks,
    1994.
    
    Christopher L. Schroeder, Reinventing the University: Literacies and
    Legitimacy in the Postmodern Academy, Logan: Utah State University
    Press, 2001.
    
    Gary W. Selnow, High-Tech Campaigns: Computer Technology in Political
    Communication, Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994.
    
    Timothy J. Sinclair and Kenneth P. Thomas, eds, Structure and Agency
    in International Capital Mobility, New York: Palgrave, 2001.
    
    Jan Sinnott and Lynn Johnson, Reinventing the University: A Radical
    Proposal for a Problem-Focused University, Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1996.
    
    Quentin Skinner, Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes,
    Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
    
    Greg Smith, ed, Goffman and Social Organization: Studies in a
    Sociological Legacy, London: Routledge, 1999.
    
    Steven D. Smith, The Constitution and the Pride of Reason, New York:
    Oxford University Press, 1998.
    
    Jeanette Steemers, ed, Changing Channels: The Prospects for Television
    in a Digital World, Luton, UK: University of Luton Press, 1998.
    
    Marilyn Strathern, After Nature: English Kinship in the Late Twentieth
    Century, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
    
    # T
    
    Timothy D. Taylor, Strange Sounds: Music, Technology and Culture, New
    York: Routledge, 2001.
    
    Sylvia Noble Tesh, Uncertain Hazards: Environmental Activists and
    Scientific Proof, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000.
    
    Charles Tilly, From Mobilization to Revolution, Reading, MA:
    Addison-Wesley, 1978.
    
    Yun Lee Too and Niall Livingstone, eds, Pedagogy and Power: Rhetorics
    of Classical Learning, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
    
    William Twining, Globalisation and Legal Theory, London: Butterworths,
    2000.
    
    # U
    
    # V
    
    Jan W. van Deth, Marco Maraffi, Ken Newton and Paul F. Whiteley, eds
    Social Capital and European Democracy, London: Routledge, 1999.
    
    Joseph Vining, The Authoritative and the Authoritarian, Chicago:
    University of Chicago Press, 1986.
    
    # W
    
    Ted Wachtel, The Electronic Congress: A Blueprint for Participatory
    Democracy, Pipersville, PA: Piper's Press, 1992.
    
    Eugen Weber, Peasants Into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural
    France, 1870-1914, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1976.
    
    James V. Wertsch, Mind As Action, New York: Oxford University Press,
    1998.
    
    J. MacGregor Wise, Exploring Technology and Social Space, Sage, 1997.
    
    John P. Wright and Paul Potter, eds, Psyche and Soma: Physicians and
    Metaphysicians on the Mind-Body Problem From Antiquity to Enlightenment,
    Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
    
    # X
    
    # Y
    
    Bernard Yack, The Longing for Total Revolution: Philosophic Sources
    of Social Discontent From Rousseau to Marx and Nietzsche, Princeton:
    Princeton University Press, 1986.
    
    # Z
    
    Mayer N. Zald and John D. McCarthy, eds, Social Movements in
    an Organizational Society: Collected Essays, New Brunswick, NJ:
    Transaction, 1987.
    
    Eviatar Zerubavel, Social Mindscapes: An Invitation to Cognitive
    Sociology, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.
    
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