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The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy [Englisch] [Taschenbuch]

Thomas Sowell
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  • Taschenbuch: 320 Seiten
  • Verlag: Basic Books (31. August 1996)
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN-10: 046508995X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0465089956
  • Größe und/oder Gewicht: 20,4 x 13,5 x 2,2 cm
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  • Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 334.671 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Ever the contrarian, this time Sowell targets the rhetorical methods liberals use to support their views of social issues. Usually, they frame a crisis to which the well-educated, articulate liberal, ruthlessly disparaged by Sowell as the "anointed," offers a categorical solution. To reach the solution, the liberal resorts to argumentative means that Sowell regards as fallacious. Examples he cites are the "Aha!" statistic in which condition A (say, infant mortality) is claimed to have cause B (inadequate budgets for prenatal care); or the assertion of a policy preference as a right, which is how a federal judge ordered a public library to allow an odoriferous, boisterous vagrant to roam the stacks--so that he could exercise his "right to receive ideas." These means defend a worldview of perfectible man that Sowell contrasts with the "tragic" view, stemming from human fallibility. Sowell's targets will find his criticisms irksome, if even worthy of their notice, but avid conservatives, for whom Sowell is a true-blue intellectual force, will certainly seize upon his analysis for succor. Gilbert Taylor -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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Sowell presents a devastating critique of the mind-set behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years. Sowell sees what has happened during that time not as a series of isolated mistakes but as a logical consequence of a tainted vision whose defects have led to crises in education, crime, and family dynamics, and to other social pathologies. In this book, he describes how elitesthe anointedhave replaced facts and rational thinking with rhetorical assertions, thereby altering the course of our social policy.

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Not Sowell's Best Work 19. Juli 2000
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The book started out very good, it provided thought provoking ideas backed up with logical evidence as Sowell's books normally do. The remainder of the book which was precisely the next two-thirds, however, could have been done in fifty pages as opposed to the painfully repetitive one hundred-ninety or so that it took.

He took a few ideas and repeated them over and beat them to death until, in the end, he told the same stories a dozen different ways.

The message he provides in this book is very valuable and it is good information. I have read numerous other Sowell books and find them very valuable. However, the style in which this was written was too repetitive and the message could have been delivered in less than half the pages.

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Dr. Sowell uses erudition and brute logic to expose the sophistry and moral bankruptcy of liberalism. The first three chapters in which he sets forth just what the "vision of the annointed is," along with just what constitutes being "rich" or "poor" provide a powerful discrediting of the basic tenets of leftists. He is at his best, however, when he unmasks the intellectually dishonest way in which statists, povertarians, and others who have a vested interest in perpetuating "the vision of the annointed" utilize statistics to further their agenda.

This book should be must reading for every college student and anyone else interested in the future of America. A truly outstanding read!

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This book belongs with Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom" in its timelessness. Sowell put together another masterpiece of incredible scholarship. Behind the title of the book is its premise that failed liberal policy is a result from a fallacious implicit worldview that the left wing holds, namely, that They are the Annointed, send from God to save us all.

He presents this premise by showing self-congratulation at the end of numerous failed social policies (this book reads not only as good nonfiction but as an excellent source of statistical information!). Sowell uses quotes from before and after each liberal fiasco, and finishes his analysis by presenting an alternate Vision, the "tragic vision."

As much as I like Sowell, his tragic vision (based on a very dim view of human nature) conceeds the moral, idealistic argument to the left, as every conservative has done for decades. Still, his biting criticism of the left is necessary reading for any freedom advocate. Buy it now.

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Half Right
Thomas Sowell does a credible and thorough job demolishing any pretense the left may have that the War on Poverty has been anything but a dismal, expensive, counterproductive... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 16. Juni 2000 von Steve Chmielewski
An outstanding interpretation of a discredited agenda
In his book, Mr. Sowell pierces many of the myths that surround the liberal agenda. His conclusion is that activists, who wield a wisdom grounded in theory but not real-life... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 2. Mai 2000 von Todd Winer
It's very nice to read such a logical book.
Thomas Sowell is part conservative, and part libertarian. Being that I am fully libertarian, I tend to agree with most of his ideas, expecially those regarding economic issues. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 12. April 2000 von grundle2600
Standard Sowell Fare = Exc.; But Not Best @ Orginization
Knowledge and Decisions, Dr. Sowell's magnum opus which is one of my top 3 all time life-changers, does contain most of the principles of all of his later writings that I've seen. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 26. Januar 2000 von Chymke
Self-righteousness not uniquely "liberal"
Viewed as a satire on "progressives", this book is often painfully accurate and sometimes very funny. But Tom Wolfe has done it better. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 21. Januar 2000 von Gareth Morley
A Delightful Dethroning of our Saviors (a/k/a the Anointed)
Sowell must have written this book with tongue in cheek. Of course, the subject matter is perfectly serious. Lesen Sie weiter...
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Essential reading in American political philosophy
This book concerns the 200-year struggle between the two opposing political philosophies in America, which Sowell calls the "Vision of the Annointed" and the "Tragic... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 2. Januar 2000 von E. M. Bram
One of my all-time favorites
What Sowell does is take left-wing dogma and dissect it. He shows how it is driven by emotion rather than reason. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 14. Dezember 1999 von Arnold Kling
Very insightful
I found this book very insightful in the respect of clarifying what the driving force is behind our suicidal society. I found Mr. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 6. November 1999 von Christopher Kann
An excellent analysis of public policy
I find this book very useful in classroom discussion. Sowell has hit the nail on the head. One of the most important contributions of the decade.
Veröffentlicht am 29. September 1999 von osorno7@rdc.cl
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