Danielle S. Allen Livres

From a leading political thinker, this book is both an invaluable playbook for meeting our current moment and a stirring reflection on the future of democracy itself.

"'Don't talk to strangers' is the advice parents of all classes and races give to their children. Today that advice has evolved into a fundamental precept of civic education, reflecting interracial distrust, personal and political alienation, and a profound distrust of others. Danielle S. Allen takes this maxim back to Little Rock, rooting out the seeds of distrust to replace them with "a citizenship of political friendship." Returning to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, Allen argues that we have yet to complete the transition to political friendship that this moment offered. By combining brief readings of philosophers and political theorists with personal reflections on race politics in Chicago, Allen proposes strikingly practical techniques of citizenship--tools that can help us become more trustworthy to others and overcome the fossilized distrust among us. According to Allen, the key concept that bridges citizenship and trust is sacrifice. She uncovers the ordinary, daily sacrifices citizens make to keep democracy working--and offers methods for recognizing and reciprocating those sacrifices."--Page 4 of cover

Punishment in ancient Athens served as a lens through which to explore the city's core democratic values, as highlighted by Danielle Allen. Through detailed cultural context, she illustrates how various forms of punishment sparked discussions on justice among citizens and leaders alike. Rather than a shift towards rationality, Athenian law was deeply intertwined with emotions like anger and honor, reflecting a complex interplay between societal roles—including those of women and slaves—in maintaining social harmony. This work challenges conventional views on the evolution of legal processes in democracy.

This book features Danielle Allen’s 2014 Tanner Lectures, delivered at Stanford University, along with comments from four distinguished contributors—Harvard philosopher Tommie Shelby; education and globalization scholar Marcelo Suárez-Orozco (UCLA); Michael Rebell, executive director of the Campaign for Educational Equity at Teachers College, Columbia; and Pulitzer-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes—along with Allen’s response to the commentaries. Why it is so hard to think about education and equality in relation to each other? Allen asks. For all of our talk about the two, we don’t actually talk much about how education itself relates to equality, regardless of whether the equality we have in mind is human, political, or social, or connected to economic fairness. The basic problem that motivates these lectures, then, is the following: Allen thinks that education itself—a practice of human development—has important contributions to make to the defense of human equality, the cultivation of political and social equality, and the emergence of fair economic orders. But she thinks we have lost sight of just how education relates to those egalitarian concerns. If we are to do right by the students we purport to educate, in whatever context and at whatever level, we need to recover that vision. Allen’s goal, therefore, is to recover our understanding of just how education and equality are intrinsically connected to each other.

In "Why Plato Wrote," Danielle Allen argues that Plato aimed to transform Athenian culture and politics through his writings. She presents him as the first systematic political philosopher and a pioneering activist, offering insights into his philosophy of language and political theory. Recognized as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2011.

Coetzee, Winner of the Man Booker Prize and the Nobel Prize in LiteratureAged 15 and living in LA, Michael Allen was arrested for a botched carjacking.

"Danielle Allen revisits Rawls' landmark A Theory of Justice to make the case that justice, which she defines as the necessary conditions for human flourishing, requires the protection of political equality or the ability of all people who wish to participate in the political process, to do so on an equal footing. She argues that Rawls, and other thinkers in his wake who focused on protection of individuals from intrusion of the state, as well as many economists with their focus on utilitarian approaches to public policy, have neglected political equality which has led to the denial of justice to many in our society. At a time when economic and political inequality have increased dramatically, and political inequality is threatened by efforts to limit the ability of many to engage in the most basic political right, voting, this book could not be timelier. This book builds on Allen's Berlin Lectures on COVID that we just published in arguing that policymaking fails when it excludes whole communities from participation in the political process. This manuscript is based on the Berlin Lectures that Allen originally intended to deliver in 2020. Allen substituted the lectures on policymaking for COVID given the urgency of the pandemic"-- Provided by publisher

Aaliyah is determined to celebrate her thirtieth birthday with a boyfriend. And after a failed blind date, the local bartender, Ahmad, suggests she joins a dating app. Filled with lies, catfish, and fetishizing, the wild world of online dating makes Aaliyah think she’s in over her head. And she is. But with her two best friends and a protective bartender by her side, what could go wrong? Everything. Everything could go wrong. And that’s the problem. Because as Aaliyah is set on finding exactly what she’s looking for, she ends up finding something she never expects.

Wer hat Macht und aufgrund welcher institutionellen Strukturen, Ressourcen und Möglichkeiten? Kann es sein, dass wir in den letzten Jahrzehnten im Schatten eines abstrakten liberalen Gleichheitsideals verlernt haben, die konkreten Machtverhältnisse und Ungleichheiten unserer Gesellschaften zu sehen – und uns die neuen ökonomischen Verwerfungen und rechtspopulistischen Mobilisierungen deshalb relativ unvorbereitet trafen? Ja, sagt Danielle Allen, und entwickelt in ihrem Buch ein neues Verständnis politischer Gleichheit für Gesellschaften großer sozialer und kultureller Vielfalt.