Tuesday, May 21, 2013
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| Thank you for your patience while we collect our thoughts to prepare an essay on this topic. While you wait, here is a sneak preview of reference material that will be incorporated into the coming essay: Thomas Naylor and William Willimon have collaborated on a number of books, including Downsizing the U.S.A. (Eerdmans, 1997), The Abandoned Generation: Rethinking Higher Education (Eerdmans, 1995), The Search for Meaning (Abingdon, 1994), and The Search for Meaning in the Workplace (Abingdon, 1996). E. F. Schumacher's Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (HarperCollins, 1973) contains a number of essays that address the question of scale. Leopold Kohr is cited by Thomas Naylor as a seminal thinker on matters of national and social scale. His books, The Breakdown of Nations (Rinehart, 1957) and The Overdeveloped Nations: The Diseconomies of Scale (Schocken, 1978) are available in many libraries. Recent periodical articles on current secession movements include: Chip Brown, "Escape from New York" (The New York Times Magazine, January 30, 1994, p. 20ff.), on the efforts of Staten Islanders to secede from the Big Apple; "The New Civil Wars: Secession in the 1990s" (American Demographics, March 1992, pp. 9f.); Christopher H. Wellman, "A Defense of Secession and Political Self-determination" (Philosophy and Public Affairs, Spring 1995, pp. 142ff.); David Gauthier, "Breaking Up: An Essay on Secession" (Canadian Journal of Philosophy, December 1994, pp. 773ff.); and Allen Buchanan, "Theories of Secession" (Philosophy and Public Affairs, Winter 1997, pp. 31ff.). [Posted November 2001, ALG] | Thomas H. Naylor, on the Babelesque dangers of giantism (MARS HILL AUDIO Journal, Sept./Oct. 1997) MHT-28.1.4 |