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Virtuous Calamity
"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised," Apsley Cherry-Garrard wrote in his classic account of mind-boggling suffering in Antarctica The Worst Journey in the World. The journey in question--in which Cherry-Garrard in the company of two colleagues made a near-disastrous midwinter trek to Cape Crozier seeking, of all things, emperor penguin eggs--was an absurdist little sidebar to Robert Falcon Scott's more wholly disastrous trip to the South Pole on that same British expedition to the continent in 1912. Cherry-Garrard's title, however, might have just as conveniently been appropriated for every one of the dozens of books that have been written down through the years on the always harrowing exploration of the brutally inhospitable icebound continent at the bottom of the world, and the past year has seen a fresh round of reissues, new assessments, novels, and general interest in the continent itself, as well as in what was called by the British popular press in the years before World War I "the Golden Age of exploration."
This most recent glut of books has no doubt been spurred by the huge and frightening success of more contemporary accounts of adventure disaster (the Into Thin Air phenomenon) and the new cult of radical travel experience championed by Outside magazine. A decade or so after Minnesota's Will Steger trekked to the North Pole, a hundred imitators seek lucrative Gore-Tex endorsements to achieve heretofore unimagined feats--speed-skating the Bering Strait, perhaps--and desk jockeys across the Western world pay good money to have their lives imperiled alongside grizzled pros. (The entire trend was given the perfect tag in a New York Times Magazine article last summer: "Explornography.") Thomas Orde-Lees, a member of Ernest Shackleton's expedition on board the Endurance, demonstrated a shrewd understanding of the genre and its appeal in a journal entry he wrote in 1916 while marooned and waiting for rescue on Elephant Island. "If we had everything we wanted we should have no privations to write about and that would be a serious loss to the 'book,'" he wrote. "Privations make a book sell like anything."
The literature of Antarctica represents a unique body of work even when measured against the wildest standards of true adventure reporting, and the men who made the discovery and exploration of the last continent their life's obsession are a decidedly odd and fascinating lot. Beginning in the 19th century, each subsequent foray into the ice-packed waters south of the Antarctic circle represented a new round of limbo, with the challenge "How low can you go?" taken to ever further extremes--geographical, physiological, psychological, and purely existential.
Even if one ultimately recoils from the relentlessly grim and almost inexplicable suffering these characters withstood, there is no denying the continued fascination such accounts hold for the moribund and morbid popular imagination: Who hasn't at one time or another, while camped out on a couch in the middle of yet another interminable winter, cold panic straining at the roof of his skull, imagined his tedium as a barren continent all his own? Surely it's not difficult to find some grudging admiration for a bunch of obviously repressed, stoic characters who were willing to travel to the bottom of the earth in search of some appropriate and challenging metaphor for their own loneliness, trudging across the ice looking for a pathetic fallacy that less ambitious folks can generally find without too much trouble in their own backyards.
Consider this puzzling letter Edward Wilson, who died with Scott in Antarctica, penned to his wife to justify his trip south: "I am getting more and more soft and dependent upon comforts, and this I hate," Wilson wrote. "I want to endure hardship and instead I enjoy hotel dinners and prefer hot water to cold and so on--all bad signs and something must be done to stop it." What manner of man is this? Who doesn't enjoy hotel dinners and prefer hot water to cold? Still, bully for him, I suppose, but pity his poor wife, because you can rest assured that Wilson got all the hardship he could weather and then some on his fateful journey with Scott.
Survival in Antarctica, one may safely assume from all published accounts, boils down to pure sublimation; you hunker down and you hope only to survive. You keep moving and you endure, and in the process maybe you manage to lug home a few rocks and just possibly locate your own huge and howling emptiness in a real and tediously engaging place outside yourself.
Nobody personifies the harsh realities of Antarctica more than Robert Falcon Smith, the doomed, sad-sack British explorer who along with two colleagues died in his tent on a miserable march back from the South Pole in 1912. Scott had made the quest for the pole his life's ambition, and had undertaken an earlier failed attempt in 1902, struggling to 82.28 degrees south--at that time the farthest south yet attained--before turning back. But in 1912 he had competition; Norwegian Roald Amundsen and a team were staging their own assault on the pole at precisely the same time, and the race was on.
Scott's failures in Antarctica are the stuff of legend--contradictory legends, in fact. His demise, beautifully and nobly chronicled in his journal right up to the point of his death, captured the popular imagination of a pre-Great War British Empire starving for heroes, and his widow, with the full cooperation of the British press, carefully orchestrated a campaign to secure his reputation. Yet his expeditions have been dogged by persistent and largely justified claims of wholesale bungling and mismanagement. He was certainly among the most ill-prepared and temperamentally unsuited Antarctic explorers.
In A First Rate Tragedy: Robert Falcon Scott and the Race to the Pole (Houghton Mifflin), Diana Preston sets out to salvage Scott's reputation from the fierce and almost meticulous thrashing it took in Roland Huntford's 1980 account, Scott and Amundsen. It is largely a failed attempt (which seems somehow appropriate to the topic), and there is little in Preston's book that has not been told exhaustively elsewhere. Even so, it is hard not to feel some measure of sympathy for a man who was so clearly in over his head, and even more keenly does one feel for his stalwart and grimly resolved cohorts.
The mistakes of Scott's last expedition were many, and though Preston gives them full play, she is at a loss to justify or defend most of them. Scott's clothing and diet were inadequate; he favored "more civilized garb," while his rival Amundsen appropriated the more effective Eskimo fur clothing. He failed even to attempt to master skiing or dog-sledding techniques, forsaking dogs and skis in favor of ponies that would eventually have to be shot, and the more debilitating (but "honorable") practice of "man hauling" his sleds across the ice. At the last moment, he chose to take four men with him on the push to the pole, when only three had been provisioned for. He kept erratic schedules on the ice, and drove his malnourished men too hard. The diaries of others on his team portray a man who was neither well-liked nor entirely trusted, a fussy worrywart who lacked the unshakable confidence and optimism of a truly great leader. Scott never quite managed to understand what his rival Amundsen so clearly grasped: "Adventure was just bad planning." Huntford found in Scott's ennobled failure nothing but "heroism for heroism's sake," the sort of absurdist glory that fed the public's weakness for "virtuous calamity."
As Scott and his exhausted men marched to within a few miles of the South Pole, they stumbled upon footprints, dog shit, and a black flag left by Amundsen to let the British know that the race had already been won. It is one of the saddest moments in all of exploration literature. Dispirited, Scott continued on to the pole and discovered the Norwegian flag flying over the tent left by Amundsen's party on their departure. Amundsen, breezing along with the rest of his crew on skis behind well-conditioned dogs, had beaten them by 33 days. Huntford notes that Amundsen documented his arrival in his typically terse style: The occasion, he wrote, would "certainly be remembered by all who were there. One soon gets out of the habit of protracted ceremonies in these regions--the shorter the better. Workaday resumed immediately." For his part, Scott wrote, "Great God! This is an awful place and terrible enough for us to have laboured to it without the reward of priority....Now for the run home and a desperate struggle. I wonder if we can do it."
They could not, of course, and the rest, as recounted in A First Rate Tragedy and Scott's own journals (reissued in 1996 as Scott's Last Expedition by Carroll & Graf), is a miserable tale. "Well," Scott wrote on departing the pole, "we have turned our back now on the goal of our ambition and must face our 800 miles of solid dragging--and goodbye to most of the day-dreams!"
The date was January 18, 1912, and by the first week of March, Scott reported that things were "going from bad to worse." One of his men, Edgar Evans, had collapsed and died on February 17, and the rest of the party were in serious decline. On March 14 Titus Oates, who had been crippled by frostbitten feet, left the tent and apparently walked away to his death. Finally, on March 29, the remaining three members of the pole party were pinned down in their tent by a blizzard, and Scott recorded his last journal entry: "It seems a pity but I do not think I can write more." In a farewell letter addressed "To My Widow," he wrote, in words that recall Edward Wilson's pre-expedition letter to his own wife, "What lots and lots I could tell you of this journey. How much better it has been than lounging in too great comfort at home." Pathetically, he concluded, "I wasn't a very good husband but I hope I shall be a good memory." And in his legendary "Message to the Public," Scott wrote the words that were to cement his immortality: "Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale...."
Ernest Shackleton's own ill-fated Endurance expedition, undertaken in 1914 just as World War I was breaking out in Europe, represents one of the most extraordinary good luck/bad luck sagas you're ever likely to hear, and though it has been the inspiration for any number of excellent books, the tale receives its most complete and wholly satisfying treatment yet in Caroline Alexander's astonishing new book, The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition. Alexander does a fine job of piecing together Shackleton's story from the journals and papers of the men involved, and her book is a triumph of research and presentation, the whole thing made all the more gripping by the inclusion of Frank Hurley's grim, haunting, and frequently beautiful expedition photographs.
Shackleton was a veteran of two previous Antarctic expeditions, including Scott's failed first assault on the pole, during which the two men had a falling-out that was to dog and drive both of them for the remainder of their careers. Later, in 1909, Shackleton, along with three companions, had struggled to within 100 miles of the pole before turning back, weary and undersupplied, a difficult but characteristically prudent decision that prompted his famous words: "Better a live donkey than a dead lion."
Shackleton was a savvy and charismatic self-promoter, and by 1913 he was a married man with a family. He had tried his hand and failed at the more prosaic pursuits of business and journalism. Absent any other prospects, he authored a best-selling book on his expedition, hit the lecture circuit, and, with the pole now conquered, devoted himself to raising funds for another expedition south, this one with the purpose of making the first trans-Antarctic crossing. Later in his life he was to write in a letter to his beleaguered wife, "Sometimes I think I am no good at anything but being away in the wilds just with men."
Sailing from South Georgia, Shackleton's custom-built Endurance, with 69 dogs and 28 crewmen aboard, entered the pack ice in the Weddell Sea on December 7, 1914, just two days after departure. By mid-January the ship was stuck in the ice 100 miles short of its intended harbor, and began drifting back north, ever farther from Antarctica. The crew spent 10 months aboard the ship, trapped in the ice. "The idea of spending the winter in an icebound ship is extremely unpleasant," expedition photographer Frank Hurley wrote, displaying the almost comical understatement characteristic of so many of the men's journals. Eventually, on October 27, 1915, Shackleton gave the order to abandon ship, and the group set up camp on an ice floe and watched their vessel sink.
For over five months, they marched and camped on the moving ice, hauling with them their three boats and all the provisions they could pile on their sleds, all the while drifting with the floes back out to sea. The dogs, who had each been paid for by schoolchildren throughout England, were shot and butchered for pemmican. The men, wet, cold, and miserable, were eventually reduced to slaughtering seals and penguins for food and fuel.
Although no explicit details ever emerge, Alexander suggests that Shackleton's optimism began to wear on the crew, and hints at discord among the ship's sailors, none of whom were ever intended to be a part of the expedition's landing party. "From other accounts one gleans suggestions that [the sailors] were both more despondent and troublesome than was ever directly stated," Alexander writes. One of the difficulties of such books is that the officers and scientific staffs of these expeditions were often dry and less than candid diarists, and were generally loath to air any sort of dirty laundry that might provide a whiff of mutiny at some point down the road; and none of the sailors left any kind of record. Thus the reconstruction of events often involves a lot of hypothesizing on the part of both reader and writer.
It is difficult, however, to imagine a man of Scott's formal bearing holding up under similar circumstances; he had been a naval man who always maintained an enforced and prideful distance from his men. Shackleton was from a merchant marine background, and mixed easily with all of his crew; he was if anything overconscientious in ensuring that the sailors got a fair shake, going out of his way to issue them the warmest gear and most generous rations. Despite intimations that there may have been larger discontent among the party than was ever acknowledged in the official record, Shackleton did succeed in keeping his men together throughout the ordeal.
On April 9, 1916 more than five months after abandoning the Endurance, the ice began to break up beneath their camp, and Shackleton ordered the three boats loaded for a desperate attempt at the closest land. For seven days the men navigated through the floes and brash, trying to make their way to Elephant Island, an uninhabited scrap of rock that would provide them with shelter but no hope of ever being found. The last four nights, the men had to sleep in the open boats, frozen, seasick, and surrounded by killer whales. On the fourth night, they attempted a landing on the island but were forced by a raging storm to abort. The men were wet, many had not slept in days, and they sat up all night bailing and trying to hold on. "It was a stern night," Shackleton wrote in his journal.
The next morning they finally managed to dock on the island, and the men tumbled ashore in varying states of shock and debilitation. "Many suffered from temporary aberration," Frank Hurley reported, but offered no further details. J.M. Wordie, the expedition glaciologist, was more specific: "Some fellows moreover were half crazy," he reported. "One got an axe and did not stop until he had killed about ten seals."
The men were forced to establish their camp directly atop a reeking penguin rookery and they were immediately assaulted by a storm that drove them to their tents. Shackleton reports in his own memoir, South (reissued in 1998 by Carroll & Graf), that on the morning of April 19, with a storm still raging, "Some of the men were showing signs of demoralization. They were disinclined to leave their tents when the hour came for turning out, and it was apparent they were thinking more of the discomforts of the moment than of the good fortune that had brought us to sound ground and comparative safety....They said they wanted dry clothes and that their health did not admit of their doing any work. Only by rather drastic measures were they induced to turn to." Alexander, noting this interesting item in the memoirs, comments, "The diaries leave one with a sense that all the facts have not been plainly spoken."
Within days Shackleton announced to his men that he intended to strike out with five others in the James Caird, a 2212-foot open boat, for the whaling station at South Georgia Island, some 800 miles away. This proposed trip would take them across the roughest winter seas in the world, where the winds commonly topped 80 miles per hour and the waves could be as high as 60 feet. No one, of course, believed such a feat was possible. They would be shooting for a tiny island, with limited opportunities for navigational sightings, and with virtually no margin for error; if they missed South Georgia they would be swept out into 3000 miles of ocean. They were attempting the equivalent of trying to hit a quarter with a golf ball from 400 yards out.
Shackleton launched the Caird on April 24. He took with him Frank Worsley, the captain of the Endurance, plus two of his sturdiest and most trusted men and the two men he feared would be most likely to stir up trouble if left behind on Elephant Island. The men sailed for 16 days; the skies were mostly overcast, and Worsley had an almost impossible time getting precise navigational observations in the rolling boat. Yet on May 10, after 48 hours without fresh water, they managed, miraculously, in the middle of a hurricane, to land the James Caird on South Georgia. They were, unfortunately, on the opposite side of the island from the Norwegian whaling station, and to get to the station Shackleton and two of his men had to climb over a previously uncrossed and uncharted range of mountains, a feat they managed in 36 hours of continuous marching and climbing; three times they had to retrace their steps after scaling unbreachable passes.
Three days after arriving at the Norwegian station and arranging the rescue of the remaining three men on the other side of the island, Shackleton was on board a borrowed Norwegian ship and headed back to Elephant Island. His first attempt would be turned back by the ice, as were two subsequent attempts in two different boats. Finally, aboard the Chilean Yelcho, on August 30, 1916, Shackleton completed the rescue of the remaining 22 men on Elephant Island. Not a single man was lost. It had been more than 600 days since the Endurance had left South Georgia and headed into the pack ice. In Punta Arenas, Chile, Shackleton dashed off a letter to his wife: "I have done it," he wrote. "Not a life lost and we have been through hell."
For a brief period of hard-earned grace Shackleton was Job triumphant, but he would return to an England preoccupied with the carnage of World War I, and his astonishing tale was largely met with indifference. He allegedly began to drink heavily, and in 1921 he was to stage one last aimless cruise into Southern waters, accompanied by eight members of his old Endurance crew. It was there in South Georgia that he suffered a massive heart attack and died at the age of 47. At his widow's request, he was buried in South Georgia among the Norwegian whalers.
By the time John Behrendt headed to Antarctica in 1956 as part of the United States presence for the International Geophysical Year (IGY), huge changes had come to the continent, and the massive IGY presence during that 18-month period (from July 1, 1957 until December 31, 1958, 12 countries established and maintained more than 40 Antarctic stations) was the harbinger of even bigger changes to come. Behrendt was a 24-year-old assistant seismologist assigned to the IGY glaciological program operating out of the recently established Ellsworth Station along the Weddell Sea, and he recounts his experiences in Innocents on the Ice: A Memoir of Antarctic Exploration, 1957 (University Press of Colorado).
At the time, the U.S. presence on the continent was run by the Navy, and the nine-man IGY scientific staff spent much of the 1957 Antarctic winter butting heads with Capt. Finn Ronne, the naval officer in charge of the station. Ronne was the only man among the 39 at Ellsworth that season who had had any previous Antarctic experience, and Behrendt portrays him as a rigid and often highly irrational man whose "Navy ways" and insistence on strict adherence to military discipline and protocol confused and infuriated the scientific staff. Behrendt's account, which is basically his journal from the period fleshed out with additional historical perspective and commentary, is an often informative and curious look at Antarctica's first days as a world laboratory of grunt science.
By the time of the IGY, the men who journeyed to Antarctica--and they were still all men--were far more likely to be scientists or military personnel than explorers in the traditional "Golden Age" sense of the term. While Behrendt and some of his colleagues did undertake a 1,200-mile over-snow traverse into territory that was largely uncharted and even unvisited, they traveled and lived in large heated Sno-Cats, enjoyed regular air support and communication, and spent much of their time poking around in the ice and making seismic readings of its depth. Behrendt's account of life at the station, with its parties, bridge games, classical music classes, and regular film screenings (Dial M for Murder and Julius Caesar, among others), makes the chronicles of the earlier expeditions seem all the more harrowing. And given Antarctica's then-designation as a hardship military post, the men stationed there got to do some serious eating as well. By the end of the book, poor Capt. Ronne seems like little more than a grumpy old man.
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of Innocents on the Ice is the appearance, at the conclusion of Behrendt's stay at Ellsworth, of naval psychiatrists. Along with the others at Ellsworth, Behrendt submitted to a series of interviews. "The questions were quite interesting and I enjoyed answering them," he writes, although he does admit that "during the interview, I refused to discuss masturbation...." Which is something of a disappointment, it has to be admitted; throughout all these accounts and journals of long travels and privation in Antarctica, not once does a single reference to sex make even a veiled appearance. Certainly one must wonder.
The psychiatrists, Behrendt reports, later published a paper on their findings and conclusions, which noted, "As might be expected 'oral needs' were enhanced because of the absence of other basic gratifications. Appetite and consumption were enormous." There is one particularly interesting passage in the report that manages to recall the strange, earlier remarks of Edward Wilson and Robert Falcon Scott: "One curious source of disappointment and disillusionment that affected an appreciable number of the younger or romantically inclined members," the psychiatrists wrote, "was the relative luxury of the living conditions and the comparative absence of excitement, danger and real hardship. This spoiled the whole adventure for them."
The job of filling in the gaping cracks in the written history of polar exploration and exploitation must ultimately fall to the novelists, who are free to imagine all the fierce and unacknowledged lusts and ambitions of the adventurers who voyage into the ice at the top and bottom of the world. It is these writers who can fully explore motives, qualifications, and decisions--free, finally, to acknowledge the fact that while there was undoubtedly something missing from the lives of these men, it almost certainly wasn't a continent.
Kim Stanley Robinson's Antarctica (Bantam) is set sometime after the turn of the 21st century, when guides are leading groups of adventure tourists onto the continent to retrace the great and often tragic expeditions of the past, pirate geologists are beginning to root around beneath the surface for oil, squatters are building secret encampments out in the ice, and a band of ecoterrorists is sabotaging the work of oil researchers and geologists. The number of people on the continent is beginning to pose a threat to the fragile ecosystem, and every official presence there seems to have an agenda, what with the Antarctic Treaty set to expire.
Interwoven with all these strands, which Robinson does a credible job of handling, are recurring discussions and examinations of Antarctica's most famous expeditions. Val, a guide for the aforementioned adventure nostalgia company, has come to disdain her wealthy clients and has grown weary of all the aggrandizing of dead explorers. She realizes that her clients on the "Footsteps of Amundsen" expedition are little more than "people going out ill-prepared to repeat the earlier expeditions of people who had gone out ill-prepared, and thinking therefore that you were doing something difficult and courageous, when it was simply stupid, that was all. Dangerous, yes. Courageous, no. Because there was no correlation between suffering and virtue."
She ultimately reaches a conclusion that one must suspect was shared, but never acknowledged, by men like Scott and Shackleton: "The world was stuffed with things harder than walking in Antarctica....The whole game of adventure travel was essentially an escape from the hard things." Robinson's novel is an ambitious and cautionary book, and also serves as an excellent and comprehensive primer in the history of Antarctic history, exploration, and geology.
Andrea Barrett stages The Voyage of the Narwhal (Norton) aboard a ship trapped in the ice at the opposite end of the world from Antarctica, but her book does a commendable job of bringing to light all the unspoken secrets and psychological dramas that one senses creeping underneath all the nonfiction accounts of Antarctic exploration. The Narwhal's catastrophic expedition presents many of the conflicts and complications that we know or at least may reasonably suspect were features of the tragic southern treks: ugly, uncertain ambition; personality clashes and complete loss of privacy; terrible hardship; scientific goals subordinated to the egos and ambitions of expedition leaders; the strain and impossible challenge of men forced to live in close quarters with other men, many of whose company they've been raised to shun. And against these terrible circumstances, she gives us convincing and human responses from the disparate but equally beleaguered crew of the doomed ship.
"What is it you want?" naturalist Erasmus Wells demands of expedition leader Zeke Voorhees late in the Narwhal's journey.
"I want my name on something," Voorhees replies, "...something big--is that so hard to understand? I want my name on the map."
Ultimately, however, the most damning words in The Voyage of the Narwhal are those from Thoreau's Walden that Dr. Jan Boerhaave scrawls in the journal left behind after his death on the ice: "What was the meaning of that South-Sea Exploring Expedition, with all its parade and expense, but an indirect recognition of the fact that there are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or an inlet, yet unexplored by him; that it is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in a government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific ocean of one's being alone."
Finally, there is no getting around the fact that all these men who muddled around at the ends of the earth were, at the least, masters of the most challenging sort of sublimation. And masters perhaps of nothing but that.
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Andrews, George E., 1938-
Ramanujan's lost notebook.
New York ; London : Springer, 2005-
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|Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar; Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar
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|Introduction --
Ranks and Cranks, Part I --
Ranks and Cranks, Part II --
Ranks and Cranks, Part III --
Ramanujan's Unpublished Manuscript on the Partition and Tau Functions --
Theorems about the Partition Function on Pages 189 and 182 --
Congruences for Generalized Tau Functions on Page 178 --
Ramanujan's Forty Identities for the Rogers-Ramanujan Functions --
Circular Summation --
Highly Composite Numbers.
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In the spring of 1976, George Andrews of Pennsylvania State University visited the library at Trinity College, Cambridge to examine the papers of the late G.N. Watson. Among these papers, Andrews discovered a sheaf of 138 pages in the handwriting of Srinivasa Ramanujan. This manuscript was soon designated, "Ramanujan's lost notebook." Its discovery has frequently been deemed the mathematical equivalent of finding Beethoven's tenth symphony. This volume is the third of five volumes that the authors plan to write on Ramanujans lost notebook and other manuscripts and fragments found in The Lost Notebook and Other Unpublished Papers, published by Narosa in 1988. The ordinary partition function p(n) is the focus of this third volume. In particular, ranks, cranks, and congruences for p(n) are in the spotlight. Other topics include the Ramanujan tau-function, the Rogers-Ramanujan functions, highly composite numbers, and sums of powers of theta functions. Review from the second volume: "Fans of Ramanujan's mathematics are sure to be delighted by this book. While some of the content is taken directly from published papers, most chapters contain new material and some previously published proofs have been improved. Many entries are just begging for further study and will undoubtedly be inspiring research for decades to come. The next installment in this series is eagerly awaited."--MathSciNet. Review from the first volume: "Andrews and Berndt are to be congratulated on the job they are doing. This is the first step ... on the way to an understanding of the work of the genius Ramanujan. It should act as an inspiration to future generations of mathematicians to tackle a job that will never be complete."--Gazette of the Australian Mathematical Society.
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A compelling and deeply felt exploration and defense of liberalism: what it actually is, why it is relevant today, and how it can help our society chart a forward course.
The Future of Liberalism represents the culmination of four decades of thinking and writing about contemporary politics by Alan Wolfe, one of America's leading scholars, hailed by one critic as "one of liberalism's last and most loyal sons." Wolfe mines the bedrock of the liberal tradition, explaining how Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, John Dewey, and other celebrated minds helped shape liberalism's central philosophy. Wolfe also examines those who have challenged liberalism since its inception, from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to modern conservatives, religious fundamentalists, and evolutionary theorists such as Richard Dawkins.
Drawing on both the inspiration and insights of seminal works such as John Locke's Second Treatise on Government, Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments, Kant's essay "What is Enlightenment?," and Mill's On Liberty and The Subjection of Women, Wolfe ambitiously sets out to define what it truly means to be a liberal. He analyzes and applauds liberalism's capacious conception of human nature, belief that people outweigh ideology, passion for social justice, faith in reason and intellectual openness, and respect for individualism. And we see how the liberal tradition can influence and illuminate contemporary debates on immigration, abortion, executive power, religious freedom, and free speech.
But Wolfe also makes it clear that before liberalism can be successfully applied to today's problems, it needs to be recovered, understood, and embraced—not just by Americans but by all modern people—as the most beneficial way to live in our complex modern world. The Future of Liberalism is a crucial, enlightening, and immensely rewarding step in that direction.
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With one eye toward the Enlightenment and another toward contemporary politics, Wolfe (Does American Democracy Still Work?) mounts a passionate defense of why liberalism-broadly defined-continues to be relevant and essential in this thorough, scholarly text. The author refers to liberalism both in its classical and modern sense, emphasizing its commitment, from its emergence to the present, to the two goals of liberty and equality. Despite the title, the book takes a primarily historical approach, surveying a multitude of liberal thinkers from John Locke to John Rawls-drawing especially heavily on the works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill-applying their theories to both historical and contemporary political issues. The author uses the frame of liberalism to examine terrorism, globalization and the politics of religion. Wolfe ruminates on conservatism's hand in the Hurricane Katrina debacle and, in his musings on globalization, focuses on how liberalism prescribes a philosophical commitment to global welfare rather than parochial concerns or national protectionism. More a work of political theory than a policy text, this book will strongly appeal to readers interested in the tradition of Western liberal thought. (Feb.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Wolfe (political science, Boston Univ.; The Transformation of American Religion), a political sociologist of great distinction, clarity, and prolificacy, continues his powerful contributions to the understanding of contemporary conundrums with this stock taking of the state of the "L-word." Written before Barack Obama's win in the general election, free of campaign cant, this is a serious book for serious readers. Wolfe writes-usually accessibly, always penetratingly-as an intellectual committed to a set of ideas and social mores that have been tested and reformulated since the Enlightenment. In Wolfe's account, liberalism is informed by, but in permanent tension with, nationalism and romanticism. He is respectful of the conservative tradition, if not of specific right-wing pundits, and points out current inconsistencies he sees in liberal orthodoxy. He also takes exception to extreme claims made on behalf of sociobiology and against religion. Wolfe suggests the two greatest threats to the core liberal value of human freedom are untrammeled globalization and violent jihadism-threats, he argues, only liberalism can reform or tame. Recommended for academic and pubic libraries.
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"Alan Wolfe restores luster to the original ideals of liberty and equality, but also shows liberalism's pragmatic side–its recognition of the need for governance at home and leadership abroad. He shows that liberals, too, can have a 'purpose driven life' if they just reclaim their legacy." —Mark Lilla, author of The Stillborn God: Religion, Politics, and the Modern West
"In this wise, passionate, and persuasive book, Alan Wolfe draws on decades of reflection and scholarship to elucidate and champion one of the most important concepts of the human enterprise. While fully living up to its title by providing hope and guidance for the century just begun, The Future of Liberalism is also a tour de force of intellectual history–and an astute commentary on the great political issues of our time." —Strobe Talbott, author of The Great Experiment
"This book requires your attention. Liberalism in America cannot be dead. It is at the center of its history. But Americans should know why. Alan Wolfe tells us in a book of impressive scholarship and wide reach." —Jeff Madrick, author of The Case for Big Government
"Alan Wolfe and I disagree on many things, but as a defender and thinker about the liberal philosophy in America, he is one of the best. The Future of Liberalism is typical of that. I continue to learn from Alan when I read him, and so doing helps me define and refine my positions and thinking. Alan is always worth the read." —William J. Bennett, author of America: The Last Best Hope
"For all the fountains of ink and miles of bandwidth expended in trying to make sense of Barack Obama's politics, the soundest explanation I've come across is contained in The Future of Liberalism, a book that mentions the president-elect just once, in passing. . . . The liberalism that Wolfe explains and Obama exemplifies is a politics of hope and faith. . . . As befits the kind of intellectualism he sees as a defining virtue of liberalism, Wolfe's arguments are nuanced and twisty . . . This book is the best guide I know to sussing out what Obama's liberalism means." —Bob Moser, The Texas Observer
"Many university professors write lethally boring books with ambitious titles, but Wolfe is not one of them. His prose never bogs down his examples and his analogies ring true and sometimes he pens a sentence that makes you put the book down and wish you had written it yourself. . . . Wolfe's takedown . . . is so exact, and so necessary, it should be mandatory reading for all who care about the meaning of the word freedom . . . Read this book. Dog-ear it. Keep it close at hand. Like its author, it is a treasure trove of intelligence, decency and wisdom." —Michael Sean Winters, America
"Welcome and readable. . . . [A] fine defence of liberal values." —The Economist
"Wolfe provides in The Future of Liberalism, his 20th and most important book, a learned and lucid examination of the traditions and the trajectory of the dominant political philosophy of modern times. . . . His analysis is always forceful and formidable. . . . The future of liberalism ought to be bright, Wolfe concludes, passionately and persuasively." —Glenn C. Altschuler, Boston Sunday Globe
"[Alan Wolfe] is strongest in showing the clash and bang of ideas in contest with one another. Most interesting, he demonstrates how conflicts ideas can be at once advantageous and antagonistic to the liberalism he advocates." —Gary Hart, The New York Times Book Review
"The Future of Liberalism is a book worth reading. . . . Wolfe produces a nuanced and articulate case for the political philosophy of liberalism. . . . [It is] a book that contains a timely, nuanced, and even brave message." —James Poulos, The American Spectator
"Entertaining and thought-provoking . . . There's plenty to haggle with, refine, and reject in The Future of Liberalism." —Tim Warden, The Austin Chronicle
"If you're into history and philosophy, The Future of Liberalism will be a delight. . . . Engrossing . . . An important book." —David M. Kinchen, Huntington News
"Striking. . . . Wolfe is deft in tracing the development of political ideas and worldviews. . . . This historical dimension is the book's great strength." —Theo Anderson, Wilson Quarterly
"Engrossing [and] comprehensive." —Michael Skube, The Raleigh News & Observer
"A terrific analysis of the last 300-plus years of political thought . . . it's hard not to find his argument persuasive and harder still to not to wonder where American liberalism's defenders have been hiding all these years. If readers have ever wondered where they should stand in regard to the culture wars, American interventionism abroad, or the role of government in society, this book will provide a coherent, convincing set of values to guide them. . . . Highly recommended for anyone with even a passing interest in politics or history." —Kirkus
"Erudite and insightful." —Booklist
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Chapter 1
The Most Appropriate Political Philosophy for Our Times
At the Ending
"In the beginning," wrote John Locke in his Second Treatise on Government, "all the world was America."
Locke, the late-seventeenth-century English philosopher as well known for his explanation of how our ideas are formed as for his insistence that government be based on the consent of the governed, viewed America, at least before the white man arrived, as a land in which, because "no such thing as money was any where known," conflicts over that particular root of all evil would not be necessary. From that seemingly simple idea sprung a political philosophy thoroughly alien to the absolutist monarchies of Europe. Because everyone possesses the capacity to work, all have a right to the property created when their labor is mixed with the blessings offered by the land. It follows that societies are best organized by freedom (no one can legitimately take away what naturally belongs to you), as well as equality (nor can they take it away from anyone else). To say that in the beginning all the world was America is to claim that freedom and equality would become forces too powerful to resist. That, in turn, became the single most influential component of liberalism: the dominant, if not always appreciated, political philosophy of modern times. Three centuries after Locke wrote his masterpiece, liberalism offers the best guide not only to our own times, but to the future as well. It will be my task in this book to show why.
Liberalism is a way of thinking and acting so easily taken for granted that one can easily forget how it struggled to come into existence; solved many of the problems it was asked to address; spread its influence around the world, not through coercion, but because of its universal appeal; and remains to this day far more attractive than its leading alternatives. As important as liberalism has been to the development of modern citizens and the societies they inhabit, it suffers today from a crisis of confidence. To flourish, liberalism needs to be recovered, and the stakes in its recovery are much greater than which party wins a forthcoming election, proposes the latest social reform, or even launches the next war. Modern citizens all too often forget that the liberal way of life is a good way of life, indeed, under the political conditions in which they live, the best way of life. It is liberalism's underlying philosophy—its understanding of human nature, its respect for both individualism and equality, its discovery of the social, its passion for justice, its preference for experience over theory, its intellectual openness, its commitment to fairness—that offers us the surest path toward both individual freedom and a collective sense of purpose. We need liberalism if we are to respect the integrity of human beings, design institutions that serve their needs, and enable them to shape their destinies. John Locke pointed the way, and we remain indebted to him every time we insist that we be recognized for our own accomplishments or demand that nobody be treated as inherently more superior (or inferior) than anyone else.
There was a time when Americans appreciated the importance of the political philosophy that John Locke did so much to bring into being. "Locke's little book on government is perfect as far as it goes," Thomas Jefferson wrote to Thomas Mann Randolph, his brand-new son-in-law, exactly one hundred years after the publication of The Second Treatise. Jefferson was hardly revealing state secrets; the whole literate world knew the extent to which he had relied on Locke when he wrote the Declaration of Independence. So closely connected were Lockean ideas with the development of the United States that one of the classics of modern political thought, the Harvard political scientist Louis Hartz's Liberal Tradition in America (1955), was devoted to exploring every aspect of them. Like any transformative book, Hartz's generated fierce controversy, and some of the criticisms, especially those pointing out his insufficient treatment of race, have stuck. But no one has effectively undermined Hartz's overall thesis. Lockean truths, as Jefferson put it in the Declaration, were "self-evident," which meant, in contrast to Europe of the ancien régime, that no one could easily mount an attack against them.
In the beginning all the world may have been America, but, if current political arguments and election results in the United States are any indication, one must wonder about the present. The country that once embraced John Locke so warmly has been turning its back on the liberal political philosophy he did so much to inspire. Far from self-evident, liberalism in the United States remains conspicuously unpopular; twice as many Americans say that they are very or somewhat conservative compared to those who say they are very or somewhat liberal. After eight years of right-wing government under George W. Bush, these sentiments changed. Although the ultimate historical judgment on these years is yet to be delivered, the Bush administration's combination of ideological rigidity and persistent incompetence—demonstrated from its response to Hurricane Katrina to its conduct of the Iraqi war—produced widespread dismay, not only among liberals, but among significant numbers of conservatives, causing, along the way, serious dents in the alliance between small-government advocates, religious-oriented values voters, and unilateralist national security policymakers that had characterized the era of Ronald Reagan. Still, conservatism's increasing problems in no way guarantee liberalism's political success. This book was completed before the elections of 2008, but even if Barack Obama is elected president and the Democrats wind up controlling both houses of Congress, the question of what they should do once in office will still require an answer. And should the Republican candidate John McCain win the presidency, the pressures on Democrats to figure out what they ought to believe will be even greater.
The problems facing liberalism, moreover, are not just confined to the United States. Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Great Britain produced the most impressive collection of liberal thinkers ever associated with one country, nearly all of whom will make their appearance in the pages that follow; yet the Liberal Democrats, the inheritors of their ideas, have been a third party for quite some time in British politics, and the other political party on the left, the Labour Party, has been in deep trouble because of the support its former leader, Tony Blair, gave to an American conservative president. On the Continent, liberal parties are either out of power or unsure what to do with whatever, generally minimal, power they have. With the exception of Margaret Thatcher, European political systems do not produce conservative politicians in ways recognizable to Americans. But nor do they feature liberal ones with a well-articulated sense of the direction in which their societies ought to be headed. Stalemate is more likely to characterize European politics than right-wing reaction, which means that Europeans, no doubt to their relief, are spared anything resembling America's Christian right. But no one can make a credible argument that European liberalism is a vibrant political force. Europeans are unsure whether liberalism instructs them to ban Muslim head scarves or welcome them, support globalization or oppose it, or choose jobs over environmental protection rather than the other way around.
None of this means that the world has suddenly been stripped of liberal thinkers. On the contrary, liberal political theory is flourishing in the English-speaking world, especially in the work of the late American philosopher John Rawls, who asks us to evaluate the fairness of any policy or program based on the assumption that we do not know whether we personally will benefit from it or not. Although French and German philosophy throughout much of the twentieth century was inspired by one or another form of Marxism, the collapse of socialism has given rise to serious liberal thinking there as well; some French intellectuals, rather than shifting from their left-wing enthusiasm of 1968 to the neoconservative right three decades later, as many American thinkers did, stopped instead with the liberal tradition in between, and many of Germany's most important thinkers, in the aftermath of Marxism's collapse, turned to American pragmatists for inspiration. But although liberalism remains something of a growth industry in the contemporary academy—endless books pour out from university presses addressing how liberals should treat multiculturalism, reli- gion, equality, free speech, affirmative action, and a number of similar topics—many if not most of them, technical in approach and densely written, are intended not for general readers but for other liberal political theorists. In them, moreover, liberalism frequently comes off as unappealing, as if it were a set of formulaic abstractions written from on high to guide less principled ordinary people down below. In the United States over the past few decades, any one conservative theorist in a Washington, D.C., think tank has had the public influence of at least ten liberal philosophers in America's most prestigious universities.
There also exist compelling accounts of liberalism outside the academy; some prominent journalists have written in defense of lib- eral ideas, and they have been joined by academics who write for the broader public. These books aim for a general readership, yet they tend, in their focus on policy debates and current events, to lack historical and comparative depth. The aim of these writers is to persuade contemporary citizens that liberalism, far from problematic, is not so bad after all. They do this in different ways; some of them argue that liberals need to remind themselves of the great leaders and policies they once produced and to reclaim their connections to ordinary voters; others spend most of their time attacking conservatives; still others insist that liberals will recover their popularity when they better learn to "frame" their beliefs in more publicly appealing ways or learn to speak not just to matters of fact but to the power of emotions. Liberals are not rolling over and playing dead. They have much to say and are saying it energetically.
Still, there is an apologetic tone to these books, which leaves the impression that those writing them are not quite convinced of their own case. When liberals address issues of foreign policy, they frequently do so as if conservatives are peering over their shoulders ready to pounce on any false move or thought. When they propose new domestic programs, their ideas tend to be pale carbon copies of the ambitious liberal programs of the past. Feminists defending a woman's right to choose are more likely to base their argument not on liberal beliefs about equality but on libertarian, and even conservative, ones about freedom from government interference. The response of many liberals to the growth of the religious right is not to make a defense of separation of church and state, and to show how that might be good for both reason and revelation, but to urge the creation of a religious left. Liberalism, in both theory and practice, all too often represents an effort to stop further losses rather than a strategy to make additional gains. Its best offense has become a cautious and conservative defense.
This, then, is the proper time to try to close the gap between what liberalism used to mean and what the citizens of contemporary political systems all too often take it to mean. "The 'L word' implies unelectability and marginality," the historians Neil Jumonville and Kevin Mattson, liberals themselves, have written in Liberalism for a New Century. "The situation has become so bad that some in America are seeking a new name for liberalism: 'progressivism.' But this move is mistaken. The term liberalism should be championed today and reinvigorated as a source of pride and a reminder of Americans' connection to basic values that stretch back centuries. To avoid the moniker is to run from the past, and liberals have no reason to do so." They are right. "Progressive" is the wrong term and the wrong turn; by returning us to the days of Woodrow Wilson and others who once adopted the label, it would take liberals back to a political agenda too convinced of its own moral superiority and too hostile to civil liberties to serve the needs of an open and dynamic society. If liberals run away from their own tradition by hiding behind other labels, they will hardly be in a position to make the case for liberalism's relevance both to their own times and to the future.
Despite the ambivalence that so often seems to surround the term, liberalism does not lack for important, indeed vital, things to say. Its problem, at least in more recent times, has been its inability or unwillingness to say them clearly, positively, and convincingly. Reminding ourselves about what liberalism has stood for ought to encourage liberals to overcome some of their insecurities. It should also enable liberal societies to better find their way. And—who knows?—it might just help liberals not only to win elections but to know what to do once that happens.
From the Hardcover edition.
Meet the Author
Alan Wolfe is a professor of political science and director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College. A contributing editor of The New Republic, The Wilson Quarterly, CommonWealth, and In Character, Professor Wolfe also frequently writes for Commonweal, The New York Times, Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, and The Washington Post. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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However after speaking with support, they advised me to have a single category ie Category A, and put Product A in there and just define different attributes instead, here is what I did:
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3 - Created Terms such as 'Karate' 'Taekwondo' 'Kickboxing'
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Constructing China's wind energy innovation system
The rapid rise of China as the largest wind energy market worldwide with several global leaders in turbine manufacturing received much attention from both scholarly and policy-analytical work. However, little attention has been given to the innovation activities of the Chinese wind industry. In our paper, we aim to address this gap, based on second-hand sources and over 50 personal interviews with wind energy-related experts. We argue that China's wind industry has made great progress in terms of manufacturing and installing, but is confronted with various challenges and problems regarding the development of its indigenous innovation capabilities. Using innovation systems approaches as an analytical tool and focusing on institutions, actors, technology and their interaction in supporting innovation activities, we decompose the elements of China's wind energy innovation system and their role in developing the domestic wind industry. Against this backdrop we identify and discuss challenges and obstacles in the development of an innovation-driven wind industry in China. The paper strongly argues that more attention should be paid to improve the coordination and cooperation among the various actors of the wind energy innovation system, to the build-up of a market-oriented education and training system as well as to intellectual property protection.
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Could anyone please help me.
I want to remove the sidebar from product description page in wp e-commerce.
How do i do this?
Could anyone please help me.
I want to remove the sidebar from product description page in wp e-commerce.
How do i do this?
Hi there,
I think I can answer your question. Usually sidebars are controlled in your theme.
Go to Edit Products Page.
On the right hand side look for Page Attributes.
Where it says Template, see if you have a choice other than Default Template, i.e., One Column. If so click it.
If you don't see a Page Attributes box, at the top of your WordPress Dashboard, click on Screen Options and check the Page Attributes box.
It's always possible your theme does not offer alternate page layouts.
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Hmm, I have the same question and though you can change the products page template to the full width template (using newwpthemes wp news theme), it doesn't actually change the layout and the sidebars are still there.
Ah, I see. WP e-Commerce overrides the theme options. I tried what I told you to do, plus removed the shopping cart location from widge and removed all widgets from the sidebar - and it's still there.
I'm sure you can adjust that in the php pages and css, however, my guess is you'll probably have to remove the sidebar from all your shopping cart pages if you follow that route.
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A helium-filled HDD offers many benefits over a conventional HDD, such as a reduction of up to 23% in power consumption and 4°C in overall operating temperatures. However, we found out that the price difference between these two is rather significant.
Tuesday, 25 Mar 2014
Toshiba's Wireless Adapter Converts All External Drives into Wireless Storage
Wireless storage drives command a notable premium over regular drives, but Toshiba's new Stor.e Wireless Adapter will help turn any external hard disk into a wireless one, thus saving you a tidy sum from not ditching your existing drive.
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Toshiba Updates Portege R30 Ultraportable with Enhanced Power and Secure Features
As successor to the Portege R930, the new notebook comes encased in a black magnesium Tough Body chassis, measures 18.3mm at its thinnest point, and incorporates Toshiba's EasyGuard technology to help safeguard the laptop's critical components.
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Wednesday, 22 Jan 2014
Toshiba Completes OCZ Asset Acquisition, Launches OCZ Storage Solutions
Toshiba Corporation has just announced the successful acquisition of OCZ Technology Group. Immediately after the acquisition, the group will operate independently as OCZ Storage Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation.
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Fifteen staff, including the Southern District's top police
officer - Superintendent Andrew Coster - took turns to finish
burpees as part of a nationwide fundraising initiative for
Red Nose Day.
The corporate challenge asked organisations to complete 2208
burpees - the number being yesterday's date - in the allotted
Senior Constable Toni Wall said police completed 3000 burpees
between noon and 2pm.
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the nicest, easiest exercises to do but people put in a great
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I have a wordpress theme that im using to make a website for screen printing company. They have multiple wholesale accounts and want to show every single item of clothing that they can get for customers. Which a lot of clothing :P But the problem I've run into is making an quantity matrix for customers to choose multiple quantities of shirts sizes and colors at the same time and have it add to the cart. I want it to work like this:
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I know that an interface must be public. However, I don't want that.
I want my implemented methods to only be accessible from their own package, so I want my implemented methods to be protected.
The problem is I can't make the interface or the implemented methods protected.
What is a work around? Is there a design pattern that pertains to this problem?
From the Java guide, an abstract class wouldn't do the job either.