The Critique of Nonviolence

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Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503632083
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Book Synopsis The Critique of Nonviolence by : Mark Christian Thompson

Download or read book The Critique of Nonviolence written by Mark Christian Thompson and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does Martin Luther King, Jr., understand race philosophically and how did this understanding lead him to develop an ontological conception of racist police violence? In this important new work, Mark Christian Thompson attempts to answer these questions, examining ontology in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s philosophy. Specifically, the book reads King through 1920s German academic debates between Martin Heidegger, Rudolf Bultmann, Hans Jonas, Carl Schmitt, Eric Voegelin, Hannah Arendt, and others on Being, gnosticism, existentialism, political theology, and sovereignty. It further examines King's dissertation about Tillich, as well other key texts from his speculative writings, sermons, and speeches, positing King's understanding of divine love as a form of Heideggerian ontology articulated in beloved community. Tracking the presence of twentieth-century German philosophy and theology in his thought, the book situates King's ontology conceptually and socially in nonviolent protest. In so doing, The Critique of Nonviolence reads King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" (1963) with Walter Benjamin's "Critique of Violence" (1921) to reveal the depth of King's political-theological critique of police violence as the illegitimate appropriation of the racialized state of exception. As Thompson argues, it is in part through its appropriation of German philosophy and theology that King's ontology condemns the perpetual American state of racial exception that permits unlimited police violence against Black lives.

Kracauer

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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509533036
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Book Synopsis Kracauer by : Jörg Später

Download or read book Kracauer written by Jörg Später and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Siegfried Kracauer was one of the most important German thinkers of the twentieth century. His writings on Weimar culture, mass society, photography and film were groundbreaking and they anticipated many of the themes later developed members of the Frankfurt School and other cultural theorists. No less remarkable were the circumstances under which he made these contributions. After his early years as a journalist in Germany, the rise of the Nazis forced Kracauer into exile – first in Paris and then, after a protracted flight via Marseilles and Lisbon, to the United States. The existential challenges, personal losses and unrelenting hardship Kracauer faced during these years of exile formed the backdrop against which he offered his acute observations of modern life. Jörg Später provides the first comprehensive biography of this extraordinary man. Based on extensive archival research, Später’s biography expertly traces the key influences on Kracauer’s intellectual development and presents his most important works and ideas with great clarity. At the same time, Später ably documents the intensity of Kracauer’s personal relationships, the trauma of his flight and exile, and his embrace of his new homeland, where, finally, the ‘groundlessness’ of refugee existence gave way to a more stable life and, with it, some of the intellectually most fruitful years of Kracauer’s career. The result is a vivid portrait of a man driven both by an urge to capture reality – to attend to the things that are ‘overlooked or misjudged’, that still ‘lack a name’, as he put it – and by a need to find his place in a hostile, threatening world.

Writing Jewish Culture

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253019648
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Writing Jewish Culture by : Andreas Kilcher

Download or read book Writing Jewish Culture written by Andreas Kilcher and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-04 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Looks at the ethnographic issues while defining Jewishness in a very fresh, sophisticated way . . . very timely and important.” —Washington Book Review Focusing on Eastern and Central Europe before WWII, this collection explores various genres of “ethnoliterature” across temporal, geographical, and ideological borders as sites of Jewish identity formation and dissemination. Challenging the assumption of cultural uniformity among Ashkenazi Jews, the contributors consider how ethnographic literature defines Jews and Jewishness, the political context of Jewish ethnography, and the question of audience, readers, and listeners. With contributions from leading scholars and an appendix of translated historical ethnographies, this volume presents vivid case studies across linguistic and disciplinary divides, revealing a rich textual history that throws the complexity and diversity of a people into sharp relief.

"Escape to Life"

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110258684
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis "Escape to Life" by : Eckart Goebel

Download or read book "Escape to Life" written by Eckart Goebel and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After 1933, New York City gave shelter to many leading German and German-Jewish intellectuals. Stripped of their German citizenship by the Nazi-regime, these public figures either stayed in the New York area or moved on to California and other places. This compendium, adopting the title of a famous volume published by Klaus and Erika Mann in 1939, explores the impact the US, and NYC in particular, had on these authors as well as the influence they in turn exerted on US intellectual life. Moreover, it addresses the transformations that took place in the exiled intellectuals’ thinking when it was translated into another language and addressed to an American audience. Among the individuals presented in this volume, are such prominent names as T.W. Adorno, H. Arendt, W. Benjamin, E. Bloch, B. Brecht, S. Kracauer, the Mann family, S. Morgenstern, and E. Panofsky. The authors of the essays in this compendium were free to choose the angle (biography, theory, politics) or aspect (a single work, a personal constellation) deemed best to illuminate the given intellectual’s work. Acclaimed NYC photographer Fred Stein, a German-Jewish refugee from Dresden, produced numerous portraits of exiled intellectuals and artists. A selection of these compelling portraits is reproduced in this book for the first time.

The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521513758
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)

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Book Synopsis The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism by : Jack Jacobs

Download or read book The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism written by Jack Jacobs and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ways in which the Jewish backgrounds of leading Frankfurt School Critical Theorists shaped their lives, work, and ideas.

Fascism

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Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501756982
Total Pages : 237 pages
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Book Synopsis Fascism by : Paul Gottfried

Download or read book Fascism written by Paul Gottfried and published by Northern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-08 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Thinking with Adorno

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Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823284042
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Book Synopsis Thinking with Adorno by : Gerhard Richter

Download or read book Thinking with Adorno written by Gerhard Richter and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Theodor W. Adorno says cannot be separated from how he says it. By the same token, what he thinks cannot be isolated from how he thinks it. The central aim of Richter’s book is to examine how these basic yet far-reaching assumptions teach us to think with Adorno—both alongside him and in relation to his diverse contexts and constellations. These contexts and constellations range from aesthetic theory to political critique, from the problem of judgment to the difficulty of inheriting a tradition, from the primacy of the object to the question of how to lead a right life within a wrong one. Richter vividly shows how Adorno’s highly suggestive—yet often overlooked—concept of the “uncoercive gaze” designates a specific kind of comportment in relation to an object of critical analysis: It moves close to the object and tarries with it while struggling to decipher the singularities and non-identities that are lodged within it, whether the object is an idea, a thought, a concept, a text, a work of art, an experience, or a problem of political or sociological theory. Thinking with Adorno’s uncoercive gaze not only means following the fascinating paths of his own work; it also means extending hospitality to the ghostly voices of others. As this book shows, Adorno is best understood as a thinker in dialogue, whether with long-deceased predecessors in the German tradition such as Kant and Hegel, with writers such as Kafka, with contemporaries such as Benjamin and Arendt, or with philosophical voices that succeeded him, such as those of Derrida and Agamben.

Doing Aesthetics with Arendt

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231539908
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Book Synopsis Doing Aesthetics with Arendt by : Cecilia Sjöholm

Download or read book Doing Aesthetics with Arendt written by Cecilia Sjöholm and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cecilia Sjöholm reads Hannah Arendt as a philosopher of the senses, grappling with questions of vision, hearing, and touch even in her political work. Constructing an Arendtian theory of aesthetics from the philosopher's fragmentary writings on art and perception, Sjöholm begins a vibrant new chapter in Arendt scholarship that expands her relevance for contemporary philosophers. Arendt wrote thoughtfully about the role of sensibility and aesthetic judgment in political life and on the power of art to enrich human experience. Sjöholm draws a clear line from Arendt's consideration of these subjects to her reflections on aesthetic encounters and works of art mentioned in her published writings and stored among her memorabilia. This delicate effort allows Sjöholm to revisit Arendt's political concepts of freedom, plurality, and judgment from an aesthetic point of view and incorporate Arendt's insight into current discussions of literature, music, theater, and visual art. Though Arendt did not explicitly outline an aesthetics, Sjöholm's work substantively incorporates her perspective into contemporary reckonings with radical politics and their relationship to art.

On Writing with Photography

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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816688850
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Book Synopsis On Writing with Photography by : Karen Beckman

Download or read book On Writing with Photography written by Karen Beckman and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From James Agee to W. G. Sebald, there has been an explosion of modern documentary narratives and fiction combining text and photography in complex and fascinating ways. However, these contemporary experiments are part of a tradition that stretches back to the early years of photography. Writers have been integrating photographs into their work for as long as photographs have existed, producing rich, multilayered creations; and photographers have always made images that incorporate, respond to, or function as writing. On Writing with Photography explores what happens to texts—and images—when they are brought together. From the mid-nineteenth century to the present, this collection addresses a wide range of genres and media, including graphic novels, children’s books, photo-essays, films, diaries, newspapers, and art installations. Examining the works of Herman Melville, Don DeLillo, Claude McKay, Man Ray, Dare Wright, Guy Debord, Zhang Ailing, and Roland Barthes, among others, the essays trace the relationship between photographs and “reality” and describe the imaginary worlds constructed by both, discussing how this production can turn into testimony of personal and collective history, memory and trauma, gender and sexuality, and ethnicity. Together, these essays help explain how writers and photographers—past and present—have served as powerful creative resources for each other. Contributors: Stuart Burrows, Brown U; Roderick Coover, Temple U; Adrian Daub, Stanford U; Marcy J. Dinius, DePaul U; Marianne Hirsch, Columbia U; Daniel H. Magilow, U of Tennessee, Knoxville; Janine Mileaf; Tyrus Miller, U of California, Santa Cruz; Leah Rosenberg, U of Florida; Xiaojue Wang, U of Pennsylvania.

Panic and Mourning

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311028314X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis Panic and Mourning by : Daniela Agostinho

Download or read book Panic and Mourning written by Daniela Agostinho and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Panic’ and ‘mourning’ are two pivotal constructs that often emerge and interplay under circumstances of conflict, violence, crisis, and catastrophe, both natural and man-made. Whereas panic tends to crop up during the experience of violent events, mourning, on the other hand, relates to the aftermath of a brutal disruption and to the way humans try to make sense of it retrospectively. Conversely, violent events can leave a thread of panic in their aftermath, while mourning can be unsettled, interrupted or even refuelled by another catastrophic incident. From an international and inter-disciplinary outlook, this volume wishes to address questions at the interface of panic and mourning and their impact on practices in literature, media, and the arts. Since violent events take place within cultures that will draw from their traditions, memories and systems of beliefs in order to process them, the authors of this book aim precisely at discussing the effects of calamity upon the cultural structure and the way literary, artistic and media practices not only reproduce individual and collective anxieties but also generate knowledge and reshape the cultural formation within which they emerge.

Monatshefte

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)

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Werke

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)

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Book Synopsis Werke by : Immanuel Kant

Download or read book Werke written by Immanuel Kant and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New Religions and the Nazis

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Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415290244
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (152 download)

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Book Synopsis New Religions and the Nazis by : Karla O. Poewe

Download or read book New Religions and the Nazis written by Karla O. Poewe and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at modern German paganism as well as the established Church, Poewe reveals that the new religions founded in the pre-Nazi and Nazi years, especially Jakob Hauer's German Faith Movement, would be a model for how German fascism distilled aspects of religious doctrine into political extremism."--BOOK JACKET.

Modern Austrian Literature

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Modern Austrian Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the index to the Journal of the International Arthur Schnitzler Research Association, 1961-67.

Dictionary of the German and English Languages

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1146 pages
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Book Synopsis Dictionary of the German and English Languages by : William James

Download or read book Dictionary of the German and English Languages written by William James and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Romancing the Shadow

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195137108
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Book Synopsis Romancing the Shadow by : J. Gerald Kennedy

Download or read book Romancing the Shadow written by J. Gerald Kennedy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgar Allan Poe's strength as a writer lay in fabricating fantisies in settings far removed from his own place and time. This dislocation renders the attitudes embedded in his fiction open to interpretation, and over the years some readers have found Poe to be virulently racist, while others found him morally conflicted, and still others detected a subversion of racism in his works' subtle sympathies for non-white characters. As a nineteenth-century Southerner, Poe was a deeply ambiguous figure, evading race issues while living among them, and traversing the North-South border with little sensitivity to its political implications. In this tightly organized volume, a handful of leading Americanists revisit the Poe issue, re-examining what it means to speak of an author and his work as racist, and where the critic's responsibility lies.

O-Z

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Book Synopsis O-Z by : Johann Samuel Ersch

Download or read book O-Z written by Johann Samuel Ersch and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: