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Archaism and Actuality

Author : Harry Harootunian
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478027355
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Archaism and Actuality written by Harry Harootunian and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-06 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Archaism and Actuality eminent Marxist historian Harry Harootunian explores the formation of capitalism and fascism in Japan as a prime example of the uneven development of capitalism. He applies his theorization of subsumption to examine how capitalism integrates and redirects preexisting social, cultural, and economic practices to guide the present. This subsumption leads to a global condition in which states and societies all exist within different stages and manifestations of capitalism. Drawing on Japanese philosophers Miki Kiyoshi and Tosaka Jun, Marxist theory, and Gramsci’s notion of passive revolution, Harootunian shows how the Meiji Restoration of 1868 and its program dedicated to transforming the country into a modern society exemplified a unique path to capitalism. Japan’s capitalist expansion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, rise as an imperial power, and subsequent transition to fascism signal a wholly distinct trajectory into modernity that forecloses any notion of a pure or universal development of capitalism. With Archaism and Actuality, Harootunian offers both a retheorization of capitalist development and a reinterpretation of epochal moments in modern Japanese history.

Archaism and Actuality

Author : Harry Harootunian
Publisher : Theory in Forms
ISBN 13 : 9781478020363
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Archaism and Actuality written by Harry Harootunian and published by Theory in Forms. This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry Harootunian explores the formation of capitalism and fascism in Japan as a prime example of the uneven development of capitalism.

The Japanese Ideology

Author : Tosaka Jun
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231561326
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Japanese Ideology written by Tosaka Jun and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-17 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major Marxist thinker and critic in 1930s Japan, Tosaka Jun was among the world’s most incisive—yet underrecognized—theorists of capitalism, fascism, and ideology during the years before World War II. The Japanese Ideology is his masterpiece, first published in 1935, as Japan and the world plummeted into an age of reaction. Tosaka offers a ruthless philosophical critique of contemporary ideology that exposes liberalism’s deep complicity with fascism. The Japanese Ideology provides a materialist analysis of the reactionary ideology then overtaking Japan, with profound significance for anywhere fascism has taken root. Modeled after Marx and Engels’s The German Ideology, it critiques idealism as the common ground for liberalism and fascism, against which only historical materialism can suffice. Tosaka demonstrates how liberal and fascist ideas at once justified and concealed Japan’s colonization of East Asia, and he investigates the many traces of fascism in Japanese thought and society. The Japanese Ideology makes an important intervention in Marxist theory by criticizing reliance on the East/West binary and the notion of the “Asiatic mode of production.” Robert Stolz’s translation introduces Anglophone readers to a classic of twentieth-century Marxist thought by an unsung peer of Gramsci and Benjamin with striking relevance today.

Myth, Ethos, and Actuality

Author : David Castriota
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299133542
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Myth, Ethos, and Actuality written by David Castriota and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using material remains, as well as the evidence of contemporary Greek history, rhetoric, and poetry, David Castriota interprets the Athenian monuments as vehicles of an official ideology intended to celebrate and justify the present in terms of the past. Castriota focuses on the strategy of ethical antithesis that asserted Greek moral superiority over the "barbaric" Persians, whose invasion had been repelled a generation earlier. He examines how, in major public programs of painting and sculpture, the leading artists of the period recast the Persians in the guise of wild and impious mythic antagonists to associate them with the ethical flaws or weaknesses commonly ascribed to women, animals, and foreigners. The Athenians, in contrast, were compared to mythic protagonists representing the excellence and triumph of Hellenic culture. Castriota's study is innovative in emphasizing the ethical implication of mythic precedents, which required substantial alterations to render them more effective as archetypes for the defense of Greek culture against a foreign, morally inferior enemy. The book looks in new ways at how the patrons and planners sought to manipulate viewer response through the selective presentation or repackaging of mythic traditions.

Spenser & His Poetry

Author : S. E. Winbolt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Spenser & His Poetry written by S. E. Winbolt and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Development of Motion in Archaic Greek Sculpture

Author : Chandler Rathfon Post
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Development of Motion in Archaic Greek Sculpture written by Chandler Rathfon Post and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Time, Space, and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare

Author : Angus Fletcher
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674027116
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Time, Space, and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare written by Angus Fletcher and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This focused but far-reaching work by the distinguished scholar Angus Fletcher reveals how early modern science and English poetry were in many ways components of one process: discovering the secrets of motion. Beginning with the achievement of Galileo, Time, Space, and Motion identifies the problem of motion as the central cultural issue of the time, pursued through the poetry of the age, from Marlowe and Shakespeare to Ben Jonson and Milton.

Historical Manual of English Prosody

Author : George Saintsbury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Manual of English Prosody written by George Saintsbury and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sentient Flesh

Author : R. A. Judy
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478012552
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Sentient Flesh written by R. A. Judy and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sentient Flesh R. A. Judy takes up freedman Tom Windham’s 1937 remark “we should have our liberty 'cause . . . us is human flesh" as a point of departure for an extended meditation on questions of the human, epistemology, and the historical ways in which the black being is understood. Drawing on numerous fields, from literary theory and musicology, to political theory and phenomenology, as well as Greek and Arabic philosophy, Judy engages literary texts and performative practices such as music and dance that express knowledge and conceptions of humanity appositional to those grounding modern racialized capitalism. Operating as critiques of Western humanism, these practices and modes of being-in-the-world—which he theorizes as “thinking in disorder,” or “poiēsis in black”—foreground the irreducible concomitance of flesh, thinking, and personhood. As Judy demonstrates, recognizing this concomitance is central to finding a way past the destructive force of ontology that still holds us in thrall. Erudite and capacious, Sentient Flesh offers a major intervention in the black study of life.

Archaic Economy and Modern Society

Author : Eva B. Ernfors
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Archaic Economy and Modern Society written by Eva B. Ernfors and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work is concerned with the contradiction between the gift and the commodity and the essentials of the corresponding modes of human being. An answer is sought to how and why the gift is constituted as the essence of archaic mode of being and production. A paradigm focusing on internal causes of underdevelopment is also presented. According to that perspective the gift becomes a ghost in the modern machinery of the commodity in the present-day Third World, disturbing economy and administration from within. In this alien context, the gift effects a displacement of essence of economic relationships and appears, now as corruption, theft, nepotism, bribe. deals shortly with basic archaic gift-structures as expressed in various terms, ranging from relations of sexes to those of ritual natures. A key issue is the difference between archaic and modern mind and labour. It is argued that the different modalities of archaic organization possess a different potency for development of the materially based relations. The course of development runs towards relative independency of the economic from mentally based relations as erected on communication of social meaning and norms or petrified rules. The gift society finally gives rise to its negation, the commodity, which through the dynamism and accomplishments of capital will, hopefully, give way to its own negation in human ethics, ownness and reason as the principles of socio-economic organization and planning. and history, and is concerned with basic rather than applied research. The illustration of theoretical points often derives from the authors' fieldwork among the Sinhalese and their experience of Bangladeshian society. Besides, some major normative-communicative relationships of the Sinhalese, including the marriage system, the traditional property system and the caste system, are dealt with separately in selected fieldnotes towards the end of the work.

Making the Modern

Author : Terry Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226763471
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Making the Modern written by Terry Smith and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smith reveals how this visual revolution played an instrumental role in the complex psychological, social, economic, and technological changes that came to be known as the second industrial revolution. From the role of visualization in the invention of the assembly line, to office and building design, to the corporate and lifestyle images that filled new magazines such as Life and Fortune, he traces the extent to which the second wave of industrialization engaged the visual arts to project a new iconology of progress.

The Birth to Presence

Author : Jean-Luc Nancy
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804721899
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Birth to Presence written by Jean-Luc Nancy and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epoch of representation is as old as the West. Indeed, representation is the West, understood as what at once designates and expands its own limits. But what comes after the West? What comes after representation's disclosure of its own limit? The central problem posed in these essays, collected from over a decade of work, is how in the wake of Western ontologies to conceive the coming, the birth that characterizes being. We are now at the limit of representation, where objects as we experience them have been show to be merely objects of representation--or rather, of presentation, since there is nothing to (re)present. The first part of this book, "Existence," asks how, today, one can give sense of meaning to existence as such, arguing that existence itself, as it comes nude into the world, must now be our "sense." In examining what this birth to presence might be, we should not ask what presence "is"; rather we should conceive presence as presence to someone, including to presence itself. This birth is not the constitution of an identity, but the endless departure of an identity from, and from within, its other, or others. Its coming is not desire but jouissance, the joy of averring oneself to be continually in the state of being born--a rejoicing of birth, a birth of rejoicing. The second section, "Poetry," asks: What art exposes this? In writing, in the voice, in painting? And what if art is exposed to it? How does it inscribe (or rather, "exscribe," in a term the book develops) the coming existence as such? The author's trajectory in this book crosses those of Hegel, Schlegel, Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Freud, and Heidegger, in their comments on art and politics, existence and corporeality, everyday life and its modes of existence and ecstasy. An analysis that dares this crossing involves all the varied accounts of existence, political as well as philosophical, and all the realms of poverty.

What Would Be Different

Author : Iain Macdonald
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503610640
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book What Would Be Different written by Iain Macdonald and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Possibility is a concept central to both philosophy and social theory. But in what philosophical soil, if any, does the possibility of a better society grow? At the intersection of metaphysics and social theory, What Would Be Different looks to Theodor W. Adorno to reflect on the relationship between the possible and the actual. In repeated allusions to utopia, redemption, and reconciliation, Adorno appears to reference a future that would break decisively with the social injustices that have characterized history. To this end, and though he never explains it in any detail—let alone in the form of a full-blown theory or metaphysics—he also makes extensive technical use of the concept of possibility. Taking Adorno's critical readings of other thinkers, especially Hegel and Heidegger, as his guiding thread, Iain Macdonald reflects on possibility as it relates to Adorno's own writings and offers answers to the question of how we are to articulate such possibilities without lapsing into a vague and naïve utopianism.

Apollo

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Apollo written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Book reviews."

Overcome by Modernity

Author : Harry D. Harootunian
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400823862
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Overcome by Modernity written by Harry D. Harootunian and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-28 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades between the two World Wars, Japan made a dramatic entry into the modern age, expanding its capital industries and urbanizing so quickly as to rival many long-standing Western industrial societies. How the Japanese made sense of the sudden transformation and the subsequent rise of mass culture is the focus of Harry Harootunian's fascinating inquiry into the problems of modernity. Here he examines the work of a generation of Japanese intellectuals who, like their European counterparts, saw modernity as a spectacle of ceaseless change that uprooted the dominant historical culture from its fixed values and substituted a culture based on fantasy and desire. Harootunian not only explains why the Japanese valued philosophical understandings of these events, often over sociological or empirical explanations, but also locates Japan's experience of modernity within a larger global process marked by both modernism and fascism. What caught the attention of Japanese thinkers was how the production of desire actually threatened historical culture. These intellectuals sought to "overcome" the materialism and consumerism associated with the West, particularly the United States. They proposed versions of a modernity rooted in cultural authenticity and aimed at infusing meaning into everyday life, whether through art, memory, or community. Harootunian traces these ideas in the works of Yanagita Kunio, Tosaka Jun, Gonda Yasunosuke, and Kon Wajiro, among others, and relates their arguments to those of such European writers as George Simmel, Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Georges Bataille. Harootunian shows that Japanese and European intellectuals shared many of the same concerns, and also stresses that neither Japan's involvement with fascism nor its late entry into the capitalist, industrial scene should cause historians to view its experience of modernity as an oddity. The author argues that strains of fascism ran throughout most every country in Europe and in many ways resulted from modernizing trends in general. This book, written by a leading scholar of modern Japan, amounts to a major reinterpretation of the nature of Japan's modernity.

Medicine and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt

Author : Philippa Lang
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004235515
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Medicine and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt written by Philippa Lang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-12-03 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current questions on whether Hellenistic Egypt should be understood in terms of colonialism and imperialism, multicultural separatism, or integration and syncretism have never been closely studied in the context of healing. Yet illness affects and is affected by nutrition, disease and reproduction within larger questions of demography, agriculture and environment. It is crucial to every socio-economic group, all ages, and both sexes; perceptions and responses to illness are ubiquitous in all kinds of evidence, both Greek and Egyptian and from archaeology to literature. Examing all forms of healing within the specific socioeconomic and environmental constraints of the Ptolemies’ Egypt, this book explores how linguistic, cultural and ethnic affiliations and interactions were expressed in the medical domain.

Critical Environments

Author : Cary Wolfe
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816630196
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Critical Environments written by Cary Wolfe and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique in its collation of major theorists rarely considered together, Critical Environments incorporates detailed discussions of the work of Richard Rorty, Walter Benn Michaels, Stanley Cavell, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela, Niklas Luhmann, Donna Haraway, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Fredric Jameson, and others, and ranges across fields from feminist philosophy of science to the theory of ideology. Offering American readers a comprehensive introduction to systems theory and responding to the widespread charge of relativism leveled against it, Wolfe's work will enhance and inspire new kinds of critical thought.