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Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism

Author : Tobin Siebers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195359925
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism written by Tobin Siebers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-04-29 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism, Tobin Siebers claims that modern criticism is a Cold War criticism. Postwar literary theory has absorbed the skepticism, suspicion, and paranoia of the Cold War mentality, and it plays them out in debates about the divided self, linguistic indeterminacy, the metaphysics of presence, multiculturalism, canon formation, power, cultural literacy, and the politics of literature. The major critical movements of the postwar age, Siebers argues, belong to three dominant phases of the Cold War era. The age of charismatic leadership characterized by Churchill, FDR, Stalin, and Hitler lies behind the preoccupation with "intention," "affect," and "impersonality" found in the New Criticism. The age of propaganda motivates the fascination with the guiles of language, undecidability, and deconstruction. The age of superpowers provides the dominant metaphor in the new historicism's analysis of the technology of power. All three ages of criticism reflect the skepticism of the Cold War mentality, and this skepticism, Siebers posits, has impaired the ability of literary theorists to talk about the politics of criticism in an effective way. A trenchant analysis of postwar theory, Siebers's work presents a new view of the politics of criticism and a surprising vision of what theory must do if it is to enter the post Cold War era successfully.

Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism

Author : Tobin Siebers
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195079655
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism written by Tobin Siebers and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claiming that a Cold War mentality has impaired the ability of literary theorists to talk about the politics of criticism effectively, the author of this treatise argues that modern criticism is a child of the Cold War.

A Cold War Legacy

Author : Tara-Marie Lynch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book A Cold War Legacy written by Tara-Marie Lynch and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reflections on a Politically Skeptical Era

Author : Dennis Wrong
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351323466
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Reflections on a Politically Skeptical Era written by Dennis Wrong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of the essays included in the present volume were written between 1995 and 2001. This attests to the timeliness and relevance of Dennis H. Wrong's writings. He notes that the mid-twentieth-century disposition to believe that politics fundamentally consisted of clashes between totalistic worldviews, such as communism, socialism, capitalism, fascism, nationalism, internationalism, and a cluster of "isms," may have been historically transitional. But politics now appears more nuanced, if no less troubled, following the collapse of the Soviet bloc between 1989 and 1991. Multiculturalism and identity politics, as well as communitarianism flourished in the 1990s. The volume is divided into five parts: "Capitalism--Inequalities and Alternatives," "Multiculturalism and Identity Politics," "Communitarianism," "Theory and Theorists," and "Autobiographical Reminiscences." This concluding part indicates how Wrong's work includes self-reflections as well as reflections--an examination of how figures such as C. Wright Mills and Raymond Aron, Amitai Etzioni, and Digby Baltzell, played a role in shaping his own thought, and how these changed over the course of the past century. This is the third collection of the essays and articles of Dennis H. Wrong published by Transaction. As was the case with his earlier volumes, Reflections on a Politically Skeptical Era is characterized by a deep attention to the actual social history of our times, and how this plays out in academic pursuits--especially within sociology. Whether the works were published in academic journals or more popular media, they reflect a quality of literary manners that is rare among social science writings, but a reflection that never sacrifices a sense of principle and probity in the process.

Michael Oakeshott’s Cold War Liberalism

Author : T. Nardin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137507020
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Michael Oakeshott’s Cold War Liberalism written by T. Nardin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, leading scholars from East Asia and beyond debate Michael Oakeshott's views on liberal democracy and totalitarianism and their implications for East Asia today. His ideas on rationality in politics, the nature of liberal democracy, and how democracy can defeat anti-liberal politics are explored in ten penetrating essays.

The Philosophy Scare

Author : John McCumber
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022639641X
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophy Scare written by John McCumber and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating study reveals the extensive influence of Cold War politics on academia, philosophical inquiry, and the course of intellectual history. From the rise of popular novels that championed the heroism of the individual to the proliferation of abstract art as a counter to socialist realism, the years of the Cold War had a profound impact on American intellectual life. As John McCumber shows in this fascinating account, philosophy, too, was hit hard by the Red Scare. Detailing the immense political pressures that reshaped philosophy departments in midcentury America, he shows how the path of American philosophy was altered to follow a political agenda. McCumber begins with the story of Max Otto, whose appointment to the UCLA Philosophy Department in 1947 was met with widespread protest charging him as an atheist. Drawing on Otto’s case, McCumber details the conservative efforts that, by 1960, had all but banished existentialism and pragmatism—not to mention Marxism—from philosophy departments across the country. These paradigms were replaced with what McCumber calls Cold War philosophy, ideas that valorized scientific objectivity and free markets and which downplayed the anti-theistic implications of modern thought. As McCumber shows, the effects of this trend can still be seen at American universities today.

Political Fiction and the American Self

Author : John Whalen-Bridge
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252066887
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Political Fiction and the American Self written by John Whalen-Bridge and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining political novels that have achieved (or been denied) canonical status, John Whalen-Bridge demonstrates how Herman Melville, Jack London, Norman Mailer, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and Margaret Atwood have grappled with the problem of balancing radicalism and art. He shows that some books are more political than others, that some political novelists are more skillful than others, and that readers must allow for basic working distinctions between politics and aesthetics if we are to make useful judgments about which political novels to read, and why. "Whalen-Bridge demonstrates with clarity and power that the American political novel should not be ostracized but celebrated as a genre equal or superior to poetic and aesthetic ones." -- Tobin Siebers, author of Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism

Cold War Assemblages

Author : Bhakti Shringarpure
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429515820
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Cold War Assemblages written by Bhakti Shringarpure and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-29 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book bridges the gap between the simultaneously unfolding histories of postcoloniality and the forty-five-year ideological and geopolitical rivalry between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Not only did the superpowers rely upon the decolonizing world to further imperial agendas, but the postcolony itself was shaped, epistemologically and materially, by Cold War discourses, policies, narratives, and paradigms. Ruptures and appropriated trajectories in the postcolonial world can be attributed to the ways in which the Cold War became the afterlife of European colonialism. Through a speculative assemblage, this book connects the dots, deftly taking the reader from Frantz Fanon to Aaron Swartz, and from assassinations in the Third World to American multiculturalism. Whether the Cold War subverted the dream of decolonization or created a compromised cultural sphere, this book makes those rich palimpsests visible.

Sex, Identity, Aesthetics

Author : Jina B. Kim
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472902474
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Sex, Identity, Aesthetics written by Jina B. Kim and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late Tobin Siebers was a pioneer of, and one of the most prominent thinkers in, the field of disability studies. His scholarship on sexual and intimate affiliations, the connections between structural location and coalitional politics, and the creative arts has shaped disability studies and continues to be widely cited. Sex, Identity, Aesthetics: The Work of Tobin Siebers and Disability Studies uses Siebers’ work as a launchpad for thinking about contemporary disability studies. The editors provide an overview of Siebers’ research to show how it has contributed to humanistic understandings of ability and disability along three key axes: sex, identity, and aesthetics. The first section of the book explores how disability provides a way for scholars to theorize a wider range of intimacies and relationalities, arguing that disabled people seek sexual access and revolution in ways that transgress heteronormative dictates on sexual propriety. The second part of the book works outward from Siebers’ work to looks at how disability broadens our concepts of social location and political affiliations. The final section examines how disability challenges traditional notions of artistic beauty and agency. Rather than being a strictly commemorative collection meant to mark the end of a major scholar’s career, this collection shows how Siebers’ foundational work in disability studies remains central to and continues to inspire scholars in the field today.

Skepticism and Political Thought in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Author : John Christian Laursen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442649216
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Skepticism and Political Thought in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries written by John Christian Laursen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published by the University of Toronto Press in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

British Fiction and the Cold War

Author : A. Hammond
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137274859
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book British Fiction and the Cold War written by A. Hammond and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a unique analysis of the wide-ranging responses of British novelists to the East-West conflict. Hammond analyses the treatment of such geopolitical currents as communism, nuclearism, clandestinity, decolonisation and US superpowerdom, and explores the literary forms which writers developed to capture the complexities of the age.

Nietzsche's Political Skepticism

Author : Tamsin Shaw
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691146535
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Nietzsche's Political Skepticism written by Tamsin Shaw and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-21 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is difficult to spell out the precise political implications of Nietzsche's critique of morality. He himself never did so in any systematic way. Tamsin Shaw argues there is a reason for this: that Nietzsche's insights entail a distinctive form of political skepticism.

The Cold War Reference Guide

Author : Richard Alan Schwartz
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476610789
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Cold War Reference Guide written by Richard Alan Schwartz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over forty years much of the world was held captive by a conflict between two wholly incompatible economic ideologies--capitalism and communism--and the two primary superpower countries who practiced them, the United States and the Soviet Union. Written in accessible language for readers with little or no previous knowledge about the subject, this work is first a general history of the Cold War, with an overview of its root causes and the policies and theories that were in place from 1947 through 1990. A thoroughly annotated chronology of important Cold War events follows. Short biographies of some of the major United States political figures and world leaders conclude the work.

Cold War Literature

Author :
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134272553
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America

Author : Deborah Nelson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231528698
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America written by Deborah Nelson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2001-12-26 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuing Privacy in Cold War America explores the relationship between confessional poetry and constitutional privacy doctrine, both of which emerged at the end of the 1950s. While the public declarations of the Supreme Court and the private declamations of the lyric poet may seem unrelated, both express the upheavals in American notions of privacy that marked the Cold War era. Nelson situates the poetry and legal decisions as part of a far wider anxiety about privacy that erupted across the social, cultural, and political spectrum during this period. She explores the panic over the "death of privacy" aroused by broad changes in postwar culture: the growth of suburbia, the advent of television, the popularity of psychoanalysis, the arrival of computer databases, and the spectacles of confession associated with McCarthyism. Examining this interchange between poetry and law at its most intense moments of reflection in the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, Deborah Nelson produces a rhetorical analysis of a privacy concept integral to postwar America's self-definition and to bedrock contradictions in Cold War ideology. Nelson argues that the desire to stabilize privacy in a constitutional right and the movement toward confession in postwar American poetry were not simply manifestations of the anxiety about privacy. Supreme Court justices and confessional poets such as Anne Sexton, Robert Lowell, W. D. Snodgrass, and Sylvia Plath were redefining the nature of privacy itself. Close reading of the poetry alongside the Supreme Court's shifting definitions of privacy in landmark decisions reveals a broader and deeper cultural metaphor at work.

Madness in Cold War America

Author : Alexander Dunst
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 131736080X
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Madness in Cold War America written by Alexander Dunst and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of how madness came to play a prominent part in America’s political and cultural debates. It argues that metaphors of madness rise to unprecedented popularity amidst the domestic struggles of the early Cold War and become a pre-eminent way of understanding the relationship between politics and culture in the United States. In linking the individual psyche to society, psychopathology contributes to issues central to post-World War II society: a dramatic extension of state power, the fate of the individual in bureaucratic society, the political function of emotions, and the limits to admissible dissent. Such vocabulary may accuse opponents of being crazy. Yet at stake is a fundamental error of judgment, for which madness provides welcome metaphors across US diplomacy and psychiatry, social movements and criticism, literature and film. In the process, major parties and whole historical eras, literary movements and social groups are declared insane. Reacting against violence at home and war abroad, countercultural authors oppose a sane madness to irrational reason—romanticizing the wisdom of the schizophrenic and paranoia’s superior insight. As the Sixties give way to a plurality of lifestyles an alternative vision arrives: of a madness now become so widespread and ordinary that it may, finally, escape pathology.

The Cold War [2 volumes] [2 volumes]

Author : Priscilla Roberts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 144085212X
Total Pages : 992 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book The Cold War [2 volumes] [2 volumes] written by Priscilla Roberts and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed two-volume set tells the story of the Cold War, the dominant international event of the second half of the 20th century, through a diverse selection of primary source documents. One of the most extensive to date, this set of primary source documents studies the Cold War comprehensively from its beginning, with the emergence of the world's first communist government in Russia in late 1917, to its end, in 1991. All of the key events, including the Berlin Blockade, the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, and the nuclear arms race, are discussed in detail. The primary sources provide insight into the thinking of all participants, drawing on Western, Soviet, Asian, and Latin American perspectives. In The Cold War: Interpreting Conflict through Primary Documents primary documents are organized chronologically, allowing readers to appreciate the ramifications of the Cold War within a clear time frame. Extensive interpretive commentary provides in-depth background and context for each document. This work is an indispensable reference for all readers seeking to become deeply knowledgeable about the Cold War.