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Conspicuous Criticism

Author : Christopher Shannon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conspicuous Criticism written by Christopher Shannon and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1996 and newly revised, Conspicuous Criticism is a ringing defense of the need for religion and tradition in contemporary society. Writing with moral passion and critical verve, Christopher Shannon offers a convincing indictment of the forces that isolate the individual in modern capitalist society and counters more than a century of efforts by modern intellectuals to displace tradition in favor of a humanism that actually diminishes humanity in the name of freeing its potential. Featuring in-depth analyses of the works of John Dewey, Thorstein Veblen, C. Wright Mills, and others, Conspicuous Criticism is a call to reinstate traditional relations to God, nature, and the common good. Scholars in fields from American studies to intellectual history will be forced to grapple with Shannon's trenchant critique, which is well on its way to becoming a classic of Christian thought. "Conspicuous Criticism inspired a concern about the modern world that in the years since I've not been able to brush aside."--Eric Miller, First Things

Veblen

Author : Charles Camic
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674659724
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book Veblen written by Charles Camic and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold new biography of the thinker who demolished accepted economic theories in order to expose how people of economic and social privilege plunder their wealth from society’s productive men and women. Thorstein Veblen was one of America’s most penetrating analysts of modern capitalist society. But he was not, as is widely assumed, an outsider to the social world he acidly described. Veblen overturns the long-accepted view that Veblen’s ideas, including his insights about conspicuous consumption and the leisure class, derived from his position as a social outsider. In the hinterlands of America’s Midwest, Veblen’s schooling coincided with the late nineteenth-century revolution in higher education that occurred under the patronage of the titans of the new industrial age. The resulting educational opportunities carried Veblen from local Carleton College to centers of scholarship at Johns Hopkins, Yale, Cornell, and the University of Chicago, where he studied with leading philosophers, historians, and economists. Afterward, he joined the nation’s academic elite as a professional economist, producing his seminal books The Theory of the Leisure Class and The Theory of Business Enterprise. Until late in his career, Veblen was, Charles Camic argues, the consummate academic insider, engaged in debates about wealth distribution raging in the field of economics. Veblen demonstrates how Veblen’s education and subsequent involvement in those debates gave rise to his original ideas about the social institutions that enable wealthy Americans—a swarm of economically unproductive “parasites”—to amass vast fortunes on the backs of productive men and women. Today, when great wealth inequalities again command national attention, Camic helps us understand the historical roots and continuing reach of Veblen’s searing analysis of this “sclerosis of the American soul.”

Christian Critics

Author : Eugene McCarraher
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801434730
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Christian Critics written by Eugene McCarraher and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While all supported movements for the rights of labor, racial minorities, and women, some endorsed the military-industrial order that established the professional-managerial class as a dominant national force, while others favored a decentralized political economy of worker self-management. At the same time, McCarraher recasts the debate about the "therapeutic ethic" by tracing a shift, not from religion to therapy, but from religious to secular conceptions of selfhood.

Glimpses of Another Land

Author : Eric Miller
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1621894150
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Glimpses of Another Land written by Eric Miller and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Glimpses of Another Land, Eric Miller takes the reader across the American landscape in quest of insight into our times. For those facing challenges and choices from all sides, Miller offers not analysis so much as reorientation--the kind of sharpened vision that redirects movement. An age featuring 9/11 as its defining moment surely requires probing reflection and judgment. Here Eric Miller, with an alert eye and keen voice, provides both.

Princeton Theological Review

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Princeton Theological Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Acts of Conspicuous Compassion

Author : Sheila C. Moeschen
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472118862
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Acts of Conspicuous Compassion written by Sheila C. Moeschen and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2013-06-24 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminates the relationship between performance and the American charity movement

Veronica

Author : Roger Duvoisin
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0307804755
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Veronica written by Roger Duvoisin and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-12-19 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veronica, a hippopotamus who wants to stand out from the herd and be famous, travels to the big city where she indeed does stand out. Causing traffic jams, blocking sidewalks, and devouring a pushcart vendor’s vegetables in one big gulp, Veronia is arrested and jailed. How she discovers that there is no place like home is told with warm humor and sublimely mirthful illustrations that are great fun to share with a young child.

Experiments with Life Itself

Author : Francisco González de Canales
Publisher : ACTAR Publishers
ISBN 13 : 8492861657
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Experiments with Life Itself written by Francisco González de Canales and published by ACTAR Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every book relating the history of modern architecture features a large number of pages dedicated to avant-garde designs and the formation of the modern movement in the interwar years, and a similar number devoted to reconstruction and expansion after the Second World War. Meanwhile, as if owing to lack of understanding or convenient silence, there is void of dark years, of wars, exile and misfortune about which little can be said. However, it was in these dark times, as in so many other revealing moments in the history of culture, that experimental and profoundly invigorating experiences were taking place. Architects and artists voluntarily or forcibly driven to the margins of social importance began to react to a culturally unsustainable situation of which we know very little even today. In Experiments with Life Itself, Francisco Gonzalez de Canales studies a series of unrelated cases from the late 1930s to the late 1950s that he refers to as domestic self-experimentation.

Conspicuous Consumption in Africa

Author : Ilana van Wyk
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1776143663
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (761 download)

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Download or read book Conspicuous Consumption in Africa written by Ilana van Wyk and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays examining cultures of consumption on the African continent From early department stores in Cape Town to gendered histories of sartorial success in urban Togo, contestations over expense accounts at an apartheid state enterprise, elite wealth and political corruption in Angola and Zambia, the role of popular religion in the political intransigence of Jacob Zuma, funerals of big men in Cameroon, youth cultures of consumption in Niger and South Africa, queer consumption in Cape Town, middle-class food consumption in Durban and the consumption of luxury handcrafted beads, this collection of essays explores the ways in which conspicuous consumption is foregrounded in various African contexts and historical moments. The essays in Conspicuous Consumption in Africa put Thorstein Veblen’s concept under robust critical scrutiny, delving into the pleasures, stresses and challenges of consuming in its religious, generational, gendered and racialised aspects, revealing conspicuous consumption as a layered set of practices, textures and relations. This volume shows how central and revealing conspicuous consumption can be to fathoming the history of Africa’s projects of modernity, and their global lineages and legacies. In its grounded, up-close case studies, it is likely to feed into current public debates on the nature and future of African societies – South African society in particular.

A History of Russian Literary Theory and Criticism

Author : Evgeniĭ Aleksandrovich Dobrenko
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822977443
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book A History of Russian Literary Theory and Criticism written by Evgeniĭ Aleksandrovich Dobrenko and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2011 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume assembles the work of leading international scholars in a comprehensive history of Russian literary theory and criticism from 1917 to the post-Soviet age. By examining the dynamics of literary criticism and theory in three arenas—political, intellectual, and institutional—the authors capture the progression and structure of Russian literary criticism and its changing function and discourse. For the first time anywhere, this collection analyzes all of the important theorists and major critical movements during a tumultuous ideological period in Russian history, including developments in émigré literary theory and criticism. Winner of the 2012 Efim Etkind Prize for the best book on Russian culture, awarded by the European University at St. Petersburg, Russia.

Music Criticism and Music Critics in Early Francoist Spain

Author : Eva Moreda Rodríguez
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190215860
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Music Criticism and Music Critics in Early Francoist Spain written by Eva Moreda Rodríguez and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Music Criticism and Music Critics in Early Francoist Spain', Eva Moreda Rodríguez presents a kaleidoscopic portrait of the diverse and often divergent writings of music critics in the early years of the Franco regime. Carefully selecting contemporary writings by well-known music critics, Moreda Rodríguez contextualizes music criticism written during the Franco regime within the broader intellectual history of Spain from the nineteenth century onwards.--Publisher description.

The Sum of Small Things

Author : Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400884691
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Sum of Small Things written by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite, and how their consumer habits affect us all In today’s world, the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite. Highly educated and defined by cultural capital rather than income bracket, these individuals earnestly buy organic, carry NPR tote bags, and breast-feed their babies. They care about discreet, inconspicuous consumption—like eating free-range chicken and heirloom tomatoes, wearing organic cotton shirts and TOMS shoes, and listening to the Serial podcast. They use their purchasing power to hire nannies and housekeepers, to cultivate their children’s growth, and to practice yoga and Pilates. In The Sum of Small Things, Elizabeth Currid-Halkett dubs this segment of society “the aspirational class” and discusses how, through deft decisions about education, health, parenting, and retirement, the aspirational class reproduces wealth and upward mobility, deepening the ever-wider class divide. Exploring the rise of the aspirational class, Currid-Halkett considers how much has changed since the 1899 publication of Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class. In that inflammatory classic, which coined the phrase “conspicuous consumption,” Veblen described upper-class frivolities: men who used walking sticks for show, and women who bought silver flatware despite the effectiveness of cheaper aluminum utensils. Now, Currid-Halkett argues, the power of material goods as symbols of social position has diminished due to their accessibility. As a result, the aspirational class has altered its consumer habits away from overt materialism to more subtle expenditures that reveal status and knowledge. And these transformations influence how we all make choices. With a rich narrative and extensive interviews and research, The Sum of Small Things illustrates how cultural capital leads to lifestyle shifts and what this forecasts, not just for the aspirational class but for everyone.

The Public

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Public written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Church of the first half of the 19th century. Postscript (1850-1880)

Author : John Stoughton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
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Download or read book Church of the first half of the 19th century. Postscript (1850-1880) written by John Stoughton and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Veblen in Perspective

Author : Stephen Edgell
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9781563241178
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Veblen in Perspective written by Stephen Edgell and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2001 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique work combines an authoritative account of Veblen's life with a thoughtful appraisal of his interdisciplinary analysis of the origins, nature, and persistence of industrial capitalism. The book goes beyond the myth of Veblen's alleged marginality, and advances an original interpretation of his life's work, with special reference to his ethnicity and to evolutionism. In the process, the author considers the intellectual sources and impact of Veblen's critical social thought, and its continued relevance to understanding the economic and cultural dimensions of global capitalism.

The Public

Author : Louis Freeland Post
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Public written by Louis Freeland Post and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Last Lover

Author : Can Xue
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300206887
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Last Lover written by Can Xue and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: divIn Can Xue’s extraordinary book, we encounter a full assemblage of husbands, wives, and lovers. Entwined in complicated, often tortuous relationships, these characters step into each other’s fantasies, carrying on conversations that are “forever guessing games.” Their journeys reveal the deepest realms of human desire, figured in Can Xue’s vision of snakes and wasps, crows, cats, mice, earthquakes, and landslides. In dive bars and twisted city streets, on deserts and snowcapped mountains, the author creates an extreme world where every character “is driving death away with a singular performance.” Who is the last lover? The novel is bursting with vividly drawn characters. Among them are Joe, sales manager of a clothing company in an unnamed Western country, and his wife, Maria, who conducts mystical experiments with the household’s cats and rosebushes. Joe’s customer Reagan is having an affair with Ida, a worker at his rubber plantation, while clothing-store owner Vincent runs away from his wife in pursuit of a woman in black who disappears over and over again. By the novel’s end, we have accompanied these characters on a long march, a naive, helpless, and forsaken search for love, because there are just some things that can’t be stopped—or helped./DIV