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Darkened Enlightenment

Author : Tim Delaney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100007160X
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Darkened Enlightenment written by Tim Delaney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-27 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The premise of Darkened Enlightenment is to highlight the fact that there currently exist a number of socio-political forces that have the design, or ultimate consequence, of trying to extinguish the light of reason and rationality. The book presents a critique of modernity and provides a socio-political and cultural analysis of world society in the early twenty-first century. Specifically, this analysis examines the deterioration of democracy, human rights, and rational thought. Key features include a combination of academic analysis that draws on numerous and specific examples of the growing darkness that surrounds us along with a balanced practical, everyday-life approach to the study of the socio-political world we live in through the use of popular culture references and featured boxes. The general audience will also be intrigued by these same topics that concern academics including: a discussion on the meaning of "fake news"; attacks on the media and a declaration of the news media as the "enemy of the people"; the rise of populism and nationalism around the world; the deterioration of freedom and human rights globally; the growing economic disparity between the rich and the poor; attempts to devalue education; a growing disbelief in science; attacks on the environment; pseudoscience as a by-product of unreasoned and irrational thinking; the political swamp; the power elites and the deep state; and the variations of Big Business that impact our daily lives. This book will make a great contribution to such fields as sociology, philosophy, political science, environmental science, public administration, economics, psychology, and cultural studies.

The Dark Side of the Enlightenment: Wizards, Alchemists, and Spiritual Seekers in the Age of Reason

Author : John V. Fleming
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039324217X
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book The Dark Side of the Enlightenment: Wizards, Alchemists, and Spiritual Seekers in the Age of Reason written by John V. Fleming and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-07-22 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why spiritual and supernatural yearnings, even investigations into the occult, flourished in the era of rationalist philosophy. In The Dark Side of the Enlightenment, John V. Fleming shows how the impulses of the European Enlightenment—generally associated with great strides in the liberation of human thought from superstition and traditional religion—were challenged by tenacious religious ideas or channeled into the “darker” pursuits of the esoteric and the occult. His engaging topics include the stubborn survival of the miraculous, the Enlightenment roles of Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry, and the widespread pursuit of magic and alchemy. Though we tend not to associate what was once called alchemy with what we now call chemistry, Fleming shows that the difference is merely one of linguistic modernization. Alchemy was once the chemistry, of Arabic derivation, and its practitioners were among the principal scientists and physicians of their ages. No point is more important for understanding the strange and fascinating figures in this book than the prestige of alchemy among the learned men of the age. Fleming follows some of these complexities and contradictions of the “Age of Lights” into the biographies of two of its extraordinary offspring. The first is the controversial wizard known as Count Cagliostro, the “Egyptian” freemason, unconventional healer, and alchemist known most infamously for his ambiguous association with the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, which history has viewed as among the possible harbingers of the French Revolution and a major contributing factor in the growing unpopularity of Marie Antoinette. Fleming also reviews the career of Julie de Krüdener, the sentimental novelist, Pietist preacher, and political mystic who would later become notorious as a prophet. Impressively researched and wonderfully erudite, this rich narrative history sheds light on some lesser-known mental extravagances and beliefs of the Enlightenment era and brings to life some of the most extraordinary characters ever encountered either in history or fiction.

The Diversity of Darkness and Shameful Behaviors

Author : Tim Delaney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000584755
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Diversity of Darkness and Shameful Behaviors written by Tim Delaney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The premise of The Diversity of Darkness and Shameful Behaviors is to emphasize the need for enlightened, rational thinking as a paradigm of thought as the culture of shamelessness continues to grow and cast its repulsive dark shadow over those who embrace enlightened reason and basic human rights for all. Diversity of Darkness is an innovative work and represents the third book of a trilogy written by the author that underscores the reality that there are many shamefully hateful and deadly behavioral threats that have jeopardized the very notions of civility, decency and justice around the world. This unique book utilizes evidence-based approaches in the examination of human behaviors in society that have become increasingly shameful and tolerated among a growing number of enablers. Key features include a combination of academic analyses that draw on numerous and specific examples of the diversity of darkness that encompasses the world along with a balanced practical, everyday-life approach to the study of the socio-political world we live in through the use of contemporary culture references and featured popular culture boxes. Social scientists, social thinkers and the general audience alike will be intrigued by the diversity of topics covered, including anti-civil rights movements; the rise of supremacist groups; hate crimes; mass shootings and active shootings; terrorism, war and genocide; an increase in shameful behaviors and attempts to shame others; and attacks on science, reason and rationality. We should realize that humanity has the intellect to accomplish great feats but heed the growing culture of shamelessness, irrationality and the diversity of darkness.

Shedding Light on the Age of Enlightenment

Author : Kitchen Mage
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (791 download)

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Download or read book Shedding Light on the Age of Enlightenment written by Kitchen Mage and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-02-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "From Darkened Minds to Radiant Futures: Rediscovering the Age of Enlightenment," embark on a captivating journey through one of history's most profound intellectual revolutions. Delve into the tumultuous yet exhilarating era of the Enlightenment, where minds dared to challenge the shackles of tradition and ignorance, paving the way for a new dawn of reason, liberty, and progress. In this illuminating exploration, acclaimed historian [Kichen Mage] guides readers through the corridors of power, philosophy, and culture that defined the Enlightenment. From the salons of Paris to the coffeehouses of London, witness the clash of ideas and the birth of revolutionary thought that would shape the modern world.

Discourses of Globalisation, Human Rights and Sports

Author : Joseph Zajda
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031383028
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Discourses of Globalisation, Human Rights and Sports written by Joseph Zajda and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses major discourses of performing sports within human rights. Research findings data demonstrate that sports is an inequitable field today that has the potential to be a social change agent. There is more discussion about rights violations and what the fields of sports can do to be more rights-respecting, but the discussions are at a surface, rather than analytic level for most sports organizations. In sports, culture and human rights, as an emerging field, it is important to develop well crafter theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical body of knowledge. There is an academic discipline of sport that showcases its interdisciplinary nature. Linking sport to the field of human rights will require theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical evolution in this new discipline. There are both organizational, environmental and individual factors associated within the nexus of sports, athletes and human rights. This book links together sports and human rights in a systematic and analytical way. It contains chapters that discuss human rights policies in performing sports, from both organizational and interpersonal perspectives. The book focuses on the benefits of sports and the human rights and safety challenges within the operations of sports organizations and their impact on individual players.

Advancing in Enlightenment

Author : Gail M. Knox
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1504383567
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Advancing in Enlightenment written by Gail M. Knox and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advancing in Enlightenment contains forty-four years of metaphysical study of the most profound channeled teachings from five of Americas teachers with the highest integrity. With seven simple chapters, this book combines the wisdom of the ages to master the physical reality that surrounds you to personally improve your life. Spiritual knowledge allows one to manifest the life of ones dreams in balance with inner peace while projecting that peaceful state out to the rest of world.

Antiblackness

Author : Moon-Kie Jung
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478013168
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Antiblackness written by Moon-Kie Jung and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antiblackness investigates the ways in which the dehumanization of Black people has been foundational to the establishment of modernity. Drawing on Black feminism, Afropessimism, and critical race theory, the book's contributors trace forms of antiblackness across time and space, from nineteenth-century slavery to the categorization of Latinx in the 2020 census, from South Africa and Palestine to the Chickasaw homelands, from the White House to convict lease camps, prisons, and schools. Among other topics, they examine the centrality of antiblackness in the introduction of Carolina rice to colonial India, the presence of Black people and Native Americans in the public discourse of precolonial Korea, and the practices of denial that obscure antiblackness in contemporary France. Throughout, the contributors demonstrate that any analysis of white supremacy---indeed, of the world---that does not contend with antiblackness is incomplete. Contributors. Mohan Ambikaipaker, Jodi A. Byrd, Iyko Day, Anthony Paul Farley, Crystal Marie Fleming, Sarah Haley, Tanya Katerí Hernández, Sarah Ihmoud, Joy James, Moon-Kie Jung, Jae Kyun Kim, Charles W. Mills, Dylan Rodríguez, Zach Sell, João H. Costa Vargas, Frank B. Wilderson III, Connie Wun

Library of Heaven's Path

Author : Heng Sao Tian Ya
Publisher : Cloudary Holdings Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Library of Heaven's Path written by Heng Sao Tian Ya and published by Cloudary Holdings Limited. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traversing into another world, Zhang Xuan finds himself becoming an honorable teacher. Along with his transcension, a mysterious library appears in his mind. As long as it is something he has seen, regardless of whether it is a human or an object, a book on its weaknesses will be automatically compiled in the library. Thus, he becomes formidable. "Monarch Zhuoyang, why do you detest wearing your underwear so much? As an emperor, can't you pay a little more attention to your image?" "Fairy Linglong, you can always look for me if you find yourself unable to sleep at night. I am skilled in lullabies!" "And you, Demon Monarch Qiankun! Can you cut down on the garlic? Are you trying to kill me with that stench?" This is an incredible story about teachers and students, grooming and guiding the greatest experts in the world! Discord Chat Group: https://discord.gg/ATHVehx Tags

Fatal Autonomy

Author : William Jewett
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501744526
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Fatal Autonomy written by William Jewett and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Fatal Autonomy is a subtle, gracefully written, and politically astute reading of selected plays by the canonical Romantic poets. Jewett offers the most original and carefully circumscribed formulations to date of the interaction between language and politics as it is depicted in Romantic drama.'—Julie Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara Describing an enduring moral puzzle and explaining how it helped to shape a key moment in the history of poetic drama, Fatal Autonomy represents Romanticism as a reckoning with the costs of individual agency. No moral calculus can ever fully determine the relation of events to an individual's actions and failures to act, William Jewett argues; that is why the stubborn belief in such a relationship gives rise to tragedy. Jewett maintains that tragic drama forces its readers and viewers to confront the ways in which the use of language grants agency. The Romantic poets saw a moral challenge in that confrontation and followed its generic implications toward a new kind of poetry. Fatal Autonomy thus looks to Romantic drama to explain how Romantic poetry came to hold a permanent grip on conceptions of moral life. Tracing the source of major strains in British Romanticism to a politically charged body of dramatic poems, Jewett focuses on two historical moments: 1794-97, which he describes as the political turning point in the careers of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and 1819-22, the years in which he believes Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron wrote their best poetry.

The Darkened Light of Faith

Author : Melvin L. Rogers
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691220751
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Darkened Light of Faith written by Melvin L. Rogers and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful new account of what a group of nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American activists, intellectuals, and artists can teach us about democracy Could the African American political tradition save American democracy? African Americans have had every reason to reject America’s democratic experiment. Yet African American activists, intellectuals, and artists who have sought to transform the United States into a racially just society have put forward some of the most original and powerful ideas about how to make America live up to its democratic ideals. In The Darkened Light of Faith, Melvin Rogers provides a bold new account of African American political thought through the works and lives of individuals who built this vital tradition—a tradition that is urgently needed today. The book reexamines how figures as diverse as David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Anna Julia Cooper, Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. Du Bois, Billie Holiday, and James Baldwin thought about the politics, people, character, and culture of a society that so often dominated them. Sharing a light of faith darkened but not extinguished by the tragic legacy of slavery, they resisted the conclusion that America would always be committed to white supremacy. They believed that democracy is always in the process of becoming and that they could use it to reimagine society. But they also saw that achieving racial justice wouldn’t absolve us of the darkest features of our shared past, and that democracy must be measured by how skillfully we confront a history that will forever remain with us. An ambitious account of the profound ways African Americans have reimagined democracy, The Darkened Light of Faith offers invaluable lessons about how to grapple with racial injustice and make democracy work.

A Revolution of the Mind

Author : Jonathan Israel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691152608
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book A Revolution of the Mind written by Jonathan Israel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-26 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Declaration of Human Rights.

The Chinese Recorder

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 956 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Chinese Affairs ...

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 900 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Affairs ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 878 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dark Affinities, Dark Imaginaries

Author : Joseph Natoli
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438463529
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Dark Affinities, Dark Imaginaries written by Joseph Natoli and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of self, braided to a story of American culture. Uniting personal history with cultural history, Dark Affinities, Dark Imaginaries tells a story of a mind, a time, and a culture. The vehicle or medium of this excursion is an overview and sampling of the author’s work, and what is revealed are cautionary tales of a once-aspiring egalitarian democracy confronted with plutocracy’s gentrification; of analog history and off-line life superseded by a rush toward virtualized, robotic, AI transformation of the human life-world; of everything social and public giving way to everything personal and opinionated. The vagaries of a lifetime of paths taken are woven together by a narrative that reveals in every piece a significance that was only partially present at its initial writing. Thus, the reader becomes involved in a developing story of a certain personal psyche working toward understanding its own development within a changing American culture. Sometimes angry, sometimes joyful, but always curious and wry, Joseph Natoli crosses the boundary lines of psychology, politics, literature, philosophy, education, and economics to show how we bring ourselves and our cultural imaginaries simultaneously into being through the processes and pleasures of thinking beyond the confines of the personal. Now retired,Joseph Natoli spent more than four decades teaching at the university level and twenty years as the editor of the SUNY book series in Postmodern Culture. He is the author of many books, including Hauntings: Popular Film and American Culture 1990–1992; Speeding to the Millennium: Film and Culture 1993–1995; Postmodern Journeys: Film and Culture 1996–1998; Memory’s Orbit: Film and Culture 1999–2000; and This Is a Picture and Not the World: Movies and a Post-9/11 America, all published by SUNY Press.

Human Rights in Islamic Societies

Author : Ahmed E. Souaiaia
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000389650
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights in Islamic Societies written by Ahmed E. Souaiaia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book compares Islamic and Western ideas of human rights in order to ascertain which human rights, if any, can be considered universal. This is a profound topic with a rich history that is highly relevant within global politics and society today. The arguments in this book are formed by bringing William Talbott’s Which Rights Should Be Universal? (2005) and Abdulaziz Sachedina’s Islam and the Challenge of Human Rights (2014) into conversation. By bridging the gap between cultural relativists and moral universalists, this book seeks to offer a new model for the understanding of human rights. It contends that human rights abuses are outcomes of complex systems by design and/or by default. Therefore, it proposes that a rigorous systems-thinking approach will contribute to addressing the challenge of human rights. Engaging with Islamic and Western, historical and contemporary, and relativist and universalist thought, this book is a fresh take on a perennially important issue. As such, it will be a first-rate resource for any scholars working in religious studies, Islamic studies, Middle East studies, ethics, sociology, and law and religion.

Classical and Contemporary Social Theory

Author : Tim Delaney
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003846742
Total Pages : 727 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Classical and Contemporary Social Theory written by Tim Delaney and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-22 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of Classical and Contemporary Social Theory provides wraparound coverage of the classical social theorists and influential sociological schools of thought in the contemporary period. Explained carefully and clearly throughout, Tim Delaney reviews the key concepts and contributions from brilliant classical social thinkers and recent sociological thought, spanning over 500 years of source material. He weaves together profiles of leading theorists, thorough descriptions of major academic and intellectual perspectives, and discussion of prevailing themes of interest that have concerned theorists and sociologists throughout time and will likely continue to do so in the future. The book emphasizes methods of investigation and application in its overview of the field by challenging readers to think about problems critically and in relation to key sociological theories and to also apply their sociological understanding to real, everyday events. In this new edition, Delaney revisits the classical period and highlights the special contributions of American social theorists and their impact on the diversity of thought leading into the contemporary era. He attends to later schools of thought and weaves in important updates related to critical race theory and globalization. With updated context and further applications, the second edition of Classical and Contemporary Social Theory is a perfect addition to combined courses in social theory.