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Book Synopsis Marxism, Mysticism and Modern Theory by : Suke Wolton
Download or read book Marxism, Mysticism and Modern Theory written by Suke Wolton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fashionable new theories tend to reject universal reason in favour of pluralism and locality. Marxism, Mysticism and Modern Theory examines some of these theories and argues that they are the mystified expression of the current political and economic impasse. Today's relativistic outlook reveals a minimalist and atomized viewpoint - a retreat from the goal of rational understanding. Marxism, Mysticism and Modern Theory sets out, in this critique, the case for developing a new humanism to extend rationality.
Book Synopsis British Marxist Criticism by : Victor N. Paananen
Download or read book British Marxist Criticism written by Victor N. Paananen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-12 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British Marxist Criticism provides selective but extensive annotated bibliographies, introductory essays, and important pieces of work from each of eight British critics who sought to explain literary production according to the principles of Marxism.
Download or read book Reason in Revolt written by Alan Woods and published by Wellred Books. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The achievements of science and technology during the past century are unparalleled in history. They provide the potential for the solution to all the problems faced by the planet, and equally for its total destruction. Allegedly scientific theories are being used to "prove" that criminality is caused, not by social conditions, but by a "criminal gene". Black people are alleged to be disadvantaged, not because of discrimination, but because of their genetic make-up. Of course, such "science" is highly convenient to right-wing politicians intent on ruthlessly cutting welfare. In the field of theoretical physics and cosmology there is a growing tendency towards mysticism. The "Big Bang" theory of the origin of the universe is being used to justify the existence of a Creator, as in the book of Genesis . For the first time in centuries, science appears to lend credence to religious obscurantism. Yet this is only one side of the story.
Book Synopsis Marx's Scientific Dialectics by : Paul B. Paolucci
Download or read book Marx's Scientific Dialectics written by Paul B. Paolucci and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-06-30 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines both problems in traditional readings of Marx's texts and how he used several methods of science to inform his dialectical thinking, historical materialist research, political economic analyses, and his communist project. A case is made for Marx's continuing methodological relevance.
Book Synopsis Marxism and Feminism by : Shahrzad Mojab
Download or read book Marxism and Feminism written by Shahrzad Mojab and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global events, from economic crisis to social unrest and militarization, disproportionately affect women. Yet around the world it is also women who are leading the struggle against oppression and exploitation. In light of renewed interest in Marxist theory among many women activists and academics, Marxism and Feminism presents a contemporary and accessible Marxist–feminist analysis on a host of issues. It reassesses previous debates and seeks to answer pressing questions of how we should understand the relationship between patriarchy and capitalism, and how we can envision a feminist project which emancipates both women and society. With contributions from both renowned scholars and new voices, Marxism and Feminism is set to become the foundational text for modern Marxist-feminist thought.
Book Synopsis Feminist Thought, Student Economy Edition by : Rosemarie Tong
Download or read book Feminist Thought, Student Economy Edition written by Rosemarie Tong and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a clear, comprehensive, and incisive introduction to the major traditions of feminist theory, from liberal feminism, radical feminism, and Marxist and socialist feminism to care-focused feminism, psychoanalytic feminism, women of color feminisms, and ecofeminism.
Book Synopsis Reason in Revolt; Marxist Philosophy and Modern Science by : Alan Woods & Ted Grant
Download or read book Reason in Revolt; Marxist Philosophy and Modern Science written by Alan Woods & Ted Grant and published by Aakar Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As We Approach The 21St Century Science And Philosophy Are At The Crossroads. The Achievements Of Science And Technology In The 20Th Century Are Unparalleled In History. They Provide The Potential For The Solution Of All The Problems Faced By The Planet, And Equally For Its Total Destruction. Allegedly Scientific Theories Are Being Used To Prove That Criminality Is Caused, Not By Social Conditions, But By A Criminal Gene . Black People Are Alleged To Be Disadvantaged, Not Because Of Discrimination, But Because Of Their Genetic Make-Up. Similar Arguments Are Used For Poor People, Single Mothers, Women, And So On. Of Course, Such Science Is Highly Convenient To Right Wing Politicians Intent On Ruthlessly Cutting Welfare.In The Field Of Theoretical Physics And Cosmology There Is A Growing Tendency Towards Mysticism. The Big Bang Theory Of The Origin Of The Universe Is Being Used To Justify The Existence Of A Creator, As In The Book Of Genesis. For The First Time In Centuries, Science Appears To Lend Credence To Religious Obscurantism. Yet That Is Only One Side Of The Story.A Growing Number Of Scientists Are Becoming Discontented With The Old Outlook. The Rapid Rise Of The Theory Of Chaos And Complexity Is One Of The Most Significant Developments In Science At The End Of The 20Th Century. Many Of The Ideas Expressed By This New Trend Are Strikingly Similar To The Theories Of Dialectical Materialism Worked Out By Marx And Engels Over 150 Years Ago.A Significant Part Of The Present Work Is Devoted To An Exploration Of The Relationship Between Marxist Philosophy And The New Theories. Will This Encounter Provide The Basis For A New And Exciting Breakthrough In The Methodology Of Science?
Book Synopsis The Erosion of the American Sporting Ethos by : Joel Nathan Rosen
Download or read book The Erosion of the American Sporting Ethos written by Joel Nathan Rosen and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2007-04-23 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume provides an analysis of the nature of competition in contemporary American sport. This work traces American sport from American culture to the influence of the 1960s counterculture and the resulting rise of a post-Cold War ethos that continues to reinterpret competitiveness as a relic of a misbegotten past and anathema to American life"--Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis Postcolonial, Queer by : John C. Hawley
Download or read book Postcolonial, Queer written by John C. Hawley and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2001-08-30 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These thirteen essays address possible ramifications arising from the globalization of western notions of gay and lesbian identities. Examining postcolonial literature, economics, and psychology from a "queer" perspective leads to self-reflexive consideration of the canonization of postcolonial studies and queer theory in western academe.
Book Synopsis Critical Companion to Contemporary Marxism by : Jacques Bidet
Download or read book Critical Companion to Contemporary Marxism written by Jacques Bidet and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International and interdisciplinary in range and scope, the "Critical Companion to Contemporary Marxism" provides a thorough and precise panorama of recent developments in Marxist theory in the US, Europe and beyond.
Book Synopsis Journalism Studies by : Andrew Calcutt
Download or read book Journalism Studies written by Andrew Calcutt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the world of politics and public affairs has gradually changed beyond recognition over the past two decades, journalism too has been transformed... yet the study of news and journalism often seems stuck with ideas and debates which have lost much of their critical purchase. Journalism is at a crossroads: it needs to reaffirm core values and rediscover key activities, almost certainly in new forms, or it risks losing its distinctive character as well as its commercial basis. Journalism Studies is a polemical textbook that rethinks the field of journalism studies for the contemporary era. Organised around three central themes – ownership, objectivity and the public – Journalism Studies addresses the contexts in which journalism is produced, practised and disseminated. It outlines key issues and debates, reviewing established lines of critique in relation to the state of contemporary journalism, then offering alternative ways of approaching these issues, seeking to reconceptualise them in order to suggest an agenda for change and development in both journalism studies and journalism itself. Journalism Studies is a concise and accessible introduction to contemporary journalism studies, and will be highly useful to undergraduate and postgraduate students on a range of Journalism, Media and Communications courses.
Book Synopsis Revival: Writing the Bodies of Christ (2001) by : John Schad
Download or read book Revival: Writing the Bodies of Christ (2001) written by John Schad and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2001. A volume of essays on the Pauline, ecclesiastical body of Christ -the church. It is, of course, not possible to separate completely one body of Christ from another, and the essays do not make the attempt. The dark, institutional history of the church is a running theme, a running sore, throughout the volume; in that sense the essays respond to Michel Foucault's insistence that we should be mindful of the institutions that surreptitiously inform our discourse and culture. The essays deal with the myriad of ways in which the church is named, spoken and, above all, written in the age of secularization. In this sense, the contributors are simply exploring the relationship between the church and modern writing.
Book Synopsis Marxism and the Open Mind by : John Lewis
Download or read book Marxism and the Open Mind written by John Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Marxism and the Open Mind, John Lewis seeks to explain Marxism as a system of thought. In doing so, he addresses the studied neglect or grotesque misrepresentation that he feels characterizes Western attitudes toward Marxism. Lewis also aims to stimulate what he believes to be a long overdue re-evaluation of Marxism in the light of what was contemporary thought in 1957, the year of the book's original publication and the height of the Cold War era. The essays include chapters on human rights and a discussion on Marxism and liberty. Marxist ethics, a much-neglected theme, is the subject of an essay that deals with some of the most deeply felt criticisms of Marxism in the 1950s. The ethical aspects of Marxism are examined once again in a contribution to the debate on Marxism and religion. The volume concludes with essays on Berdyaev and Sartre, which strike a note on the Marxist estimation of these thinkers, and with an essay on Marxist humanism. The essays cover a wide field of thought, uniting a close and sympathetic study of Marxism with a critical judgment rooted in academic training at three universities and experience in the Christian ministry.
Book Synopsis Marxism and Modern Thought by : N. I. Bukharin
Download or read book Marxism and Modern Thought written by N. I. Bukharin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in English in 1935, this is a vital and stimulating critical appraisal of contemporary thought in the post-World War One era. Written by a selection of leading Marxist thinkers including Nikolai Bukharin, who would later become one of the most famous victims of Stalin's show trials, this work offers a Marxist critique of contemporary thought relating to philosophy, science and history. The authors all lean towards the view that the general tendency of modern thought is to abandon the historical method and to deny progress, with the conclusion that Marxism was the only historical and progressive outlook in science, philosophy and history in the period following the First World War and the Communist revolution in Russia. A fascinating document of great historical and political interest which offers an invaluable insight into contemporary thought in the Soviet Union of the 1930s.
Book Synopsis The New Twenty Years' Crisis by : Philip Cunliffe
Download or read book The New Twenty Years' Crisis written by Philip Cunliffe and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The liberal order is decaying. Will it survive, and if not, what will replace it? On the eightieth anniversary of the publication of E.H. Carr's The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939, Philip Cunliffe revisits this classic text, juxtaposing its claims with contemporary debates on the rise and fall of the liberal international order. The New Twenty Years' Crisis reveals that the liberal international order experienced a twenty-year cycle of decline from 1999 to 2019. In contrast to claims that the order has been undermined by authoritarian challengers, Cunliffe argues that the primary drivers of the crisis are internal. He shows that the heavily ideological international relations theory that has developed since the end of the Cold War is clouded by utopianism, replacing analysis with aspiration and expressing the interests of power rather than explaining its functioning. As a result, a growing tendency to discount political alternatives has made us less able to adapt to political change. In search of a solution, this book argues that breaking through the current impasse will require not only dissolving the new forms of utopianism, but also pushing past the fear that the twenty-first century will repeat the mistakes of the twentieth. Only then can we finally escape the twenty years' crisis. By reflecting on Carr's foundational work, The New Twenty Years' Crisis offers an opportunity to take stock of the current state of international order and international relations theory.
Book Synopsis The politics of war reporting by : Tim Markham
Download or read book The politics of war reporting written by Tim Markham and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The politics of war reporting: Authority, authenticity and morality challenges the assumptions that reporters and their audiences have about the way the journalistic trade operates and how it sees the world. It unpacks the taken-for-granted aspects of the lives of war correspondents, exposing the principles of interaction and valorisation that usually go unacknowledged. Is journalistic authority really only about doing the job well? Do the ethics of war reporting emerge simply from the ‘stuff’ of journalism? This book asks why it is that the authoritative reporter increasingly needs to appear authentic, and that success depends not only on getting things right but being the right sort of journalist. This, in turn, depends on the uncalculating mastery of practices both before and during a journalist’s career. This book includes interviews with war correspondents and others with an active stake in the field and combines them with the critical sociology of Pierre Bourdieu to construct a political phenomenology of war reporting – the power relations and unspoken ‘rules of the game’ underpinning the representation of conflict and suffering by the media. It considers the recent phenomena of pooling and embedding journalists as well as the impact of new technologies, and asks what changes in the journalistic area can tell us about authority, authenticity and morality in the cultural industries more broadly. Interdisciplinary in its approach, The Politics of War Reporting will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of media and cultural studies, sociology and political theory.
Book Synopsis Contemporary Television Series by : Michael Hammond
Download or read book Contemporary Television Series written by Michael Hammond and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging and provocative study of the contemporary prime-time 'quality' serial television format, this book gives a timely account of prominent programmes such as 24, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, ER, The Sopranos and The West Wing and explores their influential position within the television industry. Divided into the areas of history, aesthetics and reception, the text provides an illuminating overview of an increasingly hybrid television studies discipline. Chapters consider the formal and aesthetic elements in the contemporary television serial through approaches ranging from those concerned with issues of gender and sexuality, national identity, and reception to industry history and textual analysis. The book also includes British examples of 'quality' serial television emphasizing not only their cultural specificity but also the transnational context in which these programmes operate. Features*Section introductions provide student-friendly explanations of the various approaches and methodologies employed in the book*Chapters are written by an international team of experts in the field of television studies*Ideal for use as a textbook on courses in contemporary television taught at undergraduate level
