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Power in Modernity

Author : Isaac Ariail Reed
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022668959X
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Power in Modernity written by Isaac Ariail Reed and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Power in Modernity, Isaac Ariail Reed proposes a bold new theory of power that describes overlapping networks of delegation and domination. Chains of power and their representation, linking together groups and individuals across time and space, create a vast network of intersecting alliances, subordinations, redistributions, and violent exclusions. Reed traces the common action of “sending someone else to do something for you” as it expands outward into the hierarchies that control territories, persons, artifacts, minds, and money. He mobilizes this theory to investigate the onset of modernity in the Atlantic world, with a focus on rebellion, revolution, and state formation in colonial North America, the early American Republic, the English Civil War, and French Revolution. Modernity, Reed argues, dismantled the “King’s Two Bodies”—the monarch’s physical body and his ethereal, sacred second body that encompassed the body politic—as a schema of representation for forging power relations. Reed’s account then offers a new understanding of the democratic possibilities and violent exclusions forged in the name of “the people,” as revolutionaries sought new ways to secure delegation, build hierarchy, and attack alterity. Reconsidering the role of myth in modern politics, Reed proposes to see the creative destruction and eternal recurrence of the King’s Two Bodies as constitutive of the modern attitude, and thus as a new starting point for critical theory. Modernity poses in a new way an eternal human question: what does it mean to be the author of one’s own actions?

Modernity and Power

Author : Frank Ninkovich
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226586502
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (865 download)

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Download or read book Modernity and Power written by Frank Ninkovich and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-11-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernity and Power provides a fresh conceptual overview of twentieth-century United States foreign policy, from the Roosevelt and Taft administrations through the presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson. Beginning with Woodrow Wilson, American leaders gradually abandoned the idea of international relations as a game of geopolitical interplays, basing their diplomacy instead on a symbolic opposition between "world public opinion" and the forces of destruction and chaos. Frank Ninkovich provocatively links this policy shift to the rise of a distinctly modernist view of history. To emphasize the central role of symbolism and ideological assumptions in twentieth-century American statesmanship, Ninkovich focuses on the domino theory—a theory that departed radically from classic principles of political realism by sanctioning intervention in world regions with few financial or geographic claims on the national interest. Ninkovich insightfully traces the development of this global strategy from its first appearance early in the century through the Vietnam war. Throughout the book, Ninkovich draws on primary sources to recover the worldview of the policy makers. He carefully assesses the coherence of their views rather than judge their actions against "objective" realities. Offering a new alternative to realpolitic and economic explanations of foreign policy, Modernity and Power will change the way we think about the history of U.S. international relations.

Transition to Modernity

Author : Ernest Gellner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521382025
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Transition to Modernity written by Ernest Gellner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-01-16 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World languages and human dispersals : a minimalist view / Colin Renfrew -- Nomads and oases in Central Asia / A.M. Khazanov -- Why poverty was inevitable in traditional societies / E.A. Wrigley -- On a little known chapter of Mediterranean history / Karl R. Popper -- Ernest Gellner and the escape to modernity / Alan Macfarlane -- The emergence of modern European nationalism / Michael Mann -- Sovereign individuals / Ronald Dore -- Science, politics, enchantment / Perry Anderson -- Deconstructing post-modernism : Gellner and Crocodile Dundee / Joseph Agassi -- A methodology without presuppositions? / John Watkins -- Gellner's positivism / I.C. Jarvie -- Left versus Right in French political ideology / Louis Dumont -- Property, justice and common good after socialism / John Dunn -- Social contract, democracy and freedom / Gerard Radnitzky -- Thoughts on liberalisation / Jose Merquior -- Peace, peace at last? / John A. Hall.

Powers of Distinction

Author : Nancy Levene
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022650753X
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Powers of Distinction written by Nancy Levene and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The principle of modernity -- A history of religion -- Artificial populations -- The collective -- Images of truth from Anselm to Badiou -- The radical enlightenment of Spinoza and Kant -- Modernity as ground zero -- Of gods, laws, rabbis, and ends

Power, Culture and Modernity in Nigeria

Author : Oluwatoyin Oduntan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351591622
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Power, Culture and Modernity in Nigeria written by Oluwatoyin Oduntan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Oluwatoyin Oduntan offers a critical intervention in the scholarly fields of Nigerian, and West African history, as well as towards understanding the intellectual ideas by which modern African society was formed, and how it functions. The book traces the shifting dynamics between various segments of the African elite by critically analyzing existing historical accounts, traditions and archival documents. First, it explores the lost world of native intellectual thoughts as the perspective through which Africans experienced the colonial encounter. It thereby makes Africans central to contemporary debates about the meanings and legitimacy of colonial empires, and about the African cultural experience. It shows that the resettlement of liberated and Westernized Africans in Abeokuta and after them, European missionaries, merchants and colonial agents from the 1840s, did not dismantle preexisting power structures and social relations. Rather, educated Africans and Europeans entered into and added their voices to ongoing processes of defining culture and power. By rendering a continuing narrative of change and adaptation which connects the pre-colonial to the post-colonial, Power, Culture and Modernity in Nigeria leads Africanist scholarship in new directions to rethink colonial impact and uncover the total creative sites of changes by which African societies were formed.

Michel Foucault and the Politics of Freedom

Author : Thomas L. Dumm
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0742521397
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Michel Foucault and the Politics of Freedom written by Thomas L. Dumm and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of a 1995 book (Sage Publications) contains a new introduction by the series editor and a new preface. Readers familiar with Foucault's work will appreciate the difficulty in critically studying its arresting paradoxical nature. Dumm (political science, Amherst College) negotiates the problem by creating a thematic framework--the idea of being "free" in a modern Western capitalist democracy--and examining it through a Foucaultian lens. He focuses on the politics of freedom, negative freedom, the disciplinary society, ethics, seduction, governments, and provides an enlightening companion to Foucault's postmodern philosophy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Dreamscapes of Modernity

Author : Sheila Jasanoff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022627666X
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Dreamscapes of Modernity written by Sheila Jasanoff and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-09-02 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreamscapes of Modernity offers the first book-length treatment of sociotechnical imaginaries, a concept originated by Sheila Jasanoff and developed in close collaboration with Sang-Hyun Kim to describe how visions of scientific and technological progress carry with them implicit ideas about public purposes, collective futures, and the common good. The book presents a mix of case studies—including nuclear power in Austria, Chinese rice biotechnology, Korean stem cell research, the Indonesian Internet, US bioethics, global health, and more—to illustrate how the concept of sociotechnical imaginaries can lead to more sophisticated understandings of the national and transnational politics of science and technology. A theoretical introduction sets the stage for the contributors’ wide-ranging analyses, and a conclusion gathers and synthesizes their collective findings. The book marks a major theoretical advance for a concept that has been rapidly taken up across the social sciences and promises to become central to scholarship in science and technology studies.

Modernity and Its Malcontents

Author : Jean Comaroff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226114392
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Modernity and Its Malcontents written by Jean Comaroff and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-11 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What role does ritual play in the everyday lives of modern Africans? How are so-called "traditional" cultural forms deployed by people seeking empowerment in a world where "modernity" has failed to deliver on its promises? Some of the essays in Modernity and Its Malcontents address familiar anthropological issues—like witchcraft, myth, and the politics of reproduction—but treat them in fresh ways, situating them amidst the polyphonies of contemporary Africa. Others explore distinctly nontraditional subjects—among them the Nigerian popular press and soul-eating in Niger—in such a way as to confront the conceptual limits of Western social science. Together they demonstrate how ritual may be powerfuly mobilized in the making of history, present, and future. Addressing challenges posed by contemporary African realities, the authors subject such concepts as modernity, ritual, power, and history to renewed critical scrutiny. Writing about a variety of phenomena, they are united by a wish to preserve the diversity and historical specificity of local signs and practices, voices and perspectives. Their work makes a substantial and original contribution toward the historical anthropology of Africa. The contributors, all from the Africanist circle at the University of Chicago, are Adeline Masquelier, Deborah Kaspin, J. Lorand Matory, Ralph A. Austen, Andrew Apter, Misty L. Bastian, Mark Auslander, and Pamela G. Schmoll.

Sweetness and Power

Author : Sidney W. Mintz
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101666641
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Sweetness and Power written by Sidney W. Mintz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1986-08-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets In this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven are sugar's origins as a "slave" crop grown in Europe's tropical colonies with is use first as an extravagant luxury for the aristocracy, then as a staple of the diet of the new industrial proletariat. Finally, he considers how sugar has altered work patterns, eating habits, and our diet in modern times. "Like sugar, Mintz is persuasive, and his detailed history is a real treat." -San Francisco Chronicle

Rule of Experts

Author : Timothy Mitchell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520232624
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Rule of Experts written by Timothy Mitchell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-11-18 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Modernity at Gunpoint

Author : Sophie Esch
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822986132
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Modernity at Gunpoint written by Sophie Esch and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernity at Gunpoint provides the first study of the political and cultural significance of weaponry in the context of major armed conflicts in Mexico and Central America. In this highly original study, Sophie Esch approaches political violence through its most direct but also most symbolic tool: the firearm. In novels, songs, and photos of insurgency, firearms appear as artifacts, tropes, and props, through which artists negotiate conceptions of modernity, citizenship, and militancy. Esch grounds her analysis in important rereadings of canonical texts by Martín Luis Guzman, Nellie Campobello, Omar Cabezas, Gioconda Belli, Sergio Ramirez, Horacio Castellanos Moya, and others. Through the lens of the iconic firearm, Esch relates the story of the peasant insurgencies of the Mexican Revolution, the guerrilla warfare of the Sandinista Revolution, and the ongoing drug-related wars in Mexico and Central America, to highlight the historical, cultural, gendered, and political significance of weapons in this volatile region.

Masquerades of Modernity

Author : Ferdinand De Jong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Masquerades of Modernity written by Ferdinand De Jong and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the place of secret ritual in a globalized world

Mirror of Modernity

Author : Stephen Vlastos
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520206373
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Mirror of Modernity written by Stephen Vlastos and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-05 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays challenges the notion that Japan's present cultural identity is the simple legacy of its pre-modern and insular past. Scholars examine "age-old" Japanese cultural practices and show these to be largely creations of the modern era.

Modernity At Large

Author : Arjun Appadurai
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452900063
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernity At Large written by Arjun Appadurai and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Postmodern Theory

Author : Steven Best
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349217182
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Theory written by Steven Best and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1991-11-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to and critique of the latest trends in critical theory.

Modernity and Postmodernity

Author : Gerard Delanty
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446265293
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book Modernity and Postmodernity written by Gerard Delanty and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2000-04-19 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible and comprehensive overview of the main issues on the modernity-postmodernity controversy is the first clear-sighted book on the subject. It surveys modern social theory, from Kant to Weber with economy and masterly precision. And evaluates the work of the Frankfurt School, Arendy, Strauss, Luhmann, Habermas, Heller, Castoriadis and Touraine, before moving on to consider the approaches of the leading writers on postmodenrity: Lyotard, Vattimo, Derrida, Foucault and Jameson. The result is a new way of conceptualizing the modernity-postmodernity debate, and an exciting new approach to the roots of contemporary social theory.

Heidegger's Confrontation with Modernity

Author : Michael E. Zimmerman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253114686
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book Heidegger's Confrontation with Modernity written by Michael E. Zimmerman and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1990-05-22 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Writing in a lively and refreshingly clear American English, Zimmerman provides an uncompromisingly honest and judicious account... of Heidegger's views on technology and his involvement with National Socialism.... One of the most important books on Heidegger in recent years." -- John D. Caputo "... superb... " -- Thomas Sheehan, The New York Review of Books "... thorough and complex... " -- Choice "... excellent guide to Heidegger as eco-philosopher." -- Radical Philosophy "... engrossing, rich in substance... makes clear Heidegger's importance for the issue of technology, ethics, and politics." -- Religious Studies Review The relation between Martin Heidegger's understanding of technology and his affiliation with and conception of National Socialism is the leading idea of this fascinating and revealing book. Zimmerman shows that the key to the relation between Heidegger's philosophy and his politics was his concern with the nature of working and production.