Moral Claims In The Age Of Spectacles

Download Moral Claims In The Age Of Spectacles full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Moral Claims In The Age Of Spectacles ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Moral Claims in the Age of Spectacles

Author : Brian M. Lowe
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781137502407
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (24 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Moral Claims in the Age of Spectacles by : Brian M. Lowe

Download or read book Moral Claims in the Age of Spectacles written by Brian M. Lowe and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-08-11 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume considers the rise of a new mode of creating, spreading, and encountering moral claims and ideas as they are expressed within spectacles. Brian M. Lowe explains how spectacles emerge when we are saturated with mediated representations—including pictures, texts, and videos—and exposed to television and movies and the myriad stories they tell us. The question of which moral issues gain our attention and which are neglected increasingly relates to how societal concerns are supported—or obscured—by spectacles. This project explores how this new form of moral understanding came to be. Through a series of case studies, including the use of radio and comic books; the crafting of Russian national identity through art; television and film; the evolution of human rights law through film and journalism; and the promotion of animal rights campaigns, this book unveils some of the ways in which our spectacular environment shapes moral understanding, and is in turn shaped by spectacle.

Moral Claims in the Age of Spectacles

Author : Brian M. Lowe
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113750241X
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Moral Claims in the Age of Spectacles by : Brian M. Lowe

Download or read book Moral Claims in the Age of Spectacles written by Brian M. Lowe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-09 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume considers the rise of a new mode of creating, spreading, and encountering moral claims and ideas as they are expressed within spectacles. Brian M. Lowe explains how spectacles emerge when we are saturated with mediated representations—including pictures, texts, and videos—and exposed to television and movies and the myriad stories they tell us. The question of which moral issues gain our attention and which are neglected increasingly relates to how societal concerns are supported—or obscured—by spectacles. This project explores how this new form of moral understanding came to be. Through a series of case studies, including the use of radio and comic books; the crafting of Russian national identity through art; television and film; the evolution of human rights law through film and journalism; and the promotion of animal rights campaigns, this book unveils some of the ways in which our spectacular environment shapes moral understanding, and is in turn shaped by spectacle.

Classics of Moral and Political Theory

Author : Michael L. Morgan
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603846689
Total Pages : 1372 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Classics of Moral and Political Theory by : Michael L. Morgan

Download or read book Classics of Moral and Political Theory written by Michael L. Morgan and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 1372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth edition of Michael L. Morgan's Classics of Moral and Political Theory broadens the scope and increases the versatility of this landmark anthology by offering new selections from Aristotle's Politics, Aquinas' Disputed Questions on Virtue and Treatise on Law, as well as the entirety of Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration, Kant's To Perpetual Peace, and Nietzsche's On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life.

Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism

Author : Henry A. Giroux
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433112263
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (122 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism by : Henry A. Giroux

Download or read book Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism written by Henry A. Giroux and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2011 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism capitalizes upon the popularity of zombies, exploring the relevance of the metaphor they provide for examining the political and pedagogical conditions that have produced a growing culture of sadism, cruelty, disposability, and death in America. The zombie metaphor may seem extreme, but it is particularly apt for drawing attention to the ways in which political culture and power in American society now operate on a level of mere survival. This book uses the metaphor not only to suggest the symbolic face of power: beginning and ending with an analysis of authoritarianism, it attempts to mark and chart the visible registers of a kind of zombie politics, including the emergence of right-wing teaching machines, a growing politics of disposability, the emergence of a culture of cruelty, and the ongoing war being waged on young people, especially on youth of color. By drawing attention to zombie politics and authoritarianism, this book aims to break through the poisonous common sense that often masks zombie politicians, anti-public intellectuals, politics, institutions, and social relations, and bring into focus a new language, pedagogy, and politics in which the living dead will be moved decisively to the margins rather than occupying the very center of politics and everyday life.

The Concept of Fluidity in the Baroque Age

Author : Jelena Todorović
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527510123
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Concept of Fluidity in the Baroque Age by : Jelena Todorović

Download or read book The Concept of Fluidity in the Baroque Age written by Jelena Todorović and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-26 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Baroque world was a flowing one, a realm of slippery presences in constant flux. Everything seemed to be in endless motion –space, time, emotions and the individual itself. It was a deeply shifting world, and this absence of solidity and certainty would come to define both the macro and the microcosms of these inconstant times. Like other Baroque phenomena, fluidity encompassed a rather complex and wide-ranging set of manifestations – from the swirls of angels on the ceilings of Pietro da Cortona and the polyvalence of space in the complex interiors by Guarini, to the fluidity of being that marked equally the statues of Messerschmidt and Bernini’s Borghese mythologies. This book charts different aspects of this fluidity, discussing fluid geographies, fluidity of presence, fluidity of spaces and materials, fluid souls and water in Baroque culture.

Society Of The Spectacle

Author : Guy Debord
Publisher : Bread and Circuses Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1617508306
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (175 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Society Of The Spectacle by : Guy Debord

Download or read book Society Of The Spectacle written by Guy Debord and published by Bread and Circuses Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Das Kapital of the 20th century,Society of the Spectacle is an essential text, and the main theoretical work of the Situationists. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960's, in particular the May 1968 uprisings in France, up to the present day, with global capitalism seemingly staggering around in it’s Zombie end-phase, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism, and everyday life in the late 20th century. This ‘Red and Black’ translation from 1977 is Introduced by Notting Hill armchair insurrectionary Tom Vague with a galloping time line and pop-situ verve, and given a more analytical over view by young upstart thinker Sam Cooper.

Women and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century

Author : Fiona Ritchie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139868012
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Women and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century by : Fiona Ritchie

Download or read book Women and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century written by Fiona Ritchie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiona Ritchie analyses the significant role played by women in the construction of Shakespeare's reputation which took place in the eighteenth century. The period's perception of Shakespeare as unlearned allowed many women to identify with him and in doing so they seized an opportunity to enter public life by writing about and performing his works. Actresses (such as Hannah Pritchard, Kitty Clive, Susannah Cibber, Dorothy Jordan and Sarah Siddons), female playgoers (including the Shakespeare Ladies Club) and women critics (like Charlotte Lennox, Elizabeth Montagu, Elizabeth Griffith and Elizabeth Inchbald), had a profound effect on Shakespeare's reception. Interdisciplinary in approach and employing a broad range of sources, this book's analysis of criticism, performance and audience response shows that in constructing Shakespeare's significance for themselves and for society, women were instrumental in the establishment of Shakespeare at the forefront of English literature, theatre, culture and society in the eighteenth century and beyond.

The Ironic Spectator

Author : Lilie Chouliaraki
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745664334
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Ironic Spectator by : Lilie Chouliaraki

Download or read book The Ironic Spectator written by Lilie Chouliaraki and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-08-26 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER of the 2015 ICA Outstanding Book Award This path-breaking book explores how solidarity towards vulnerable others is performed in our media environment. It argues that stories where famine is described through our own experience of dieting or or where solidarity with Africa translates into wearing a cool armband tell us about much more than the cause that they attempt to communicate. They tell us something about the ways in which we imagine the world outside ourselves. By showing historical change in Amnesty International and Oxfam appeals, in the Live Aid and Live 8 concerts, in the advocacy of Audrey Hepburn and Angelina Jolie as well as in earthquake news on the BBC, this far-reaching book shows how solidarity has today come to be not about conviction but choice, not vision but lifestyle, not others but ourselves – turning us into the ironic spectators of other people’s suffering.

Ethics, Science, and Democracy

Author : Irving Louis Horowitz
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412822855
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (228 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Ethics, Science, and Democracy by : Irving Louis Horowitz

Download or read book Ethics, Science, and Democracy written by Irving Louis Horowitz and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, modeled after those published in "The Library of Living Philosophers, "attempts to provide a coherent statement of the work of Abraham Edel in moral and political theory, and on the impact of his work on such diverse areas as education, law, and social science. The methodological element of Edel's work is to see ethical and social theory in the full context of human life; specifically how twentieth-century modes of analysis impact classical concerns about right and wrong, good and evil. The volume is tightly integrated from start to finish, and has the benefit of Edel's thoughtful and thoroughgoing response to critics. In short, while this work is a tribute to the work of a scholar, it aims to serve as a basic guide through the labyrinthian world of contemporary ethical theory and social practice. Contents: Beryl Harold Levy, "Reflective Culture as Philosophy of Law"; Betty A. Sichel, "Abraham Edel's Contribution to Philosophy of Education"; Gerald E. Myers, "Person and Personality--and Respect for Both"; Mihailo Markovic, "Abraham Edel on the Method of Ethical Theory"; Helen Block Lewis, "Consequences for Ethical Theory of a Focus on the Psychology of Shame and Guilt"; Edmund L. Pincoffs, "Ethics as an Explanatory Undertaking"; Standish Thayer, "The Network of Concepts: A New View of Aristotle"; Mortimer R. Kadish, "Abraham Edel and the Dream of Science"; Michael Levin, "Reflections on Non-Cognitivism"; Ralph W. Sleeper, "Naturalizing Legal Positivism"; Irving Louis Horowitz, "The Political Philosophy of Abraham Edel"; Finbarr W. O'Connor, "Network Analysis in Ethics"; Elizabeth Flower, "A Moral Agenda for Ethical Theory"; Abraham Edel, "Responses to Critics"; "An Edel Bibliography."

The Olympics

Author : Vassil Girginov
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000938611
Total Pages : 663 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Olympics by : Vassil Girginov

Download or read book The Olympics written by Vassil Girginov and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Olympics: A Critical Reader represents a unique, critical guide to the definitive sporting mega-event and the wider phenomenon it represents – Olympism. Combining classic texts and thoughtful editorial discussion with challenging new pieces, including previously unseen material, the book systematically addresses the key questions in modern Olympism, including: what does studying Olympism entail? how do historical accounts create and challenge Olympic myths? how do different theoretical perspectives inform our understanding of Olympism? which socio-political processes influence personal, collective and imagined Olympic identities? how do we experience and make sense of Olympism? who owns Olympism and why does it matter? how do cities compete for and celebrate the Olympics? how are the Olympic values promoted? why is it important to protect the ethical principles and properties of Olympism? what are the grounds for contesting Olympism? how can Olympism be taught? how can the principles and practices of Olympism be sustained in the future? Each thematic part has been designed to include a range of views, including background treatment of an issue as well as critical scholarship, to ensure that students develop a well-rounded understanding of the Olympic phenomenon. The Olympics: A Critical Reader is essential reading for students of the Olympics and Olympism, the sociology of sport, sport management and cultural studies.

The Spectacle of Criminal Justice

Author : Rosie Smith
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839828242
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (398 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Spectacle of Criminal Justice by : Rosie Smith

Download or read book The Spectacle of Criminal Justice written by Rosie Smith and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delving into how institutions of justice, as well as public expressions of justice, such as rage and grief, are played out in the media, Smith helps us understand how this represents a shift away from historical community displays of punishment towards a media sanitised public engagement with the implementation of control and justice.

The Spectacles

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : SAMPI Books
ISBN 13 : 6561331044
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (613 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Spectacles by : Edgar Allan Poe

Download or read book The Spectacles written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by SAMPI Books. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Spectacles", a vain young man, neglecting his need for glasses, falls in love at first sight. He later discovers that the woman he has fallen in love with is his great-grandmother, revealing a biting irony about perception and reality.

Marxism and Morality

Author : Nicholas Churchich
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
ISBN 13 : 0227906659
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (279 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Marxism and Morality by : Nicholas Churchich

Download or read book Marxism and Morality written by Nicholas Churchich and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2022-04-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not himself a Marxist, Dr Churchich has nevertheless won plaudits for this book from those committed to the philosophy. It is, they acknowledge, thoroughly researched, well reasoned, and balanced in its argument - even if that argument is one with which Marxists are bound to disagree, being based on the premise that 'ethical theories must ultimately rest on metaphysical and psychological preconceptions rather than on some imaginary empirical facts'. The declared aim of this work is to present a full exposition of Marx's and Engels' ideas on morality and ethics, and to indicate some of their errors and weaknesses. Unlike other studies of this subject, Churchich analyses all major aspects of morality, dealing not only with the writings of Marx himself but also with the works of most writers who have commented on Marxist morality and ethics. Marx himself intended to produce a work on social morality, but did not manage to do so. This book will therefore, and without doubt, become the standard work on his view of the subject. Superior to anything else on the topic written by non-Marxists, it is clearer on some aspects of Marx's view than the work of some Marxist writers - Churchich makes obvious for instance, how great was Althusser's mistake in arguing that there is 'not a grain of normative ethics in mature Marx'. Yet the author's objectivity allows him also to find values among the ethical arguments of Marx and Engels, making this a book which both Marxists and concerned Anglicans would find useful as a criticism of some current social trends. It also sounds a cautionary note for those who argue that the collapse of bureaucratic socialism in the former Soviet Union means the end of Marxism too - this is by no means Dr Churchich's view.

Strangeness in Jacobean Drama

Author : Callan Davies
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100017431X
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Strangeness in Jacobean Drama by : Callan Davies

Download or read book Strangeness in Jacobean Drama written by Callan Davies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Callan Davies presents “strangeness” as a fresh critical paradigm for understanding the construction and performance of Jacobean drama—one that would have been deeply familiar to its playwrights and early audiences. This study brings together cultural analysis, philosophical enquiry, and the history of staged special effects to examine how preoccupation with the strange unites the verbal, visual, and philosophical elements of performance in works by Marston, Shakespeare, Middleton, Dekker, Heywood, and Beaumont and Fletcher. Strangeness in Jacobean Drama therefore offers an alternative model for understanding this important period of English dramatic history that moves beyond categories such as “Shakespeare’s late plays,” “tragicomedy,” or the home of cynical and bloodthirsty tragedies. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of early modern drama and philosophy, rhetorical studies, and the history of science and technology.

On the Genealogy of Morality

Author : Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603845860
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis On the Genealogy of Morality by : Friedrich Nietzsche

Download or read book On the Genealogy of Morality written by Friedrich Nietzsche and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition is the product of a collaboration between a Germanist and a philosopher who is also a Nietzsche scholar. The translation strives not only to communicate a sense of Nietzsche’s style but also to convey his meaning accurately—and thus to be an important advance on previous translations of this work. A superb set of notes ensures that Clark and Swensen's Genealogy will become the new edition of choice for classroom use.

Routledge Revivals: Anthony Elliott: Early Works in Social Theory

Author : Anthony Elliott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429659849
Total Pages : 858 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Routledge Revivals: Anthony Elliott: Early Works in Social Theory by : Anthony Elliott

Download or read book Routledge Revivals: Anthony Elliott: Early Works in Social Theory written by Anthony Elliott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volumes in this set, originally published between 1999 and 2003, draw together early works in social theory by leading sociologist Anthony Elliott. The collection covers some of his major works in the field of social theory, with a paticular focus on psychoanalysis, and social theorists within the area of sociology. The works in this set make accessible previously unavailable works from the early stages of Anthony Elliott's ongoing and prolific career to date.

British Military Spectacle

Author : Scott Hughes Myerly
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674082496
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (824 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis British Military Spectacle by : Scott Hughes Myerly

Download or read book British Military Spectacle written by Scott Hughes Myerly and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the theater of war, how important is costume? And in peacetime, what purpose does military spectacle serve? This book takes us behind the scenes of the British military at the height of its brilliance to show us how dress and discipline helped to mold the military man and attempted to seduce the hearts and minds of a nation while serving to intimidate civil rioters in peacetime. Often ridiculed for their constrictive splendor, British army uniforms of the early nineteenth century nonetheless played a powerful role in the troops' performance on campaign, in battle, and as dramatic entertainment in peacetime. Plumbing a wide variety of military sources, most tellingly the memoirs and letters of soldiers and civilians, Scott Hughes Myerly reveals how these ornate sartorial creations, combining symbols of solidarity and inspiration, vivid color, and physical restraint, enhanced the managerial effects of rigid discipline, drill, and torturous punishments, but also helped foster regimental esprit de corps. Encouraging recruitment, enforcing discipline within the military, and boosting morale were essential but not the only functions of martial dress. Myerly also explores the role of the resplendent uniform and its associated gaudy trappings and customs during civil peace and disorder--whether employed as public relations through spectacular free entertainment, or imitated by rioters and rebels opposing the status quo. Dress, drills, parades, inspections, pomp, and order: as this richly illustrated book conducts us through the details of the creation, design, functions, and meaning of these aspects of the martial image, it exposes the underpinnings of a mentality--and vision--that extends far beyond the military subculture into the civic and social order that we call modernity.