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Reluctant Modernists

Author : Peter Edgerly Firchow
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825859626
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Reluctant Modernists written by Peter Edgerly Firchow and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2002 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected here deal with modernist writers who, on the whole, felt 'reluctant' about their modernist status because they believed that it was just as important to look backward as it was to look forward. Indeed, for most of them looking backward was more important because it was only through the past that one could understand one's proper place in the present and in the future. That is why in Huxley's Brave New World it is the rejection of the past in the future - and by implication in the present - that makes its satire so penetrating. Modernism, in other words, means for these writers not a radical break with the past but a continuing search for what still connects them (and us) vitally with it. Peter Firchow, Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, is the author of several books on modern and modernist literary subjects, including books on Huxley, Conrad, and Auden. The publication of some of his hitherto uncollected essays in this volume is intended to honor

Reluctant Modernism

Author : George Cotkin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742531475
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Reluctant Modernism written by George Cotkin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last two decades of the nineteenth century, Americans were faced with the challenges and uncertainties of a new era. The comfortable Victorian values of continuity, progress, and order clashed with the unsettling modern notions of constant change, relative truth, and chaos. Attempting to embrace the intellectual challenges of modernism, American thinkers of the day were yet reluctant to welcome the wholesale rejection of the past and destruction of traditional values. In Reluctant Modernism: American Thought and Culture, 1880-1900, George Cotkin surveys the intellectual life of this crucial transitional period. His story begins with the Darwinian controversies, since the mainstream of American culture was just beginning to come to grips with the implications of the Origins of Species, published in 1859. Cotkin demonstrates the effects of this shift in thinking on philosophy, anthropology, and the newly developing field of psychology. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of these fields, he explains clearly and concisely the essential tenets of such major thinkers and writers as William James, Franz Boas, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Henry Adams, and Kate Chopin. Throughout this fascinating, readable history of the American fin de si cle run the contrasting themes of continuity and change, faith and rationalism, despair over the meaninglessness of life and, ultimately, a guarded optimism about the future.

The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt

Author : Seyla Benhabib
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742521513
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt written by Seyla Benhabib and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interpreting the work of one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt rereads Arendt's political philosophy in light of newly gained insights into the historico-cultural background of her work. Arguing against the standard interpretation of Hannah Arendt as an anti-modernist lover of the Greek polis, author Seyla Benhabib contends that Arendt's thought emerges out of a double legacy: German Existenz philosophy, particularly the thought of Martin Heidegger, and her experiences as a German-Jewess in the age of totalitarianism. This important volume reconsiders Arendt's theory of modernity, her concept of the public sphere, her distinction between the social and the political, her theory of totalitarianism, and her critique of the modern nation state, including her life long involvement with Jewish and Israeli politics.

Modernism and the Social Sciences

Author : Mark Bevir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107173965
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Modernism and the Social Sciences written by Mark Bevir and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the rise and nature of modernist approaches to economics, sociology, international relations, administration, language, history and anthropology.

The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt

Author : Seyla Benhabib
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461645417
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt written by Seyla Benhabib and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interpreting the work of one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt rereads Arendt's political philosophy in light of newly gained insights into the historico-cultural background of her work. Arguing against the standard interpretation of Hannah Arendt as an anti-modernist lover of the Greek polis, author Seyla Benhabib contends that Arendt's thought emerges out of a double legacy: German Existenz philosophy, particularly the thought of Martin Heidegger, and her experiences as a German-Jewess in the age of totalitarianism. This important volume reconsiders Arendt's theory of modernity, her concept of the public sphere, her distinction between the social and the political, her theory of totalitarianism, and her critique of the modern nation state, including her life long involvement with Jewish and Israeli politics.

Aldous Huxley Annual

Author : Bernfried Nugel, Jerome Meckier
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643916353
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Aldous Huxley Annual written by Bernfried Nugel, Jerome Meckier and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2023 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt

Author : Seyla Benhabib
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt written by Seyla Benhabib and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1996-05-20 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing against the standard interpretation of Hannah Arendt as an anti-modernist lover of the Greek polis, author Seyla Benhabib contends that Arendt's thought emerges out of a double legacy: German Existenz philosophy, particularly the thought of Martin Heidegger, and her experiences as a German-Jewess in the age of totalitarianism.

Iberian Interfaces

Author : Antonio Sáez Delgado
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030917525
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Iberian Interfaces written by Antonio Sáez Delgado and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-24 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores a key historical moment for literary and cultural relations between Spain and Portugal. Focusing on the period between 1870 and 1930, it analyses the contacts between Portuguese and Spanish writers and artists of this period, showing that, at least among the cultural elites, there were intense and fruitful dialogues across political and linguistic borders. The book presents the Iberian Peninsula as a complex and multilingual cultural polysystem in which diverse literary cultures coexist and are mutually dependent upon each other. It offers a panoramic view of Iberian literary and cultural history, encompassing not just Portuguese and Spanish literary productions, but also Catalan, Galician and Basque works. Combining a clear theoretical foundation with deep historical knowledge and references to specific texts and works, the book offers a thorough introduction to Iberian literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Shelby Foote and the Art of History

Author : James Panabaker
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572333185
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (331 download)

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Download or read book Shelby Foote and the Art of History written by James Panabaker and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Panabaker examines several key influences on Foote's development as a writer and historian, from his upbringing in the progressive southern town of Greenville, Mississippi, and his relationship with William Alexander Percy to the inescapable shadow of Faulkner."--Jacket.

Machines for Living

Author : Victoria Rosner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192583816
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Machines for Living written by Victoria Rosner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changes in the routines of domestic life were among the most striking social phenomena of the period between the two World Wars, when the home came into focus as a problem to be solved: re-imagined, streamlined, electrified, and generally cleaned up. Modernist writers understood themselves to be living in an epochal moment when the design and meaning of home life were reconceived. Moving among literature, architecture, design, science, and technology, Machines for Living shows how the modernization of the home led to profound changes in domestic life and relied on a set of emergent concepts, including standardization, scientific method, functionalism, efficiency science, and others, that form the basis of literary modernism and stand at the confluence of modernism and modernity. Even as modernist writers criticized the expanding reach of modernization into the home, they drew on its conceptual vocabulary to develop both the thematic and formal commitments of literary modernism. Rosner's work develops a new methodology for interdisciplinary modernist studies and shows how the reinvention of domestic life is central to modernist literature.

Modernism: The Basics

Author : Laura Winkiel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317537890
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Modernism: The Basics written by Laura Winkiel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernism: The Basics provides an accessible overview of the study of modernism in its global dimensions. Examining the key concepts, history and varied forms of the field, it guides the reader through the major approaches, outlining key debates, to answer such questions as: What is modernism? How did modernism begin? Has modernism developed differently in different media? How is it related to postmodernism and postcolonialism? How have politics, urbanization and new technologies affected modernism? With engaging examples from art, literature and historical documents, each chapter provides suggestions for further reading, histories of relevant movements and clear definitions of key terminology, making this an essential guide for anyone approaching the study of modernism for the first time.

Elizabeth Stoddard & the Boundaries of Bourgeois Culture

Author : Lynn Mahoney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135883416
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Elizabeth Stoddard & the Boundaries of Bourgeois Culture written by Lynn Mahoney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-01-15 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Stoddard and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Culture traces Stoddard's emergence as a writer in the 1850s, her conflict-ridden relationships with the writers associated with the genteel tradition, and her efforts to negotiate the boundaries of Victorian culture in the United States. While in many ways a critic of nineteenth-century bourgeois culture, Stoddard remained in other ways an adherent; her work was not a rejection of bourgeois culture but a reworking of it, which suggests that bourgeois culture was not as monolithic as later critics believed. Recovering the richness and possibility that characterized early Victorian writing, this book examines the range of literary expression which had existed at mid-century, a period that boasts some of American literature's most iconoclastic voices.

The American Isherwood

Author : James J. Berg
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452943370
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book The American Isherwood written by James J. Berg and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novelist, memoirist, diarist, and gay pioneer Christopher Isherwood left a wealth of writings. Known for his crisp style and his camera-like precision with detail, Isherwood gained fame for his Berlin Stories, which served as source material for the hit stage musical and Academy Award–winning film Cabaret. More recently, his experiences and career in the United States have received increased attention. His novel A Single Man was adapted into an Oscar-nominated film; his long relationship with the artist Don Bachardy, with whom he shared an openly gay lifestyle, was the subject of an award-winning documentary, Chris & Don: A Love Story; and his memoir, Christopher and His Kind, was adapted for the BBC. Isherwood’s colorful journeys took him from post–World War I England to Weimar Germany to European exile to Golden Age Hollywood to Los Angeles in the full flower of gay liberation. After the publication of his diaries, which run to more than one million words and span nearly a half century, it is possible to fully assess his influence. This collection of essays considers Isherwood’s diaries, his vast personal archive, and his published works and offers a multifaceted appreciation of a writer who spent more than half of his life in southern California. James J. Berg and Chris Freeman have brought together the most informative scholarship of the twenty-first century to illuminate the craft of one of the singular figures of the twentieth century. Isherwood, the American, emerges from the shadow of his English reputation to stake his claim as a significant force in late twentieth-century American culture whose legacy continues in the twenty-first century. Contributors: Joshua Adair, Murray State U; Jamie Carr, Niagara U; Robert L. Caserio, Pennsylvania State U; Niladri Chatterjee, U of Kalyani, India; Lisa Colletta, American U of Rome; Lois Cucullu, U of Minnesota; Mario Faraone; Peter Edgerly Firchow; Rebecca Gordon Stewart; William R. Handley, U of Southern California; Jaime Harker, U of Mississippi; Sara S. Hodson, Huntington Library; Carola M. Kaplan, California State U, Pomona; Benjamin Kohlmann, U of Freiburg, Germany; Victor Marsh, U of Queensland; Tina Mascara; Stephen McCauley; Paul M. McNeil, Columbia U; Guido Santi, College of the Canyons, California; Kyle Stevens, Brandeis U.

Time, Consumption and Everyday Life

Author : Elizabeth Shove
Publisher : Berg
ISBN 13 : 1847883648
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Time, Consumption and Everyday Life written by Elizabeth Shove and published by Berg. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyday practice and the production and consumption of time / Elizabeth Shove -- Timespace and the organization of social life / Ted Schatzki -- Re-ordering temporal rhythms : coordinating daily practices in the UK in 1937 and 2000 / Dale Southerton -- Disruption is normal : blackouts, breakdowns and the elasticity of everyday life / Frank Trentmann -- My soul for a seat : commuting and the routines of mobility / Tom O’Dell -- Routines : made and unmade / Billy Ehn and Orvar Löfgren -- Calendars and clocks : cycles of horticultural commerce in nineteenth-century America / Marina Moskowitz -- Fads, fashions and ’real’ innovation : novelties and social change / Jukka Gronow -- The edge of agency : routine, habits and volition / Richard Wilk -- Buying time / Daniel Miller -- Seasonal and commercial rhythms of domestic consumption : a Japanese case study / Inge Daniels -- Special and ordinary times : tea in motion / Güliz Ger and Olga Kravets -- Making time : reciprocal object relations and the self-legitimizing time of wooden boating / Mikko Jalas -- The ethics of routine : consciousness, tedium and value / Don Slater.

Albie Sachs and Transformation in South Africa

Author : Drucilla Cornell
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1317819594
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Albie Sachs and Transformation in South Africa written by Drucilla Cornell and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many critical theorists talk and write about the day after the revolution, but few have actually participated in the constitution of a revolutionary government. Emeritus Justice Albie Sachs was a freedom fighter for most of his life. He then played a major role in the negotiating committee for the new constitution of South Africa, and was subsequently appointed to the new Constitutional Court of South Africa. Therefore, the question of what it means to make the transition from a freedom fighter to a participant in a revolutionary government is not abstract, in Hegel’s sense of the word, it is an actual journey that Albie Sachs undertook. The essays in this book raise the complex question of what it actually means to make this transition without selling out to the demands of realism. In addition, the preface written by Emeritus Justice Albie Sachs and his interview with Drucilla Cornell and Karin van Marle, further address key questions about revolution in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries: from armed struggle to the organization of a nation state committed to ethical transformation in the name of justice. Albie Sachs and transformation in South Africa: from revolutionary activist to constitutional court judge illuminates the theoretical and practical experiences of revolution and its political aftermath. With first-hand accounts alongside academic interrogation, this unique book will intrigue anyone interested in the intersection of Law and Politics.

In Search of Russian Modernism

Author : Leonid Livak
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 1421426412
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book In Search of Russian Modernism written by Leonid Livak and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aiming to open an overdue debate about the academic fields of Russian and transnational modernist studies, this book is intended for an audience of scholars in comparative literary and cultural studies, specialists in Russian and transnational modernism, and researchers engaged with European cultural historiography.

Global Modernists on Modernism

Author : Alys Moody
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474242332
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Global Modernists on Modernism written by Alys Moody and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Modernist Studies Association (MSA) Edited Volume Prize Bringing together works by writers from sub-Saharan Africa, Turkey, central Europe, the Muslim world, Asia, South America and Australia – many translated into English for the first time – this is the first collection of statements on modernism by writers, artists and practitioners from across the world. Annotated throughout, the texts are supported by critical essays from leading modernist scholars exploring major issues in the contemporary study of global modernism. Global Modernists on Modernism is an essential resource for students and scholars of modernism and world literature and one that opens up a dazzling new array of perspectives on the field.