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‘Since at least Plato ...’ and Other Postmodernist Myths

Author : M. Devaney
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230375790
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book ‘Since at least Plato ...’ and Other Postmodernist Myths written by M. Devaney and published by Springer. This book was released on 1997-08-04 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Since at Least Plato...' and Other Postmodernist Myths surveys the fields of theories of postmodernism and criticizes some of the most common claims found in them about philosophy, science, and the relationship and literary techniques to metaphysics, epistemology, and political ideologies. Devaney finds the accounts offered by these theories of concepts ranging from the law of noncontradiction to relativity and the Uncertainty Principle to be as ill-informed as they are pervasive. Devaney shows how the use to which these accounts have been put in constructing the story of the progression from realism to postmodernism to modernism flattens out both the history of ideas and the history of literature.

"Since at Least Plato... " and Other Postmodernist Myths

Author : Mary J. Devaney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780333681657
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (816 download)

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Download or read book "Since at Least Plato... " and Other Postmodernist Myths written by Mary J. Devaney and published by . This book was released on 1997-06-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

'Since at Least Plato ... ' and Other Postmodernist Myths

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781349399970
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book 'Since at Least Plato ... ' and Other Postmodernist Myths written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Since at Least Plato ... ' and Other Postmodernist Myths surveys the fields of theories of postmodernism and criticizes some of the most common claims found in them about philosophy, science, and the relationship and literary techniques to metaphysics, epistemology, and political ideologies. Devaney finds the accounts offered by these theories of concepts ranging from the law of noncontradiction to relativity and the Uncertainty Principle to be as ill-informed as they are pervasive. Devaney shows how the use to which these accounts have been put in constructing the story of the progression from realism to postmodernism to modernism flattens out both the history of ideas and the history of literature.

Epimethean Imaginings

Author : Raymond Tallis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317545788
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Epimethean Imaginings written by Raymond Tallis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays, written in the spirit of Goethe’s Epimetheus who "traces the quick deed to the dim realm of form-combining possibilities", display the depth and breadth of Tallis’s fascination with our lives. Whether discussing philosophical "hardy perennials" like time, or a mundane artefact like ink, Tallis challenges us to think differently about who we are and why we are. The first part of the book – Analysis – dives into the deep-end to explore some of the big questions in philosophy: perception, knowledge and belief; time; the relationship between mathematics and reality; and probability and causation. The middle section – Tetchy Interludes – takes a wry look at some aspects of contemporary art; stupidity (including the author’s own); and Christmas. The third part – Celebration – is more experimental in both its subject matter and treatment. It celebrates the complexity of ordinary, everyday consciousness by contemplating the miracle of speech, artefacts that have transformed our lives (and what they reveal about our cognition) such as the wheel, the sail, and ink; and ‘snapshots’ of the author’s own consciousness on an ordinary day, of past consciousness, as captured in historical memory. Notwithstanding their diversity in theme and style, these essays share the common aim of discovering and celebrating the submerged riches in the "quick deeds" of our everyday lives and perceptions.

Shades of Gray

Author : Dietmar Böhnke
Publisher : Galda & Wilch
ISBN 13 : 9783931397548
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Shades of Gray written by Dietmar Böhnke and published by Galda & Wilch. This book was released on 2004 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Faulkner and Postmodernism

Author : John N. Duvall
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604730366
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Faulkner and Postmodernism written by John N. Duvall and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2002 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1960s, William Faulkner, Mississippi's most famous author, has been recognized as a central figure of international modernism. But might Faulkner's fiction be understood in relation to Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow as well as James Joyce's Ulysses? In eleven essays from the 1999 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, held at the University of Mississippi, Faulkner and Postmodernism examines William Faulkner and his fiction in light of postmodern literature, culture, and theory. The volume explores the variety of ways Faulkner's art can be used to measure similarities and differences between modernism and postmodernism. Essays in the collection fall into three categories: those that use Faulkner's novels as a way to mark a period distinction between modernism and postmodernism, those that see postmodern tendencies in Faulkner's fiction, and those that read Faulkner through the lens of postmodern theory's contemporary legacy, the field of cultural studies. In order to make their particular arguments, essays in the collection compare Faulkner to more contemporary novelists such as Ralph Ellison, Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon, Walker Percy, Richard Ford, Toni Morrison, and Kathy Acker. But not all of the comparisons are to high culture artists, since even Elvis Presley becomes Faulkner's foil in one of the essays. A variety of theoretical perspectives frame the work in this volume, from Fredric Jameson's pessimistic sense of postmodernism's possibilities to Linda Hutcheon's conviction that cultural critique can continue in postmodernism through innovative new forms such as metafiction. Despite the different theoretical premises and distinct conclusions of the individual authors of these essays, Faulkner and Postmodernism proves once again that in the key debates surrounding twentieth-century fiction, Faulkner is a crucial figure. John N. Duvall, an associate professor of English at Purdue University, is the editor of Modern Fiction Studies. Ann J. Abadie is associate director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi.

The Undermining of Beliefs in the Autonomy and Rationality of Consumers

Author : John O'Shaughnessy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135978271
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book The Undermining of Beliefs in the Autonomy and Rationality of Consumers written by John O'Shaughnessy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-11-08 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines modern consumption, focusing on concepts of autonomy and rationality. In recent years, conventional ideas of 'free will' have come under attack in the context of consumer choice and similarly, postmodernists have sabotaged the very notion of consumer rationality. O’Shaughnessy and O'Shaughnessy adopt a moderating perspective, reviewing and critiquing these attacks in order to work towards a more nuanced view of the consumer: neither entirely autonomous nor perfectly rational. While the first part of this book concentrates on assailing critiques of 'free-will', the second part takes issue with the postmodernist emphasis on the non-rational. The authors situate these critiques in the context of key academic debate, examining the logic and empirical bases for their claims thus leading to a deeper understanding of 'bounded' rationality and the potential of the adaptive unconscious to affect consumer choice.

Interpreting Cultures

Author : J. Hart
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113711665X
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (371 download)

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Download or read book Interpreting Cultures written by J. Hart and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on how we perceive, know and interpret culture across disciplinary boundaries. The study combines theoretical and critical contexts for close readings in culture through discussions of literature, philosophy, history, psychology and visual arts by and about men and women in Europe, the Americas and beyond.

The Move Beyond Form

Author : M. Hughes
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113732922X
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book The Move Beyond Form written by M. Hughes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fictional narratives of the late twentieth century often cross boundaries. This study argues that the undoing of structure in postmodern art form demands a different way of thinking and represents a commentary on the material and social conditions of the late twentieth century and beyond.

Doing Time

Author : Rita Felski
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814728170
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Doing Time written by Rita Felski and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary theory is full of references to the modern and the postmodern. How useful are these terms? What exactly do they mean? And how is our sense of these terms changing under the pressure of feminist analysis? In Doing Time, Rita Felski argues that it makes little sense to think of the modern and postmodern as opposing or antithetical terms. Rather, we need a historical perspective that is attuned to cultural and political differences within the same time as well as the leaky boundaries between different times. Neither the modern nor the postmodern are unified, coherent, or self-evident realities. Drawing on cultural studies and critical theory, Felski examines a range of themes central to debates about postmodern culture, including changing meanings of class, the end of history, the status of art and aesthetics, postmodernism as "the end of sex," and the politics of popular culture. Placing women at the center of analysis, she suggests, has a profound impact on the way we thing about historical periods. As a result, feminist theory is helping to reshape our vision of both the modern and the postmodern.

Idolizing the Idea

Author : Wayne Cristaudo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793602360
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Idolizing the Idea written by Wayne Cristaudo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since Plato made the case for the primacy of ideas over names, philosophy has tended to elevate the primacy of its ideas over the more common understanding and insights that are circulated in the names drawn upon by the community. Commencing with a critique of Plato’s original philosophical decision, Cristaudo takes up the argument put forward by Thomas Reid that modern philosophy has generally continued along the ‘way of ideas’ to its own detriment. His argument identifies the major paradigmatic developments in modern philosophy commencing from the new metaphysics pioneered by Descartes up until the analytic tradition and the anti-domination philosophies which now dominate social and political thought. Along the way he argues that the paradigmatic shifts and break-downs that have occurred in modern philosophy are due to being beholden to an inadequate sovereign idea, or small cluster of ideas, which contribute to the occlusion of important philosophical questions. In addition to chapters on Descartes, and the analytic tradition and anti-domination philosophies, his critical history of modern philosophy explores the core ideas of Locke, Berkeley, Malebranche, Locke, Hume, Reid, Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Schelling, Marx, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Husserl and Heidegger. The common thread uniting these disparate philosophies is what Cristaudo calls ‘ideaism’ (sic.). Rather than expanding our reasoning capacity, ‘ideaism’ contributes to philosophers imposing dictatorial principles or models that ultimately occlude and distort our understanding of our participative role within reality. Drawing upon thinkers such as Pascal, Vico, Hamann, Herder, Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber and Eugen Rosensock-Huessy Cristaudo advances his argument by drawing upon the importance of encounter, dialogue, and a more philosophical anthropological and open approach to philosophy.

Shakespeare's Humanism

Author : Robin Headlam Wells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139447475
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Humanism written by Robin Headlam Wells and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renaissance humanists believed that if you want to build a just society you must begin with the facts of human nature. This book argues that the idea of a universal human nature was as important to Shakespeare as it was to every other Renaissance writer. In doing so it questions the central principle of post-modern Shakespeare criticism. Postmodernists insist that the notion of defining a human essence was alien to Shakespeare and his contemporaries; as radical anti-essentialists, the Elizabethans were, in effect, postmodernists before their time. In challenging this claim Shakespeare's Humanism shows that for Shakespeare, as for every other humanist writer in this period, the key to all wise action was 'the knowledge of our selves and our human condition'.

In Defence of Realism

Author : Raymond Tallis
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803294356
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (943 download)

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Download or read book In Defence of Realism written by Raymond Tallis and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Defence of Realism is a powerful indictment of the fog of bad philosophy and worse linguistics that has shrouded much contemporary literary theory and criticism. Raymond Tallis, one of the most important critics of post-Saussurean literary theory in the English-speaking world, examines the reasons often cited by critics and theorists for believing that realism in fiction is impossible and verisimilitude a mere literary ?effect.? He clearly demonstrates not only that the arguments of critics hostile to realism are invalid, but that even if they were sound, they would apply equally to anti-realist fiction, indeed to all intelligible discourse.

Ghosts

Author : R. C. Finucane
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615925910
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Ghosts written by R. C. Finucane and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 1996-06 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, people have reported seeing ghosts. But a Victorian ghost is in many respects a very different phenomenon from a ghost in Classical Greece, or in medieval Europe. Finucane surveys reports of ghosts from ancient Greece, the early Christian era, the Reformation, the Victorian age, and through the twentieth century. He asks such questions as: How have the physical aspects claimed for ghosts varied from age to age? What differences are there in the functions and intentions ascribed to ghosts? How have the changes in more general beliefsin religion and science, in particularinfluenced the perception of ghosts? Drawing on primary sources from all periods and cultures, Finucane addresses this topic in its full breadth.R.C. Finucane (Rochester, MI) is chairperson of the Department of History at Oakland University.. . . highly recommended. Magonia (UK). . . a useful book for those readers interested in the history of the supernatural . . . Extrapolation

The Ghost in the Universe

Author : Taner Edis
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615923306
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book The Ghost in the Universe written by Taner Edis and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2009-12-02 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emphasizing the results of natural science, physicist Taner Edis takes a fresh look at an age-old question: Is there a God or a spiritual reality beyond nature?

The Raymond Tallis Reader

Author : R. Tallis
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230286054
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Raymond Tallis Reader written by R. Tallis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-09-11 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Raymond Tallis Reader provides a comprehensive survey of the work of this passionate, perceptive and often controversial thinker. Key selections from Tallis's major works are supplemented by Michael Grant's detailed introduction and linking commentary. From nihilism to Theorrhoea, from literary theory to the role of the unconscious, The Raymond Tallis Reader guides us through the panoptic sweep of Tallis's critical insights and reveals a way of thinking for the twenty-first century.

Radical Theatre

Author : Rush Rehm
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472502345
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Radical Theatre written by Rush Rehm and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why should Greek tragedy matter now? This book opens a dialogue between the tragic theatre in ancient Athens and the multiple performances of the modern world. In five interconnected essays, Rush Rehm engages tragedy on its own terms, using our oldest theatre as inspiration for how we might shape the theatre of the future. 'Theatre, Artifice, Environment' explores the difference between the outdoor theatre of Athens and the artificial interiors of modern performance. 'Theatre and Fear' compares the terrors confronted in Greek tragedy with our own, seemingly distant fears (environmental destruction, dehumanising technology, corporate control of livelihood and culture). 'The Fate of Agency, the Agency of Fate' applies the paradox of human freedom in Greek tragedy to our own paradoxes of powerlessness and mastery. 'Tragedy and Ideology' treats Greek tragedy as an act of resistance, and 'Tragedy and Time' relates Greek tragedy's survival to its moment-to-moment realisation in performance. Part analysis, part polemic, Radical Theatre engages the aesthetic, political and ethical challenges of Greek tragedy as a means of confronting what tomorrow's theatre can do.