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Author : Stephen R. C. Hicks
Publisher : Scholargy Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781592476428
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (764 download)
Download or read book Explaining Postmodernism written by Stephen R. C. Hicks and published by Scholargy Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
ISBN 13 : 1669399796
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (693 download)
Download or read book Summary of Stephen R. C. Hicks's Explaining Postmodernism written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-05-02T22:59:00Z with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Postmodernism is a movement that has swept through the intellectual world, and its leading lights are now familiar: Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jean-François Lyotard, and Richard Rorty. They have deconstructed reason, truth, and reality because they believe that in the name of reason, truth, and reality, Western civilization has wrought dominance, oppression, and destruction. #2 Postmodernism is a theory that states that the pain of the world is not experienced equally. The rich have their hands on the whip of power, and they use it to brutally mistreat the poor, women, and racial minorities. #3 Postmodernism is a philosophical and cultural movement that began in the 1960s. It is characterized by the rejection of traditional views of reality, language, and knowledge. It is inspired by the philosophies of Marxism and deconstruction.
Author : Stephen Ronald Craig Hicks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780979427077
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Nietzsche and the Nazis written by Stephen Ronald Craig Hicks and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Constantin V. Boundas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351622226
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Gilles Deleuze and the Theater of Philosophy written by Constantin V. Boundas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection, first published in 1994, contains thirteen critical essays by established scholars from the fields of philosophy, literary criticism, feminist theory, politics, and sociology, and a new essay by Deleuze himself. That the contributors are from a variety of fields indicates the extent to which Deleuze’s work can and will impact theory far beyond the discipline of philosophy.
Author : Terry Eagleton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111872500X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (187 download)
Download or read book The Illusions of Postmodernism written by Terry Eagleton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliant critique, Terry Eagleton explores the origins and emergence of postmodernism, revealing its ambivalences and contradictions. Above all he speaks to a particular kind of student, or consumer, of popular "brands" of postmodern thought.
Author : John R. Searle
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262250610
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Rationality in Action written by John R. Searle and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003-01-24 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of rationality and practical reason, or rationality in action, has been central to Western intellectual culture. In this invigorating book, John Searle lays out six claims of what he calls the Classical Model of rationality and shows why they are false. He then presents an alternative theory of the role of rationality in thought and action. A central point of Searle's theory is that only irrational actions are directly caused by beliefs and desires—for example, the actions of a person in the grip of an obsession or addiction. In most cases of rational action, there is a gap between the motivating desire and the actual decision making. The traditional name for this gap is "freedom of the will." According to Searle, all rational activity presupposes free will. For rationality is possible only where one has a choice among various rational as well as irrational options. Unlike many philosophical tracts, Rationality in Action invites the reader to apply the author's ideas to everyday life. Searle shows, for example, that contrary to the traditional philosophical view, weakness of will is very common. He also points out the absurdity of the claim that rational decision making always starts from a consistent set of desires. Rational decision making, he argues, is often about choosing between conflicting reasons for action. In fact, humans are distinguished by their ability to be rationally motivated by desire-independent reasons for action. Extending his theory of rationality to the self, Searle shows how rational deliberation presupposes an irreducible notion of the self. He also reveals the idea of free will to be essentially a thesis of how the brain works.
Author : David Carvounas
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739103739
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Diverging Time written by David Carvounas and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Temporal divergence creates a need for new narratives and paradigms. In Diverging Time David Carvounas supports this assertion through detailed expository and diagnostic readings of Kant, Hegel, and Marx. He focuses on their contribution to our understanding of modernity as an epochal shift in the relationship between past and future--recasting the significance of the past and future of the modern present. Despite their different solutions to the problem of temporal coordination, they urged the modern world to look not to the past but to the newly opened future for continuity, meaning, and purpose. This book not only offers a fresh look at a defining characteristic of modernity, but also makes a compelling case that a coherent modern temporal structure requires a sustainable orientation toward the future--an orientation that Kant, Hegel, and Marx delineate in distinctive and powerful ways.
Author : Alan Sokal
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1466862408
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Fashionable Nonsense written by Alan Sokal and published by Picador. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in Social Text--an influential academic journal of cultural studies--touting the deep similarities between quantum gravitational theory and postmodern philosophy. Soon thereafter, the essay was revealed as a brilliant parody, a catalog of nonsense written in the cutting-edge but impenetrable lingo of postmodern theorists. The event sparked a furious debate in academic circles and made the headlines of newspapers in the U.S. and abroad. In Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science, Sokal and his fellow physicist Jean Bricmont expand from where the hoax left off. In a delightfully witty and clear voice, the two thoughtfully and thoroughly dismantle the pseudo-scientific writings of some of the most fashionable French and American intellectuals. More generally, they challenge the widespread notion that scientific theories are mere "narrations" or social constructions.
Author : Stephen Hicks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780979427060
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Free Speech and Postmodernism written by Stephen Hicks and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jim Powell
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN 13 : 1939994195
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (399 download)
Download or read book Postmodernism For Beginners written by Jim Powell and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2007-08-21 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are like most people, you’re not sure what Postmodernism is. And if this were like most books on the subject, it probably wouldn’t tell you. Besides what a few grumpy critics claim, Postmodernism is not a bunch of meaningless intellectual mind games. On the contrary, it is a reaction to the most profound spiritual and philosophical crisis of our time – the failure of the Enlightenment. Jim Powell takes the position that Postmodernism is a series of “maps” that help people find their way through a changing world. Postmodernism For Beginners features the thoughts of Foucault on power and knowledge, Jameson on mapping the postmodern, Baudrillard on the media, Harvey on time-space compression, Derrida on deconstruction and Deleuze and Guattari on rhizomes. The book also discusses postmodern artifacts such as Madonna, cyberpunk, Buddhist ecology, and teledildonics.
Author : Stephen R. C. Hicks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925826821
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Liberalism written by Stephen R. C. Hicks and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why take up the strongest arguments? In this primer, our method starts by taking up the best arguments for and against liberalism. I make fifteen arguments for liberalism and fifteen against. These fifteen arguments on opposite sides of the debate are not exhaustive, but they include those that have had the most staying power over the long history of argument and counter-argument about liberalism. The reason they have had that staying power is that each identifies and stresses a genuinely important value at stake in politics...
Author : Jim Holt
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0871404095
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (714 download)
Download or read book Why Does the World Exist written by Jim Holt and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this astonishing and profound work, an irreverent sleuth traces the riddleof existence from the ancient world to modern times.
Author : Andrei Znamenski
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498557317
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Socialism as a Secular Creed written by Andrei Znamenski and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-01-29 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrei Znamenski argues that socialism arose out of activities of secularized apocalyptic sects, the Enlightenment tradition, and dislocations produced by the Industrial Revolution. He examines how, by the 1850s, Marx and Engels made the socialist creed “scientific” by linking it to “history laws” and inventing the proletariat—the “chosen people” that were to redeem the world from oppression. Focusing on the fractions between social democracy and communism, Znamenski explores why, historically, socialism became associated with social engineering and centralized planning. He explains the rise of the New Left in the 1960s and its role in fostering the cultural left that came to privilege race and identity over class. Exploring the global retreat of the left in the 1980s–1990s and the “great neoliberalism scare,” Znamenski also analyzes the subsequent renaissance of socialism in wake of the 2007–2008 crisis.
Author : Richard J. Bernstein
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 9780262521024
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Habermas and Modernity written by Richard J. Bernstein and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1985-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of these essays focus on the concept of modernity in the philosophical work of Jurgen Habermas - an ambitious and carefully argued intellectual project that invites, indeed demands, rigorous scrutiny. Following an introductory overview of Habermas's work by Richard Bernstein, Albrecht Wellmer's essay places the philosopher within the tradition of Hegel, Marx, Weber, and Critical Theory. Martin Jay discusses Habermas's views on art and aesthetics, and Joel Whitebook examines his interpretations of Freud and psychoanalysis, Anthony Giddens offers a critical reading of Habermas's major work, "The Theory of Communicative Action. Richard Rorty criticizes the whole thrust of his program by way of a comparison with the work of the French philosopher of postmodernity, Jean-Francois Lyotard. And Thomas McCarthy concentrates on the question of the selectivity of rationalization processes in the modern age. Habermas himself has three contributions - on Marcuse, on neoconservativism, and a reply to the other essayists. Richard J. Bernstein is T. Wistar Brown Professor of Philosophy at Haverford College. He was editor of the journal "Praxis International, in which these essays recently appeared. "Habermas and Modernity "is included in the series Studies in contemporary German Social Thought, edited by Thomas McCarthy.
Author : Gianfranco Baruchello
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780914232735
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Why Duchamp written by Gianfranco Baruchello and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this natural sequel to How to Imagine the authors direct their attention to the mythology and critical scaffolding that surrounds the enigmatic figure of Marcel Duchamp. What exactly is the value of his work today? How can we thread our way through the intricacies of his thought and achieve some greater understanding of its implications? Baruchello and Martin recapture the essence of Duchamp's singularly revolutionary art and discover as well the man behind the Artist. One again, the story is told in Baruchello's absorbing voice, at once and the same time a voice of authority and disarming modesty. This edition features ten photographs of Duchamp and his work (many taken by Baruchello). A selected bibliography on Duchamp is included.
Author : Richard Harland
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312224820
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Literary Theory From Plato To Barthes written by Richard Harland and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-10-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Harland provides a lucid account of all the major movements in literary theory up to the late 1960s. In a lucid and accessible style, he unfolds a comprehensive "story" of literary theory in all its manifestations. Because contemporary literary theory depends heavily upon European thinkers, the book has an international focus, and its coverage extends from philosophers to social theorists to linguists. Harland explains the essential principles of each theoretical position, looking behind particular critical judgments and interpretations in order to convey a core grasp of underlying positions.
Author : Trevor Hjertaas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783838325651
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (256 download)
Download or read book Adler and Camus written by Trevor Hjertaas and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
