The Crisis of Contemporary Culture

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199513604
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (136 download)

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Book Synopsis The Crisis of Contemporary Culture by : Terry Eagleton

Download or read book The Crisis of Contemporary Culture written by Terry Eagleton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Eagleton ranges widely over a number of topics of relevance to contemporary culture: the loss of a sense of corporate cultural identity in the contemporary crisis of `nationhood', and the factors responsible for this erosion; the conflict between a traditionalist conception of culture and a `postmodern' one; the assumed decline in cultural standards; the teaching of English in schools, and so on. He sets something of the history and current situation of Oxford English within this wider context, and outlines a programme of desirable reforms. He concludes his lecture with some reflections on poetry and philosophy, literary theory, multinational capitalism, the historical concepts of Walter Benjamin and one or two other topics.

The Crisis of Presence in Contemporary Culture

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Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1473910668
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (739 download)

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Book Synopsis The Crisis of Presence in Contemporary Culture by : Vincent Miller

Download or read book The Crisis of Presence in Contemporary Culture written by Vincent Miller and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Discussions about the contemporary online world are often in a one-dimensional manner shaped by moral panics about online trolling, cyberbullying, cybercrime, terrorists online, etc. The associated right-wing extremist agenda for Internet politics is about control, surveillance and censorship. Vince Miller’s book questions this agenda and is an excellent work for understanding how to use philosophical thought for the analysis of ethics, privacy and disclosure in this turbulent world of the Internet in the information society. It shows how to come to grips with the contested relationship between online freedom and control." - Christian Fuchs, University of Westminster, Author of Social Media: A Critical Introduction By investigating three issues which have captured the public imagination as ′problems′ emerging directly from the contemporary use of communications technology (anti-social behaviour, privacy and free speech online), Vincent Miller explores how the digital revolution is challenging our notion of ′self′ and ′presence′. Through a critical and philosophical examination of each of these cases, he argues that they have at their root the same phenomena: ‘a crisis of presence’. Focussing on the concept of presence, and the challenges that our changing presence poses to our ethics, privacy and public discourse, Miller illustrates how ubiquitous communication technologies have created a disjuncture between how we think we exist in the world and how we actually do exist through our use of such devices. The solution, he claims, is not to focus exclusively on ‘content’ and its regulation as much as it is to examine, understand and resist the alienating aspects of the media itself, such as the technological ordering, metaphysical abstraction and mediation which increasingly define our social encounters and presences. He suggests that such resistance involves several ambitious revisions in our ethical, legal and technological regimes.

Elsewhere in America

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317225430
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Book Synopsis Elsewhere in America by : David Trend

Download or read book Elsewhere in America written by David Trend and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans think of their country as a welcoming place where everyone has equal opportunity. Yet historical baggage and anxious times can restrain these possibilities. Newcomers often find that civic belonging comes with strings attached––riddled with limitations or legally punitive rites of passage. For those already here, new challenges to civic belonging emerge on the basis of belief, behavior, or heritage. This book uses the term "elsewhere" in describing conditions that exile so many citizens to "some other place" through prejudice, competition, or discordant belief. Yet, in another way, "elsewhere" evokes an undefined "not yet" ripe with potential. In the face of America’s daunting challenges, can "elsewhere" point to optimism, hope, and common purpose? Through 12 detailed chapters, the book applies critical theory in the humanities and social sciences to examine recurring crises of social inclusion in the U.S. After two centuries of incremental "progress" in securing human dignity, today the U.S. finds itself torn by new conflicts over reproductive rights, immigration, health care, religious extremism, sexual orientation, mental illness, and fear of terrorists. Is there a way of explaining this recurring tendency of Americans to turn against each other? Elsewhere in America engages these questions, charting the ever-changing faces of difference (manifest in contested landscapes of sex and race to such areas as disability and mental health), their spectral and intersectional character (recent discourses on performativity, normativity, and queer theory), and the grounds on which categories are manifest in ideation and movement politics (metapolitics, cosmopolitanism, dismodernism).

The Crisis of Presence in Contemporary Culture

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ISBN 13 : 9781473910287
Total Pages : pages
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Book Synopsis The Crisis of Presence in Contemporary Culture by : Miller, Vincent Alward Miller

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Zombies in Western Culture

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Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 178374331X
Total Pages : 96 pages
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Book Synopsis Zombies in Western Culture by : John Vervaeke

Download or read book Zombies in Western Culture written by John Vervaeke and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why has the zombie become such a pervasive figure in twenty-first-century popular culture? John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro and Filip Miscevic seek to answer this question by arguing that particular aspects of the zombie, common to a variety of media forms, reflect a crisis in modern Western culture. The authors examine the essential features of the zombie, including mindlessness, ugliness and homelessness, and argue that these reflect the outlook of the contemporary West and its attendant zeitgeists of anxiety, alienation, disconnection and disenfranchisement. They trace the relationship between zombies and the theme of secular apocalypse, demonstrating that the zombie draws its power from being a perversion of the Christian mythos of death and resurrection. Symbolic of a lost Christian worldview, the zombie represents a world that can no longer explain itself, nor provide us with instructions for how to live within it. The concept of 'domicide' or the destruction of home is developed to describe the modern crisis of meaning that the zombie both represents and reflects. This is illustrated using case studies including the relocation of the Anishinaabe of the Grassy Narrows First Nation, and the upheaval of population displacement in the Hellenistic period. Finally, the authors invoke and reformulate symbols of the four horseman of the apocalypse as rhetorical analogues to frame those aspects of contemporary collapse that elucidate the horror of the zombie. Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis is required reading for anyone interested in the phenomenon of zombies in contemporary culture. It will also be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience including students and scholars of culture studies, semiotics, philosophy, religious studies, eschatology, anthropology, Jungian studies, and sociology.

The Crisis of Presence in Contemporary Culture

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Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 147391065X
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (739 download)

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Book Synopsis The Crisis of Presence in Contemporary Culture by : Vincent Miller

Download or read book The Crisis of Presence in Contemporary Culture written by Vincent Miller and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Discussions about the contemporary online world are often in a one-dimensional manner shaped by moral panics about online trolling, cyberbullying, cybercrime, terrorists online, etc. The associated right-wing extremist agenda for Internet politics is about control, surveillance and censorship. Vince Miller’s book questions this agenda and is an excellent work for understanding how to use philosophical thought for the analysis of ethics, privacy and disclosure in this turbulent world of the Internet in the information society. It shows how to come to grips with the contested relationship between online freedom and control." - Christian Fuchs, University of Westminster, Author of Social Media: A Critical Introduction By investigating three issues which have captured the public imagination as ′problems′ emerging directly from the contemporary use of communications technology (anti-social behaviour, privacy and free speech online), Vincent Miller explores how the digital revolution is challenging our notion of ′self′ and ′presence′. Through a critical and philosophical examination of each of these cases, he argues that they have at their root the same phenomena: ‘a crisis of presence’. Focussing on the concept of presence, and the challenges that our changing presence poses to our ethics, privacy and public discourse, Miller illustrates how ubiquitous communication technologies have created a disjuncture between how we think we exist in the world and how we actually do exist through our use of such devices. The solution, he claims, is not to focus exclusively on ‘content’ and its regulation as much as it is to examine, understand and resist the alienating aspects of the media itself, such as the technological ordering, metaphysical abstraction and mediation which increasingly define our social encounters and presences. He suggests that such resistance involves several ambitious revisions in our ethical, legal and technological regimes.

Crisis Cultures

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Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 082298685X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Book Synopsis Crisis Cultures by : Brian Whitener

Download or read book Crisis Cultures written by Brian Whitener and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a mix of political, economic, literary, and filmic texts, Crisis Cultures challenges current cultural histories of the neoliberal period by arguing that financialization, and not just neoliberalism, has been at the center of the dramatic transformations in Latin American societies in the last thirty years. Starting from political economic figures such as crisis, hyperinflation, credit, and circulation and exemplary cultural texts, Whitener traces the interactions between culture, finance, surplus populations, and racialized state violence after 1982 in Mexico and Brazil. Crisis Cultures makes sense of the emergence of new forms of exploitation and terrifying police and militarized violence by tracking the cultural and discursive forms, including real abstraction and the favela and immaterial cadavers and voided collectivities, that have emerged in the complicated aftermath of the long downturn and global turn to finance.

On Edge

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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816619399
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)

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Book Synopsis On Edge by : George Yúdice

Download or read book On Edge written by George Yúdice and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Crisis of Values in Contemporary Culture

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
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Download or read book The Crisis of Values in Contemporary Culture written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cultural Crisis Modern Medicine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
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Download or read book Cultural Crisis Modern Medicine written by John Ehrenreich and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve essays examine aspects of medical care viewed as science and as social interaction, arguing that health care systems in advanced capitalistic societies function as instruments of domination and indoctrination.

The Greek Crisis and Its Cultural Origins

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030135896
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Book Synopsis The Greek Crisis and Its Cultural Origins by : Manussos Marangudakis

Download or read book The Greek Crisis and Its Cultural Origins written by Manussos Marangudakis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original analysis of modern Greece’s political culture attempts to present a “total social fact”—a coherent and complex representation of Greek socio-political culture—to identify the cultural causes of Greece’s recent disastrous economic crisis. Using a culturalist frame inspired by the Yale Strong Program, Marangudakis argues that the core cultural orientations of Greece have determined its politics—Greek secular culture flows out of the religion of Eastern Orthodoxy with its mysticism, icons, and general “ortherworldly-nesses.” This theoretical discussion, bringing together Eisenstadt, Michael Mann, Banfield, and Taylor, is complemented by an innovative use of survey data, processed by political scientist and statistician Theodore Chadjipadelis. The carefully deployed quantitative data demonstrate that the culture previously described is actually shared by people living in Greece today. In his sweeping conclusion to this thorough cultural analysis, Marangudakis reflects on the prospects of Greek cultural recovery through the construction of a non-populist civil religion.

Christianity and the Crisis of Cultures

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Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 168149096X
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (814 download)

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Book Synopsis Christianity and the Crisis of Cultures by : Joseph Ratzinger

Download or read book Christianity and the Crisis of Cultures written by Joseph Ratzinger and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword by Marcello Pera Written by Joseph Ratzinger shortly before he became Pope Benedict XVI, Christianity and the Crisis of Cultures looks at the growing conflict of cultures evident in the Western world. The West faces a deadly contradiction of its own making, he contends. Terrorism is on the rise. Technological advances of the West, employed by people who have cut themselves off from the moral wisdom of the past, threaten to abolish man (as C.S. Lewis put it)whether through genetic manipulation or physical annihilation. In short, the West is at war-with itself. Its scientific outlook has brought material progress. The Enlightenment's appeal to reason has achieved a measure of freedom. But contrary to what many people suppose, both of these accomplishments depend on Judeo-Christian foundations, including the moral worldview that created Western culture. More than anything else, argues Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI, the important contributions of the West are threatened today by an exaggerated scientific outlook and by moral relativism-what Benedict XVI calls "the dictatorship of relativism"-in the name of freedom. Christianity and the Crisis of Cultures is no mere tirade against the moral decline of the West. Razinger challenges the West to return to its roots by finding a place for God in modern culture. He argues that both Christian culture and the Enlightenment formed the West, and that both hold the keys to human life and freedom as well as to domination and destruction. Ratzinger challenges non-believer and believer alike. "Both parties," he writes, "must reflect on their own selves and be ready to accept correction." He challenges secularized, unbelieving people to open themselves to God as the ground of true rationality and freedom. He calls on believers to "make God credible in this world by means of the enlightened faith they live." Topics include: Reflections on the Cultures in Conflict Today The Significance and Limits of Today's Rationalistic Culture The Permanent Significance of the Christian Faith Why We Must Not Give Up the Fight The Law of the Jungle, the Rule of Law We Must Use Our Eyes! Faith and Everyday Life Can Agnosticism Be a Solution? The Natural Knowledge of God "Supernatural" Faith and Its Origins

Culture and Crisis

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Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571812704
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (127 download)

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Book Synopsis Culture and Crisis by : Nina Witoszek

Download or read book Culture and Crisis written by Nina Witoszek and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is often argued that Germany and Scandinavia stand at two opposite ends of a spectrum with regard to their response to social-economic disruptions and cultural challenges. Though, in many respects, they have a shared cultural inheritance, it is nevertheless the case that they mobilize different mythologies and different modes of coping when faced with breakdown and disorder. The authors argue that it is at these "critical junctures," points of crisis and innovation in the life of communities, that the tradition and identity of national and local communities are formed, polarized, and revalued; it is here that social change takes a particular direction.

Critical Reasoning in Contemporary Culture

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Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791409794
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (97 download)

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Book Synopsis Critical Reasoning in Contemporary Culture by : Richard A. Talaska

Download or read book Critical Reasoning in Contemporary Culture written by Richard A. Talaska and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here we have, for the first time in a single volume, diverse perspectives on the meaning, conditions, and goals of critical reasoning in contemporary culture. Part One emphasizes critical reasoning and education, engaging the debate over the connection between critical reasoning skills and the learning of the content. Part Two offers analyses of the theoretical, methodological, and historical debates concerning critical reasoning abilities. The authors represent a variety of disciplines and theoretical approaches which lend the book valuable intellectual pluralism. The book evaluates other aspects of critical thinking such as creativity, insight, questioning, learning, practical thought, interpretation, intellectual prejudice, and the historical and temporary aspects of thought.

On Edge

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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9781452903095
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (3 download)

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Book Synopsis On Edge by : George Yúdice

Download or read book On Edge written by George Yúdice and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Crisis of Our Age

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Publisher : Element Books, Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Crisis of Our Age by : Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin

Download or read book The Crisis of Our Age written by Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin and published by Element Books, Limited. This book was released on 1942 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the crisis of modern society as it effects art and science, philosophy and religion, ethics and law.

Cultures of Anyone

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781381933
Total Pages : 320 pages
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Book Synopsis Cultures of Anyone by : Luis Moreno Caballud

Download or read book Cultures of Anyone written by Luis Moreno Caballud and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the rise of sharing and collaboration practices among peers in Spanish digital cultures and social movements in the wake of Spain's financial meltdown of 2008.