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The New Barbarism and the Modern West

Author : Toivo Koivukoski
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739190008
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The New Barbarism and the Modern West written by Toivo Koivukoski and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-08-06 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberalism is being called into question both in practice and in principle, from insurgencies at its bloody hinterlands and from the illiberal responses those insurgencies engender within the so-called civilized world, with technological integration creating the conditions for new forms of barbarism. What then are the chances of progress towards a substantial equality of freedoms within this new context of retrograde attitudes framed by the occlusion of others as somehow essentially different? How can we register the significances of cultural distinctions without letting those ‘we's’ and ‘they's’ split an emergent global civil society into parochial retro-nations, where belonging knows itself only by exclusion? What is it that is being called out of the spirit of modernity in our seemingly backward-moving age of essentialized others and self-righteous rage? And to the end of inter-cultural understanding, how can we come to know the other, both through the care of others and in ourselves? This work of political theory reflects on how cultures imagine their barbarians in the form of essentialized others, focusing specifically on the kinds of barbarism associated with a civilization devoted to technological progress. In response to the excesses of modernity, the author looks to advances an ethic of difference, inverting the golden rule so as to do unto others as those others would do unto themselves.

Left in Dark Times

Author : Bernard-Henri Lévy
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812974727
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Left in Dark Times written by Bernard-Henri Lévy and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unprecedented critique, Bernard-Henri Lévy revisits his political roots, scrutinizes the totalitarianisms of the past as well as those on the horizon, and argues powerfully for a new political and moral vision for our times. Are human rights Western or universal? Does anti-Semitism have a future, and, if so, what will it look like? And how is it that progressives themselves–those who in the past defended individual rights and fought fascism–have now become the breeding ground for new kinds of dangerous attitudes: an unthinking loathing of Israel; an obsessive anti-Americanism; an idea of “tolerance” that, in its justification of Islamic fanaticism, for example, could become the “cemetery of democracies”; and an indifference, masked by relativism, to the greatest human tragedies facing the world today? At a time of ideological and political transition in America, Left in Dark Times articulates the threats we all face–in many cases without our even being aware of it–and offers a powerful new vision for progressives everywhere.

New Realism, New Barbarism

Author : Boris Kagarlitsky
Publisher : Pluto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780745315515
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book New Realism, New Barbarism written by Boris Kagarlitsky and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 1999-09-20 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars discuss ideology and hotly contested post-structuralist theory.

Making Dystopia

Author : James Stevens Curl
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191068160
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Making Dystopia written by James Stevens Curl and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Making Dystopia, distinguished architectural historian James Stevens Curl tells the story of the advent of architectural Modernism in the aftermath of the First World War, its protagonists, and its astonishing, almost global acceptance after 1945. He argues forcefully that the triumph of architectural Modernism in the second half of the twentieth century led to massive destruction, the creation of alien urban landscapes, and a huge waste of resources. Moreover, the coming of Modernism was not an inevitable, seamless evolution, as many have insisted, but a massive, unparalled disruption that demanded a clean slate and the elimination of all ornament, decoration, and choice. Tracing the effects of the Modernist revolution in architecture to the present, Stevens Curl argues that, with each passing year, so-called 'iconic' architecture by supposed 'star' architects has become more and more bizarre, unsettling, and expensive, ignoring established contexts and proving to be stratospherically remote from the aspirations and needs of humanity. In the elite world of contemporary architecture, form increasingly follows finance, and in a society in which the 'haves' have more and more, and the 'have-nots' are ever more marginalized, he warns that contemporary architecture continues to stack up huge potential problems for the future, as housing costs spiral out of control, resources are squandered on architectural bling, and society fractures. This courageous, passionate, deeply researched, and profoundly argued book should be read by everyone concerned with what is around us. Its combative critique of the entire Modernist architectural project and its apologists will be highly controversial to many. But it contains salutary warnings that we ignore at our peril. And it asks awkward questions to which answers are long overdue.

Western Views of Islam in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Author : M. Frassetto
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0312299672
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Western Views of Islam in Medieval and Early Modern Europe written by M. Frassetto and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-12-09 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western Views of Islam in Medieval and Early Modern Europe considers the various attitudes of European religious and secular writers towards Islam during the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. Examining works from England, France, Italy, the Holy Lands, and Spain, the essays in this volume explore the reactions of Westerners to the culture and religion of Islam. Many of the works studied reveal the hostility toward Islam of Europeans and the creation of negative stereotypes of Muslims by Western writers. These essays also reveal attempts at accommodation and understanding that stand in contrast to the prevailing hostility that existed then and, in some ways, exists still today.

Barbarism and Religion: Volume 6, Barbarism: Triumph in the West

Author : J. G. A. Pocock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316300307
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Barbarism and Religion: Volume 6, Barbarism: Triumph in the West written by J. G. A. Pocock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sixth and final volume in John Pocock's acclaimed sequence of works on Barbarism and Religion examines Volumes II and III of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, carrying Gibbon's narrative to the end of empire in the west. It makes two general assertions: first, that this is in reality a mosaic of narratives, written on diverse premises and never fully synthesized with one another; and second, that these chapters assert a progress of both barbarism and religion from east to west, leaving much history behind as they do so. The magnitude of Barbarism and Religion is already apparent. Barbarism: Triumph in the West represents the culmination of a remarkable attempt to discover and present what Gibbon was saying, what he meant by it, and why he said it in the ways that he did, as well as an unparalleled contribution to the historiography of Enlightened Europe.

Barbarism Revisited

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004309276
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Barbarism Revisited written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbarism revisited revisits well-known and obscure chapters in the genealogy of barbarism from Greek antiquity to the present. Through contemporary interdisciplinary perspectives, it recasts the conceptual history of barbarism as a task for literary scholars, art historians, and cultural analysts.

Law and the Epistemologies of the South

Author : Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1009353578
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Law and the Epistemologies of the South written by Boaventura de Sousa Santos and published by . This book was released on 2023-08-09 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern state law excludes populations, peoples, and social groups by making them invisible, irrelevant, or dangerous. In this book, Boaventura de Sousa Santos offers a radical critique of the law and develops an innovative paradigm of socio-legal studies which is based on the historical experience of the Global South. He traces the history of modern law as an abyssal law, or a kind of law that is theoretically invisible yet implements profound exclusions in practice. This abyssal line has been the key procedure used by modern modes of domination - capitalism, colonialism, and patriarchy - to divide people into two groups, the metropolitan and the colonial, or the fully human and the sub-human. Crucially, de Sousa Santos rejects the decadent pessimism that claims that we are living through 'the end of history'. Instead, this book offers practical, hopeful alternatives to social exclusion and modern legal domination, aiming to make post-abyssal legal utopias a reality.

The Enlightenment and Its Effects on Modern Society

Author : Milan Zafirovski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441973877
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Enlightenment and Its Effects on Modern Society written by Milan Zafirovski and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-12-25 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Enlightenment of the late 17th and 18th century is characterized by an emphasis on reason and empiricism . As a major shaping philosophy of Western culture, it had a historical impact on the religious, cultural, academic, and social institutions of 18th century Europe. In this compelling volume, the author explores the lasting impact of Enlightenment thinking on modern Western societies and other democracies. With an interdisciplinary, comparative-historical approach this volume explores the impact of Enlightenment ideals such as liberty, equality, and social justice on current social institutions. Combining sociological theory with concrete examples, the author provides a unique framework for understanding modern cultural development, including a picture of how it would look without this Enlightenment basis. This work provides a multi-faceted approach, including: an historical overview, analysis of the Enlightenment’s influence on modern democratic societies, modern culture, political science, civil society and the economy, as well as exploring the counter-Enlightenment, Post-Enlightenment, and Neo-Enlightenment philosophies.

A Study of History: Abridgement of volumes VII-X

Author : Arnold Toynbee
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195001990
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book A Study of History: Abridgement of volumes VII-X written by Arnold Toynbee and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arnold Toynbee's ten-volume analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations is acknowledged as one of the great achievements of modern scholarship. D.C. Somervell's extraordinary two-volume abridgement has captured the method, atmosphere, texture, and, in many instances, the very words of the original. This volume contains the second half of Toynbee's masterpiece.

The Modern Review

Author : Ramananda Chatterjee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Modern Review written by Ramananda Chatterjee and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Reviews and notices of books".

The Idea of Decline in Western History

Author : Arthur Herman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451603134
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Idea of Decline in Western History written by Arthur Herman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-29 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Arthur Herman traces the roots of declinism and shows how major thinkers, past and present, have contributed to its development as a coherent ideology of cultural pessimism. From Nazism to the Sixties counterculture, from Britain's Fabian socialists to America's multiculturalists, and from Dracula and Freud to Robert Bly and Madonna, this work examines the idea of decline in Western history and sets out to explain how the conviction of civilization's inevitable end has become a fixed part of the modern Western imagination. Through a series of biographical portraits spanning the 19th and 20th centuries, the author traces the roots of declinism and aims to show how major thinkers of the past and present, including Nietzsche, DuBois, Sartre, and Foucault, have contributed to its development as a coherent ideology of cultural pessimism.

From the Pandemic to Utopia

Author : Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000855732
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book From the Pandemic to Utopia written by Boaventura de Sousa Santos and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-12 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The coronavirus pandemic forces us to rethink our contemporaneity. It has brought to the surface dimensions of human fragility that partially contradict the euphoria and human hubris of the fourth industrial revolution (artificial intelligence). It has also aggravated the social inequality and racial discrimination that characterize our societies. The book argues that the virus, rather than an enemy, must be viewed as a pedagogue. It is trying to teach us that the deep causes of the pandemic lie in our dominant mode of production and consumption. The systemic overload of natural resources creates a metabolic rift between society and nature that destabilizes the habitat of wild animals and the vital cycles of natural regeneration whereby pandemics become an increasingly recurrent phenomenon. In trying to take seriously this lesson the book proposes a paradigmatic shift from the current civilizatory model to a new one guided by a more equitable relationship between nature and society and the priority of life, both human and non-human.

Barbarism and Its Discontents

Author : Maria Boletsi
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804785376
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Barbarism and Its Discontents written by Maria Boletsi and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-30 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbarism and civilization form one of the oldest and most rigid oppositions in Western history. According to this dichotomy, barbarism functions as the negative standard through which "civilization" fosters its self-definition and superiority by labeling others "barbarians." Since the 1990s, and especially since 9/11, these terms have become increasingly popular in Western political and cultural rhetoric—a rhetoric that divides the world into forces of good and evil. This study intervenes in this recent trend and interrogates contemporary and historical uses of barbarism, arguing that barbarism also has a disruptive, insurgent potential. Boletsi recasts barbarism as a productive concept, finding that it is a common thread in works of literature, art, and theory. By dislodging barbarism from its conventional contexts, this book reclaims barbarism's edge and proposes it as a useful theoretical tool.

How Wars Are Won and Lost

Author : John A. Gentry
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313395837
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book How Wars Are Won and Lost written by John A. Gentry and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative book seeks to answer a most crucial—and embarrassing—question concerning the U.S. military: why the United States is so often stymied in military confrontations with seemingly weaker opponents, despite its "superpower" status. This fascinating book examines a question that continues to puzzle soldiers, statesmen, and scholars: why do major powers—including the ostensible superpower United States—repeatedly perform poorly against seemingly overmatched adversaries? And what can they, and the United States, do to better achieve their military objectives? How Wars are Won and Lost: Vulnerability and Military Power argues that beyond relying solely on overwhelming military might, the United States needs to focus more on exploiting weaknesses in their adversaries—such as national will, resource mobilization, and strategic miscues—just as opposing forces have done to gain advantage over our military efforts. The author tests the "vulnerability theory" by revisiting six conflicts from the Philippine War of 1899-1902 to the ongoing actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, showing again and again that victory often depends more on outthinking the enemy than outmuscling them.

Barbarism and Religion

Author : John Greville Agard Pocock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107091462
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Barbarism and Religion written by John Greville Agard Pocock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixth and final volume in an acclaimed series situating Edward Gibbon in a series of contexts in eighteenth-century European history

Magic and Witchery in the Modern West

Author : Shai Feraro
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030155498
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Magic and Witchery in the Modern West written by Shai Feraro and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book marks twenty years since the publication of Professor Ronald Hutton’s The Triumph of the Moon, a major contribution to the historical study of Wicca. Building on and celebrating Hutton’s pioneering work, the chapters in this volume explore a range of modern magical, occult, and Pagan groups active in Western nations. Each contributor is a specialist in the study of modern Paganism and occultism, although differ in their embrace of historical, anthropological, and psychological perspectives. Chapters examine not only the history of Wicca, the largest and best-known form of modern Paganism, but also modern Pagan environmentalist and anti-nuclear activism, the Pagan interpretation of fairy folklore, and the contemporary ‘Traditional Witchcraft’ phenomenon.