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Book Synopsis The Words of Gandhi and How the Libertarian Collectivist Anti-individualistic Post-Modern Turn has Shaped our World by : Cyrus Manasseh
Download or read book The Words of Gandhi and How the Libertarian Collectivist Anti-individualistic Post-Modern Turn has Shaped our World written by Cyrus Manasseh and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-05-22 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic Paper from the year 2015 in the subject Philosophy - Practical (Ethics, Aesthetics, Culture, Nature, Right, ...), The University of Western Australia (School of Visual Arts), course: Philosophy, language: English, abstract: The social effects of a “Libertarian” anti-individualistic post-modernism for us today, are meaningful and significant. Perhaps, many of us have heard about post-modernism? And some can say that we have read about it. But how many really know how much post-modernism has influenced every single thing we now do and think? Making special reference to Jordan Peterson's critiques as well as Socrates and The Enlightenment period and the internet, the essay discusses and evaluates the good and bad side effects of post-modernism and addresses how we might learn from understanding them. This academic essay was part of previous research undertaken when I was lecturing at the University of Western Australia where I had also achieved my PhD. In 2015 I left it unpublished and have subsequently amended and updated it.
Book Synopsis Postmodern Gandhi and Other Essays by : Lloyd I. Rudolph
Download or read book Postmodern Gandhi and Other Essays written by Lloyd I. Rudolph and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gandhi, with his loincloth and walking stick, seems an unlikely advocate of postmodernism. But in Postmodern Gandhi, Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph portray him as just that in eight thought-provoking essays that aim to correct the common association of Gandhi with traditionalism. Combining core sections of their influential book Gandhi: The Traditional Roots of Charisma with substantial new material, the Rudolphs reveal here that Gandhi was able to revitalize tradition while simultaneously breaking with some of its entrenched values and practices. Exploring his influence both in India and abroad, they tell the story of how in London the young activist was shaped by the antimodern “other West” of Ruskin, Tolstoy, and Thoreau and how, a generation later, a mature Gandhi’s thought and action challenged modernity’s hegemony. Moreover, the Rudolphs argue that Gandhi’s critique of modern civilization in his 1909 book Hind Swaraj was an opening salvo of the postmodern era and that his theory and practice of nonviolent collective action (satyagraha) articulate and exemplify a postmodern understanding of situational truth. This radical interpretation of Gandhi's life will appeal to anyone who wants to understand Gandhi’s relevance in this century, as well as students and scholars of politics, history, charismatic leadership, and postcolonialism.
Book Synopsis The Words of Gandhi by : Mahatma Gandhi
Download or read book The Words of Gandhi written by Mahatma Gandhi and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Contains Gandhi's views on life in the modern world collected in five sections: Daily life, Cooperation, Nonviolence, Faith and Peace." --
Book Synopsis Postmodernism in the 21st Century. How important were the Beatles for the way we live our life today? by : Cyrus Manasseh
Download or read book Postmodernism in the 21st Century. How important were the Beatles for the way we live our life today? written by Cyrus Manasseh and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2019 in the subject Sociology - Individual, Groups, Society, grade: N/A. professional essay, University of Rome "La Sapienza" (CORIS), course: Journalism, Media and English, language: English, abstract: This essay argues that the British music group The Beatles were crucial for influencing our way of life today. The essay does this by discussing how they were responsible in the 60s for much of the spirit and many of the ideas that took place at the start of the postmodern era of the 90s in which we still live in and use today. It also argues that The Beatles' group spirit helped to cancel the spirit of the individualistic individual in society which had prevailed before the 60s and instead usher in a tribalist culture which much of us live in today.
Book Synopsis The Life or the Work? Meritocracy versus the Cult of Personality in our Age of Post-Humanism by : Cyrus Manasseh
Download or read book The Life or the Work? Meritocracy versus the Cult of Personality in our Age of Post-Humanism written by Cyrus Manasseh and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-07-08 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polemic Paper from the year 2019 in the subject Philosophy - General Essays, Eras, grade: N/A. professional essay, University of Rome "La Sapienza" (CORIS), course: Journalism, Media and English, language: English, abstract: This philosophy paper argues for the need to bring back a meritocracy into our culture again. It debates the question of whether authority and leadership should come from merit and achievement or whether a person's life should be the primary focus in our society for this role. To do this, it tries to show how important it is to follow the examples that were always set in place by the great masters as heroes of the past and forms a critique against the postmodernism of the 90s. In particular it criticises the media including print and online journalism.
Book Synopsis Against Roland Barthes. Why Ibsen’s "A Doll’s House" is Not a Feminist Text, but a Humanist one by : Cyrus Manasseh
Download or read book Against Roland Barthes. Why Ibsen’s "A Doll’s House" is Not a Feminist Text, but a Humanist one written by Cyrus Manasseh and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polemic Paper from the year 2016 in the subject Theater Studies, Dance, , language: English, abstract: Right from its first performance Ibsen’s play has been misunderstood. From early on, "A Doll’s House" until recently, (when it began to be used mostly as a vehicle for feminism and what had been called the ‘woman question’), has not always been popular and a number of criticisms and misunderstandings have plagued it. Many had commented on the fact that within the society, during the time the play was set, that women were made to stay home and take care of the children and support their husbands and that it would be a travesty if they left all of this in order to pursue self-fulfillment. Yet more recently, its popularity has seemed to have steadily increased. Today, copiously commensurate with Roland Barthes’s 1967 dictum and theory that the author is dead,—(heralding the fact that real fixed ‘meaning’ itself is dead and that texts are constructed out of precariously grouped citations which therefore allow unlimited and arbitrary open-ended interpretations to proliferate in spite of the author of the work’s original intent), today’s unfitting feminism has taken this up in further attempts to achieve greater power and freedom. The problem is that although Ibsen stated that he wrote the play to reflect humanist issues, in much of today’s culture, unfitting feminist interpretations which aim to rewrite the meaning of the play still abound.
Book Synopsis Why Art After The Postmodern Era Is Not Real Art by : Cyrus Manasseh
Download or read book Why Art After The Postmodern Era Is Not Real Art written by Cyrus Manasseh and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Document from the year 2019 in the subject Art - Art Theory, General, The University of Western Australia, course: Philosophy, language: English, abstract: In this philosophical lecture I discuss how and why the art of today is not a real art and how there are no standards anymore at all. I chose to give this lecture because I feel that if we understand why art today is not a real art, we will be able to change it and our conceptions for the future. This paper is an elaboration of the lecture and discusses how the heroic artists in Modernism were mistakenly taken as the examples and leaders for creating that which is seen as art in and after the post-modern era today.
Book Synopsis The Problem with the Influence of the Moving Image in Society Today, the Alter-Modern and the Disappearance of a Focus on the Internal by : Cyrus Manasseh
Download or read book The Problem with the Influence of the Moving Image in Society Today, the Alter-Modern and the Disappearance of a Focus on the Internal written by Cyrus Manasseh and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientific Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Communications - Media History, , course: N/A, language: English, abstract: Since the early twentieth century, civilization’s obsession with the moving image has helped it to go backwards instead of forwards. Because of the nature of the way moving images are proliferated especially during our present age of digital expansion, the past and the history of the past produce a cultural amnesia which creates a misperception that we are greatly ahead of our past. Much of this is because our continuous fascination with the moving image has undermined and effaced a Modernist reasoning which had been more concerned with searching for an internal depth in objects and things which were reflected in the human being. As a result of our visual thirst for the moving image which takes us away from this, we now live in a situation void of causal reasoning which makes it very easy for very little reason, or difficult, for well-justified reasoning to exist since our thirst and addiction to the moving image has seen a spiritual shift away from the search of internal value and meaning that has been tied to our culture and cultural perceptions. By tracing civilization’s obsession with the Classical which it had once used as a ‘steadying metaphor’ the paper attempts to explain some of the influences that have made us lose our focus on the importance of the internal and offers to explain why we are now more than ever before bereft of a focus for searching for the internal depth that exists within people, objects and things.
Book Synopsis Plato, Nietzsche and the Genius of Malcolm Young. Gifted Songwriter and Guitarist by : Cyrus Manasseh
Download or read book Plato, Nietzsche and the Genius of Malcolm Young. Gifted Songwriter and Guitarist written by Cyrus Manasseh and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-06-10 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2019 in the subject Musicology - Popular music, The University of Western Australia, course: Philosophy, language: English, abstract: The essay discusses the importance of the popular musicians Malcolm Young and Angus Young for the rock group AC/DC. It makes particular reference to Malcolm as the leader and guiding force behind the group and analyses Angus’s work while making reference to Malcolm’s abilities. As part of this, it discusses the group’s history and the importance of the musical interplay of the two brothers Malcolm Young and Angus Young. The essay is an elaboration on an earlier work done at the University of Western Australia which was revisited in my lectures in Rome in 2019. For the ancient but important Greek philosopher Plato, music had been something which both touches and conditions the psyche. In fact, Plato had been able to see that music is a “philosophically oriented formation and education of the psyche” which contributes “to the philosophical cure of the soul as a very efficient manner of treating a vast array of psychic responses ranging from perception, emotion and desire to rational content.”
Book Synopsis Post-Modernism and the Popular Music of the 90s. Pastiche, Parody and False Nostalgia, Mirroring the Ghosts of the Past by : Cyrus Manasseh
Download or read book Post-Modernism and the Popular Music of the 90s. Pastiche, Parody and False Nostalgia, Mirroring the Ghosts of the Past written by Cyrus Manasseh and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-07-08 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2019 in the subject Sociology - Culture, Technology, Peoples / Nations, grade: N/A. professional essay, University of Rome "La Sapienza" (CORIS), course: Journalism, Media and English, language: English, abstract: There is much in the culture that seems mystifying especially if we look at what had happened in the sphere of popular music in the 1990s with regard to music, fashions and hairstyles. In fact, the period saw the strong and more tangible introduction of the post-modern age and thinking into popular culture, which saw mainstream and alternative music styles become somewhat joined together in the minds of many. The 1990s began an age when everyone said that everything should be accepted resulting in a pick n’ mix culture appearing, which had seemed to come out of nowhere in a sense, yet was all around us. Based on my lectures for a Media and Journalism course I held at the University of Rome, this essay attempts to identify some of the characteristics of the 1990s in popular music in relation to Anglo Saxon countries/cultures and tries to offer an explanation of why they may have appeared and existed.
Book Synopsis Cinema and Mass Media in Modernity. Walter Benjamin and the Reproducible Image by : Cyrus Manasseh
Download or read book Cinema and Mass Media in Modernity. Walter Benjamin and the Reproducible Image written by Cyrus Manasseh and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Film Science, grade: N/A Professional Lecture, University of Western Sydney (School of Communication Arts, College of Arts), course: BA Design, language: English, abstract: From the beginning of photography, photographers had always attempted to produce photographs which could be accepted by the same criteria as painting. This was changed however by new people such as Moholy-Nagy, Rodchenko, Man Ray etc. who we already discussed in the tutorials. One of the first theories of film in the English Language was Vachel Lindsay’s The Art of the Moving Picture, which was published in 1915 which described the motion picture as a great high art. In fact, experiments in Electronic Media had originally begun in 1877 with the sound recordings Edison had made with his cylinder phonograph and the Gramophone (1898) and continuing with radio and silent movies of the 1920s and then talking cinema from 1926 which came out with the Jazz Singer. Following photography and its technological discoveries, Film production would continue to reveal the new link between art and the new developments in science during the early 19th century and the invention of film in the 1890s. Through its system of production, the rules of understanding images changed for everybody in significant ways. This period would be when the new mechanical technologies such as photographic, cinematic, and arriving soon after, television or televisual images would all be infinitely reproducible. This fact would change the role of images in society and greatly increase the influence upon us. In the era of the new films being made from the early 20th century, which had come out of the experiments that were taking place in photography one could say that then motion was added to the photograph. Because of this, early film could in this way be seen as early photoplays and the people best qualified for this had been the painters, architects and sculptors such as Edwin S. Porter in America, Georges Melies in France Dziga Vertov, Sergei Eisenstein in Russia, D.W. Griffith in America who represent some of the most important of these at the time. This lecture discuss the validity of Walter Benjamin’s ideas within an historical context in relation to the effects of the photographed or filmed image and the mass reproduction of images in society.
Book Synopsis Why Beauty Matters. The Transformational Experiences of Art and Music upon the Human Soul by : Cyrus Manasseh
Download or read book Why Beauty Matters. The Transformational Experiences of Art and Music upon the Human Soul written by Cyrus Manasseh and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Psychology - Media Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University (Art and Design Academy), course: Academic Conference, language: English, abstract: Beauty takes our breath away. We come to rest, are silenced, and in awe. When beauty opens our hearts, our capacity to care for what is just and true enlarges. The triumvirate of western values — truth, beauty, and goodness — has long served as the foundation for positive human development. The experience of beauty takes us deep within ourselves to the most intimate sense of who we are and what we have endured. Beauty is the ultimate attractor and healer. It transcends us by pulling us out of ourselves and generates us to heal, repair, and move forward. Beauty in its many forms has profound neurological and psychological impact upon us. Artistic expression, and flow stimulate the growth of new brain cells in the cerebral cortex. Such experiences raise physiological levels in the immune, the endocrine, and the nervous systems. “Emotions play out in the theatre of the body. Feelings play out in the theatre of the mind.” As a significant psychologically transcendent experience, this arousal increases well-being, optimism, and resilience. Optimism is directly correlated with improved health. Drama, music, and art have the capacity to build and sustain resilience because creative engagement and participation is directly correlated with an overall positive impact on health, morale, and loneliness. This essays draws on some theoretical perspectives and research as they inform an understanding of the power of beauty and its transformational affect on the human psyche and development.
Book Synopsis Opium and Self-Reflection: Two Very Gothic Writers: De Quincey and Coleridge by : Cyrus Manasseh
Download or read book Opium and Self-Reflection: Two Very Gothic Writers: De Quincey and Coleridge written by Cyrus Manasseh and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2019 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: N/A. professional essay, , course: English, language: English, abstract: This essay was based upon ideas from various classes I was teaching within English Courses in Rome including those at Luiss Guido Carli University in 2019. As such, it analyses and explores motifs related to two major English writers of the Romantic period in relation to the idea of gothic and gothic literature and discusses the possible effects of Opium upon these writers' expression of themselves in some of their most principal works. This article delves into opium's ancient uses, its spread through different cultures, and its dangerous effects. It also highlights the opium-induced creativity of Lord Byron and Percy Shelley during their time at Villa Diodati in 1816, where iconic works such as "Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage" and "Frankenstein" were written. The influence of opium on literary figures like Thomas De Quincey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge is examined, showcasing how their opium-influenced writings shaped the course of literature and influenced subsequent generations, including artists like Lou Reed and writers like Edgar Allan Poe and William S. Burroughs.
Book Synopsis Against Roland Barthes. Why Ibsen's "A Doll's House" is Not a Feminist Text, But a Humanist One by : Cyrus Manasseh
Download or read book Against Roland Barthes. Why Ibsen's "A Doll's House" is Not a Feminist Text, But a Humanist One written by Cyrus Manasseh and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-13 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polemic Paper from the year 2016 in the subject Theater Studies, Dance, language: English, abstract: Right from its first performance Ibsen's play has been misunderstood. From early on, "A Doll's House" until recently, (when it began to be used mostly as a vehicle for feminism and what had been called the 'woman question'), has not always been popular and a number of criticisms and misunderstandings have plagued it. Many had commented on the fact that within the society, during the time the play was set, that women were made to stay home and take care of the children and support their husbands and that it would be a travesty if they left all of this in order to pursue self-fulfillment. Yet more recently, its popularity has seemed to have steadily increased. Today, copiously commensurate with Roland Barthes's 1967 dictum and theory that the author is dead, -(heralding the fact that real fixed 'meaning' itself is dead and that texts are constructed out of precariously grouped citations which therefore allow unlimited and arbitrary open-ended interpretations to proliferate in spite of the author of the work's original intent), today's unfitting feminism has taken this up in further attempts to achieve greater power and freedom. The problem is that although Ibsen stated that he wrote the play to reflect humanist issues, in much of today's culture, unfitting feminist interpretations which aim to rewrite the meaning of the play still abound.
Book Synopsis Art Without the Aesthetics. Defining Conceptual and Post-Conceptual Art Practices in 2010 by : Cyrus Manasseh
Download or read book Art Without the Aesthetics. Defining Conceptual and Post-Conceptual Art Practices in 2010 written by Cyrus Manasseh and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-18 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic Paper from the year 2010 in the subject Art - Art Theory, General, The University of Western Australia, language: English, abstract: The paper focuses on explaining why today (conceptual) and post-conceptual art practices generated from specific theories during the 1960s and 1970s would precipitate the need for the decline of philosophical aesthetics in discussing today's contemporary art. Today, since "aesthetic experience is to be conceived as conforming to the ruling cultural ideology" much of the "visual turn," would derive from street artists, sub-cultures and darker cultures who, rebellious by nature use (conceptual) and post-conceptual art practices, which increasingly produce theoretical positions, which contribute to the discursive paradigms adopted by today's theoreticians of visual culture. Also contributing to the "visual turn," is the active role played by gallery audiences who help to produce the meaning of the work itself-their role now has largely changed from passive contemplation to active participation. The paper defines why the preponderance of perspectives accumulated today (used by theoreticians of visual culture) informed by the artist's intention as a new theory in itself and the audience as "participant" is currently outweighing the significance of aesthetic theory. In the paper, I define and evaluate why philosophical aesthetics is no longer being seen as necessary to provide critical reflection of new media, post-conceptual art practices and the digital revolution.
Book Synopsis Passion of the Western Mind by : Richard Tarnas
Download or read book Passion of the Western Mind written by Richard Tarnas and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-10-19 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'Westt's mainstream high culture' and the 'radically changing world' of the 1990s, offers a new breakthrough for lay and scholarly readers alike....Allows readers to grasp the big picture of Western culture for the first time." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Here are the great minds of Western civilization and their pivotal ideas, from Plato to Hegel, from Augustine to Nietzsche, from Copernicus to Freud. Richard Tarnas performs the near-miracle of describing profound philosophical concepts simply but without simplifying them. Ten years in the making and already hailed as a classic, THE PASSION OF THE WESERN MIND is truly a complete liberal education in a single volume.
Download or read book The Last Utopia written by Samuel Moyn and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.
