Being Modern

Download Being Modern PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787353931
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Being Modern by : Robert Bud

Download or read book Being Modern written by Robert Bud and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early decades of the twentieth century, engagement with science was commonly used as an emblem of modernity. This phenomenon is now attracting increasing attention in different historical specialties. Being Modern builds on this recent scholarly interest to explore engagement with science across culture from the end of the nineteenth century to approximately 1940. Addressing the breadth of cultural forms in Britain and the western world from the architecture of Le Corbusier to working class British science fiction, Being Modern paints a rich picture. Seventeen distinguished contributors from a range of fields including the cultural study of science and technology, art and architecture, English culture and literature examine the issues involved. The book will be a valuable resource for students, and a spur to scholars to further examination of culture as an interconnected web of which science is a critical part, and to supersede such tired formulations as 'Science and culture'.

Africa Must Be Modern

Download Africa Must Be Modern PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253012783
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Africa Must Be Modern by : Olúfémi Táíwò

Download or read book Africa Must Be Modern written by Olúfémi Táíwò and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a forthright and uncompromising manner, Olúfémi Táíwò explores Africa's hostility toward modernity and how that hostility has impeded economic development and social and political transformation. What has to change for Africa to be able to respond to the challenges of modernity and globalization? Táíwò insists that Africa can renew itself only by fully engaging with democracy and capitalism and by mining its untapped intellectual resources. While many may not agree with Táíwò's positions, they will be unable to ignore what he says. This is a bold exhortation for Africa to come into the 21st century.

Bound to be Modern

Download Bound to be Modern PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781584563136
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (631 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Bound to be Modern by : Kristina Lundblad

Download or read book Bound to be Modern written by Kristina Lundblad and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An interdisciplinary study on the emergence and function of publishers' cloth bindings in the 19th century"-- Provided by publisher.

Al Qaeda and What It Means to be Modern

Download Al Qaeda and What It Means to be Modern PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571265529
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Al Qaeda and What It Means to be Modern by : John Gray

Download or read book Al Qaeda and What It Means to be Modern written by John Gray and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The suicide warriors who attacked Washington and New York on September 11th, 2001, did more than kill thousands of civilians and demolish the World Trade Center. They destroyed the West's ruling myth.' So John Gray begins this short, powerful book on the belief that has dominated our minds for a century and a half - the idea that we are all, more or less, becoming modern and that as we become modern we will become more alike, and at the same time more familiar and more reasonable. Nothing could be further from the truth, Gray argues. Al Qaeda is a product of modernity and of globalisation, and it will not be the last group to use the products of the modern world in its own monstrous way. Gray pulls up by the roots the myth that the human condition can be remade by science and progress or political engineering. He describes with mordant irony the rise of Positivists, the strange sect that put science and technology at the centre of the cult and developed a religion of humanity. Through their influence on economists, politicians and biologists, they still powerfully affect the way we think. Gray looks at the various attempts to remake humanity, from the Bolshevik and Nazi disasters to the utopian experiments of modern radical Islam and the dreams of the prophets of globalisation. And he gives a scathing account of the real sources of conflict in the world, of American power and its illusions, and of the ways in which cultures will resist the reshaping we might wish on them.

We Have Never Been Modern

Download We Have Never Been Modern PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674076753
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis We Have Never Been Modern by : Bruno Latour

Download or read book We Have Never Been Modern written by Bruno Latour and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors. But if we were to let go of this fond conviction, Bruno Latour asks, what would the world look like? His book, an anthropology of science, shows us how much of modernity is actually a matter of faith. What does it mean to be modern? What difference does the scientific method make? The difference, Latour explains, is in our careful distinctions between nature and society, between human and thing, distinctions that our benighted ancestors, in their world of alchemy, astrology, and phrenology, never made. But alongside this purifying practice that defines modernity, there exists another seemingly contrary one: the construction of systems that mix politics, science, technology, and nature. The ozone debate is such a hybrid, in Latour’s analysis, as are global warming, deforestation, even the idea of black holes. As these hybrids proliferate, the prospect of keeping nature and culture in their separate mental chambers becomes overwhelming—and rather than try, Latour suggests, we should rethink our distinctions, rethink the definition and constitution of modernity itself. His book offers a new explanation of science that finally recognizes the connections between nature and culture—and so, between our culture and others, past and present. Nothing short of a reworking of our mental landscape, We Have Never Been Modern blurs the boundaries among science, the humanities, and the social sciences to enhance understanding on all sides. A summation of the work of one of the most influential and provocative interpreters of science, it aims at saving what is good and valuable in modernity and replacing the rest with a broader, fairer, and finer sense of possibility.

Modernity and Its Discontents

Download Modernity and Its Discontents PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300220987
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Modernity and Its Discontents by : Steven B. Smith

Download or read book Modernity and Its Discontents written by Steven B. Smith and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steven B. Smith examines the concept of modernity, not as the end product of historical developments but as a state of mind. He explores modernism as a source of both pride and anxiety, suggesting that its most distinctive characteristics are the self-criticisms and doubts that accompany social and political progress. Providing profiles of the modern project’s most powerful defenders and critics—from Machiavelli and Spinoza to Saul Bellow and Isaiah Berlin—this provocative work of philosophy and political science offers a novel perspective on what it means to be modern and why discontent and sometimes radical rejection are its inevitable by-products.

Benjamin West and the Struggle to be Modern

Download Benjamin West and the Struggle to be Modern PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781858946412
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (464 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Benjamin West and the Struggle to be Modern by : Loyd Grossman

Download or read book Benjamin West and the Struggle to be Modern written by Loyd Grossman and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the time of his death in 1820, Benjamin West was the most famous artist in the English-speaking world, and much admired throughout Europe. From humble beginnings in Pennsylvania, he had become the first American artist to study in Italy, and within a few short years of his arrival in London, was instrumental in the foundation of the Royal Academy of Arts (he succeeded Sir Joshua Reynolds to become its second President) and became history painter to King George III. In his lifetime, West's meteoric rise to prominence and the great pleasure he took in his success attracted criticism, and his posthumous reputation took a savage mauling from Victorian critics, one of whom dubbed him 'The Monarch of Mediocrity'. But even at his critical nadir, West's most celebrated work, The Death of General Wolfe, commemorating the British victory at the Battle of Quebec in 1759 and first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1771, continued to fascinate. Although it was not, as is sometimes claimed, the first history painting to feature contemporary costume, it was the first picture in such a vein to become a critical and popular success in Britain. West remains today the most neglected and misunderstood of Britain's great eighteenth-century artists, lacking the social bite of Hogarth, the bravura of Reynolds or the easy elegance of Gainsborough. Nor was he a forceful writer (unlike Hogarth and Reynolds), and he did not possess the intellectual credentials to which so many of his fellow artists aspired. And yet, as Loyd Grossman asserts in his new book, West was extraordinarily in tune with the artistic and intellectual currents that swirled through his turbulent times. He was in the vanguard of both Neoclassicism and Romanticism, and among the very first artists to give visual expression to the exciting and heroic qualities of contemporary events, as opposed to episodes dredged up from the biblical, classical or mythological past, which had long enjoyed the highest artistic status. West's Wolfe was painted at a time when Europeans were just beginning to abandon the tendency to look backwards. Men and women of letters, philosophers and historians were increasingly convinced that modernity could equal and even surpass the achievements of the ancient Greeks and Romans. This new-found ability to believe in the value of the present and to look forward to a progressive future is very much the foundation of the 'modern' attitude that has affected the way we live and think ever since. While acknowledging that West's reputation is still precarious, Grossman explains why Wolfe was such an instant success and why this thrilling work of art continues to exercise such a strong grip on our imaginations nearly 250 years after it was first shown to the public. He situates West in the midst of Enlightenment thinking about history and modernity, and seeks to demolish some of the prejudices about the talent and intentions of the young man from the Pennsylvania frontier who attained such eminence at the British court.

Being Modern in the Middle East

Download Being Modern in the Middle East PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400866669
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Being Modern in the Middle East by : Keith David Watenpaugh

Download or read book Being Modern in the Middle East written by Keith David Watenpaugh and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-19 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative book, Keith Watenpaugh connects the question of modernity to the formation of the Arab middle class. The book explores the rise of a middle class of liberal professionals, white-collar employees, journalists, and businessmen during the first decades of the twentieth century in the Arab Middle East and the ways its members created civil society, and new forms of politics, bodies of thought, and styles of engagement with colonialism. Discussions of the middle class have been largely absent from historical writings about the Middle East. Watenpaugh fills this lacuna by drawing on Arab, Ottoman, British, American and French sources and an eclectic body of theoretical literature and shows that within the crucible of the Young Turk Revolution of 1908, World War I, and the advent of late European colonialism, a discrete middle class took shape. It was defined not just by the wealth, professions, possessions, or the levels of education of its members, but also by the way they asserted their modernity. Using the ethnically and religiously diverse middle class of the cosmopolitan city of Aleppo, Syria, as a point of departure, Watenpaugh explores the larger political and social implications of what being modern meant in the non-West in the first half of the twentieth century. Well researched and provocative, Being Modern in the Middle East makes a critical contribution not just to Middle East history, but also to the global study of class, mass violence, ideas, and revolution.

Being Modern in Iran

Download Being Modern in Iran PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
ISBN 13 : 9781850655183
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (551 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Being Modern in Iran by : Fariba Adelkhah

Download or read book Being Modern in Iran written by Fariba Adelkhah and published by C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS. This book was released on 1999 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The election of Mohammad Khatami as President, the prospect of renewed dialogue between Tehran and Washington, and the display of popular rejoicing that greeted the nation's football team's qualification for the 1998 World Cup have shed light on aspects of everyday life in post-revolutionary Iran which have often been overlooked in the West. Through the Iranian example, this text reviews the debate not merely about political Islam, but also about democratic transition and its relation to social change.

How To Be a Modern Samurai

Download How To Be a Modern Samurai PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1786784068
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis How To Be a Modern Samurai by : Antony Cummins

Download or read book How To Be a Modern Samurai written by Antony Cummins and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take inspiration from the samurai of old Japan and discover how their practices for self-discipline, focus, leadership, and mind control can help you find success in daily life! For centuries, the Japanese samurai were the unquestioned leaders of their society, maintaining their position through their iron will, Zen-like emotional control, and clan-building social skills. Today, in a modern world that so often privileges instant gratification and self-indulgence, few commit to the Way of the Samurai, yet this challenging path of self-discipline, self-control, and dedication will bring great rewards to those who follow it. In this ultimate guide to making use of the authentic samurai practices and techniques in today’s world, learn how to control your mind and emotions, stay on the path until you have achieved mastery of your chosen art, build a network of loyal followers, defend your home from physical and psychic attack, use samurai spirituality and even magic—and much more.

New York Modern

Download New York Modern PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801867934
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (679 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis New York Modern by : William B. Scott

Download or read book New York Modern written by William B. Scott and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handsomely illustrated and engagingly written, New York Modern documents the impressive collective legacy of New York's artists in capturing the energy and emotions of the urban experience.

Learning To Be Modern

Download Learning To Be Modern PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429978901
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Learning To Be Modern by : Byron Marshall

Download or read book Learning To Be Modern written by Byron Marshall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emphasizing the political discourse and conflict that have surrounded Japanese education, this book focuses on the three main issues of central versus local control, elitism versus equality, and nationalism versus universalism.

Polyphony and the Modern

Download Polyphony and the Modern PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000391086
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Polyphony and the Modern by : Jonathan Fruoco

Download or read book Polyphony and the Modern written by Jonathan Fruoco and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polyphony and the Modern asks one fundamental question: what does it mean to be modern in one’s own time? To answer that question, this volume focuses on polyphony as an index of modernity. In The Principle of Hope, Ernst Bloch showed that each moment in time is potentially fractured: people living in the same country can effectively live in different centuries – some making their alliances with the past and others betting on the future – but all of them, at least technically, enclosed in the temporal moment. But can a claim of modernity also mean something more ambitious? Can an artist, by accident or design, escape the limits of his or her own time, and somehow precociously embody the outlook of a subsequent age? This book sees polyphony as a bridge providing a terminology and a stylistic practice by which the period barrier between Medieval and Early Modern can be breached. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003129837

All that is Solid Melts Into Air

Download All that is Solid Melts Into Air PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9780860917854
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (178 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis All that is Solid Melts Into Air by : Marshall Berman

Download or read book All that is Solid Melts Into Air written by Marshall Berman and published by Verso. This book was released on 1983 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experience of modernization -- the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world -- and modernism in art, literature and architecture are brilliantly integrated in this account.

Modernism the Lure of Heresy

Download Modernism the Lure of Heresy PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393052053
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (52 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Modernism the Lure of Heresy by : Peter Gay

Download or read book Modernism the Lure of Heresy written by Peter Gay and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a brilliant, provocative long essay on the rise and fall and survival of modernism, by the English-languages' greatest living cultural historian.

Being Modern in Japan

Download Being Modern in Japan PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824823603
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (236 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis Being Modern in Japan by : Elise K. Tipton

Download or read book Being Modern in Japan written by Elise K. Tipton and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a multi-faceted study of the development of modernism in Japan, with authors from Japan, the United States, and Australia spanning the fields of art history, social history, and literature.

The New Garconne

Download The New Garconne PDF Online Free

Author :
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781780678580
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (785 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!


Book Synopsis The New Garconne by : Navaz Batliwalla

Download or read book The New Garconne written by Navaz Batliwalla and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Garconne is a non-prescriptive guide for today's modern, independent, and stylish woman. It espouses a grown-up style and attitude with a masculine-feminine aesthetic, where culture, history, beauty, intelligence, feminism, quality, and taste are celebrated. Women who embody the look include Katharine Hepburn, Andree Putman, Lauren Hutton, Janelle Monae, Phoebe Philo, Ines de la Fressange, Tilda Swinton, Stella Tennant, and Jenna Lyons. This visually inspiring book explores the look, history, and essence of gentlewoman style. It features profiles of women who typify the style, alongside beautifully photographed and curated imagery and how-to-get-the-look information.