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Author : Catherine R Rhodes
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477331085
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)
Download or read book Undoing Modernity written by Catherine R Rhodes and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2025-01-07 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethnography of the decolonization of Maya-ness.
Author : Mike Featherstone
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1848609167
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Undoing Culture written by Mike Featherstone and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1995-09-21 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with the clarity and insight that readers have come to expect of Mike Featherstone Undoing Culture is a notable contribution to our understanding of modernism and postmodernism. It explores the formation and deformation of the cultural sphere and the effects on culture of globalization. Against many orthodox postmodernist accounts,the author argues that it is wrong to regard our present state of fragmentation and dislocation as an epochal break. Existing interdependencies and power balances are not so easily broken down. Nonetheless some important cultural changes have occurred since World War II. In particular, the book examines some of the processes which have uncoupled culture from the social; the erosion of the ideal of the heroic life in the face of the onslaught from consumerism and the deformation of culture; and the rise of new forms of identity development. It explains why culture has gained a more significant role in everyday life and also why it has come to preoccupy the Academy in recent years. Mike Featherstone looks at the effects of the multiplication of cultural goods and images on our ability to read culture and develop fixed meanings and relationships. He highlights the importance of the global in attempting to cope with the objective difficulties of cultural overproduction. The book concludes that the rise of non-Western nation-states with different cultural frames produces different reactions of modernity, making it more appropriate to refer to global modernities.
Author : Brian Heaphy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134460996
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Late Modernity and Social Change written by Brian Heaphy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-09-12 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this incisive text, Heaphy introduces the work of Giddens, Bauman, Foucault and Baudrillard to show exactly how the arguments of the great contemporary theorists play out against extended examples from real-life.
Author : Stephanie Hemelryk Donald
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501318586
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Childhood and Nation in Contemporary World Cinema written by Stephanie Hemelryk Donald and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection that brings together an international network of scholars to explore the questions of child and nation in world cinemas.
Author : William Desmond
Publisher : Catholic University of America Press
ISBN 13 : 0813232481
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)
Download or read book The Voiding of Being written by William Desmond and published by Catholic University of America Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contemporary philosophy the status, indeed the very viability of metaphysics is a much contested issue. The reflections offered here explore diverse aspects of this contested status and offer a defense of metaphysics. In other works, perhaps most fully in Being and the Between, William Desmond has tried to develop what he calls a metaxological metaphysics in response to different skeptical, if not hostile approaches to metaphysics quite common in our time. The Voiding of Being complements the systematic dimensions of this metaxological metaphysics outlined in Being and the Between. It presents a set of studies which amplify important themes in the unfolding of modern metaphysics, in relation to major earlier and contemporary thinkers, while adding nuance to what is involved in the more systematic articulation of a metaxological metaphysics. There is what the author calls a voiding of being in modernity, expressed in diverse developments of thought. “The Voiding of Being,” might seems to conjure up too negative associations but the aim of the thoughts gathered here is not at all negative. While attempting to understand the voiding of being in modern thought, our appreciation of the promise of metaphysical thinking can also be renewed and indeed extended – extended beyond skepticism and hostility to metaphysics. Desmond engages many interlocutors along the way, from the long tradition, such as Heraclitus, Aquinas and Hegel, as well as more contemporary thinkers like Heidegger and Marion. As the book’s subtitle suggests, it is concerned with the continued doing of metaphysics and not only the contemporary undoing of it.
Author : E. Padilla
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137031492
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Issues of Migration and Theology written by E. Padilla and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-03-06 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a diverse list of contributors, this volume seeks to discuss in depth some of the key issues that migration poses to World Christianity in the fields of constructive theology, ethics, spirituality, mission, ministry, inculturation, interreligious dialogue, and theological education.
Author : Premesh Lalu
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509552847
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Undoing Apartheid written by Premesh Lalu and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-apartheid South Africa still struggles to overcome the past, not just because the material conditions of apartheid linger but because the intellectual conditions it created have not been thoroughly dismantled. The system of 'petty apartheid', which controlled the minutia of everyday life, became a means of dragooning human beings into adapting to increasingly mechanized forms of life that stifle desire and creative endeavour. As a result, apartheid is incessantly repeated in the struggle to move beyond it. In Undoing Apartheid, Premesh Lalu argues that only an aesthetic education can lead to a future beyond apartheid. To find ways to escape the vicious cycle, he traces the patterns created by three theatrical works by William Kentridge, Jane Taylor, and the Handspring Puppet Company – Faustus in Africa, Woyzeck on the Highveld, and Ubu and the Truth Commission – which coincided with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of apartheid. Through the analysis of these works, Lalu uncovers the roots of modern thinking about race and affirms the need to revitalize a post-apartheid reconciliation endowed with truth – if only to keep alive the rhyme of hope and history.
Author : Alireza Shomali
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143847380X
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Thoughtlessness and Decadence in Iran written by Alireza Shomali and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political decay in Islamic societies has for the most part been the subject of structural analyses while philosophical studies have been rare, often speculative and deterministic. Thoughtlessness and Decadence in Iran explores from a theoretical perspective the problem of democracy deficit—or, political decadence—in contemporary Iran and, by implication, in present-day Middle Eastern societies. This decadence, the book argues, is in part a religion-based decadence, and deliverance from it requires collective thoughtfulness about religion. Alireza Shomali conceptualizes the Iranian Reality in terms of a lack of not only good life but also thinking of good living. This thoughtlessness means dissolution of critical consciousness and, as such, it heralds escalating decadence. At this moment of rapid decay, the book argues, thought must become relevant to society: the communicative practice of thinking must emerge to examine the pathologies of a religiously administrated life. Opening a dialogue between Adorno, Strauss, Farabi and Razi, among others, Shomali underlines the critical points of similarity and difference between these thinkers and envisions a "local" emancipatory project that, noting the specifics of the Iranian case, takes lessons from the Western experience without blind imitation.
Author : Patrick Heinrich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136935940
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)
Download or read book Language Life in Japan written by Patrick Heinrich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses how linguistic diversity in Japan, and indeed recognition of this phenomenon, presents a wide range of sociolinguistic challenges and opportunities in fundamental institutions such as schools, in cultural patterns and in social behaviours and attitudes.
Author : Alejandro A. Vallega
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253012651
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Latin American Philosophy from Identity to Radical Exteriority written by Alejandro A. Vallega and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While recognizing its origins and scope, Alejandro A. Vallega offers a new interpretation of Latin American philosophy by looking at its radical and transformative roots. Placing it in dialogue with Western philosophical traditions, Vallega examines developments in gender studies, race theory, postcolonial theory, and the legacy of cultural dependency in light of the Latin American experience. He explores Latin America's engagement with contemporary problems in Western philosophy and describes the transformative impact of this encounter on contemporary thought.
Author : James Naremore
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253206275
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Modernity and Mass Culture written by James Naremore and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1991-03-22 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The twelve essays in Modernity and Mass Culture provide a broad and captivating overview of what has come to be known as culture studies." --Texas Journal This is a wide-ranging analysis of the relationship among industrialization, democracy, and art in the 20th century. U.S. and British scholars discuss the interaction of "high," "popular," and "mass" art, showing how Western culture as a whole is affected by the transition from the modern to the postmodern era.
Author : Bruce Ellis Benson
Publisher : Brazos Press
ISBN 13 : 1441201890
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)
Download or read book Evangelicals and Empire written by Bruce Ellis Benson and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking collection considers empire from a global perspective, exploring the role of evangelicals in political, social, and economic engagement at a time when empire is alternately denounced and embraced. It brings noted thinkers from a range of evangelical perspectives together to engage the most explosive and discussed theorists of empire in the first decade of the twenty-first century--Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. Using their work as a springboard, the contributors grapple with the concept of empire and how evangelicalism should operate in the world of empire.
Author : Benjamin Boysen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350172898
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Against New Materialisms written by Benjamin Boysen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive scrutiny of the theories associated with new materialisms including speculative realism, new materialism, Object-oriented ontology and actor-network theory. One of the most influential trends in the humanities and social sciences in the last decades, new materialisms embody a critique of modernity and a pledge to regain immediate reality by focusing on the materiality of the world human and nonhuman rather than a post-structuralist focus upon texts. Against New Materialisms examines the theoretical and practical problems connected with discarding modernity and the human subject from a number of interdisciplinary angles: ontology and phenomenology to political theory, mythology and ecology. With contributions from international scholars, including Markus Gabriel, Andrew Cole, and Dipesh Chakrabarty, the essays here challenge the capacity of new materialisms to provide solutions to current international crises, whilst also calling into question what the desire for such theories can tell us about the global situation today.
Author : Jason B. Hunt
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532682875
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)
Download or read book Cornelius Van Til's Doctrine of God and Its Relevance for Contemporary Hermeneutics written by Jason B. Hunt and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-09-27 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cornelius Van Til’s Doctrine of God and Its Relevance for Contemporary Hermeneutics seeks to answer the question, “What does Van Til have to do with hermeneutics?” It is argued that some of the most relevant concerns in the field of contemporary hermeneutics are similar to those addressed by Van Til in the area of apologetics. Van Til’s approach involved a self-conscious consistency between method and theology proper in order to reason according to the Christian worldview found in Scripture. Just as one’s apologetic method should be consistent with the theology revealed in the Bible, so also should one’s hermeneutic. This work not only argues that Van Til has an important place in the hermeneutical discussion, but also demonstrates his place in terms of the main contours in his doctrine of God. In doing so, certain influences on evangelical hermeneutics are considered according to consistency with theology proper. Lastly, a Van Tillian hermeneutic is applied to the often-debated issue concerning the New Testament use of the Old Testament.
Author : Karen J. Renner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317966740
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book The 'Evil Child' in Literature, Film and Popular Culture written by Karen J. Renner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'evil child' has infiltrated the cultural imagination, taking on prominent roles in popular films, television shows and literature. This collection of essays from a global range of scholars examines a fascinating array of evil children and the cultural work that they perform, drawing upon sociohistorical, cinematic, and psychological approaches. The chapters explore a wide range of characters including Tom Riddle in the Harry Potter series, the possessed Regan in William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist, the monstrous Ben in Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child, the hostile fetuses of Rosemary’s Baby and Alien, and even the tiny terrors featured in the reality television series Supernanny. Contributors also analyse various themes and issues within film, literature and popular culture including ethics, representations of evil and critiques of society. This book was originally published as two special issues of Literature Interpretation Theory.
Author : Roger S. Gottlieb
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429968051
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Joining Hands written by Roger S. Gottlieb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did Martin Luther King's spiritual understanding of political struggle truly help the Civil Rights movement? Can breast cancer victims incorporate both spiritual wisdom and political action in their fight for life? Confronting questions that challenge the foundations of both politics and spirituality, Roger S. Gottlieb presents a brave new account
Author : Wilson Carey McWilliams
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813139783
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Democratic Soul written by Wilson Carey McWilliams and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected works by the acclaimed political scientist, showcasing his thoughts on education, religion, literature, as well as twentieth-century figures. In 1973, Wilson Carey McWilliams (1933–2005) published The Idea of Fraternity in America, a groundbreaking book that argued for an alternative to America’s dominant philosophy of liberalism. This alternative tradition emphasized that community and fraternal bonds were as vital to the process of maintaining political liberty as was individual liberty. McWilliams expanded on this idea throughout his prolific career as a teacher, writer, and activist, promoting a unique definition of American democracy. In The Democratic Soul: A Wilson Carey McWilliams Reader, editors Patrick J. Deneen and Susan J. McWilliams, daughter of the famed intellectual, have assembled key essays, articles, reviews, and lectures that trace McWilliams’s evolution as a scholar and explain his often controversial views on education, religion, and literature. The book also showcases his thoughts and opinions on prominent twentieth-century figures such as George Orwell and Leo Strauss. The first comprehensive volume of Wilson Carey McWilliams’ collected writings, The Democratic Soul will be welcomed by scholars of political science and American political thought as a long-overdue contribution to the field. “Wilson Carey McWilliams was a seer, a small d-democrat, an artist who valued eloquent prose, and one of his era’s shrewdest students of American politics. May this collection of some of his very best work introduce him to a new generation eager for a vision that is at once progressive, communitarian and deeply grounded in the realities of American history. McWiliams brought not only deep knowledge to his work, but also wisdom, compassion and a stubborn prophet’s sense of what is right, what is just, and what is good.” —E.J. Dionne, author of Why Americans Hate Politics “A treasury of thoughts and arguments from articles of the late Carey McWilliams. All are still timely, still relevant to American politics today. Political philosophy as he practiced it never goes out of style. How his keen eye and sturdy wisdom are missed!” —Harvey Mansfield, professor of Government, Harvard University “In addition to his work on the Founding, McWilliams was committed to writing and teaching about contemporary politics. No one was better at presenting to students the entirety of American political thought, as a single phenomenon linking past and present, a long story with a known beginning but an unknown end. These qualities come through very clearly in this collection of his essays.” —Dennis Hale, professor of political science, Boston College
