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Author | : Bruce Mazlish |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0804750831 |
"Civilization" is a constantly invoked term. It is used by both politicians and scholars. How useful, in fact, is this term? Civilization and Its Contents traces the origins of the concept in the eighteenth century. It shows its use as a colonial ideology, and then as a support for racism. The term was extended to a dead society, Egyptian civilization, and was appropriated by Japan, China, and Islamic countries. This latter development lays the groundwork for the contemporary call for a "dialogue of civilizations." The author proposes instead that today the use of the term "civilization" has a global meaning, with local variants recognized as cultures. It may be more appropriate, however, to abandon the name "civilization" and to focus on a new understanding of the civilizing process.
Author | : Sigmund Freud |
Publisher | : Courier Dover Publications |
Total Pages | : 81 |
Release | : 1994-01-01 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0486282538 |
Author | : Mohsin Hamid |
Publisher | : Riverhead Books |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2016-02-02 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1594634033 |
Originally published in hardccover in 2015 by Riverhead Books.
Author | : Robert A. Paul |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1996-01-01 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780300064285 |
And he details the way Freud's myth corresponds to the unconscious fantasy structure of the obsessional personality - a style of personality dynamics Paul sees as essential to maintaining the bureaucratic institutions that comprise Western civilization's most distinctive features.
Author | : Brett Bowden |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 570 |
Release | : 2010-10-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1459605721 |
The term civilization comes with considerable baggage, dichotomizing people, cultures, and histories as civilized - or not. While the idea of civilization has been deployed throughout history to justify all manner of interventions and sociopolitical engineering, few scholars have stopped to consider what the concept actually means. Here, ..
Author | : Michel Foucault |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2013-01-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307833100 |
Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the "insane" and the rest of humanity.
Author | : Regis Debray |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2019-03-19 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1788734068 |
American civilization’s dominance over Europe—and what to do about it In 1900, an American of taste was a European in exile; in 2000, a trendy European is a frustrated American—or one waiting for a visa. Régis Debray explores America’s global cultural ascendancy in this provocative and witty analysis of our contemporary condition. Whereas Europe once foregrounded the importance of time and writing, America is a civilization of spectacle and kinetics, blind to the tragic complexities of human life. A measure of America’s success is how its jargon has been adopted by European languages, but there is much more than that to the States’ infiltration into all aspects of modern life. For Debray, the dominance of American civilization is a historical fait accompli. Yet he envisions a sanctuary for the best of Europe modelled on Vienna at the cusp of the twentieth century, where art and literature flowered in the rich soil of a decaying empire. For decades to come, Europe can still offer a rich cultural seedbed. “Some will call it decadence,” writes Debray, “others liberation. Why not both?”
Author | : William B. Parsons |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2021-05-27 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1108429262 |
Offers a revised psychoanalytic theory of religion by sifting through the history of psychoanalytic models in dialogue with their multidisciplinary critiques.
Author | : Charles Keith Maisels |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2003-12-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134863276 |
The Emergence of Civilisation is a major contribution to our understanding of the development of urban culture and social stratification in the Near Eastern region. Charles Maisels argues that our present assumptions about state formation, based on nineteenth century speculations, are wrong. His investigation illuminates the changes in scale, complexity and hierarchy which accompany the development of civilisation. The book draws conclusions about the dynamics of social change and the processes of social evolution in general, applying those concepts to the rise of Greece and Rome, and to the collapse of the classical Mediterranean world.
Author | : Virginia Postrel |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2020-11-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1541617614 |
From Paleolithic flax to 3D knitting, explore the global history of textiles and the world they weave together in this enthralling and educational guide. The story of humanity is the story of textiles -- as old as civilization itself. Since the first thread was spun, the need for textiles has driven technology, business, politics, and culture. In The Fabric of Civilization, Virginia Postrel synthesizes groundbreaking research from archaeology, economics, and science to reveal a surprising history. From Minoans exporting wool colored with precious purple dye to Egypt, to Romans arrayed in costly Chinese silk, the cloth trade paved the crossroads of the ancient world. Textiles funded the Renaissance and the Mughal Empire; they gave us banks and bookkeeping, Michelangelo's David and the Taj Mahal. The cloth business spread the alphabet and arithmetic, propelled chemical research, and taught people to think in binary code. Assiduously researched and deftly narrated, The Fabric of Civilization tells the story of the world's most influential commodity.