Evil after Postmodernism

Evil after Postmodernism
Author: Jennifer Geddes
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1135127190

These six essays form a stimulating and lucid investigation of the meaning of evil in the light of postmodern thought, and of the cultural and social changes of the modern age. They consider subjects such as the war in Bosnia, AIDS, and the Holocaust.

French Philosophy in the Twentieth Century

French Philosophy in the Twentieth Century
Author: Gary Gutting
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2001-05-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521665599

A clear and comprehensive account of the history of French philosophy in the twentieth century.

Terror in My Soul

Terror in My Soul
Author: Igal Halfin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2003-07-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780674010321

Halfin exposes the inner struggles of Soviet Communists to identify themselves with the Bolshevik Party in the 1920s and 1930s. Combining the analysis of autobiography with the study of Communist psychology and sociology and the politics of Bolshevik self-fashioning, Halfin provides new insight into the preconditions of the Great Purge.

From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society

From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society
Author: Krishan Kumar
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 253
Release: 1995-10-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780631185598

This lucid and insightful study of a crucial area of current debate covers the three theories of contemporary change: the information society, post-Fordism and postmodernity.

Post-Postmodernism

Post-Postmodernism
Author: Jeffrey Nealon
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2012-08-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0804783217

Post-Postmodernism begins with a simple premise: we no longer live in the world of "postmodernism," famously dubbed "the cultural logic of late capitalism" by Fredric Jameson in 1984. Far from charting any simple move "beyond" postmodernism since the 1980s, though, this book argues that we've experienced an intensification of postmodern capitalism over the past decades, an increasing saturation of the economic sphere into formerly independent segments of everyday cultural life. If "fragmentation" was the preferred watchword of postmodern America, "intensification" is the dominant cultural logic of our contemporary era. Post-Postmodernism surveys a wide variety of cultural texts in pursuing its analyses—everything from the classic rock of Black Sabbath to the post-Marxism of Antonio Negri, from considerations of the corporate university to the fare at the cineplex, from reading experimental literature to gambling in Las Vegas, from Badiou to the undergraduate classroom. Insofar as cultural realms of all kinds have increasingly been overcoded by the languages and practices of economics, Nealon aims to construct a genealogy of the American present, and to build a vocabulary for understanding the relations between economic production and cultural production today—when American-style capitalism, despite its recent battering, seems nowhere near the point of obsolescence. Post-postmodern capitalism is seldom late but always just in time. As such, it requires an updated conceptual vocabulary for diagnosing and responding to our changed situation.

Fragments of Tragedy in Postmodern Film

Fragments of Tragedy in Postmodern Film
Author: Sezen Kayhan
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2014-10-16
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1443869120

Despite the theories about the “death of tragedy”, this book explores fragments and reflections of tragedy in postmodern film. Tragedy has changed and evolved with human society, and its continuous chain from Ancient Greece to modern times has been broken by postmodernism. However, certain aspects of tragedy have continued to be used by literature and film: in particular, films with themes of chaos, violence, popular culture, paranoia, virtual reality and alienation often use aspects of tragedy. The focus of this study is on these facets adopted by postmodern film.

Evil and Human Agency

Evil and Human Agency
Author: Arne Johan Vetlesen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2005-12-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781139448840

Evil is a poorly understood phenomenon. In this provocative 2005 book, Professor Vetlesen argues that to do evil is to intentionally inflict pain on another human being, against his or her will, and causing serious and foreseeable harm. Vetlesen investigates why and in what sort of circumstances such a desire arises, and how it is channeled, or exploited, into collective evildoing. He argues that such evildoing, pitting whole groups against each other, springs from a combination of character, situation, and social structure. By combining a philosophical approach inspired by Hannah Arendt, a psychological approach inspired by C. Fred Alford and a sociological approach inspired by Zygmunt Bauman, and bringing these to bear on the Holocaust and ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia, Vetlesen shows how closely perpetrators, victims, and bystanders interact, and how aspects of human agency are recognized, denied, and projected by different agents.

Philosophy After Postmodernism

Philosophy After Postmodernism
Author: Paul Crowther
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134388616

Formulating a new approach to philosophy, Paul Crowther identifies conceptual links between value, knowledge, personal identity and civilization understood as a process of cumulative advance.

Explaining Postmodernism

Explaining Postmodernism
Author: Stephen R. C. Hicks
Publisher: Scholargy Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2004
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781592476428

Postmodernism For Beginners

Postmodernism For Beginners
Author: Jim Powell
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2007-08-21
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1939994195

If you are like most people, you’re not sure what Postmodernism is. And if this were like most books on the subject, it probably wouldn’t tell you. Besides what a few grumpy critics claim, Postmodernism is not a bunch of meaningless intellectual mind games. On the contrary, it is a reaction to the most profound spiritual and philosophical crisis of our time – the failure of the Enlightenment. Jim Powell takes the position that Postmodernism is a series of “maps” that help people find their way through a changing world. Postmodernism For Beginners features the thoughts of Foucault on power and knowledge, Jameson on mapping the postmodern, Baudrillard on the media, Harvey on time-space compression, Derrida on deconstruction and Deleuze and Guattari on rhizomes. The book also discusses postmodern artifacts such as Madonna, cyberpunk, Buddhist ecology, and teledildonics.