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Author | : Przemyslaw Tacik |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2021-07-29 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1350201286 |
Tackling important philosophical questions on modernity – what it is, where it begins and when it ends – Przemyslaw Tacik challenges the idea that modernity marks a particular epoch, and historicises its conception to offer a radical critique of it. His deconstruction-informed critique collects and assesses reflections on modernity from major philosophers including Hegel, Heidegger, Lacan, Arendt, Agamben, and Žižek. This analysis progresses a new understanding of modernity intrinsically connected to the growth of sovereignty as an organising principle of contemporary life. He argues that it is the idea of 'modernity', as a taken-for-granted era, which is positioned as the essential condition for making linear history possible, when it should instead be history, in and of itself, which dictates the existence of a particular period. Using Hegel's notion of 'spirit' to trace the importance of sovereignty to the conception of the modern epoch within German idealism, Tacik traces Hegel's influence on Heidegger through reference to the 'star' in his late philosophy which represents the hope of overcoming the metaphysical poverty of modernity. This line of thought reveals the necessity of a paradigm shift in our understanding of modernity that speaks to contemporary continental philosophy, theories of modernity, political theory, and critical re-assessments of Marxism.
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Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Arts |
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Author | : Michael Löwy |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 082238129X |
Romanticism is a worldview that finds expression over a whole range of cultural fields—not only in literature and art but in philosophy, theology, political theory, and social movements. In Romanticism Against the Tide of Modernity Michael Löwy and Robert Sayre formulate a theory that defines romanticism as a cultural protest against modern bourgeois industrial civilization and work to reveal the unity that underlies the extraordinary diversity of romanticism from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. After critiquing previous conceptions of romanticism and discussing its first European manifestations, Löwy and Sayre propose a typology of the sociopolitical positions held by romantic writers-from “restitutionist” to various revolutionary/utopian forms. In subsequent chapters, they give extended treatment to writers as diverse as Coleridge and Ruskin, Charles Peguy, Ernst Bloch and Christa Wolf. Among other topics, they discuss the complex relationship between Marxism and romanticism before closing with a reflection on more contemporary manifestations of romanticism (for example, surrealism, the events of May 1968, and the ecological movement) as well as its future. Students and scholars of literature, humanities, social sciences, and cultural studies will be interested in this elegant and thoroughly original book.
Author | : Keith L. Johnson |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2013-03-08 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830827161 |
The 2012 Wheaton Theology Conference was convened around the formidable legacy of Lutheran pastor, theologian and anti-Nazi resistant Dietrich Bonhoeffer. This collection, focusing on the man's views of Christ, the church and culture, contributes to a recent awakening of interest in Bonhoeffer among evangelicals.
Author | : Noel B. Salazar |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-07-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1785339354 |
Imagining mobility -- Chile : traveling to and from the end of the world -- Indonesia : Merantau and modernity -- Tanzania : the Maasai as icons of mobility -- Enacting mobility -- Education : leaving to learn -- Labor : capitalizing on movement -- Life's "pilgrimage" : travel, travail, transformation
Author | : Conor O'Brian Barnes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780979959288 |
If proof were needed that size does not matter, this slender volume from Conor Barnes"Musings at the End of Modernity"would suffice. In only one hundred brief aphorisms, Barnes distills the essential elements of civilization and religion, both East and West, as they developed into the modern age. Modernity, as Barnes shows, has arrived at the dead end of humanistic atheism. In the whiteout blizzard of modern information and thought, Barneslike Ibsens Brandhears the voice proclaiming He is Deus Caritatus.
Author | : P. J. Corfield |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 030013794X |
In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the wealthy heiress Portia, but lacks the necessary funds. He turns to his merchant friend, Antonio, who is forced to borrow from Shylock, a Jewish moneylender. When Antonio's business falters, repayment becomes impossible, and by the terms of the loan agreement, Shylock is able to demand a pound of Antonio's flesh. Portia cleverly intervenes, and all ends well (except of course for Shylock).
Author | : Zygmunt Bauman |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2013-07-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 074565701X |
In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software-based modernity. This passage, he argues, has brought profound change to all aspects of the human condition. The new remoteness and un-reachability of global systemic structure coupled with the unstructured and under-defined, fluid state of the immediate setting of life-politics and human togetherness, call for the rethinking of the concepts and cognitive frames used to narrate human individual experience and their joint history. This book is dedicated to this task. Bauman selects five of the basic concepts which have served to make sense of shared human life - emancipation, individuality, time/space, work and community - and traces their successive incarnations and changes of meaning. Liquid Modernity concludes the analysis undertaken in Bauman's two previous books Globalization: The Human Consequences and In Search of Politics. Together these volumes form a brilliant analysis of the changing conditions of social and political life by one of the most original thinkers writing today.
Author | : Clémence Boulouque |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 2020-09-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1503613119 |
Another Modernity is a rich study of the life and thought of Elia Benamozegh, a nineteenth-century rabbi and philosopher whose work profoundly influenced Christian-Jewish dialogue in twentieth-century Europe. Benamozegh, a Livornese rabbi of Moroccan descent, was a prolific writer and transnational thinker who corresponded widely with religious and intellectual figures in France, the Maghreb, and the Middle East. This idiosyncratic figure, who argued for the universalism of Judaism and for interreligious engagement, came to influence a spectrum of religious thinkers so varied that it includes proponents of the ecumenical Second Vatican Council, American evangelists, and right-wing Zionists in Israel. What Benamozegh proposed was unprecedented: that the Jewish tradition presented a solution to the religious crisis of modernity. According to Benamozegh, the defining features of Judaism were universalism, a capacity to foster interreligious engagement, and the political power and mythical allure of its theosophical tradition, Kabbalah—all of which made the Jewish tradition uniquely equipped to assuage the post-Enlightenment tensions between religion and reason. In this book, Clémence Boulouque presents a wide-ranging and nuanced investigation of Benamozegh's published and unpublished work and his continuing legacy, considering his impact on Christian-Jewish dialogue as well as on far-right Christians and right-wing religious Zionists.
Author | : Thomas C. Oden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
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Thomas C. Oden describes the cultural shifts occurring in both Russia and America, focusing on the two worlds of perishing modernity and emerging postmodernity, and discussing what these monumental changes mean for Christianity and American Christians. 168 pages, paper