Politics Of Despair
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Author | : Fritz R. Stern |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2023-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520342690 |
This is a study in the pathology of cultural criticism. By analyzing the thought and influence of three leading critics of modern Germany, this study will demonstrate the dangers and dilemmas of a particular type of cultural despair. Lagarde, Langbehn, and Moeller van den Bruck-their active lives spanning the years from the middle of the past century to the threshold of Hitler's Third Reich-attacked, often incisively and justly, the deficiencies of German culture and the German spirit. But they were more than the critics of Germany's cultural crisis; they were its symptoms and victims as well. Unable to endure the ills which they diagnosed and which they had experienced in their own lives, they sought to become prophets who would point the way to a national rebirth. Hence, they propounded all manner of reforms, ruthless and idealistic, nationalistic and utopian. It was this leap from despair to utopia across all existing reality that gave their thought its fantastic quality.
Author | : Alok Rai |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521397476 |
Drawing on a wide range of Orwell's writing Rai charts his progression from rebellion through reconciliation to despair.
Author | : Tracy Campbell |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2014-07-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813149029 |
Shortly after 1900, tens of thousands of tobacco growers throughout Kentucky and Tennessee convulsed the region for nearly a decade in a revolt against the monopolistic practices of the American Tobacco Company. Though the revolt known as the Tobacco Wars remains one of the more remarkable insurgencies of rural America, it is also one of the more misunderstood. In this first major account of the uprising in over half a century, Tracy Campbell tells the story of these embattled farmers and casts a provocative new light on the issues that fueled the Tobacco Wars. When tobacco prices fell below the cost of production in the early 1900s, farmers in western Kentucky and Tennessee, faced with desperate economic circumstances, formed cooperatives through which they could pool their crops and withhold tobacco from the market until a satisfactory price was offered. Campbell recounts the organizational underpinnings of the notorious "Black Patch War" and the forces that drove farmers to seek violent solutions to their economic ills. Campbell then expands the story to the burley region, where a simultaneous movement was under way. In 1908, over thirty thousand burley growers undertook the only successful large-scale agricultural strike in American history. Campbell brings this drama to life and describes the emotional day when the farmers achieved their unprecedented victory over the powerful Tobacco Trust. The Tobacco Wars represented one of the last desperate gasps from the countryside before the onset of "agribusiness" drove millions of farmers and their families away for good. The Politics of Despair thus stands as a unique reminder of a tradition of protest that has, perhaps, been irretrievably lost. This book will interest not only rural and labor historians and students of the American South but anyone concerned with the profound issues surrounding the decline of rural America.
Author | : Fritz Richard Stern |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780520026438 |
"An enlightening and solidly documented book of great value to those who would like to trace the ideolgoical roots behind the most erratic and dramatic politics phases of modern Germany."--"American Political Science Review""If only because it presents the intellectual and emotional background to National Socialism with rare clarity and penetrating analysis of its several and often sharply contrasting components, the ably written and profoundly interesting book...would be of importance....With its useful footnotes, selective bibliography and good index Professor Stern's study is American scholarship at its best."-"International Affairs"
Author | : Robyn Marasco |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2015-03-24 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0231538898 |
Hegel's "highway of despair," introduced in his Phenomenology of Spirit, is the tortured path traveled by "natural consciousness" on its way to freedom. Despair, the passionate residue of Hegelian critique, also indicates fugitive opportunities for freedom and preserves the principle of hope against all hope. Analyzing the works of an eclectic cast of thinkers, Robyn Marasco considers the dynamism of despair as a critical passion, reckoning with the forms of historical life forged along Hegel's highway. The Highway of Despair follows Theodor Adorno, Georges Bataille, and Frantz Fanon as they each read, resist, and reconfigure a strand of thought in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. Confronting the twentieth-century collapse of a certain revolutionary dialectic, these thinkers struggle to revalue critical philosophy and recast Left Hegelianism within the contexts of genocidal racism, world war, and colonial domination. Each thinker also re-centers the role of passion in critique. Arguing against more recent trends in critical theory that promise an escape from despair, Marasco shows how passion frustrates the resolutions of reason and faith. Embracing the extremism of what Marx, in the spirit of Hegel, called the "ruthless critique of everything existing," she affirms the contemporary purchase of radical critical theory, resulting in a passionate approach to political thought.
Author | : Fritz Richard Stern |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Germany |
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Author | : Cantrill |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1958-01-21 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780465059645 |
Author | : Padraig O'Malley |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1991-10-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807002094 |
"In an eloquent and haunting book, O'Malley makes the fanaticism of [the hunger strikers] and their supporters, the obdurate and morally discredited tactics of the British Government and the hopeless combat of the Protestant and Roman Catholic factions in the Northern Ireland struggle explicable, and exposes the politics behind it."--The New York Times Book Review
Author | : Hadley Cantril |
Publisher | : Literary Licensing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2011-10-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781258197148 |
A Profile Of The Anonymous Millions Whose Strivings For Dignity And Hope Are Changing The Course Of Western Civilization Today.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 13 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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