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Author | : Dennis Hume Wrong |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780804732413 |
In this collection, a leading sociologist brings his distinctive method of social criticism to bear on some of the most significant ideas, political and social events, and thinkers of the late twentieth century. Of the seventeen essays, two are published for the first time, and several of the previously published essays have been expanded and updated for this volume. In the first section, the author critiques several concepts that have figured prominently in political-ideological controversiescapitalism, rationality, totalitarianism, power, alienation, left and right, and cultural relativism/multiculturalism. He considers their origins, historical shifts in their meaning and the myths surrounding them, and their subtle resonance beyond their formal definitions. The second section highlights the authors lifelong interest in the relation of intellectuals to social classes and institutions. The author critically assesses the notion of a New Class in which intellectuals have been alleged to play a prominent role, considers the implications for class structure of the increasing centering of intellectual life in the university, and assesses the relation of sociology to professional jargon. The final essays in this section discuss four influential thinkers: David Riesman, Daniel Bell, Christopher Lasch, and Allan Bloom. The book closes with an autobiographical statement centered on the authors intellectual-political life.
Author | : Jean-François Lyotard |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780816611737 |
In this book it explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and political trends, and develops profound insights into the nature of our postmodernity.
Author | : Bernd Hüppauf |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2010-11-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 311081725X |
Author | : Bruce Holsinger |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2005-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0226349748 |
Bruce Holsinger identifies and explains an affinity for medievalism and medieval studies among the leading figures of critical theory. His book contains original essays by Bataille and Bourdieu - translated into English - that testify to the strange persistence of medievalisms in French postwar writings.
Author | : Ljubica Ilic |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2016-04-29 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1317092325 |
Two crucial moments in the formation and disintegration of musical modernity and the musical canon occurred at the turn of the seventeenth and the first half of the twentieth century. Dr Ljubica Ilic provides a fresh and close look at these moments, exploring the ways musical compositions shift to and away from ideological structures identified with modernity. The focus is on European art music whose grand narrative, defined by tonality and teleological development, begins in the seventeenth century and ends with twentieth-century modernisms. This particular musical "language game" coincides with historical changes in the phenomenological understanding of space and selfhood. A key concept of the book concerns musical compositions that remain without proper conclusions: if the wholesome (musical) work is a manifestation of wholesome subjectivity, the pieces Ilic explores deny it, reflecting conflict of the individual with previous beliefs, with contexts, and even within the self as the basic modern condition. The musical work is, in this case, still bounded and well-defined, but fractured by the incapability or refusal to satisfactorily conclude: the implicit cut forced upon it changes the expected musical flow or - speaking in spatial terms - it influences the musical form. By using the metaphor of space, Ilic explores: how the existence of a separate self as a primary feature of Western modernity becomes negotiated through awareness of the subject's own independence and individuality; innerness as something entirely separate from its surroundings; and the collective space of social interaction. Seeing musical storytelling as a metaphoric representation of selfhood, and modernity as a historical continuum, Ilic examines the boundaries and relationships between the musical work, the subject, and modern European history.
Author | : Robert Hassan |
Publisher | : University of Westminster Press |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2020-01-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 191265668X |
David Harvey’s The Condition of Postmodernity rationalised capitalism’s transformation during an extraordinary year: 1989. It gave theoretical expression to a material and cultural reality that was just then getting properly started – globalisation and postmodernity – whilst highlighting the geo-spatial limits to accumulation imposed by our planet. However this landmark publication, author Robert Hassan argues, did not address the arrival of digital technology, the quantum leap represented by the move from an analogue world to a digital economy and the rapid creation of a global networked society. Considering first the contexts of 1989 and Harvey’s work, then the idea of humans as analogue beings he argues this arising new human condition of digitality leads to alienation not only from technology but also the environment. This condition he suggests, is not an ideology of time and space but a reality stressing that Harvey’s time-space compression takes on new features including those of ‘outward’ and ‘inward’ globalisation and the commodification of all spheres of existence. Lastly the author considers culture’s role drawing on Rahel Jaeggi’s theories to make the case for a post-modern Marxism attuned to the most significant issue of our age. Stimulating and theoretically wide-ranging The Condition of Digitality recognises post-modernity’s radical new form as a reality and the urgent need to assert more democratic control over digitality.
Author | : Alburey Castell |
Publisher | : MacMillan Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 668 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
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Author | : Joel Carberry |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2021-05-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Western women have changed. You've noticed it, your friends have noticed it, and Joel Carberry noticed it. This book lays out the problems with modern U.S. women, the causes of those problems, and outlines specific examples showing that women are more privileged than men in western society. Why do women have it easier in life? What proof is there that that's even the case? What can you do about it? The answers to those questions, and more, are contained within these pages.Basing his conclusions on research, personal experience, and real-world stories, Joel relays his personal interactions with women as they relate to his points. Some stories are short, some are long, but all are true. Beyond his personal interactions, Joel discusses several topical talking points spouted by so-called "women's rights advocates".
Author | : Charles Taylor |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 889 |
Release | : 2018-09-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0674986911 |
The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.
Author | : Stanford M. Lyman |
Publisher | : University of Arkansas Press |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Postmodernism |
ISBN | : 9781610753500 |