Ironies On History
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The Irony Of American History
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Author : Reinhold Niebuhr
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-01-22
The Irony Of American History written by Reinhold Niebuhr and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-22 with History categories.
“[Niebuhr] is one of my favorite philosophers. I take away [from his works] the compelling idea that there’s serious evil in the world, and hardship and pain. And we should be humble and modest in our belief we can eliminate those things. But we shouldn’t use that as an excuse for cynicism and inaction. I take away . . . the sense we have to make these efforts knowing they are hard.”—President Barack Obama Forged during the tumultuous but triumphant postwar years when America came of age as a world power, The Irony of American History is more relevant now than ever before. Cited by politicians as diverse as Hillary Clinton and John McCain, Niebuhr’s masterpiece on the incongruity between personal ideals and political reality is both an indictment of American moral complacency and a warning against the arrogance of virtue. Impassioned, eloquent, and deeply perceptive, Niebuhr’s wisdom will cause readers to rethink their assumptions about right and wrong, war and peace. “The supreme American theologian of the twentieth century.”—Arthur Schlesinger Jr., New York Times “Niebuhr is important for the left today precisely because he warned about America’s tendency—including the left’s tendency—to do bad things in the name of idealism. His thought offers a much better understanding of where the Bush administration went wrong in Iraq.”—Kevin Mattson, The Good Society “Irony provides the master key to understanding the myths and delusions that underpin American statecraft. . . . The most important book ever written on US foreign policy.”—Andrew J. Bacevich, from the Introduction
Ironies Of History Essays On Contemporary Communism
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Author : Isaac Deutscher
language : en
Publisher:
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Ironies Of History Essays On Contemporary Communism written by Isaac Deutscher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Communism categories.
Irony
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Author : James Alexander Kerr Thomson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1927
Irony written by James Alexander Kerr Thomson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1927 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Politics Of Irony In Thackeray S Mature Fiction
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Author : Zelma Catalan
language : en
Publisher: Zelma Catalan
Release Date : 2009
The Politics Of Irony In Thackeray S Mature Fiction written by Zelma Catalan and has been published by Zelma Catalan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Irony in literature categories.
Ironies Of History
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Author : James Kern Feibleman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
Ironies Of History written by James Kern Feibleman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Irony Of Modern Catholic History
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Author : George Weigel
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2019-09-17
The Irony Of Modern Catholic History written by George Weigel and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-17 with Religion categories.
A powerful new interpretation of Catholicism's dramatic encounter with modernity, by one of America's leading intellectuals Throughout much of the nineteenth century, both secular and Catholic leaders assumed that the Church and the modern world were locked in a battle to the death. The triumph of modernity would not only finish the Church as a consequential player in world history; it would also lead to the death of religious conviction. But today, the Catholic Church is far more vital and consequential than it was 150 years ago. Ironically, in confronting modernity, the Catholic Church rediscovered its evangelical essence. In the process, Catholicism developed intellectual tools capable of rescuing the imperiled modern project. A richly rendered, deeply learned, and powerfully argued account of two centuries of profound change in the church and the world, The Irony of Modern Catholic History reveals how Catholicism offers twenty-first century essential truths for our survival and flourishing.
Humorous History
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Author : A. G. Mogan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-08-06
Humorous History written by A. G. Mogan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-06 with categories.
This is a little book to read instead of the newspaper over your morning coffee. It is meant to--hopefully--put a smile on your face.History should not always be so serious. For it is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our objective, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people past and present; people who ate and possibly drank; people who were born, flourished, and died. And if we cannot laugh at ourselves, then we are condemned to repeat the very same deeds of the past.*** The paperback contains black & white illustrations
Ironies On History
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Author : Isaac Deutscher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Ironies On History written by Isaac Deutscher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Communism categories.
The Critical Mythology Of Irony
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Author : Joseph A. Dane
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2011
The Critical Mythology Of Irony written by Joseph A. Dane and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Literary Criticism categories.
An ambitious theoretical work that ranges from the age of Socrates to the late twentieth century, this book traces the development of the concepts of irony within the history of Western literary criticism. Its purpose is not to promote a universal definition of irony, whether traditional or revisionist, but to examine how such definitions were created in critical history and what their use and invocation imply. Joseph A. Dane argues that the diverse, supposed forms of irony--Socratic, rhetorical, romantic, dramatic, to name a few--are not so much literary elements embedded in texts, awaiting discovery by critics, as they are notions used by critics of different eras and persuasions to manipulate those texts in various, often self-serving ways. The history of irony, Dane suggests, runs parallel to the history of criticism, and the changing definitions of irony reflect the changing ways in which readers and critics have defined their own roles in relation to literature. Probing and provocative, The Critical Mythology of Irony will appeal to a broad spectrum of critics and scholars, particularly those concerned with the historical basis of critical language and its political and educational implications.
In Praise Of Forgetting
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Author : David Rieff
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2016-01-01
In Praise Of Forgetting written by David Rieff and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-01 with Collective memory categories.
A leading contrarian thinker explores the ethical paradox at the heart of history's wounds The conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in George Santayana's celebrated phrase, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Today, the consensus that it is moral to remember, immoral to forget, is nearly absolute. And yet is this right? David Rieff, an independent writer who has reported on bloody conflicts in Africa, the Balkans, and Central Asia, insists that things are not so simple. He poses hard questions about whether remembrance ever truly has, or indeed ever could, "inoculate" the present against repeating the crimes of the past. He argues that rubbing raw historical wounds--whether self-inflicted or imposed by outside forces--neither remedies injustice nor confers reconciliation. If he is right, then historical memory is not a moral imperative but rather a moral option--sometimes called for, sometimes not. Collective remembrance can be toxic. Sometimes, Rieff concludes, it may be more moral to forget. Ranging widely across some of the defining conflicts of modern times--the Irish Troubles and the Easter Uprising of 1916, the white settlement of Australia, the American Civil War, the Balkan wars, the Holocaust, and 9/11--Rieff presents a pellucid examination of the uses and abuses of historical memory. His contentious, brilliant, and elegant essay is an indispensable work of moral philosophy.