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The Reluctant Modernism Of Hannah Arendt
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Author : Seyla Benhabib
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2003
The Reluctant Modernism Of Hannah Arendt written by Seyla Benhabib and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Philosophy categories.
Interpreting the work of one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt rereads Arendt's political philosophy in light of newly gained insights into the historico-cultural background of her work. Arguing against the standard interpretation of Hannah Arendt as an anti-modernist lover of the Greek polis, author Seyla Benhabib contends that Arendt's thought emerges out of a double legacy: German Existenz philosophy, particularly the thought of Martin Heidegger, and her experiences as a German-Jewess in the age of totalitarianism. This important volume reconsiders Arendt's theory of modernity, her concept of the public sphere, her distinction between the social and the political, her theory of totalitarianism, and her critique of the modern nation state, including her life long involvement with Jewish and Israeli politics.
Reluctant Modernism
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Author : George Cotkin
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2004
Reluctant Modernism written by George Cotkin and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
In the last two decades of the nineteenth century, Americans were faced with the challenges and uncertainties of a new era. The comfortable Victorian values of continuity, progress, and order clashed with the unsettling modern notions of constant change, relative truth, and chaos. Attempting to embrace the intellectual challenges of modernism, American thinkers of the day were yet reluctant to welcome the wholesale rejection of the past and destruction of traditional values. In Reluctant Modernism: American Thought and Culture, 1880-1900, George Cotkin surveys the intellectual life of this crucial transitional period. His story begins with the Darwinian controversies, since the mainstream of American culture was just beginning to come to grips with the implications of the Origins of Species, published in 1859. Cotkin demonstrates the effects of this shift in thinking on philosophy, anthropology, and the newly developing field of psychology. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of these fields, he explains clearly and concisely the essential tenets of such major thinkers and writers as William James, Franz Boas, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Henry Adams, and Kate Chopin. Throughout this fascinating, readable history of the American fin de si cle run the contrasting themes of continuity and change, faith and rationalism, despair over the meaninglessness of life and, ultimately, a guarded optimism about the future.
Red Flag Over Hong Kong
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Author : Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Red Flag Over Hong Kong written by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with China categories.
Such is the dire prophecy of Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, David Newman, and Alvin Rabushka, whose Red Flag over Hong Kong casts a cold eye on the future prospects of "the world's best example of the free-market economy, working as textbooks say it should." Applying to that unknown future a dynamic model of decision making that rests on the collection of data from a wide range of expert observers, the authors boldly seek to quantify human behavior and so derive a precise and reliable early forecast of Hong Kong's destiny at the hands of its communist masters.
Reluctant Modernity
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Author : Aleš Debeljak
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 1998
Reluctant Modernity written by Aleš Debeljak and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Social Science categories.
In this book Aleš Debeljak offers a refreshing alternative to postmodernists such as Baudrillard who declare the death of art conceived as yet another source of rootless circulating fictions. Inspired by the melancholy critical theory of Adorno and Bejamin, Debeljak shows that with the dawning of modernity, art was made autonomous - art production was effectively emancipated from the exigencies of everyday life and its guiding ideal of purposive rationality. The deterioration of bourgeois liberal individualism into the narcissism of modern mass society accompanied the decomposition of art into simplified mass art and commercialized kitsch. Today, argues Debeljak, postmodern art is subjected to infinite reproducibility, total integration into mass society, and political resignation - it no longer represents an alternative reality. The postmodern institution of art thus cannot be simply cured of modern structures and assumptions, but is, instead, fated to a continuous and painful relationship with modernity. -- from back cover.
Reluctant Modernists
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Author : Peter Edgerly Firchow
language : en
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Release Date : 2002
Reluctant Modernists written by Peter Edgerly Firchow and has been published by LIT Verlag Münster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Literary Collections categories.
The essays collected here deal with modernist writers who, on the whole, felt 'reluctant' about their modernist status because they believed that it was just as important to look backward as it was to look forward. Indeed, for most of them looking backward was more important because it was only through the past that one could understand one's proper place in the present and in the future. That is why in Huxley's Brave New World it is the rejection of the past in the future - and by implication in the present - that makes its satire so penetrating. Modernism, in other words, means for these writers not a radical break with the past but a continuing search for what still connects them (and us) vitally with it. Peter Firchow, Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, is the author of several books on modern and modernist literary subjects, including books on Huxley, Conrad, and Auden. The publication of some of his hitherto uncollected essays in this volume is intended to honor
Reluctant Modernity
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Author : Aleš Debeljak
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 1998
Reluctant Modernity written by Aleš Debeljak and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Art categories.
In this book Aleš Debeljak offers a refreshing alternative to postmodernists such as Baudrillard who declare the death of art conceived as yet another source of rootless circulating fictions. Inspired by the melancholy critical theory of Adorno and Bejamin, Debeljak shows that with the dawning of modernity, art was made autonomous - art production was effectively emancipated from the exigencies of everyday life and its guiding ideal of purposive rationality. The deterioration of bourgeois liberal individualism into the narcissism of modern mass society accompanied the decomposition of art into simplified mass art and commercialized kitsch. Today, argues Debeljak, postmodern art is subjected to infinite reproducibility, total integration into mass society, and political resignation - it no longer represents an alternative reality. The postmodern institution of art thus cannot be simply cured of modern structures and assumptions, but is, instead, fated to a continuous and painful relationship with modernity. -- from back cover.
Albie Sachs And Transformation In South Africa
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Author : Drucilla Cornell
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2014-03-05
Albie Sachs And Transformation In South Africa written by Drucilla Cornell and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-05 with Law categories.
Many critical theorists talk and write about the day after the revolution, but few have actually participated in the constitution of a revolutionary government. Emeritus Justice Albie Sachs was a freedom fighter for most of his life. He then played a major role in the negotiating committee for the new constitution of South Africa, and was subsequently appointed to the new Constitutional Court of South Africa. Therefore, the question of what it means to make the transition from a freedom fighter to a participant in a revolutionary government is not abstract, in Hegel’s sense of the word, it is an actual journey that Albie Sachs undertook. The essays in this book raise the complex question of what it actually means to make this transition without selling out to the demands of realism. In addition, the preface written by Emeritus Justice Albie Sachs and his interview with Drucilla Cornell and Karin van Marle, further address key questions about revolution in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries: from armed struggle to the organization of a nation state committed to ethical transformation in the name of justice. Albie Sachs and transformation in South Africa: from revolutionary activist to constitutional court judge illuminates the theoretical and practical experiences of revolution and its political aftermath. With first-hand accounts alongside academic interrogation, this unique book will intrigue anyone interested in the intersection of Law and Politics.
Modernism And The Social Sciences
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Author : Mark Bevir
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-09-28
Modernism And The Social Sciences written by Mark Bevir and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-28 with History categories.
This study explores the rise and nature of modernist approaches to economics, sociology, international relations, administration, language, history and anthropology.
The Cambridge Companion To Hannah Arendt
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Author : Dana Villa
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2000-11-30
The Cambridge Companion To Hannah Arendt written by Dana Villa and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-30 with Philosophy categories.
A distinguished team of contributors examines the primary themes of Arendt's multi-faceted thought.
The Reluctant Modernist
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Author : Roger Keys
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The Reluctant Modernist written by Roger Keys and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Russian fiction categories.
Andrei Belyi (1880-1934) is generally regarded as the greatest and most influential prose-writer to emerge from the Symbolist movement in Russia at the turn of the twentieth century. His early prose 'symphonies' and novels are often compared with the work of such European 'modernists' as Joyce and Proust. This is the first book to attempt a systematic analysis of the place of Belyi's fiction within the 'modernist' prose tradition in Russia, a tradition which has been obscured by decades of ideological distortion. Paradoxically, Belyi himself, a mystic by nature who sought only transcendent certainty from the flux of experience, would have been reluctant to claim this 'modernist' tradition as his own. Keys demonstrates the inadequacy of the various other 'isms' (Symbolism, Impressionism, etc.) which have until recently bedevilled most critical attempts to analyse the prose of the period, giving a comprehensive overview of Belyi criticism both within and beyond the Soviet Union. The book includes a detailed analysis of Belyi's prose works written before the First World War, paying keen attention to his philosophical and literary influences, including his extensive reading of Kant and Gogol and its particular effect upon his theory and practice, and locating him firmly within his own Russian context. Sections devoted to Belyi's greatest novel, Petersburg, and other works, such as The Silver Dove and Dramatic Symphony, analyse Belyi's use of structure and plot, recurrent leitmotifs and related forms of symbolism. The book investigates Belyi's attempts to reconcile the Symbolist vision of the writer as having revelatory mystical authority with the more customary notion of 'perspectivism', ofimplied author, narrator and character offering a number of different voices which cannot claim cognitive authority beyond the fictional context in which they occur.