The Disenchanted Self
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The Disenchanted Self
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Author : H. Marshall Leicester Jr.
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-04-28
The Disenchanted Self written by H. Marshall Leicester Jr. and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
The question of the "dramatic principle" in the Canterbury Tales, of whether and how the individual tales relate to the pilgrims who are supposed to tell them, has long been a central issue in the interpretation of Chaucer's work. Drawing on ideas from deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and social theory, Leicester proposes that Chaucer can lead us beyond the impasses of contemporary literary theory and suggests new approaches to questions of agency, representation, and the gendered imagination. Leicester reads the Canterbury Tales as radically voiced and redefines concepts like "self" and "character" in the light of current discussions of language and subjectivity. He argues for Chaucer's disenchanted practical understanding of the constructed character of the self, gender, and society, building his case through close readings of the Pardoner's, Wife of Bath's, and Knight's tales. His study is among the first major treatments of Chaucer's poetry utilizing the techniques of contemporary literary theory and provides new models for reading the poems while revising many older views of them and of Chaucer's relation to his age. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990. The question of the "dramatic principle" in the Canterbury Tales, of whether and how the individual tales relate to the pilgrims who are supposed to tell them, has long been a central issue in the interpretation of Chaucer's work. Drawing on ideas
The Myth Of Disenchantment
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Author : Jason Ananda Josephson Storm
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2017-05-16
The Myth Of Disenchantment written by Jason Ananda Josephson Storm 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 2017-05-16 with History categories.
A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths, or magic. Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm argues that as broad cultural history goes, this narrative is wrong, as attempts to suppress magic have failed more often than they have succeeded. Even the human sciences have been more enchanted than is commonly supposed. But that raises the question: How did a magical, spiritualist, mesmerized Europe ever convince itself that it was disenchanted? Josephson-Storm traces the history of the myth of disenchantment in the births of philosophy, anthropology, sociology, folklore, psychoanalysis, and religious studies. Ironically, the myth of mythless modernity formed at the very time that Britain, France, and Germany were in the midst of occult and spiritualist revivals. Indeed, Josephson-Storm argues, these disciplines’ founding figures were not only aware of, but profoundly enmeshed in, the occult milieu; and it was specifically in response to this burgeoning culture of spirits and magic that they produced notions of a disenchanted world. By providing a novel history of the human sciences and their connection to esotericism, The Myth of Disenchantment dispatches with most widely held accounts of modernity and its break from the premodern past.
The Critics And The Prioress
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Author : Heather Blurton
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2017-04-19
The Critics And The Prioress written by Heather Blurton and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
Reinvigorating the scholarly debate surrounding approaches to one of Chaucer's most notorious tales
The Subject Of Modernity
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Author : Anthony J. Cascardi
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1992-03-19
The Subject Of Modernity written by Anthony J. Cascardi 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 1992-03-19 with History categories.
The question of modernity has provoked a vigorous debate in the work of thinkers from Hegel to Habermas. Anthony J. Cascardi offers an historical account of the origins and transformations of the rational subject of self as it is represented in Descartes, Cervantes, Pascal, Hobbes and the Don Juan myth.
A Discourse On Disenchantment
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Author : Gilbert G. Germain
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 1993-01-01
A Discourse On Disenchantment written by Gilbert G. Germain and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-01-01 with Political Science categories.
This book is the first full-length study of the ongoing debate over the status of our "disenchanted" world--a world stripped of mysterious and supernatural forces by the demythologizing power of reason and modern science. It draws together for the first time the writings of various theorists on this theme, such as Georg Lukacs, Theodor Adorno, and Jürgen Habermas, providing a coherent overview of an evolving dialogue, as well as Germain's own evaluation of the disenchantment problematic.
Geoffrey Chaucer In Context
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Author : Ian Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-07-11
Geoffrey Chaucer In Context written by Ian Johnson 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 2019-07-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
Provides a rich and varied reference resource, illuminating the different contexts for Chaucer and his work.
A Philosophical Journey Into The Anthropocene
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Author : Agostino Cera
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2022-12-15
A Philosophical Journey Into The Anthropocene written by Agostino Cera and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-15 with Geology, Stratigraphic categories.
"This book presents a philosophical journey into the Anthropocene that views this geological epoch as the potential métarécit of our age and the planetary framework within which technology becomes the environment for human life. The appropriate name for this epochal phenomenon is, as a result, not Anthropocene, but Technocene"--
Amor Mundi And Overcoming Modern World Alienation
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Author : Justin Pack
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2019-10-17
Amor Mundi And Overcoming Modern World Alienation written by Justin Pack and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-17 with Religion categories.
Love in many premodern cultures extended to and permeated the world or even the cosmos, but love in contemporary consumerist society tends to be sexualized, romanticized, and individualized. As a result, ancient visions of ethical love are difficult for moderns to comprehend, especially those rooted in premodern Western thought, or Native American thinkers that describe a love of the natural world that would help us live more responsibly on the Earth. This volume retrieves the significant narratives of love of the world and the concomitant ethical ramifications of those visions and argues that our age of science and technology has destroyed the ancient, living cosmos of previous visions and replaced it with a mechanical universe. This shift has resulted in various forms of destruction, diminishment, and forgetfulness. Overcoming modern world alienation requires recovering a sense of what it means to love the world and changing our practices to reflect our interconnection with it and our interdependency on it.
Deconstructing The Self
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Author : Aaron Benson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Deconstructing The Self written by Aaron Benson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Human behavior categories.
Musical Beauty
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Author : Ferdia J. Stone-Davis
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2011-01-01
Musical Beauty written by Ferdia J. Stone-Davis and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-01 with Religion categories.
This book offers an important new perspective on the Western tradition of musical aesthetics through an examination of Anicius Boethius and Immanuel Kant. Within the trajectory illuminated by these two thinkers, musical meaning is framed by and formed through the concept of beauty--a concept which is shaped by prior understandings about notions of the self and the world. Beauty opens up a space within which the boundary between the self and the world, subject and object, is negotiated and configured. In doing so, either the subject or the object is asserted to the detriment of the other, and to the physicality of music. This book asserts that the uniqueness of music's ontology emerges from its basis in sound and embodied practice. It suggests that musical beauty is generated by the mutuality of subject and object arising within the participation that music encourages, one which involves an ekstatic mode of attention on the part of the subject.