The Extreme Occident
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The Extreme Occident
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Author : Petru Dumitriu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
The Extreme Occident written by Petru Dumitriu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with French fiction categories.
Extreme Occident
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Author : Jean-Philippe Mathy
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1993-11-15
Extreme Occident written by Jean-Philippe Mathy 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 1993-11-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
What does "America" mean to French intellectuals? Is it a postmodern ideal situated beyond history and metaphysics? A source of spiritual decadence that threatens the European tradition? Or is it "Extrême-Occident," the Far Western site that gives historical reality to the utopias of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment? Jean-Philippe Mathy offers the first systematic examination of French texts that address the question of America. He shows how prominent French intellectuals have represented America as myth and metaphor, covering the entire ideological spectrum from Maurras to Duhamel, and from Sartre to Aron. The texts themselves range from novels and poems to travel narratives and philosophical essays by Claudel, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Lyotard, Baudrillard, Kristeva, and many others. Mathy deftly situates these discourses on America against the background of French intellectual and political history since 1789. The judgments on American culture that originate in France, he contends, are also statements about France itself. Widespread condemnation of American materialism and pragmatism cuts across deep ideological and political divides in France, primarily because French intellectuals still operate within a framework of critical and aesthetic models born in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance and elaborated in the age of French classicism. Mathy engages issues central to interpreting the American experience, such as the current controversies over multiculturalism and Eurocentrism. Although Mathy deals mainly with French authors, he does not limit himself to them. Rather, he uses a comparative, cross-cultural approach that also takes in accounts of America by Nietzsche, Heidegger, Junger, Gramsci, and other Europeans, as well as American self-interpretations from Emerson and Dewey to Cornel West and Christopher Lasch. Because debates on American modernity have played a crucial intellectual role in France, Extrême-Occident is a major contribution to modern French cultural history. It will be essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the main currents of twentieth-century French thought.
L Extreme Occident
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Author : Université de Paris IV: Paris-Sorbonne. Institut de recherches sur les civilisations de l'Occident moderne. Colloque
language : fr
Publisher: Presses Paris Sorbonne
Release Date : 1989
L Extreme Occident written by Université de Paris IV: Paris-Sorbonne. Institut de recherches sur les civilisations de l'Occident moderne. Colloque and has been published by Presses Paris Sorbonne this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Western Hemisphere categories.
The Imaginary Revolution
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Author : Michael M. Seidman
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2004
The Imaginary Revolution written by Michael M. Seidman and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
The events of 1968 have been seen as a decisive turning point in the Western world. The author takes a critical look at "May 1968" and questions whether the events were in fact as "revolutionary" as French and foreign commentators have indicated. He concludes the student movement changed little that had not already been challenged and altered in the late fifties and early sixties. The workers' strikes led to fewer working hours and higher wages, but these reforms reflected the secular demands of the French labor movement. "May 1968" was remarkable not because of the actual transformations it wrought but rather by virtue of the revolutionary power that much of the media and most scholars have attributed to it and which turned it into a symbol of a youthful, renewed, and freer society in France and beyond.
The Narrative Of The Occident
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Author : Georg Schmid
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2009
The Narrative Of The Occident written by Georg Schmid and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Civilization, Western categories.
Civilizations «narrate themselves» in order to establish legitimacy, succeed against others, portray their own merits to their best advantage. The results express societal dynamics, yet also have a retroactive effect and decisively influence the self-conceptions of the «initiating societies». Political philosophies, interpretations of history and social perceptions of artistic achievements all contribute to these narratives. The dignified components, however, are by no means the sole or even the most important ones. Distinction in material culture (technological proficiency, popular art forms, etc.) or economic adroitness are even more consequential. The occidental narrative has been badly vacillating lately. Its severe crisis - due in part to a lack of collective self-confidence, but also to disagreements between its main strands - merits a meticulous analysis of a multitude of criteria. The resulting critique is embedded in reflections on a general theory of narrativity.
The Symbolist Home And The Tragic Home
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Author : Richard E. Goodkin
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 1984-01-01
The Symbolist Home And The Tragic Home written by Richard E. Goodkin and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Tragedy as Symbolism It is the symbolic nature of Oedipus' quest which most centrally links the notions of Tragedy and Symbolism in the Oedipus Tyrannus, and that under the aegis of the concepts of home and homing.
Local Histories Global Designs
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Author : Walter D. Mignolo
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2000-01-17
Local Histories Global Designs written by Walter D. Mignolo and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-17 with Social Science categories.
This book is an extended argument on the "coloniality" of power by one of the most innovative scholars of Latin American studies. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and shift, Walter Mignolo points to the inadequacy of current practice in the social sciences and area studies. He introduces the crucial notion of "colonial difference" into study of the modern colonial world. He also traces the emergence of new forms of knowledge, which he calls "border thinking." Further, he expands the horizons of those debates already under way in postcolonial studies of Asia and Africa by dwelling in the genealogy of thoughts of South/Central America, the Caribbean, and Latino/as in the United States. His concept of "border gnosis," or what is known from the perspective of an empire's borderlands, counters the tendency of occidentalist perspectives to dominate, and thus limit, understanding. The book is divided into three parts: the first chapter deals with epistemology and postcoloniality; the next three chapters deal with the geopolitics of knowledge; the last three deal with the languages and cultures of scholarship. Here the author reintroduces the analysis of civilization from the perspective of globalization and argues that, rather than one "civilizing" process dominated by the West, the continually emerging subaltern voices break down the dichotomies characteristic of any cultural imperialism. By underscoring the fractures between globalization and mundializacion, Mignolo shows the locations of emerging border epistemologies, and of post-occidental reason. In a new preface that discusses Local Histories/Global Designs as a dialogue with Hegel's Philosophy of History, Mignolo connects his argument with the unfolding of history in the first decade of the twenty-first century.
History Of The Ancient And Honorable Fraternity Of Free And Accepted Masons And Concordant Orders
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Author : Henry Leonard Stillson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1890
History Of The Ancient And Honorable Fraternity Of Free And Accepted Masons And Concordant Orders written by Henry Leonard Stillson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1890 with Freemasonry categories.
Facing The Other
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Author : Nigel Zimmermann
language : en
Publisher: James Clarke & Company
Release Date : 2016-03-31
Facing The Other written by Nigel Zimmermann and has been published by James Clarke & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-31 with Religion categories.
What is the significance of the body? What might phenomenology contribute to a theological account of the body? And what is gained by prolonging the overlooked dialogue between St. John Paul II and Emmanuel Levinas? Nigel Zimmermann answers these questions through the agreements and the tensions between two of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. John Paul II, the Polish pope, philosopher, and theologian, and Emmanuel Levinas, the French-Jewish philosopher of Lithuanian heritage, were provocative thinkers who courageously faced and challenged the assumptions of their age. Both held the human person in high regard and did their thinking with constant reference to God and to theological language. Zimmermann does not shirk from the challenges of each thinker and does not hide their differences. However, he shows how they bequeath a legacy regarding the body that we would overlook at significant ethical peril. We are called, Zimmermann argues, to face the other. In this moment God refuses a banal marginalisation and our call to responsibility for the other person is issued in their disarming vulnerability. In the body, philosophy, theology, and ethics converge to call us to glory, even in the paradox of lowly suffering.
The Month
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893
The Month written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with categories.