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The Modern Crisis
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Author : Murray Bookchin
language : en
Publisher: AK Press
Release Date : 2022-07-29
The Modern Crisis written by Murray Bookchin and has been published by AK Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-29 with Nature categories.
Murray Bookchin’s frank assessment of the disaster we are heading toward at increasing speed is as much a work of ethics as it is of environmentalism. The four essays that comprise it share the view that, as he puts it, “our ideas and our practice must be imbued with a deep sense of ethical commitment.” Whether he is critiquing the market economy, the state, or the idea—common to both capitalists and certain left materialists—that human beings are motivated solely by greed and self-interest, Bookchin ever reminds us of the ineffable values of freedom, self-consciousness, and social harmony. Though first published in 1986, Bookchin’s framework still applies. The moral relativism of the 1980s—the politics of lesser-evils and risk vs benefit calculations—has morphed into what we now refer to as “both-sidesism” and the risk vs benefit calculations of yesterday are the 100,000 acre burn scars seen throughout the American west today. Beyond moral relativism or moral absolutism is an ecologically based ethics—one that sees our selfhood, reason, and freedom as stemming from nature’s variety and resilience. Bookchin’s social ecology refuses to separate society from nature. As such one can consider it a philosophy of participation—we cannot develop ecocommunities that aren’t participatory. We can’t save ourselves and the planet without an ethics of freedom. This edition, with a new introduction by Bookchin scholar Andy Price, is a breath of fresh air for a left that seems to have forgotten basic truths.
The Modern Crisis
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Author : William Robert Plumme
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
The Modern Crisis written by William Robert Plumme and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with World history categories.
The Crisis Of The Modern World
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Author : René Guénon
language : en
Publisher: Sophia Perennis
Release Date : 2001
The Crisis Of The Modern World written by René Guénon and has been published by Sophia Perennis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
It is no longer news that the Western world is in a crisis, a crisis that has spread far beyond its point of origin and become global in nature. In 1927, René Guénon responded to this crisis with the closest thing he ever wrote to a manifesto and 'call-to-action'. The Crisis of the Modern World was his most direct and complete application of traditional metaphysical principles-particularly that of the 'age of darkness' preceding the end of the present world-to social criticism, surpassed only by The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times, his magnum opus. In the present work Guénon ruthlessly exposes the 'Western deviation': its loss of tradition, its exaltation of action over knowledge, its rampant individualism and general social chaos. His response to these conditions was not 'activist', however, but purely intellectual, envisioning the coming together of Western intellectual leaders capable under favorable circumstances of returning the West to its traditional roots, most likely via the Catholic Church, or, under less favorable ones, of at least preserving the 'seeds' of Tradition for the time to come.
The Crisis Of The Modern World
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Author : René Guenon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
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The Crisis In Modern Social Psychology Psychology Revivals
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Author : Ian Parker
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-18
The Crisis In Modern Social Psychology Psychology Revivals written by Ian Parker and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-18 with Psychology categories.
In the late 1960s a ‘crisis’ erupted in social psychology, with many social psychologists highly critical of the ‘old paradigm’, laboratory-experimental approach. Originally published in 1989, The Crisis in Modern Social Psychology was the first book to provide a clear account of the complex body of work that is critical of traditional social psychological approaches. Ian Parker insisted that the ‘crisis’ was not over, showing how attempts to improve social psychology had failed, and explaining why we need instead a political understanding of social interaction which links research with change. Modern social psychology reflects the impact of structuralist and post-structuralist conceptual crises in other academic disciplines, and Parker describes the work of Foucault and Derrida sympathetically and lucidly, making these important debates accessible to the student and discussing their influence. He assesses the responses from both mainstream social psychology and from avant-garde textual social psychology to the influx of these radical ideas, and discusses the promises and pitfalls of a post-modern view of social action.
Nietzsche And The Modern Crisis Of The Humanities
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Author : Peter Levine
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 1995-01-25
Nietzsche And The Modern Crisis Of The Humanities written by Peter Levine and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-01-25 with Philosophy categories.
Levine argues that Strauss and Derrida have much in common, including an idealist, reified concept of culture that both inherited from Nietzsche. Levine interprets all of Nietzsche's basic doctrines in terms of this concept. Nietzsche's definition of culture produced epistemological and moral dilemmas for him and his followers, and encouraged them to devise alternatives to mainstream humanities. Levine, however, offers an alternative paradigm of culture that better fits the data and allows us to understand and defend the humanities as a source of value.
The Modern Crisis In Religion
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Author : George C. Lorimer
language : en
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Release Date : 2019-03-04
The Modern Crisis In Religion written by George C. Lorimer and has been published by Wentworth Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-04 with History categories.
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The Crisis Of The Modern World
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Author : Rene?. Guenon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
The Crisis Of The Modern World written by Rene?. Guenon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Civilization, Modern categories.
The Crisis Of Global Modernity
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Author : Prasenjit Duara
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015
The Crisis Of Global Modernity written by Prasenjit Duara 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 2015 with Business & Economics categories.
Drawing on historical sociology, transnational histories and Asian traditions, Duara seeks answers to the pressing global issue of environmental sustainability.
Zombies In Western Culture
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Author : John Vervaeke
language : en
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Release Date : 2017-06-15
Zombies In Western Culture written by John Vervaeke and has been published by Open Book Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-15 with Social Science categories.
Why has the zombie become such a pervasive figure in twenty-first-century popular culture? John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro and Filip Miscevic seek to answer this question by arguing that particular aspects of the zombie, common to a variety of media forms, reflect a crisis in modern Western culture. The authors examine the essential features of the zombie, including mindlessness, ugliness and homelessness, and argue that these reflect the outlook of the contemporary West and its attendant zeitgeists of anxiety, alienation, disconnection and disenfranchisement. They trace the relationship between zombies and the theme of secular apocalypse, demonstrating that the zombie draws its power from being a perversion of the Christian mythos of death and resurrection. Symbolic of a lost Christian worldview, the zombie represents a world that can no longer explain itself, nor provide us with instructions for how to live within it. The concept of 'domicide' or the destruction of home is developed to describe the modern crisis of meaning that the zombie both represents and reflects. This is illustrated using case studies including the relocation of the Anishinaabe of the Grassy Narrows First Nation, and the upheaval of population displacement in the Hellenistic period. Finally, the authors invoke and reformulate symbols of the four horseman of the apocalypse as rhetorical analogues to frame those aspects of contemporary collapse that elucidate the horror of the zombie. Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis is required reading for anyone interested in the phenomenon of zombies in contemporary culture. It will also be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience including students and scholars of culture studies, semiotics, philosophy, religious studies, eschatology, anthropology, Jungian studies, and sociology.