The Politics Of Illusion And Empire
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The Politics Of Illusion And Empire
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Author : Timothy Mulligan
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1988-04-21
The Politics Of Illusion And Empire written by Timothy Mulligan and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-04-21 with History categories.
Western historians have traditionally depicted Germany's World War II policy on the Eastern front as simply a missed opportunity. According to this view, the Germans had only to take advantage of anti-Stalinist and anti-Bolshevik sentiment to insure a bloodless victory. The Politics of Illusion and Empire demonstrates that the German position was much more complex than is usually presented. This well-documented monograph centers on the critical nine month period from the autumn of 1942 to the summer of 1943. It examines the attitudes, efforts, and limitations of German civil and military officials during this time. The author describes foreign pressure for Eastern policy reform and the proposals for that reform. Mulligan also discusses agrarian reforms, German economic policies, and the crisis of the German anti-partisan effort, relating these efforts to Hitler's military strategy during this period. The conclusions point to the implausibility of the bloodless victory and support the revisionist approach to German economic and military policies of the time.
Empire Of Illusion
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Author : Chris Hedges
language : en
Publisher: Bold Type Books
Release Date : 2009-07-14
Empire Of Illusion written by Chris Hedges and has been published by Bold Type Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-14 with Social Science categories.
A prescient book that forecast the culture that gave rise to Trump -- a society beholden to empty spectacle and obsession with image at the expense of reality, reason, and truth. An instant bestseller, Empire of Illusion is a striking and unsettling exploration of illusion and fantasy in contemporary American culture. Traveling to the ringside of professional wrestling bouts at Madison Square Garden, to Las Vegas to write about the pornographic film industry, and to academic conferences held by positive psychologists who claim to be able to engineer happiness, Hedges chronicles our flight from an ever-worsening reality. The cultural embrace of illusion and celebrity culture have accompanied a growing system of casino capitalism, which creates vast wealth for elites. Corporations have ruthlessly dismantled and destroyed our manufacturing base and impoverished our working class. Hedges exposes the mechanisms that undermine our democracy and divert us from the economic, environmental, political, and moral collapse around us. A culture that cannot distinguish between reality and illusion dies, Hedges argues, and we are dying now.
Summary Empire Of Illusion
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Author : BusinessNews Publishing,
language : en
Publisher: Primento
Release Date : 2017-01-30
Summary Empire Of Illusion written by BusinessNews Publishing, and has been published by Primento this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-30 with Political Science categories.
The must-read summary of Chris Hedges's book: “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle”. This complete summary of "Empire of Illusion" by Chris Hedges, a prominent American activist and minister, presents his account of the rise of a “post-literate society” that has created a world of false certainty and magic. He argues that political discourse has been taken over by nonsensical, over-simplistic rhetoric while serious film, literature and journalism is relegated to the intellectual minority. Added-value of this summary: • Save time • Understand the truth behind post-literate and post-factual democracy • Expand your knowledge of international politics and American society To learn more, read "Empire of Illusion" and discover how democracy is struggling to work in a post-literate society.
Political Illusion And Reality
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Author : David W. Gill
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2018-09-27
Political Illusion And Reality written by David W. Gill 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 2018-09-27 with Religion categories.
Are all governments--east and west, Muslim and secular, authoritarian and constitutional, Republican and Democratic--fundamentally the same, all of them under the extraordinary, growing power of "technique" and bureaucracy? Is all politics, then, just an illusory affair of lies, deception, propaganda, partisan passions, and chaos on the surface of government and party? In his vast and penetrating writings, Bordeaux sociologist Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) points in those directions. Political Illusion and Reality is a collection of twenty-three essays on Ellul's political thought. Veteran as well as younger Ellul scholars, political leaders, activists, and pastors, discuss aspects of Ellul's thought as they relate to their own fields of study and political experience. Beginning with his 1936 essay "Fascism, Son of Liberalism," translated and published here in English for the first time, Ellul and these authors will provoke readers to think some new thoughts about politics and government, and think more deeply about the main issues we face in our politically divided and troubled times.
Conquest
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Author : David Day
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-10-01
Conquest written by David Day and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-01 with History categories.
In this bold, sweeping book, David Day surveys the ways in which one nation or society has supplanted another, and then sought to justify its occupation - for example, the English in Australia and North America, the Normans in England, the Spanish in Mexico, the Japanese in Korea, the Chinese in Tibet. Human history has been marked by territorial aggression and expanion, an endless cycle of ownership claims by dominant cultures over territory occupied by peoples unable to resist their advance. Day outlines the strategies, violent and subtle, such dominant cultures have used to stake and bolster their claims - by redrawing maps, rewriting history, recourse to legal argument, creative renaming, use of foundation stories, tilling of the soil, colonization and of course outright subjugation and even genocide. In the end the claims they make reveal their own sense of identity and self-justifying place in the world. This will be an important book, an accessible and captivating macro-narrative about empire, expansion, and dispossession.
Empires In World History
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Author : Jane Burbank
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2011-07-05
Empires In World History written by Jane Burbank 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 2011-07-05 with History categories.
Burbank and Cooper examine Rome and China from the third century BCE, empires that sustained state power for centuries.
The Great Illusion
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Author : Norman Angell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1911
The Great Illusion written by Norman Angell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1911 with Commercial policy categories.
The Empire Of Illusion
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Author : Aminata Sow Fall
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2023-07-18
The Empire Of Illusion written by Aminata Sow Fall and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-18 with Fiction categories.
In Senegal, three modest families share a courtyard. This common space is a small paradise where they meet to cook, dine, talk, evoke memories, and grow together. At one Sunday family gathering, the usual post-meal conversation turns tense when Sada's adolescent son, Dieìry, asks why his father was so friendly with a government official at a televised ribbon-cutting the day before. The conversation quickly devolves into one about respect and duty. In Empire of Illusion, legendary Senegalese novelist Aminata Sow Fall, explores the powerful themes of family, respect, and ethics. What respect does a son owe his father—and vice versa? How does a family maintain a balance of debate and respect? How does a person maintain self-respect when forced to swim in ethically muddy waters? Aminata Sow Fall, the matriarch of Senegalese social-realist fiction delivers yet another trenchant examination of her society, and of the universal challenge of finding, keeping, and giving respect to oneself and others.
Political Languages Of Race And The Politics Of Exclusion
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Author : Andy R. Brown
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-08-16
Political Languages Of Race And The Politics Of Exclusion written by Andy R. Brown and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-16 with Social Science categories.
First published in 1999, Political Languages of Race and the Politics of Exclusion examines the post-race signification logic of languages used to promote and achieve the exclusion and stigmatisation of migrant groups within post-war Britain. Re-examining the time of Smethwick and Powellism, as well as extensive Parliamentary debates, this book develops an original thesis to show how Backbench racism became legitimated as Frontbench commons’ sense. The book argues that the achievement of the success of post-war Parliamentary racism has been made possible by the development of a ubiquitously anecdotal narrative of the travails of the ‘Forgotten Englishman’ awoken to a multi-cultural nightmare in Britain’s decaying inner cities. While the concept of ‘race’ has remained under erasure, the logic of post-race signification discourse has allowed the re-making of racism in public Britain.
Socialism And Superior Brains The Political Thought Of George Bernard Shaw
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Author : Gareth Griffith
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-09-11
Socialism And Superior Brains The Political Thought Of George Bernard Shaw written by Gareth Griffith and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-09-11 with Political Science categories.
Available in paperback for the first time, Gareth Griffith's book provides a comprehensive critical account of the political ideas of one of the most influential commentators of the twentieth century. With close reference to a range of Shaw's texts, from the Fabian tracts to the plays, Gareth Griffith draws out the central theoretical messages of Shaw's engagement with politics. The first part of the book provides an intellectual biography, while at the same time analysing Shaw's key concerns in relation to his Fabianism, arguments for equality of income and ideas on democracy and education. Part Two looks at those areas which Shaw approached as long-standing historical problems or dramas requiring immediate thought or action; sexual equality, the Irish question, war, fascism and sovietism. The book is directed to the general reader as well as to specialists. It will be central reading for anyone seeking to understand Shaw's life, and literary and political writings, or the development of political thinking in this century, or the problems and potential inherent in socialism.