On Counter-Enlightenment, Existential Irony, and Sanctification - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On Counter-Enlightenment, Existential Irony, and Sanctification write by Judah Matras. This book was released on 2021-12-14. On Counter-Enlightenment, Existential Irony, and Sanctification available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book introduces the topics of Enlightenment, Counter-Enlightenment, and social demography in Western art musics and demonstrates their historical and sociological importance. The essays in this book explore the concepts of “existential irony” and “sanctification,” which have been mentioned or discussed by music scholars, historians, and musicologists only either in connection with specific composers’ works (Shostakovich’s, in the case of “existential irony”) or very parenthetically, merely in passing in the biographies of composers of “classical” musics. This groundbreaking work illustrates their generality and sociological sources and correlates in contemporary Western art musics.
The Courage to Be
The Courage to Be - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Courage to Be write by Paul Tillich. This book was released on 2023-11-26. The Courage to Be available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Courage to Be introduced issues of theology and culture to a general readership. The book examines ontic, moral, and spiritual anxieties across history and in modernity. The author defines courage as the self-affirmation of one's being in spite of a threat of nonbeing. He relates courage to anxiety, anxiety being the threat of non-being and the courage to be what we use to combat that threat. Tillich outlines three types of anxiety and thus three ways to display the courage to be. Tillich writes that the ultimate source of the courage to be is the "God above God," which transcends the theistic idea of God and is the content of absolute faith (defined as "the accepting of the acceptance without somebody or something that accepts").
The Rise of Eurocentrism
The Rise of Eurocentrism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rise of Eurocentrism write by Vassilis Lambropoulos. This book was released on 2019-10-08. The Rise of Eurocentrism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the controversy over political correctness, the canon, and the curriculum, the role of Western tradition in a post-modern world is often debated. To clarify what is at stake, Vassilis Lambropoulos traces the ideology of European culture from the Reformation, focusing on a key element of Western tradition: the act of interpretation as a distinct practice of understanding and a civil right. Championed by Protestants insisting on independent interpretation of scripture, this ideal of autonomy ushered in the era of modernity with its essentialist philosophy of universal man and his aesthetic understanding of the world. After explaining the dominance of European culture through the combined archetypes of Hebraism (reason and morality) and Hellenism (spirit and art), Lambropoulos shows how the rule of autonomy has been transformed into the aesthetic, disinterested contemplation of things in themselves. Arguing that it is time to restore the socio-political dimension to the movement of autonomy, he proposes that a genealogy of the Hebraic-Hellenic archetypes can help us evaluate more recent models--like the Afrocentric one--and redefine the controversy surrounding education, Eurocentrism, and cultural politics.
All that is Solid Melts Into Air
All that is Solid Melts Into Air - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook All that is Solid Melts Into Air write by Marshall Berman. This book was released on 1983. All that is Solid Melts Into Air available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The experience of modernization -- the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world -- and modernism in art, literature and architecture are brilliantly integrated in this account.
The Destiny of Modern Societies
The Destiny of Modern Societies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Destiny of Modern Societies write by Milan Zafirovski. This book was released on 2009. The Destiny of Modern Societies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a sociological analysis of the relationship between modern society, in particular America, and Calvinism in the Weberian tradition. While the book continues this tradition, it further expands, elaborates on, and goes beyond earlier sociological analyses. The book examines the impact of Calvinism on modern society as a whole, thus extending, elaborating on, and going beyond the previous analyses of the influence of the Calvinist religion only on the capitalist economy. It analyzes how Calvinism has determined most contemporary social institutions, including political, civic, cultural, and economic, in its respective societies, particularly, through its derivative Puritanism, America. For that purpose, the book applies the idea of the destiny of societies or nations to American society in particular. It argues, demonstrates, and illustrates the Calvinist societal "predestination," through the Puritan determination, of American society .
