On Cultural Freedom - 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 Cultural Freedom write by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb. This book was released on 1982. On Cultural Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this timely study, Jeffrey C. Goldfarb explores the nature and prospects of cultural freedom by examining the conditions that favor or threaten its development in the political East and West. Goldfarb--who examines conditions in the Soviet Union, the United States, and their respective European allies--focuses most closely upon Poland and the United States. He investigates a wide range of concrete cases, including the Polish opposition movement and Solidarity, the migration of artists, the American television and magazine industries, American philanthropy, and communist cultural conveyor belts. From these cases, Goldfarb derives a definitive set of sociological conditions for cultural freedom: critical creativity which resists systematic constraints, continuity of cultural tradition, and a relatively autonomous public realm for the reception of culture. Cultural freedom, Goldfarb shows, is not a static state but a process of achievement. Its parameters and content are determined by social practice in cultural institutions and by their relations with other components and the totality of social structure. So defined, cultural freedom is transformed from an ideological concept into one with real critical and analytical power. Through it we can appreciate the invisible nature of constraint in the West and the unapparent but acting supports of cultural freedom existing in socialist countries. Most importantly, Goldfarb's conclusions provide a framework for understanding more clearly than before the circumstance of cultural freedom in both East and West so that citizens may utilize their full creative abilities as they address the problems of the present day.
Moving the Centre
Moving the Centre - 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 Moving the Centre write by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo. This book was released on 1992. Moving the Centre available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this collection Ngugi is concerned with moving the centre in two senses - between nations and within nations - in order to contribute to the freeing of world cultures from the restrictive walls of nationalism, class, race and gender. Between nations the need is to move the centre from its assumed location in the West to a multiplicity of spheres in all the cultures of the world. Within nations the move should be away from all minority class establishments to the real creative centre among working people in conditions of racial, religious and gender equality. -- Back cover.
Neither Peace Nor Freedom
Neither Peace Nor Freedom - 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 Neither Peace Nor Freedom write by Patrick Iber. This book was released on 2015-10-13. Neither Peace Nor Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Patrick Iber tells the story of left-wing Latin American artists, writers, and scholars who worked as diplomats, advised rulers, opposed dictators, and even led nations during the Cold War. Ultimately, they could not break free from the era’s rigid binaries, and found little room to promote their social democratic ideals without compromising them.
The Politics of Apolitical Culture
The Politics of Apolitical Culture - 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 Politics of Apolitical Culture write by Giles Scott-Smith. This book was released on 2003-08-27. The Politics of Apolitical Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book analyses a key episode in the cultural Cold War - the formation of the Congress for Cultural Freedom. Whilst the Congress was established to defend cultural values and freedom of expression in the Cold War Struggle, its close association with the CIA later undermined its claims to intellectual independence or non-political autonomy. By examining the formation of the Congress and its early years of existence in relation to broader issues of US-European relations, Giles Scott-Smith reveals a more complex interpretation of the story. The Politics of Apolitical Culture provides an in-depth picture of the various links between the political, economic and cultural realms which led to the Congress.
Intelligence Studies in Britain and the US
Intelligence Studies in Britain and the US - 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 Intelligence Studies in Britain and the US write by Christopher R. Moran. This book was released on 2013-03-31. Intelligence Studies in Britain and the US available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first introduction to writing about intelligence and intelligence services. Secrecy has never stopped people from writing about intelligence. From memoirs and academic texts to conspiracy-laden exposes and spy novels, writing on intelligence abounds. Now, this new account uncovers intelligence historiography's hugely important role in shaping popular understandings and the social memory of intelligence. In this first introduction to these official and unofficial histories, a range of leading contributors narrate and interpret the development of intelligence studies as a discipline. Each chapter showcases new archival material, looking at a particular book or series of books and considering issues of production, censorship, representation and reception.
