The Labyrinth of Modernity - 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 Labyrinth of Modernity write by Johann P. Arnason. This book was released on 2020-06-08. The Labyrinth of Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offering a vital reflection on the unity and diversity of the modern world, this important new book connects with the current debate on multiple modernities and argues that this notion can only be properly understood in a civilizational context. Johann Arnason presupposes the idea of modernity as a new civilization with its specific social imaginary, centred on strong visions of human autonomy but open to differentiation on institutional and ideological levels, as well as in changing historical contexts. The book begins by connecting this perspective to a distinctive framework of social theory, centred on the differentiation of economic, political and cultural spheres. Arnason goes on to deal with Communism as the most important alternative version of modernity, and with East Asian developments as a particularly complex and instructive case of interacting modernities. The book concludes with reflections on globalization theory and ways of reformulating it in light of the civilizational approach.
The Labyrinth of Modernity
The Labyrinth of Modernity - 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 Labyrinth of Modernity write by Johann P. Arnason. This book was released on 2020-06-16. The Labyrinth of Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This important new book by a major voice in the Social Imaginaries movement offers the most systematic attempt to establish conceptual and historical links between the idea of modernity as a new civilization and the notion of multiple modernities. Arnason demonstrates a theory of globalization that is still compatible with the emphasis on unity and diversity of modernity as a civilization.
Handsomely Done
Handsomely Done - 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 Handsomely Done write by Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz. This book was released on 2019-04-15. Handsomely Done available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Handsomely Done: Aesthetics, Politics, and Media after Melville brings together leading and emerging scholars from comparative literature, critical theory, and media studies to examine Melville’s works in light of their ongoing afterlife and seemingly permanent contemporaneity. The volume explores the curious fact that the works of this most linguistically complex and seemingly most “untranslatable” of authors have yielded such compelling translations and adaptations as well as the related tendency of Melville’s writing to flash into relevance at every new historical-political conjuncture. The volume thus engages not only Melville reception across media (Jorge Luis Borges, John Huston, Jean-Luc Godard, Led Zeppelin, Claire Denis) but also the Melvillean resonances and echoes of various political events and movements, such as the Attica uprising, the Red Army Faction, Occupy Wall Street, and Black Lives Matter. This consideration of Melville’s afterlife opens onto theorizations of intermediality, un/translatability, and material intensity even as it also continually faces the most concrete and pressing questions of history and politics.
The Modern Self in the Labyrinth
The Modern Self in the Labyrinth - 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 Modern Self in the Labyrinth write by Eyal Chowers. This book was released on 2009-07-01. The Modern Self in the Labyrinth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the distinct historical-political imagination of the self in the twentieth century and advances two arguments. First, it suggests that we should read the history of modern political philosophy afresh in light of a theme that emerges in the late eighteenth century: the rift between self and social institutions. Second, it argues that this rift was reformulated in the twentieth century in a manner that contrasts with the optimism of nineteenth-century thinkers regarding its resolution. It proposes a new political imagination of the twentieth century found in the works of Weber, Freud, and Foucault, and characterizes it as one of "entrapment." Eyal Chowers shows how thinkers working within diverse theoretical frameworks and fields nevertheless converge in depicting a self that has lost its capacity to control or transform social institutions. He argues that Weber, Freud, and Foucault helped shape the distinctive thought and culture of the past century by portraying a dehumanized and distorted self marked by sameness. This new political imagination proposes coping with modernity through the recovery, integration, and assertion of the self, rather than by mastering and refashioning collective institutions.
Ovid on Screen
Ovid on Screen - 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 Ovid on Screen write by Martin M. Winkler. This book was released on 2020-01-30. Ovid on Screen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first study of Ovid, especially his Metamorphoses, as inherently visual literature, explaining his pervasive importance in our visual media.
