Critical Perspectives on Modern Culture – serie
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After the Future
Paradoxes of Postmodernism and Contemporary Russian Culture
Häftad, 1995
458 kr
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Written from a non-Western point of view, this work offers a fresh perspective on the postcommunist literary scene. The four sections of the book - literature, ideology, culture and methodology - reflect the range of postmodernism in contemporary Russia.
Labyrinths
Explorations in the Critical History of Ideas
Häftad, 1995
458 kr
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Ten essays on issues in philosophy, literary theory and intellectual history. The question of radical imperialism of the postmodern turn, the unstated agenda of neoconservative cultural theory and a discussion of Walter Benjamin's place in cultural studies are included in the text.
Anarchy and Culture
Aesthetic Politics of Modernism
Av David Weir
Häftad, 1997
673 kr
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This study examines the affinity for anarchism that developed among late 19th-century writers, and shows that anarchism is the key aesthetic principle informing the work of modernist figures. Weir concludes that anarchism is still with us as cultural condition, if not a political one.
Laying the Ladder Down
The Emergence of Cultural Holism
Inbunden, 1992
420 kr
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This book examines a fundamental shift in contemporary Western thought: the replacement of the traditional dualistic and hierarchical model of reality by a holistic one. Betty Hean Craige traces the emergence of this new paradigm to Charles Darwin, whose evolutionary theory exploded the idea of a …
Prometheus Revisited
The Quest for Global Justice in the Twenty-first Century
Häftad, 2003
343 kr
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Understood as a metaphor for the human mastery of nature, the myth of Prometheus has long served as a symbol of the modern world. Industrialization, individualism, the triumph of instrumental rationality and technological prowess in every aspect of life, all can be seen as expressions of the …
Philippe Aries and the Politics of French Cultural History
Häftad, 2004
423 kr
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A revealing study of one of the twentieth century's most original and influential historians; The author of Centuries of Childhood and other landmark historical works, Philippe Aries (1914-1984) was a singular figure in French intellectual life. He was both a political reactionary and a …
