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The Genesis of Modernity

2013-01-11 Social Science
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Book Synopsis The Genesis of Modernity by : Arpad Szakolczai

Download or read book The Genesis of Modernity written by Arpad Szakolczai. This book was released on 2013-01-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Genesis of Modernity reconstructs the ideas of three of the most important social and political theorists of the Twentieth Century, Max Weber, Michel Foucault and Eric Voegelin, on the distant roots and sources of modernity. Drawing upon the conceptual tools of social theory and political philosophy, complimented by approaches based in the fields of anthropology, comparative mythology and the history of ancient philosophy this book will prove to be a timely and valuable contribution to this developing area, bringing together the ideas of a group of social and political theorists whose work so far has remained largely unconnected. This book will be essential reading for academics and advanced students concerned with social theory, political theory, sociology, history and philosophy.

The Genesis of Capitalism and the Origins of Modernity

1994 Capitalism
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Release : 1994
Genre : Capitalism
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Book Synopsis The Genesis of Capitalism and the Origins of Modernity by : Luciano Pellicani

Download or read book The Genesis of Capitalism and the Origins of Modernity written by Luciano Pellicani. This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Genesis of Capitalism and the Origins of Modernity

1994 Philosophy
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Release : 1994
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis The Genesis of Capitalism and the Origins of Modernity by : Luciano Pellicani

Download or read book The Genesis of Capitalism and the Origins of Modernity written by Luciano Pellicani. This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Modernity Reimagined: An Analytic Guide

2016-12-19 Social Science
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Release : 2016-12-19
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Book Synopsis Modernity Reimagined: An Analytic Guide by : Chandra Mukerji

Download or read book Modernity Reimagined: An Analytic Guide written by Chandra Mukerji. This book was released on 2016-12-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the American Sociological Association’s Distinguished Book Award in 2012, Chandra Mukerji offers with this remarkable new book an explanation of the birth and subsequent proliferation of the many strands in the braid of modernity. The journey she takes us on is dedicated to teasing those strands apart, using forms of cultural analysis from the social sciences to approach history with fresh eyes. Faced with the problem of trying to understand what is hardest to see: the familiar, she gains analytic distance and clarity by juxtaposing cultural analysis with history, asking how modernity began and how people conjured into existence the world we now recognize as modern. Part I describes the genesis of key modern social forms: the modern self, communities of strangers, the modern state, and the industrial world economy. Part II focuses on modern social types: races, genders, and childhood. Part III focuses on some of the cultural artifacts and activities of the contemporary world that people have invented and used to cope with the burdens of self-making and to react against the broken promises of modern discourse and the silent injuries of material modernism. Beautifully illustrated with over 100 color photographs in its 10 chapters, MODERNITY REIMAGINED is not just an explanation, an analysis of how modern life came to be, it is also a model for how to do cultural thinking about today’s world.

The Ghosts of Modernity

2010 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2010
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The Ghosts of Modernity by : Jean-Michel Rabaté

Download or read book The Ghosts of Modernity written by Jean-Michel Rabaté. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rabaté's strength is that he does not treat modernism as a monolith. The study's originality is in its close examination of several 'key' themes in several 'key' texts, almost all of which he reads autobiographically. . . . It is the pattern of these themes as well as the psychoanalytic method that holds these essays together. The result is a fresh look not at modernism as a whole, but at some central themes and images of the modernists."--S. E. Gontarski, Crosscurrents Series Editor Jean-Michel Rabaté, the eminent French Joycean, combines psychoanalytical and philosophical concepts in rereading the history of modernity to give a more precise meaning to the term "modernism." Rabaté focuses throughout on a single theme, the ghostly nature of modernity. In writing a history of the concept of modernity with the awareness that the radically new has often been subject to the effects of the return of the repressed, Rabaté analyzes the notion of loss in various fields: in Freudian aesthetics of color, in literary history, and in philosophy. The postmodernist fascination with a lost object allows a reconsideration of the boundaries of such terms as "modernism" and "postmodernism." The conclusion ties together all these motifs, from Joyce to Barthes, together and shows their theoretical basis in Marx's criticism of ideology and in Freud's consideration of mourning. From the analysis of "color" as an unthinkable object of discourse to an aesthetics of the unpresentable, Rabaté points to the possibility of an "ethics of mourning," which would seem capable of overcoming the dead end of history whose ending condemns it to eternal repetition. This work will appeal to a wide community of scholars. Its strong French and continental emphasis has application in literary studies, particularly English, French, and comparative studies.

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