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Author | : Dominic Kirkham |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2019-01-08 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1532671970 |
Download From Monk to Modernity, Second Edition Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
After spending many years in a religious order, Dominic Kirkham describes how he was driven to meet the challenge of modern thinking, an exercise that has proved both freeing and frightening. He says this has been “something of a personal odyssey, which now spans a lifetime of over six decades and is still ongoing.” He adds that “the presumption of the book is that this is of more than personal interest because the subject matter affects everyone; my personal journey will no doubt reflect that of many others.” In a broad sweep from Neolithic times to the twenty-first century, he considers our human quest for meaning and a good life, and how we can engage in it today.
Author | : Linda Levy Peck |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2005-09-19 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521842327 |
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A fascinating study of the ways in which consumption transformed social practices, gender roles, royal policies, and the economy in seventeenth-century England. It reveals for the first time the emergence of consumer society in seventeenth-century England.
Author | : Wen-hsin Yeh |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0520258177 |
Download Shanghai Splendor Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"What a fine and illuminating book! Shanghai Splendor is an important and captivating work of scholarship."—David Strand, author of Rickshaw Beijing: City People and Politics in the 1920s "This in an outstanding work. Although Shanghai has been among the most popular subjects for scholars in modern Chinese studies, one has yet to see a project as impressive as this. Yeh tells a most fascinating story."—David Der-wei Wang, author of The Monster That Is History: History, Violence, and Fictional Writing in 20th Century China
Author | : Margherita Heyer-Caput |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0802098312 |
Download Grazia Deledda's Dance of Modernity (Toronto Italian Studies) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Grazia Deledda's Dance of Modernity is a highly original and innovative interpretation of Deledda's narrative in philosophical perspective, which also includes the study of textual variations and considers cultural history in Italy during the early twentieth century.
Author | : Rita FELSKI |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0674036794 |
Download The Gender of Modernity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In an exploration of the complex relations between women and the modern, this work challenges conventional male-centred theories of modernity. It examines the gendered meanings of such notions as nostalgia, consumption, feminine writing, the popular sublime, evolution, revolution and perversion.
Author | : Andrew G. Bonnell |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2023-02-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0192871846 |
Download Robert Michels, Socialism, and Modernity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Robert Michels (1876-1936) is best known for his 1911 book Political Parties, which is still a standard reference in political science debates. Michels' work sought to prove an "iron law of oligarchy" that governs the organisational evolution of democratic political parties. The work was closely informed by Michels' engagement with the German Social Democratic Party in the early 1900s, his involvement in radical politics in France and Italy in this period, and by his interest in a range of intellectual and social movements - including feminism, nationalism, racial theory, and the emerging disciplines of sociology and political science. Using archival and printed sources hitherto overlooked in work on Michels, this new study contests previous arguments which have sought to explain Michels as a disillusioned adherent of ideas of direct democracy or as an extremist moving from revolutionary syndicalism to fascism. The biographical and intellectual influences on Michels are shown to be more complex, and more transnational, than such schematic explanations have allowed. Andrew Bonnell sheds new light on Michels' relationship with the German Social Democratic Party and on his understanding of his own role as an intellectual in a workers' party. Bonnell also analyses Michels' problematical relationship with revolutionary syndicalism in France and Italy. Michels was connected to a possibly uniquely diverse network of intellectual and political contacts in pre-1914 Europe. This transnational intellectual history illuminates the intellectual worlds in which Michels moved and presents a new interpretation of his shift from the radical left of the spectrum to Italian fascism, an intellectual itinerary which has intrigued many historians.
Author | : Kendall H. Brown |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Download Taishō Chic Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Many of these works have never been published and several major paintings, exhibited in Japan during the 1920s and 1930s then lost after the war, are brought to light here for the first time in decades. This catalogue not only presents newly discovered works but also, in bringing together a broad range of objects representative of mainstream Taisho visual culture, reconstructs the styles popular from 1915 to 1935 in a celebration of Taisho Chic."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Zygmunt Bauman |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2013-07-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 074565701X |
Download Liquid Modernity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focused modernity to a 'light' and 'liquid', software-based modernity. This passage, he argues, has brought profound change to all aspects of the human condition. The new remoteness and un-reachability of global systemic structure coupled with the unstructured and under-defined, fluid state of the immediate setting of life-politics and human togetherness, call for the rethinking of the concepts and cognitive frames used to narrate human individual experience and their joint history. This book is dedicated to this task. Bauman selects five of the basic concepts which have served to make sense of shared human life - emancipation, individuality, time/space, work and community - and traces their successive incarnations and changes of meaning. Liquid Modernity concludes the analysis undertaken in Bauman's two previous books Globalization: The Human Consequences and In Search of Politics. Together these volumes form a brilliant analysis of the changing conditions of social and political life by one of the most original thinkers writing today.
Author | : Michael P. Iarocci |
Publisher | : Vanderbilt University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : National characteristics, Spanish, in literature |
ISBN | : 9780826515223 |
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Spanish Romantic discourse that highlights ways in which the mythic story of Western modernity was shaped by transnational European power-politics.
Author | : Dewei Wang |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780804728454 |
Download Fin-de-Siècle Splendor Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The reigning view of literary historians has been that the May Fourth movement of 1919 marks the division between the traditional and the modern in Chinese literature. This book argues that signs of reform and innovation can be discerned long before May Fourth, and that as China entered the arena of modern, international history in the late Qing, it was already developing its own complex matrix of incipient modernities. It demonstrates that late Qing fiction nurtured a creative, innovative poetics, one that was spurned by the reformers of the May Fourth generation in favor of Western-style realism. The author recognizes that a full account of modern Chinese fiction needs to ask why so many genres, styles, themes, and figures found in late imperial fiction were repressed by "modern" Chinese literary discourse. He focuses on four genres of late Qing fiction that have been either rudely dismissed in pejorative terms or simply ignored: depravity romances, court-case and chivalric cycles, grotesque exposés, and scientific fantasies. The author shows that in spite of the realist orthodoxy that has dominated Chinese literature since the May Fourth movement, these unwelcome genres have continually found their way back into mainstream discourse, their influence being increasingly evident in recent decades. This first comprehensive study of late Qing fiction discusses more than sixty works, at least half of which have rarely or never been dealt with by Western or Chinese scholars. Richly informed by contemporary literary theory, this book constitutes a polemical rethinking of the nature of Chinese literary and cultural modernity.