The Texture of Dissent
Author | : Narnia Bohler-Muller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-12-31 |
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ISBN | : 9781928246572 |
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Author | : Narnia Bohler-Muller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-12-31 |
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ISBN | : 9781928246572 |
Author | : Jonathan Bolton |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2012-04-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674064836 |
Worlds of Dissent analyzes the myths of Central European resistance popularized by Western journalists and historians, and replaces them with a picture of the struggle against state repression as the dissidents themselves understood, debated, and lived it. In the late 1970s, when Czech intellectuals, writers, and artists drafted Charter 77 and called on their government to respect human rights, they hesitated to name themselves "dissidents." Their personal and political experiences--diverse, uncertain, nameless--have been obscured by victory narratives that portray them as larger-than-life heroes who defeated Communism in Czechoslovakia. Jonathan Bolton draws on diaries, letters, personal essays, and other first-person texts to analyze Czech dissent less as a political philosophy than as an everyday experience. Bolton considers not only Václav Havel but also a range of men and women writers who have received less attention in the West--including Ludvík Vaculík, whose 1980 diary The Czech Dream Book is a compelling portrait of dissident life. Bolton recovers the stories that dissidents told about themselves, and brings their dilemmas and decisions to life for contemporary readers. Dissidents often debated, and even doubted, their own influence as they confronted incommensurable choices and the messiness of real life. Portraying dissent as a human, imperfect phenomenon, Bolton frees the dissidents from the suffocating confines of moral absolutes. Worlds of Dissent offers a rare opportunity tounderstand the texture of dissent in a closed society.
Author | : Nicholas Roe |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780198186298 |
This book overturns received ideas about Keats as a poet of "beauty" and "sensuousness," highlighting the little studied political perspectives of his works. Roe sets out to recover the vivacious, pugnacious voices of Keats's poetry, and traces the complex ways in which his poems responded to and addressed their contemporary world. The book also offers new research about Keats's early life that opens valuable and often provocative new perspectives on his poetry.
Author | : Bernard Wolfman |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2016-11-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1512808709 |
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Author | : Hoke Norris |
Publisher | : New York : St Martins's Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : |
"The purpose of this book is to give voice to the oppisition in the South. There is an opposition, and it is growing in size, diligence, influence and effectiveness. Not all its members oppose segregation. But they do oppose--they most emphatically dissent from--the rabid segregationists and all their works: The White Citizens Councils, the Ku Klux Klan, the closers of public schools, the wielders of clubs at bus stations, the advocates of interposition and nullification and other legal absurdities invoked in the name of freedom and states' rights. It is the South's misfortune, however--and the incalculable misforture of the United States in its daily confrontation of a world predominately colored--that violence and absurdity are ofter the only Southern symbols that reach the rest of humanity. If our book can inform the rest of the nation, and of the world, of this opposition--this large, growing and most loyal opposition--then it will have served its purpose."--introduction
Author | : Andrew Hsiao |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2020-06-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1788739116 |
Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest—rallying others around them and inspiring uprisings in eras yet to come. Their echoes reverberate from Ancient Greece, China and Egypt, via the dissident poets and philosophers of Islam and Judaism, through to the Arab slave revolts and anti-Ottoman rebellions of the Middle Ages. These sources were tapped during the Dutch and English revolutions at the outset of the Modern world, and in turn flowed into the French, Haitian, American, Russian and Chinese revolutions. More recently, resistance to war and economic oppression has flared up on battlefields and in public spaces from Beijing and Baghdad to Caracas and Los Angeles. This anthology, global in scope, presents voices of dissent from every era of human history: speeches and pamphlets, poems and songs, plays and manifestos. Every age has its iconoclasts, and yet the greatest among them build on the words and actions of their forerunners. The Verso Book of Dissent will become an invaluable resource, reminding today’s citizens that these traditions will never die.
Author | : Vasu Reddy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2020-12-16 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781928246404 |
Author | : Erik Routley |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 250 |
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Genre | : |
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Author | : Yvonne Sherwood |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2004-09-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1135924309 |
Derrida and Religion: Other Testaments represents the most comprehensive attempt to date to explore, adapt, and test Derrida's contributions and influence on the study of theology, biblical studies, and the philosophy of religion. With over twenty original essays from highly-respected scholars such as John Caputo, Daniel Boyarin, Edith Wyschogrod, Tim Beal, and Gil Anidjar, Derrida and Religion will quickly become the locus classicus for those interested in the increasingly vibrant work on religion and deconstruction and postmodernism.
Author | : Ralph Young |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 622 |
Release | : 2017-11-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1479819832 |
Examines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States, focusing on those who, from colonial times to the present, dissented against the ruling paradigm of their time, responding to what they saw as the injustices that prevented them from fully experiencing their vision of America. --Publisher's description.