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Author | : Cathy Banwell |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2012-12-30 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9048189578 |
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Over a half of adults in the US, Canada, Australia and numerous European countries are now overweight or obese, a proportion that has risen sharply in the past two decades. Dominant biomedical explanations focus on the energy equation – an imbalance between energy intake and expenditure - and remedies focus on motivating individuals to restore the balance by eating better and being more active, or – in extreme cases – surgical intervention. This book offers a perspective that sees increasing obesity as a social phenomenon as well as a public health problem. It contains detailed accounts of three generations of Australians’ experiences of changing environments and the emergence of social trends such as increasing availability of convenience foods, the individualisation and commercialisation of leisure, car reliance, and busyness. Participants' narratives are interwoven with sociological and historical analyses of changes to show how contemporary Australians are experiencing and adapting to dramatic socio-cultural and environmental changes that are reshaping their lives and, in many cases, their bodies. The book demonstrates that obesity is an unintended consequence of economic development accompanied by profound socio-cultural changes, and by identifying the key developments the authors propose leverage points. While the research was conducted in Australia, the fundamental drivers of rapid weight gain are equally present in other modern, secular societies.
Author | : Springer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2012-12-29 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789048189588 |
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Author | : Michael Allen Gillespie |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 762 |
Release | : 2010-10-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1459606124 |
Download The Theological Origins of Modernity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Taking as his starting point the collapse of the medieval world, Gillespie argues that from the very beginning moderns sought not to eliminate religion but to support a new view of religion and its place in human life- and that they did so not out of hostility but in order to sustain certain religious beliefs. He goes on to explore the ideas of such figures as William of Ockham, Petrarch, Erasmus, Luther, Descartes, and Hobbes, showing that modernity is best understood as the result of a series of attempts to formulate a new and coherent metaphysics or theology.
Author | : James Naremore |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1991-03-22 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780253206275 |
Download Modernity and Mass Culture Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"The twelve essays in Modernity and Mass Culture provide a broad and captivating overview of what has come to be known as culture studies." --Texas Journal This is a wide-ranging analysis of the relationship among industrialization, democracy, and art in the 20th century. U.S. and British scholars discuss the interaction of "high," "popular," and "mass" art, showing how Western culture as a whole is affected by the transition from the modern to the postmodern era.
Author | : Thomas C. Oden |
Publisher | : Zondervan |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0310753910 |
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This vigorous and incisive critique of modernity lights the path to recovering the revitalizing heritage of classical Christianity.
Author | : Anthony J. Cascardi |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1992-03-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521423786 |
Download The Subject of Modernity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The question of modernity has provoked a vigorous debate in the work of thinkers from Hegel to Habermas. Anthony J. Cascardi offers an historical account of the origins and transformations of the rational subject of self as it is represented in Descartes, Cervantes, Pascal, Hobbes and the Don Juan myth.
Author | : John Allen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Social structure |
ISBN | : 9780745609614 |
Download Understanding modern societies : an introduction. 2. The political and economic forms of modernity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Yoshimi Takeuchi |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780231133272 |
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Yoshimi questioned the very nature of thought, arguing that thinking is less a subjective act than an opening to alterity. His works were central in drawing Japanese attention to the problems inherent in Western colonialism & to the cultural importance of Asia.
Author | : Jeffrey C. Alexander |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2013-04-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0745665063 |
Download The Dark Side of Modernity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this book, one of the world’s leading social theorists presents a critical, alarmed, but also nuanced understanding of the post-traditional world we inhabit today. Jeffrey Alexander writes about modernity as historical time and social condition, but also as ideology and utopia. The idea of modernity embodies the Enlightenment’s noble hopes for progress and rationality, but its reality brings great suffering and exposes the destructive impulses that continue to motivate humankind. Alexander examines how twentieth-century theorists struggled to comprehend the Janus-faced character of modernity, which looks backward and forward at the same time. Weber linked the triumph of worldly asceticism to liberating autonomy but also ruthless domination, describing flights from rationalization as systemic and dangerous. Simmel pointed to the otherness haunting modernity, even as he normalized the stranger. Eisenstadt celebrated Axial Age transcendence, but acknowledged its increasing capacity for barbarity. Parsons heralded American community, but ignored modernity’s fragmentations. Rather than seeking to resolve modernity’s contradictions, Alexander argues that social theory should accept its Janus-faced character. It is a dangerous delusion to think that modernity can eliminate evil. Civil inclusion and anti-civil exclusion are intertwined. Alexander enumerates dangerous frictions endemic to modernity, but he also suggests new lines of social amelioration and emotional repair.
Author | : Josef Pieper |
Publisher | : Ignatius Press |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780898703627 |
Download Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
One of the great Catholic philosophers of our day reflects on the way language has been abused so that, instead of being a means of communicating the truth and entering more deeply into it, and of the acquisition of wisdom, it is being used to control people and manipulate them to achieve practical ends. Reality becomes intelligible through words. Man speaks so that through naming things, what is real may become intelligible. This mediating character of language, however, is being increasingly corrupted. Tyranny, propaganda, mass-media destroy and distort words. They offer us apparent realities whose fictive character threatens to become opaque. Josef Pieper shows with energetic zeal, but also with ascetical restraint, the path out of this dangerous situation. We are constrained to see things again as they are and from the truth thus grasped, to live and to work.