Configurations of Modernity
Author | : Edward S. Cutler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Edward S. Cutler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alice Jardine |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2019-06-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501742272 |
Jardine's command of French theory is awesome. Even more impressive is the fact that she manages to delve into the subject without ever losing sight of certain impertinent American questions. "-Jane Gallop, Department of French and Italian, Miami University Gynesis: from the Greek—gyn- signifying woman, and -sis designating process. In her book, Alice Jardine charts the territories and landscapes of contemporary French thought, focusing on such concepts as "woman" and "the feminine," and relating them to the problem of modernity. Interdisciplinary in her approach, she confronts and addresses important psychoanalytic, philosophical, and fictional texts that are largely the work of male writers. In Part One Jardine charts the general boundaries of what she describes as the "problematization" of woman, and in Part Two she explores three major topologies of contemporary French thought—the breakdown of the Cartesian Subject, the default of Representation, and the demise of Man's Truth. Part Three analyzes the work of Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, and Gilles Deleuze, three major French thinkers who, according to Jardine, are deeply involved in the process of gynesis, and discusses their readings of such writers as Marguerite Duras, Maurice Blanchot, and Michel Tournier. A final section turns to the question of comparativism by discussing male American and French writers—those self-consciously exploring the conceptual territories mapped in Part Two. Looking at her texts from the vantage point of an American feminist, Jardine voices the hope that feminism and modernity will not become mutually exclusive and, by the same token, that feminism will not grow less concerned with the question of female stereotyping. A brilliant and engaging book that will undoubtedly provoke controversy, Gynesis should find a large audience among students of contemporary thought—including feminists, literary and cultural critics, and philosophers.
Author | : Peter Button |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2009-03-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9047424263 |
The emergence of the Chinese socialist realist novel can best be understood in light of the half-century long formation of the modern concept of literature in China. Globalized in the wake of modern capitalism, literary modernity configures the literary text in a relationship to both modern philosophy and literary theory. This book traces China's unique, complex, and creative articulation of literary modernity beginning with Lu Xun's “The True Story of Ah Q.” Cai Yi's aesthetic theory of the type (dianxing) and the image (xingxiang) is then explored in relation to global currents in literary thought and philosophy, making possible a fundamental rethinking of Chinese socialist realist novels like Yang Mo's Song of Youth and Luo Guangbin and Yan Yiyan's Red Crag.
Author | : Peter Button |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004170952 |
"Tracing the formation of the modern concept of literature in 20th century China, this book examines the emergence of the Chinese socialist realist novel in relation to the literary and philosophical currents globalized in the wake of capitalist modernity"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Ian Cooper |
Publisher | : Cultural History and Literary Imagination |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Civilization, Modern |
ISBN | : 9783034307147 |
From Hegel to the present, the humanities and social sciences have revealed the volatile power of third agency. The articles in this volume trace the role of triadic figures across a broad range of discourses, revealing the roots of modernity in dialectic and paradox. Features innovative perspectives on Adorno, Agamben, Derrida, Simmel and more.
Author | : John Jervis |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2018-12-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137496762 |
Modernity theory approaches modern experience as it incorporates a sense of itself as ‘modern’ (modernity), along with the possibilities and limitations of representing this in the arts and culture generally (modernism). The book interrogates modernity in the name of a fluid, unsettled, unsettling modernism. As the offspring of the Enlightenment and the Age of Sensibility, modernity is framed here through a cultural aesthetics that highlights not just an instrumental, exploitative approach to the world but the distinctive configuration of embodiment, feeling, and imagination, that we refer to as ‘civilization’, in turn both explored and subverted through modernist experimentalism and reflexive thinking in culture and the arts. This discloses the rationalizing pretensions that underlie the modern project and have resulted in the sensationalist, melodramatic conflicts of good and evil that traverse our contemporary world of politics and popular culture alike. This innovative approach permits modernity theory to link otherwise fragmented insights of separate humanities disciplines, aspects of sociology, and cultural studies, by identifying and contributing to a central strand of modern thought running from Kant through Benjamin to the present. One aspect of modernity theory that results is that it cannot escape the paradoxes inherent in reflexive involvement in its own history.
Author | : Peter Wagner |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2002-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1134891911 |
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Kate Soper |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2020-11-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1788738896 |
An urgent and passionate plea for a new and ecologically sustainable vision of the good life. The reality of runaway climate change is inextricably linked with the mass consumerist, capitalist society in which we live. And the cult of endless growth, and endless consumption of cheap disposable commodities isn't only destroying the world, it is damaging ourselves and our way of being. How do we stop the impending catastrophe, and how can we create a movement capable of confronting it head-on? In Post-Growth Living, philosopher Kate Soper offers an urgent plea for a new vision of the good life, one that is capable of delinking prosperity from endless growth. Instead, she calls for a renewed emphasis on the joys of being, one that is capable of collective happiness not in consumption but by creating a future that allows not only for more free time, and less conventional and more creative ways of using it, but also for more fulfilling ways of working and existing. This is an urgent and necessary intervention into debates on climate change.
Author | : W. T. Murphy |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780198265597 |
This original book challenges the assumption that the post-war period is hallmarked by the triumph of the rule of law. It presents a sophisticated interpretation of the true role played by law in modern society, sidestepping the usual emphasis in legal theory on normative questions. Tim Murphy approaches his subject by focusing on adjudication as a social practice and as a set of governmental techniques. From this viewpoint, he explores how the relationship between law, government and society has changed in the course of history in significant ways. In so doing, he addresses the central concerns of scholars, students, and the public in relation to the future of law.
Author | : Jerrold Seigel |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 639 |
Release | : 2012-04-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107018102 |
What does it mean to be modern? In the nineteenth century a consensus emerged that Western Europe was giving birth to a new form of life in which bourgeois activities, people, attitudes and values played a key role. Jerrold Seigel offers a magisterial account of the development of European modernity.