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Author | : Allan Megill |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780520052390 |
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In this book, the author presents an interpretation of four thinkers: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault, and Derrida. In an attempt to place these thinkers within the wider context of the crisis-oriented modernism and postmodernism that have been the source of much of what is most original and creative in twentieth-century art and thought.
Author | : Stanley J. Grenz |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 1996-02-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1467420859 |
Download A Primer on Postmodernism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From the academy to pop culture, our society is in the throes of change rivaling the birth of modernity out of the decay of the Middle Ages. We are now moving from the modern to the postmodern era. But what is postmodernism? How did it arise? What characterizes the postmodern ethos? What is the postmodern mind and how does it differ from the modern mind? Who are its leading advocates? Most important of all, what challenges does this cultural shift present to the church, which must proclaim the gospel to the emerging postmodern generation? Stanley Grenz here charts the postmodern landscape. He shows the threads that link art and architecture, philosophy and fiction, literary theory and television. He shows how the postmodern phenomenon has actually been in the making for a century and then introduces readers to the gurus of the postmodern mind-set. What he offers here is truly an indispensable guide for understanding today's culture.
Author | : Yvonne Sherwood |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2004-12-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780567040718 |
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The only consensus that has been reached on Hosea 1-3 is that it is a notoriously 'problematic' text. Sherwood unpicks this rather vague statement by examining the particular complexities of the text and frictions between the text and reader that conspire to produce such a disorientating effect. Four dimensions of the 'problem' are considered: the conflict between text and reader over the 'improper' relationship between Hosea and Gomer; the bizarre prophetic sign-language that conscripts people into a cosmic charade; the text's propensity to subvert its central theses; and the emergent tensions between the feminist reader and the text. Aiming to bring together literary criticism and biblical scholarship, this book provides lucid introductions to ideological criticism, semiotics, deconstruction and feminist criticism, and looks at the implications of these approaches not only for the book of Hosea but for biblical studies in general.
Author | : Michael Mahon |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1992-09-09 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1438411707 |
Download Foucault's Nietzschean Genealogy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the first full-length study of the impact of Friedrich Nietzsche's writings on the thought of French philosopher Michel Foucault. Focusing on the notion of genealogy in the thought of both Nietzsche and Foucault, the author explores the three genealogical axes—truth, power, and the subject—as they gradually emerge in Foucault's writings. This complex of axes into which Foucault was drawn, especially as a result of his early history of madness, called forth his explicit adoption of a Nietzschean approach to his future work. By interpreting Foucault's Histoire de la folie in the light of Nietzsche's genealogy of tragedy, Mahon shows how the moral problematization of madness in history provides the historical conditions from which the three axes emerge. After tracing the gradual emergence of the three axes through Foucault's writings of the remainder of the 1960s, especially Les Mots et les choses, Mahon turns to Foucault's explicit methodological statements and his notion of genealogy and offers a reading of Foucault's L'archeologie du savoir, arguing that there is no chasm between Foucault's archaeological writings and his genealogies. The work concludes with an analysis of Foucault's final writings on the genealogy of modern subjectivity and an examination of how truth, power, and the subject operate for the modern psychoanalytic subject of desire.
Author | : Michael Roemer |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
Total Pages | : 513 |
Release | : 1995-06-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1461644011 |
Download Telling Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Asks important questions about the very nature of stories and examines why we read stories rather than just learning the endings.
Author | : Ralph Ketcham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
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Although the last half of the twentieth century has been called the Age of Democracy, the twenty-first has already demonstrated the fragility of its apparent triumph as the dominant form of government throughout the world. Reassessing the fate of democracy for our time, distinguished political theorist Ralph Ketcham traces the evolution of this idea over the course of four hundred years. He traces democracy's bumpy ride in a book that is both an exercise in the history of ideas and an explication of democratic theory. Ketcham examines the rationales for democratic government, identifies the fault lines that separate democracy from good government, and suggests ways to strengthen it in order to meet future challenges. Drawing on an encyclopedic command of history and politics, he examines the rationales that have been offered for democratic government over the course of four manifestations of modernity that he identifies in the Western and East Asian world since 1600. Ketcham first considers the fundamental axioms established by theorists of the Enlightenment—Bacon, Locke, Jefferson—and reflected in America's founding, then moves on to the mostly post-Darwinian critiques by Bentham, Veblen, Dewey, and others that produced theories of the liberal corporate state. He explains late-nineteenth-century Asian responses to democracy as the third manifestation, grounded in Confucian respect for communal and hierarchical norms, followed by late-twentieth-century postmodernist thought that views democratic states as oppressive and seeks to empower marginalized groups. Ketcham critiques the first, second, and fourth modernity rationales for democracy and suggests that the Asian approach may represent a reconciliation of ancient wisdom and modern science better suited to today's world. He advocates a reorientation of democracy that de-emphasizes group or identity politics and restores the wholeness of the civic community, proposing a return to the Jeffersonian universalism—that which informed the founding of the United States-if democracy is to flourish in a fifth manifestation. The Idea of Democracy in the Modern Era is an erudite, interdisciplinary work of great breadth and complexity that looks to the past in order to reframe the future. With its global overview and comparative insights, it will stimulate discussion of how democracy can survive—and thrive—in the coming era.
Author | : Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1994-09-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521452816 |
Download Nietzsche and Soviet Culture Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This 1994 pioneering study documents the extent and diversity of the impact of Nietzschean ideas on Soviet literature and culture. It shows how these ideas, unacknowledged and reworked, entered and shaped that culture and stimulated the imagination of both supporters and detractors of the regime.
Author | : David Pan |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780803237278 |
Download Primitive Renaissance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Modernity became one of a number of equally plausible cultural strategies for organizing life in the contemporary world."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Jean Calvin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 1846 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : |
Download Commentaries on the Twelve Minor Prophets Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Harold Toliver |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0271042265 |
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