Cruelty and Civilization
Title | Cruelty and Civilization PDF eBook |
Author | Roland Auguet |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2012-11-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1135093431 |
Roland Auguet examines the Roman taste for blood and considers what the games, that strange combination of Cruelty and Civilization, reveal about the Roman mentality. He shows how the great spectacles became a part of city life - they were awaited with impatience, everyone discussed them, some applauded the action in the arena, while others booed frantically. This book provides an exciting history of gladiators, chariot racing and other games as well as an investigation of their function and significance within society. It is essential reading for anyone who is interested in the Romans' violent form of entertainment.
Men, Beasts, and Gods
Title | Men, Beasts, and Gods PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald Carson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN |
Examines the relationship of man and animals through the centuries, revealing the steps taken toward the protection of furred and feathered creatures in the United States.
Barbarism and Civilization
Title | Barbarism and Civilization PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard Wasserstein |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 928 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 019873073X |
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Culture and Cruelty in Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Artaud
Title | Culture and Cruelty in Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Artaud PDF eBook |
Author | Max Statkiewicz |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 137 |
Release | 2019-12-09 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1793603936 |
Questioning the Enlightenment in Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, and Artaud challenges the cultural optimism of the Enlighten through an examination of Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Artaud. The Enlightenment was characterized, as Arnold put it, as “sweetness and light”. Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Artaud each pushed back against the optimism of the enlightenment through their writing and advanced the idea of cruelty as lying at the root of all human nature and culture. In this study, Statkiewicz explores the seemingly opposing notions of culture and cruelty within the works of these authors to discuss their complex relationship with one another.
Madness and Civilization
Title | Madness and Civilization PDF eBook |
Author | Michel Foucault |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2013-01-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0307833100 |
Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the "insane" and the rest of humanity.
No Animals Were Harmed
Title | No Animals Were Harmed PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Laufer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9780762763856 |
Exploring the ways we have used animals for sport and entertainment. The controversial line between entertainment and abuse,
Cruelty
Title | Cruelty PDF eBook |
Author | Kathleen Eleanor Taylor |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 351 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0199552622 |
Resource added for the Psychology (includes Sociology) 108091 courses.