Introduction to Modernity
Title | Introduction to Modernity PDF eBook |
Author | Henri Lefebvre |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Pages | 417 |
Release | 2012-01-16 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1844677834 |
Originally published in 1962, when Lefebvre was beginning his career as a lecturer in sociology at the University of Strasbourg, it established his position in the vanguard of a movement which was to culminate in the events of May 1968. A classic analysis of the modern world using Marxist dialectic, it is a book which supersedes the conventional divisions between academic disciplines. With dazzling skill, Lefebvre moves from philosophy to sociology, from literature to history, to present a profound analysis of the social, political and cultural forces at work in France and the world in the aftermath of Stalin’s death—an analysis in which the contours of our own “postmodernity” appear with startling clarity.
Introduction to Modernity
Title | Introduction to Modernity PDF eBook |
Author | Henri Lefebvre |
Publisher | Verso Books |
Pages | 594 |
Release | 2020-05-05 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1789600472 |
Originally published in 1962, when Lefebvre was beginning his career as a lecturer in sociology at the University of Strasbourg, it established his position in the vanguard of a movement which was to culminate in the events of May 1968. A classic analysis of the modern world using Marxist dialectic, it is a book which supersedes the conventional divisions between academic disciplines. With dazzling skill, Lefebvre moves from philosophy to sociology, from literature to history, to present a profound analysis of the social, political and cultural forces at work in France and the world in the aftermath of Stalin's death-an analysis in which the contours of our own "postmodernity" appear with startling clarity.
Modernism: A Very Short Introduction
Title | Modernism: A Very Short Introduction PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Butler |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 137 |
Release | 2010-07-29 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0192804413 |
A compact introduction to modernism--why it began, what it is, and how it hasshaped virtually all aspects of 20th and 21st century life
The Crisis of Modernity
Title | The Crisis of Modernity PDF eBook |
Author | Augusto Del Noce |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2014-12-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0773596747 |
In his native Italy Augusto Del Noce is regarded as one of the preeminent political thinkers and philosophers of the period after the Second World War. The Crisis of Modernity makes available for the first time in English a selection of Del Noce's essays and lectures on the cultural history of the twentieth century. Del Noce maintained that twentieth-century history must be understood specifically as a philosophical history, because Western culture was profoundly affected by the major philosophies of the previous century such as idealism, Marxism, and positivism. Such philosophies became the secular, neo-gnostic surrogate of Christianity for the European educated classes after the French Revolution, and the next century put them to the practical test, bringing to light their ultimate and necessary consequences. One of the first thinkers to recognize the failure of Marxism, Del Noce posited that this failure set the stage for a new secular, technocratic society that had taken up Marx’s historical materialism and atheism while rejecting his revolutionary doctrine. Displaying Del Noce's rare ability to reconstruct intellectual genealogies and to expose the deep metaphysical premises of social and political movements, The Crisis of Modernity presents an original reading of secularization, scientism, the sexual revolution, and the history of modern Western culture.
The Formations of Modernity
Title | The Formations of Modernity PDF eBook |
Author | Bram Gieben |
Publisher | Polity |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 1993-01-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780745609607 |
Formations of Modernity is a major introductory textbook offering an account of the important historical processes, institutions and ideas that have shaped the development of modern societies. This challenging and innovative book 'maps' the evolution of those distinctive forms of political, economic, social and cultural life which characterize modern societies, from their origins in early modern Europe to the nineteenth century. It examines the roots of modern knowledge and the birth of the social sciences in the Enlightenment, and analyses the impact on the emerging identity of 'the West' of its encounters through exploration, trade, conquest and colonization, with 'other civilizations'. Designed as an introduction to modern societies and modern sociological analyses, this book is of value to students on a wide variety of social science courses in universities and colleges and also to readers with no prior knowledge of sociology. Selected readings from a broad range of classical writers (Weber, Durkheim, Marx, Freud, Adam Smith, Montesquieu, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau) and contemporary thinkers (Michael Mann, E.P. Thompson, Edward Said) are integrated in each chapter, together with student questions and exercises.
The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism
Title | The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism PDF eBook |
Author | Pericles Lewis |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 197 |
Release | 2007-05-03 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1316224309 |
More than a century after its beginnings, modernism still has the power to shock, alienate or challenge readers. Modernist art and literature remain thought of as complex and difficult. This introduction explains in a readable, lively style how modernism emerged, how it is defined, and how it developed in different forms and genres. Pericles Lewis offers students a survey of literature and art in England, Ireland and Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century. He also provides an overview of critical thought on modernism and its continuing influence on the arts today, reflecting the interests of current scholarship in the social and cultural contexts of modernism. The comparative perspective on Anglo-American and European modernism shows how European movements have influenced the development of English-language modernism. Illustrated with works of art and featuring suggestions for further study, this is the ideal introduction to understanding and enjoying modernist literature and art.
Modernity
Title | Modernity PDF eBook |
Author | Stuart Hall |
Publisher | Blackwell Publishing |
Pages | 672 |
Release | 1996-01-23 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781557867162 |
Provides a comprehensive introduction to the history, sociology, and ideas of modern society, focusing on the formation, consolidation, and prospects of modernity.