The Modern Condition
Title | The Modern Condition PDF eBook |
Author | Dennis Hume Wrong |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780804732413 |
In this collection, a leading sociologist brings his distinctive method of social criticism to bear on some of the most significant ideas, political and social events, and thinkers of the late twentieth century. Of the seventeen essays, two are published for the first time, and several of the previously published essays have been expanded and updated for this volume. In the first section, the author critiques several concepts that have figured prominently in political-ideological controversiescapitalism, rationality, totalitarianism, power, alienation, left and right, and cultural relativism/multiculturalism. He considers their origins, historical shifts in their meaning and the myths surrounding them, and their subtle resonance beyond their formal definitions. The second section highlights the authors lifelong interest in the relation of intellectuals to social classes and institutions. The author critically assesses the notion of a New Class in which intellectuals have been alleged to play a prominent role, considers the implications for class structure of the increasing centering of intellectual life in the university, and assesses the relation of sociology to professional jargon. The final essays in this section discuss four influential thinkers: David Riesman, Daniel Bell, Christopher Lasch, and Allan Bloom. The book closes with an autobiographical statement centered on the authors intellectual-political life.
The Postmodern Condition
Title | The Postmodern Condition PDF eBook |
Author | Jean-François Lyotard |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 142 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780816611737 |
In this book it explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and political trends, and develops profound insights into the nature of our postmodernity.
War, Violence and the Modern Condition
Title | War, Violence and the Modern Condition PDF eBook |
Author | Bernd Hüppauf |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 425 |
Release | 2010-11-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 311081725X |
Music and the Modern Condition: Investigating the Boundaries
Title | Music and the Modern Condition: Investigating the Boundaries PDF eBook |
Author | Ljubica Ilic |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 2016-04-29 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1317092325 |
Two crucial moments in the formation and disintegration of musical modernity and the musical canon occurred at the turn of the seventeenth and the first half of the twentieth century. Dr Ljubica Ilic provides a fresh and close look at these moments, exploring the ways musical compositions shift to and away from ideological structures identified with modernity. The focus is on European art music whose grand narrative, defined by tonality and teleological development, begins in the seventeenth century and ends with twentieth-century modernisms. This particular musical "language game" coincides with historical changes in the phenomenological understanding of space and selfhood. A key concept of the book concerns musical compositions that remain without proper conclusions: if the wholesome (musical) work is a manifestation of wholesome subjectivity, the pieces Ilic explores deny it, reflecting conflict of the individual with previous beliefs, with contexts, and even within the self as the basic modern condition. The musical work is, in this case, still bounded and well-defined, but fractured by the incapability or refusal to satisfactorily conclude: the implicit cut forced upon it changes the expected musical flow or - speaking in spatial terms - it influences the musical form. By using the metaphor of space, Ilic explores: how the existence of a separate self as a primary feature of Western modernity becomes negotiated through awareness of the subject's own independence and individuality; innerness as something entirely separate from its surroundings; and the collective space of social interaction. Seeing musical storytelling as a metaphoric representation of selfhood, and modernity as a historical continuum, Ilic examines the boundaries and relationships between the musical work, the subject, and modern European history.
Roads to Dystopia, Sociological Essay on the Post Modern Condition (c)
Title | Roads to Dystopia, Sociological Essay on the Post Modern Condition (c) PDF eBook |
Author | Stanford M. Lyman |
Publisher | University of Arkansas Press |
Pages | 460 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Postmodernism |
ISBN | 9781610753500 |
Commentary on the Eleventh Contentions
Title | Commentary on the Eleventh Contentions PDF eBook |
Author | Abdal Hakim Murad |
Publisher | Fons Vitae |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Islam |
ISBN | 9781872038162 |
An Introduction to Modern Philosophy
Title | An Introduction to Modern Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Alburey Castell |
Publisher | MacMillan Publishing Company |
Pages | 668 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Philosophy |
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