Rethinking Modern Judaism
Title | Rethinking Modern Judaism PDF eBook |
Author | Arnold M. Eisen |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 358 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0226195295 |
Arnold Eisen here calls for a fundamental rethinking of the story of modern Judaism. More than simply a study of Jewish thought on customs and rituals, Rethinking Modern Judaism explores the central role that practice plays in Judaism's encounter with modernity. "Fascinating . . . an insightful entrance point to understanding the evolution of the theologies of America's largest Jewish denominations."—Tikkun "I know of no other treatment of these issues that matches Eisen's talents for synthesizing a wide variety of historical, philosophical, and social scientific sources, and bringing them to bear in a balanced and open-minded way on the delicate questions of why modern Jews relate as they do to the practices of Judaism."—Joseph Reimer, Boston Book Review "At once an incisive survey of modern Jewish thought and an inquiry into how Jews actually live their religious lives, Mr. Eisen's book is an invaluable addition to the study of American Judaism."—Elliott Abrams, Washington Times
Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey
Title | Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey PDF eBook |
Author | Sibel Bozdogan |
Publisher | University of Washington Press |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2011-11-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0295800186 |
In the first two decades after W.W.II, social scientist heralded Turkey as an exemplar of a 'modernizing' nation in the Western mold. Images of unveiled women working next to clean-shaven men, healthy children in school uniforms, and downtown Ankara's modern architecture all proclaimed the country's success. Although Turkey's modernization began in the late Ottoman era, the establishment of the secular nation-state by Kemal Ataturk in 1923 marked the crystallization of an explicit, elite-driven 'project of modernity' that took its inspiration exclusively from the West. The essays in this book are the first attempt to examine the Turkish experiment with modernity from a broad, interdisciplinary perspective, encompassing the fields of history, the social sciences, the humanities, architecture, and urban planning. As they examine both the Turkish project of modernity and its critics, the contributors offer a fresh, balanced understanding of dilemmas now facing not only Turkey but also many other parts of the Middle East and the world at large.
Rethinking the Modern Chinese Canon
Title | Rethinking the Modern Chinese Canon PDF eBook |
Author | Clara Iwasaki |
Publisher | |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2020-11 |
Genre | Chinese literature |
ISBN | 9781621965473 |
This book examines four canonical Chinese writers (Xiao Hong, Yu Dafu, Lao She, and Zhang Ailing) in relation to their translations, interpellations, and interpretations in different languages.
Rethinking Markets in Modern India
Title | Rethinking Markets in Modern India PDF eBook |
Author | Ajay Gandhi |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2020-10 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1108486789 |
Using historical and ethnographic analyses, this book shows how Indian markets are embedded in society and politically contested.
Rethinking Race in Modern Argentina
Title | Rethinking Race in Modern Argentina PDF eBook |
Author | Paulina Alberto |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 393 |
Release | 2016-03-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1316477843 |
This book reconsiders the relationship between race and nation in Argentina during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and places Argentina firmly in dialog with the literature on race and nation in Latin America, from where it has long been excluded or marginalized for being a white, European exception in a mixed-race region. The contributors, based both in North America and Argentina, hail from the fields of history, anthropology, and literary and cultural studies. Their essays collectively destabilize widespread certainties about Argentina, showing that whiteness in that country has more in common with practices and ideologies of Mestizaje and 'racial democracy' elsewhere in the region than has typically been acknowledged. The essays also situate Argentina within the well-established literature on race, nation, and whiteness in world regions beyond Latin America (particularly, other European 'settler societies'). The collection thus contributes to rethinking race for other global contexts as well.
Medieval Wales c.1050-1332
Title | Medieval Wales c.1050-1332 PDF eBook |
Author | David Stephenson |
Publisher | University of Wales Press |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2019-03-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1786833875 |
After outlining conventional accounts of Wales in the High Middle Ages, this book moves to more radical approaches to its subject. Rather than discussing the emergence of the March of Wales from the usual perspective of the ‘intrusive’ marcher lords, for instance, it is considered from a Welsh standpoint explaining the lure of the March to Welsh princes and its contribution to the fall of the native principality of Wales. Analysis of the achievements of the princes of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries focuses on the paradoxical process by which increasingly sophisticated political structures and a changing political culture supported an autonomous native principality, but also facilitated eventual assimilation of much of Wales into an English ‘empire’. The Edwardian conquest is examined and it is argued that, alongside the resultant hardship and oppression suffered by many, the rising class of Welsh administrators and community leaders who were essential to the governance of Wales enjoyed an age of opportunity. This is a book that introduces the reader to the celebrated and the less well-known men and women who shaped medieval Wales.
Rethinking the French New Right
Title | Rethinking the French New Right PDF eBook |
Author | Tamir Bar-On |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2013-04-12 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1135966265 |
This book focuses on the philosophy, politics and impact of the 'New Right' which originated in France and has since influenced activism, ideology and policy in a number of European countries. This book explores the idea that revolutionaries do not necessarily need to come from the left, nor use arms in order to overturn liberal democracy. In the post-World War Two era, the extremists of the revolutionary right took three different paths: 1) parliamentary; 2) extra-parliamentary; and 3) metapolitical. The New Right (nouvelle droite – ND in France) took the metapolitical path, but that did not mean it abandoned its revolutionary desire to smash liberal democracy throughout Europe. The book examines four interpretations of the New Right. These interpretations include the following: 1) The New Right as a fascist or quasi-fascist movement; 2) The New Right as a challenge to the traditional right-left dichotomy, which has structured European political debates for more than 200 years; 3) The New Right as an alternative modernist movement, which rejects liberal and socialist narratives of modernity; accepts the technical but not political or cultural effects of modernity; and longs for a pan-European political framework abolishing liberal multiculturalism and privileging ethnic dominance of so-called original Europeans; and 4) The New Right as a variant of political religion and conversionary processes. The book concludes by analysing the positions, cultural and political impact, and relationship to democracy of the New Right. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of racism, fascism, extremism, European politics, French politics and contemporary political theory.