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Author : Stefanos Geroulanos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Idea (Philosophy)
ISBN : 1474206514
Author : Clifford Ando,Thomas N. Habinek,Giulia Sissa
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781350007376
Author : Sophia Rosenfeld
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781350007550
Examines 2,800 years of ideas from a wide range of perspectives, including philosophy, religion, politics and art.
Author : James H. Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Idea (Philosophy)
ISBN : 1474206484
Author : Alessandro Arcangeli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136621826
The expression ‘cultural history’ is generally used today to signal a particular approach to history, one which could be applied to any object, and is mainly concerned with the sense men and women from the past gave to the world they lived in. In this introduction to cultural history as a subdiscipline, the reader will find the key steps in the historical development of the field from 1850 to the present. It surveys different ways in which cultural history has been practised, exploring intellectual history, the history of ideas and concepts, of mentalities, of symbols and representations, and of languages and discourses. Cultural History also maps the territory cultural history most effectively enlightens: gender; the family and sexuality; the body; senses and emotions and images; material culture and consumption; the media and communication. Lastly, it includes an appendix of biographies of a number of influential cultural historians. This concise and accessible introduction will be an essential volume for any university student studying cultural history.
Author : Stephen Kern
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400826230
This pioneering work is the first to trace how our understanding of the causes of human behavior has changed radically over the course of European and American cultural history since 1830. Focusing on the act of murder, as documented vividly by more than a hundred novels including Crime and Punishment, An American Tragedy, The Trial, and Lolita, Stephen Kern devotes each chapter of A Cultural History of Causality to examining a specific causal factor or motive for murder--ancestry, childhood, language, sexuality, emotion, mind, society, and ideology. In addition to drawing on particular novels, each chapter considers the sciences (genetics, endocrinology, physiology, neuroscience) and systems of thought (psychoanalysis, linguistics, sociology, forensic psychiatry, and existential philosophy) most germane to each causal factor or motive. Kern identifies five shifts in thinking about causality, shifts toward increasing specificity, multiplicity, complexity, probability, and uncertainty. He argues that the more researchers learned about the causes of human behavior, the more they realized how much more there was to know and how little they knew about what they thought they knew. The book closes by considering the revolutionary impact of quantum theory, which, though it influenced novelists only marginally, shattered the model of causal understanding that had dominated Western thought since the seventeenth century. Others have addressed changing ideas about causality in specific areas, but no one has tackled a broad cultural history of this concept as does Stephen Kern in this engagingly written and lucidly argued book.
Author : Jack R. Censer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Idea (Philosophy)
ISBN : 1474206492
Author : Jill Kraye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Idea (Philosophy)
ISBN : 1474206522
Author : Peter Watson
Publisher : Harper
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 006621064X
In this hugely ambitious and stimulating book, Peter Watson describes the history of ideas, from deep antiquity to the present day, leading to a new way of understanding our world and ourselves. The narrative begins nearly two million years ago with the invention of hand-axes and explores how some of our most cherished notions might have originated before humans had language. Then, in a broad sweep, the book moves forward to consider not the battles and treaties of kings and prime ministers, emperors and generals, but the most important ideas we have evolved, by which we live and which separate us from other animals. Watson explores the first languages and the first words, the birth of the gods, the origins of art, the profound intellectual consequences of money. He describes the invention of writing, early ideas about law, why sacrifice and the soul have proved so enduring in religion. He explains how ideas about time evolved, how numbers were conceived, how science, medicine, sociology, economics, and capitalism came into being. He shows how the discovery of the New World changed forever the way that we think, and why Chinese creativity faded after the Middle Ages. In the course of this commanding narrative, Watson reveals the linkages down the ages in the ideas of many apparently disparate philosophers, astronomers, religious leaders, biologists, inventors, poets, jurists, and scores of others. Aristotle jostles with Aquinas, Ptolemy with Photius, Kalidasa with Zhu Xi, Beethoven with Strindberg, Jefferson with Freud. Ideas is a seminal work.
Author : Dallas G. Denery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Idea (Philosophy)
ISBN : 1474206506
Author : Maiken Umbach,Mathew Humphrey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319685663
Authenticity is everywhere: political leaders invoke the idea to gain our support, advertisers use it to sell their products. But is authenticity a dangerous hoax? What is, and is not, authentic has been hotly debated ever since the concept was invented. Many academics have sought to "unmask" authenticity claims as deceptive. This book takes a different approach. In chapters covering historical and contemporary examples, the authors explore why authenticity, real or imagined, exercises such a powerful hold on our imaginations. The chapters trace how invocations of authenticity borrow from one another, across arenas such as philosophy and theology, encounters with nature, leisure, and mass consumption, political and corporate leadership, left-wing and right-wing ideologies. This cultural history of authenticity is of interest to academic and lay readers alike, who are interested in the significance and history of a concept that shapes how we understand ourselves and the world we live in.
Author : Arshad Ahammad A.,Nada Rajan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781527570412
The papers in this book, covering a wide range of themes such as history, globalisation, colonialism, trauma, ecology, cinema, science, post-humanism, feminisms, and alternative sexualities, explore the structures of power that bring about and contour the prevailing, stereotypical and hegemonic notions of identity, gender and culture. The focal point of these interactions is the perpetual dissemination of ideas which stimulate the knowledge system with its roots spread across diverse scholarly disciplines. This collection will be of great interest to academicians, scholars, researchers, and students, as it explores various discourses in literature, cultural studies, literary theory and film studies.
Author : DonaldR. Kelley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351545105
The 'history of ideas', better known these days as intellectual history, is a flourishing field of study which has been the object of much controversy but hardly any historical exploration. This major new work from Donald R. Kelley is the first comprehensive history of intellectual history, tracing the study of the history of thought from ancient, medieval and early modern times, its emergence as the 'history of ideas' in the 18th century, and its subsequent expansion. The point of departure for this study is the perspective opened up by Victor Cousin in the early 19th-century on 'Eclecticism' and its association with the history of philosophy established by Renaissance scholars. Kelley considers a broad range of topics, including the rivalry between 'ideas' and language, the rise of cultural history, the contributions of certain 19th- and 20th-century practitioners of the history of ideas in interdisciplinary areas of philosophy, literature and the sciences, and finally the current state of intellectual history. The central theme of the book is the interplay between the canon of philosophical thought and the tradition of language and textual study, the divergence of the latter marking the 'descent of ideas' into the realm of cultural history.
Author : Kocku von Stuckrad
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231553575
The soul, which dominated many intellectual debates at the beginning of the twentieth century, has virtually disappeared from the sciences and the humanities. Yet it is everywhere in popular culture—from holistic therapies and new spiritual practices to literature and film to ecological and political ideologies. Ignored by scholars, it is hiding in plain sight in a plethora of religious, psychological, environmental, and scientific movements. This book uncovers the history of the concept of the soul in twentieth-century Europe and North America. Beginning in fin de siècle Germany, Kocku von Stuckrad examines a fascination spanning philosophy, the sciences, the arts, and the study of religion, as well as occultism and spiritualism, against the backdrop of the emergence of experimental psychology. He then explores how and why the United States witnessed a flowering of ideas about the soul in popular culture and spirituality in the latter half of the century. Von Stuckrad examines an astonishingly wide range of figures and movements—ranging from Ernest Renan, Martin Buber, and Carl Gustav Jung to the Esalen Institute, deep ecology, and revivals of shamanism, animism, and paganism to Rachel Carson, Ursula K. Le Guin, and the Harry Potter franchise. Revealing how the soul remains central to a culture that is only seemingly secular, this book casts new light on the place of spirituality, religion, and metaphysics in Europe and North America today.
Author : Yvan Lamonde
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773541061
The first synthesis of the history of ideas over a century in Quebec.