Dialectic Of Defeat

Author : Russell Jacoby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002-05-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521520177

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Dialectic of Defeat by Russell Jacoby Pdf

Observing that for both revolutionaries and capitalists, nothing succeeds like success, Russell Jacoby asks us to reexamine a loser of Marxism: the unorthodox Marxism of Western Europe. The author begins with a polemical attack on 'conformist' or orthodox Marxism, in which he includes structuralist schools. He argues that a cult of success and science drained this Marxism of its critical impulse and that the successes of the Russian and Chinese revolutions encouraged a mechanical and fruitless mimicry. He then turns to a Western alternative that neither succumbed to the spell of success nor obliterated the individual in the name of science. In the nineteenth century, this Western Marxism already diverged from Russian Marxism in its interpretation of Hegel and its evaluation of Engels' orthodox Marxism. The author follows the evolution of this minority tradition and its opposition to authoritarian forms of political theory and practice.

Author : Russell Jacoby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:987248386

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Dialectic of defeat by Russell Jacoby Pdf

Author : Fārābī
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108417532

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Alfarabi's Book of Dialectic (Kit?b al-Jadal) by Fārābī Pdf

Provides the first complete English translation of a central text in the Islamic philosophical tradition, with meticulously researched commentary and interpretation.

Author : Raya Morag
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 9052014698

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Defeated Masculinity by Raya Morag Pdf

The burgeoning field of trauma and cinema is an exciting development within contemporary trauma studies. The author of this book describes the complex relationship between cinema and the trauma of defeat in war. An asymmetric and non-binary comparison of two test cases, post-World War II New German Cinema and post-Vietnam War American cinema, illuminates the indirect and intriguing ways these societies have dealt with the enormous psycho-cultural difficulty of acknowledging their defeat and understanding its manifold meanings. This book draws on psychoanalysis, masculinity studies, and corporeal feminism to explore the bodily experience of defeat. It examines themes and representations of body and sexuality to create a theoretical framework that reveals anew the link between defeated masculinity and nationalism. Building on an original analysis of such varied films as The Deer Hunter, Full Metal Jacket, The Tin Drum, and Paris Texas, the author suggests new criteria that highlight the characteristics of post-traumatic cinema.

Author : Shannon Brincat
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317413080

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Dialectics in World Politics by Shannon Brincat Pdf

This volume explores the conceptual, methodological and praxeological aspects of dialectical analysis in world politics. As dialectics has remained an under-theorised analytical tool in international relations, this volume provides a critical resource for those seeking to deploy dialectics in their own research by showcasing its effectiveness for understanding and transforming world politics. Contributions demonstrate a number of innovative ways in which dialectical thinking can be of benefit to the study of world politics by covering three thematic concerns: (i) conceptual or meta-theoretical dimensions of dialectics; (ii) methodological features and general principles of dialectical approaches; and (iii) applications and/or case studies that deploy a dialectical approach to world politics. Canvassing a diverse range of dialectical approaches on key issues in world politics – from global security to postcolonial resistances, from the theoretical problems of reification and complexity, to the study of the global futures and the intercultural historical expressions of dialectics – Dialectics and World Politics offers key insights into the social forces and contradictions that are generative of transformation in world politics and yet routinely downplayed in orthodox approaches to international relations. Each chapter demonstrates how dialectics can be utilized more broadly in the discipline and deployed in a critical fashion as part of an emancipatory project. This book was originally published as a special issue of Globalizations.

Author : Louis Schneider
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1412837030

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The Grammar of Social Relations by Louis Schneider Pdf

This collection of the writings of Louis Schneider, an exceptionally gifted sociologist of religion the history of ideas, provides a sensitive but rigorous view of the place of ideas in social life. Di­vided according to the principal areas in which Schneider con­ducted research—history of social thought, principles of social the­ory, sociology of religion—are es­says on evolution, styles of re­search, and moral choice in human relations. His knowledge of systems of thought—dialec­tical, functional, and phenomenological—was peerless. The unifying theme in his work is the place of cultural formations in so­cial structures; as a result, his writings are alive with persons no less than systems.

Author : Cate Watson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317551874

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Comedy and Social Science by Cate Watson Pdf

While there have been many sociological and psychological studies of humor, few can claim to be funny. Humor may be regarded as a legitimate topic for social scientists, but in general, they present their research rather seriously. In academia, humor tends to be trivialized and dismissed. This is more than just a missed opportunity for otherwise fun-loving academics. In literature, it is readily accepted that comedy is integral to the human condition. To ignore humor is to reject a potentially insightful methodological approach, as the humorous worldview presents unique opportunities for investigating the social. This book constitutes a unique resource, presenting chapters on irony, satire and parody as tools for analysis and means of representation, as well as considering humor in the conduct of research, and offering guidance on getting published. Through presenting examples from across the social sciences, the book seeks to persuade and inspire rather than to prescribe an approach – a closure which would (ironically) be inimical to the multiplicity and ambiguity which characterizes humorous research and lends it its distinctive edge.

Author : Stanley Aronowitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317256700

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Left Turn by Stanley Aronowitz Pdf

Building a new platform for change, prominent social critic Stanley Aronowitz diagnoses America's crisis of democracy and the dangers of the new authoritarianism. Aronowitz draws on his vast knowledge of history and political theory and from currents of political change around the globe, from the traditions of the European left to the newest political trends in Latin America that have challenged the "death of socialism. Demonstrating why Democrats lose when they cling to centrism and compromise their core values, this book shows us what a new left party in America would look like in an era of globalization, terrorism, and a crisis of public confidence in government.

Author : Enzo Traverso
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231543019

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Left-Wing Melancholia by Enzo Traverso Pdf

The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War but also the rise of a melancholic vision of history as a series of losses. For the political left, the cause lost was communism, and this trauma determined how leftists wrote the next chapter in their political struggle and how they have thought about their past since. Throughout the twentieth century, argues Left-Wing Melancholia, from classical Marxism to psychoanalysis to the advent of critical theory, a culture of defeat and its emotional overlay of melancholy have characterized the leftist understanding of the political in history and in theoretical critique. Drawing on a vast and diverse archive in theory, testimony, and image and on such thinkers as Karl Marx, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, and others, the intellectual historian Enzo Traverso explores the varying nature of left melancholy as it has manifested in a feeling of guilt for not sufficiently challenging authority, in a fear of surrendering in disarray and resignation, in mourning the human costs of the past, and in a sense of failure for not realizing utopian aspirations. Yet hidden within this melancholic tradition are the resources for a renewed challenge to prevailing regimes of historicity, a passion that has the power to reignite the dialectic of revolutionary thought.

Author : Michael C. Stokes
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781914535048

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Dialectic in Action by Michael C. Stokes Pdf

Plato's Crito examines a single moral decision, whether Socrates ought to escape from his death-cell. Stokes' book discusses Socrates' arguments against Crito's offer of escape. It construes Socrates' questions as genuine questions, which clarify and undermine Crito's positions. Stokes's approach avoids the 'documentary fallacy'; it shows how Plato catered for both the novice and the experienced reader of his published works. This book offers a fresh account of Socrates' whole strategy. It demonstrates both the shakiness of Socrates' persuasion of the un-philosophical Crito to engage in dialectic, and the coherence of his substantive confutation. Plato's reasoning emerges from Stokes' study with more credit than many have given it.

Author : Fredric Jameson
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781789601237

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Valences of the Dialectic by Fredric Jameson Pdf

After half a century exploring dialectical thought, renowned cultural critic Fredric Jameson presents a comprehensive study of a misunderstood yet vital strain in Western philosophy. The dialectic, the concept of the evolution of an idea through conflicts arising from its inherent contradictions, transformed two centuries of Western philosophy. To Hegel, who dominated nineteenth-century thought, it was a metaphysical system. In the works of Marx, the dialectic became a tool for materialist historical analysis. Jameson brings a theoretical scrutiny to bear on the questions that have arisen in the history of this philosophical tradition, contextualizing the debate in terms of commodification and globalization, and with reference to thinkers such as Rousseau, Lukcs, Heidegger, Sartre, Derrida, and Althusser. Through rigorous, erudite examination, Valences of the Dialectic charts a movement toward the innovation of a "spatial" dialectic. Jameson presents a new synthesis of thought that revitalizes dialectical thinking for the twenty-first century.

Author : Melina G. Mouzala
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110744149

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Ancient Greek Dialectic and Its Reception by Melina G. Mouzala Pdf

Author : Muhammad Iqbal
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030916763

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Arsyad al-Banjari’s Insights on Parallel Reasoning and Dialectic in Law by Muhammad Iqbal Pdf

This book provides an epistemological study of the great Islamic scholar of Banjarese origin, Syeikh Muhammad Arsyad al-Banjari (1710-1812) who contributed to the development of Islam in Indonesia and, in general, Southeast Asia. The work focuses on Arsyad al-Banjari’s dialectical use and understanding of qiyās or correlational inference as a model of parallel reasoning or analogy in Islamic jurisprudence. This constituted the most prominent instrument he applied in his effort of integrating Islamic law into the Banjarese society.This work studies how Arsyad al-Banjari integrates jadal theory or dialectic in Islamic jurisprudence, within his application of qiyās. The author develops a framework for qiyās which acts as the interface between jadal, dialogical logic, and Per Martin-Löf’s Constructive Type Theory (CTT). One of the epistemological results emerging from the present study is that the different forms of qiyās applied by Arsyad al-Banjari represent an innovative and sophisticated form of reasoning. The volume is divided into three parts that discuss the types of qiyās as well their dialectical and argumentative aspects, historical background and context of Banjar, and demonstrates how the theory of qiyās comes quite close to the contemporary model of parallel reasoning for sciences and mathematics developed by Paul Bartha (2010). This volume will be of interest to historians and philosophers in general, and logicians and historians of philosophy in particular.

Author : Francisco Gonzalez
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998-11-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780810115309

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Dialectic and Dialogue by Francisco Gonzalez Pdf

Dialectic and Dialogue seeks to define the method and the aims of Plato's dialectic in both the "inconclusive" dialogues and the dialogues that describe and practice a method of hypothesis. Departing from most treatments of Plato, Gonzalez argues that the philosophical knowledge at which dialectic aims is nonpropositional, practical, and reflexive. The result is a reassessment of how Plato understood the nature of philosophy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105072060077

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Telos by Anonim Pdf