Insurrections Of The Mind

Author : Franklin Foer
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780062340382

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Insurrections of the Mind by Franklin Foer Pdf

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of The New Republic, an extraordinary anthology of essays culled from the archives of the acclaimed and influential magazine Founded by Herbert Croly and Walter Lippmann in 1914 to give voice to the growing progressive movement, The New Republic has charted and shaped the state of American liberalism, publishing many of the twentieth century’s most important thinkers. Insurrections of the Mind is an intellectual biography of this great American political tradition. In seventy essays, organized chronologically by decade, a stunning collection of writers explore the pivotal issues of modern America. Weighing in on the New Deal; America’s role in war; the rise and fall of communism; religion, race, and civil rights; the economy, terrorism, technology; and the women’s movement and gay rights, the essays in this outstanding volume speak to The New Republic’s breathtaking ambition and reach. Introducing each article, editor Franklin Foer provides colorful biographical sketches and amusing anecdotes from the magazine’s history. Bold and brilliant, Insurrections of the Mind is a celebration of a cultural, political, and intellectual institution that has stood the test of time. Contributors include: Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov, George Orwell, Graham Greene, Philip Roth, Pauline Kael, Michael Lewis, Zadie Smith, William Faulkner, Ralph Ellison, James Wolcott, D. H. Lawrence, John Maynard Keynes, Langston Hughes, John Updike, and Margaret Talbot.

Author : Gregory Nicholas Evon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000027581432

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Insurrections of the Mind, the Buddhist Silence of Han Yong-un by Gregory Nicholas Evon Pdf

Author : Rion Amilcar Scott
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780813168203

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Insurrections by Rion Amilcar Scott Pdf

A suicidal father looks to an older neighbor -- and the Cookie Monster -- for salvation and sanctuary as his life begins to unravel. A man seeking to save his estranged, drug-addicted brother from the city's underbelly confronts his own mortality. A chess match between a girl and her father turns into a master class about life, self-realization, and pride: "Now hold on little girl.... Chess is like real life. The white pieces go first so they got an advantage over the black pieces." These are just a few glimpses into the world of the residents of the fictional town of Cross River, Maryland, a largely black settlement founded in 1807 after the only successful slave revolt in the United States. Raw, edgy, and unrelenting yet infused with forgiveness, redemption, and humor, the stories in this collection explore characters suffering the quiet tragedies of everyday life and fighting for survival. In Insurrections, Rion Amilcar Scott's lyrical prose authentically portrays individuals growing up and growing old in an African American community. Writing with a delivery and dialect that are intense and unapologetically current, Scott presents characters who dare to make their own choices -- choices of kindness or cruelty -- in the depths of darkness and hopelessness. Although Cross River's residents may be halted or deterred in their search for fulfillment, their spirits remain resilient -- always evolving and constantly moving.

Author : Kurt Schock
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780816641925

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Unarmed Insurrections by Kurt Schock Pdf

In the last two decades of the twentieth century, a wave of "people power" movements erupted throughout the nondemocratic world. In South Africa, the Philippines, Nepal, Thailand, Burma (Myanmar), China, and elsewhere, mass protest demonstrations, strikes, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other nonviolent actions were brought to bear on a rigid political status quo. Kurt Schock compares the successes of the antiapartheid movement in South Africa, the people power movement in the Philippines, the pro-democracy movement in Nepal, and the antimilitary movement in Thailand with the failures of the pro-democracy movement in China and the anti-regime challenge in Burma. Schock develops a synthetic framework that allows him to identify which characteristics increase the resilience of a challenge to state repression, and which aspects of a state's relations can he exploited by such a challenge. By looking at how these methods of protest promoted regime change in some countries but not in others, this book provides rare insight into the often overlooked and little understood power of nonviolent action.

Author : William Styron
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781936317097

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The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron Pdf

The “magnificent” Pulitzer Prize–winning and #1 New York Times–bestselling novel about the preacher who led America’s bloodiest slave revolt (The New York Times). The Confessions of Nat Turner is William Styron’s complex and richly drawn imagining of Nat Turner, the leader of the 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia that led to the deaths of almost sixty men, women, and children. Published at the height of the civil rights movement, the novel draws upon the historical Nat Turner’s confession to his attorney, made as he awaited execution in a Virginia jail. This powerful narrative, steeped in the brutal and tragic history of American slavery, reveals a Turner who is neither a hero nor a demon, but rather a man driven to exact vengeance for the centuries of injustice inflicted upon his people. Nat Turner is a galvanizing portrayal of the crushing institution of slavery, and Styron’s deeply layered characterization is a stunning rendering of one man’s violent struggle against oppression. This ebook features a new illustrated biography of William Styron, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Styron family and the Duke University Archives.

Author : Laurent Murawiec
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139474627

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The Mind of Jihad by Laurent Murawiec Pdf

This book examines contemporary jihad as a cult of violence and power. All jihadi groups, whether Shiite or Sunni, Arab or not, are characterized by a similar bloodlust. Murawiec characterizes this belief structure as identical to that of Europe's medieval millenarians and apocalyptics, arguing that both jihadis and their European cousins shared in a Gnostic ideology: a God-given mission endowed the Elect with supernatural powers and placed them above the common law of mankind. Although the ideology of jihad is essentially Islamic, Murawiec traces the political technologies used by modern jihad to the Bolsheviks. Their doctrines of terror as a system of rule were appropriated by radical Islam through multiple lines of communication. This book brings history, anthropology, and theology to bear to understand the mind of jihad that has declared war on the West and the world.

Author : Joseph Cephas Carroll
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780486168173

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Slave Insurrections in the United States, 1800-1865 by Joseph Cephas Carroll Pdf

Fully documented work describes early insurrectionary movements, rebellions at sea, and the Negro's role in the American Revolution. Discussed in detail are Denmark Vesey's 1822 insurrection, Nat Turner's 1831 rebellion, and other uprisings.

Author : Thomas Garrard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018994289

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Edward Colston, the Philanthropist, His Life and Times by Thomas Garrard Pdf

Author : Joshua Coffin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Enslaved persons
ISBN : UOM:39015014740230

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An Account of Some of the Principal Slave Insurrections by Joshua Coffin Pdf

Author : Diane Miller Sommerville
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469643571

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Aberration of Mind by Diane Miller Sommerville Pdf

More than 150 years after its end, we still struggle to understand the full extent of the human toll of the Civil War and the psychological crisis it created. In Aberration of Mind, Diane Miller Sommerville offers the first book-length treatment of suicide in the South during the Civil War era, giving us insight into both white and black communities, Confederate soldiers and their families, as well as the enslaved and newly freed. With a thorough examination of the dynamics of both racial and gendered dimensions of psychological distress, Sommerville reveals how the suffering experienced by Southerners living in a war zone generated trauma that, in extreme cases, led some Southerners to contemplate or act on suicidal thoughts. Sommerville recovers previously hidden stories of individuals exhibiting suicidal activity or aberrant psychological behavior she links to the war and its aftermath. This work adds crucial nuance to our understanding of how personal suffering shaped the way southerners viewed themselves in the Civil War era and underscores the full human costs of war.

Author : Toshio Yokoyama
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349083725

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Japan in the Victorian Mind by Toshio Yokoyama Pdf

Author : Andrea Greenbaum
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001-02-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0791449238

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Insurrections by Andrea Greenbaum Pdf

Explores theoretical and pedagogical approaches to "resistance," showing how this concept plays out in the college writing classroom.

Author : Henry A. Giroux
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350350830

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Insurrections by Henry A. Giroux Pdf

With this book Henry A. Giroux argues that insurrection has become a dominant motif for the USA and other countries torn between the promises and ideals of democracy and an emergent authoritarianism. He argues that education is central to the idea of insurrection, showing how on the one hand it contributes to an insurrectional authoritarianism, wedded to a fascist legacy that calls for racial purity, militarism, ultra-nationalism, and state terrorism. On the other hand he presents the idea of insurrectional democracy which has a long legacy in the battle for racial justice, economic equality, and a politics of inclusion. The book explores how both positions are motivated by specific visions, values, and particular understandings of education and agency. He also shows how powerful images, social media, and the internet are in merging political education, power, and cultural politics. Giroux makes an impassioned call for an insurrectional democracy that makes education central to politics and produces an anti-capitalist consciousness as the basis for developing a mass movement in defence of a radical democracy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1902593340

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The Orgasms of History by Anonim Pdf

Every now and then, things explode. Riots, uprisings, revolutions, new and bizarre social groups spring up seemingly from nowhere. Our standard histories tend to treat these as oddities, if treated at all, or as misguided responses to hard times, limited by lack of responsible leadership. Here's a People's History to puncture that balloon. From the Cynics & Spartacus through the Levelers, Diggers & Ranters to the Revolution of the Carnation, the San Francisco Diggers, Red Guard of Shenwulian, Brethren of the Free Spirit, Guevara, the Provos & the Metropolitan Indians. Nearly 100 episodes of revolt and utopia which popped up without a plan or a leader from the ancient Greeks to the present. Fremion lives in Paris where he participated in the May '68 orgasm.

Author : Arvind-Pal S. Mandair
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231147248

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Religion and the Specter of the West by Arvind-Pal S. Mandair Pdf

Arguing that intellectual movements, such as deconstruction, postsecular theory, and political theology, have different implications for cultures and societies that live with the debilitating effects of past imperialisms, Arvind Mandair unsettles the politics of knowledge construction in which the category of "religion" continues to be central. Through a case study of Sikhism, he launches an extended critique of religion as a cultural universal. At the same time, he presents a portrait of how certain aspects of Sikh tradition were reinvented as "religion" during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. India's imperial elite subtly recast Sikh tradition as a sui generis religion, which robbed its teachings of their political force. In turn, Sikhs began to define themselves as a "nation" and a "world religion" that was separate from, but parallel to, the rise of the Indian state and global Hinduism. Rather than investigate these processes in isolation from Europe, Mandair shifts the focus closer to the political history of ideas, thereby recovering part of Europe's repressed colonial memory. Mandair rethinks the intersection of religion and the secular in discourses such as history of religions, postcolonial theory, and recent continental philosophy. Though seemingly unconnected, these discourses are shown to be linked to a philosophy of "generalized translation" that emerged as a key conceptual matrix in the colonial encounter between India and the West. In this riveting study, Mandair demonstrates how this philosophy of translation continues to influence the repetitions of religion and identity politics in the lives of South Asians, and the way the academy, state, and media have analyzed such phenomena.