Invoking Hope

Author : Phillip E. Wegner
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781452962832

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Invoking Hope by Phillip E. Wegner Pdf

An appeal for the importance of theory, utopia, and close consideration of our contemporary dark times What does any particular theory allow us to do? What is the value of doing so? And who benefits? In Invoking Hope, Phillip E. Wegner argues for the undiminished importance of the practices of theory, utopia, and a deep and critical reading of our current situation of what Bertolt Brecht refers to as finsteren Zeiten, or dark times. Invoking Hope was written in response to three events that occurred in 2016: the five hundredth anniversary of the publication of Thomas More’s Utopia; the one hundredth anniversary of the founding text in theory, Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics; and the rise of the right-wing populism that culminated in the election of Donald Trump. Wegner offers original readings of major interventions in theory alongside dazzling utopian imaginaries developed from classical Greece to our global present—from Theodor Adorno, Ernst Bloch, Alain Badiou, Jacques Derrida, Fredric Jameson, Sarah Ahmed, Susan Buck-Morss, and Jacques Lacan to such works as Plato’s Republic, W. E. B. Du Bois’s John Brown, Isak Dinesen’s “Babette’s Feast,” Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2312, and more. Wegner comments on an expansive array of modernist and contemporary literature, film, theory, and popular culture. With Invoking Hope, Wegner provides an innovative lens for considering the rise of right-wing populism and the current crisis in democracy. He discusses challenges in the humanities and higher education and develops strategies of creative critical reading and hope against the grain of current trends in scholarship.

Author : Phillip E. Wegner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Hope
ISBN : 1517908868

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Invoking Hope by Phillip E. Wegner Pdf

"Invoking Hope: Reading Theory and Utopia in Dark Times argues for the undiminished importance of the practices of theory, utopia, and deep, close, and even critical reading in our current situation of what Brecht refers to as finsteren Zeiten, dark times. Written during 2016, an extraordinarily consequential year, Wegner reflects on the question: what does any particular theory allow us to do, what is the value of so doing, and, most importantly, who benefits?"--

Author : Nwachukwu Mani Okonkwo
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781456781088

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Calling Hope by Nwachukwu Mani Okonkwo Pdf

hope took me down this path , you will find the lost coin the end to pains of life that coin is you.

Author : Cathleen Beachboard
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781071853863

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The School of Hope by Cathleen Beachboard Pdf

Discover how to improve happiness, resilience, and achievement using the science of hope Based on research around the psychological science of hope, this guidebook provides strategies educators and school leaders can use daily to help students feel secure, build relationships, and improve academic outcomes. Included are actions and interventions that can be woven into classrooms and schools to foster mental wellness and happiness, such as Classroom materials, tools, reproducibles, and videos Scientific resources to quickly assess and monitor hope Simple plans of action to improve hope, engagement, and motivation Vignettes from classrooms and the author’s own experiences with children who have experienced extreme trauma Featuring illustrations by Brian Bicknell.

Author : Tom Whyman
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781913462260

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Infinitely Full of Hope by Tom Whyman Pdf

A philosophical memoir about becoming a father in an increasingly terrible world – can I hope the child growing in my partner's womb will have a good-enough life? For Kant, philosophy boiled down to three key questions: “What can I know?”, “What ought I do?”, and “What can I hope for?” In philosophy departments, that third question has largely been neglected at the expense of the first two – even though it is crucial for understanding why anyone might ask them in the first place. In Infinitely Full of Hope, as he prepares to become a father for the first time, the philosopher Tom Whyman attempts to answer Kant’s third question, trying to make sense of it in the context of a world that increasingly seems like it is on the verge of collapse. Part memoir, part theory, and part reflection on fatherhood, Infinitely Full of Hope asks how we can cling to hope in a world marked by crisis and disaster.

Author : Paul Tranter
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781794868212

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The Omniscience Principle by Paul Tranter Pdf

Author : C.T. Funkhouser
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441115911

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New Directions in Digital Poetry by C.T. Funkhouser Pdf

Examines a range of innovative practices and processes in digital poetry published on the global computer network during the past decade.

Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781608465798

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Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit Pdf

“[A] landmark book . . . Solnit illustrates how the uprisings that begin on the streets can upend the status quo and topple authoritarian regimes” (Vice). A book as powerful and influential as Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me, her Hope in the Dark was written to counter the despair of activists at a moment when they were focused on their losses and had turned their back to the victories behind them—and the unimaginable changes soon to come. In it, she makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argues that radicals have a long, neglected history of transformative victories, that the positive consequences of our acts are not always immediately seen, directly knowable, or even measurable, and that pessimism and despair rest on an unwarranted confidence about what is going to happen next. Now, with a moving new introduction explaining how the book came about and a new afterword that helps teach us how to hope and act in our unnerving world, she brings a new illumination to the darkness of our times in an unforgettable new edition of this classic book. “One of the best books of the 21st century.” —The Guardian “No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that’s marked this new millennium.” —Bill McKibben, New York Times–bestselling author of Falter “An elegant reminder that activist victories are easily forgotten, and that they often come in extremely unexpected, roundabout ways.” —The New Yorker

Author : Pat Watkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 194018228X

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Climate Justice by Pat Watkins Pdf

Author : Robert T. Tally Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501375866

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The Fiction of Dread by Robert T. Tally Jr. Pdf

A history and examination of dystopia and angst in popular culture that speaks to our current climate of dread. At the dawn of the 20th century, a wide-ranging utopianism dominated popular and intellectual cultures throughout Europe and America. However, in the aftermathof the World Wars, with such canonical examples as Brave New World and Nineteen-Eighty-Four, dystopia emerged as a dominant genre, in literature and in social thought. The continuing presence and eventual dominance of dystopian themes in popular culture-e.g., dismal authoritarian future states, sinister global conspiracies, post-apocalyptic landscapes, a proliferation of horrific monsters, and end-of-the-world fantasies-have confirmed the degree to which the 21st is also a dystopian century. Drawing on literature as varied as H.G. Wells's The Time Machine, Neil Gaiman's American Gods, and Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games, and on TV and film such as The Walking Dead, Black Mirror, and The Last of Us, Robert T. Tally Jr. explores the landscape of angst created by the monstrous accumulation of dystopian material. The Fiction of Dread provides an innovative reading of contemporary culture and offers an alternative vision for critical theory and practice at a moment when, as has been famously observed, it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.

Author : Gagan Kainth
Publisher : Higrade Publishers
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Picmoney's Money Empire Guide To Learn The Secrets, How To Make Money Online By Work At Home Business by Gagan Kainth Pdf

"Now Your All Dreams Will Going To Become Reality, with This Easy To Follow System To MAKE MONEY On Internet Instantly...The Amazing MONEY Making Secrets of A 28 Year Old Internet Millionaire Who Breaks His 6 Years Silence On How He's Made Millions on The Internet"

Author : Douglas Biow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108472050

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Vasari's Words by Douglas Biow Pdf

Explores through keywords how Vasari's Lives is designed to address a variety of compelling, culturally determined ideas.

Author : A. Putz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137027665

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The Celtic Revival in Shakespeare's Wake by A. Putz Pdf

This book reconsiders the Celtic Revival by examining appropriations of Shakespeare, using close readings of works by Arnold, Dowden, Yeats and Joyce to reveal the pernicious manner in which the discourse of Anglo-Irish cultural politics informed the critical paradigms that mediated the reading of Shakespeare in Ireland for a generation.

Author : Paul A. Bové
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674249875

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Love’s Shadow by Paul A. Bové Pdf

A case for literary critics and other humanists to stop wallowing in their aestheticized helplessness and instead turn to poetry, comedy, and love. Literary criticism is an agent of despair, and its poster child is Walter Benjamin. Critics have spent decades stewing in his melancholy. What if, instead, we dared to love poetry, to choose comedy over Hamlet’s tragedy, or to pursue romance over Benjamin’s suicide on the edge of France, of Europe, and of civilization itself? Paul A. Bové challenges young lit critters to throw away their shades and let the sun shine in. Love’s Shadow is his three-step manifesto for a new literary criticism that risks sentimentality and melodrama and eschews self-consciousness. The first step is to choose poetry. There has been since the time of Plato a battle between philosophy and poetry. Philosophy has championed misogyny, while poetry has championed women, like Shakespeare’s Rosalind. Philosophy is ever so stringent; try instead the sober cheerfulness of Wallace Stevens. Bové’s second step is to choose the essay. He praises Benjamin’s great friend and sometime antagonist Theodor Adorno, who gloried in writing essays, not dissertations and treatises. The third step is to choose love. If you want a Baroque hero, make that hero Rembrandt, who brought lovers to life in his paintings. Putting aside passivity and cynicism would amount to a revolution in literary studies. Bové seeks nothing less, and he has a program for achieving it.

Author : Gabriele Lucius-Hoene,Christine Holmberg,Thorsten Meyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780198806660

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Illness Narratives in Practice by Gabriele Lucius-Hoene,Christine Holmberg,Thorsten Meyer Pdf

Comprehensive overview of illness narratives in practice, divided into eight distinct parts. The clear layout allows the readers to focus on the area essential to them and get a comprehensive overview and reflective stance of narratives in that field.