Liquid Evil

Author : Zygmunt Bauman,Leonidas Donskis
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509508150

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Liquid Evil by Zygmunt Bauman,Leonidas Donskis Pdf

There is nothing new about evil; it has been with us since time immemorial. But there is something new about the kind of evil that characterizes our contemporary liquid-modern world. The evil that characterized earlier forms of solid modernity was concentrated in the hands of states claiming monopolies on the means of coercion and using the means at their disposal to pursue their ends ends that were at times horrifically brutal and barbaric. In our contemporary liquid-modern societies, by contrast, evil has become altogether more pervasive and at the same time less visible. Liquid evil hides in the seams of the canvass woven daily by the liquid-modern mode of human interaction and commerce, conceals itself in the very tissue of human cohabitation and in the course of its routine and day-to-day reproduction. Evil lurks in the countless black holes of a thoroughly deregulated and privatized social space in which cutthroat competition and mutual estrangement have replaced cooperation and solidarity, while forceful individualization erodes the adhesive power of inter-human bonds. In its present form evil is hard to spot, unmask and resist. It seduces us by its ordinariness and then jumps out without warning, striking seemingly at random. The result is a social world that is comparable to a minefield: we know it is full of explosives and that explosions will happen sooner or later but we have no idea when and where they will occur. In this new book, the sequel to their acclaimed work Moral Blindness Zygmunt Bauman and Leonidas Donskis guide the reader through this new terrain in which evil has become both more ordinary and more insidious, threatening to strip humanity of its dreams, alternative projects and powers of dissent at the very time when they are needed most.

Author : Tüysüz, Dilan
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781799847793

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International Perspectives on Rethinking Evil in Film and Television by Tüysüz, Dilan Pdf

Aestheticization of evil is a frequently used formula in cinema and television. However, the representation of evil as an aesthetic object pushes it out of morality. Moral judgments can be pushed aside when evil is aestheticized in movies or TV series because there is no real victim. Thus, situations such as murder or war can become a source of aesthetic pleasure. Narratives in cinema and television can sometimes be based on a simple good-evil dichotomy and sometimes they can be based on individual or social experiences of evil and follow a more complicated method. Despite the various ways evil is depicted, it is a moral framework in film and television that must be researched to study the implications of aestheticized evil on human nature and society. International Perspectives on Rethinking Evil in Film and Television examines the changing representations of evil on screen in the context of the commonness, normalization, aestheticization, marginalization, legitimization, or popularity of evil. The chapters provide an international perspective of the representations of evil through an exploration of the evil tales or villains in cinema and television. Through looking at these programs, this book highlights topics such as the philosophy of good and evil, the portrayal of heroes and villains, the appeal of evil, and evil’s correspondence with gender and violence. This book is ideal for sociologists, professionals, researchers and students working or studying in the field of cinema and television and practitioners, academicians, and anyone interested in the portrayal and aestheticization of evil in international film and television.

Author : Carlo Bordoni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351981125

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State of Fear in a Liquid World by Carlo Bordoni Pdf

This book examines the insecurity that besets our lives in the contemporary world, whether as a result of natural disasters, human negligence or, more recently, threats to security in the form of terrorist activity, which itself gives rise to new fears: fear of travel, agoraphobia, distrust of others and existential anxieties. Revealing the connection between the two components of our insecurity, as reflecting on and conditioning human existence, and producing social problems, the author brings this to bear on the notion of security that modernity had sought to guarantee to its citizens – a notion that has slowly crumbled with the crisis of modernity and with the emergence of the "liquid" world. Now insecurity is endemic and has so firmly become part of us as to be accepted as an unpleasant aspect of normality that we must live with. However, the necessity of living in a risk society in which security has emerged as important does nothing to dispel the fear that accompanies us at all times. An engagement with the thought of Bauman that explores fear as an accompaniment to the end of modernity and its assurances, State of Fear in a Liquid World offers developments of the thesis of liquid modernity and will appeal to scholars and students of sociology, social theory and politics with interests in individualisation, social change and (in)security.

Author : William C. Olsen,Thomas J. Csordas
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781789202144

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Engaging Evil by William C. Olsen,Thomas J. Csordas Pdf

Anthropologists have expressed wariness about the concept of evil even in discussions of morality and ethics, in part because the concept carries its own cultural baggage and theological implications in Euro-American societies. Addressing the problem of evil as a distinctly human phenomenon and a category of ethnographic analysis, this volume shows the usefulness of engaging evil as a descriptor of empirical reality where concepts such as violence, criminality, and hatred fall short of capturing the darkest side of human existence.

Author : Henry H. Sun,Jingyan Meng,Kaijing Yan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781527560444

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The Book of Chinese Medicine, Volume 1 by Henry H. Sun,Jingyan Meng,Kaijing Yan Pdf

This volume provides both an overview and detailed concepts of the history of Chinese medicine. It considers its evolution throughout history, from the Pre-Qin dynasties until the present day, and provides insights into the theory of body systems and how balance creates health in the human body. The book also explicates the theory of viscera and the concepts of Qi, meridian, and collateral, and details the diagnosis of diseases in Chinese medicine.

Author : Jack Palmer,Dariusz Brzeziński
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000568271

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Revisiting Modernity and the Holocaust by Jack Palmer,Dariusz Brzeziński Pdf

Zygmunt Bauman’s Modernity and the Holocaust is a decisive text of intellectual reflection after Auschwitz, in which Bauman rejected the idea that the Holocaust represented the polar opposite of modernity and saw it instead as its dark potentiality. Bringing together leading scholars from across disciplines, this volume offers the first set of focused and critical commentaries on this classic work of social theory, evaluating its ongoing contribution to scholarship in the social sciences and humanities. Addressing the core messages of Modernity and the Holocaust that continue to sound amidst the convulsions of the present, the chapters situate Bauman’s volume in the social, cultural and academic context of its genesis, and considers its role in the complex processes of Holocaust memorialisation. Offering extensions of Bauman’s thesis to lesser-known and undertheorised events of mass violence, and also considering the significance of Janina Bauman’s writings in their own right, this volume will appeal to scholars of sociology, intellectual history, Holocaust and genocide studies, moral philosophy, memory studies and cultural theory.

Author : Lawerence Yates
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781412038560

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Liquid Geography by Lawerence Yates Pdf

The editors of The New Quarterly, when first reviewing my story submissions, concluded, rightly or wrongly, that my work fell into the category of 'Magic Realism'. 'Magic Realism', as one editor proceeded to define, was the "seamless blending of the ineffable and the concrete". The 'ineffable' or 'other reality' part of this definition is at the core of many of the stories in this collection. The stories in Liquid Geography could be categorized as 'backyard fiction', or even 'transformative realism'. They all, more or less, take place in and around a home environment and conclude by literally 'spilling outside'; differences between what is 'real' and is 'not real', what is present, past or future, disintegrate and blur away. The characters who inhabit or appear in these stories, are invariably destined, in one way or another, to experience glimpses and encounters with heightened or altered moments of cognition. They are not necessarily characters who are spiritually evolved or wise in any sense; they are not characters who have consciously embarked upon a path of higher understanding. They are generally very ordinary individuals leading seemingly ordinary lives. What they discover, however, is that reality as they believe they know it, is a slippery path where the 'unreal', 'super-real' or even 'magical' may (and can) present itself at any given moment. Whether the characters in question have initiated this shift through some psychic turmoil or trauma that alters his or her patterns of perception, or whether there is a hidden 'other reality' containing different truths, becomes merely a matter of definition, and therefore moot.

Author : Marianne Hirsch,Leo Spitzer
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295746555

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School Photos in Liquid Time by Marianne Hirsch,Leo Spitzer Pdf

From clandestine images of Jewish children isolated in Nazi ghettos and Japanese American children incarcerated in camps to images of Native children removed to North American boarding schools, classroom photographs of schoolchildren are pervasive even in repressive historical and political contexts. School Photos in Liquid Time offers a closer look at this genre of vernacular photography, tracing how photography advances ideologies of social assimilation as well as those of hierarchy and exclusion. In Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer’s deft analysis, school photographs reveal connections between the histories of persecuted subjects in different national and imperial centers. Exploring what this ubiquitous and mundane but understudied genre tells us about domination as well as resistance, the authors examine school photos as documents of social life and agents of transformation. They place them in dialogue with works by contemporary artists who reframe, remediate, and elucidate them. Ambitious yet accessible, School Photos in Liquid Time presents school photography as a new access point into institutions of power, revealing the capacity of past and present actors to disrupt and reinvent them.

Author : Adriana Levisky
Publisher : Editora Senac São Paulo
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9786555367690

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Urban poliphony by Adriana Levisky Pdf

In Urban Polyphony: Architectures, Urbanisms, and Meditations, the author draws a panorama of the more than eighteen years of the Levisky Arquitetos | Estratégia Urbana architecture firm, discussing and showing the projects that they have been developing, such as the Diversity Boulevard, the expansion project of Albert Einstein Hospital, the Open Museum of Colônia's Crater, requalification of Jardim Colombo neighborhood, Colégio Santa Cruz, Senac São Miguel Unit, City Caxingui neighborhood, Victor Civita Square and Jockey Club São Paulo. Throughout this book, Adriana Levisky shares with the reader her impressions about the role of the architect and urban planner as being proactive and a mediator, considering aspects that go beyond the regional dynamics from places, discussing social, economic, legal, cultural, geographical, and political matters, highlighting the importance of this active voice to propose projects that can provide a better quality of life in cities. With this book launch, Senac São Paulo aims to instill the contemplation and propel new solutions for the urban environment from the view and experience of someone who works daily with architecture and urbanism in a metropolis.

Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1788 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C2539677

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Specifications and Drawings of Patents Issued from the U.S. Patent Office by United States. Patent Office Pdf

Author : Gerhard Hubert Balg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : English language
ISBN : UOM:39015012155043

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A Comparative Glossary of the Gothic Language with Especial Reference to English and German by Gerhard Hubert Balg Pdf

Author : Louise Warwick-Booth
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781529785838

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Social Inequality by Louise Warwick-Booth Pdf

This book provides up to date discussion and evidence about inequalities, social divisions and stratification. Its innovative style engages readers and encourages them to reflect upon the many dimensions of social inequality. This updated third edition contains: Three new chapters on employment, sexualities and migration Updated coverage of intersectionality throughout Thirteen new in-depth case studies (one per chapter) This is a must read as a key introductory companion for students who wish to understand the dynamics of contemporary social inequality. Louise Warwick-Booth is a Reader at the School of Health, Leeds Beckett University

Author : Martin V. Riccardo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : UVA:X004306014

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Liquid Dreams of Vampires by Martin V. Riccardo Pdf

Why are we so enthralled by the vampire? This book descends into the murky shadows of the subconscious to present dreams, nightmares and fantasies that reveal the true power of the vampire's image. From the enticement of the vampire's kiss to the allure of immortality, vampires are the dark rebels, the outsiders and the opponents of established order.

Author : Marvin Oxenham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135080235

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Higher Education in Liquid Modernity by Marvin Oxenham Pdf

Based in sociologist Zygmunt Bauman’s theory of liquid modernity, this volume describes and critiques key aspects and practices of liquid education--education as market-driven consumption, short life span of useful knowledge, overabundance of information--through a systematic comparison with ancient Greek paideia and medieval university education, producing a sweeping analysis of the history and philosophy ofeducation for the purpose of understanding current higher education, positing a more holisitic alternative model in which students are embedded in a learning commutity that is itself embedded in a larger society. If liquid modernity has left a vacuum where, according to Bauman, the pilot’s cabin is empty, this volume argues that no structure is better positioned to fill this vacuum than the university and outlines a renewed vision of social transformation through higher education.

Author : Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745657899

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Liquid Life by Zygmunt Bauman Pdf

'Liquid life’ is the kind of life commonly lived in our contemporary, liquid-modern society. Liquid life cannot stay on course, as liquid-modern society cannot keep its shape for long. Liquid life is a precarious life, lived under conditions of constant uncertainty. The most acute and stubborn worries that haunt this liquid life are the fears of being caught napping, of failing to catch up with fast moving events, of overlooking the ‘use by’ dates and being saddled with worthless possessions, of missing the moment calling for a change of tack and being left behind. Liquid life is also shot through by a contradiction: it ought to be a (possibly unending) series of new beginnings, yet precisely for that reason it is full of worries about swift and painless endings, without which new beginnings would be unthinkable. Among the arts of liquid-modern living and the skills needed to practice them, getting rid of things takes precedence over their acquisition. This and other challenges of life in a liquid-modern society are traced and unravelled in the successive chapters of this new book by one of the most brilliant and original social thinkers of our time.