Masochistic Nationalism

Author : Göran Adamson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000364866

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This book examines the nature of the conflict between right-wing populism and multiculturalism: the West’s defining conflict in the modern age. Drawing on a plethora of evidence from politics and culture in the West, it argues that these two positions, while antagonistic on the surface, are in fact similar: nationalism and multiculturalism are two names for one idea, the difference between them being simply a matter of geography; both outlooks have their roots in romanticism, sentimentalism, arrogance and a racist outlook. Rather than defend either approach, this volume urges us to consider the importance of roots and argues for greater consideration of what classical liberalism, socialism and feminism can do to break this impasse in our political thinking, with a concern for equality and concern for solidarity, regardless of cultural practice. As such it will appeal to social and political theorists with interests in political sociology and culture.

Author : Göran Adamson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000364873

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Masochistic Nationalism by Göran Adamson Pdf

This book examines the nature of the conflict between right-wing populism and multiculturalism: the West’s defining conflict in the modern age. Drawing on a plethora of evidence from politics and culture in the West, it argues that these two positions, while antagonistic on the surface, are in fact similar: nationalism and multiculturalism are two names for one idea, the difference between them being simply a matter of geography; both outlooks have their roots in romanticism, sentimentalism, arrogance and a racist outlook. Rather than defend either approach, this volume urges us to consider the importance of roots and argues for greater consideration of what classical liberalism, socialism and feminism can do to break this impasse in our political thinking, with a concern for equality and concern for solidarity, regardless of cultural practice. As such it will appeal to social and political theorists with interests in political sociology and culture.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780241339572

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Notes on Nationalism by George Orwell Pdf

'The general uncertainty as to what is really happening makes it easier to cling to lunatic beliefs' Biting and timeless reflections on patriotism, prejudice and power, from the man who wrote about his nation better than anyone. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

Author : Robert B. Pynsent
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015032423876

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Questions of Identity by Robert B. Pynsent Pdf

Questions of Identity treats four varieties of conceptions of individual and social identity. This interdisciplinary book describes and analyzes four trends of thought that have prevailed at one time in most of Europe over the last two centuries: the idea of the responsible citizen, the concept of patriotism or nationalism, the loss of self, and "suffering" as a formative element in the "national character." In a section devoted to Václav Havel, Pynsent treats Havel's notion of personal identity as expressed in personal responsibility. Another section concerning national identity looks in particular at two early nineteenth-century Slovaks who rejected Slovak nationalism and whose ideas ultimately had a profound impact on East European thinking on nationality up to the fall of communism. A third section deals with the beginnings of Modernism and the apparent disintegration of the self in West European and Czech writers. The final section addresses Vladimír Páral's expositions of the Czech cult of national martyrs since St. Wenceslas and the extent to which the "martyr" complex remains part of Czech self-identification.

Author : Raz Yosef
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0813533767

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Beyond Flesh by Raz Yosef Pdf

Zionism was not only a political and ideological program but also a sexual one. The liberation of Jews and creation of a new nation were closely intertwined with a longing for the redemption and normalization of the Jewish male body. That body had to be rescued from anti-Semitic, scientific-medical discourse associating it with disease, madness, degeneracy, sexual perversity, and femininityeven with homosexuality. The Zionist movement was intent on transforming the very nature of European Jewish masculinity as it had existed in the diaspora. Zionist/Israeli films expressed this desire through visual and narrative tropes, enforcing the image of the hypermasculine, colonialist-explorer and militaristic nation-builder, an image dependent on the homophobic repudiation of the "feminine" within men. The creation of a new heterosexual Jewish man was further intertwined with attitudes on the breeding of children, bodily hygiene, racial improvement, and Orientalist perspectiveswhich associated the East, and especially Eastern bodies, with unsanitary practices, plagues, disease, and sexual perversity. By stigmatizing Israels Eastern populations as agents of death and degeneration, Zionism created internal biologized enemies, against whom the Zionist society had to defend itself. In the name of securing the life and reproduction of the new Ashkenazi Jewry, Israeli society discriminated against both its internal enemies, the Palestinians, and its own citizens, the Mizrahim (Oriental Jews). Yosefs critique of the construction of masculinities and queerness in Israeli cinema and culture also serves as a model for the investigation of the role of male sexuality within national culture in general.

Author : Jing Tsu
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804751765

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Failure, Nationalism, and Literature by Jing Tsu Pdf

How often do we think of cultural humiliation and failure as strengths? Against prevailing views on what it means to enjoy power as individuals, cultures, or nations, this provocative book looks at the making of cultural and national identities in modern China as building success on failure. It reveals the exercise of sovereign power where we least expect it and shows how this is crucial to our understanding of a modern world of conflict, violence, passionate suffering, and cultural difference.

Author : Parag Khanna
Publisher : Random House (NY)
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015080851762

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The Second World by Parag Khanna Pdf

Khanna takes readers on a thrilling global tour, one that shows how America's dominant moment has been suddenly replaced by a geopolitical marketplace where the European Union and China compete with the United States to shape world order on their own terms.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951001887320K

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Dun and Bradstreet's International Markets by Anonim Pdf

Author : William McGowan
Publisher : Trans-Atlantic Publications
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000157375

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Only Man is Vile by William McGowan Pdf

A journalist's account of his extensive travels in Sri Lanka and portrayal of the Sri Lankans who carry on in the midst of conflict and strife between warring factions of Sinhalese Buddhists and Tamils.

Author : Richard Burton
Publisher : Interlink Books
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000086836297

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Prague by Richard Burton Pdf

In-depth cultural, historical and literary guide to the Czech capital where politics and the arts have always been intertwined.

Author : Anurādhā Rāẏa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Bengal (India)
ISBN : UOM:39015070108033

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Nationalism as Poetic Discourse in Nineteenth Century Bengal by Anurādhā Rāẏa Pdf

Author : David Savran
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1998-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400822461

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Taking It Like a Man by David Savran Pdf

From the Beat poets' incarnation of the "white Negro" through Iron John and the Men's Movement to the paranoid masculinity of Timothy McVeigh, white men in this country have increasingly imagined themselves as victims. In Taking It Like a Man, David Savran explores the social and sexual tensions that have helped to produce this phenomenon. Beginning with the 1940s, when many white, middle-class men moved into a rule-bound, corporate culture, Savran sifts through literary, cinematic, and journalistic examples that construct the white man as victimized, feminized, internally divided, and self-destructive. Savran considers how this widely perceived loss of male power has played itself out on both psychoanalytical and political levels as he draws upon various concepts of masochism--the most counterintuitive of the so-called perversions and the one most insistently associated with femininity. Savran begins with the writings and self-mythologization of Beat writers William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac. Although their independent, law-defying lifestyles seemed distinctively and ruggedly masculine, their literary art and personal relations with other men in fact allowed them to take up social and psychic positions associated with women and racial minorities. Arguing that this dissident masculinity has become increasingly central to U.S. culture, Savran analyzes the success of Sam Shepard as both writer and star, as well as the emergence of a new kind of action hero in movies like Rambo and Twister. He contends that with the limited success of the civil rights and women's movements, white masculinity has been reconfigured to reflect the fantasy that the white male has become the victim of the scant progress made by African Americans and women. Taking It Like a Man provocatively applies psychoanalysis to history. The willingness to inflict pain upon the self, for example, serves as a measure of men's attempts to take control of their situations and their ambiguous relationship to women. Discussing S/M and sexual liberation in their historical contexts enables Savran to consider not only the psychological function of masochism but also the broader issues of political and social power as experienced by both men and women.

Author : Laura Frost
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501724251

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Sex Drives by Laura Frost Pdf

Salvador Dalí's autobiography confesses that "Hitler turned me on in the highest," while Sylvia Plath maintains that "every woman adores a Fascist." Susan Sontag's famous observation that art reveals the seamier side of fascism in bondage, discipline, and sexual deviance would certainly appear to be true in modernist and postwar literary texts. How do we account for eroticized representations of fascism in anti-fascist literature, for sexual desire that escapes the bounds of politics?Laura Frost advances a compelling reading of works by D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Jean Genet, Georges Bataille, Marguerite Duras, and Sylvia Plath, paying special attention to undercurrents of enthrallment with tyrants, uniforms, and domination. She argues that the first generation of writers raised within psychoanalytic discourse found in fascism the libidinal unconscious through which to fantasize acts—including sadomasochism and homosexuality—not permitted in a democratic conception of sexuality without power relations. By delineating democracy's investment in a sexually transgressive fascism, an investment that persists to this day, Frost demonstrates how politics enters into fantasy. This provocative and closely-argued book offers both a fresh contribution to modernist literature and a theorization of fantasy.

Author : Yiannis Mylonas
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004409187

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The “Greek Crisis” in Europe by Yiannis Mylonas Pdf

The “Greek Crisis” in Europe: Race, Class and Politics, analyses the publicity of the so-called “Greek crisis” by deploying critical theory and cultural studies perspectives. The study discloses racial and class media biases, and their associations with austerity.

Author : Julia Simon
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791426378

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Mass Enlightenment by Julia Simon Pdf

Using the writings of the critical theorists of the Frankfurt School as a framework, this book uncovers the tensions and contradictions associated with the rise of capitalism as manifested in the writings of Rousseau and Diderot.