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Author : Julia Simon
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791426378
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.
Author : Julia Simon
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1995-08-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438420066
Mass Enlightenment uncovers the tensions and contradictions associated with the rise of capitalism and mass culture as they were already making themselves felt during the second half of the eighteenth century and shows that the works of Rousseau and Diderot display a manifest awareness of the negative side of "enlightenment" and "progress." Simon explores the themes of individual freedom and moral autonomy, the growth of a consumer market, alienated social relations, the split between the public and private spheres, and the appearance of commodification as they are articulated in the writings of Rousseau and Diderot. Her careful readings of these Enlightenment theorists expose concerns over the crisis tendencies associated with capitalism and a consumer market similar to those diagnosed by the writers of the Frankfurt School.
Author : Max Horkheimer,Theodor W. Adorno
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Antisemitism
ISBN : UOM:39015049653473
A major study of modern culture, Dialectic of Enlightenment for many years led an underground existence among the homeless Left of the German Federal Republic until its definitive publication in West Germany in 1969. Originally composed by its two distinguished authors during their Californian exile in 1944, the book can stand as a monument of classic German progressive social theory in the twentieth century.>
Author : Stephen Eric Bronner
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231126090
In 1947 Horkheimer and Adorno connected the Enlightenment with totalitarianism. Since when the Left has drifted into the language and imagery of the European Counter-Enlightenment, the movement against 1776 and 1789. Bronner sets out to reclaim the heritage of progressive politics.
Author : Morton Schoolman
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781478009054
In A Democratic Enlightenment Morton Schoolman proposes aesthetic education through film as a way to redress the political violence inflicted on difference that society constructs as its racialized, gendered, Semitic, and sexualized other. Drawing on Voltaire, Diderot, and Schiller, Schoolman reconstructs the genealogical history of what he calls the reconciliation image—a visual model of a democratic ideal of reconciliation he then theorizes through Whitman's prose and poetry and Adorno's aesthetic theory. Analyzing The Help (2011) and Gentleman's Agreement (1947), Schoolman shows how film produces a more advanced image of reconciliation than those originally created by modernist artworks. Each film depicts violence toward racial and ethnic difference while also displaying a reconciliation image that aesthetically educates the public about how the violence of constructing difference as otherness can be overcome. Mounting a democratic enlightenment, the reconciliation image in film illuminates a possible politics for challenging the rise of nationalism's violence toward differences in all their diversity.
Author : Vera Schwarcz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 0520050274
It is widely accepted, both inside China and in the West, that contemporary Chinese history begins with the May Fourth Movement. Vera Schwarcz's imaginative new study provides China scholars and historians with an analysis of what makes that event a turning point in the intellectual, spiritual, cultural and political life of twentieth-century China.
Author : Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351901871
Air-pumps, electrical machines, colliding ivory balls, coloured sparks, mechanical planetariums, magic mirrors, hot-air balloons - these are just a sample of the devices displayed in public demonstrations of science in the eighteenth century. Public and private demonstrations of natural philosophy in Europe then differed vastly from today's unadorned and anonymous laboratory experiments. Science was cultivated for a variety of purposes in many different places; scientific instruments were built and used for investigative and didactic experiments as well as for entertainment and popular shows. Between the culture of curiosities which characterized the seventeenth century and the distinction between academic and popular science that gradually emerged in the nineteenth, the eighteenth century was a period when scientific activities took place in a variety of sites, ranging from academies, and learned societies to salons and popular fairs, shops and streets. This collection of case studies describing public demonstrations in Britain, Germany, Italy and France exemplifies the wide variety of settings for scientific activities in the European Enlightenment. Filled with sparks and smells, the essays raise broader issues about the ways in which modern science established its legitimacy and social acceptability. They point to two major features of the cultures of science in the eighteenth-century: entertainment and utility. Experimental demonstrations were attended by apothecaries and craftsmen for vocational purposes. At the same time, they had to fit in with the taste of both polite society and market culture. Public demonstrations were a favourite entertainment for ladies and gentlemen and a profitable activity for instrument makers and booksellers.
Author : Zeev Sternhell
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300135541
In this masterful work of historical scholarship, Zeev Sternhell, an internationally renowned Israeli political scientist and historian, presents a controversial new view of the fall of democracy and the rise of radical nationalism in the twentieth century. Sternhell locates their origins in the eighteenth century with the advent of the Anti-Enlightenment, far earlier than most historians. The thinkers belonging to the Anti-Enlightenment (a movement originally identified by Friederich Nietzsche) represent a perspective that is antirational and that rejects the principles of natural law and the rights of man. Sternhell asserts that the Anti-Enlightenment was a development separate from the Enlightenment and sees the two traditions as evolving parallel to one another over time. He contends that J. G. Herder and Edmund Burke are among the real founders of the Anti-Enlightenment and shows how that school undermined the very foundations of modern liberalism, finally contributing to the development of fascism that culminated in the European catastrophes of the twentieth century.
Author : Lee Maddaford
Publisher : Author House
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781491883877
A light from the shadows, light at the end of the tunnel, and finally shepherd to the light. I never said i was Jesus though. He's only just been born. With thanks to most of my family and friends, and to many great artists who planted seeds to later take root. They took root in me. Join Psi and Gabriel as well as many others as they explore and philosophise on life and find true answers. How unresolved sub conscious issues manifest themselves physically and mentally in our everyday lives and in the world around us. Everyone has been kept in the Dark for so long. Something needs to be done. Oh it seems so obvious now. So let me take you on a magical journey. Liberartion! 2 books in one. Enjoy!
Author : Sonja Lavaert,Winfried Schröder
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004332089
The Dutch Legacy investigates the political philosophy and philosophy of religion of Franciscus van den Enden, Lodewijk Meyer, the brothers De la Court, and Adriaan Koerbagh in order to assess their contributions to the development of radical movements in the Enlightenment.
Author : Clifford Siskin,William Warner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226761466
Debates about the nature of the Enlightenment date to the eighteenth century, when Imanual Kant himself addressed the question, “What is Enlightenment?” The contributors to this ambitious book offer a paradigm-shifting answer to that now-famous query: Enlightenment is an event in the history of mediation. Enlightenment, they argue, needs to be engaged within the newly broad sense of mediation introduced here—not only oral, visual, written, and printed media, but everything that intervenes, enables, supplements, or is simply in between. With essays addressing infrastructure and genres, associational practices and protocols, this volume establishes mediation as the condition of possibility for enlightenment. In so doing, it not only answers Kant’s query; it also poses its own broader question: how would foregrounding mediation change the kinds and areas of inquiry in our own epoch? This Is Enlightenment is a landmark volumewith the polemical force and archival depth to start a conversation that extends across the disciplines that the Enlightenment itself first configured.
Author : Jonathan I. Israel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191058240
The Enlightenment that Failed explores the growing rift between those Enlightenment trends and initiatives that appealed exclusively to elites and those aspiring to enlighten all of society by raising mankind's awareness, freedoms, and educational level generally. Jonathan I. Israel explains why the democratic and radical secularizing tendency of the Western Enlightenment, after gaining some notable successes during the revolutionary era (1775-1820) in numerous countries, especially in Europe, North America, and Spanish America, ultimately failed. He argues that a populist, Robespierriste tendency, sharply at odds with democratic values and freedom of expression, gained an ideological advantage in France, and that the negative reaction this generally provoked caused a more general anti-Enlightenment reaction, a surging anti-intellectualism combined with forms of religious revival that largely undermined the longings of the deprived, underprivileged, and disadvantaged, and ended by helping, albeit often unwittingly, conservative anti-Enlightenment ideologies to dominate the scene. The Enlightenment that Failed relates both the American and the French revolutions to the Enlightenment in a markedly different fashion from how this is usually done, showing how both great revolutions were fundamentally split between bitterly opposed and utterly incompatible ideological tendencies. Radical Enlightenment, which had been an effective ideological challenge to the prevailing monarchical-aristocratic status quo, was weakened, then almost entirely derailed and displaced from the Western consciousness, in the 1830s and 1840s by the rise of Marxism and other forms of socialism.
Author : Milan Zafirovski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441973870
The Enlightenment of the late 17th and 18th century is characterized by an emphasis on reason and empiricism . As a major shaping philosophy of Western culture, it had a historical impact on the religious, cultural, academic, and social institutions of 18th century Europe. In this compelling volume, the author explores the lasting impact of Enlightenment thinking on modern Western societies and other democracies. With an interdisciplinary, comparative-historical approach this volume explores the impact of Enlightenment ideals such as liberty, equality, and social justice on current social institutions. Combining sociological theory with concrete examples, the author provides a unique framework for understanding modern cultural development, including a picture of how it would look without this Enlightenment basis. This work provides a multi-faceted approach, including: an historical overview, analysis of the Enlightenment’s influence on modern democratic societies, modern culture, political science, civil society and the economy, as well as exploring the counter-Enlightenment, Post-Enlightenment, and Neo-Enlightenment philosophies.
Author : Ivan Moody
Publisher : Vydavatelství PedF UK
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9788076031517
Author : Denis McQuail
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857023223
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