Meaning And Modernity

Author : Richard Madsen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001-12-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0520226577

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"This interesting volume of essays on contemporary religion and its ambivalent relationship to modernity not only serves as a testimony to the intellectual influence of Robert Bellah, it establishes a new school of comparative religious and social thought. This Bellahian school--at the intersection of sociological, theological, and contemporary philosophical thinking--has roots in Durkheim and Weber, borrows insights from Marx, Foucault, and Bourdieu, and finds its clearest voice in the writings of Bellah himself. The essays by some of Bellah's colleagues and former students that have been gathered in this volume address some of the most sagacious of these Bellahian themes: the religious dimension of contemporary civil societies, the relationship between religious and capitalist values, the cultural critique of modernity, and the moral visions that hold a promise of civic renewal."—Mark Juergensmeyer, author of Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence (California, 2000). "This highly readable collection of original, thought-provoking essays by leading scholars provides fresh insights into the issues that Robert Bellah has addressed so fruitfully in his long career. Readers will learn much about such issues as how Calvinism contributed to political revolution, why democracies require an enlarged sense of political community, how the religious foundations of Japan and the United States differ, and what it means to be a Christian and an American."—Benton Johnson, coauthor of Vanishing Boundaries: The Religion of Protestant Baby Boomers (1994) and author of Functionalism in Modern Sociology: Understanding Talcott Parsons (1975)

Author : James McElvenny
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474425049

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Language and Meaning in the Age of Modernism by James McElvenny Pdf

This book explores the influential currents in the philosophy of language and linguistics of the first half of the twentieth century, from the perspective of the English scholar C. K. Ogden (1889 - 1957). It reveals links between early analytic philosophy, semiotics and linguistics in a crucial period of their respective histories.

Author : Donald W. Oliver,Kathleen Waldron Gershman
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1989-07-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 0887069428

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Education, Modernity, and Fractured Meaning by Donald W. Oliver,Kathleen Waldron Gershman Pdf

An indictment of the ideology of modernity, which has resulted in our leading incoherent and fragmented lives, Oliver and Gershman’s book explores the profound paradigmatic differences that exist among the world’s people and describes a rich theory of knowing and being, commonly called “process philosophy.” The promise of process philosophy is in its potential to allow us to participate more fully in the flow of all of time and nature. But what does it mean for a teacher and student in the learning situation to have a process point of view? The authors also discuss many of the various implications in regard to language, space, power relationships, and time as they place process philosophy in the educational context.

Author : Karl E. Smith
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004181724

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Meaning, Subjectivity, Society by Karl E. Smith Pdf

Who am I? Who are we? How are we to live? This book grapples with these perennial questions, primarily through a dialogue with Cornelius Castoriadis and Charles Taylor, using an interdisciplinary-hermeneutical approach examining issues of meaning, subjectivity and modern society.

Author : Nicholas H. Smith
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745668598

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Charles Taylor by Nicholas H. Smith Pdf

The Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor is a key figure in contemporary debates about the self and the problems of modernity. This book provides a comprehensive, critical account of Taylor's work. It succinctly reconstructs the ambitious philosophical project that unifies Taylor's diverse writings. And it examines in detail Taylor's specific claims about the structure of the human sciences; the link between identity, language, and moral values; democracy and multiculturalism; and the conflict between secular and non-secular spirituality. The book also includes the first sustained account of Taylor's career as a social critic and political activist. Clearly written and authoritative, this book will be welcomed by students and researchers in a wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, psychology, politics, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies and theology.

Author : Dr Michael Symonds
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781472462862

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Max Weber's Theory of Modernity by Dr Michael Symonds Pdf

Weber’s theory of meaning and modernity is articulated through an understanding of his account of the way in which the pursuit of meaning in the modern world has been shaped by the loss of Western religion and how such pursuit gives sense to the phenomena of human suffering and death. Through a close, scholarly reading of Weber’s extensive writings and Vocation Lectures, the author explores the concepts of ‘paradox’ and ‘brotherliness’ as found in Weber’s work, in order to offer an original exposition of Weber’s actual theory of how meaning and meaninglessness work in the modern world.

Author : Joseph De Sapio
Publisher : Springer
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137407221

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Modernity and Meaning in Victorian London by Joseph De Sapio Pdf

Joseph De Sapio examines how individuals not only understood their contacts with industrial modernity as distinct from the inherited traditional rhythms of the eighteenth century, but how they conceived of their own positions within the increasingly sophisticated political, social, and commercial paradigms of the Victorian years.

Author : Hedwig Fraunhofer
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 9781474467452

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Biopolitics, Materiality and Meaning in Modern European Drama by Hedwig Fraunhofer Pdf

Arguing that existing modernisation theories have been unnecessarily one-sided, Hedwig Fraunhofer offers a rewriting of modernity that cuts across binary methodologies - nature and culture, mind and matter, epistemology and ontology, critique and affirmative writing, dramatic and postdramatic theatre. She specifically reworks the biopolitical exclusions that mark modern western epistemology, leading up to modernity's totalitarian crisis point.Fraunhofer reveals the performativity of theatre in its double sense - as theatrical production and as the intra-activity of a dynamic system of multiple relations between human and more-than-human actors, energies and affects. In modern theatre, public and private, human and more-than-human, materiality and meaning collapse in a common life.

Author : Brian Trainor
Publisher : St-Hyacinthe, Quebec : World Heritage Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Postmodernism
ISBN : 1896064221

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The Origin and End of Modernity by Brian Trainor Pdf

Author : Peter L. Berger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Cultural pluralism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070631184

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Modernity, Pluralism and the Crisis of Meaning by Peter L. Berger Pdf

Author : Eugene Rochberg-Halton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226723313

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Meaning and Modernity by Eugene Rochberg-Halton Pdf

Author : Hans Rudolf Morgenthaler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317024316

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The Meaning of Modern Architecture by Hans Rudolf Morgenthaler Pdf

Using empathy, as established by the Vienna School of Art History, complemented by insights on how the mind processes visual stimuli, as demonstrated by late 19th-century psychologists and art theorists, this book puts forward an innovative interpretative method of decoding the forms and spaces of Modern buildings. This method was first developed as scholars realized that the new abstract art appearing needed to be analysed differently than the previous figurative works. Since architecture experienced a similar development in the 1920s and 30s, this book argues that the empathetic method can also be used in architectural interpretation. While most existing scholarship tends to focus on formal and functional analysis, this book proposes that Modern architecture is too diverse to be reduced to a few common formal or ornamental features. Instead, by relying on the viewer’s innate psycho-physiological perceptive abilities, sensual and intuitive understandings of composition, form, and space are emphasized. These aspects are especially significant because Modern Architecture lacks the traditional stylistic signs. Including building analyses, it shows how, by visually reducing cubical forms and spaces to linear configurations, the exteriors and interiors of Modern buildings can be interpreted via human perceptive abilities as dynamic movement systems commensurate with the new industrial transportation age. This reveals an inner necessity these buildings express about themselves and their culture, rather than just an explanation of how they are assembled and how they should be used. The case studies highlight the contrasts between buildings designed by different architects, rather than concentrating on the few features that relate them to the zeitgeist. It analyses the buildings directly as the objects of study, not indirectly, as designs filtered through a philosophical or theoretical discourse. The book demonstrates that, with technology and science affecting culture

Author : Ira Bashkow
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006-07-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780226038919

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The Meaning of Whitemen by Ira Bashkow Pdf

A familiar cultural presence for people the world over, “the whiteman” has come to personify the legacy of colonialism, the face of Western modernity, and the force of globalization. Focusing on the cultural meanings of whitemen in the Orokaiva society of Papua New Guinea, this book provides a fresh approach to understanding how race is symbolically constructed and why racial stereotypes endure in the face of counterevidence. While Papua New Guinea’s resident white population has been severely reduced due to postcolonial white flight, the whiteman remains a significant racial and cultural other here—not only as an archetype of power and wealth in the modern arena, but also as a foil for people’s evaluations of themselves within vernacular frames of meaning. As Ira Bashkow explains, ideas of self versus other need not always be anti-humanistic or deprecatory, but can be a creative and potentially constructive part of all cultures. A brilliant analysis of whiteness and race in a non-Western society, The Meaning of Whitemen turns traditional ethnography to the purpose of understanding how others see us.

Author : Karsten Harries
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780810105935

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Meaning of Modern Art by Karsten Harries Pdf

That modern art is different from earlier art is so obvious as to be hardly worth mentioning. Yet there is little agreement as to the meaning or the importance of this difference. Indeed, contemporary aestheticians, especially, seem to feel that modern art does not depart in any essential way from the art of the past. One reason for this view is that, with the exception of Marxism, the leading philosophical schools today are ahistorical in orientation. This is as true of phenomenology and existentialism as it is of contemporary analytic philosophy. As a result there have been few attempts by philosophers to understand the meaning of the history of art—an understanding fundamental to any grasp of the difference between modern art and its predecessors. Art expresses an ideal image of man, and an essential part of understanding the meaning of a work of art is understanding this image. When the ideal image changes, art, too, must change. It is thus possible to look at the emergence of modern art as a function of the disintegration of the Platonic-Christian conception of man. The artist no longer has an obvious, generally accepted route to follow. One sign of this is that there is no one style today comparable to Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, or Baroque. This lack of direction has given the artist a new freedom. Today there is a great variety of answers to the question, "What is art?" Such variety, however, betrays an uncertainty about the meaning of art. An uneasiness about the meaning of art has led modern artists to enter into dialogue with art historians, psychologists and philosophers. Perhaps this interpretation can contribute to that dialogue.

Author : K. Spracklen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780230239500

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The Meaning and Purpose of Leisure by K. Spracklen Pdf

This book uses the work of Jurgen Habermas to interrogate leisure as a meaningful, theoretical concept. Drawing on examples from sport, culture and tourism, and going beyond concerns about the grand project of leisure, Spracklen argues that leisure is central to understanding wider debates about identity, postmodernity and globalization.