The New Barbarism And The Modern West

Author : Toivo Koivukoski
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739190005

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The New Barbarism and the Modern West by Toivo Koivukoski Pdf

Liberalism is being called into question both in practice and in principle, from insurgencies at its bloody hinterlands and from the illiberal responses those insurgencies engender within the so-called civilized world, with technological integration creating the conditions for new forms of barbarism. What then are the chances of progress towards a substantial equality of freedoms within this new context of retrograde attitudes framed by the occlusion of others as somehow essentially different? How can we register the significances of cultural distinctions without letting those ‘we's’ and ‘they's’ split an emergent global civil society into parochial retro-nations, where belonging knows itself only by exclusion? What is it that is being called out of the spirit of modernity in our seemingly backward-moving age of essentialized others and self-righteous rage? And to the end of inter-cultural understanding, how can we come to know the other, both through the care of others and in ourselves? This work of political theory reflects on how cultures imagine their barbarians in the form of essentialized others, focusing specifically on the kinds of barbarism associated with a civilization devoted to technological progress. In response to the excesses of modernity, the author looks to advances an ethic of difference, inverting the golden rule so as to do unto others as those others would do unto themselves.

Author : Toivo Koivukoski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : 0739189999

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The New Barbarism and the Modern West by Toivo Koivukoski Pdf

This book of political theory reflects on how cultures imagine their barbarians in the form of essentialized others, focusing specifically on the kinds of barbarism associated with a civilization devoted to technological progress.

Author : Boris Kagarlitsky
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999-09-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0745315518

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New Realism, New Barbarism by Boris Kagarlitsky Pdf

Leading scholars discuss ideology and hotly contested post-structuralist theory.

Author : Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781009353571

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Law and the Epistemologies of the South by Boaventura de Sousa Santos Pdf

Modern state law excludes populations, peoples, and social groups by making them invisible, irrelevant, or dangerous. In this book, Boaventura de Sousa Santos offers a radical critique of the law and develops an innovative paradigm of socio-legal studies which is based on the historical experience of the Global South. He traces the history of modern law as an abyssal law, or a kind of law that is theoretically invisible yet implements profound exclusions in practice. This abyssal line has been the key procedure used by modern modes of domination - capitalism, colonialism, and patriarchy - to divide people into two groups, the metropolitan and the colonial, or the fully human and the sub-human. Crucially, de Sousa Santos rejects the decadent pessimism that claims that we are living through 'the end of history'. Instead, this book offers practical, hopeful alternatives to social exclusion and modern legal domination, aiming to make post-abyssal legal utopias a reality.

Author : Milan Zafirovski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441973870

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The Enlightenment and Its Effects on Modern Society by Milan Zafirovski Pdf

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 : Arnold Toynbee,David Churchill Somervell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0195001990

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A Study of History: Abridgement of volumes VII-X by Arnold Toynbee,David Churchill Somervell Pdf

Arnold Toynbee's ten-volume analysis of the rise and fall of civilizations is acknowledged as one of the great achievements of modern scholarship. D.C. Somervell's extraordinary two-volume abridgement has captured the method, atmosphere, texture, and, in many instances, the very words of the original. This volume contains the second half of Toynbee's masterpiece.

Author : Arthur Herman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781451603132

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The Idea of Decline in Western History by Arthur Herman Pdf

Historian Arthur Herman traces the roots of declinism and shows how major thinkers, past and present, have contributed to its development as a coherent ideology of cultural pessimism. From Nazism to the Sixties counterculture, from Britain's Fabian socialists to America's multiculturalists, and from Dracula and Freud to Robert Bly and Madonna, this work examines the idea of decline in Western history and sets out to explain how the conviction of civilization's inevitable end has become a fixed part of the modern Western imagination. Through a series of biographical portraits spanning the 19th and 20th centuries, the author traces the roots of declinism and aims to show how major thinkers of the past and present, including Nietzsche, DuBois, Sartre, and Foucault, have contributed to its development as a coherent ideology of cultural pessimism.

Author : Maria Boletsi
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804785372

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Barbarism and Its Discontents by Maria Boletsi Pdf

Barbarism and civilization form one of the oldest and most rigid oppositions in Western history. According to this dichotomy, barbarism functions as the negative standard through which "civilization" fosters its self-definition and superiority by labeling others "barbarians." Since the 1990s, and especially since 9/11, these terms have become increasingly popular in Western political and cultural rhetoric—a rhetoric that divides the world into forces of good and evil. This study intervenes in this recent trend and interrogates contemporary and historical uses of barbarism, arguing that barbarism also has a disruptive, insurgent potential. Boletsi recasts barbarism as a productive concept, finding that it is a common thread in works of literature, art, and theory. By dislodging barbarism from its conventional contexts, this book reclaims barbarism's edge and proposes it as a useful theoretical tool.

Author : John A. Gentry
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313395833

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How Wars Are Won and Lost by John A. Gentry Pdf

This provocative book seeks to answer a most crucial—and embarrassing—question concerning the U.S. military: why the United States is so often stymied in military confrontations with seemingly weaker opponents, despite its "superpower" status. This fascinating book examines a question that continues to puzzle soldiers, statesmen, and scholars: why do major powers—including the ostensible superpower United States—repeatedly perform poorly against seemingly overmatched adversaries? And what can they, and the United States, do to better achieve their military objectives? How Wars are Won and Lost: Vulnerability and Military Power argues that beyond relying solely on overwhelming military might, the United States needs to focus more on exploiting weaknesses in their adversaries—such as national will, resource mobilization, and strategic miscues—just as opposing forces have done to gain advantage over our military efforts. The author tests the "vulnerability theory" by revisiting six conflicts from the Philippine War of 1899-1902 to the ongoing actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, showing again and again that victory often depends more on outthinking the enemy than outmuscling them.

Author : Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000855739

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From the Pandemic to Utopia by Boaventura de Sousa Santos Pdf

The coronavirus pandemic forces us to rethink our contemporaneity. It has brought to the surface dimensions of human fragility that partially contradict the euphoria and human hubris of the fourth industrial revolution (artificial intelligence). It has also aggravated the social inequality and racial discrimination that characterize our societies. The book argues that the virus, rather than an enemy, must be viewed as a pedagogue. It is trying to teach us that the deep causes of the pandemic lie in our dominant mode of production and consumption. The systemic overload of natural resources creates a metabolic rift between society and nature that destabilizes the habitat of wild animals and the vital cycles of natural regeneration whereby pandemics become an increasingly recurrent phenomenon. In trying to take seriously this lesson the book proposes a paradigmatic shift from the current civilizatory model to a new one guided by a more equitable relationship between nature and society and the priority of life, both human and non-human.

Author : Shai Feraro,Ethan Doyle White
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030155490

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Magic and Witchery in the Modern West by Shai Feraro,Ethan Doyle White Pdf

This book marks twenty years since the publication of Professor Ronald Hutton’s The Triumph of the Moon, a major contribution to the historical study of Wicca. Building on and celebrating Hutton’s pioneering work, the chapters in this volume explore a range of modern magical, occult, and Pagan groups active in Western nations. Each contributor is a specialist in the study of modern Paganism and occultism, although differ in their embrace of historical, anthropological, and psychological perspectives. Chapters examine not only the history of Wicca, the largest and best-known form of modern Paganism, but also modern Pagan environmentalist and anti-nuclear activism, the Pagan interpretation of fairy folklore, and the contemporary ‘Traditional Witchcraft’ phenomenon.

Author : Damon Zacharias Lycourinos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351329958

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Ritual Embodiment in Modern Western Magic by Damon Zacharias Lycourinos Pdf

In the Western world, magic has often functioned as an umbrella term for various religious beliefs and ritual practices that seek to influence events by harnessing supernatural power. The definition of these myriad occult and esoteric traditions have, however, usually come from those that are opposed to its practice; notably authorities in religious, legal and intellectual spheres. This book seeks to provide a new perspective, directly from the practitioners of modern Western magic, by exploring how a distinctive mode of embodiment and consciousness can produce a transition from an ‘ordinary’ to a ‘magical’ worldview. Starting with an introduction to the study of magic in the Western academy, the book then presents the author’s own participant observation of five ethnographic case studies of modern Western magic. The focus of these ethnographic case studies is directed towards ideas and methods the informants employ to self-legitimise and self-represent as ‘magicians’. It concludes by discussing the phenomenological implications and issues around embodiment that are inherent to the contemporary practice of magic. This is a unique insight into the lived experience of practitioners of modern magic. As such, it will be of keen interest to scholars of the Occult and New Religious Movements, as well as Religious Studies academics examining issues around the embodiment and the anthropology of religion.

Author : Brett Bowden
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226068169

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The Empire of Civilization by Brett Bowden Pdf

The term “civilization” comes with considerable baggage, dichotomizing people, cultures, and histories as “civilized”—or not. While the idea of civilization has been deployed throughout history to justify all manner of interventions and sociopolitical engineering, few scholars have stopped to consider what the concept actually means. Here, Brett Bowden examines how the idea of civilization has informed our thinking about international relations over the course of ten centuries. From the Crusades to the colonial era to the global war on terror, this sweeping volume exposes “civilization” as a stage-managed account of history that legitimizes imperialism, uniformity, and conformity to Western standards, culminating in a liberal-democratic global order. Along the way, Bowden explores the variety of confrontations and conquests—as well as those peoples and places excluded or swept aside—undertaken in the name of civilization. Concluding that the “West and the rest” have more commonalities than differences,this provocative and engaging bookultimately points the way toward an authentic intercivilizational dialogue that emphasizes cooperation over clashes.

Author : Kishore Mahbubani
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781458759610

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The New Asian Hemisphere by Kishore Mahbubani Pdf

For centuries, the Asians (Chinese, Indians, Muslims, and others) have been bystanders in world history. Now they are ready to become co-drivers. Asians have finally understood, absorbed, and implemented Western best practices in many areas: from free-market economics to modern science and technology, from meritocracy to rule of law. They have also become innovative in their own way, creating new patterns of cooperation not seen in the West. Will the West resist the rise of Asia? The good news is that Asia wants to replicate, not dominate, the West. For a happy outcome to emerge, the West must gracefully give up its domination of global institutions, from the IMF to the World Bank, from the G7 to the UN Security Council. History teaches that tensions and conflicts are more likely when new powers emerge. This, too, may happen. But they can be avoided if the world accepts the key principles for a new global partnership spelled out in The New Asian Hemisphere.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : UOM:39015078208421

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Bhāratī by Anonim Pdf