The Present Age

Author : Soren Kierkegaard
Publisher : Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0062930850

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The Present Age by Soren Kierkegaard Pdf

A part of Harper Perennial’s special “Resistance Library” highlighting classic works that illuminate the “Age of Trump”: Soren Kierkegaard’s stunningly prescient essay on the dangers of mass media—particularly advertising, marketing, and publicity. An essential read as we reckon with, and try to understand, the media forces that have helped create our present political moment. “The Present Age shows just how original Kierkegaard was. He brilliantly foresaw the dangers of the lack of commitment and responsibility in the Public Sphere. When everything is up for endless detached critical comment as on blogs and cable news, action finally becomes impossible.”— Hubert L. Dreyfus, University of California, Berkeley “A revolutionary age is an age of action; ours is the age of advertisement and publicity. Nothing ever happens but there is immediate publicity everywhere.”— From The Present Age In The Present Age (1846), Søren Kierkegaard analyzes the philosophical implications of a society dominated by the mass-media. What makes the essay so remarkable is the way it seems to speak directly to our time—i.e. the Information Age—where life is dominated by mere “information” not true “knowledge.” Kierkegaard even goes so far as to say that advertising and publicity almost immediately co-opts and suppresses revolutionary actions/thoughts. The Present Age is essential reading for anyone who wishes to better understand the modern world.

Author : Soren Kierkegaard
Publisher : Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0061990035

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The Present Age by Soren Kierkegaard Pdf

In his seminal 1846 tract The Present Age, SØren Kierkegaard ("the father of existentialism"—New York Times) analyzes the philosophical implications of a society dominated by mass media—a society eerily similar to our own. A stunningly prescient essay on the rising influence of advertising, marketing, and publicity, The Present Age is essential reading for anyone who wishes to better understand the modern world.

Author : Soren Kierkegaard
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1962-09-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780061300943

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Present Age by Soren Kierkegaard Pdf

"Those who would know Kierkegaard, the intesely religious humorist, the irrepressibly witty critic of his age and ours, can do no better than to begin with this book. [In it] we find the heart of Kierkagaard. It is not innocuous, not genteel, not comfortable. He does not invite the reader to realx and have a little laugh with him at the expense of other people or at his own foibles. Kierkegaard deliberately challenges the reader's whole existence. "Nor does he merely challenge our existence; he also questions some ideas that had become well entrenched in his time and that are even more characteristic of the present age. Kierkegaard insists, for example, that Christianity was from the start essentially authoritarian--not just that the Catholic Church was, or that Calvin was, or Luther, or, regrettably, most of the Christian churches, but that Christ was--and is. Indeed, though Kierkegaard was, and wished to be, an individual, and even said that on his tombstone he would like no other epitaph than 'That Individual,' his protest against his age was centered in his lament over the loss of authority." --Walter Kaufman, in the Introduction

Author : Robert A. Nisbet
Publisher : Amagi Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Law
ISBN : 0865974098

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The Present Age by Robert A. Nisbet Pdf

The Present Age challenges readers to re-examine the role of the United States in the world since World War I. Nisbet criticises Americans for isolationism at home, discusses the gutting of educational standards, the decay of education, the presence of government in all facets of life, the diminished connection to community, and the prominence of economic arrangements driving everyday life in America. This work is deeply indebted to the analyses of Tocqueville and Bryce regarding the threats that bureaucracy, centralisation, and creeping conformity pose to liberty and individual independence in the western world. The Present Age relates a tragedy -- the unprecedented militarisation of American life in the decades after 1914, as the result of the necessary resistance to National Socialist and Communist totalitarianism that fed into and reinforced the profound tendencies toward centralisation within modern society.

Author : Guy Vanderhaeghe
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551995694

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My Present Age by Guy Vanderhaeghe Pdf

Ed is punchy, unemployed, and on the wrong side of thirty. After his exasperated wife, Victoria, leaves him, Ed finds consolation where he has always found it, in his own rich and eccentric imagination. Pursued by the demons of his own obsession, Ed embarks on a quixotic quest to find Victoria. As he prowls the city’s parking garages and motel strips, Ed begins a journey back into his past and is forced – most reluctantly – to confront the web of lies and self-deceptions he has woven to keep reality at bay – until even his fantasies start to turn against him. Keenly observant, humane, and darkly comic, My Present Age is an irresistible story about what happens when an Everyman becomes a casualty of modern life.

Author : S©ıren Kierkegaard
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0691072264

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Two Ages by S©ıren Kierkegaard Pdf

After deciding to terminate his authorship with the pseudonymous Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Kierkegaard composed reviews as a means of writing without being an author. Two Ages, here presented in a definitive English text, is simultaneously a review and a book in its own right. In it, Kierkegaard comments on the anonymously published Danish novel Two Ages, which contrasts the mentality of the age of the French Revolution with that of the subsequent epoch of rationalism. Kierkegaard commends the author's shrewdness, and his critique builds on the novel's view of the two generations. With keen prophetic insight, Kierkegaard foresees the birth of an impersonal cultural wasteland, in which the individual will either be depersonalized or obliged to find an existence rooted in "equality before God and equality with all men." This edition, like all in the series, contains substantial supplementary material, including a historical introduction, entries from Kierkegaard's journals and papers, and the preface and conclusion of the original novel.

Author : Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : MSU:31293105788180

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The Characteristics of the Present Age by Johann Gottlieb Fichte Pdf

Author : Christopher Ben Simpson,Steven D. Cone
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781621898443

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Theology in the Present Age by Christopher Ben Simpson,Steven D. Cone Pdf

This volume of essays centers on the theme of doing Christian theology in the present postmodern context, a consistent theme of the teaching of John D. Castelein. The work will celebrate and honor John's years of service by representing reflections of his teaching in the thought of his students and colleagues. The essays range over such topics as theological reflections on the postmodern philosophical themes, the relations between Christian theology and culture, the contributions of philosophical hermeneutics for Christian theology, and the challenges of engaging in ministry in a postmodern context. The seventeen contributors to the volume are former students and both present and former colleagues involved in various ministries, be they in a college setting or in a local church.

Author : Danielle L. Ayers,Reginald W. Williams (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0817017283

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To Serve this Present Age by Danielle L. Ayers,Reginald W. Williams (Jr.) Pdf

At a time when the African American church is increasingly associated with the controversial prosperity gospel, Minister Danielle Ayers and Reverend Reginald Williams remind black church leaders of the prophetic call to "do justice." Within these pages, the authors Review the history of the black church's social justice contributions and leadership Establish today's need for justice ministries in the congregation and community Spotlight real-lire ministries and initiatives Provide sample training manual materials, "Doing Justice" and "Our Vote" From initiatives of care and education to programs of action and collaboration, discover the transforming impact the church can have on society, culture, and community through diverse social justice ministries. Book jacket.

Author : Pankaj Mishra
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374715823

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Age of Anger by Pankaj Mishra Pdf

A New York Times Notable Book of 2017 • Named a Best Book of the Year by Slate and NPR One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisis How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world—from American shooters and ISIS to Donald Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism across the world to racism and misogyny on social media? In Age of Anger, Pankaj Mishra answers our bewilderment by casting his gaze back to the eighteenth century before leading us to the present. He shows that as the world became modern, those who were unable to enjoy its promises—of freedom, stability, and prosperity—were increasingly susceptible to demagogues. The many who came late to this new world—or were left, or pushed, behind—reacted in horrifyingly similar ways: with intense hatred of invented enemies, attempts to re-create an imaginary golden age, and self-empowerment through spectacular violence. It was from among the ranks of the disaffected that the militants of the nineteenth century arose—angry young men who became cultural nationalists in Germany, messianic revolutionaries in Russia, bellicose chauvinists in Italy, and anarchist terrorists internationally. Today, just as then, the wide embrace of mass politics and technology and the pursuit of wealth and individualism have cast many more billions adrift in a demoralized world, uprooted from tradition but still far from modernity—with the same terrible results. Making startling connections and comparisons, Age of Anger is a book of immense urgency and profound argument. It is a history of our present predicament unlike any other.

Author : Corinne T. Field,Nicholas L. Syrett
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479870011

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Age in America by Corinne T. Field,Nicholas L. Syrett Pdf

Eighteen. Twenty-one. Sixty-five. In America today, we recognize these numbers as key transitions in our lives—precise moments when our rights and opportunities change—when we become eligible to cast a vote, buy a drink, or enroll in Medicare. This volume brings together scholars of childhood, adulthood, and old age to explore how and why particular ages have come to define the rights and obligations of American citizens. Since the founding of the nation, Americans have relied on chronological age to determine matters as diverse as who can marry, work, be enslaved, drive a car, or qualify for a pension. Contributors to this volume explore what meanings people in the past ascribed to specific ages and whether or not earlier Americans believed the same things about particular ages as we do. The means by which Americans imposed chronological boundaries upon the variable process of growing up and growing old offers a paradigmatic example of how people construct cultural meaning and social hierarchy from embodied experience. Further, chronological age always intersects with other socially constructed categories such as gender, race, and sexuality. Ranging from the seventeenth century to the present, taking up a variety of distinct subcultures—from frontier children and antebellum slaves to twentieth-century Latinas—Age in America makes a powerful case that age has always been a key index of citizenship.

Author : Carlton R Worthen
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1092349774

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To Serve The Present Age by Carlton R Worthen Pdf

To Serve the Present Age: A Practical Guide to Church Growth and DevelopmentIn this day and age, how do we promote growth within the church? How do we extend the church beyond its four walls and draw in people who are lost and hurting? How do we reach people who might never have come inside a church building? How do we reach people who might have never heard of the name "Jesus Christ?"There are many people who are spiritually lost and in pain. Therefore, as church leaders we must always ask ourselves, how can I be used by God as his agent to offer Christ to people who are hurting and lost?We must never become complacent with the number of people we see within the four walls of the church each Sunday. Rather, Jesus challenges us to rise up and have a passion to want to serve those within the community who are spiritually lost. The question, of course, is how? Within the pages of this book, Author Carlton Worthen teaches his 5 essential principles on how to promote church growth which are: -Dynamic and Engaging Thematic Worship-Giving As a Form of Worship-Technology to Serve the Present Age-Strategic Community Partnerships-Holistic MinistryReading this book will enable you to: -Develop engaging and transformative worship experiences for your congregants-Notice an increase in weekly giving-Expand the reach of your local ministry beyond your current zip codeIt is the hope of the author to not only help you 'To Serve the Present Age' through church growth and development, but also lead you to enjoy the journey along the way.Carlton currently serves as a Senior Pastor in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and is the Founder of Carlton Worthen Ministries, Inc. and Carlton Worthen Publishing, Inc. Carlton continues to lead community outreach and grassroots initiatives that lead to Christian, social, and political change. He lives by the motto, "Be prosperous in all that you do" in an effort to promote purposeful living.To learn more visit www.CarltonWorthen.org

Author : Douglas Coupland,Hans Ulrich Obrist,Shumon Basar
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781101982419

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The Age of Earthquakes by Douglas Coupland,Hans Ulrich Obrist,Shumon Basar Pdf

A highly provocative, mindbending, beautifully designed, and visionary look at the landscape of our rapidly evolving digital era. 50 years after Marshall McLuhan's ground breaking book on the influence of technology on culture in The Medium is the Massage, Basar, Coupland and Obrist extend the analysis to today, touring the world that’s redefined by the Internet, decoding and explaining what they call the 'extreme present'. THE AGE OF EARTHQUAKES is a quick-fire paperback, harnessing the images, language and perceptions of our unfurling digital lives. The authors offer five characteristics of the Extreme Present (see below); invent a glossary of new words to describe how we are truly feeling today; and ‘mindsource’ images and illustrations from over 30 contemporary artists. Wayne Daly’s striking graphic design imports the surreal, juxtaposed, mashed mannerisms of screen to page. It’s like a culturally prescient, all-knowing email to the reader: possibly the best email they will ever read. Welcome to THE AGE OF EARTHQUAKES, a paper portrait of Now, where the Internet hasn’t just changed the structure of our brains these past few years, it’s also changing the structure of the planet. This is a new history of the world that fits perfectly in your back pocket. 30+ artists contributions: With contributions from Farah Al Qasimi, Ed Atkins, Alessandro Bavo, Gabriele Basilico, Josh Bitelli, James Bridle, Cao Fei, Alex Mackin Dolan, Thomas Dozol, Constant Dullaart, Cecile B Evans, Rami Farook, Hans-Peter Feldmann, GCC, K-Hole, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Eloise Hawser, Camille Henrot, Hu Fang, K-Hole, Koo Jeong-A, Katja Novitskova, Lara Ogel, Trevor Paglen, Yuri Patterson, Jon Rafman, Bunny Rogers, Bogosi Sekhukhuni, Taryn Simon, Hito Steyerl, Michael Stipe, Rosemarie Trockel, Amalia Ulman, David Weir, Trevor Yeung.

Author : Emil L. Fackenheim
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0815606230

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What is Judaism? by Emil L. Fackenheim Pdf

A presentation of both an introduction to Judaism and an analysis of its essence in the light of the Holocaust and the creation of the state of Israel, written by a contemporary American philosopher. It begins with the religious situation of the contemporary Jew, and covers topics such as anti-Semitism, Zionism, and the relationship between Judaism and other religions.

Author : Eric Kandel
Publisher : Random House
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781400068715

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The Age of Insight by Eric Kandel Pdf

A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind—our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions—and how mind and brain relate to art. At the turn of the century, Vienna was the cultural capital of Europe. Artists and scientists met in glittering salons, where they freely exchanged ideas that led to revolutionary breakthroughs in psychology, brain science, literature, and art. Kandel takes us into the world of Vienna to trace, in rich and rewarding detail, the ideas and advances made then, and their enduring influence today. The Vienna School of Medicine led the way with its realization that truth lies hidden beneath the surface. That principle infused Viennese culture and strongly influenced the other pioneers of Vienna 1900. Sigmund Freud shocked the world with his insights into how our everyday unconscious aggressive and erotic desires are repressed and disguised in symbols, dreams, and behavior. Arthur Schnitzler revealed women’s unconscious sexuality in his novels through his innovative use of the interior monologue. Gustav Klimt, Oscar Kokoschka, and Egon Schiele created startlingly evocative and honest portraits that expressed unconscious lust, desire, anxiety, and the fear of death. Kandel tells the story of how these pioneers—Freud, Schnitzler, Klimt, Kokoschka, and Schiele—inspired by the Vienna School of Medicine, in turn influenced the founders of the Vienna School of Art History to ask pivotal questions such as What does the viewer bring to a work of art? How does the beholder respond to it? These questions prompted new and ongoing discoveries in psychology and brain biology, leading to revelations about how we see and perceive, how we think and feel, and how we respond to and create works of art. Kandel, one of the leading scientific thinkers of our time, places these five innovators in the context of today’s cutting-edge science and gives us a new understanding of the modernist art of Klimt, Kokoschka, and Schiele, as well as the school of thought of Freud and Schnitzler. Reinvigorating the intellectual enquiry that began in Vienna 1900, The Age of Insight is a wonderfully written, superbly researched, and beautifully illustrated book that also provides a foundation for future work in neuroscience and the humanities. It is an extraordinary book from an international leader in neuroscience and intellectual history.