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Author |
: Ian Almond |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 416 |
Release |
: 2009-10-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135268886 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135268886 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis History of Islam in German Thought by : Ian Almond
This concise overview of the perception of Islam in eight of the most important German thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries allows a new and fascinating investigation of how these thinkers, within their own bodies of work, often espoused contradicting ideas about Islam and their nearest Muslim neighbors. Exploring a variety of 'neat compartmentalizations' at work in the representations of Islam, as well as distinct vocabularies employed by these key intellectuals (theological, political, philological, poetic), Ian Almond parses these vocabularies to examine the importance of Islam in the very history of German thought. Almond further demonstrates the ways in which German philosophers such as Hegel, Kant, and Marx repeatedly ignored information about the Muslim world that did not harmonize with the particular landscapes they were trying to paint – a fact which in turn makes us reflect on what it means when a society possesses 'knowledge' of a foreign culture.
Author |
: Ian Almond |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 238 |
Release |
: 2007-07-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780857715128 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0857715127 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis The New Orientalists by : Ian Almond
The west's Orientalism - its construction of an Arab or Islamic 'Other' - has been exposed and examined under the critical theory microscope and thoroughly expelled, it seems, from academic thought. At the same time postmodern thinkers from Nietzsche onwards have employed the motifs and symbols of the Islamic Orient within an ongoing critique of western modernity, an appropriation which, this hugely controversial book argues, runs every risk of becoming a new and more insidious Orientalist strain.Ian Almond sensitively yet rigorously examines the work of Nietzsche, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard, Julia Kristeva and Slavoj Zizek, as well as that of postmodern writers Jorge Luis Borges, Salman Rushdie and Orhan Pamuk. In doing so he exposes the implications of this 'use' of Islam for both the postmodern project and for Islam itself. Taking apart the assumptions, omissions and contradictions inherent in these thinkers' approaches to Islam and to the Arab world, and drawing on the work of prominent Muslim thinkers including Ziauddin Sardar, Aziz Al-Azmeh and Bobby S. Sayyid, "The New Orientalists" highlights the difficulty of ever speaking truly about the 'Other'. In light of the current Western climate of fear and hysteria surrounding the Islamic world, this groundbreaking project could hardly be more timely.
Author |
: Mark Bevir |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2012-06-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0415514703 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780415514705 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Histories of Postmodernism by : Mark Bevir
Histories of Postmodernism reexamines the history of the constellation of ideas and thinkers associated with postmodernism. As postmodern ideas traveled from mid-twentieth century France and on to the contemporary United States, so the relevant theorists transformed that heritage within the context of particular intellectual traditions and specific political and aesthetic issues.
Author |
: Andrew Scull |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2006-04-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135988562 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135988560 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Insanity of Place / The Place of Insanity by : Andrew Scull
This compelling book brings together many of the major papers published by Andrew Scull in the history of psychiatry over the past decade and a half. Examining some of the major substantive debates in the field from the eighteenth century to the present, the historiographic essays provide a critical perspective on such major figures as Michel Foucault, Roy Porter and Edward Shorter. Chapters on psychiatric therapeutics and on the shifting social responses to madness over a period of almost three centuries add to a comprehensive assessment of Anglo-American confrontations with madness in this period, and make the book invaluable for those concerned to understand the psychiatric enterprise. The Insanity of Place/The Place of Insanity will be of interest to students and professionals of the history of medicine and of psychiatry, as well as sociologists concerned with deviance and social control, the sociology of mental illness and the sociology of the professions.
Author |
: David Allan |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 367 |
Release |
: 2008-05-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135895037 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135895031 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Making British Culture by : David Allan
Making British Culture explores an under-appreciated factor in the emergence of a recognisably British culture. Specifically, it examines the experiences of English readers between around 1707 and 1830 as they grappled, in a variety of circumstances, with the great effusion of Scottish authorship – including the hard-edged intellectual achievements of David Hume, Adam Smith and William Robertson as well as the more accessible contributions of poets like Robert Burns and Walter Scott – that distinguished the age of the Enlightenment.
Author |
: Franklin Perkins |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 246 |
Release |
: 2004-02-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521830249 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521830249 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Leibniz and China by : Franklin Perkins
Why was Leibniz so fascinated by Chinese philosophy and culture? What specific forms did his interest take? How did his interest compare with the relative indifference of his philosophical contemporaries and near-contemporaries such as Spinoza and Locke? In this highly original book, Franklin Perkins examines Leibniz's voluminous writings on the subject and suggests that his interest was founded in his own philosophy: the nature of his metaphysical and theological views required him to take Chinese thought seriously.
Author |
: Brian McIlroy |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 302 |
Release |
: 2012-08-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135985059 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135985057 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Genre and Cinema by : Brian McIlroy
This impressive volume takes a broad critical look at Irish and Irish-related cinema through the lens of genre theory and criticism. Secondary and related objectives of the book are to cover key genres and sub-genres and account for their popularity. The result offers new ways of looking at Irish cinema.
Author |
: Matthew Romaniello |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 2011-04-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135842895 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135842892 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tobacco in Russian History and Culture by : Matthew Romaniello
Tobacco in Russian History and Culture: The Seventeenth Century to the Present explores tobacco’s role in Russian culture through a multidisciplinary approach starting with the growth of tobacco consumption from its first introduction in the seventeenth century until its pandemic status in the current post-Soviet health crisis.
Author |
: Michael Janis |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 279 |
Release |
: 2013-05-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135201449 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135201447 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Africa after Modernism by : Michael Janis
Africa after Modernism traces shifts in perspectives on African culture, arts, and philosophy from the conflict with European modernist interventions in the climate of colonialist aggression to present identitarian positions in the climate of globalism, multiculturalism, and mass media. By focusing on what may be called deconstructive moments in twentieth-century Africanist thought – on intellectual landmarks, revolutionary ideas, crises of consciousness, literary and philosophical debates – this study looks at African modernity and modernism from critical postcolonial perspectives. An effort to sketch contemporary frameworks of global intersubjective relations reflecting African cultures and concerns must resist taking modernism as a term of African periodization, or master-narrative, but as a constellation of discursive and subjective forms that obtains upon the present moment in African literature, philosophy, and cultural history. Africa after Modernism argues for a philosophical consciousness and pan-African multiculturalist ethos that operate, after the deconstruction of Eurocentrism, beyond self/other paradigms of exoticism or West/Africa political ideologies, in dialogue with postcolonial approaches to cultural reciprocity.
Author |
: Brett St. Louis |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 248 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780415957724 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0415957729 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Rethinking Race, Politics, and Poetics by : Brett St. Louis
Rethinking Race, Politics, and Poetics offers a critical appraisal of C.L.R. James as a major twentieth-century activist-intellectual, exploring his prolific output spanning decades within genres as diverse as history, philosophy, sociology, literary and cultural criticism, prose fiction, and reportage. The book also analyzes some of the flaws and contradictions that surfaced within James' writings as a consequence of the difficult circumstances in which he worked and lived as an itinerant migrant intellectual invariably involved with fringe political groups. Assessing James as a lifelong committed Marxist and humanist, the book argues that his core concern with racial, political, and cultural questions as central to human and social understanding led him to develop a distinctive critique of the modern world.