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Author |
: Yinghong Cheng |
Publisher |
: University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages |
: 282 |
Release |
: 2008-12-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780824830748 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0824830741 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Creating the New Man by : Yinghong Cheng
The idea of eliminating undesirable traits from human temperament to create a "new man" has been part of moral and political thinking worldwide for millennia. During the Enlightenment, European philosophers sought to construct an ideological framework for reshaping human nature. But it was only among the communist regimes of the twentieth century that such ideas were actually put into practice on a nationwide scale. In this book Yinghong Cheng examines three culturally diverse sociopolitical experiments—the Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin, China under Mao, and Cuba under Castro—in an attempt to better understand the origins and development of the "new man." The book’s fundamental concerns are how these communist revolutions strove to create a new, morally and psychologically superior, human being and how this task paralleled efforts to create a superior society. To these ends, it addresses a number of questions: What are the intellectual roots of the new man concept? How was this idealistic and utopian goal linked to specific political and economic programs? How do the policies of these particular regimes, based as they are on universal communist ideology, reflect national and cultural traditions? Cheng begins by exploring the origins of the idea of human perfectibility during the Enlightenment. His discussion moves to other European intellectual movements, and then to the creation of the Soviet Man, the first communist new man in world history. Subsequent chapters examine China’s experiment with human nature, starting with the nationalistic debate about a new national character at the turn of the twentieth century; and Cuban perceptions of the new man and his role in propelling the revolution from a nationalist, to a socialist, and finally a communist movement. The last chapter considers the global influence of the Soviet, Chinese, and Cuban experiments. Creating the "New Man" contributes greatly to our understanding of how three very different countries and their leaders carried out problematic and controversial visions and programs. It will be of special interest to students and scholars of world history and intellectual, social, and revolutionary history, and also development studies and philosophy.
Author |
: Yinghong Cheng |
Publisher |
: University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages |
: 282 |
Release |
: 2008-12-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780824862022 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0824862023 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Creating the New Man by : Yinghong Cheng
The idea of eliminating undesirable traits from human temperament to create a "new man" has been part of moral and political thinking worldwide for millennia. During the Enlightenment, European philosophers sought to construct an ideological framework for reshaping human nature. But it was only among the communist regimes of the twentieth century that such ideas were actually put into practice on a nationwide scale. In this book Yinghong Cheng examines three culturally diverse sociopolitical experiments—the Soviet Union under Lenin and Stalin, China under Mao, and Cuba under Castro—in an attempt to better understand the origins and development of the "new man." The book’s fundamental concerns are how these communist revolutions strove to create a new, morally and psychologically superior, human being and how this task paralleled efforts to create a superior society. To these ends, it addresses a number of questions: What are the intellectual roots of the new man concept? How was this idealistic and utopian goal linked to specific political and economic programs? How do the policies of these particular regimes, based as they are on universal communist ideology, reflect national and cultural traditions? Cheng begins by exploring the origins of the idea of human perfectibility during the Enlightenment. His discussion moves to other European intellectual movements, and then to the creation of the Soviet Man, the first communist new man in world history. Subsequent chapters examine China’s experiment with human nature, starting with the nationalistic debate about a new national character at the turn of the twentieth century; and Cuban perceptions of the new man and his role in propelling the revolution from a nationalist, to a socialist, and finally a communist movement. The last chapter considers the global influence of the Soviet, Chinese, and Cuban experiments. Creating the "New Man" contributes greatly to our understanding of how three very different countries and their leaders carried out problematic and controversial visions and programs. It will be of special interest to students and scholars of world history and intellectual, social, and revolutionary history, and also development studies and philosophy.
Author |
: Michael G. Cornelius |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 218 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:49015002626829 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Creating Man by : Michael G. Cornelius
Author |
: Tom Pendergast |
Publisher |
: University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages |
: 301 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780826262240 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0826262244 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Creating the Modern Man by : Tom Pendergast
Pendergast traces the shift in US periodicals from Victorian masculinity--which valued character, integrity, hard work, and duty--to modern masculinity--which valued personality, self- realization, and image. Arguing that the rise of mass consumer culture was a key factor in the change, he describes how such magazines as American Magazine, Esquire, and True presented masculinity in ways that reflected the magazines' relationship to advertisers, contributors and readers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Author |
: David E. Comings |
Publisher |
: Hope Press |
Total Pages |
: 2 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781878267733 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1878267736 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Did Man Create God? : is Your Spiritual Brain at Peace with Your Thinking Brain? : Including Intelligent Answers to Intelligent Design by : David E. Comings
Dr. David Comings, an internationally renowned physician, human geneticist and neuroscientist, proposes that spirituality is genetically hardwired into a specific part of the brain, is pleasurable, is critical to the evolution and survival of man, and will never go away. It strives to allow readers to develop a rational spirituality in which the fact-based rational brain and the faith-based spiritual brain can live in peace. In an era when politicians are judged on the basis of the strength of their belief in God, when schools are urged to teach Intelligent Design, and when religious terrorists threaten the existence of Western civilization it is critical to dispassionately examine the question - Did man create God? A wide range of issues are examined including intelligent answers to intelligent design; the relevance of modern cosmology to the existence or non-existence of god; the role of genes in spirituality; innate morality, the problem of evil, and many others. Michael Shermer called this the most detailed and up-to-date science ever generated on the subject of religion and suggested it will be the definitive scientific reference on religion for some time to come. This book is for those who have also questioned any part of their faith but treasure their spirituality and want answers that are not hostile to spirituality or religion.
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Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1960 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:946687719 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Making of the New Man by :
Author |
: Francesco Cassata |
Publisher |
: Central European University Press |
Total Pages |
: 439 |
Release |
: 2011-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789639776838 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9639776831 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Building the New Man by : Francesco Cassata
Based on previously unexplored archival documentation, this book offers the first general overview of the history of Italian eugenics, not limited to the decades of Fascist regime, but instead ranging from the beginning of the 1900s to the first half of the 1970s. The Author discusses several fundamental themes of the comparative history of eugenics: the importance of the Latin eugenic model; the relationship between eugenics and fascism; the influence of Catholicism on the eugenic discourse and the complex links between genetics and eugenics. It examines the Liberal pre-fascist period and the post-WW2 transition from fascist and racial eugenics to medical and human genetics. As far as fascist eugenics is concerned, the book provides a refreshing analysis, considering Italian eugenics as the most important case-study in order to define Latin eugenics as an alternative model to its Anglo-American, German and Scandinavian counterparts. Analyses in detail the nature-nurture debate during the State racist campaign in fascist Italy (1938–1943) as a boundary tool in the contraposition between the different institutional, political and ideological currents of fascist racism.
Author |
: George Lachmann Mosse |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195126600 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195126602 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Image of Man by : George Lachmann Mosse
Men should be brave, daring, cool under fire and honourable. Who says so? This book by a major US historian sets out to show how our idea of manliness evolved and how long these qualities have been the norm.
Author |
: John T. Maddox IV |
Publisher |
: Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages |
: 249 |
Release |
: 2020-10-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781684481880 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1684481880 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Challenging the Black Atlantic by : John T. Maddox IV
The historical novels of Manuel Zapata Olivella and Ana Maria Gonçalves map black journeys from Africa to the Americas in a way that challenges the Black Atlantic paradigm that has become synonymous with cosmopolitan African diaspora studies. Unlike Paul Gilroy, who coined the term and based it on W.E.B. DuBois’s double consciousness, Zapata, in Changó el gran putas (1983), creates an empowering mythology that reframes black resistance in Colombia, Haiti, Mexico, Brazil, and the United States. In Um defeito de cor (2006), Gonçalves imagines the survival strategies of a legendary woman said to be the mother of black abolitionist poet Luís Gama and a conspirator in an African Muslim–led revolt in Brazil’s “Black Rome.” These novels show differing visions of revolution, black community, femininity, sexuality, and captivity. They skillfully reveal how events preceding the UNESCO Decade of Afro-Descent (2015–2024) alter our understanding of Afro-Latin America as it gains increased visibility. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Author |
: Victor J. Rodriguez |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 267 |
Release |
: 2016-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317272069 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317272064 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Creating the Practical Man of Modernity by : Victor J. Rodriguez
Focused on the appropriation of John Dewey’s ideas on progressive education in revolutionary Mexico, this book reconsiders the interpretation and application of Dewey’s ideas in the world. Rodriguez examines the use of Dewey in Mexico’s state-building projects as a vantage point to assess the global impact of Dewey’s pedagogy. As these projects converged with Dewey’s desire to employ education as a tool for effective social change, Rodriguez understands Dewey not just as a philosopher but as an integral part of the Americas’ progressive movement and era.