Reactionary Modernism

Reactionary Modernism
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 270
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ISBN-10 : 0521338336
ISBN-13 : 9780521338332
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Reactionary Modernism by : Jeffrey Herf

In a unique application of critical theory to the study of the role of ideology in politics, Jeffrey Herf explores the paradox inherent in the German fascists' rejection of the rationalism of the Enlightenment while fully embracing modern technology. He documents evidence of a cultural tradition he calls 'reactionary modernism' found in the writings of German engineers and of the major intellectuals of the. Weimar right: Ernst Juenger, Oswald Spengler, Werner Sombart, Hans Freyer, Carl Schmitt, and Martin Heidegger. The book shows how German nationalism and later National Socialism created what Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda minister, called the 'steel-like romanticism of the twentieth century'. By associating technology with the Germans, rather than the Jews, with beautiful form rather than the formlessness of the market, and with a strong state rather than a predominance of economic values and institutions, these right-wing intellectuals reconciled Germany's strength with its romantic soul and national identity.

Modernist Writing and Reactionary Politics

Modernist Writing and Reactionary Politics
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 214
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ISBN-10 : 9780521793452
ISBN-13 : 0521793459
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis Modernist Writing and Reactionary Politics by : Charles Ferrall

Ferrall offers insights into the relation between modernist aesthetics, technology and politics.

Heidegger, Philosophy, Nazism

Heidegger, Philosophy, Nazism
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 0521644941
ISBN-13 : 9780521644945
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Heidegger, Philosophy, Nazism by : Julian Young

This book argues that despite Heidegger's involvement with Nazism his philosophy is not compromised.

Reactionary Modernism

Reactionary Modernism
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Total Pages : 206
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ISBN-10 : 1642641677
ISBN-13 : 9781642641677
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Synopsis Reactionary Modernism by : Jonathan Bowden

Since the Second World War, "Modernism" in the arts has been overwhelmingly associated with the cultural and political Left. But before the War, there was vigorous debate between Modernists of the Right and the Left. Jonathan Bowden was a latter-day Reactionary Modernist in both literature and the visual arts. Reactionary Modernism collects Bowden's lectures and essays on such great Reactionary Modernist artists as Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, and Arno Breker, as well as his criticisms of the degenerate Modernism of Stewart Home and the Turner Prize. The statements collected in Reactionary Modernism do not merely dwell on the past, for by returning to tradition, Bowden hoped to inspire an artistic renaissance on the Right. "Let us return to tradition to go forwards with modernity in a different direction."-Jonathan Bowden

Reactionary modernism

Reactionary modernism
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:164619877
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Synopsis Reactionary modernism by : Jeffrey Charles Herf

Fascism

Fascism
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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages : 136
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ISBN-10 : 0816630399
ISBN-13 : 9780816630394
Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis Fascism by : Mark Neocleous

This clear accessible overview treats the subject of fascism thematically and provides a conclusion that brings the discussion up-to-date. Mark Neocleous situates fascism between the social and political contradictions of modernity and capitalism. In many ways a reaction to the principal political project of the Enlightenment, fascism focuses on three central concepts - war, nature, and nation - in order to crush violently movements of ideologies of social emancipation such as Marxism and liberalism. The destruction of reason that fascism represents shatters Enlightenment universalism and transforms the desire for social liberation into an aggressive nationalism, with devastating effects on human life.

Translocal Modernisms

Translocal Modernisms
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Publisher : Peter Lang
Total Pages : 284
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ISBN-10 : 3039116908
ISBN-13 : 9783039116904
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis Translocal Modernisms by : Maria Irene Ramalho Sousa Santos

The full story of modernism is yet to be written. This collection of essays provides an important page in this complex and inconclusive story of fluidities and hybridities by rendering problematical the linear sequence from modernism to postmodernism. This book explores the many facets of modernism in a variety of essays written by an international group of scholars. It deals with and puts in question the western literary tradition in many of its transcontinental and trans-hemispheric encounters. Criticism of 'high modernism' is put in perspective by discussions of German 'reactionary modernism', American 'social modernism' and 'minor arts', mid-twentieth-century 'Baudelairean modernity' and unprecedented expansions of the concepts of modernity and modernism themselves. Engaging in dialogue with the newest geographical, transnational, and global enlargements of the concept of modernism in time and space (from the 'Middle Passage' to emergent cultures of the twenty-first century, from Europe to America, Africa and Asia), the volume covers a wide range of translocal and transtemporal literary, artistic, cultural, and social fields and perspectives.

Late Modernism

Late Modernism
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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages : 385
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ISBN-10 : 9780812200072
ISBN-13 : 0812200071
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Late Modernism by : Robert Genter

In the thirty years after World War II, American intellectual and artistic life changed as dramatically as did the rest of society. Gone were the rebellious lions of modernism—Joyce, Picasso, Stravinsky—and nearing exhaustion were those who took up their mantle as abstract expressionism gave way to pop art, and the barren formalism associated with the so-called high modernists wilted before the hothouse cultural brew of the 1960s. According to conventional thinking, it was around this time that postmodernism with its characteristic skepticism and relativism was born. In Late Modernism, historian Robert Genter remaps the landscape of American modernism in the early decades of the Cold War, tracing the combative debate among artists, writers, and intellectuals over the nature of the aesthetic form in an age of mass politics and mass culture. Dispensing with traditional narratives that present this moment as marking the exhaustion of modernism, Genter argues instead that the 1950s were the apogee of the movement, as American practitioners—abstract expressionists, Beat poets, formalist critics, color-field painters, and critical theorists, among others—debated the relationship between form and content, tradition and innovation, aesthetics and politics. In this compelling work of intellectual and cultural history Genter presents an invigorated tradition of late modernism, centered on the work of Kenneth Burke, Ralph Ellison, C. Wright Mills, David Riesman, Jasper Johns, Norman Brown, and James Baldwin, a tradition that overcame the conservative and reactionary politics of competing modernist practitioners and paved the way for the postmodern turn of the 1960s.

Fascism, Aviation and Mythical Modernity

Fascism, Aviation and Mythical Modernity
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 429
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ISBN-10 : 9781137362995
ISBN-13 : 1137362995
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Fascism, Aviation and Mythical Modernity by : Fernando Esposito

Flying and the pilot were significant metaphors of fascism's mythical modernity. Fernando Esposito traces the changing meanings of these highly charged symbols from the air show in Brescia, to the sky above the trenches of the First World War to the violent ideological clashes of the interwar period.

Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization

Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 250
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ISBN-10 : 0521659973
ISBN-13 : 9780521659970
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization by : Ali Mirsepassi

In this thought-provoking study, Ali Mirsepassi explores the concept of modernity, exposing the Eurocentric prejudices and hostility to non-Western culture that have characterized its development. Focusing on the Iranian experience of modernity, he charts its political and intellectual history and develops a new interpretation of Islamic Fundamentalism through the detailed analysis of the ideas of key Islamic intellectuals. The author argues that the Iranian Revolution was not a simple clash between modernity and tradition but an attempt to accommodate modernity within a sense of authentic Islamic identity, culture and historical experience. He concludes by assessing the future of secularism and democracy in the Middle East in general, and in Iran in particular. A significant contribution to the literature on modernity, social change and Islamic Studies, this book will be essential reading for scholars and students of social theory and change, Middle Eastern Studies, Cultural Studies and many related areas.