Modernity Disavowed

Modernity Disavowed
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 382
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ISBN-10 : 9780822385509
ISBN-13 : 0822385503
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Modernity Disavowed by : Sibylle Fischer

Modernity Disavowed is a pathbreaking study of the cultural, political, and philosophical significance of the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804). Revealing how the radical antislavery politics of this seminal event have been suppressed and ignored in historical and cultural records over the past two hundred years, Sibylle Fischer contends that revolutionary antislavery and its subsequent disavowal are central to the formation and understanding of Western modernity. She develops a powerful argument that the denial of revolutionary antislavery eventually became a crucial ingredient in a range of hegemonic thought, including Creole nationalism in the Caribbean and G. W. F. Hegel’s master-slave dialectic. Fischer draws on history, literary scholarship, political theory, philosophy, and psychoanalytic theory to examine a range of material, including Haitian political and legal documents and nineteenth-century Cuban and Dominican literature and art. She demonstrates that at a time when racial taxonomies were beginning to mutate into scientific racism and racist biology, the Haitian revolutionaries recognized the question of race as political. Yet, as the cultural records of neighboring Cuba and the Dominican Republic show, the story of the Haitian Revolution has been told as one outside politics and beyond human language, as a tale of barbarism and unspeakable violence. From the time of the revolution onward, the story has been confined to the margins of history: to rumors, oral histories, and confidential letters. Fischer maintains that without accounting for revolutionary antislavery and its subsequent disavowal, Western modernity—including its hierarchy of values, depoliticization of social goals having to do with racial differences, and privileging of claims of national sovereignty—cannot be fully understood.

Disavowed

Disavowed
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Publisher : Entangled: Select Suspense
Total Pages : 331
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ISBN-10 : 9781640631557
ISBN-13 : 1640631550
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis Disavowed by : Tee O'Fallon

NYPD Detective Dom Carew can’t forget the violent way his lover was killed in Afghanistan fifteen years ago. The pain and trauma of her death still haunt him, and since then he hasn’t let a woman under his skin. Until one incredible, hot and steamy night with stunning and sassy Daisy Fowler. Sexy, gorgeous, and hunky doesn’t begin to describe Dom Carew, but Daisy’s been burned by Dom before. A year ago, he bolted from her bed in the middle of the night without so much as a gee you were great in the sack, babe. Never laying eyes on his handsome face again is the plan. If only their paths didn’t keep crossing. If only she didn’t still find him irresistible as sin. Seeing Daisy again sets Dom’s blood on fire, but he’s about to embark on the most dangerous undercover op of his life—infiltrate the Pyramid, an international organization of assassins. Love has no place in his heart or his world, but when the dangers of his job threaten Daisy, he’ll destroy anyone in his path to protect her. Each book in the NYPD Blue & Gold series is a standalone, full-length story that can be enjoyed out of order. Series Order: Book #1: Burnout Book #2: Blood Money Book #3: Disavowed

Disavowed

Disavowed
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Publisher : Purple Puppy Publishing
Total Pages : 325
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ISBN-10 : 9781949655193
ISBN-13 : 1949655199
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis Disavowed by : Bridget E. Baker

Chancery thought that defeating her most vocal enemy would buy her some time, but since her mother died, nothing has gone according to plan. She has a wound that won’t heal, enemies masquerading as friends, and a prophecy that keeps popping up to complicate everything that matters to her. Noah’s missing, but Chancery’s persistent dreams make her doubt that he’s dead. Meanwhile, she’s been forced into a wedding of state she’s not sure she wants. In the midst of all that, a discovery about her mother’s final weeks throws her into greater confusion. Can Chancery sort friends from foes in time to save not only her family and the world, but also her heart?

Disavowed

Disavowed
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Publisher : Marcus Richardson
Total Pages : 373
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ISBN-10 :
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 ( Downloads)

Synopsis Disavowed by : Marcus Richardson

Every ending is a new beginning. Cooper Braaten is closing in on answers and vengeance. With a single minded determination to destroy the Council and finish what was started by his SEALs after the attack on Dunkeith Castle, he is out for blood. But he's not the only one playing for keeps. When a bomb detonates in downtown Denver—meant for the new President of the United States— the world around Cooper is thrown into chaos, and he’s forced to call for help from his former SEAL team. With Jayne Renolds, now masquerading as Lisa Melton, the head of a multinational aerospace conglomerate on the brink of several technological breakthroughs, her quest for revenge draws Cooper into her web. They say revenge is a dish best served cold...but will Jayne Renolds want a second helping? Disavowed is the 7th book in the Wildfire Series, following the high-octane Book 6: Extraction.

Section 31: Disavowed

Section 31: Disavowed
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 352
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781476753133
ISBN-13 : 147675313X
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis Section 31: Disavowed by : David Mack

The pulse-pounding new Star Trek thriller from David Mack—a direct sequel to the New York Times bestselling series The Fall! Amoral, shrouded in secrecy, and answerable to no one, Section 31 is the mysterious covert operations division of Starfleet, a rogue shadow group committed to safeguarding the Federation at any cost. Doctor Julian Bashir sacrificed his career for a chance to infiltrate Section 31 and destroy it from within. Now it’s asking him to help it stop the Breen from stealing a dangerous new technology from the Mirror Universe—one that could give the Breen control over the galaxy. It’s a mission Bashir can’t refuse—but is it really the shot he’s been waiting for? Or is it a trap from which even his genetically enhanced intellect can’t escape? ™, ®, & © 2014 CBS Studios, Inc. STAR TREK and related marks are trademarks of CBS Studios, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Disavowed Community

The Disavowed Community
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Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages : 120
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ISBN-10 : 9780823273867
ISBN-13 : 0823273865
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis The Disavowed Community by : Jean-Luc Nancy

Over thirty years after Maurice Blanchot writes The Unavowable Community (1983)—a book that offered a critical response to an early essay by Jean-Luc Nancy on “the inoperative community”—Nancy responds in turn with The Disavowed Community. Stemming from Jean-Christophe Bailly’s initial proposal to think community in terms of “number” or the “numerous,” and unfolding as a close reading of Blanchot’s text, Nancy’s new book addresses a range of themes and motifs that mark both his proximity to and distance from Blanchot’s thinking, from Bataille’s “community of lovers” to the relation between community, communitarianism, and being-in-common; to Marguerite Duras, to the Eucharist. A key rethinking of politics and the political, this exchange opens up a new understanding of community played out as a question of avowal.

Disavowed Knowledge

Disavowed Knowledge
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 9781136815782
ISBN-13 : 1136815783
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Disavowed Knowledge by : Peter Maas Taubman

This is the first and only book to detail the history of the century-long relationship between education and psychoanalysis. Relying on primary and secondary sources, it provides not only a historical context but also a psychoanalytically informed analysis. In considering what it means to think about teaching from a psychoanalytic perspective and in reviewing the various approaches to and theories about teaching and curriculum that have been informed by psychoanalysis in the twentieth century, Taubman uses the concept of disavowal and focuses on the effects of disavowed knowledge within both psychoanalysis and education and on the relationship between them. Tracing three historical periods of the waxing and waning of the medical/therapeutic and emancipatory projects of psychoanalysis and education, the thrust of the book is for psychoanalysis and education to come together as an emancipatory project. Supplementing the recent work of educational scholars using psychoanalytic concepts to understand teaching, education, and schooling, it works to articulate the stranded histories ─ the history of what could have been and might still be in the relationship between psychoanalysis and education.

Liberalism Disavowed

Liberalism Disavowed
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Publisher : Cornell University Press
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : 9781501713453
ISBN-13 : 1501713450
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis Liberalism Disavowed by : Beng Huat Chua

In Liberalism Disavowed, Beng Huat Chua examines the rejection of Western-style liberalism in Singapore since the nation’s expulsion from Malaysia and formal independence as a republic in 1965. The People’s Action Party, which has ruled Singapore since 1959, has forged an independent non-Western ideology that is evident in various government policies that Chua analyzes, among them multiracialism, public housing, and widespread social distributions to the citizenry. Singapore is prosperous and peaceful, it’s highly advanced on various metrics of economic development, it has a great deal of regional influence, it is home to sophisticated industries and a large financial service sector, and it features what are by Western standards unusually low levels of social inequality. Paradoxically, however, it is no beacon of political liberalism. Chua sets forth ample evidence that the dominance of the People’s Action Party is based on a combination of economic success and media control, limits on public protests, libel suits against political opponents, and severely curtailed civil liberties.

Disavowed in Wyoming

Disavowed in Wyoming
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Publisher : Harlequin
Total Pages : 242
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ISBN-10 : 9780369709486
ISBN-13 : 0369709489
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis Disavowed in Wyoming by : Juno Rushdan

He'll put his own life on any line If it means keeping her away from the danger stalking him Fleeing from a CIA kill squad, former operative Dean Delgado is hiding out back in Wyoming, where the terrain—and the people—are all too familiar. Working undercover, he befriends veterinarian Kate Sawyer—the woman he was once forced to leave behind. But when an emergency call brings Kate under fire, Dean must blow his cover to save her. Now, despite the risks to his own life, protecting Kate is the only mission that matters. From Harlequin Intrigue: Seek thrills. Solve crimes. Justice served. Discover more action-packed stories in the Fugitive Heroes: Topaz Unit series. All books are stand-alone with uplifting endings but were published in the following order: Book 1: Rogue Christmas Operation Book 2: Alaskan Christmas Escape Book 3: Disavowed in Wyoming Book 4: An Operative's Last Stand

Liberalism Disavowed

Liberalism Disavowed
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Publisher : NUS Press
Total Pages : 238
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ISBN-10 : 9789814722506
ISBN-13 : 9814722502
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Liberalism Disavowed by : Chua Beng Huat

In Liberalism Disavowed, Chua Beng Huat examines the rejection of Western-style liberalism in Singapore and the way the People's Action Party has forged an independent non-Western ideology. This book explains the evolution of this communitarian ideology, with focus on three areas: public housing, multiracialism and state capitalism, each of which poses different challenges to liberal approaches. With the passing of the first Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew and the end of the Cold War, the party is facing greater challenges from an educated populace that demands greater voice. This has led to liberalization of the cultural sphere, greater responsiveness and shifts in political rhetoric, but all without disrupting the continuing hegemony of the PAP in government.