Heritage of Our Times

Heritage of Our Times
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Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages : 377
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ISBN-10 : 0745605532
ISBN-13 : 9780745605531
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Book Synopsis Heritage of Our Times by : Ernst Bloch

Download or read book Heritage of Our Times written by Ernst Bloch and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1991 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an examination of modern culture and its legacy which argues that the key elements of a genuine cultural tradition are not just to be found in the conveniently closed and neatly labelled ages of the past, but also in the open and experimental cultural process of our time. One of the most compelling aspects of this work is a contemporary analysis of the rise of Nazism. It probes its bogus roots in German history and mythology at the very moment when the ideologies of Blood and Soil and the Blond Beast were actually taking hold of the German people. An associate of Lukacs, Benjamin, Adorno and Brecht, the author wrote The Principle of Hope.

The Heritage of Our Times

The Heritage of Our Times
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 394
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ISBN-10 : 9780745692395
ISBN-13 : 0745692397
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Heritage of Our Times by : Ernst Bloch

Download or read book The Heritage of Our Times written by Ernst Bloch and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heritage of Our Times is a brilliant examination of modern culture and its legacy by one of the most important and deeply influential thinkers of the 20th century. Bloch argues that the key elements of a genuine cultural tradition are not just to be found in the conveniently closed and neatly labeled ages of the past, but also in the open and experimental cultural process of our time. One of the most compelling aspects of this work is a contemporary analysis of the rise of Nazism. It probes its bogus roots in German history and mythology at the very moment when the ideologies of Blood and Soil and the Blond Beast were actually taking hold of the German people. The breadth and depth of Bloch's vision, together with the rich diversity of his interest, ensure this work a place as one of the key books of the 20th century.

Losing Culture

Losing Culture
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Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Total Pages : 163
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ISBN-10 : 9781978815353
ISBN-13 : 1978815352
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Losing Culture by : David Berliner

Download or read book Losing Culture written by David Berliner and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the world, you will hear complaints that people are losing their culture and their heritage. This study explores what is triggering this sense of cultural loss, to what ends this rhetoric gets deployed, and how anthropologists deal with their own feelings of nostalgia.

Staging the Third Reich

Staging the Third Reich
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 486
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ISBN-10 : 1003010695
ISBN-13 : 9781003010692
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Book Synopsis Staging the Third Reich by : Anson Rabinbach

Download or read book Staging the Third Reich written by Anson Rabinbach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Celebrated as an intellectual historian of twentieth-century Europe, Anson Rabinbach is one of the most important scholars of National Socialism working over the last forty years. This volume collects, for the first time, his pathbreaking work on Nazi culture, antifascism, and the after-effects of Nazism on postwar German and European culture. Historically detailed and theoretically sophisticated, his essays span the aesthetics of production, messianic and popular claims, the ethos that Nazism demanded of its adherents, the brilliant and sometimes successful efforts of antifascist intellectuals to counter Hitler's rise, the most significant concepts to emerge out of the 1930s and 1940s for understanding European authoritarianism, the major controversies around Nazism that took place after the regime's demise, the philosophical claims of postwar philosophers, sociologists and psychoanalysts-from Theodor Adorno to Hannah Arendt and from Alexander Kluge to Klaus Theweleit-and the role of Auschwitz in European history."--

The Dilemma of Our Times (Works of Harold J. Laski)

The Dilemma of Our Times (Works of Harold J. Laski)
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 356
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ISBN-10 : 9781317586340
ISBN-13 : 1317586344
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Dilemma of Our Times (Works of Harold J. Laski) by : Harold J. Laski

Download or read book The Dilemma of Our Times (Works of Harold J. Laski) written by Harold J. Laski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-24 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, originally published in 1952, unfinished and perhaps imperfect, is the last book of one of the most acute political thinkers of the twentieth century. Laski’s earlier optimism about a swing to the Left was beginning to be reversed, and in this volume he saw the defects of his previous optimistic surveys, which, in his opinion, still had value, but needed to be brought up-to-date and consquently he began to write an additional chapter which was never completed. It remains a valuable last word of an author who for thirty years was respected and listened to on the topic of civilisation’s survial through change.

The Promise of Nostalgia

The Promise of Nostalgia
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 363
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ISBN-10 : 9780429632518
ISBN-13 : 0429632517
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Book Synopsis The Promise of Nostalgia by : Nicola Sayers

Download or read book The Promise of Nostalgia written by Nicola Sayers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-08 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Promise of Nostalgia analyses a range of texts – including The Virgin Suicides, both the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides’ and Sofia Coppola’s screen adaptation, photography of Detroit’s ‘abandoned spaces’, and blogger Tavi Gevinson's media output – to explore nostalgia as a prominent affect in contemporary American cultural production. Counter to the prevalent caricature of nostalgia as anti-future, the book proposes a more nuanced reading of its stakes and meanings. Instead of understanding it as evidence of the absence of utopia it contends that there is a masked utopian impulse in this nostalgia ‘mode’ and critical potential in what has typically been dismissed as ideological. This book will be of interest to scholars, graduate students and upper-level undergraduate students interested in contemporary culture, cultural theory, media studies, the Frankfurt School, utopian studies and American literature and culture.

Tales of Our Times

Tales of Our Times
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Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Total Pages : 65
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ISBN-10 : 9781480989801
ISBN-13 : 1480989800
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Tales of Our Times by : Richard L. Burns

Download or read book Tales of Our Times written by Richard L. Burns and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-18 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of Our Times By: Richard L. Burns In this slim collection of tales, Richard L. Burns examines contemporary life in all its gore and splendor. Murder, greed, neglect, and lust permeate several stories. Others, in a special meal with a perfect partner and reflections from a couple who has made it through, shine bright against the darkness. History may repeat, but you can make the world of tomorrow better. There’s always a better path. Told by one who has been in the good and the bad, the hopes and the failures, and ultimately triumphed, Tales of Our Times is sharp and sweet. The stories may be quick to read, but they linger. Timely and real, Mr. Burns reminds us that, eventually, the good guys do finish first.