Legislators and Interpreters

2013-08-27

Author: Zygmunt Bauman

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

ISBN: 9780745673196

Category: Social Science

Page: 224

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The book discusses the role of intellectuals in the modern world.Bauman connects this with current analyses of modernity andpost-modernity. The theme of the book is that the tasks ofintellectuals change from being 'legislators' to 'interpreters'with the transition from modernity to post-modernity. The book discusses the role of intellectuals in the modern world.Bauman connects this with current analyses of modernity andpost-modernity. The theme of the book is that the tasks ofintellectuals change from being 'legislators' to 'interpreters'with the transition from modernity to post-modernity.

Mapping Beyond Measure

2019-12

Author: Simon Ferdinand

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

ISBN: 9781496217882

Category: Art

Page: 360

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Over the last century a growing number of visual artists have been captivated by the entwinements of beauty and power, truth and artifice, and the fantasy and functionality they perceive in geographical mapmaking. This field of "map art" has moved into increasing prominence in recent years yet critical writing on the topic has been largely confined to general overviews of the field. In Mapping Beyond Measure Simon Ferdinand analyzes diverse map-based works of painting, collage, film, walking performance, and digital drawing made in Britain, Japan, the Netherlands, Ukraine, the United States, and the former Soviet Union, arguing that together they challenge the dominant modern view of the world as a measurable and malleable geometrical space. This challenge has strong political ramifications, for it is on the basis of modernity's geometrical worldview that states have legislated over social space; that capital has coordinated global markets and exploited distant environments; and that powerful cartographic institutions have claimed exclusive authority in mapmaking. Mapping Beyond Measure breaks fresh ground in undertaking a series of close readings of significant map artworks in sustained dialogue with spatial theorists, including Peter Sloterdijk, Zygmunt Bauman, and Michel de Certeau. In so doing Ferdinand reveals how map art calls into question some of the central myths and narratives of rupture through which modern space has traditionally been imagined and establishes map art's distinct value amid broader contemporary shifts toward digital mapping.

Zygmunt Bauman

2000-01-28

Author: Peter Beilharz

Publisher: SAGE

ISBN: 9780761967347

Category: Social Science

Page: 194

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This measured and thoughtful book provides a comprehensive critical commentary on Bauman's social theory. It explores the roots of his ideas in questions of capital and labour, and explains how these ideas flourished in Bauman's later writings on culture, intellectuals, utopia, the holocaust, modernity and postmodernism. Bauman's work has been wide-ranging and ambitious. This book fulfils the objective of providing an authoritative critical guide to this essential thinker.

Travel and Ethics

2013-12-13

Author: Corinne Fowler

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781135019334

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 307

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Despite the recent increase in scholarly activity regarding travel writing and the accompanying proliferation of publications relating to the form, its ethical dimensions have yet to be theorized with sufficient rigour. Drawing from the disciplines of anthropology, linguistics, literary studies and modern languages, the contributors in this volume apply themselves to a number of key theoretical questions pertaining to travel writing and ethics, ranging from travel-as-commoditization to encounters with minority languages under threat. Taken collectively, the essays assess key critical legacies from parallel disciplines to the debate so far, such as anthropological theory and postcolonial criticism. Also considered, and of equal significance, are the ethical implications of the form’s parallel genres of writing, such as ethnography and journalism. As some of the contributors argue, innovations in these genres have important implications for the act of theorizing travel writing itself and the mode and spirit in which it continues to be conducted. In the light of such innovations, how might ethical theory maintain its critical edge?

Intimate Frontiers

2019

Author: Felipe Martínez-Pinzón

Publisher: American Tropics Towards a Lit

ISBN: 9781786941831

Category: History

Page: 288

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A collection of multinational scholarly contributions on various cultural aspects of the Amazon region in the 20th century.

Ukrainian Intelligentsia in Post-Soviet Lʹviv

2012

Author: Eleonora Narvselius

Publisher: Lexington Books

ISBN: 9780739164686

Category: First person narrative

Page: 433

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This study brings into focus the issue of reproduction and transformation of cultural authority in the so-called post-Soviet context. Being anchored to sociological theories on intellectual autonomy and empowerment through narrativization, it approaches daily practices, situat...

Interpreting Islam

2002-02-15

Author: Hastings Donnan

Publisher: SAGE

ISBN: 0761954228

Category: Social Science

Page: 212

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Islam is one of the most misunderstood concepts in the West. Myths and stereotypes surround it. This clear and penetrating volume helps readers to make sense of Islam. It offers a penetrating guide to the diversity and richness of contemporary knowledge about Islam and Muslim society. Throughout, the emphasis is upon the value of pluralistic approaches to Islam, rather than condensing complexity with unifying concepts such as `Orientalism'. Interdisciplinary in scope and organization, the book cuts through the bewildering and seemingly anarchic diversity of contemporary knowledge about Islam and Muslim society. The methodological difficulties and advantages of Western researchers focusing on Islam are fully documented. The book demonstrates how gender, age, status and `insider' / `outsider' status impacts upon research and inflects research findings.

Interpreting the Political

1997

Author: Terrell Carver

Publisher: Psychology Press

ISBN: 9780415131940

Category: Political Science

Page: 189

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The contributors redefine the notion of the 'political' by considering the sociolinguistic construction of 'the self' and 'identity', looking at the symbolic power of national anthems, discourses of sexual politics and the role of the researcher.

Identity as Ideology

2006-10-10

Author: S. Malesevic

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 9780230625648

Category: Social Science

Page: 253

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Despite profound disagreement on whether identities are essential or existential, primordial or constructed, singular or multiple, there is little dispute over whether identities exist or not. In this provocative study, Sinisa Malesevic interrogates the unproblematic use of concepts of identity, and in particular national or ethnic identity.

Canon 17 CIC 1983 and the Hermeneutical Principles of Bernard Lonergan

1999

Author: Phillip Brown

Publisher: Gregorian Biblical BookShop

ISBN: 8876528172

Category: Religion

Page: 444

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Canon 17 Cic 1983 suggests an hermeneutical approach to the interpretation of ecclesiastical laws.The author presents a concise summary of traditional canonical interpretative doctrine, new theories of interpretation elaborated during what he calls the intercodal period (between announcement in 1959 that the 1917 Codex Iuris Canonici would be completely revised and the promulgation of CIC 1983), and commentaries on interpretative doctrine and c. 17 since promulgation of the new Code, as background for a consideration of the hermeneutical principles of Bernard Lonergan and their potential usefulness in the interpretation of canon 17 itself.

Western Culture in Gospel Context

2011-04-18

Author: David J. Kettle

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

ISBN: 9781610971843

Category: Religion

Page: 396

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Approaching us in sovereign freedom, God comes alive to us, we come alive to God, and all creation comes alive as a sign pointing to God. In the gospel of Jesus Christ, God gives and discloses himself in this immediate way as our ultimate context and host, within the provisional medium of creation. This life-giving gospel is met by blindness, however, among those who live today in a collapsing Western culture. This is because their imaginative world is shaped by habitual assumptions and practices that lie--largely unacknowledged--deep within that culture, and that preclude openness to the gospel. Moreover, Western Christians themselves widely share these assumptions, betraying the gospel into cultural captivity. God calls for the conversion of Western culture to the living gospel. Crucially this must include, as Lesslie Newbigin recognized, a repentance from modern Western assumptions about knowledge. Part One explores seeking, knowing, and serving God, as providing a true paradigm for understanding all human enquiry, knowledge, and action. Part Two examines ten resulting "hot spots" where conversion from prevailing cultural assumptions is vital for authentic mission to Western culture.

Translating Mount Fuji

2006-11-07

Author: Dennis Washburn

Publisher: Columbia University Press

ISBN: 9780231511155

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 320

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Dennis Washburn traces the changing character of Japanese national identity in the works of six major authors: Ueda Akinari, Natsume S?seki, Mori ?gai, Yokomitsu Riichi, ?oka Shohei, and Mishima Yukio. By focusing on certain interconnected themes, Washburn illuminates the contradictory desires of a nation trapped between emulating the West and preserving the traditions of Asia. Washburn begins with Ueda's Ugetsu monogatari (Tales of Moonlight and Rain) and its preoccupation with the distant past, a sense of loss, and the connection between values and identity. He then considers the use of narrative realism and the metaphor of translation in Soseki's Sanshiro; the relationship between ideology and selfhood in Ogai's Seinen; Yokomitsu Riichi's attempt to synthesize the national and the cosmopolitan; Ooka Shohei's post-World War II representations of the ethical and spiritual crises confronting his age; and Mishima's innovative play with the aesthetics of the inauthentic and the artistry of kitsch. Washburn's brilliant analysis teases out common themes concerning the illustration of moral and aesthetic values, the crucial role of autonomy and authenticity in defining notions of culture, the impact of cultural translation on ideas of nation and subjectivity, the ethics of identity, and the hybrid quality of modern Japanese society. He pinpoints the persistent anxiety that influenced these authors' writings, a struggle to translate rhetorical forms of Western literature while preserving elements of the pre-Meiji tradition. A unique combination of intellectual history and critical literary analysis, Translating Mount Fuji recounts the evolution of a conflict that inspired remarkable literary experimentation and achievement.

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