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Author: Jennifer Geddes Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135127190 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 134
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These six essays form a stimulating and lucid investigation of the meaning of evil in the light of postmodern thought, and of the cultural and social changes of the modern age. They consider subjects such as the war in Bosnia, AIDS, and the Holocaust.
Author: Jennifer Geddes Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135127190 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 134
Book Description
These six essays form a stimulating and lucid investigation of the meaning of evil in the light of postmodern thought, and of the cultural and social changes of the modern age. They consider subjects such as the war in Bosnia, AIDS, and the Holocaust.
Author: Krishan Kumar Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell ISBN: 9780631185598 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 253
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This lucid and insightful study of a crucial area of current debate covers the three theories of contemporary change: the information society, post-Fordism and postmodernity.
Author: Igal Halfin Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674010321 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 380
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Halfin exposes the inner struggles of Soviet Communists to identify themselves with the Bolshevik Party in the 1920s and 1930s. Combining the analysis of autobiography with the study of Communist psychology and sociology and the politics of Bolshevik self-fashioning, Halfin provides new insight into the preconditions of the Great Purge.
Author: Christof Royer Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030538176 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 264
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This book seeks to reimagine why and how to confront mass atrocities in world politics. Drawing on Hannah Arendt’s conception of evil, it interprets and understands mass atrocities as ‘evil’ in an ‘Arendtian’ sense, that is, as crimes against human plurality and, thus, crimes against humanity itself. This understanding of mass atrocities paves the way for reframing responses to mass atrocities as attempts to confront evil. In doing so, the book focuses on military intervention under the banner of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and judicial intervention by the International Criminal Court (ICC) and reframes them as tools to protect human plurality from evil. Furthermore, the book looks at the place and the role of R2P and the ICC in the changing landscape of world order. It argues that the protection of humanity from evil can serve as a legitimate Grundnorm (basic norm) around which a global constitutional order in an inherently pluralistic world can be constructed.
Author: Sezen Kayhan Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1443869120 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 130
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Despite the theories about the “death of tragedy”, this book explores fragments and reflections of tragedy in postmodern film. Tragedy has changed and evolved with human society, and its continuous chain from Ancient Greece to modern times has been broken by postmodernism. However, certain aspects of tragedy have continued to be used by literature and film: in particular, films with themes of chaos, violence, popular culture, paranoia, virtual reality and alienation often use aspects of tragedy. The focus of this study is on these facets adopted by postmodern film.
Author: Arne Johan Vetlesen Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9781139448840 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 336
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Evil is a poorly understood phenomenon. In this provocative 2005 book, Professor Vetlesen argues that to do evil is to intentionally inflict pain on another human being, against his or her will, and causing serious and foreseeable harm. Vetlesen investigates why and in what sort of circumstances such a desire arises, and how it is channeled, or exploited, into collective evildoing. He argues that such evildoing, pitting whole groups against each other, springs from a combination of character, situation, and social structure. By combining a philosophical approach inspired by Hannah Arendt, a psychological approach inspired by C. Fred Alford and a sociological approach inspired by Zygmunt Bauman, and bringing these to bear on the Holocaust and ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia, Vetlesen shows how closely perpetrators, victims, and bystanders interact, and how aspects of human agency are recognized, denied, and projected by different agents.
Author: Paul Crowther Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134388616 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 246
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Formulating a new approach to philosophy, Paul Crowther identifies conceptual links between value, knowledge, personal identity and civilization understood as a process of cumulative advance.
Author: Jim Powell Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser ISBN: 1939994195 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 314
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If you are like most people, you’re not sure what Postmodernism is. And if this were like most books on the subject, it probably wouldn’t tell you. Besides what a few grumpy critics claim, Postmodernism is not a bunch of meaningless intellectual mind games. On the contrary, it is a reaction to the most profound spiritual and philosophical crisis of our time – the failure of the Enlightenment. Jim Powell takes the position that Postmodernism is a series of “maps” that help people find their way through a changing world. Postmodernism For Beginners features the thoughts of Foucault on power and knowledge, Jameson on mapping the postmodern, Baudrillard on the media, Harvey on time-space compression, Derrida on deconstruction and Deleuze and Guattari on rhizomes. The book also discusses postmodern artifacts such as Madonna, cyberpunk, Buddhist ecology, and teledildonics.
Author: Jennifer Geddes
Author: Jennifer Geddes
Author: Gary Gutting
Author: Stephen R. C. Hicks
Author: Krishan Kumar
Author: Igal Halfin
Author: Christof Royer
Author: Sezen Kayhan
Author: Arne Johan Vetlesen
Author: Paul Crowther
Author: Jim Powell