Author: Dennis DavidPublisher:
ISBN: 9781610609258
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Fifties Fins
Author: Dennis DavidPublisher:
ISBN: 9781610609258
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Fifties Flashback
Author: Dennis AdlerPublisher: Motorbooks
ISBN: 0760319278
Category : Automobiles
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
No other era in automotive history is as revered as the 1950s, when Detroit was the center of the auto world and the American V-8 was king of the road. With hundreds of color photos of beautiful restorations and a collection of rare archival photos, Dennis Adler has compiled a detailed history of the emerging postwar American auto industry.
Fifty Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions
Author: Edward StillingfleetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons, English
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
Declinations and Proper Motions of Fifty-six Stars
Author: Herman Stearns DavisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latitude variation
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God Thomas Wilson, Fifty-eight Years Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man
Author: Thomas WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
The Works ... Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses, on Several Occasions
Author: TillotsonCool Cars, High Art: The Rise of Kustum Kulture
Author: Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781604737752
Category : Art, American
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The Pilgrim's Progress ... The Fifty Fourth Edition. Pt. 1-3
Author: John BunyanA Discourse Delivered One Hundred and Fifty Years Ago
Author: George WeekesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fashion
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Fin de Siècle Social Theory
Author: Jeffrey C. AlexanderPublisher: Verso
ISBN: 9781859849965
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
In four closely interwoven studies, Jeffrey Alexander identifies the central dilemma that provokes contemporary social theory and proposes a new way to resolve it. The dream of reason that marked the previous fin de siècle foundered in the face of the cataclysms of the twentieth century, when war, revolution, and totalitarianism came to be seen as themselves products of reason. In response there emerged the profound skepticism about rationality that has so starkly defined the present fin de siècle. From Wittgenstein through Rorty and postmodernism, relativism rejects the very possibility of universal standards, while for both positivism and neo-Marxists like Bourdieu, reductionism claims that ideas simply reflect their social base. In a readable and spirited argument, Alexander develops the alternative of a "neo-modernist" position that defends reason from within a culturally centered perspective while remaining committed to the goal of explaining, not merely interpreting, contemporary social life. On the basis of a sweeping reinterpretation of postwar society and its intellectuals, he suggests that both antimodernist radicalism and postmodernist resignation are now in decline; a more democratic, less ethnocentric and more historically contingent universalizing social theory may thus emerge. Developing in his first two studies a historical approach to the problem of "absent reason," Alexander moves via a critique of Richard Rorty to construct his case for "present reason." Finally, focusing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, he provokes the most sustained critical reflection yet on this influential thinker. Fin de Siecle Social Theory is a tonic intervention in contemporary debates, showing how social and cultural theory can properly take the measure of the extraordinary times in which we live.