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Book Art  Alienation  and the Humanities

Download or read book Art Alienation and the Humanities written by Charles Reitz and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2000-02-10 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrates how Marcuse's theory sheds new light on current debates in both education and society involving issues of multiculturalism, postmodernism, civic education, the "culture wars," critical thinking, and critical literacy.

Book Art  Alienation  and the Humanities

Download or read book Art Alienation and the Humanities written by Charles Reitz and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2000-02-03 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2002 American Educational Studies Association's Critics' Choice Award By examining the aesthetic, social, and educational philosophy of Herbert Marcuse, the author documents and demonstrates the structure and movement of Marcuse's thought on art, alienation, and the humanities. Reitz's work stresses the centrality of Marcuse's argument that the arts and humanities may act as disalienating educational forces.

Book Marcuse in the Twenty First Century

Download or read book Marcuse in the Twenty First Century written by Robert Kirsch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book engages the critical theory of political philosopher Herbert Marcuse to imagine spaces of resistance and liberation from the repressive forces of late capitalism. Marcuse, an influential counterculture voice in the 1960s, highlighted the "smooth democratic unfreedom" of postwar capitalism, a critique that is well adapted to the current context. The compilation begins with a previously unpublished lecture delivered by Marcuse in 1966 addressing the inadequacy of philosophy in its current form, arguing how it may be a force for liberation and social change. This lecture provides a theoretical mandate for the volume’s original contributions from international scholars engaging how topics such as higher education, aesthetics, and political organization can contribute to the project of building a critical rationality for a qualitatively better world, offering an alternative to the bleak landscape of neoliberalism. The essays in this volume as whole engage the current context with an urgency appropriate to the problems facing an encroaching authoritarianism in political society with an interdisciplinary lens that speaks to the complexity of the problems facing modern society. The chapters originally published as a special issue in New Political Science.

Book Alienation Effects

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  • Author : Branislav Jakovljevic
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2016-06-13
  • ISBN : 0472053140
  • Pages : 383 pages

Download or read book Alienation Effects written by Branislav Jakovljevic and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the interplay of artistic, political, and economic performance in the former Yugoslavia and reveals their inseparability

Book The Anti Hero in the American Novel

Download or read book The Anti Hero in the American Novel written by D. Simmons and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-05-26 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anti-Hero in the American Novel rereads major texts of the 1960s to offer an innovative re-evaluation of a set of canonical novels that moves beyond entrenched post-modern and post-structural interpretations towards an appraisal which emphasizes the specifically humanist and idealist elements of these works.

Book Freireian Pedagogy  Praxis  and Possibilities

Download or read book Freireian Pedagogy Praxis and Possibilities written by Stanley S. Steiner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholar, activist, and educator Paulo Freire was one of the first thinkers to fully appreciate the relationships between education, politics, imperialism, and liberation. This volume is a testament to the works of Paulo Freire in the field of Education as well as the life of the man: a "story of courage, hardship, perseverance, and unyielding belief in the power of love." In this comprehensive collection, prominent intellectuals including Noam Chomsky and Donald Macedo reflect on Freire's "politics of liberation" and add important new dimensions to the revolutionary, innovative ideas that Freire bequeathed to a generation much in need.

Book The Utopian Globalists

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  • Author : Jonathan Harris
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2013-01-02
  • ISBN : 1118316797
  • Pages : 362 pages

Download or read book The Utopian Globalists written by Jonathan Harris and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE UTOPIAN GLOBALISTS “Crossing continents, historical periods and cultural genres, Jonathan Harris skilfully traces the evolution of utopian ideals from early modernism to the spectacularised and biennialised (or banalised as some would say) contemporary art world of today.” Michael Asbury, University of the Arts, London The Utopian Globalists is the second in a trilogy of books by Jonathan Harris examining the contours, forces, materials and meanings of the global art world, along with its contexts of emergence since the early twentieth century. The first of the three studies, Globalization and Contemporary Art (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), anatomized the global art system through an extensive anthology of over 30 essays contextualized through multiple thematic introductions. The final book in the series, Contemporary Art in a Globalized World (forthcoming, Wiley-Blackwell), combines the historical and contemporary perspectives of the first and second books in an account focused on the ‘mediatizations’ shaping and representing contemporary art and its circuits of global production, dissemination and consumption. This innovative and revealing history examines artists whose work embodies notions of revolution and human social transformation. The clearly structured historical narrative takes the reader on a cultural odyssey that begins with Vladimir Tatlin’s constructivist model for a ‘Monument to the Third International’ (1919), a statement of utopian globalist intent, via Picasso’s 1940s commitment to Soviet communism and John and Yoko’s Montreal ‘Bedin’, to what the author calls the ‘late globalism’ of the Unilever Series at London’s Tate Modern. The book maps the ways artists and their work engaged with, and offered commentary on, modern spectacle in both capitalist and socialist modernism, throughout the eras of the Russian Revolution, the Cold War and the increasingly globalized world of the past 20 years. In doing so, Harris explores the idea that the utopian -globalist lineage in art remains torn between its yearning for freedom and a deepening identification with spectacle as a media commodity to be traded and consumed.

Book On Marcuse

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  • Author : Douglas Kellner
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2008-01-01
  • ISBN : 908790519X
  • Pages : 44 pages

Download or read book On Marcuse written by Douglas Kellner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbert Marcuse was one of the most important and renowned philosophers of the 20th century. His thought and his involvement in global student movements played a decisive role in transforming the political landscape of the 60’s and 70’s in the United States. For many he is remembered as the father of the so-called New Left, a figure who represented theoretical clarity through the fog of war, counterrevolution, and the repression of freedom in advanced industrial society.

Book Contemporary Culture

Download or read book Contemporary Culture written by Judith Thissen and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are the humanities still relevant in the twenty-first century? In the context of pervasive economic liberalism and shrinking budgets due to a deep and prolonged recession, the exigency of humanities research for society is increasingly put into question. This volume claims that the humanities do indeed matter by offering empirically-grounded critical reflections on contemporary cultural practices, thereby opening up new ways of understanding social life and new directions in humanities scholarship.

Book Dissertation Abstracts International

Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 1984-04 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Arts   Humanities Citation Index

Download or read book Arts Humanities Citation Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Alienation

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  • Author : Rahel Jaeggi
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2014-08-26
  • ISBN : 023153759X
  • Pages : 301 pages

Download or read book Alienation written by Rahel Jaeggi and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hegelian-Marxist idea of alienation fell out of favor after the postmetaphysical rejection of humanism and essentialist views of human nature. In this book Rahel Jaeggi draws on the Hegelian philosophical tradition, phenomenological analyses grounded in modern conceptions of agency, and recent work in the analytical tradition to reconceive alienation as the absence of a meaningful relationship to oneself and others, which manifests in feelings of helplessness and the despondent acceptance of ossified social roles and expectations. A revived approach to alienation helps critical social theory engage with phenomena such as meaninglessness, isolation, and indifference. By severing alienation's link to a problematic conception of human essence while retaining its social-philosophical content, Jaeggi provides resources for a renewed critique of social pathologies, a much-neglected concern in contemporary liberal political philosophy. Her work revisits the arguments of Rousseau, Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger, placing them in dialogue with Thomas Nagel, Bernard Williams, and Charles Taylor.

Book The Freirean Legacy

Download or read book The Freirean Legacy written by Judith J. Slater and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of voices, one hears stories and discussions grounded in the ideas of one of the most influential teachers and thinkers of our time. The Freirean Legacy offers the reader an opportunity to consider the work of Paulo Freire in terms of three significant perspectives. Michael Apple, Joe Kincheloe, and Ana Maria Araújo (Nita) Freire are among those who share insights and understandings resulting from firsthand experiences with Freire. The theoretical insights into his work and ideas are brought forth in pieces by Peter McLaren, Judith J. Slater, and others. Finally, this book concludes with interpretations of Freire's teachings as applied to praxis by several authors, including Stephen M. Fain and Cesar A. Rossatto. This anthology will serve the initiate well in getting to know Paulo Freire, while at the same time providing the sophisticated scholar with an opportunity to advance the conversation and continue the dialogue.

Book Negative Hermeneutics and the Question of Practice

Download or read book Negative Hermeneutics and the Question of Practice written by Nicholas Davey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do words and images function hermeneutically? How does hermeneutic practice work? Answering these questions and more, Nicholas Davey develops the hermeneutical foundations of creative practice. In doing so, he not only uncovers the significance of philosophical hermeneutics for the arts and the humanities, but defends the humanities as a whole from the current scepticism inspired by deconstruction and post-structuralism. Taking Gadamer's language ontology as its cue, this pioneering volume not only addresses certain weaknesses that Davey observes in Gadamer's thought but further takes Gadamerian thinking beyond Gadamer himself. In particular, Davey investigates the productive value of negativity that is central to hermeneutics and to wider spheres of creative learning. Advocating a renewed confidence in hermeneutics and the humanities, Negative Hermeneutics and the Question of Practice reveals how hermeneutical thinking provides a map of the dynamics within creative practice, eliminating the need for an externally imposed 'theory' of the arts.

Book Open Access and the Humanities

Download or read book Open Access and the Humanities written by Martin Paul Eve and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you work in a university, you are almost certain to have heard the term 'open access' in the past couple of years. You may also have heard either that it is the utopian answer to all the problems of research dissemination or perhaps that it marks the beginning of an apocalyptic new era of 'pay-to-say' publishing. In this book, Martin Paul Eve sets out the histories, contexts and controversies for open access, specifically in the humanities. Broaching practical elements alongside economic histories, open licensing, monographs and funder policies, this book is a must-read for both those new to ideas about open-access scholarly communications and those with an already keen interest in the latest developments for the humanities. This title is also available as Open Access via Cambridge Books Online.

Book The Art of Being Human

Download or read book The Art of Being Human written by Richard Paul Janaro and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Connect Plus Humanities Access Card for the Humanistic Tradition

Download or read book Connect Plus Humanities Access Card for the Humanistic Tradition written by Gloria K. Fiero and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 2002 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The penultimate volume in this series chronicles the move towards modernism, covering the arts, politics, and philosophy from the end of the 1700s to the dawn of the twentieth century. Using literary and musical excerpts to illuminate discussions, Fiero addresses important events and discoveries of the nineteenth century world. Volume five begins with the art and literature of the Romantic era, and concludes with coverage of the shifting aesthetics of the late nineteenth century. As in previous volumes, Volume Five includes a range of vivid illustrations and images throughout the text to enhance the material.