Download or read book La Crise du Monde Moderne Ren Gu non Oeuvre Compl te et Illustr written by René Guénon and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Un des caractères particuliers du monde moderne, c'est la scission qu'on y remarque entre l'Orient et l'Occident. Il peut y avoir une sorte d'équivalence entre des civilisations de formes très différentes, dès lors qu'elles reposent toutes sur les mêmes principes fondamentaux, dont elles représentent seulement des applications conditionnées par des circonstances variées. Tel est le cas de toutes les civilisations que nous pouvons appeler normales, ou encore traditionnelles ; il n'y a entre elles aucune opposition essentielle, et les divergences, s'il en existe, ne sont qu'extérieures et superficielles. Par contre, une civilisation qui ne reconnaît aucun principe supérieur, qui n'est même fondée en réalité que sur une négation des principes, est par là même dépourvue de tout moyen d'entente avec les autres, car cette entente, pour être vraiment profonde et efficace, ne peut s'établir que par en haut, c'est-à-dire précisément par ce qui manque à cette civilisation anormale et déviée. Dans l'état présent du monde, nous avons donc, d'un côté, toutes les civilisations qui sont demeurées fidèles à l'esprit traditionnel, et qui sont les civilisations orientales, et, de l'autre, une civilisation proprement anti-traditionnelle, qui est la civilisation occidentale moderne. "
Download or read book La crise du monde moderne written by René Guénon and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-26 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Lorsque nous avons, il y a quelques années, écrit Orient et Occident, nous pensions avoir donné, sur les questions qui faisaient l’objet de ce livre, toutes les indications utiles, pour le moment tout au moins. Depuis lors, les événements sont allés en se précipitant avec une vitesse toujours croissante, et, sans nous faire changer d’ailleurs un seul mot à ce que nous disions alors, ils rendent opportunes certaines précisions complémentaires et nous amènent à développer des points de vue sur lesquels nous n’avions pas cru nécessaire d’insister tout d’abord. Ces précisions s’imposent d’autant plus que nous avons vu s’affirmer de nouveau, en ces derniers temps, et sous une forme assez agressive, quelques-unes des confusions que nous nous sommes déjà attaché précisément à dissiper ; tout en nous abstenant soigneusement de nous mêler à aucune polémique, nous avons jugé bon de remettre les choses au point une fois de plus. Il est, dans cet ordre, des considérations, même élémentaires, qui semblent tellement étrangères à l’immense majorité de nos contemporains, que, pour les leur faire comprendre, il ne faut pas se lasser d’y revenir à maintes reprises, en les présentant sous leurs différents aspects, et en expliquant plus complètement, à mesure que les circonstances le permettent, ce qui peut donner lieu à des difficultés qu’il n’était pas toujours possible de prévoir du premier coup. Le titre même du présent volume demande quelques explications que nous devons fournir avant tout, afin que l’on sache bien comment nous l’entendons et qu’il n’y ait à cet égard aucune équivoque. e l’on puisse parler d’une crise du monde moderne, en prenant ce mot de « crise " dans son acception la plus ordinaire, c’est une chose que beaucoup ne mettent déjà plus en doute, et, à cet égard tout au moins, il s’est produit un changement assez sensible : sous l’action même des événements, certaines illusions commencent à se dissiper, et nous ne pouvons, pour notre part, que nous en féliciter, car il y a là, malgré tout, un symptôme assez favorable, l’indice d’une possibilité de redressement de la mentalité contemporaine, quelque chose qui apparaît comme une faible lueur au milieu du chaos actuel. C’est ainsi que la croyance à un « progrès " indéfini, qui était tenue naguëre encore pour une sorte de dogme intangible et indiscutable, n’est plus aussi généralement admise ; certains entrevoient plus ou moins vaguement, plus ou moins confusément, que la civilisation occidentale, au lieu d’aller toujours en continuant à se développer dans le même sens, pourrait bien arriver un jour à un point d’arrêt, ou même sombrer entièrement dans quelque cataclysme. Peut-être ceux-là ne voient-ils pas nettement où est le danger, et les craintes chimériques ou puériles qu’ils manifestent parfois prouvent suffisamment la persistance de bien des erreurs dans leur esprit ; mais enfin c’est déjà quelque chose qu’ils se rendent compte qu’il y a un danger, même s’ils le sentent plus qu’ils ne le comprennent vraiment, et qu’ils parviennent à concevoir que cette civilisation dont les modernes sont si infatués n’occupe pas une place privilégiée dans l’histoire du monde, qu’elle peut avoir le même sort que tant d’autres qui ont déjà disparu à des époques plus ou moins lointaines, et dont certaines n’ont laissé derrière elles que des traces infimes, des vestiges à peine perceptibles ou difficilement reconnaissables."
Download or read book La crise du monde moderne written by René Guénon and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-21 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Lorsque nous avons, il y a quelques années, écrit Orient et Occident, nous pensions avoir donné, sur les questions qui faisaient l’objet de ce livre, toutes les indications utiles, pour le moment tout au moins. Depuis lors, les événements sont allés en se précipitant avec une vitesse toujours croissante, et, sans nous faire changer d’ailleurs un seul mot à ce que nous disions alors, ils rendent opportunes certaines précisions complémentaires et nous amènent à développer des points de vue sur lesquels nous n’avions pas cru nécessaire d’insister tout d’abord. Ces précisions s’imposent d’autant plus que nous avons vu s’affirmer de nouveau, en ces derniers temps, et sous une forme assez agressive, quelques-unes des confusions que nous nous sommes déjà attaché précisément à dissiper ; tout en nous abstenant soigneusement de nous mêler à aucune polémique, nous avons jugé bon de remettre les choses au point une fois de plus. Il est, dans cet ordre, des considérations, même élémentaires, qui semblent tellement étrangères à l’immense majorité de nos contemporains, que, pour les leur faire comprendre, il ne faut pas se lasser d’y revenir à maintes reprises, en les présentant sous leurs différents aspects, et en expliquant plus complètement, à mesure que les circonstances le permettent, ce qui peut donner lieu à des difficultés qu’il n’était pas toujours possible de prévoir du premier coup."
Download or read book The New Spirit of Capitalism written by Luc Boltanski and published by Verso. This book was released on 2005 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century after the publication of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism , a major new work examines network-based organization, employee autonomy and post-Fordist horizontal work structures.
Download or read book The Essential Ren Gu non written by René Guénon and published by World Wisdom, Inc. This book was released on 2009 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prolific writer and author of over 24 books, Rene Guenon was the founder of the Perennialist/Traditionalist school of comparative religious thought. Known for his discourses on the intellectual and spiritual bankruptcy of the modern world, symbolism, tradition, and the inner or spiritual dimension of religion, this book is a compilation of his most important writings. A key component of his thought was the assertion that universal truths manifest themselves in various forms in the world's religions and his writings on Hinduism, Taoism, and Sufism are particularly illuminating in this regard.
Download or read book New Voyages to North America written by baron de Lahontan and published by Chicago : A.C. McClurg. This book was released on 1905 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vodou in Haitian Life and Culture written by C. Michel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-11-27 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection introduces readers to the history and practice of the Vodou religion, and corrects many misconceptions. The book focuses specifically on the role Vodou plays in Haiti, where it has its strongest following, examining its influence on spiritual beliefs, cultural practices, national identity, popular culture, writing and art.
Download or read book Notebooks written by Paul Valéry and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2000 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cahiers/Notebooks of Paul Valéry are a unique form of writing. They reveal Valéry as one of the most radical and creative minds of the twentieth century, encompassing a wide range of investigation into all spheres of human activity. His work explores the arts, the sciences, philosophy, history and politics, investigating linguistic, psychological and social issues, all linked to the central questions, relentlessly posed: 'what is the human mind and how does it work?', 'what is the potential of thought and what are its limits?' But we encounter here too, Valéry the writer: exploratory, fragmentary texts undermine the boundaries between analysis and creativity, between theory and practice. Neither journal nor diary, eluding the traditional genres of writing, the Notebooks offer lyrical passages, writing of extreme beauty, prose poems of extraordinary descriptive power alongside theoretical considerations of poetics, ironic aphorisms and the most abstract kind of analysis. The concerns and the insights that occupied Valéry's inner voyages over more than 50 years remain as relevant as ever for the contemporary reader: for the Self that is his principal subject is at once singular and universal.
Download or read book Le Tumulte Noir written by Jody Blake and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jody Blake demonstrates in this book that although the impact of African-American music and dance in France was constant from 1900 to 1930, it was not unchanging. This was due in part to the stylistic development and diversity of African-American music and dance, from the prewar cakewalk and ragtime to the postwar Charleston and jazz. Successive groups of modernists, beginning with the Matisse and Picasso circle in the 1900s and concluding with the Surrealists and Purists in the 1920s, constructed different versions of la musique and la danse negre. Manifested in creative and critical works, these responses to African-American music and dance reflected the modernists' varying artistic agendas and historical climates.
Download or read book The Exploited Child written by Bernard Schlemmer and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2000-07 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ib. Child labour in society
Download or read book Regimes of Comparatism written by Renaud Gagné and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, all societies have used comparison to analyze cultural difference through the interaction of religion, power, and translation. When comparison is a self-reflective practice, it can be seen as a form of comparatism. Many scholars are concerned in one way or another with the practice and methods of comparison, and the need for a cognitively robust relativism is an integral part of a mature historical self-placement. This volume looks at how different theories and practices of writing and interpretation have developed at different times in different cultures and reconsiders the specificities of modern comparative approaches within a variety of comparative moments. The idea is to reconsider the specificities, the obstacles, and the possibilities of modern comparative approaches in history and anthropology through a variety of earlier and parallel comparative horizons. Particular attention is given to the exceptional role of Athens and Jerusalem in shaping the Western understanding of cultural difference. Contributors are: Matei Candea, Philippe Descola, Renaud Gagné, Simon Goldhill, Anthony Grafton, Caroline Humphrey, Dmitri Levitin, Geoffrey Lloyd, Joan-Pau Rubiés, Jonathan Sheehan, Marilyn Strathern, Guy Stroumsa, and Phiroze Vasunia.
Download or read book Five Faces of Modernity written by Matei Călinescu and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five Faces of Modernity is a series of semantic and cultural biographies of words that have taken on special significance in the last century and a half or so: modernity, avant-garde, decadence, kitsch, and postmodernism. The concept of modernity--the notion that we, the living, are different and somehow superior to our predecessors and that our civilization is likely to be succeeded by one even superior to ours--is a relatively recent Western invention and one whose time may already have passed, if we believe its postmodern challengers. Calinescu documents the rise of cultural modernity and, in tracing the shifting senses of the five terms under scrutiny, illustrates the intricate value judgments, conflicting orientations, and intellectual paradoxes to which it has given rise. Five Faces of Modernity attempts to do for the foundations of the modernist critical lexicon what earlier terminological studies have done for such complex categories as classicism, baroque, romanticism, realism, or symbolism and thereby fill a gap in literary scholarship. On another, more ambitious level, Calinescu deals at length with the larger issues, dilemmas, ideological tensions, and perplexities brought about by the assertion of modernity.
Download or read book The Architecture of Psychoanalysis written by Jane Rendell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thought-provoking book, Jane Rendell explores how architectural space registers in psychoanalysis. She investigates both the inherently spatial vocabulary of psychoanalysis and ideas around the physical 'setting' of the psychoanalytic encounter, with reference to Sigmund Freud, D.W. Winnicott and Andre Green. Building on the innovative writing methods employed in Art and Architecture and Site-Writing, she also addresses the concept of architecture as 'social condenser' a Russian constructivist notion that connects material space and community relations. Tracing this idea's progress from 1920s Moscow to 1950s Britain, Rendell shows how interior and exterior meet in both psychoanalysis and architectural practice. Illuminating a novel field of interdisciplinary enquiry, this book breathes fresh life into notions of social space."
Download or read book The Cohesion of Oppression written by Catharine Newbury and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on Kenya and Tanzania, this important study suggests that the solution to third world hunger lies in the interaction of political development and the mobilization of technical resources. The book clarifies as never before the role of political institutions in successful new technology diffusion; shows the similarities between capitalist and socialist states' approaches to technology; and traces the development of assistance projects.
Download or read book Writing Architectural History written by Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades, scholarship in architectural history has transformed, moving away from design studio pedagogy and postmodern historicism to draw instead from trends in critical theory focusing on gender, race, the environment, and more recently global history, connecting to revisionist trends in other fields. With examples across space and time—from medieval European coin trials and eighteenth-century Haitian revolutionary buildings to Weimar German construction firms and present-day African refugee camps—Writing Architectural History considers the impact of these shifting institutional landscapes and disciplinary positionings for architectural history. Contributors reveal how new methodological approaches have developed interdisciplinary research beyond the traditional boundaries of art history departments and architecture schools, and explore the challenges and opportunities presented by conventional and unorthodox forms of evidence and narrative, the tools used to write history.
Download or read book Themes in French Culture written by Rhoda Métraux and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Mead collaborated with her long-time colleague Rhoda Métraux in this unique study of French culture. The Hoover Institute at Stanford University originally published this volume, which grew out of the Columbia University project on Research of Contemporary Cultures in 1954. It is one of the few works by American social scientists dealing with broad themes of French life. Mead and Métraux present a vivid picture of the French starting with the organization of the house and its architecture, and drawing original conclusions for the structure of French families and overall cultural values. This work, long out of print, is a fascinating and penetrating portrait of a contemporary European society.
Download or read book Nanjing Lectures 2016 2019 written by Daniel Ross and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this series of lectures, delivered at Nanjing University from 2016 to 2019, Bernard Stiegler rethinks the so-called Anthropocene in relation to philosophy's failure to reckon with the manifold and indeed "cosmic" consequences of the entropic and thermodynamic revolution. Beginning with the Oxford Dictionaries' decision to make "post-truth" the 2016 word of the year, and taking this as an opportunity to understand the implications for Heidegger's "history of being", "history of truth" and Gestell, the first series of lectures enter into an original consideration of the relationship between Socrates and Plato (and of tragic Greece in general) and its meaning for the history of Western philosophy. The following year's lecture series traverse a path from Foucault's biopower to psychopower to neuropower, and then to a critique of neuroeconomics. Revising Husserl's account of retention to focus on the irreducible connection between human memory and technological memory, the lectures culminate in reflections on the significance of neurotechnology in platform capitalism. The concept of hyper-matter is introduced in the lectures of 2019 as requisite for an epistemology that escapes the trap of opposing the material and the ideal in order to respond to the need for a new critique of the notion of information and technological performativity (of which Moore's law both is and is not an example) in an age when the biosphere has become a technosphere. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
