Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Myths of the Modern -- 1 Modernity and Feminism -- 2 On Nostalgia: The Prehistoric Woman -- 3 Imagined Pleasures: The Erotics and Aesthetics of Consumption -- 4 Masking Masculinity: The Feminization of Writing -- 5 Love, God, and the Orient: Reading the Popular Sublime -- 6 Visions of the New: Feminist Discourses of Evolution and Revolution -- 7 The Art of Perversion: Female Sadists and Male Cyborgs -- Afterword: Rewriting the Modern -- Notes -- Index
In Modernity and Terrorism Zafirovski and Rodeheaver analyze the nature, types, and causes of terrorism. The book redefines terrorism in novel comprehensive way, considers counter-state and state terrorism, and identifies and predicts conservative anti-modernity as the main cause of terrorism.
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Nordicism, Myth and Modernity -- Locating This Investigation into Nordicism Within Existing Research -- Recasting Nordicism -- Roger Griffin's Theory of Modernism -- Overview -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Printed Works -- Websites and Digital Publications (With Date Accessed) -- Chapter 2: New Foundations: Nationalist and Romantic Visions of the Nordic in Northern Europe and America -- Rediscovering National Roots in Northern Europe and North America -- Growing Apart Together: Scandinavian Romanticism and Nationalism -- Romanticism and the Viking in Georgian and Victorian Britain -- Born in the USA: The Vínland Myth -- Establishing a Home-Grown Mythology: German Romanticism, Myth and National Unity -- Conclusion: National Romanticism as a Foundation for Nordicism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Printed Works -- Websites and Digital Publications (With Date Accessed) -- Chapter 3: Regeneration: Racial Science, Eugenics and the Emergence of Nordicism -- The Genesis Question: The Word of God and Human Diversity -- Taxonomy: Measuring and Classifying a Race -- The Evolution of the Races: The Impact of Darwinism -- From Genesis to Racial Science -- The Aryan and the Nordic -- Miscegenation: The Racial Crisis of Aryanism -- Locating the Homeland of the Aryan in the North -- From Aryanism to Nordicism -- Regeneration: From Theory to Practice -- Eugenics as a Form of Programmatic Modernism -- Conclusion: Nordicism as a Solution to Racial and Cultural Degeneration -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Printed Works -- Websites and Digital Publications (With Date Accessed) -- Chapter 4: Towards Ragnarǫk -- Nordicism as a Cultural, Political and Scientific Reality in Germany and the USA -- Modernity and Preserving the Nordic American -- Madison Grant: Nordicism in the USA.
Cover -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Editors' Preface -- Introduction -- Part I Interpreting Enlightenment Principles -- 1 The Sceptical Enlightenment: Philosopher Travellers Look Back at Europe -- 2 Education Can Do All -- 3 Kant: the Arch-enlightener -- 4 Kant, Property and the General Will -- 5 Can Enlightenment Morality be Justified Teleologically? -- 6 Ganging A'gley -- Part II Assessing the Enlightenment Roots of Modernity -- 7 English Conservatism and Enlightenment Rationalism -- 8 Four Assumptions About Human Nature -- 9 The Enlightenment, the Nation-state and the Primal Patricide of Modernity -- 10 Critique and Enlightenment: Michel Foucault on 'Was ist Aufklärung?' -- 11 The Enlightenment, Contractualism and the Moral Polity -- Index.
Departing from the notion of 'the stranger' in classical sociological literature (Alfred Schutz and Georg Simmel), the paper discusses the significance of two paradigmatic approaches, one of which has discursively branched off into modernity. In a world where the search for roots has become widespread - from the new social movements to the building of new nation-state, from identity politics to national identities - the multiple expression of exclusion has spread. A new kind of European citizen, a 'stranger', is being constructed. I argue that scientific discourses related to the intellectual heritage of Alfred Schutz have helped to create the 'stranger' and the 'non-stranger'. It is further argued that Simmel's approach is an alternative well worth highlighting.
This book examines recent debates on the political dynamics of cosmopolitanism, particularly in its connection with European civil society and the public sphere. The aim of the volume is to trace to what extent cosmopolitanism corresponds to «second modernity», with the latter concept referring to the potential for consensus, the creation of multiple political alternatives and the recognition of otherness. The book accordingly explores questions about democratic legitimacy and the formation of social and political institutions and presents empirical research on phenomena such as global violence.The volume is intended to constitute a cosmopolitan project in itself, comprising contributions from scholars with very diverse approaches. Together, these contributions provide a stimulating analysis of what cosmopolitanism can offer to socially and politically diverse twenty-first-century societies
The paper focuses on the Latin American perspective on modernity, especially on the Peruvian sociologist Anibal Quijano's notion of coloniality. Coloniality is explained as a theoret- ical framework for critical reflection of modernity with an emphasis on the forms of knowledge (episteme) and on non-Western, more specifically Latin American historical experiences and perspectives. The aim is to introduce some Latin American efforts to critically understand coloniality as the other face of modernity and to develop a distinctive critique of capitalism, globalisation and Eurocentrism in their historical dynamics, In the first part, the paper briefly introduces Latin America as a geocultural place and a object of social research in a historical perspective. Special attention is paid to the question of racial classification and authenticity. In the second part, the paper focuses on the notion of coloniality as it was conceptualised by A. Quijano and by other Latin American authors. In the third and fourth parts, the paper deals with the problem of coloniality in wider epistemic contexts of modern social sciences and in relation to the notion of alterity and to the question of decolonisation of social scientific thinking. The final discussion addresses some of inspirational and problematic points of this conception such as problems of decolonisation, intellectual dependency and critique, and the problem of conceptualisation of differences in scientific discourses.
The nature, faults and future of modern civilization and how these connect to the past are tackled in this broad-reaching volume.Presents a study of modernity that examines classical influencesIncorporates political, economic, social, and psychological theoriesHighlights writings from a wide range of thinkers, including Adam Smith, Marx, Mill, Nietzsche, Weber, and Freud
"This book traces the major stages in the evolution of the sociological concept of marginality, highlighting in particular the contribution made by Gino Germani. Its purpose is to analyse, starting with the sociological theory of the early 1960s, the progressive maturation of the scientific status of the concept of marginality, and to test the theoretical premise that gave rise to Germani's theory of marginality. The author begins by examining the contribution of the Chicago School. He explores the complex relationship between the theory of marginality and modernization by analysing North American theses and the criticisms mainly generated in Latin America. The goal is to reconstruct Germani's theoretical model of marginality, addressing its application to contemporary social and economic conditions. Giardiello's analysis is intertwined with two themes that are central to Germani's thought about marginality. The first concerns the origin of the concept of social exclusion within sociological thought. The second shows how marginality is clearly a phenomenology connected to the contradictions of modernity. Germani's paradigm of marginality enables the social scientist to resolve the contradictions between the analytical perspectives that deal with marginality in an objective way and the one that observes it subjectively."--Provided by publisher
The essays collected in this volume all explore the problem of the relation between moral philosophy and modernity. Charles Larmore addresses this problem by attempting to define the way distinctive forms of modern experience should orientate our moral thinking. Charles Larmore wonders whether the dominant forms of modern philosophy have not become blind to important dimensions of the moral life. The book argues against recent attempts to return to the virtue-centered perspective of ancient Greek ethics. As well as exploring the differences between ancient and modern ethics, the author examines such topics as the roles of reason and history in our moral understanding, the inadequacy of philsophical naturalism, and the foundations of modern liberalism. There are also extended discussions of a number of leading contemporary philosophers: Rawls, Habermas, Williams and Rorty
1. From the myth of progress to the myth of modernity -- 2. The clean sweep -- 3. Angelism -- 4. Politeness -- 5. Technique versus nature -- 6. Baudelaire and the modern man -- 7. Of the prestige of action -- 8. Communions -- 9. Opinion and tolerance -- 10. Humanism -- 11. Eloquence on trial -- 12. Of reading -- 13. Technique versus mysticism -- 14. A moderate view of happiness -- 15. The paradoxes of education -- 16. The gift of childhood -- 17. Confidence in mankind -- 18. An apology for the unruly -- 19. Withdrawal into one's tent -- 20. Verlaine -- 21. Art and the epoch.
We are inclined to see terrorist attacks as an aberration, a violent incursion into our lives that bears no intrinsic relation to the fundamental features of modern societies. But does this view misconstrue the relation between terror and modernity? In this book philosopher Donatella Di Cesare takes an historical approach and argues that terror is not a new phenomenon, but rather one has always been a key part ofmodernity. Discussion of ideological wars between Islamic fundamentalism andWestern ideals or the portrayal of terrorists as nihilists distracts from the fact that, atits most basic level, terrorism is about the struggle for power and sovereignty. Thegrowing concentration of power in the hands of the state, which is a constitutive feature of modern societies, sows the seeds of terrorism, which is deployed as a weapon by those who are exposed to the violence of the state and feel that they have no other recourse. Illustrating her argument with wide-ranging examples including the Red Brigades, 9/11, the attacks in Paris, the rise of ISIS and the case of Edward Snowden, Di Cesare provides a sophisticated analysis of modern terrorism. This work will appeal to anyone wishing to understand contemporary terrorism more deeply, as well as students and scholars of philosophy and political theory.