Russia against modernity
In: International affairs, Band 100, Heft 2, S. 874-875
ISSN: 1468-2346
In: International affairs, Band 100, Heft 2, S. 874-875
ISSN: 1468-2346
This multidisciplinary collection of scholarship rethinks European urban modernity from a race-conscious perspective, being aware of (post)colonial entanglements. The twelve original contributions empirically focus on such varied cities as Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Cottbus, Genoa, Hamburg, Madrid, Mitrovica, Naples, Paris, Sheffield, and Thessaloniki, engaging multiple combinations of global urban studies, from various historical perspectives, with postcolonial, decolonial and critical race studies. Inspired by Dipesh Chakrabarty's notion of 'provincializing Europe', the collection interrogates dominant, Eurocentric theories, representations and models of European cities across the East-West divide, offering the reader alternative perspectives to understand and imagine urban life and politics. With its focus on Europe, it ultimately contributes to decades of rigorous critical race scholarship on varied global urban regions.
In: SpringerBriefs in Philosophy
Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Modernisation, Modernity, Liberalism and Religion -- Chapter 3: Marxian Critique of Religion -- Chapter 4: Early Habermas's Critique of Gadamer and His Later Approach to Religion -- Chapter 5: The Gadamer-Habermas Debate and its Implication for Religion -- Chapter 6: Post-Secularism, Liberalism and Their Discontents -- Chapter 7: Conclusion.
In: Routledge Studies in African Philosophy
This book presents an innovative African philosophical response to coloniality and the attendant epistemicide of Africa's knowledge systems, drawing on Igbo thinking.
This book argues that theorizing modernity requires a critical conversation between African and Western scholarship, in order to unpack its links with coloniality and the subjugation of Africa's indigenous knowledges. In setting out this discussion, the book also connects with Latin American scholarship, demonstrating how the modern world is structured to marginalize and destroy knowledges from across the Global South. This book draws on Igbo epistemic resources of solidarity thinking, positioned in contrast to capitalist knowledge-patterns, thereby providing an important Africa-driven response to modernity and coloniality. This book concludes by arguing that the Igbo sense of solidarity is useful and relevant to modern contexts and thus constitutes a vital resource for a less disruptive, more balanced, and more wholesome modernity.
At a time of considerable global crises, this book makes an important contribution to philosophy both within Africa and beyond.
"In Michael Cook's words, this book is "about a substantial slice of human history delimited by a particular cultural characteristic: adherance to Islam in some form or other. [...] A commitment to Islam makes a difference. Wherever a society and its rulers have come to be Muslim, this has meant a major discontinuity with its pre-Islamic past and a significant expansion of its relations with the wider Muslim world." Starting in the pre-Islamic Middle East, Cook returns a sense of wonder to how Muhammad could not only become a prophet of a new monotheistic religion but also unite the Arab tribes behind it and create a state that would conquer much of the territory that belonged to the Byzantines and the Sasanians, the two empires that had balanced power in the region for hundreds of years. Exploring the high culture of the Abbasids, Cook then charts the disintegration of the Caliphate and the brief rise of the Fatimids and the Mongols of the Steppe. He covers the Ottomans (Turkish), Safavids (Iranian), Mughals (India), and ventures to East Africa, Madagascar, Somalia, Southeast Asia, and many places between. An epilogue gestures to major themes in the post-1800 world"--
In: New studies in modern Japan
"This book revisits Japanese modern literature in relation to Kon Wajirō's urban ethnography and draws a speculative genealogy of dwelling practices in the Japanese capital defined by mobility, affect and the beautiful, in particular what Kon called "accidental beauty.""--
In: Central European history, Band 57, Heft 1, S. 1-24
ISSN: 1569-1616
AbstractThis article examines self-disparaging representations of "the German man" in humorous middle-class visual and textual publications of the 1840s. Considering contemporary notions of German national character and the emergence of contradictory masculine ideals, the analysis traces the dual representation of the German man as either an emasculated philistine or a hypermasculine quixotic hero. Based on this analysis, it argues that just as a German national movement was acquiring unprecedented political potency, a highly gendered sense of German national ineptness was widespread among the German bourgeoisie. Both the philistine and the quixotic German were cast as inadequate in the face of a corruptive, feminized modernity that was unfairly advantageous to the French. These findings underscore how gender and national stereotypes in nineteenth-century Germany were mutually destabilizing and repeatedly negotiated, profoundly shaping contemporaries' understanding of the world changing around them.
In: Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights Series
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In: History of European ideas, S. 1-4
ISSN: 0191-6599
In: Journal of cultural interaction in East Asia, Band 0, Heft 0
ISSN: 2747-7576
In: Comparative Political Theory, S. 1-6
ISSN: 2666-9773
Abstract
What is "Confucian liberalism" a response to? In this essay, I elicit a political, rather than merely philosophical, crisis in the background of Roy Tseng's argument in Confucian Liberalism: Mou Zongsan and Hegelian Liberalism. This crisis stems from Western imperialism vis-à-vis China starting in the late nineteenth century. It also takes the form of a challenge of legitimacy for the modern Chinese state. Identifying the relevant crisis in this way leads me to question the suitability of Hegel as a companion to Confucian liberalism. It also leads me to suggest the necessity of an institutional approach that gives due consideration to the imperial legacy and the infrastructural power of the state in China today.
In: Voprosy istorii: VI = Studies in history, Band 2024, Heft 1, S. 166-173
In this article, the historical formation of fraud in the provision of legal services as a criminal offense is analyzed. Currently, such crimes are a serious problem in terms of their prevention and disclosure. Considering that references to unscrupulous lawyers are found long before the appearance of the bar, an attempt has been made to consider the designated criminal manifestations in the pre-revolutionary, Soviet and modern period of Russia's development.