Nietzsche and Islam(Double)
Title | Nietzsche and Islam(Double) PDF eBook |
Author | Jackson Roy |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2007 |
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History of Islam in German Thought
Title | History of Islam in German Thought PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Almond |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 416 |
Release | 2009-10-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1135268886 |
This concise overview of the perception of Islam in eight of the most important German thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries allows a new and fascinating investigation of how these thinkers, within their own bodies of work, often espoused contradicting ideas about Islam and their nearest Muslim neighbors. Exploring a variety of 'neat compartmentalizations' at work in the representations of Islam, as well as distinct vocabularies employed by these key intellectuals (theological, political, philological, poetic), Ian Almond parses these vocabularies to examine the importance of Islam in the very history of German thought. Almond further demonstrates the ways in which German philosophers such as Hegel, Kant, and Marx repeatedly ignored information about the Muslim world that did not harmonize with the particular landscapes they were trying to paint – a fact which in turn makes us reflect on what it means when a society possesses 'knowledge' of a foreign culture.
The Advancement of Learning
Title | The Advancement of Learning PDF eBook |
Author | Francis Bacon |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 480 |
Release | 1893 |
Genre | Logic |
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Histories of Postmodernism
Title | Histories of Postmodernism PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Bevir |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 282 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Histories of Postmodernism reexamines the history of the constellation of ideas and thinkers associated with postmodernism. The increasingly dominant historical narrative depicts a relatively smooth development of ideas from Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger, through a range of French theorists, most notably Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, to contemporary American thinkers such as Richard Rorty, Edward Said, and Judith Butler. Histories of Postmodernism challenges this narrative by highlighting the local contexts of relevant theorists and thus the crucial distinctions that divide successive articulations of the themes and concepts associated with postmodernism. As postmodern ideas traveled from nineteenth-century Germany to mid-twentieth-century France and on to the contemporary United States, so the relevant theorists transformed that heritage within the context of particular intellectual traditions and specific political and aesthetic issues.
The Jew, the Arab
Title | The Jew, the Arab PDF eBook |
Author | Gil Anidjar |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780804748247 |
This book argues that in "Christian Europe," the question of the enemy has for millennia been structured by the historical relation of Europe to both Arab and Jew. It provides a philosophical understanding of the background of the current conflict in the Middle East.
Making British Culture
Title | Making British Culture PDF eBook |
Author | David Allan |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 367 |
Release | 2008-05-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1135895031 |
Making British Culture explores an under-appreciated factor in the emergence of a recognisably British culture. Specifically, it examines the experiences of English readers between around 1707 and 1830 as they grappled, in a variety of circumstances, with the great effusion of Scottish authorship – including the hard-edged intellectual achievements of David Hume, Adam Smith and William Robertson as well as the more accessible contributions of poets like Robert Burns and Walter Scott – that distinguished the age of the Enlightenment.
Film, History and Cultural Citizenship
Title | Film, History and Cultural Citizenship PDF eBook |
Author | Tina Mai Chen |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 322 |
Release | 2020-09-19 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1135762074 |
This new book investigates the relationship of film to history, power, memory, and cultural citizenship. The book is concerned with two central issues: firstly, the participation of film and filmmakers in articulating and challenging projects of modernity; and, secondly, the role of film in shaping particular understandings of self and other to evoke collective notions of belonging. These issues call for interdisciplinary and multi-layered analyses that are ideally met through dialogue across place, time, identities and genres. The contributors to this volume enable this dialogue by considering the ways in which cultural expression and identity expressed through film serve to create notions of belonging, group identity, and entitlement within modern societies.