Tag: Modernity

Free Download Katherine Giuffre, "Outrage: The Arts and the Creation of Modernity"
English | ISBN: 150363535X | 2023 | 210 pages | PDF | 1429 KB
A cultural revolution in England, France, and the United States beginning during the time of the industrial and political revolutions helped usher in modernity. This cultural revolution worked alongside the better documented political and economic revolutions to usher in the modern era of continuous revolution. Focusing on the period between 1847 and 1937, the book examines in depth six of the cultural "battles" that were key parts of this revolution: the novels of the Brontë sisters, the paintings of the Impressionists, the poetry of Emily Dickinson, the Ballets Russes production of

Free Download Matt Matravers, "Managing Modernity: Politics and the Culture of Control"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0415348056, 0415568285 | EPUB | pages: 202 | 0.6 mb
In the last thirty years, the USA and the UK have witnessed a profound change in the way in which we think about and respond to crime and social control. Crime has become part of everyday life as, for many citizens, has imprisonment.

Free Download The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive By Mary Ann Doane
2002 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0674007298 | PDF | 50 MB
Hailed as the permanent record of fleeting moments, the cinema emerged at the turn of the nineteenth century as an unprecedented means of capturing time–and this at a moment when disciplines from physics to philosophy, and historical trends from industrialization to the expansion of capitalism, were transforming the very idea of time. In a work that itself captures and reconfigures the passing moments of art, history, and philosophy, Mary Ann Doane shows how the cinema, representing the singular instant of chance and ephemerality in the face of the increasing rationalization and standardization of the day, participated in the structuring of time and contingency in capitalist modernity.At this book’s heart is the cinema’s essential paradox: temporal continuity conveyed through "stopped time," the rapid succession of still frames or frozen images. Doane explores the role of this paradox, and of notions of the temporal indeterminacy and instability of an image, in shaping not just cinematic time but also modern ideas about continuity and discontinuity, archivability, contingency and determinism, and temporal irreversibility. A compelling meditation on the status of cinematic knowledge, her book is also an inquiry into the very heart and soul of modernity.

Free Download Julia Moses, "Marriage, Law and Modernity: Global Histories"
English | ISBN: 1474276105 | 2017 | 288 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Marriage, Law and Modernity offers a global perspective on the modern history of marriage. Widespread recent debate has focused on the changing nature of families, characterized by both the rise of unmarried cohabitation and the legalization of same-sex marriage. However, historical understanding of these developments remains limited. How has marriage come to be the target of national legislation? Are recent policies on same-sex marriage part of a broader transformation? And, has marriage come to be similar across the globe despite claims about national, cultural and religious difference?

Free Download The Fetish of Theology: The Challenge of the Fetish-Object to Modernity (Radical Theologies and Philosophies) by Colby Dickinson
English | March 27, 2020 | ISBN: 3030407748 | 303 pages | PDF | 7.29 Mb
By delving into the history of the fetish-object among both modern and contemporary commentators, this book highlights the fetish-object’s role as a philosophical and religious concept of the highest significance. Historically, fetishes are implicated in specific struggles for sovereign (political) and/or religious (hierarchical) power, with their interwoven symbols defined as the primary location for transcendence in our world. This book defines the political consequences of fetish-objects within a western cultural, and primarily theological context through a comparative approach of various literatures on fetish-objects―anthropological to the psychological, Marxist to the theological. It reconceives of fetishes as a form of resistance to oppressive structures, something which motivated Christians themselves historically, and shaped our western understanding of the sacraments far more than has been acknowledged. Taking up this conversation likewise holds forth the possibility of reconceptualizing how fetish-objects and sacramental presences both speak profoundly to our late-modern selves.

Free Download J. P. S. Uberoi, "The European Modernity: Science, Truth, and Method"
English | 2002 | pages: 168 | ISBN: 0195655478 | PDF (scan) | 15,5 mb
This study examines the foundations of the European modernity in relation to the Hermetic tradition and its cosmological approach to life and knowledge. The symmetry of Dante, medicine of Paracelsus and science of Goethe form the background for this investigation of the modernist regime – its

Free Download Prof PP Raveendran, "Under the Bhasha Gaze: Modernity and Indian Literature"
English | ISBN: 0192871552 | 2023 | 368 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The book is a study of literature in India in the context of recent discussions on modernity and its theoretical extensions such as the everyday and the social imaginary. It is a critique of the aesthetics and politics of modernity as they are embodied in Indian bhasha literature of the past two centuries. The primary objective of the book is to explore the trajectory of modernity after Indian literature encountered colonialism in the early 19th century. The intricate ways in which the bhasha imagination negotiated questions around concepts such as colonialism, aesthetics, the literary, the historical, and the social, have received focused attention in the analysis. Although the study acknowledges the European provenance of modernity as a historical idea, it also recognizes the inherent complexity of the concept and its equivocal connotations when used with reference to the polyphonic bhasha communities in India. Theoretical issues debated in relation to modernity such as its

Free Download Utku Mogultay, "The Ruins of Urban Modernity: Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day"
English | ISBN: 1501339508 | 2018 | 240 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The Ruins of Urban Modernity examines Thomas Pynchon’s 2006 novel Against the Day through the critical lens of urban spatiality.

Free Download Magazines and Modernity in Brazil: Transnationalisms and Cross-Cultural Exchanges By Felipe Botelho Correa, Monica Pimenta Velloso , Valéria Guimarães
2020 | 184 Pages | ISBN: 1785273973 | PDF | 16 MB
Although published as part of a series on Brazilian studies, central to this collection are not the concepts of nation or nationhood but those of transnational networks and cross-cultural exchanges. The concept of nation is of limited value to account for the periodical print culture as a global phenomenon marked by transnational movements such as those involving capital flows, commodities, people, ideas and editorial models. In this vein, what these chapters explore is not so much the concept of influence – which often plays a central role in Eurocentric analyses – but those of circulation and interaction. The notion of "circulation" here emphasised is more appropriate to the study of cultural exchanges, focusing on the movements of and engagements with ideas and concepts, as well as the appropriated models and the people involved in the publication and consumption of magazines. What the reader will find in these essays are analysis of numerous processes of transnational cultural negotiations.

Free Download Humairah Zainal, "The Primordial Modernity of Malay Nationality: Contemporary Identity in Malaysia and Singapore "
English | ISBN: 1032055839 | 2021 | 188 pages | EPUB | 431 KB
Humairah and Kamaludeen examine contemporary Malay national identity in Singapore and Malaysia through the lens of ‘primordial modernity’, taking on a comparative transnational perspective.