Postmodernism and Cultural Identities : Conflicts and Coexistence /

"Virgil Nemoianu's book starts from the assumption that, whether we like it or not, we live in a postmodern environment, one characterized by turbulence, fluidity, relativity, commotion, uncertainty, and lightning-fast communication and change. One question raised under these circumstances...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Nemoianu, Virgil (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Bürger, Christa > 1935- > Postmoderne
Philosophie.
Kultur.
Identität.
Postmoderne.
Postmoderne
Philosophie
Kultur
Identität
Postmodernism.
Culture > Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > Criticism.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > General.
Postmodernisme.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • General cultural values
  • Philosophy of culture in the present age
  • Does postmodernism have a substance?
  • Leibniz, Vico, and alternative modernities
  • Conservatism as a branch of liberalism
  • Christian democracy and subsidiarity in the world
  • Christian martyrdom and Christian humanism
  • The insertion of religion : the model of Benedict and Habermas
  • Pieper, hope, imperfection, and literature
  • General literary values
  • Globalism, multiculturalism, and comparative literature
  • Teaching literature from a Catholic angle
  • Literary canons and social value options
  • The argument from variety
  • The argument from persecution
  • The argument from practicality
  • The argument from opposition
  • The argument from defeat
  • Specific applicative examples
  • Following the classics : layers of stylistic mimesis
  • Reinventing Romanticism or nineteenth-century Kitsch?
  • Ernst Jünger, distance, proximity, and transfer of cultural values
  • Epilogue
  • A philosophical garden.

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