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Hace 3 días · For all the heterogeneities among theorists and proponents of the so-called ‘decolonial turn’ – first heralded by the self-styled modernity/coloniality (MC) network, a group of Latin Americanist scholars who, in the early 2000s, gathered in a collective research programme revolving around the subject of coloniality – there is a conceptual base they all converge on, namely the ...
Hace 1 día · —Jürgen Habermas in The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures, 1990. [133] Weber continued his investigation into this matter in later works, notably in his studies on bureaucracy and on the classification of legitimate authority into three types – rational-legal , traditional , and charismatic – of which rational-legal ...
Hace 3 días · Moretti has suggested elsewhere that ‘because of its ability to accentuate modernity’s dynamism and instability’ the Bildungsroman is ‘the ‘symbolic form’ of modernity’ (2000b, p. 5), and it therefore makes sense for Laxness to reactivate it in the mid-twentieth century, to represent Iceland at the moment of national independence, which is also, contradictorily, the moment the ...
Hace 5 días · Knowledge about these ‘diseases of modernity’ developed simultaneously in expert and public discourse; this made of them ‘barometers of cultural anxieties and political attitudes’ (p. 120) — for example about the visibility of women in the public sphere. These anxieties could grow to envelop humanity as a whole.
Hace 3 días · This component of the Core Curriculum encourages students to think broadly and critically about the world that they inhabit, asking them to see their contemporary concerns in the perspective of the long-standing discourses of modernity.
Hace 1 día · Ritzer describes how late modernity became saturated with fast food consumer culture. Other authors have demonstrated how modernist devices appeared in popular cinema, and later on in music videos. Modernist design has entered the mainstream of popular culture, as simplified and stylized forms became popular, often associated with dreams of a space age high-tech future.
Hace 4 días · 35) Foucault’s language of freedom has a mythological flavour that offers a mask for a disguised self-interest, the freedom to be and do whatever I want. Redeemed freedom reveals this outlook as a distorted reality-construction. M. Volf in Exclusion and Embrace (1996) shows how this reconciliation or redemption of sociality can occur even ...
