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Author : Mark Bevir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,94 MB
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 110701767X
The first history of one of the most important intellectual movements of the modern era.
Author : Elaine M. Fisher
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 25,22 MB
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520966295
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Hindu Pluralism, Elaine M. Fisher complicates the traditional scholarly narrative of the unification of Hinduism. By calling into question the colonial categories implicit in the term “sectarianism,” Fisher’s work excavates the pluralistic textures of precolonial Hinduism in the centuries prior to British intervention. Drawing on previously unpublished sources in Sanskrit, Tamil, and Telugu, Fisher argues that the performance of plural religious identities in public space in Indian early modernity paved the way for the emergence of a distinctively non-Western form of religious pluralism. This work provides a critical resource for understanding how Hinduism developed in the early modern period, a crucial era that set the tenor for religion's role in public life in India through the present day.
Author : Mark Bevir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,3 MB
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107379393
Pluralism is among the most vital intellectual movements of the modern era. Liberal pluralism helped reinforce and promote greater separation of political and religious spheres. Socialist pluralism promoted the political role of trade unions and the rise of corporatism. Empirical pluralism helped legitimate the role of interest groups in democratic government. Today pluralism inspires thinking about key issues such as multiculturalism and network governance. However, despite pluralism's importance, there are no histories of twentieth-century pluralist thinking. Modern Pluralism fills this gap. It explores liberal, socialist, and empirical ideas about diversity in Britain and the United States. It shows how pluralists challenged homogenous nations and sovereign states, often promoting sub-national groups as potential sites of self-government. In it, intellectual historians, political theorists, and social scientists collectively explore the historical background to present institutions and debates. The book serves to enrich our understanding of the history of pluralism and its continuing relevance.
Author : David Campbell
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 25,19 MB
Release : 2008-05-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0822389142
William Connolly, one of the best-known and most important political theorists writing today, is a principal architect of the “new pluralism.” In this volume, leading thinkers in contemporary political theory and international relations provide a comprehensive investigation of the new pluralism, Connolly’s contributions to it, and its influence on the fields of political theory and international relations. Together they trace the evolution of Connolly’s ideas, illuminating his challenges to the “old,” conventional pluralist theory that dominated American and British political science and sociology in the second half of the twentieth century. The contributors show how Connolly has continually revised his ideas about pluralism to take into account radical changes in global politics, incorporate new theories of cognition, and reflect on the centrality of religion in political conflict. They engage his arguments for an agonistic democracy in which all fundamentalisms become the objects of politicization, so that differences are not just tolerated but are productive of debate and the creative source of a politics of becoming. They also explore the implications of his work, often challenging his views to widen the reach of even his most recently developed theories. Connolly’s new pluralism will provoke all citizens who refuse to subordinate their thinking to the regimes in which they reside, to religious authorities tied to the state, or to corporate interests tied to either. The New Pluralism concludes with an interview with Connolly in which he reflects on the evolution of his ideas and expands on his current work. Contributors: Roland Bleiker, Wendy Brown, David Campbell, William Connolly, James Der Derian, Thomas L. Dumm, Kathy E. Ferguson, Bonnie Honig, George Kateb, Morton Schoolman Michael J. Shapiro, Stephen K. White
Author : Walter Benn Michaels
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 32,15 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822320647
Arguing that the contemporary commitment to the importance of cultural identity has renovated rather than replaced an earlier commitment to racial identity, Walter Benn Michaels asserts that the idea of culture, far from constituting a challenge to racism, is actually a form of racism. Our America offers both a provocative reinterpretation of the role of identity in modernism and a sustained critique of the role of identity in postmodernism. "We have a great desire to be supremely American," Calvin Coolidge wrote in 1924. That desire, Michaels tells us, is at the very heart of American modernism, giving form and substance to a cultural movement that would in turn redefine America's cultural and collective identity--ultimately along racial lines. A provocative reinterpretation of American modernism, Our America also offers a new way of understanding current debates over the meaning of race, identity, multiculturalism, and pluralism. Michaels contends that the aesthetic movement of modernism and the social movement of nativism came together in the 1920s in their commitment to resolve the meaning of identity--linguistic, national, cultural, and racial. Just as the Johnson Immigration Act of 1924, which excluded aliens, and the Indian Citizenship Act of the same year, which honored the truly native, reconceptualized national identity, so the major texts of American writers such as Cather, Faulkner, Hurston, and Williams reinvented identity as an object of pathos--something that can be lost or found, defended or betrayed. Our America is both a history and a critique of this invention, tracing its development from the white supremacism of the Progressive period through the cultural pluralism of the Twenties. Michaels's sustained rereading of the texts of the period--the canonical, the popular, and the less familiar--exposes recurring concerns such as the reconception of the image of the Indian as a symbol of racial purity and national origins, the relation between World War I and race, contradictory appeals to the family as a model for the nation, and anxieties about reproduction that subliminally tie whiteness and national identity to incest, sterility, and impotence.
Author : Mohammed Hashas
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 17,16 MB
Release : 2021-03-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3030660893
This book brings together international scholars of Islamic philosophy, theology and politics to examine these current major questions: What is the place of pluralism in the Islamic founding texts? How have sacred and prophetic texts been interpreted throughout major Islamic intellectual history by the Sunnis and Shi‘a? How does contemporary Islamic thought treat religious and political diversity in modern nation states and in societies in transition? How is pluralism dealt with in modern major and minor Islamic contexts? How does modern political Islam deal with pluralism in the public sphere? And what are the major internal and external challenges to pluralism in Islamic contexts? These questions that have become of paramount relevance in religious studies especially during the last three-four decades are answered as critically highlighted in Islamic founding sources, the formative classical sources and how it has been lived and practiced in past and present Islamic majority societies and communities around the world. Case studies cover Egypt, Turkey, Indonesia, and Thailand, besides various internal references to other contexts.
Author : Michael G. Peletz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 28,91 MB
Release : 2009-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1135954895
Essential reading for scholars of gender and sexuality and anyone interested in Asia.
Author : A. Papadakēs
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 46,41 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Architecture, Modern
ISBN :
"This issue of "Architectural Design" heralds a bold change in the style and format of the magazine. Improving its quality of reproduction and presentation, it now has an enlarged format and a new, innovative design. Modern pluralism has been sweeping the architectural world. Continuing its tradition of vigorously addressing the most important trends in architecture today, "Architectural Design" opens with an exploratory essay on this phenomenon by Geoffrey Broadbent, who attempts to discover just exactly what is going on. This is followed by a transcript of the Inaugural Lecture by Richard McCormac as President of the RIBA, in which he highlights the achievements of contemporary British architecture and discusses the way forward for the profession. Charles Jencks talks about the agenda of those architects currently practising "new modernism"; Peter Cook introduces his favourite architectural principles and practitioners; and Bernard Tschumi discusses the architecture of the "event"; the work of Arata Isozaki, Morphosis, Oma and James Stirling and Michael Wilford is featured in detail as well as an introduction to the work of Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio. The additional, newly expanded magazine section maintains the high standard of content and design and includes a special extensive feature on the 1991 Venice Biennale as well as an interview with Norman Foster by Ken Powell, the Lucinda Lambton Diary - a new feature - and an article by Anthony Quiney on the medieval English village of Smarden; there is also a round-up of recent events, exhibitions and publications"--OCLC.
Author : Hans Blokland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 36,75 MB
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317079574
The political discontent or malaise that typifies most modern democracies is mainly caused by the widely shared feeling that the political freedom of citizens to influence the development of their society and, related to this, their personal life, has become rather limited. We can only address this discontent when we rehabilitate politics, the deliberate, joint effort to give direction to society and to make the best of ourselves. In Pluralism, Democracy and Political Knowledge, Hans Blokland examines this challenge via a critical appraisal of the pluralist conception of politics and democracy. This conception was formulated by, above all, Robert A. Dahl, one of the most important political scholars and democratic theorists of the last half century. Taking his work as the point of reference, this book not only provides an illuminating history of political science, told via Dahl and his critics, it also offers a revealing analysis as to what progress we have made in our thinking on pluralism and democracy, and what progress we could make, given the epistemological constraints of the social sciences. Above and beyond this, the development and the problems of pluralism and democracy are explored in the context of the process of modernization. The author specifically discusses the extent to which individualization, differentiation and rationalization contribute to the current political malaise in those countries which adhere to a pluralist political system.
Author : Mark Bevir
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 35,73 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9781139424028
Pluralism is among the most vital intellectual movements of the modern era. Liberal pluralism helped reinforce and promote greater separation of political and religious spheres. Socialist pluralism promoted the political role of trade unions and the rise of corporatism. Empirical pluralism helped legitimate the role of interest groups in democratic government. Today pluralism inspires thinking about key issues such as multiculturalism and network governance. However, despite pluralism's importance, there are no histories of twentieth-century pluralist thinking. Modern Pluralism fills this gap. It explores liberal, socialist, and empirical ideas about diversity in Britain and the United States. It shows how pluralists challenged homogenous nations and sovereign states, often promoting sub-national groups as potential sites of self-government. In it, intellectual historians, political theorists, and social scientists collectively explore the historical background to present institutions and debates. The book serves to enrich our understanding of the history of pluralism and its continuing relevance.