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Author : G. B. Norcliffe
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 19,45 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 080208205X
An examination how the bicycle as a symbol of modernity and social status fits into the larger picture of change and progress in a period of dramatic economic, social, and technological flux.
Author : G. B. Norcliffe
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 17,44 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802043986
An examination how the bicycle as a symbol of modernity and social status fits into the larger picture of change and progress in a period of dramatic economic, social, and technological flux.
Author : Julius Evola
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 21,1 MB
Release : 2018-07-13
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1620558505
Julius Evola’s final major work, which examines the prototype of the human being who can give absolute meaning to his or her life in a world of dissolution • Presents a powerful criticism of the idols, structures, theories, and illusions of our modern age • Reveals how to transform destructive processes into inner liberation The organizations and institutions that, in a traditional civilization and society, would have allowed an individual to realize himself completely, to defend the principal values he recognizes as his own, and to structure his life in a clear and unambiguous way, no longer exist in the contemporary world. Everything that has come to predominate in the modern world is the direct antithesis of the world of Tradition, in which a society is ruled by principles that transcend the merely human and transitory. Ride the Tiger presents an implacable criticism of the idols, structures, theories, and illusions of our dissolute age examined in the light of the inner teachings of indestructible Tradition. Evola identifies the type of human capable of “riding the tiger,” who may transform destructive processes into inner liberation. He offers hope for those who wish to reembrace Traditionalism.
Author : Julian Murphet
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,89 MB
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1623564875
Flann O'Brien & Modernism brings a much-needed refreshment to the state of scholarship on this increasingly recognised but still widely misunderstood 'second generation' modernist. Rather than construe him as a postmodernist, it correctly locates O'Brien's work as the product of a late modernist sensibility and cultural context. Similarly, while there should be no doubt of his Irishness, and his profound debts to Irish language, history and culture, this collection seeks to understand O'Brien's nationally sensitive achievement as the work of an internationalist whose preoccupations reflect global modernist trends. The distinct themes and concerns tracked in Flann O'Brien & Modernism include characterization in branching narrative forms; the ethics and paradoxes of naming; parody and homage; lies and deception; theatricality; sexuality; technology and transport; and the inevitable matter of drink and intoxication. Taken together, these specific topics construct a mosaic image of O'Brien as an exemplary modernist auteur, abreast of all the most salient philosophical and technical concerns affecting literary production in the period immediately before and after World War Two.
Author : Kenneth Allan
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 30,57 MB
Release : 2012-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1506319394
In the Third Edition of Ken Allan′s highly-praised Contemporary Social and Sociological Theory book, sociological theories and theorists are explored using a straightforward approach and conversational, jargon-free language. Filled with examples drawn from everyday life, this edition highlights diversity in contemporary society, exploring theories of race, gender, and sexuality that address some of today′s most important social concerns. Through this textbook students will learn to think theoretically and apply theory to their own lives.
Author : Jim McGuigan
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 25,29 MB
Release : 2006-07-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0335226418
Modernity and Postmodern Culture critically assesses claims made about the 'postmodernization' of culture and society and explores the complex interplay between the modern and the postmodern in an increasingly ‘globalized world’. The author argues that although culture may be 'postmodern' in terms of art, entertainment and everyday life, modernity still exists and is pervasive. The second edition is revised throughout, updating the literature and viewing international events through a modernist/postmodernist gaze. The theories of Baudrillard, Beck, Castells, Giddens, Jameson, Lyotard and others are discussed and specific issues concerning architecture, theme parks, screen culture, science, technology and the environment are examined. Topics include: Postmodern architecture and the hyperreality of Disney How poststructuralist theory questions modern rationality and reason The relations between postmodern culture, global capitalism and the technological changes brought about by electronics and computing The network society The book is key reading for students on courses in cultural politics, cultural theory, popular culture and sociology.
Author : Zack Furness
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 13,4 MB
Release : 2010-03-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781592136148
The power of the bicycle to impact mobility, technology, urban space and everyday life.
Author : Joan Ramon Resina
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 34,36 MB
Release : 2008-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0804758328
Barcelona's Vocation of Modernity is a study of the emergence and development of the cultural image of the Iberian peninsula’s foremost modern city.
Author : Professor Glen Norcliffe
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 15,76 MB
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1472439112
Examining cycling from a range of geographical perspectives, this book uses historical and contemporary case studies to look at the history, politics, economy and culture of cycling. Pursuing a post-structural position in viewing understandings of the bicycle as contingent upon time and place, author Glen Norcliffe argues for the need for widespread processes such as gendered use of the bicycle, the Cyclists’ Rights Movement, and the globalization of bicycle-making to be interpreted in different ways in different settings.
Author : Heidi Hakkarainen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,78 MB
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1789202744
Though long associated with a small group of coffeehouse elites around the turn of the twentieth century, Viennese “modernist” culture had roots that reached much further back and beyond the rarefied sphere of high culture. In Comical Modernity, Heidi Hakkarainen looks at Vienna in the second half of the nineteenth century, a period of dramatic urban renewal during which the city’s rapidly changing face was a mainstay of humorous magazines, books, and other publications aimed at middle-class audiences. As she shows, humor provided a widely accessible means of negotiating an era of radical change.