[PDF] Counter Modernism In Current Critical Theory eBook

Author : Robert Eaglestone
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 41,5 MB
Release : 2019-07-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1474467954

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What is the relationship between literary criticism and ethics? Does criticism have an ethical task? How can criticism be ethical after literary theory? Ethical Criticism seeks to answer these questions by examining the historical development of the ethics of criticism and the vigorous contemporary backlash against what is known as 'theory'. The book appraises current arguments about the ethics of criticism and, finding them wanting, turns to the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. Described as 'the greatest moral philosopher of the twentieth century', Levinas' thought has had a profound influence on a number of significant contemporary thinkers. By paying close attention to his major writings, Robert Eaglestone argues cogently and persuasively for a new understanding of the ethical task of criticism and theory.

Author : Martin Jay
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 46,71 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845454289

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Some of the most exciting and innovative work in the humanities is occurring at the intersection of intellectual history and critical theory. This volume includes work from some of the most prominent contemporary scholars in the humanities.

Author : Charles Jencks
Publisher : Academy Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,67 MB
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780470030110

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After developing for thirty years as a movement in the arts, after being disputed and celebrated, Post-Modernism has become an integral part of the cultural landscape. In this witty overview, Charles Jencks, the first to write a book defining the subject, argues that the movement is one more reaction from within modernism critical of its shortcomings. The unintended consequences of modernisation, such as the terrorist debacle and global warming, are typical issues motivating a Critical Modern response today. In a unique analysis, using many explanatory diagrams and graphs, he reveals the evolutionary, social and economic forces of this new stage of global civilisation. Critical Modernism emerges at two levels. As an underground movement, it is the fact that many modernisms compete, quarrel and criticise each other as they seek to become dominant. Secondly, when so many of these movements follow each other today in quick succession, they may reach a ‘critical mass,’ a Modernism2, and become a conscious tradition.

Author : Thomas Docherty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 14,3 MB
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 131550460X

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This reader provides a selection of articles and essays by leading figures in the postmodernism debate.

Author : Richard Freadman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 14,53 MB
Release : 1992-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521380359

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These deficiencies are ascribed principally to three aspects of modern theoretical schools: the commitment to a non-referential view of language, the rejection of substantive accounts of the individual and a repudiation of moral and aesthetic evaluation. The 'alternative account' offered by Professors Freadman and Miller incorporates the values renounced by contemporary literary theory and places a central emphasis on ethical discourse.

Author : Richard Kirkland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 15,95 MB
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1315504316

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This study considers writing within the cultural context of Northern Ireland and discusses how writing creates a sense of community, and the different forms this takes when written from loyalist or republican perspectives. The book takes its major theoretical energy from readings of Antonio Gramsci's concept of hegemony and Walter Benjamin's work on historiography. hese are applied to major writers such as Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin, Paul Muldoon and Edna Longley and to institutions such as the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum.

Author : Paul Sheehan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 39,23 MB
Release : 2002-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139434616

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In Modernism, Narrative and Humanism, Paul Sheehan attempts to redefine modernist narrative for the twenty-first century. For Sheehan modernism presents a major form of critique of the fundamental presumptions of humanism. By pairing key modernist writers with philosophical critics of the humanist tradition, he shows how modernists sought to discover humanism's inhuman potential. He examines the development of narrative during the modernist period and sets it against, among others, the nineteenth-century philosophical writings of Schopenhauer , Darwin and Nietzsche. Focusing on the major novels and poetics of Conrad, Lawrence, Woolf and Beckett, Sheehan investigates these writers' mistrust of humanist orthodoxy and their consequent transformations and disfigurations of narrative order. He reveals the crucial link between the modernist novel's narrative concerns and its philosophical orientation in a book that will be of compelling interest to scholars of modernism and literary theory.

Author : Max Horkheimer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 27,16 MB
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0826400833

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These essays, written in the 1930s and 1940s, represent a first selection in English from the major work of the founder of the famous Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. Horkheimer's writings are essential to an understanding of the intellectual background of the New Left and the to much current social-philosophical thought, including the work of Herbert Marcuse. Apart from their historical significance and even from their scholarly eminence, these essays contain an immediate relevance only now becoming fully recognized.