The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences, Josephson-Storm Jason A.

Автор: Bonilla Yarimar
Название: Non-Sovereign Futures?: French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment
ISBN: 022628381X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226283814
Издательство: Wiley
Рейтинг:
Цена: 25350.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: As an overseas department of France, Guadeloupe is one of a handful of non-independent societies in the Caribbean that seem like political exceptions--or even paradoxes--in our current postcolonial era. In Non-Sovereign Futures, Yarimar Bonilla wrestles with the conceptual arsenal of political modernity--challenging contemporary notions of freedom, sovereignty, nationalism, and revolution--in order to recast Guadeloupe not as a problematically non-sovereign site but as a place that can unsettle how we think of sovereignty itself.

Through a deep ethnography of Guadeloupean labor activism, Bonilla examines how Caribbean political actors navigate the conflicting norms and desires produced by the modernist project of postcolonial sovereignty. Exploring the political and historical imaginaries of activist communities, she examines their attempts to forge new visions for the future by reconfiguring narratives of the past, especially the histories of colonialism and slavery. Drawing from nearly a decade of ethnographic research, she shows that political participation--even in failed movements--has social impacts beyond simple material or economic gains. Ultimately, she uses the cases of Guadeloupe and the Caribbean at large to offer a more sophisticated conception of the possibilities of sovereignty in the postcolonial era.

Автор: Li Wai-Yee
Название: Enchantment and Disenchantment: Love and Illusion in Chinese Literature
ISBN: 069160360X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691603605
Издательство: Wiley
Рейтинг:
Цена: 44350.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In a famous episode of the eighteenth-century masterpiece The Dream of the Red Chamber, the goddess Disenchantment introduces the hero, Pao-yu, to the splendors and dangers of the Illusory Realm of Great Void. The goddess, one of the divine women in Chinese literature who inspire contradictory impulses of attachment and detachment, tells Pao-yu tha

Автор: Maltby
Название: Christian Fundamentalism And The Culture Of Disenchantment
ISBN: 0813933447 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813933443
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Рейтинг:
Цена: 60990.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Within the familiar clash of religious conservatism and secular liberalism Paul Maltby finds a deeper discord: an antipathy between Christian fundamentalism and the postmodern culture of disenchantment. Arguing that each camp represents the poles of America's virulent culture wars, he shows how the cultural identity, lifestyle and political commitments of many Americans match either the fundamentalist profile of one who cleaves to metaphysical and authoritarian beliefs or the postmodern profile of one who is disposed to critical inquiry and radical-democratic values.<br><br>Maltby offers a critique that operates in both directions. His use of the resources of postmodern theory to contest fundamentalism's doctrinal claims, ultra-right politics, anti-environmentalism and conservative aesthetics informs his engagement with contemporary fundamentalist painting, spiritual warfare fiction, dominionist attitudes to nature, and a profoundly undemocratic interpretation of Christianity. At the same time, Maltby identifies some of fundamentalism’s legitimate spiritual concerns, assesses the cost of perpetual critique, and exposes the deficit of spiritual meaning that haunts the culture of disenchantment.