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Religion and Culture

Michel Foucault

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Postmodern theorist Michel Foucault is best known for his work on "power/ knowledge", and on the regulation of sexuality in modern society. Yet throughout his life, Foucault was continually concerned with Christianity, other spiritual movements and religious traditions, and the death of God, and these themes and materials scattered are throughout his many writings. Religion and Culture collects for the first time this important thinker's work on religion, religious experience, and society. Here are classic essays such as The Battle for Chastity, alongside those that have been less widely read in English or in French. Selections are arranged in three groupings: Madness, Religion and the Avant-Garde; Religions, Politics and the East; and Christianity, Sexuality and the Self: Fragments of an Unpublished Volume. Ranging from Foucault's earliest studies of madness to Confessions of the Flesh, the unpublished fourth volume of his History of Sexuality, his final thoughts on early Christianity, Religion and Culture makes Foucault's work an indispensable part of contemporary religious thought, while also making an important link between religious studies and cultural studies.

Century of struggle: The woman's rights movement in the United States (Atheneum)

Eleanor Flexner

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The single best history of the US suffrage movement 5 out of 5 stars.
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This recent paperback edition of Century of Struggle, Eleanor Flexner's classic history of women's suffrage, has a splendid new introduction by her friend and collaborator Ellen Fitzpatrick, who relates the major events in Flexner's own life to Flexner's deep understanding of the complex social and political problem confronting 19th- and early 20th-century American suffragists. There is no better account than Flexner's of the dogged determination of US women to achieve their political aims, or of the genius of their political inventiveness in a time in which both law and custom were against women's full participation in civic life. The achievement of the vote for women was extraordinarily difficult, infinitely more so than most people realize. In her own preface to Century of Struggle, Eleanor Flexner quotes from Carrie Chapman Catt and Nettie Rogers Schuler: "Hundreds of women gave the accumulated possibilities of an entire lifetime, thousands gave years of their lives, hundreds of thousands gave constant interest and such aid as they could. It was a continuous, seemingly endless chain of activity. Young suffragists who helped forge the last links in that chain were not born when it began. Old suffragists who forged the first links were dead when it ended. . . It is doubtful if any man, even among suffrage men, ever realized what the suffrage struggle came to mean to women before the end was allowed in America."

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The book you are about to read tells the story of one of the great social movements in American history. The struggle for women's voting rights was one of the longest, most successful, and in some respects most radical challenges ever posed to the American system of electoral politics...It is difficult to imagine now a time when women were largely removed by custom, practice, and law from the formal political rights and responsibilities that supported and sustained the nation's young democracy...For sheer drama the suffrage movement has few equals in modern American political history.

--From the Preface by Ellen Fitzpatrick

Poetics of Imagining: Modern and Post-modern (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy, 6)

Richard Kearney

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Richard Kearney has produced a new and revised edition of his classic book Poetics of Imagining. This volume offers an accessible account of the major theories of imagination in modern European thought. It analyzes and assesses the decisive contributions made to our understanding of the imaginary life of phenomenology (Husserl, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Bachelard), hermeneutics (Heidegger, Ricoeur) and postmodernism (Vattimo, Kristeva, Lyotard). Richard Kearney achieves this with a coherent and committed approach which displays his own passionate concern for the claims of imagination in our postmodern world of fragmentation and fracture.

Postmodernism and Popular Culture: A Cultural History

John Docker

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Adolescent Petulance from a Converted Poststructuralist 1 out of 5 stars.
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John Docker demonstrates the kind of arrogance that is so prevalent in academia. He has a massive chip on his shoulder and, apparently, thinks that being a critic means he can criticize without maintaining any consistency within his logic. In his world modernity is equivilent to elitism, and an epithet to be hurled at anyone who doesn't maintain his standards of poststructuralism (Apparently Docker believes that poststructuralism and postmodernity are the same thing). He praises Benjamin for the complexity of his writings yet simplifies him into a pro-mass media precursor. Derrida is derided as postivistic, Jameson and Baudrillard are dismissed as modernists, and Adorno and Horkeimer are ignored as classist. Anyone who dare disagree with Docker's positive take on pop culture is, through Docker's hyperbole, seen as portraying mass culture as "evil and satanic".

His discrediting of various authors utilizes extensive paraphrasing with his own editorial slant and re-contexturalizing. A common complaint of his is that authors over-generalize from limited examples yet he does this exclusively - considering one chapter of one book rather than the entire body of work from each author. He complains when authors speak for others and somehow know what everyone feels yet he does this freely, especially in the sections of self-aggrandizement where he attempts to show his intellectual skills in practice ("see, I got quoted int the newspaper!").

Based upon his shoddy misrepresentation of articles that I am familiar with, there is no reason for me to trust any of his (re)presentation of any of the authors' ideas.

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In this provocative study, John Docker takes his readers on an intellectual adventure. The journey includes a guided tour of the history of modernism, consideration of the development of postmodernism, explanation of structuralism and poststructuralism, and discussion of the debates and conflicts around each. It ranges widely, from theoretical discussion to consideration of everything from architecture, television and detective writing to Sydney's monorail. The book engages with some of the most important debates of our time, combining polemical force with intellectual rigor, and reclaims popular culture from the forces opposed to it.

Modern French Philosophy: From Existentialism to Postmodernism

Robert Wicks

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This handy guide provides detailed coverage of all the key movements of the last 100 years of French though and gives short but readable accounts of the life, works and influence of famous philosophers and eccentric personalities.

Wonder Women (Chester the Crab's Comics with Content Series)

Bentley Boyd

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4 Women X 5 Rich Pages Each = Tons of Content 5 out of 5 stars.
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Bentley Boyd's cartoon pages start with clear objectives that he developed when aligning graphical stories with Virginia's content-focused "Standards of Learning." This book and others in the series make learning history not only visually stimulating but straightforward. As an educator, I enthusiastically recommend these books to young students (upper elementary grades and middle school, especially) who enjoy history, are visual learners, or both.

The artist's innovative and entertaining use of layout and color developed over his years as a political and educational cartoonist (full disclosure: I have known Bentley for many years, and saw early versions of many of the narratives that ended up in the Chester the Crab series). Unlike some graphic novels or other comics, which can be confusingly dense, this book succeeds in having both variety and clarity.

Schools and parents who want their kids to learn plenty of real content should consider using this author/artist's work. This book has five richly illustrated and fact-filled pages on each of four heroic women. The result is education on history, geography, politics, and even culture -- the author is a fine historian who knows how important both context and accuracy are to any learner. Parents will love these books too (and are more likely to catch some of the multi-level humor subtly embedded in the stories and pictures).

One note: even though this is a series for students, Bentley is unafraid to address sensitive issues and unwilling to gloss over the unpleasant aspects of history, as many texts for children once did. This is history and art from someone who loves and respects both.

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Which famous American dropped out of school so she could nurse her sick brother for two years - by putting leeches on him to drain his blood? Who was arrested for voting for a president? Who was a wanted woman in the South with a $40,000 bounty on her head? Meet Clara Barton, Harriet Tubman, Susan B. Anthony and Helen Keller in this funny, colorful graphic novel that will excite reluctant readers, prepare students for standardized tests in history and help homeschooling parents!

Kierkegaard in Post/Modernity (Studies in Continental Thought)

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Placed in dialogue with Buber, Derrida, Freud, Gadamer, Habermas, Heidegger, Irigaray, Kristeva, Levinas, Sartre, and Wittgenstein, Soren Kierkegaard emerges as a vital participant in some of the liveliest controversies in modern philosophy. While some of the essays included here establish Kierkegaard's relevance to the postmodern critique of logocentrism, others emphasize his contributions to critical social theory. Religious issues are often front and center, but several contributors bring their feminist concerns into the dialogue, sometimes with surprising results. Despite the diversity of themes, this collection reflects consensus - Kierkegaard is to be taken seriously as a philosopher at the turn of the twenty-first century. The contributors are: Wanda Warren Berry, Alison Leigh Brown, John D. Caputo, Stephen N. Dunning, C. Stephen Evans, J rgen Habermas, Patricia J. Huntington, Tamsin Lorraine, James L. Marsh, Martin J. Matust'k, William L. McBride, Robert L. Perkins, Robert C. Roberts, Calvin O. Schrag, and Merold Westphal.

In the Wake of Terror: Class, Race, Nation, Ethnicity in the Postmodern World

E. San Juan Jr.

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In the Wake of Terror focuses on the controversies over the linkage of class exploitation and the ideology of racism, the role of nationalism in postcolonial politics, and ethnic exclusion.

The Postmodern Turn

Steven Best, Douglas Kellner

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This book presents a groundbreaking analysis of the emergence of a postmodern paradigm in the arts, science, politics, and theory. From the authors of Postmodern Theory, the much-acclaimed introduction to key postmodern thinkers and themes, The Postmodern Turn ranges over diverse intellectual and artistic terrain/m-/from architecture, painting, literature, music, and politics, to the physical and biological sciences. Critically engaging postmodern theory and culture, Steven Best and Douglas Kellner illuminate our momentous transition between a modernist past and a future struggling to define itself. The Postmodern Turn is essential reading for anyone interested in the analysis of contemporary society, and serves as an ideal text for courses in social theory, cultural studies, architecture, art history, science studies, intellectual history, and contemporary theory.

Recodings

Hal Foster

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Dense but farkeeng oarsum! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Very slippery prose but jam-packed with little (and not so little) epiphanies. A must for any progressive designer trying to see through the bars of designlanguage.

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For the past few decades Hal Foster's critical gaze has encompassed the increasingly complex machinery of the culture industry. His observations push the boundaries of cultural criticism to establish a vantage point from which the seemingly disparate agendas of artists, patrons, and critics have a telling coherence. Recodings has become the classic "primer in poststructuralist debate" (Village Voice). The essays present a constellation of concerns about the limits and myths of postmodernism, the uses and abuses of historicism, the connections of recent art and architecture with media spectacle and institutional power, and the transformations of the avant garde and of cultural politics generally.