Andrei A. Znamenski
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195172317
- eISBN:
- 9780199785759
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195172317.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
For the past forty years shamanism has drawn increasing attention among the general public and academics. So far no one has tried to understand why and how Western intellectual and popular culture ...
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For the past forty years shamanism has drawn increasing attention among the general public and academics. So far no one has tried to understand why and how Western intellectual and popular culture became so fascinated with the topic. Behind fictional and non-fictional works on shamanism, this book uncovers an exciting story that mirrors changing Western attitudes toward the primitive. It explores how shamanism, an obscure word introduced by the 18th-century German explorers of Siberia, entered Western humanities and social sciences, and has now become a powerful idiom used by nature and pagan communities to situate their spiritual quests and anti-modernity sentiments. Moving from Enlightenment and Romantic writers and Russian exile ethnographers to the anthropology of Franz Boas to Mircea Eliade and Carlos Castaneda, the book details how the shamanism idiom was gradually transplanted from Siberia to the Native American scene and beyond. It also looks into the circumstances that prompted scholars and writers at first to marginalize shamanism as a mental disorder and then to recast it as high spiritual wisdom in the 1960s and the 1970s. Linking the growing interest in shamanism to the rise of anti-modernism in Western culture and intellectual life, it examines the role that anthropology, psychology, environmentalism, and Native Americana have played in the emergence of neo-shamanism. It discusses the sources that inspire Western neo-shamans and seeks to explain why lately many of these spiritual seekers have increasingly moved away from non-Western tradition to European folklore.Less
For the past forty years shamanism has drawn increasing attention among the general public and academics. So far no one has tried to understand why and how Western intellectual and popular culture became so fascinated with the topic. Behind fictional and non-fictional works on shamanism, this book uncovers an exciting story that mirrors changing Western attitudes toward the primitive. It explores how shamanism, an obscure word introduced by the 18th-century German explorers of Siberia, entered Western humanities and social sciences, and has now become a powerful idiom used by nature and pagan communities to situate their spiritual quests and anti-modernity sentiments. Moving from Enlightenment and Romantic writers and Russian exile ethnographers to the anthropology of Franz Boas to Mircea Eliade and Carlos Castaneda, the book details how the shamanism idiom was gradually transplanted from Siberia to the Native American scene and beyond. It also looks into the circumstances that prompted scholars and writers at first to marginalize shamanism as a mental disorder and then to recast it as high spiritual wisdom in the 1960s and the 1970s. Linking the growing interest in shamanism to the rise of anti-modernism in Western culture and intellectual life, it examines the role that anthropology, psychology, environmentalism, and Native Americana have played in the emergence of neo-shamanism. It discusses the sources that inspire Western neo-shamans and seeks to explain why lately many of these spiritual seekers have increasingly moved away from non-Western tradition to European folklore.
Andrei A. Znamenski
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195172317
- eISBN:
- 9780199785759
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195172317.003.0010
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This epilogue looks at the growing popularity of the shamanism idiom and the correlation with the emergence of neo-shamanism to anti-modern sentiments in Western intellectual culture. Since the ...
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This epilogue looks at the growing popularity of the shamanism idiom and the correlation with the emergence of neo-shamanism to anti-modern sentiments in Western intellectual culture. Since the 1960s, Western academics and spiritual seekers have increasingly questioned the modes of thinking associated with the Enlightenment and, more broadly, with the Western tradition in general. More often than not, this tradition is viewed as devoid of spiritual and ecological values. In some respects, the present rise of anti-modernism in the West is a reminder of the Romanticism movement in Europe in the early 19th century, the first reaction to the advances of the Enlightenment. In fact, much of anti-modernism in current humanities and many ideas popular in nature spiritualities can be traced to Romantic writers and philosophers. Like their intellectual predecessors, modern Western seekers and many academics crusade against materialistic science and lament the emptiness of modern Western life, looking to non-European traditions and to European antiquity for spiritual feedback. This line of thought that is critical of modernity has been visibly present in Western tradition since the age of the Enlightenment.Less
This epilogue looks at the growing popularity of the shamanism idiom and the correlation with the emergence of neo-shamanism to anti-modern sentiments in Western intellectual culture. Since the 1960s, Western academics and spiritual seekers have increasingly questioned the modes of thinking associated with the Enlightenment and, more broadly, with the Western tradition in general. More often than not, this tradition is viewed as devoid of spiritual and ecological values. In some respects, the present rise of anti-modernism in the West is a reminder of the Romanticism movement in Europe in the early 19th century, the first reaction to the advances of the Enlightenment. In fact, much of anti-modernism in current humanities and many ideas popular in nature spiritualities can be traced to Romantic writers and philosophers. Like their intellectual predecessors, modern Western seekers and many academics crusade against materialistic science and lament the emptiness of modern Western life, looking to non-European traditions and to European antiquity for spiritual feedback. This line of thought that is critical of modernity has been visibly present in Western tradition since the age of the Enlightenment.
Holger Zaborowski
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199576777
- eISBN:
- 9780191722295
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199576777.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology, Philosophy of Religion
This chapter scrutinizes Spaemann's (published) doctoral dissertation, paying particular attention to his interpretation of the dialectic of Bonald's counter-revolutionary writings and to the way ...
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This chapter scrutinizes Spaemann's (published) doctoral dissertation, paying particular attention to his interpretation of the dialectic of Bonald's counter-revolutionary writings and to the way Spaemann's criticism renders questionable or even impossible certain ways of pursuing the relation between truth and religion on the one hand, and history and society on the other. It shows that The Origin of Sociology in the Spirit of Restoration is based upon a modification and extension of Adorno and Horkheimer's thesis of the dialectic of Enlightenment. The French counter-revolution, as Spaemann's argument goes, also turned against itself and its own presuppositions in a typically modern way. Spaemann's doctoral dissertation thus not only thematizes a particular and historically limited dialectic, but also analyses a dialectic that is characteristic of modernity and is thus still the dialectic of Enlightenment.Less
This chapter scrutinizes Spaemann's (published) doctoral dissertation, paying particular attention to his interpretation of the dialectic of Bonald's counter-revolutionary writings and to the way Spaemann's criticism renders questionable or even impossible certain ways of pursuing the relation between truth and religion on the one hand, and history and society on the other. It shows that The Origin of Sociology in the Spirit of Restoration is based upon a modification and extension of Adorno and Horkheimer's thesis of the dialectic of Enlightenment. The French counter-revolution, as Spaemann's argument goes, also turned against itself and its own presuppositions in a typically modern way. Spaemann's doctoral dissertation thus not only thematizes a particular and historically limited dialectic, but also analyses a dialectic that is characteristic of modernity and is thus still the dialectic of Enlightenment.
Nicholas Attfield
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780197266137
- eISBN:
- 9780191865206
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197266137.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
This book challenges commonplace conceptions of musical conservatism during Germany’s Weimar Republic (1918–33). Its primary goal is to offer scrutiny of uncritical links often made by musicologists ...
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This book challenges commonplace conceptions of musical conservatism during Germany’s Weimar Republic (1918–33). Its primary goal is to offer scrutiny of uncritical links often made by musicologists and historians between musical conservatism and cultural-political conservatism of the era, and the accompanying tendentious vocabulary of the ‘anti-modern’. It does so chiefly by means of a critical and nuanced application of the term ‘conservative revolution’, as used in the Weimar era and popularized in its historiography after 1945. The introduction introduces the time-honoured notion of ‘Weimar culture’ and its tendency to obscure parts of the contemporary cultural landscape, not least in their relation to modernity and modernism. Chapter 1 considers the problematic status of the term ‘conservative revolution’. Four contrasting studies are then presented, each focused on a particular ‘conservative’ musical figure or movement, and informed by readings of a complex discourse drawn from contemporary journals, speeches, letters, scores, and archival sources. Chapters 2 and 3 address Thomas Mann and his relationship with Hans Pfitzner in the aftermath of the First World War, and Alfred Heuss’s 1920s tenure as editor of Schumann’s Zeitschrift für Musik. Chapters 4 and 5 turn to the so-called ‘Bruckner cult’ of the Weimar era and its representations of its central composer as medieval mystic, and the work of August Halm—another dedicated Brucknerian—within the German youth movement, as defined and proclaimed by the radical pedagogue Gustav Wyneken. An extended epilogue considers advocacy for these Weimar-era musical conservatisms under the Nazi regime after 1933.Less
This book challenges commonplace conceptions of musical conservatism during Germany’s Weimar Republic (1918–33). Its primary goal is to offer scrutiny of uncritical links often made by musicologists and historians between musical conservatism and cultural-political conservatism of the era, and the accompanying tendentious vocabulary of the ‘anti-modern’. It does so chiefly by means of a critical and nuanced application of the term ‘conservative revolution’, as used in the Weimar era and popularized in its historiography after 1945. The introduction introduces the time-honoured notion of ‘Weimar culture’ and its tendency to obscure parts of the contemporary cultural landscape, not least in their relation to modernity and modernism. Chapter 1 considers the problematic status of the term ‘conservative revolution’. Four contrasting studies are then presented, each focused on a particular ‘conservative’ musical figure or movement, and informed by readings of a complex discourse drawn from contemporary journals, speeches, letters, scores, and archival sources. Chapters 2 and 3 address Thomas Mann and his relationship with Hans Pfitzner in the aftermath of the First World War, and Alfred Heuss’s 1920s tenure as editor of Schumann’s Zeitschrift für Musik. Chapters 4 and 5 turn to the so-called ‘Bruckner cult’ of the Weimar era and its representations of its central composer as medieval mystic, and the work of August Halm—another dedicated Brucknerian—within the German youth movement, as defined and proclaimed by the radical pedagogue Gustav Wyneken. An extended epilogue considers advocacy for these Weimar-era musical conservatisms under the Nazi regime after 1933.
Carlo Invernizzi Accetti
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780231170789
- eISBN:
- 9780231540377
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231170789.003.0002
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
This chapter provides a history of the discourse of anti-relativism in the political thought of the Catholic Church, from the first recorded usage of the term in 1884 to the present day.
This chapter provides a history of the discourse of anti-relativism in the political thought of the Catholic Church, from the first recorded usage of the term in 1884 to the present day.
Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- July 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780195172256
- eISBN:
- 9780199835546
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195172256.003.0013
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
The rejection of evolution in favor of creation by a supernatural deity is not the only feature of intelligent design creationism that marks it as a religious movement. Its integral but lesser known ...
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The rejection of evolution in favor of creation by a supernatural deity is not the only feature of intelligent design creationism that marks it as a religious movement. Its integral but lesser known features include anti-modernism, anti-secularism, religious exclusionism, and anti-rationalism. The intelligent design movement, following a Wedge Strategy, seeks not only to return American education to a premodern understanding of science, but to move the country culturally and politically away from secular democracy and toward a premodern, Christian commonwealth. The movement’s leader, Phillip Johnson, brands secular academics as apostates and warns Christian students against relying on “your own thinking”. Scientists must join concerned citizens in stopping the advance of intelligent design in the public school science class.Less
The rejection of evolution in favor of creation by a supernatural deity is not the only feature of intelligent design creationism that marks it as a religious movement. Its integral but lesser known features include anti-modernism, anti-secularism, religious exclusionism, and anti-rationalism. The intelligent design movement, following a Wedge Strategy, seeks not only to return American education to a premodern understanding of science, but to move the country culturally and politically away from secular democracy and toward a premodern, Christian commonwealth. The movement’s leader, Phillip Johnson, brands secular academics as apostates and warns Christian students against relying on “your own thinking”. Scientists must join concerned citizens in stopping the advance of intelligent design in the public school science class.
Nicholas Attfield
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780197266137
- eISBN:
- 9780191865206
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197266137.003.0001
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
This introductory chapter begins with the post-1945 concept of ‘Weimar culture’, and, through a critique of an article by Michael Kater, considers the concept’s tendency to divide the era into two ...
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This introductory chapter begins with the post-1945 concept of ‘Weimar culture’, and, through a critique of an article by Michael Kater, considers the concept’s tendency to divide the era into two rigid cultural-political factions: progressive ‘sons’ and reactionary ‘fathers’, a metaphor ultimately derived from Peter Gay’s well-known Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider (1968). Having drawn attention to the distortions caused by such historiographical inflexibility, it proceeds to a description of the four studies (Chapters 2–5) that are to follow in the book, presenting these as distinct positions in the discourse of Weimar-era musical conservatisms and demonstrating that—for all their similarities—the subjects just as often took acute issue with one another. These were frictions, the chapter concludes, that continued beyond 1933 and the change of political regime in Germany.Less
This introductory chapter begins with the post-1945 concept of ‘Weimar culture’, and, through a critique of an article by Michael Kater, considers the concept’s tendency to divide the era into two rigid cultural-political factions: progressive ‘sons’ and reactionary ‘fathers’, a metaphor ultimately derived from Peter Gay’s well-known Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider (1968). Having drawn attention to the distortions caused by such historiographical inflexibility, it proceeds to a description of the four studies (Chapters 2–5) that are to follow in the book, presenting these as distinct positions in the discourse of Weimar-era musical conservatisms and demonstrating that—for all their similarities—the subjects just as often took acute issue with one another. These were frictions, the chapter concludes, that continued beyond 1933 and the change of political regime in Germany.
Ehrhard Bahr
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520251281
- eISBN:
- 9780520933804
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520251281.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
For the Prague poet and novelist Franz Werfel, the year 1933 was not the occasion of a definite rupture, as it was for the other artists, writers, and intellectuals from Germany. This was in part ...
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For the Prague poet and novelist Franz Werfel, the year 1933 was not the occasion of a definite rupture, as it was for the other artists, writers, and intellectuals from Germany. This was in part because he was a citizen of Czechoslovakia who had opted to live in Vienna, and he was not affected by events in Germany until 1938, when Austria was annexed. The other reason was that Werfel had made his accommodation with reactionary conservatism, and was vacillating between modernism and anti-modernism. Werfel abandoned Expressionism and turned to writing popular novels. Despite his strong affinity for Catholicism since childhood, he never abandoned Judaism and returned to modernism in his last novel, Star of the Unborn. Another novel, written between July 1932 and November 1933, is The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, which deals with the Turkish genocide of the Armenians in 1915 and can be considered the first work of Holocaust literature in German. The best of Werfel's work in exile in France, “Cella or the Survivors,” remained unfinished and therefore unpublished during his lifetime.Less
For the Prague poet and novelist Franz Werfel, the year 1933 was not the occasion of a definite rupture, as it was for the other artists, writers, and intellectuals from Germany. This was in part because he was a citizen of Czechoslovakia who had opted to live in Vienna, and he was not affected by events in Germany until 1938, when Austria was annexed. The other reason was that Werfel had made his accommodation with reactionary conservatism, and was vacillating between modernism and anti-modernism. Werfel abandoned Expressionism and turned to writing popular novels. Despite his strong affinity for Catholicism since childhood, he never abandoned Judaism and returned to modernism in his last novel, Star of the Unborn. Another novel, written between July 1932 and November 1933, is The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, which deals with the Turkish genocide of the Armenians in 1915 and can be considered the first work of Holocaust literature in German. The best of Werfel's work in exile in France, “Cella or the Survivors,” remained unfinished and therefore unpublished during his lifetime.
Ehrhard Bahr
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520251281
- eISBN:
- 9780520933804
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520251281.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
Alfred Döblin, the least known of all the German exile writers in Los Angeles, departed from modernism in his exile works in tandem with his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1941. After the burning ...
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Alfred Döblin, the least known of all the German exile writers in Los Angeles, departed from modernism in his exile works in tandem with his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1941. After the burning of the Reichstag in 1933, he immediately fled Germany via Zurich to Paris, where he lived relatively comfortably until 1940, when France was invaded by German troops. Like Franz Werfel, Döblin was an author of avant-garde literature who turned to anti-modernism in exile. He continued the form of the modernist novel in November 1918, but advanced a history of salvation that was in conflict with modernism. Although Döblin was Jewish, he showed an affinity for Catholicism that influenced his works. Döblin was quite productive during his years in Los Angeles, completing the first part of his autobiography, Schicksalsreise: Bericht und Bekenntnis (Destiny's Journey), as well as his novel Karl und Rosa (Karl and Rosa), the last part of his tetralogy November 1918: 204 Renegade Modernism Eine deutsche Revolution (November 1918: A German Revolution).Less
Alfred Döblin, the least known of all the German exile writers in Los Angeles, departed from modernism in his exile works in tandem with his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1941. After the burning of the Reichstag in 1933, he immediately fled Germany via Zurich to Paris, where he lived relatively comfortably until 1940, when France was invaded by German troops. Like Franz Werfel, Döblin was an author of avant-garde literature who turned to anti-modernism in exile. He continued the form of the modernist novel in November 1918, but advanced a history of salvation that was in conflict with modernism. Although Döblin was Jewish, he showed an affinity for Catholicism that influenced his works. Döblin was quite productive during his years in Los Angeles, completing the first part of his autobiography, Schicksalsreise: Bericht und Bekenntnis (Destiny's Journey), as well as his novel Karl und Rosa (Karl and Rosa), the last part of his tetralogy November 1918: 204 Renegade Modernism Eine deutsche Revolution (November 1918: A German Revolution).
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804752817
- eISBN:
- 9780804767897
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804752817.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
To advance the glory of martyrs, the early Bollandists perpetuated the medieval vision that Jews were a constant threat. In particular, they perpetuated the idea that martyrdom often went hand in ...
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To advance the glory of martyrs, the early Bollandists perpetuated the medieval vision that Jews were a constant threat. In particular, they perpetuated the idea that martyrdom often went hand in hand with Jewish machinations. Furthermore, martyrdom at Jewish hands had unique, even beneficial, qualities. Paradoxically, the creators of the seventeenth-century Bollandist legacy declared the truth of ritual murder while employing the scholarly tools of reasoned analysis to refute the libel of ritual murder. Conflict arose between proponents of anti-modernism and modernism over ritual murder. In pursuing the truth about sainthood, modernists used an approach which was different from that of their scholarly predecessors.Less
To advance the glory of martyrs, the early Bollandists perpetuated the medieval vision that Jews were a constant threat. In particular, they perpetuated the idea that martyrdom often went hand in hand with Jewish machinations. Furthermore, martyrdom at Jewish hands had unique, even beneficial, qualities. Paradoxically, the creators of the seventeenth-century Bollandist legacy declared the truth of ritual murder while employing the scholarly tools of reasoned analysis to refute the libel of ritual murder. Conflict arose between proponents of anti-modernism and modernism over ritual murder. In pursuing the truth about sainthood, modernists used an approach which was different from that of their scholarly predecessors.
Elizabeth Birmingham
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781628460919
- eISBN:
- 9781626740532
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781628460919.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
Although not all steampunk texts—whether fiction, television, or film—embrace a rhetoric of anti-modernism, this chapter argues that Full Metal Alchemist does; that it reflects the preoccupations of ...
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Although not all steampunk texts—whether fiction, television, or film—embrace a rhetoric of anti-modernism, this chapter argues that Full Metal Alchemist does; that it reflects the preoccupations of a steampunk text, but that in employing a wide range of Victorian rhetorical tropes, it reinforces the values of the Arts and Crafts movement through an anti-modernist rhetoric. Steampunk, whether academics frame it as a postmodern, anti-modern, or aesthetic movement, is often criticized as idealizing a Victorian past; however, many of the Japanese texts associated with steampunk, like Full Metal Alchemist, are highly critical of the reactionary modernism that shaped the colonial enterprise of the Victorian Era, and as non-western products, are particularly poised to make such a critique.Less
Although not all steampunk texts—whether fiction, television, or film—embrace a rhetoric of anti-modernism, this chapter argues that Full Metal Alchemist does; that it reflects the preoccupations of a steampunk text, but that in employing a wide range of Victorian rhetorical tropes, it reinforces the values of the Arts and Crafts movement through an anti-modernist rhetoric. Steampunk, whether academics frame it as a postmodern, anti-modern, or aesthetic movement, is often criticized as idealizing a Victorian past; however, many of the Japanese texts associated with steampunk, like Full Metal Alchemist, are highly critical of the reactionary modernism that shaped the colonial enterprise of the Victorian Era, and as non-western products, are particularly poised to make such a critique.
Coll Thrush
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780300206302
- eISBN:
- 9780300224863
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300206302.003.0011
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter considers two moments—an ethnographic display of military regimentation from the third quarter of the nineteenth century, and an anti-modern jeremiad from the first years of the ...
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This chapter considers two moments—an ethnographic display of military regimentation from the third quarter of the nineteenth century, and an anti-modern jeremiad from the first years of the twentieth. Both involved North American Indigenous people and were deeply shaped by narratives of civilization and progress. But perhaps more importantly, both happened in a specific place and time: the late Victorian and Edwardian city, where particular kinds of urban development created new anxieties about London and its empire. These strands came together at a series of large-scale Indigenous spectacles in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A Seneca runner, a group of Aboriginal Australian cricketers, a Maori rugby side, and Lakota Wild West Show performers all riveted London, and their presence there speaks much not just about Indigenous visitors but about Victorian and Edwardian—and imperial—culture.Less
This chapter considers two moments—an ethnographic display of military regimentation from the third quarter of the nineteenth century, and an anti-modern jeremiad from the first years of the twentieth. Both involved North American Indigenous people and were deeply shaped by narratives of civilization and progress. But perhaps more importantly, both happened in a specific place and time: the late Victorian and Edwardian city, where particular kinds of urban development created new anxieties about London and its empire. These strands came together at a series of large-scale Indigenous spectacles in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A Seneca runner, a group of Aboriginal Australian cricketers, a Maori rugby side, and Lakota Wild West Show performers all riveted London, and their presence there speaks much not just about Indigenous visitors but about Victorian and Edwardian—and imperial—culture.
Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226443065
- eISBN:
- 9780226443232
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226443232.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
Chapter 1 advances a summary of the basic historical and contemporary connotations of the term Latin America --which are further explored in the following chapters. Among others, the chapter ...
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Chapter 1 advances a summary of the basic historical and contemporary connotations of the term Latin America --which are further explored in the following chapters. Among others, the chapter highlights anti-Americanism; fascination with redemptory violence; a Western doctrine of Non-Westernness; a modern form of anti-modernism; collective economic failure; addiction to authenticity; collectivism vs. individualism; passions over interests; spiritual superiority over materialism; the temptation of political and racial utopias; an odd appropriation of promiscuity as the patrimony of Latin America; and, above all, race as Latin America’s basic connotations.Less
Chapter 1 advances a summary of the basic historical and contemporary connotations of the term Latin America --which are further explored in the following chapters. Among others, the chapter highlights anti-Americanism; fascination with redemptory violence; a Western doctrine of Non-Westernness; a modern form of anti-modernism; collective economic failure; addiction to authenticity; collectivism vs. individualism; passions over interests; spiritual superiority over materialism; the temptation of political and racial utopias; an odd appropriation of promiscuity as the patrimony of Latin America; and, above all, race as Latin America’s basic connotations.
Wolfe Judith
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199680511
- eISBN:
- 9780191760549
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199680511.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Philosophy of Religion, Religious Studies
This chapter discusses Heidegger’s religious provenance in Southern Germany inthe aftermath of Vatican I. It outlines the main developments of Catholic ecclesiastical history during the German ...
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This chapter discusses Heidegger’s religious provenance in Southern Germany inthe aftermath of Vatican I. It outlines the main developments of Catholic ecclesiastical history during the German Kulturkampf and the more wide-ranging Modernist Crisis, and discusses Heidegger’s initial response to these developments by way of his earliest articles and reviews (published between 1909 and 1913, mostly in the conservative Catholic organs Heuberger Volksblatt, Der Akademiker, and Allgemeine Rundschau).The chapter concludes by characterising Heidegger’s early anti-Modernism as it emerges from these publications.Less
This chapter discusses Heidegger’s religious provenance in Southern Germany inthe aftermath of Vatican I. It outlines the main developments of Catholic ecclesiastical history during the German Kulturkampf and the more wide-ranging Modernist Crisis, and discusses Heidegger’s initial response to these developments by way of his earliest articles and reviews (published between 1909 and 1913, mostly in the conservative Catholic organs Heuberger Volksblatt, Der Akademiker, and Allgemeine Rundschau).The chapter concludes by characterising Heidegger’s early anti-Modernism as it emerges from these publications.
