Nicholas Garnham
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198742258
- eISBN:
- 9780191695001
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198742258.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
This book approaches the problems raised by the media via a set of arguments with post-modernism and Information Society theory. It argues that the media are important because they raise a set of ...
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This book approaches the problems raised by the media via a set of arguments with post-modernism and Information Society theory. It argues that the media are important because they raise a set of questions central to social and political theory. It focuses on the problem raised by what Kant called the unsocial sociability of human kind. Then, it examines the implications for emancipation of seeing the media as cultural industries within the capitalist market economy; of seeing the media as technologies; of the specialisation of intellectual production and of the separation and increasing social distance between the producers and consumers of symbols. The problem of how the symbolic forms that the media circulate can be assessed is provided. It is argued that evaluation is in practice unavoidable and without some standards that are more than just subjective any criticism of the media's performance is impossible. Via an examination of the debate between the sociology of art and aesthetics the book argues for the ethical foundations of aesthetic judgement and for the establishment of agreed standards of aesthetic judgement via the discourse ethic that underlies the argument of the entire book. Next the book gives a discussion of the media and politics. Hereafter the book returns to the roots of public sphere theory.Less
This book approaches the problems raised by the media via a set of arguments with post-modernism and Information Society theory. It argues that the media are important because they raise a set of questions central to social and political theory. It focuses on the problem raised by what Kant called the unsocial sociability of human kind. Then, it examines the implications for emancipation of seeing the media as cultural industries within the capitalist market economy; of seeing the media as technologies; of the specialisation of intellectual production and of the separation and increasing social distance between the producers and consumers of symbols. The problem of how the symbolic forms that the media circulate can be assessed is provided. It is argued that evaluation is in practice unavoidable and without some standards that are more than just subjective any criticism of the media's performance is impossible. Via an examination of the debate between the sociology of art and aesthetics the book argues for the ethical foundations of aesthetic judgement and for the establishment of agreed standards of aesthetic judgement via the discourse ethic that underlies the argument of the entire book. Next the book gives a discussion of the media and politics. Hereafter the book returns to the roots of public sphere theory.
A. H. Halsey
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- April 2004
- ISBN:
- 9780199266609
- eISBN:
- 9780191601019
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199266603.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, UK Politics
There was always a struggle between science and literature for ownership of the intellectual territory of social criticism and social reform. Balzac's La comedie humaine was the nineteenth century ...
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There was always a struggle between science and literature for ownership of the intellectual territory of social criticism and social reform. Balzac's La comedie humaine was the nineteenth century French beginning of literary claim to possession. The struggle never ceased and is now centred on battles over cultural studies as opposed to scientific method. Is schism or reconciliation the solution? Ideally, there is toleration but not necessarily institutional integration.Less
There was always a struggle between science and literature for ownership of the intellectual territory of social criticism and social reform. Balzac's La comedie humaine was the nineteenth century French beginning of literary claim to possession. The struggle never ceased and is now centred on battles over cultural studies as opposed to scientific method. Is schism or reconciliation the solution? Ideally, there is toleration but not necessarily institutional integration.
Jenefer Robinson
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- February 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780199263653
- eISBN:
- 9780191603211
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199263655.003.0014
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Aesthetics
The book aims to marry the scientific with the humanistic. It gives an account of emotion that is grounded in empirical psychology and neuroscience, but uses it to illuminate the way emotion ...
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The book aims to marry the scientific with the humanistic. It gives an account of emotion that is grounded in empirical psychology and neuroscience, but uses it to illuminate the way emotion functions in the experience of great works of art. There are a number of sub-texts. First is that the philosophical study of the arts is more fruitful if it is based on empirical work in the cognitive sciences. Second is that we should wrest the study of music away from those who pay attention only to the quasi-mathematical analysis of structure, and hand it over to those who are just as interested in the humanistic implications of music. Third is that post-modernism has seduced academic critics of literature into highly cognitive modes of criticism that have sometimes lost touch with what ordinary readers find most compelling about literature: the way they appeal to our emotions and the way they teach through appealing to our emotions.Less
The book aims to marry the scientific with the humanistic. It gives an account of emotion that is grounded in empirical psychology and neuroscience, but uses it to illuminate the way emotion functions in the experience of great works of art. There are a number of sub-texts. First is that the philosophical study of the arts is more fruitful if it is based on empirical work in the cognitive sciences. Second is that we should wrest the study of music away from those who pay attention only to the quasi-mathematical analysis of structure, and hand it over to those who are just as interested in the humanistic implications of music. Third is that post-modernism has seduced academic critics of literature into highly cognitive modes of criticism that have sometimes lost touch with what ordinary readers find most compelling about literature: the way they appeal to our emotions and the way they teach through appealing to our emotions.
Patrick Dunleavy
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198294719
- eISBN:
- 9780191599361
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198294719.003.0010
- Subject:
- Political Science, Reference
Traces political behaviour research as a gradual shift from modernism to post‐modernism, reflected in the use of positivist methodologies in institutional approaches to methodological pluralism and ...
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Traces political behaviour research as a gradual shift from modernism to post‐modernism, reflected in the use of positivist methodologies in institutional approaches to methodological pluralism and experimental methods. Following this underlying shift from parsimony to complexity, a current stagnation in political behaviour research is highlighted. Urges the integration and combination of insights from theoretical approaches, rather than a shift towards the wholesale relativism of post‐modern critiques.Less
Traces political behaviour research as a gradual shift from modernism to post‐modernism, reflected in the use of positivist methodologies in institutional approaches to methodological pluralism and experimental methods. Following this underlying shift from parsimony to complexity, a current stagnation in political behaviour research is highlighted. Urges the integration and combination of insights from theoretical approaches, rather than a shift towards the wholesale relativism of post‐modern critiques.
Iris Marion Young
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198294719
- eISBN:
- 9780191599361
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198294719.003.0020
- Subject:
- Political Science, Reference
Traces the developments in contemporary political theory of the last 20 years in the politicization of the social. Six major trends are analysed. The debate around social justice is a disagreement ...
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Traces the developments in contemporary political theory of the last 20 years in the politicization of the social. Six major trends are analysed. The debate around social justice is a disagreement about the relationship between equality and liberty. Recent democratic theory deals with the question of citizen participation. Feminists have challenged the traditional public–private distinction as well as the universality they regard as male gendered. Post‐modernism reflects on the relationship between political institutions and social power, and conceptualizes political actors as shaped by political processes. New social movements bring previously private issues into the political sphere. Finally, communitarians aim to understand political values from within their specific social and cultural contexts.Less
Traces the developments in contemporary political theory of the last 20 years in the politicization of the social. Six major trends are analysed. The debate around social justice is a disagreement about the relationship between equality and liberty. Recent democratic theory deals with the question of citizen participation. Feminists have challenged the traditional public–private distinction as well as the universality they regard as male gendered. Post‐modernism reflects on the relationship between political institutions and social power, and conceptualizes political actors as shaped by political processes. New social movements bring previously private issues into the political sphere. Finally, communitarians aim to understand political values from within their specific social and cultural contexts.
Jan W. Van Deth and Elinor Scarbrough (eds)
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198294757
- eISBN:
- 9780191599040
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198294751.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
This book is the fourth in the ‘Beliefs in government’ series, and focuses on phenomena indicative of widespread change in the value orientations of citizens in Western Europe during the past two ...
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This book is the fourth in the ‘Beliefs in government’ series, and focuses on phenomena indicative of widespread change in the value orientations of citizens in Western Europe during the past two decades. These include a decline in religious belief, waning class values, and rising post‐materialism – along with environmentalism, feminism, and post‐modernism. The extent of these changes, and their impact on the conduct of politics, are the dual concerns of this book. Its first few chapters present a simple model of the relationship between value orientations and political participation, and follow up with an account of how value orientations can be established empirically. Subsequent chapters draw on extensive data from across Europe, in order to track changes in three key types of value orientation – religious/secular, left/right materialism, and materialism/post‐materialism – and additionally discusses the emergence of the value orientations relating to feminism, post‐modernism, and environmentalism. The third part of the book examines the impact of the three key types on political effectiveness, political trust, interest in politics, voting behaviour, and involvement in new social movements. It concludes with an assessment of the implications of changing value orientations for the governability of advanced industrial societies.Less
This book is the fourth in the ‘Beliefs in government’ series, and focuses on phenomena indicative of widespread change in the value orientations of citizens in Western Europe during the past two decades. These include a decline in religious belief, waning class values, and rising post‐materialism – along with environmentalism, feminism, and post‐modernism. The extent of these changes, and their impact on the conduct of politics, are the dual concerns of this book. Its first few chapters present a simple model of the relationship between value orientations and political participation, and follow up with an account of how value orientations can be established empirically. Subsequent chapters draw on extensive data from across Europe, in order to track changes in three key types of value orientation – religious/secular, left/right materialism, and materialism/post‐materialism – and additionally discusses the emergence of the value orientations relating to feminism, post‐modernism, and environmentalism. The third part of the book examines the impact of the three key types on political effectiveness, political trust, interest in politics, voting behaviour, and involvement in new social movements. It concludes with an assessment of the implications of changing value orientations for the governability of advanced industrial societies.
Robert E. Goodin and Hans‐Dieter Klingemann
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198294719
- eISBN:
- 9780191599361
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198294719.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Reference
What is political science and what are its main contentions? Reviews the discipline and its contemporary boundaries with regard to theoretical questions and methodological integration. The discipline ...
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What is political science and what are its main contentions? Reviews the discipline and its contemporary boundaries with regard to theoretical questions and methodological integration. The discipline is maturing, seen in an embrace of pluralism and an overlapping consensus in the role of rationality, institutions, and culture. Reviews new themes built on previous omissions, such as feminism, leading to post‐modern and post‐positivist approaches. Calculates the sub‐discipline powerhouses and most‐ cited authors across the field––across which the whole book provides an overview.Less
What is political science and what are its main contentions? Reviews the discipline and its contemporary boundaries with regard to theoretical questions and methodological integration. The discipline is maturing, seen in an embrace of pluralism and an overlapping consensus in the role of rationality, institutions, and culture. Reviews new themes built on previous omissions, such as feminism, leading to post‐modern and post‐positivist approaches. Calculates the sub‐discipline powerhouses and most‐ cited authors across the field––across which the whole book provides an overview.
John R. Gibbins and Bo Reimer
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198294757
- eISBN:
- 9780191599040
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198294751.003.0011
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
This chapter has two aims: first, to show how post‐modern theory helps explain contemporary value changes in Western Europe, and their impact on beliefs about the role and legitimacy of government; ...
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This chapter has two aims: first, to show how post‐modern theory helps explain contemporary value changes in Western Europe, and their impact on beliefs about the role and legitimacy of government; second, to demonstrate how the concept of post‐modernism can be operationalized and put to empirical use. It hypothesizes the emergence of new ‘structures of feeling’ and new formations of values, which are united by little else than a common yearning for identity and self‐expression. This hypothesis implies that, rather than moving in patterns structured around socio‐economic groupings, people move in a multitude of both individual‐ and group‐based directions. They will thereby create new patterns of value orientation, which will affect beliefs about government behaviour and transcend traditional allegiances and interests.Less
This chapter has two aims: first, to show how post‐modern theory helps explain contemporary value changes in Western Europe, and their impact on beliefs about the role and legitimacy of government; second, to demonstrate how the concept of post‐modernism can be operationalized and put to empirical use. It hypothesizes the emergence of new ‘structures of feeling’ and new formations of values, which are united by little else than a common yearning for identity and self‐expression. This hypothesis implies that, rather than moving in patterns structured around socio‐economic groupings, people move in a multitude of both individual‐ and group‐based directions. They will thereby create new patterns of value orientation, which will affect beliefs about government behaviour and transcend traditional allegiances and interests.
Etienne Schweisguth
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198294757
- eISBN:
- 9780191599040
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198294751.003.0012
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
The central hypothesis of this chapter is that members of the middle class are conservative on socio‐economic issues but progressive on cultural issues, whereas members of the working class are ...
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The central hypothesis of this chapter is that members of the middle class are conservative on socio‐economic issues but progressive on cultural issues, whereas members of the working class are progressive on socio‐economic issues but conservative on cultural issues. This can create contradictory effects within an individual's political orientation, in terms of three value orientations – left‐right materialism, libertarianism/post‐modernism, and materialism/post‐materialism.Less
The central hypothesis of this chapter is that members of the middle class are conservative on socio‐economic issues but progressive on cultural issues, whereas members of the working class are progressive on socio‐economic issues but conservative on cultural issues. This can create contradictory effects within an individual's political orientation, in terms of three value orientations – left‐right materialism, libertarianism/post‐modernism, and materialism/post‐materialism.
Terence Ball
- Published in print:
- 1994
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198279952
- eISBN:
- 9780191598753
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198279957.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
In this chapter, I show how James Mill reworks and recycles the argument of a classic text—viz. Plato's Republic—and uses Plato's theory of justice and just punishment to legitimize Bentham's plans ...
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In this chapter, I show how James Mill reworks and recycles the argument of a classic text—viz. Plato's Republic—and uses Plato's theory of justice and just punishment to legitimize Bentham's plans for penal reform. Pace Michel Foucault, who views Bentham as the thoroughly modern doyen of the `surveillance society’, I argue that much modern political theory has classical roots and that we should therefore be wary of post‐modern genealogists’ claims about discursive continuities between discrete epistemes or systems of thought.Less
In this chapter, I show how James Mill reworks and recycles the argument of a classic text—viz. Plato's Republic—and uses Plato's theory of justice and just punishment to legitimize Bentham's plans for penal reform. Pace Michel Foucault, who views Bentham as the thoroughly modern doyen of the `surveillance society’, I argue that much modern political theory has classical roots and that we should therefore be wary of post‐modern genealogists’ claims about discursive continuities between discrete epistemes or systems of thought.
C. Stephen Evans
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198263975
- eISBN:
- 9780191600579
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/019826397X.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
Though there are many historical narratives in the Bible that are significant for Christians, orthodox Christian faith has traditionally understood itself as rooted supremely in the life, death and ...
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Though there are many historical narratives in the Bible that are significant for Christians, orthodox Christian faith has traditionally understood itself as rooted supremely in the life, death and resurrection of a historical person, Jesus of Nazareth, and it has seemed to many Christians that the Christian faith could not survive if Jesus did not live, die and rise from the dead. This story of Jesus the author calls ‘the incarnational narrative’ – the story of Jesus of Nazareth taken from the New Testament as a whole, as that story has traditionally been told by the Christian Church. Thus understood it is not a story about a mere human being, but an account of Jesus as the Son of God, a unique, divine person. The book examines the truth of this incarnational narrative, and this introductory chapter introduces the concept, discusses why the historicity of the narrative is important, why belief in the narrative has become difficult (in particular the challenge posed to its historicity posed by Enlightenment epistemology and metaphysics), and the post-modern intellectual situation – the collapse of the metaphysical and epistemological assumptions of the Enlightenment. Finally the chapter gives an outline of the structure of the book.Less
Though there are many historical narratives in the Bible that are significant for Christians, orthodox Christian faith has traditionally understood itself as rooted supremely in the life, death and resurrection of a historical person, Jesus of Nazareth, and it has seemed to many Christians that the Christian faith could not survive if Jesus did not live, die and rise from the dead. This story of Jesus the author calls ‘the incarnational narrative’ – the story of Jesus of Nazareth taken from the New Testament as a whole, as that story has traditionally been told by the Christian Church. Thus understood it is not a story about a mere human being, but an account of Jesus as the Son of God, a unique, divine person. The book examines the truth of this incarnational narrative, and this introductory chapter introduces the concept, discusses why the historicity of the narrative is important, why belief in the narrative has become difficult (in particular the challenge posed to its historicity posed by Enlightenment epistemology and metaphysics), and the post-modern intellectual situation – the collapse of the metaphysical and epistemological assumptions of the Enlightenment. Finally the chapter gives an outline of the structure of the book.
Ekkehart Schlicht
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198292241
- eISBN:
- 9780191596865
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198292244.003.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Microeconomics, History of Economic Thought
Custom is important in moulding social and economic interaction. It eases them in some dimensions and constrains them in others. A widespread view of custom is to interpret it as a self‐sustaining ...
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Custom is important in moulding social and economic interaction. It eases them in some dimensions and constrains them in others. A widespread view of custom is to interpret it as a self‐sustaining system of conventions. The view presented here goes further and accounts for the behavioural impact of custom beyond competitive success. The theory proposed is neither ‘economistic’ in the sense of looking only for external instrumental reasons for the growth and decay of customs, nor ‘culturalistic’ in the sense of exclusively emphasizing cognitive and emotional regularities that bring about custom. Rather, it views custom as flowing from fundamental cognitive, emotional, and behavioural dispositions of human beings, thereby integrating economistic and culturalistic aspects.Less
Custom is important in moulding social and economic interaction. It eases them in some dimensions and constrains them in others. A widespread view of custom is to interpret it as a self‐sustaining system of conventions. The view presented here goes further and accounts for the behavioural impact of custom beyond competitive success. The theory proposed is neither ‘economistic’ in the sense of looking only for external instrumental reasons for the growth and decay of customs, nor ‘culturalistic’ in the sense of exclusively emphasizing cognitive and emotional regularities that bring about custom. Rather, it views custom as flowing from fundamental cognitive, emotional, and behavioural dispositions of human beings, thereby integrating economistic and culturalistic aspects.
Karen Lury
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198159704
- eISBN:
- 9780191673689
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198159704.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
This chapter explains how a generation of youth – the so-called ‘Generation X’ (who were the post-boomer/ ‘baby-bust’ generation born in the late 1960s and 1970s) – and a series of different British ...
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This chapter explains how a generation of youth – the so-called ‘Generation X’ (who were the post-boomer/ ‘baby-bust’ generation born in the late 1960s and 1970s) – and a series of different British television programmes (produced during a specific time period between 1987 and 1995) coincided. It notes that this coincidence encouraged an aesthetic sensibility that combined ‘cynicism and enchantment’ – that young people continued to invest in the pleasures and places produced by television. The coincidence of programmes and audience was enabled by a particular combination of social, economic, and cultural factors – factors which provided a living environment that was notably different from that experienced by previous generations of youth, greatly affecting all aspects of these young people's lives. It discusses the effects of post-modernism and how and why temporary popular culture is interpreted as post-modern.Less
This chapter explains how a generation of youth – the so-called ‘Generation X’ (who were the post-boomer/ ‘baby-bust’ generation born in the late 1960s and 1970s) – and a series of different British television programmes (produced during a specific time period between 1987 and 1995) coincided. It notes that this coincidence encouraged an aesthetic sensibility that combined ‘cynicism and enchantment’ – that young people continued to invest in the pleasures and places produced by television. The coincidence of programmes and audience was enabled by a particular combination of social, economic, and cultural factors – factors which provided a living environment that was notably different from that experienced by previous generations of youth, greatly affecting all aspects of these young people's lives. It discusses the effects of post-modernism and how and why temporary popular culture is interpreted as post-modern.
Kishwar Rizvi
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469621166
- eISBN:
- 9781469624952
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469621166.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Islam
The Transnational Mosque is the first book-length study to provide a nuanced understanding of the role of mosques in the construction of Muslim identity through the lens of their political, ...
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The Transnational Mosque is the first book-length study to provide a nuanced understanding of the role of mosques in the construction of Muslim identity through the lens of their political, religious, and architectural history. The primary subject in current debates on Islam is the reinterpretation of history, which is often linked to an idealized age of Caliphal rule, the painful legacy of colonialism, or an imagined regional identity. The debates hinge upon what might the future hold for Muslim nations and their subjects. This discussion concerns not simply a monolithic transformation of ideology, but a contested space where governments and communities of belief compete for the dissemination of their own version of Islamic identity. This book is a study in which the built environment is a critical resource for understanding culture and politics in the contemporary Middle East and the Islamic world. By concentrating on the epitomes of Islamic architecture, mosques, especially those built at the turn of the twenty-first century, the study elucidates their significance as sites for both the validation of religious praxis and the construction of national and religious ideology.Less
The Transnational Mosque is the first book-length study to provide a nuanced understanding of the role of mosques in the construction of Muslim identity through the lens of their political, religious, and architectural history. The primary subject in current debates on Islam is the reinterpretation of history, which is often linked to an idealized age of Caliphal rule, the painful legacy of colonialism, or an imagined regional identity. The debates hinge upon what might the future hold for Muslim nations and their subjects. This discussion concerns not simply a monolithic transformation of ideology, but a contested space where governments and communities of belief compete for the dissemination of their own version of Islamic identity. This book is a study in which the built environment is a critical resource for understanding culture and politics in the contemporary Middle East and the Islamic world. By concentrating on the epitomes of Islamic architecture, mosques, especially those built at the turn of the twenty-first century, the study elucidates their significance as sites for both the validation of religious praxis and the construction of national and religious ideology.
David Ashford
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781846318597
- eISBN:
- 9781846318016
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781846318597.001.0000
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
Engaging with the rich catalogue of cultural material relating to the London Underground, this cultural geography sets out to explore one of the strangest spaces of the modern world. The first to ...
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Engaging with the rich catalogue of cultural material relating to the London Underground, this cultural geography sets out to explore one of the strangest spaces of the modern world. The first to complete that slow process of estrangement from the natural topography initiated by the Industrial Revolution, London Underground is shown to be what French anthropologist Marc Augé has called non-lieu: non-places, like the motorway, supermarket or airport lounge, compelled to interpret their relation to the invisible landscapes they traverse through the media of signs and maps. The tube-network is revealed to be a transitional form, linking spaces of alienation in Victorian England, such as the railway, and the fully virtual spaces of our contemporary consumer-capitalism. This history of alienation, and of the bold struggle to overcome it, recounted in London Underground: a cultural geography, is nothing less than the history of how people have attempted to make a home in the psychopathological spaces of the modern world. London Underground: a cultural geography taps the current enthusiasm for cultural history, for psychogeography, for books on modern urban space, and for all things relating to London, providing an account of the system's representation and reshaping in fiction, film, art, music, graffiti, connecting the long history of the tube-network to wider theoretical concerns relating to the Victorian City, Cultural Geography, Modernism, Post-modernism and Situationist Theory.Less
Engaging with the rich catalogue of cultural material relating to the London Underground, this cultural geography sets out to explore one of the strangest spaces of the modern world. The first to complete that slow process of estrangement from the natural topography initiated by the Industrial Revolution, London Underground is shown to be what French anthropologist Marc Augé has called non-lieu: non-places, like the motorway, supermarket or airport lounge, compelled to interpret their relation to the invisible landscapes they traverse through the media of signs and maps. The tube-network is revealed to be a transitional form, linking spaces of alienation in Victorian England, such as the railway, and the fully virtual spaces of our contemporary consumer-capitalism. This history of alienation, and of the bold struggle to overcome it, recounted in London Underground: a cultural geography, is nothing less than the history of how people have attempted to make a home in the psychopathological spaces of the modern world. London Underground: a cultural geography taps the current enthusiasm for cultural history, for psychogeography, for books on modern urban space, and for all things relating to London, providing an account of the system's representation and reshaping in fiction, film, art, music, graffiti, connecting the long history of the tube-network to wider theoretical concerns relating to the Victorian City, Cultural Geography, Modernism, Post-modernism and Situationist Theory.
Nicholas Garnham
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198742258
- eISBN:
- 9780191695001
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198742258.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
This book approaches the problems raised by the media via a set of arguments contained in post-modernism and Information Society theory. It argues that the media is important because it raises a set ...
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This book approaches the problems raised by the media via a set of arguments contained in post-modernism and Information Society theory. It argues that the media is important because it raises a set of questions central to social and political theory. The book focuses on the problem raised by what Kant called the unsocial sociability of human kind. The book argues for a necessarily historical perspective, and then examines the implications for emancipation of seeing the media as cultural industries within the capitalist market economy; of seeing the media as technologies; of the specialisation of intellectual production and of the separation and increasing social distance between the producers and consumers of symbols. The issue of the viable community raises the question of the nature of the social challenge posed for the ethical project of social theory by modernity.Less
This book approaches the problems raised by the media via a set of arguments contained in post-modernism and Information Society theory. It argues that the media is important because it raises a set of questions central to social and political theory. The book focuses on the problem raised by what Kant called the unsocial sociability of human kind. The book argues for a necessarily historical perspective, and then examines the implications for emancipation of seeing the media as cultural industries within the capitalist market economy; of seeing the media as technologies; of the specialisation of intellectual production and of the separation and increasing social distance between the producers and consumers of symbols. The issue of the viable community raises the question of the nature of the social challenge posed for the ethical project of social theory by modernity.
Eric Salzman and Thomas Desi
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195099362
- eISBN:
- 9780199864737
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195099362.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Opera
Alternatives to grand opera and popular musical go back at least as far as Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, early Stravinsky, and Kurt Weill as well as the Broadway and off-Broadway theater operas of ...
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Alternatives to grand opera and popular musical go back at least as far as Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, early Stravinsky, and Kurt Weill as well as the Broadway and off-Broadway theater operas of the '30s and '40s, and the modernist experiments of the '60s. Yet this long and continuing history, with its complex ideas and philosophy as well as musical and theatrical achievements, has never been properly sorted out. This book is the first comprehensive attempt in English to cover a still-emerging art form in its widest range. It provides a wealth of examples and descriptions, not only of the works themselves, but of the concepts, ideas, and trends that have gone into the evolution of what may be the most central performance art form of the post-modern world. The first two sections of the book deal with Music in Music Theater (including the many new and various uses of the human voice) and Theater in Music Theater (including culture, text, visual strategies, and the multiple new concepts of space). The third section covers European and American music theaters in their various histories and manifestations, with chapters on the more innovative wing of popular music theater, extended voice, and the influence of new media. The fourth part of the book discusses criticism and analysis, improvisation, the issues surrounding pop and high art, and the crucial questions about the audience for music theater. An appendix includes a music-theater bibliography and information about some of the principal venues for the art form.Less
Alternatives to grand opera and popular musical go back at least as far as Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, early Stravinsky, and Kurt Weill as well as the Broadway and off-Broadway theater operas of the '30s and '40s, and the modernist experiments of the '60s. Yet this long and continuing history, with its complex ideas and philosophy as well as musical and theatrical achievements, has never been properly sorted out. This book is the first comprehensive attempt in English to cover a still-emerging art form in its widest range. It provides a wealth of examples and descriptions, not only of the works themselves, but of the concepts, ideas, and trends that have gone into the evolution of what may be the most central performance art form of the post-modern world. The first two sections of the book deal with Music in Music Theater (including the many new and various uses of the human voice) and Theater in Music Theater (including culture, text, visual strategies, and the multiple new concepts of space). The third section covers European and American music theaters in their various histories and manifestations, with chapters on the more innovative wing of popular music theater, extended voice, and the influence of new media. The fourth part of the book discusses criticism and analysis, improvisation, the issues surrounding pop and high art, and the crucial questions about the audience for music theater. An appendix includes a music-theater bibliography and information about some of the principal venues for the art form.
Douglas Rosenberg
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199772612
- eISBN:
- 9780199949670
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199772612.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Dance
Since the 1960’s artists have been increasingly drawn to the intersection of dance and the moving image, (for the purposes of this book, referred to as, screendance). Historical precedents for the ...
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Since the 1960’s artists have been increasingly drawn to the intersection of dance and the moving image, (for the purposes of this book, referred to as, screendance). Historical precedents for the genre can be tracked to the birth of photography and film technologies and in fact dance and the optical mediums have been linked since the earliest incarnation of reproducible photographic images. However, the purpose of this book is to address screendance within the frame of the visual arts as well as to situate it as an extension of dance and the optical mediums including film and video. Mediated dance and dance on film or video is now a part of the canon of modern dance. However, there are few texts that exist that specifically address the practice of screendance from both a historical and theoretical perspective and generally the practice has been framed as specific to the discourses of dance proper. This book addresses issues of curation, intertextual dialog with other mediums and practices and other intellectual ephemera and movements that create the foundation for criticality in an art practice. This book weaves together theory from art and dance as well as appropriate historical reference material and propose a new theory of screendance, one that frames it within the discourse of post-modern art practice.Less
Since the 1960’s artists have been increasingly drawn to the intersection of dance and the moving image, (for the purposes of this book, referred to as, screendance). Historical precedents for the genre can be tracked to the birth of photography and film technologies and in fact dance and the optical mediums have been linked since the earliest incarnation of reproducible photographic images. However, the purpose of this book is to address screendance within the frame of the visual arts as well as to situate it as an extension of dance and the optical mediums including film and video. Mediated dance and dance on film or video is now a part of the canon of modern dance. However, there are few texts that exist that specifically address the practice of screendance from both a historical and theoretical perspective and generally the practice has been framed as specific to the discourses of dance proper. This book addresses issues of curation, intertextual dialog with other mediums and practices and other intellectual ephemera and movements that create the foundation for criticality in an art practice. This book weaves together theory from art and dance as well as appropriate historical reference material and propose a new theory of screendance, one that frames it within the discourse of post-modern art practice.
Mary Ellen O'Connell
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195368949
- eISBN:
- 9780199871100
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195368949.003.0003
- Subject:
- Law, Public International Law
After World War II, the international legal restrictions on the use of force were finally codified in the United Nations Charter. The United States championed the Charter until Morgenthau and his ...
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After World War II, the international legal restrictions on the use of force were finally codified in the United Nations Charter. The United States championed the Charter until Morgenthau and his successors persuaded many policymakers to pursue military superiority in the world in disregard to an international law seen as lacking powerful means of enforcement. Henkin and others responded that it is not enforcement that gives law its authority but actual compliance. Compliance theory provided an answer to the international law deniers that worked for a time until international law became the target not only of political science “realists” but also of post-modern legal critics. Post-modernism, however, also held the seeds of renewal for international legal theory with its critique of rationalism, positivism, and imperialism.Less
After World War II, the international legal restrictions on the use of force were finally codified in the United Nations Charter. The United States championed the Charter until Morgenthau and his successors persuaded many policymakers to pursue military superiority in the world in disregard to an international law seen as lacking powerful means of enforcement. Henkin and others responded that it is not enforcement that gives law its authority but actual compliance. Compliance theory provided an answer to the international law deniers that worked for a time until international law became the target not only of political science “realists” but also of post-modern legal critics. Post-modernism, however, also held the seeds of renewal for international legal theory with its critique of rationalism, positivism, and imperialism.
Mary Ellen O'Connell
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195368949
- eISBN:
- 9780199871100
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195368949.003.0004
- Subject:
- Law, Public International Law
Responding to Henkin's compliance theory, Goldsmith and Posner asserted in 2005 that “rational choice” theory proves that few states ever truly “comply” with international law. What looks like ...
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Responding to Henkin's compliance theory, Goldsmith and Posner asserted in 2005 that “rational choice” theory proves that few states ever truly “comply” with international law. What looks like compliance is pursuit of “self” interest. They conclude that violations of international law, therefore, cannot be condemned as violations of law. To apply their theory, however, they make a series of implausible assumptions and fail to incorporate developments in behavioral economics or the insights of post-modernism. Both support the importance of such human impulses as altruism and belief. And it is these that actually support the claim that international law is law and that coercive means may be used to enforce it — as was always understood in natural law theory. Reviving natural law theory to explain the basis of international law's authority can best be done by incorporating process theory and retaining the centrality of positivism.Less
Responding to Henkin's compliance theory, Goldsmith and Posner asserted in 2005 that “rational choice” theory proves that few states ever truly “comply” with international law. What looks like compliance is pursuit of “self” interest. They conclude that violations of international law, therefore, cannot be condemned as violations of law. To apply their theory, however, they make a series of implausible assumptions and fail to incorporate developments in behavioral economics or the insights of post-modernism. Both support the importance of such human impulses as altruism and belief. And it is these that actually support the claim that international law is law and that coercive means may be used to enforce it — as was always understood in natural law theory. Reviving natural law theory to explain the basis of international law's authority can best be done by incorporating process theory and retaining the centrality of positivism.
