Self and Modernity
Care of self in dawn : on Nietzsche's resistance to biopolitical modernity
... The middle period writings (1878–82) are without doubt the most heavily ne- glected texts in Nietzsche’s corpus, especially the two volumes of Human, all too Human and Dawn. How should they be read? The question is a ...
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The Enlightenment as Modernity: Jonathan Israel's Interpretation Across Two Decades
... Such a grand narrative, however, comes at a price. When we are dealing with the transmission of ideas, it is notoriously difficult to demonstrate specific influences, except in the rare instances where the recipient ...
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Lev Shestov and the Crisis of Modernity
... Shestov insists that he never prostrated himself before Nietzsche, but he did take from him certain very important concepts, the most significant being that of the death of God and its partner, ‘beyond good and evil.’ As ...
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Decorating the abyss: crafting a post-holocaust ethics of the self
... the self – what and how it is, who it was and how it emerged from its ...the self might become something ...the self that allows us to govern ourselves differently to those models that have shaped ...
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The Enlightenment and Religion The Myths of Modernity
... There are a few slips that, taken cumulatively, detract from one’s confidence in Barnett’s handling of labels: Isaac Newton is referred to as a ‘dissenter’ (p. 122), David Hartley becomes an oxymoronic ‘dissenting ...
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Reflection on the Dangers of 'Cultural Racism' in Intercultural Education Reflexión sobre los peligros del 'racismo cultural' en la educación intercultural
... nation-state. Modernity has directed our understanding of culture as a type of jail in which the self and its identity are imprisoned and has led us to consider relations and interactions among, so to ...
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The European Identity
... of modernity, of which the consciousness of their individuality is considered a distinctive trait, along with the confidence in scientific knowledge, the development of a secu- lar vision, the doctrine of progress ...
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The Fountainhead of Modernity
... By contrast, Ellsworth Toohey, the powerful antagonist of the story, fronts a character who believes in collectivism and altruism, openly demonizing the individual’s ego and contradicting the principles Roark represents. ...
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Self-Realisation: A Reading of Shashi Deshpande’s Novel Small Remedies
... for self realization in Deshpande’s novel Small Remedies which is a powerful narrative dealing with the theme of quest for self realization as experienced by women in an orthodox male dominated and ...
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The modernity of backwardness
... ultimately self-destructive wars) which provided the crucial impetus for the Lowlands to become, for two centuries, the workshop and epicentre of European capitalist ...
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Women, Islam and modernity
... the self-confidence of many Muslim believers and encouraged them to go on the offensive to shed their inferiority complex towards the 'culture of the ...present modernity as an ideal leading to progress, ...
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Elites and modernity in Mozambique
... The family’s fortunes declined somewhat and his father ended up working at the state-owned national brewery, 2M. Osvaldo had conflicting emotions about the socialist period in Mozambique. On the one hand he said it was ...
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Backpacking with a Prayer: Tradition and Modernity
... to self-determination (Calderon, ...the modernity with which it has become integrated, is perceived not only in contrast to the traditional, rather also as a way of preserving a relationship with the very ...
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Development as modernity, modernity as development
... of modernity are pertinent to the task at ...that modernity cannot be said to have an end. Both of them aver that modernity should be understood as an incomplete project, still unfolding and thus ...
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The Status of the Body between the XVIII-th and the XX-th Centuries
... in modernity, the image of the body becomes equivalent with the self-image of the individual, composed on three axes: the axis of content (the body constitutes the coherent and familiar universe made of ...
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Homelessness and identity : a critical review of the literature and theory
... the self were much more conflated with the idea of human individuality in which people were highly detached from their social milieu (Sibley, ...the self in ...late modernity insisting that thinking ...
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Towards a Dialogic World: Mediums at work in Post/Colonial South Africa
... a self-reliant industry of gathering shellfish, but also propels Camagu to come up with a promising idea of establishing the site of Nongqawuse’s prophecies as a national heritage by showing him the values of ...
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Corrosion of Self and Quest for Identity in Rama Mehta's "Inside the Haveli"
... Rama Mehta has taken a sociological perspective in her novel Inside The Haveli which won her the prestigious Sahitya Academy Award. As Coser points out, “fiction provides us with a wealth of sociologically relevant ...
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Homeschooling as Reflexive Modernity
... Along with the possibility inherent in the break with first modernity, however, there is also risk. According to Beck (1997), a reflexive second modernity is only one possible solution to the contradictions ...
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In Times of Liquid Modernity: Experiences of the Paralympic Student Athlete
... For Bauman, the problem is that we have transitioned into a new order, but a new order which has not yet been given. Whereas previous social structures were ordered according to solidity, the contemporary condition is ...
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