Anarchy & Culture
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Anarchism is generally understood as a failed ideology, a political philosophy that once may have had many followers but today attracts only cranks and eccentrics. This book argues that the decline of political anarchism is only half the story; the other half is a tale of widespread cultural success. David Weir develops this thesis in several ways. He begins by considering the place of culture in the political thought of the classical anarchist thinkers William Godwin, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Mikhail Bakunin, and Peter Kropotkin. He then shows how the perceived “anarchy” of nineteenth-century society induced writers such as Matthew Arnold, Henry James, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky to turn away from politics and seek unity in the idea of a common culture. Yet as other late-nineteenth-century writers and artists began to sympathize with anarchism, the prospect of a common culture became increasingly remote. In Weir’s view, the affinity for anarchism that developed among members of the artistic avant-garde lies behind much of fin de siecle culture....
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Being On Line, Net Subjectivity is not about virtual reality, cyberspace or the Internet– instead the texts included in this volume are fragments and commentaries snatched from never-ending global discourses. All tests are presented in both Engliah and Korean.
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“In America today, the problem of achieving racial justice–whether through “color-blind” policies or through affirmative action–provokes more noisy name-calling than fruitful deliberation. In Color Conscious, K. Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann, two eminent moral and political philosophers, seek to clear the ground for a discussion of the place of race in politics and in our moral lives. Color Conscious is an extremely welcome addition to the discourse on race. In different but complementary ways, Appiah and Gutmann articulate with precision and subtlety those intricate issues of race that confound us all.” –Toni Morrison
“Without dogma or cant, two of our most challenging and clear-eyed public philosophers explore the real meanings of culture and identity. An invaluable resource for all who want to think responsibly about the racial dilemmas facing our nation.” –Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
“These formidable scholars each remind us that principles of justice and ideas about race are interdependent and must speak to the actual conditions in which we live.”...
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Short stories from Switzerland’s architect of the noological enigma. “Jurg Laederach captures the spirit of the new Europe. Characters vanish, reappear. There is something relentlessabout the buildup… Everything is transitory. Everything is on the verge of being discarded. Everything resonateswith an imminent change.” – Walter Abish
Written after the Swiss writer Jurg Laederach’s third trip to New York in the late 1980s, 69 Ways was hailed by award-winning author Walter Abish as a text predictive of “a Europe to come, when borders dissolve.” Like Alain-Robbe Grillet, Georges Perec, and the great Oulipo writers, Laederach constructs seamless narratives based on sly compositional strategies. The reader is only somewhat aware of the rules of the game. Transposed to America, Laederach’s texts, Abish argues, “function as a scanning device. Characters vanish, reappear. There is something relentless. Everything is transitory. No sentimentality. No clinging to the past. Everything is on the verge of being discarded. Everything is on the verge of dissolution....
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In this collection of texts, the late playwright Heiner Muller explores the East German psychogeography as it was immediately preceding the fall of the Berlin Wall. He avers that Capitalism and Socialism have proven to be simply two different ways to control production andensure the discipline of work. And that, since the “end of ideologies” in the West, all people have begun to question the validity of ideological conflict.
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This three-foot, in-your-face, on-your-lap monster belongs on every five-foot shelf. Feisty and defiant designs. Complex texts struggling with architectures intended to drag you into a visual and conceptual maelstrom. Brian Boigon, Atom Egoyan, Felix Guattari, Arthur Kroker, Catherine Ingraham, and others, in a volume too big to open in most city apartments.
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