Tag: Modernity

January 16, 2024

The Culture of the Body Genealogies of Modernity

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Free Download The Culture of the Body: Genealogies of Modernity by Dalia Judovitz
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0472067427 | 248 Pages | PDF | 10.0 MB
What is the body? How was it culturally constructed, conceived, and cultivated before and after the advent of rationalism and modern science? This interdisciplinary study elaborates a cultural genealogy of the body and its legacies to modernity by tracing its crucial redefinition from a live anatomical entity to disembodied, mechanical and virtual analogs.

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January 15, 2024

Passage to Modernity An Essay on the Hermeneutics of Nature and Culture

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Free Download Passage to Modernity: An Essay on the Hermeneutics of Nature and Culture by Louis Dupre
English | 1993 | ISBN: 0300055315 | 310 Pages | PDF | 15.9 MB
Did modernity begin with the Renaissance and end with post-modernity? In this book a distinguished scholar challenges both these assumptions. Louis Dupré discusses the roots, development, and impact of modern thought, tracing the fundamental principles of modernity to the late fourteenth century and affirming that modernity is still an influential force in contemporary culture.

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January 8, 2024

The Reinvention of Distinction Modernity and the Middle Class in Urban Vietnam

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Free Download The Reinvention of Distinction: Modernity and the Middle Class in Urban Vietnam By Danièle Bélanger, Lisa B. Welch Drummond (auth.), Van Nguyen-Marshall, Lisa B. Welch Drummond, Danièle Bélanger (eds.)
2012 | 176 Pages | ISBN: 9400723059 | PDF | 4 MB
This pioneering collection brings together an international group of scholars to explore the Vietnamese middle class. From the leisure pursuits of the colonial middle class to the impact of the new urban rich on landscape of the countryside, this interdisciplinary volume explores the ways in which middle classness has been practiced in a wide range of contexts throughout the 20th century and into the 21st. In addition to offering insights into how middle classness was and is constituted and negotiated, this collection illuminates the cultural and social conditions of two distinctive periods in Vietnamese history. Three historical chapters consider how middle class status was experienced and displayed under French colonialism and in 1960s republican. These chapters offer examinations of middle classness through recreation, consumption, and associational life. Six contemporary studies examine the modes of experimentation and practice within middle class urban Vietnam. Still a sensitive topic politically, the contemporary middle class, nascent but increasingly powerful, is exerting a strong impact on the shape of contemporary society and culture, as well as on urban and rural landscapes. This volume offers a series of studies which critically interrogate the practices of those who engage in or aspire to urban middle-class lifestyles in Vietnam both in the past and in the present.

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January 8, 2024

The End of the Soul Scientific Modernity, Atheism and Anthropology in France

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Free Download Jennifer Hecht, "The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism and Anthropology in France"
English | 2003 | pages: 304 | ISBN: 0231128460, 0231128479 | EPUB | 19,8 mb
On October 19, 1876 a group of leading French citizens, joined together to form the Society of Mutual Autopsy, with the aim of proving that souls do not exist. With this group as its focus, The End of the Soul is a study of science and atheism in France in late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It shows that anthropology grew out of a struggle between tradition (especially Catholicism) and modernism, and that it became for many a secular religion, with such adherents as Emile Zola, Margaret Sanger, and Arthur Conan Doyle.

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