Tag: Polemical

Free Download Anthony Bushell, "Polemical Austria: The Rhetorics of National Identity: From Empire to the Second Republic"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0708326048 | EPUB | pages: 288 | 0.6 mb
Today Austria is a small, neutral, and economically successful country in the heart of Europe. Yet modern Austria is the product of a complex and turbulent history. Following World War I, Vienna lost its position as the capital of a large continental and multiethnic empire and became an alpine republic surrounded by larger states. Anthony Bushell’s Polemical Austria examines this transition, asking how such an abrupt change has affected the way Austrians perceive themselves today. Bushell places particular emphasis on the role of language in Austrian national identity.

Free Download Criticism and Politics: A Polemical Introduction by Bruce Robbins
English | September 13, 2022 | ISBN: 1503630196 | 272 pages | PDF | 2.49 Mb
An accessible introduction to cultural theory and an original polemic about the purpose of criticism. What is criticism for? Over the past few decades, impassioned disagreements over that question in the academy have burst into the news media. These conflicts have renewed the culture wars over the legacy of the 1960s, becoming entangled in national politics and leading to a new set of questions about critics and the power they do or don’t wield. Re-examining theorists from Matthew Arnold to Walter Benjamin, to Fredric Jameson, Stuart Hall, and Hortense Spillers, Criticism and Politics explores the animating contradictions that have long propelled literary studies: between pronouncing judgment and engaging in philosophical critique, between democracy and expertise, between political commitment and aesthetic autonomy. Both a leftist critic and a critic of the left, Robbins unflinchingly defends criticism from those who might wish to de-politicize it, arguing that working for change is not optional for critics, but rather a core part of their job description.

Free Download Paola Rudan, "Woman: History and Critique of a Polemical Concept "
English | ISBN: 9004680403 | 2023 | 164 pages | PDF | 13 MB
The book follows the movements of the concept of "woman" from the Early modern to the post-colonial age, through the words of women who challenged its patriarchal definition, laying the groundwork for a feminist critique of the present.