Conservative Modernists

Author : Christos Hadjiyiannis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1108426360
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conservative Modernists written by Christos Hadjiyiannis and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows that modernism was concocted out of surprising sources, and that one of them was Toryism during 1900-1920.

Author : Bryan M. Santin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108974236
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postwar American Fiction and the Rise of Modern Conservatism written by Bryan M. Santin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bryan M. Santin examines over a half-century of intersection between American fiction and postwar conservatism. He traces the shifting racial politics of movement conservatism to argue that contemporary perceptions of literary form and aesthetic value are intrinsically connected to the rise of the American Right. Instead of casting postwar conservatives as cynical hustlers or ideological fanatics, Santin shows how the long-term rhetorical shift in conservative notions of literary value and prestige reveal an aesthetic antinomy between high culture and low culture. This shift, he argues, registered and mediated the deeper foundational antinomy structuring postwar conservatism itself: the stable social order of traditionalism and the creative destruction of free-market capitalism. Postwar conservatives produced, in effect, an ambivalent double register in the discourse of conservative literary taste that sought to celebrate neo-aristocratic manifestations of cultural capital while condemning newer, more progressive manifestations revolving around racial and ethnic diversity.

Author : Steve Ludlam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349244074
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary British Conservatism written by Steve Ludlam and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1995-12-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary British Conservatism brings together a set of specially-commissioned chapters by leading authorities to provide a broad-ranging assessment of Conservative politics, policy and ideology today. A central concern throughout is to assess the impact of Thatcherism on the party and the extent to which there has been a return to more traditional Conservatism under John Major.

Author : Robert Genter
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812200071
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Late Modernism written by Robert Genter and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the thirty years after World War II, American intellectual and artistic life changed as dramatically as did the rest of society. Gone were the rebellious lions of modernism—Joyce, Picasso, Stravinsky—and nearing exhaustion were those who took up their mantle as abstract expressionism gave way to pop art, and the barren formalism associated with the so-called high modernists wilted before the hothouse cultural brew of the 1960s. According to conventional thinking, it was around this time that postmodernism with its characteristic skepticism and relativism was born. In Late Modernism, historian Robert Genter remaps the landscape of American modernism in the early decades of the Cold War, tracing the combative debate among artists, writers, and intellectuals over the nature of the aesthetic form in an age of mass politics and mass culture. Dispensing with traditional narratives that present this moment as marking the exhaustion of modernism, Genter argues instead that the 1950s were the apogee of the movement, as American practitioners—abstract expressionists, Beat poets, formalist critics, color-field painters, and critical theorists, among others—debated the relationship between form and content, tradition and innovation, aesthetics and politics. In this compelling work of intellectual and cultural history Genter presents an invigorated tradition of late modernism, centered on the work of Kenneth Burke, Ralph Ellison, C. Wright Mills, David Riesman, Jasper Johns, Norman Brown, and James Baldwin, a tradition that overcame the conservative and reactionary politics of competing modernist practitioners and paved the way for the postmodern turn of the 1960s.

Author : Eli Lederhendler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195348965
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in Contemporary Jewry written by Eli Lederhendler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-12-20 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together contributions from established scholars as well as promising younger academics, the seventeenth volume of this established series offers a broad-ranging view of why Judaism, a religion whose observance is more honored in the breach in most western Jewish communities, has garnered attention, authority, and controversy in the late twentieth century. The volume considers the ways in which theological writings, sweeping social change, individual or small-group needs, and intra-communal diversity have re-energized Judaism even amidst secular trends in America and Israel.

Author : Ibrahim Abu-Rabi'
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405178485
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Islamic Thought written by Ibrahim Abu-Rabi' and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Islamic Thoughtreflects the variety of trends, voices, and opinions in thecontemporary Muslim intellectual scene. Challenges Western misconceptions about the modern Muslim worldin general and the Arab world in particular. Consists of 36 important essays written by contemporary Muslimthinkers and scholars. Covers issues such as Islamic tradition, modernity,globalization, feminism, the West, the USA, reform, andsecularism. Helps readers to situate Islamic intellectual history in thecontext of Western intellectual trends.

Author : M. W. Brainard
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 153201984X
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Modern Conservative written by M. W. Brainard and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-03-22 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This primer for conservatives builds from the most basic definitions and principles. It includes special condensations and summaries of five other books, each a recognized masterpiece in its field.

Author : P. Goldstein
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230617824
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern American Reading Practices written by P. Goldstein and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-12-22 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Goldstein explains the socio-historical context of the diverse interpretive practices which make up the humanities in the USA in the 21st century. He considers the rise of college-educated women, minority readers, the increased influence of the Universities, the media and the dominance of the Universities by the sciences.

Author : David J. Rosner
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739175513
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conservatism and Crisis written by David J. Rosner and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the crisis of values engendered by the advent of modernity, which still plagues the post-modern west today. The book examines anti-modernist thought as an attempt to reclaim traditional belief systems during a period of profound spiritual, political and economic upheaval. The dangers and psychological appeals of anti-modernism are examined in detail.

Author : Joel D. Aberbach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781138679337
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Contemporary American Conservatism written by Joel D. Aberbach and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary American conservatism - a mélange of ideas, people, and organizations - is difficult to define; even conservatives themselves are unable to agree about its essential meaning. Yet the conservative movement is well financed, exerts strong influence in the Republican Party, inspires followers throughout the land, and has spawned a network of think tanks and media outlets that are the envy of its competitors. It is a powerful political force with which to be reckoned. This book examines how that has come about and what contemporary conservatism signifies for US politics and policy. It looks at the recent history of conservatism in America as well as its antecedents in the UK, traces changes over time using American National Election Study data from 1972 to the present in what it means when people say they are conservatives, and assesses the prospects for American conservatism, both in the near term electoral context and over the longer term as well.