Cosmopolitan Minds

Author : Alexa Weik von Mossner
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292757654
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cosmopolitan Minds written by Alexa Weik von Mossner and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II and the early Cold War period, factors such as race, gender, sexual orientation, or class made a number of American writers feel marginalized in U.S. society. Cosmopolitan Minds focuses on a core of transnational writers—Kay Boyle, Pearl S. Buck, William Gardner Smith, Richard Wright, and Paul Bowles—who found themselves prompted to seek experiences outside of their home country, experiences that profoundly changed their self-understanding and creative imagination as they encountered alternative points of views and cultural practices in Europe, Asia, and Africa. Alexa Weik von Mossner offers a new perspective on the affective underpinnings of critical and reflexive cosmopolitanism by drawing on theories of emotion and literary imagination from cognitive psychology, philosophy, and cognitive literary studies. She analyzes how physical dislocation, and the sometimes violent shifts in understanding that result from our affective encounters with others, led Boyle, Buck, Smith, Wright, and Bowles to develop new, cosmopolitan solidarities across national, ethnic, and religious boundaries. She also shows how, in their literary texts, these writers employed strategic empathy to provoke strong emotions such as love, sympathy, compassion, fear, anger, guilt, shame, and disgust in their readers in order to challenge their parochial worldviews and practices. Reading these texts as emotionally powerful indictments of institutionalized racism and national violence inside and outside of the United States, Weik von Mossner demonstrates that our emotional engagements with others—real and imagined—are crucially important for the development of transnational and cosmopolitan imaginations.

Author : Didier Coste
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000488098
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Migrating Minds written by Didier Coste and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Awarded the 2023 "René Wellek Prize for the Best Edited Essay Collection" by the American Comparative Literature Association, Migrating Minds contributes to the prominent interdisciplinary domain of Cosmopolitan Studies with 20 innovative essays by humanities scholars from all over the world that re-examine theories and practices of cosmopolitanism from a variety of perspectives. The volume satisfies the need for a stronger involvement of Comparative and World Literatures and Cultures, Translation, and Education Theories in this crucial debate, and also proposes an experimental way to explore in depth the necessity of a cosmopolitan method as well as the riches of cosmopolitan representations. The essays follow a logical progression from the situated philosophical and political foundations of the debate to interdisciplinary propositions for a pedagogy of cosmopolitanism through studies of modern and contemporary cosmopolitan cultural practices in literature and the arts and the concurrent analysis of prototypes of cosmopolitan identities. This trajectory allows readers to appreciate new historical, theoretical, aesthetic, and practical implications of cosmopolitanism that pertain to multiple genres and media, under different modes of production and reception. In the deterritorialized landscape of Migrating Minds, mental and sentimental mobility, rather than the legacy of place, is the key to an efficient, humanist response to deadening globalization.

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Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cosmopolitan written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gabrielle Brown
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429620780
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalytic Thinking on the Unhoused Mind written by Gabrielle Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-18 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychoanalytic Thinking on the Unhoused Mind illuminates the psychological underpinnings of current societal problems: homelessness, mental distress, loneliness and states of societal breakdown and exclusion. Illustrated with a broad range of clinical work as well as thoughts on art and literature, the book brings to life complex tensions between the individual psyche, the group, and wider political and cultural structures. ‘Unhoused’ states of mind are explored in rough sleepers, ex-prisoners, survivors of institutional abuse and family trauma, and people living with personality disorder, addiction, psychosis and dementia. Chapters describe outreach, assessment and long-term psychotherapy, as well as reflective practice with staff teams and care systems, and learning from consultation, supervision and policy development. New therapeutic responses to chronic risk and to resilience are developed from psychoanalytic understandings of difficulties with containment and care. The collection will be of value to psychotherapists and other mental health practitioners, as well as those working in therapeutic, residential and criminal justice settings and outreach services.

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Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Author : Carl Cleveland Taylor
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rural Sociology written by Carl Cleveland Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 202 pages
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Download or read book Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Waghid Yusef
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9462094764
Total Pages : 18 pages
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Download or read book Citizenship, Education and Violence written by Waghid Yusef and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-30 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this book is to offer a humane rocesponse to dealing with violence. An interpretive analysis is presented in order to think differently about violence in schools and about how a citizenship education of becoming can deal with the unpredictable consequences of violence in its own potentiality. It seems to the authors that, given the confident onslaught of violence, there is nothing left to do but to offer insight into the nature of violence itself and, by so doing, to search for unexplored ways of humane response and being. The authors are not pretending to hold a magic wand that will sanctify schools into the safe zones that they ought to be and as which they should serve in any society. This would be both presumptuous and misleading. What one is looking and hoping for, however, is a renewed engagement, a slight tilting of the perspective, so that something other than how we have always responded to violence perhaps will emerge. The authors are confident that such a deconstructive approach to violence in schools through the lens of a reconsidered view of citizenship education can assist them and others to wrestle with its potential for destruction that can be changed into options for co-belonging of a non-violent, if not peaceful, kind.

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Total Pages : 852 pages
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Download or read book Littell's Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 404 pages
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Download or read book Inter-America written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consists of English translations of articles in the Spanish American press.