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Author : Theodore Dalrymple
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781566637213
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Our Culture, What's Left of it written by Theodore Dalrymple and published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays.
Author : Theodore Dalrymple
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)
Download or read book Our Culture, What's Left of it written by Theodore Dalrymple and published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher. This book was released on 2005 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book that restores our faith in the central importance of literature and criticism to our civilization. In the twenty six pieces Dr. Dalrymple ranges over literature and ideas, from Shakespeare to Marx.
Author : Mark Pagel
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393065871
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)
Download or read book Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind written by Mark Pagel and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating, far-reaching study of how our species' innate capacity for culture altered the course of our social and evolutionary history. A unique trait of the human species is that our personalities, lifestyles, and worldviews are shaped by an accident of birth—namely, the culture into which we are born. It is our cultures and not our genes that determine which foods we eat, which languages we speak, which people we love and marry, and which people we kill in war. But how did our species develop a mind that is hardwired for culture—and why? Evolutionary biologist Mark Pagel tracks this intriguing question through the last 80,000 years of human evolution, revealing how an innate propensity to contribute and conform to the culture of our birth not only enabled human survival and progress in the past but also continues to influence our behavior today. Shedding light on our species’ defining attributes—from art, morality, and altruism to self-interest, deception, and prejudice—Wired for Culture offers surprising new insights into what it means to be human.
Author : Maia Kotrosits
Publisher : Class 200: New Studies in Religion
ISBN 13 : 022670758X
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Lives of Objects written by Maia Kotrosits and published by Class 200: New Studies in Religion. This book was released on 2020 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Judaism and Christianity as condensed illustrations of how people across time struggle with the materiality of life and death. Speaking across many fields, including classics, history, anthropology, literary, gender, and queer studies, the book journeys through the ancient Mediterranean world by way of the myriad physical artifacts that punctuate the transnational history of early Christianity. By bringing a psychoanalytically inflected approach to bear upon her materialist studies of religious history, Kotrosits makes a contribution not only to our understanding of Judaism and early Christianity, but also our sense of how different disciplines construe historical knowledge, and how we as people and thinkers understand our own relation to our material and affective past"--
Author : Sherry Turkle
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465093663
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)
Download or read book Alone Together written by Sherry Turkle and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Savvy and insightful." --New York Times Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends, and confusing tweets and wall posts with authentic communication. But this relentless connection leads to a deep solitude. MIT professor Sherry Turkle argues that as technology ramps up, our emotional lives ramp down. Based on hundreds of interviews and with a new introduction taking us to the present day, Alone Together describes changing, unsettling relationships between friends, lovers, and families.
Author : Jim Collins
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 082239197X
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bring on the Books for Everybody written by Jim Collins and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bring on the Books for Everybody is an engaging assessment of the robust popular literary culture that has developed in the United States during the past two decades. Jim Collins describes how a once solitary and print-based experience has become an exuberantly social activity, enjoyed as much on the screen as on the page. Fueled by Oprah’s Book Club, Miramax film adaptations, superstore bookshops, and new technologies such as the Kindle digital reader, literary fiction has been transformed into best-selling, high-concept entertainment. Collins highlights the infrastructural and cultural changes that have given rise to a flourishing reading public at a time when the future of the book has been called into question. Book reading, he claims, has not become obsolete; it has become integrated into popular visual media. Collins explores how digital technologies and the convergence of literary, visual, and consumer cultures have changed what counts as a “literary experience” in phenomena ranging from lush film adaptations such as The English Patient and Shakespeare in Love to the customer communities at Amazon. Central to Collins’s analysis and, he argues, to contemporary literary culture, is the notion that refined taste is now easily acquired; it is just a matter of knowing where to access it and whose advice to trust. Using recent novels, he shows that the redefined literary landscape has affected not just how books are being read, but also what sort of novels are being written for these passionate readers. Collins connects literary bestsellers from The Jane Austen Book Club and Literacy and Longing in L.A. to Saturday and The Line of Beauty, highlighting their depictions of fictional worlds filled with avid readers and their equations of reading with cultivated consumer taste.
Author : Theodore Dalrymple
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1566638518
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)
Download or read book Not With a Bang But a Whimper written by Theodore Dalrymple and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Decline, global politics.
Author : Theodore Dalrymple
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781566635059
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)
Download or read book Life at the Bottom written by Theodore Dalrymple and published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dalrymple, a British psychiatrist, "offers a searing account--probably the best yet published--of life in the underclass and why it persists as it does."
Author : William A. Barr
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1438931948
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)
Download or read book Know Him, Know His Works written by William A. Barr and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frances Ward
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441115536
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)
Download or read book Why Rousseau was Wrong written by Frances Ward and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why secular humanism leads to guilt, political correctness and fear of giving offence -- and how the Church can help.
