Reactionary Modernism

Author : Jeffrey Herf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521338332
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reactionary Modernism written by Jeffrey Herf and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-05-31 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a unique application of critical theory to the study of the role of ideology in politics, Jeffrey Herf explores the paradox inherent in the German fascists' rejection of the rationalism of the Enlightenment while fully embracing modern technology. He documents evidence of a cultural tradition he calls 'reactionary modernism' found in the writings of German engineers and of the major intellectuals of the. Weimar right: Ernst Juenger, Oswald Spengler, Werner Sombart, Hans Freyer, Carl Schmitt, and Martin Heidegger. The book shows how German nationalism and later National Socialism created what Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda minister, called the 'steel-like romanticism of the twentieth century'. By associating technology with the Germans, rather than the Jews, with beautiful form rather than the formlessness of the market, and with a strong state rather than a predominance of economic values and institutions, these right-wing intellectuals reconciled Germany's strength with its romantic soul and national identity.

Author : Charles Ferrall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521793459
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernist Writing and Reactionary Politics written by Charles Ferrall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-02 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ferrall offers insights into the relation between modernist aesthetics, technology and politics.

Author : Julian Young
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521644945
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heidegger, Philosophy, Nazism written by Julian Young and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that despite Heidegger's involvement with Nazism his philosophy is not compromised.

Author : Mark Neocleous
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816630394
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fascism written by Mark Neocleous and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This clear accessible overview treats the subject of fascism thematically and provides a conclusion that brings the discussion up-to-date. Mark Neocleous situates fascism between the social and political contradictions of modernity and capitalism. In many ways a reaction to the principal political project of the Enlightenment, fascism focuses on three central concepts - war, nature, and nation - in order to crush violently movements of ideologies of social emancipation such as Marxism and liberalism. The destruction of reason that fascism represents shatters Enlightenment universalism and transforms the desire for social liberation into an aggressive nationalism, with devastating effects on human life.

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 : Mark R. Thompson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137511672
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Authoritarian Modernism in East Asia written by Mark R. Thompson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following Barrington Moore Jr., this book raises doubts about modernization theory’s claim that an advanced economy with extensive social differentiation is incompatible with authoritarian rule. Authoritarian modernism in East Asia (Northeast and Southeast Asia) has been characterized by economically reformist but politically conservative leaders who have attempted to learn the “secrets” of authoritarian rule in modern society. They demobilize civil society while endeavoring to establish an “ethical” form of rule and claim reactionary culturalist legitimation. With China, East Asia is home to the most important country in the world today that is rapidly modernizing while attempting to remain authoritarian.

Author : Jonathan Bowden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781642641660
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reactionary Modernism written by Jonathan Bowden and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-28 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Second World War, "Modernism" in the arts has been overwhelmingly associated with the cultural and political Left. But before the War, there was vigorous debate between Modernists of the Right and the Left. Jonathan Bowden was a latter-day Reactionary Modernist in both literature and the visual arts. Reactionary Modernism collects Bowden's lectures and essays on such great Reactionary Modernist artists as Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, and Arno Breker, as well as his criticisms of the degenerate Modernism of Stewart Home and the Turner Prize. The statements collected in Reactionary Modernism do not merely dwell on the past, for by returning to tradition, Bowden hoped to inspire an artistic renaissance on the Right. "Let us return to tradition to go forwards with modernity in a different direction."-Jonathan Bowden

Author : Fernando Esposito
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137362995
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fascism, Aviation and Mythical Modernity written by Fernando Esposito and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flying and the pilot were significant metaphors of fascism's mythical modernity. Fernando Esposito traces the changing meanings of these highly charged symbols from the air show in Brescia, to the sky above the trenches of the First World War to the violent ideological clashes of the interwar period.

Author : Ali Mirsepassi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521659970
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization written by Ali Mirsepassi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thought-provoking study, Ali Mirsepassi explores the concept of modernity, exposing the Eurocentric prejudices and hostility to non-Western culture that have characterized its development. Focusing on the Iranian experience of modernity, he charts its political and intellectual history and develops a new interpretation of Islamic Fundamentalism through the detailed analysis of the ideas of key Islamic intellectuals. The author argues that the Iranian Revolution was not a simple clash between modernity and tradition but an attempt to accommodate modernity within a sense of authentic Islamic identity, culture and historical experience. He concludes by assessing the future of secularism and democracy in the Middle East in general, and in Iran in particular. A significant contribution to the literature on modernity, social change and Islamic Studies, this book will be essential reading for scholars and students of social theory and change, Middle Eastern Studies, Cultural Studies and many related areas.

Author : Anthony O'Hear
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521667828
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book German Philosophy Since Kant written by Anthony O'Hear and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-04 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty essays from the Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture series on modern major German thinkers.