Documents tagged with modernity

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Modernity and Indigenization a Study Into Bio Medical Discourses in India

This article was published in ANTHROPOLOGY ON THE MOVE: CONTESTING CULTURE STUDIES IN BANGLADESH, ed. Zahidul Islam and Hasan Safie (Dhaka: Dept. of Anthroplogy, University of Dhaka, 2006), 231-254.
  • Jayanta Bhattacharya published this 12 / 05 / 2009
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De-Growth or Other Growth? Francine Mestrum, PhD Www.globalsocialjustice.c om

The idea of de-growth is far from new. The emergent ecological crisis has given the concept a new impetus and its content has been somewhat updated. However, the idea of stopping growth altogether ...
  • mestrum published this 11 / 29 / 2009
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The Scandal of Enlightenment and Birth of Disciplines: Is International Law a Science?

12:1 International Community law Review,(2010) Martinus Nijhoff Press and to be re-printed Sanford Silverburg, (Ed.) International Law: Current Issues and Future Problems (Boulder/Colorado: Westvi...
  • Prof Prabhakar Singh published this 11 / 01 / 2009
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Conversion to Islam and Modernity in Nigeria: A View from the Underworld

Journal article published in Africa Today, a publication of Indiana University Press. Volume 54, Number 4. A copy of this journal is available for purchase from IU Press at: http://inscribe.iupr...
  • MuslimVoices published this 10 / 28 / 2009
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Apeirokalia (Olavo de Carvalho)

Essay by Olavo de Carvalho on modernity.
  • AndreVonKugland published this 10 / 02 / 2009
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Preference--- Allen M. Baker

The pressure to make a reasonable profit, the competition which threatens your market share, and the mindless speed and intensity of the business world due to modernity all threaten your liveliho...
  • hcesquivel8903 published this 09 / 21 / 2009
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4.Islam, Modernity and Democracy

An analysis of Islam, Modernity and Democracy.
  • Devbhardwaz published this 09 / 15 / 2009
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Doubt--- Allen M. Baker

Exodus 6:14-27 may, at first glance, seem totally irrelevant to us who are living the fast paced life of modernity. After all it is merely a genealogy. What does this have to do with us, you may ...
  • hcesquivel8903 published this 09 / 08 / 2009
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An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767) - Adam Ferguson Facs Copy

A pioneering work of the Scottish Enlightenment in the field of “philosophical history”, or what we would today call sociology. It deals with the social, political, economic, intellectual, and lega...
  • dp1974 published this 08 / 08 / 2009
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Basarab Nicolescu, SPIRITUAL DIMENSION OF DEMOCRACY – UTOPIA OR NECESSITY?

We first analyze the need to find a spiritual dimension of democracy and, in this context, we define the transcultural and the transreligious attitude. We also analyze the confrontation between Hom...
  • nicolesc published this 07 / 25 / 2009
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Danilo Kis - Garden, Ashes

Abstract: Danilo Kiš in his book Garden Ashes writes about his own father, a mad genius and a Holocaust victim. This essay deals with few different topics. The first theme is how it is possible to...
  • ermozika published this 06 / 20 / 2009
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Monulet: Kingdom Lost

Monulet: Kingdom Lost is the first book in an epic YA fantasy set in a steampunk-inspired world. Written by Andrew Dobbs, an award-winning author and game developer, the series tells the story of a...
  • adobbs published this 06 / 12 / 2009
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Mottahedeh - The Mantle of the Prophet (1985) - Synopsis

Synopsis of Roy Mottahedeh, The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985). Discussed at Digging Deeper (www.ufppc.org) on June 5, 2006.
  • jensenmk published this 06 / 01 / 2009
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Caught in the Discord: Cinematic portrayals of Women in Weimar Germany

This essay discusses the issue of women and modernity in Weimar Germany, analyzing the portrayal of the New Woman in three different films from the era - The Downfall, Metropolis, Pandora's Box - a...
  • emcoxe published this 05 / 31 / 2009
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Mabuse the Gambler and Metropolis: Cinematic Doppelgangers (Weimar Germany)

This essay compares two films from Fritz Lang - Mabuse the Gambler and Metropolis, both produced during the Weimar Republic. At the heart of each film lies the issue of modernity; this essay endeav...
  • emcoxe published this 05 / 31 / 2009
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - Challenging Authority (Weimar Germany)

This essay explores the implicit diatribe against German Authority in Robert Weine's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Particularly, the film is observed through the lens of post-WWI Germany, a society ...
  • emcoxe published this 05 / 31 / 2009
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Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon: Tracing Alienation through Musical Unity

This essay delves into Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, analyzing the band's history and development leading up to DSOTM. Then, the band's uncharacteristically efficient use of the studio is exa...
  • emcoxe published this 05 / 31 / 2009
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Annotated Dark Side Track Listing (accompanies Dark Side essay)

This is an annotated track listing with points of interest for every song on Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. It is meant to accompany my Dark Side of the Moon essay (it clarifies my argument, a...
  • emcoxe published this 05 / 31 / 2009
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Monstrosity of Christ: a discussion of this book

A Lacanian Reading of The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? by Slavoj Zizek and John Milbank, edited by Creston Davis (Cambridge, MA. & London: The MIT Press, 2009) with the Television ...
  • lbrecht published this 05 / 11 / 2009
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Anderson, Perry - Modernity and Revolution

New Left Review 144, march-april 1984
  • puntodefuga published this 04 / 15 / 2009
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