books about: modernity     books:     Modernity      Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (Public Worlds, V. 1) Arjun Appadurai University of Minnesota Press, 1996 An ambitious attempt, and some provocative thinking Appadurai's book, Modernity at Large, offers quite a few tools to help us think about that big fuzzy thing called "globalization." He coins quite a few words to describe multiply-constituted networks of culture - ethnoscapes, mediascapes, ideoscapes, financescapes, ...             Seizing the Light: A History of Photography Robert Hirsch McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 1999 This is the One Great Book on the History of Photography! Seizing the Light: A History of Photography. is a wonderfully broad, contemporary, eclectic and entertaining book. Robert Hirsch has produced the most useful, readable, and practical successor to Beaumont Newhall's classic, The History of Photography, first published ...             Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the 19th Century (October Books) Jonathan Crary The MIT Press, 1992 A Camera Isn't a Camera HUGE thumbs up. Crary historicizes technological vision and illuminates an underrepresented point: things we're taught to think of as objective, such as cameras and vision, are in fact quite subjective and historical. They're ideas first, which means social/cultural ...             All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity Marshall Berman Penguin (Non-Classics), 1988 One of the best I've read I read this book a long time ago in college for a lit crit class. While admittedly I don't recall much detail of it, I do remember that it was one of few books I read in that class and many other lit crit classes that was lucid, cogent and clear in its argument and ...             The Theological Origins of Modernity Michael Allen Gillespie University Of Chicago Press, 2008 Exhuming the long-buried religious roots of our ostensibly godless age, Michael Allen Gillespie reveals in this landmark study that modernity is much less secular than conventional wisdom suggests.             Taking as his starting point the collapse of the medieval world, Gillespie argues that from the very beginning moderns sought not to ...             Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity Rebecca Goldstein Schocken, 2006 This Book Is the Reason Why Books Exist This book is the reason why books exist. So many books are either light reading with little reward, or too dense with endless little facts that leaves one feeling overwhelmed. Not so this book. I could tell by reading it what a fantastic philosophy professor ...             Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity (Cultural Memory in the Present) Talal Asad Stanford University Press, 2003 An erudite and praiseworthy albeit easily misunderstood attempt at uncloaking the Secular disguise. There is more here than an Anthropology of the Secular and mostly because a full appreciation of the concept can never arise from a direct response to the question "what is the secular?". And so Asad continues throughout to offer examples and elements of alterations in ...             Meditations on First Philosophy: In Which the Existence of God and the Distinction of the Soul from the Body ... Rene Descartes Hackett Publishing Company, 1993 The best introduction to modern philosophy in a reliable and cheap edition! Descartes' meditations really is the place to start for thinking through the philosophical obsessions of the modern era -- the value of skepticism, the nature and extent of knowledge, the relation between mind and body, the role of theology in a rational account of the ...             What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East Bernard Lewis Harper Perennial, 2003 WWW!!! This book gives harsh reality about Middle east.I believe he gave his best answer for "What Went Wrong?". He is very informative. I enjoyed his point of view. One of my favorite sentence "Europeans managed to create a Christianity without compassion, so did some Middle ...             The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness Paul Gilroy Harvard University Press, 1993 An insightful look at black transglobal culture Paul Gilroy brings a fresh eye and mind to the challenging task of examining black cultural and political manifestations as they affect the transglobal community. Gilroy, unlike some cultural theorists, sees the interconnectedness between those discourses around race, ...             Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity, 1920-1940 Roland Marchand University of California Press, 1986 A Probing Account of Advertising 1920-1940 Roland Marchand's book is an excellent analysis and history of the advertising industry's move towards modernization from the 20s to the 40s. Beautifully illustrated and entertainingly written, Marchand's book lays out important paradigms for the analysis of ...             The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity Tariq Ali Verso, 2003 Read This Book I have owned this book for several years and find myself continuing to go back to it. I think it is imperative that any US citizen who is interested in geo-politics should include in their readings authors who are not of US origin. The perspective gained by such a ...             Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age Anthony Giddens Stanford University Press, 1991 A lucid and engaging synthesis This book is indeed a work of social science, and not a work of formal logic, dialectic, or philosophy. And as such, it seeks to avoid the subject-object aporias and non-explanatory vocabulary of "postmodernism" so fashionable in some academic circles in favor of an ...             Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750 Jonathan I. Israel Oxford University Press, USA, 2002 Fascinating Intellectual History An utterly fascinating study of intellectual history in Europe, especially Holland, on either side of the turn of the eighteenth century. "Radical Enlightenment" refers to what were perceived as hard-line attacks on authoritarian, particularly religious ideas, ...             The Consequences of Modernity Anthony Giddens Stanford University Press, 1991 The persuasive micro-foundation of modernity The persuasive framework to grasp modernity This is the most popular title among Giddens¡¯s books. There are several reasons for the attractiveness. 1. It was the lecture held in Stanford. So the writing style is easy enough to grip the whole line. It¡¯s hard to say ...          products you might be interested in search for books consciousness, double-consciousness, enlightenment, fundamentalisms, globalization, self-identity      toavi.com    web we recommend WWW!!! randomly chosen book: Documentary Storytelling, Second Edition: Making Stronger and More ...