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Modernity Al Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization - Arjun Appadurai - Google Books

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Reconfiguring Islamic Tradition: Reform, Rationality, and Modernity - Samira Haj - Google Books

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Samira Haj conceptualizes Islam through a close reading of two Muslim reformers—Muhammad ibn 'Abdul Wahhab (1703–1787) and Muhammad 'Abduh (1849–1905)—each representative of a distinct trend, chronological as well as philosophical, in modern Islam. Their…

What is Modernity?: Writings of Takeuchi Yoshimi - Yoshimi Takeuchi - Google Books

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Regarded as one of the foremost thinkers in postwar Japan, Takeuchi Yoshimi (1910-1977) questioned traditional Japanese thought and radically reconfigured an understanding of the subject's relationship to the world. His works were also central in drawing…

Narrating the Self: Fictions of Japanese Modernity - Tomi Suzuki - Google Books

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Narrating the Self examines the historical formation of modern Japanese literature through a fundamental reassessment of its most characteristic form, the 'I-novel, ' an autobiographical narrative thought to recount the details of the writer's…

The Devil's Party: Satanism in Modernity - Google Books

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Recent years have seen a significant shift in the study of new religious movements. In Satanism studies, interest has moved to anthropological and historical work on groups and inviduals. Self-declared Satanism, especially as a religion with cultural…

Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity - Google Books

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This volume contains a selection of essays based on papers presented at a conference organized at Yale University and hosted by the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) and the International Association for the Study of…

Overcoming Modernity: Cultural Identity in Wartime Japan - Richard Calichman - Google Books

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In the summer of 1942 Japan's leading cultural authorities gathered in Tokyo to discuss the massive cultural, technological, and intellectual changes that had transformed Japan since the Meiji period. They feared that without a sufficient understanding of…

The Concept of Information

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information concept, history, greek roots, latin roots, hebrew roots, eidos, idea, morphe, forma, information, Middle Ages, Modernity, information theory, Shannon, information science, Susan Myburgh, Marildaa Lopez Ginez de Lara, Marcos Gonzalez de Souza,…

Heidegger's Confrontation with Modernity: Technology, Politics, and Art - Michael E. Zimmerman - Google Books

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"Writing in a lively and refreshingly clear American English, Zimmerman provides an uncompromisingly honest and judicious account... of Heidegger's views on technology and his involvement with National Socialism.... One of the most important books on…

What Is Modernity?: Writings of Takeuchi Yoshimi - Yoshimi Takeuchi - Google Books

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