Still life : hopes, desires and satisfactions / Henrietta L. Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, Henrietta L., 1957-

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture and globalization.

Physical Description:

242 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2011.

Summary:

How adequate are our theories of globalization for analysing the worlds we share with others? In this provocative new book, Henrietta Moore asks us to step back and re-examine in a fresh way the interconnections normally labeled 'globalization'.

Rather than beginning with abstract processes and flows, Moore starts by analysing the hopes, desires and satisfactions of individuals in their day-to-day lives. Drawing on a wide range of examples, from African initiation rituals to Japanese anime, from sex in virtual worlds to Schubert songs, Moore develops a theory of the ethical imagination, exploring how ideas about the human subject, and its capacities for self-making and social transformation, form a basis for reconceptualizing the role i and significance of culture in a global age. In this provocative and philosophically minded enquiry, she scrutinizes how the ideas of social analysts and ordinary people intertwine and diverge, and argues for an ethics of engagement based on r an understanding of the human need to engage with cultural problems and seek social change.

This innovative and challenging book is essential reading for anyone interested in the key debates about culture and globalization in the contemporary world. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Thinking Again 1

2 Still Life 30

3 Slips of the Tongue 55

4 Other Modes of Transport 77

5 Second Nature 106

6 Arts of the Possible 136

7 New Passions for Difference 170.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-234) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

0745636454

9780745636450

0745636462

9780745636467

OCLC:

682095532

Publisher Number:

99945253638