Doubt, time and violence in philosophical and cultural thought : Sino-Western interpretations and analysis / edited by Artur K. Wardega.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wardega, Artur K.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Belief and doubt--Social aspects.

Belief and doubt.

Time--Sociological aspects.

Time.

Violence--Social aspects.

Violence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As the title of the present publication suggests, the ten essays of this book try to approach an inconvenient trauma of global human reality and the uniformity of media and cyberspace in which human lives suffer harm, loss of inner identity and of broader meaning. Indeed, our postmodern and post-identity times are characterized by a flux of rapid social changes, uncertainty, vague and shaking moral values, by violence and frightening information Other its contradictory truths and genuine ambig...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; NOTES ON THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; CONFUSING WORLD, VULNERABLE PEOPLE; VIOLENCE TRANS-FIGURED BY LANGUAGE ALTERITY AND THE POWER OF DISCOURSE ACCORDING TO EMMANUEL LEVINAS; TRUST, DISTRUST, AND VIOLENCE; INTRINSIC PROPAGANDA LITERATURE; DEFERRED REVENGE, FAILED LOYALTIES, BROKEN FAMILIES; MY BEING-TOWARDS-DEATH AND THE UNBEARABLE KINDNESS OF THE OTHER; REFLECTIONS ON THE NEGATIVE IMPACTOF SCIENTIFIC THINKING IN MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE

DOUBT AND VIOLENCE IN THE TODAY SCHOOL OF POETRY AND THE 'STARS' PAINTINGSIN 1970S CHINA AN ARTISTIC REVOLUTION IN A DOUBLE SENSEALLEGORIES OF RAPE AND RECONCILIATION IN CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH; FIGHTING FOR CULTURAL PARITY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4438-4305-9

OCLC:

820329486