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 Free Download Nicola Clewer, "Neoliberalism, Postmodernity, and the Contemporary Memorial-Building Boom" English | ISBN: 1786612992 | 2022 | 224 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 4 MB  Ewa Płonowska Ziarek, "An Ethics of Dissensus: Postmodernity, Feminism, and the Politics of Radical Democracy" English | 2002 | ISBN: 0804741034, 0804741026 | PDF | pages: 302 | 8.7 mb What kind of challenge does sexual and racial difference pose for postmodern ethics? What is the relation between ethical obligation and feminist interpretations of embodiment, passion, and eros? How can we negotiate between ethical responsibility for the Other and democratic struggles against domination, injustice, and inequality, on the one hand, and internal conflicts within the subject, on the other? What are the implications of postmodern ethics for the agonistic politics of radical democracy?  Jin Y. Park, "Buddhism and Postmodernity: Zen, Huayan, and the Possibility of Buddhist Postmodern Ethics" English | ISBN: 0739118242 | 2010 | 296 pages | PDF | 6 MB Buddhism and Postmodernity is a response to some of the questions that have emerged in the process of Buddhism's encounters with modernity and the West. Jin Y. Park broadly outlines these questions as follows: first, why are the interpretations and evaluations of Buddhism so different in Europe (in the nineteenth century), in the United States (in the twentieth century), and in traditional Asia; second, why does Zen Buddhism, which offers a radically egalitarian vision, maintain a strongly authoritarian leadership; and third, what ethical paradigm can be drawn from the Buddhist-postmodern form of philosophy? Park argues that, as unrelated as these questions may seem, the issues that have generated them are related to perennial philosophical themes of identity, institutional power, and ethics, respectively. Each of these themes constitutes one section of Buddhism and Postmodernity. Park discusses the three issues in the book through the exploration of the Buddhist concepts of self and others, language and thinking, and universality and particularities. Most of this discussion is drawn from the East Asian Buddhist traditions of Zen and Huayan Buddhism in connection with the Continental philosophies of postmodernism, hermeneutics, and deconstruction. Self-critical from both the Buddhist and Western philosophical perspectives, Buddhism and Postmodernity points the reader toward a new understanding of Buddhist philosophy and offers a Buddhist-postmodern ethical paradigm that challenges normative ethics of metaphysical traditions.  George D. Chryssides, "Heaven's Gate: Postmodernity and Popular Culture in a Suicide Group " English | ISBN: 0754663744 | 2016 | 228 pages | EPUB, MOBI | 442 KB + 2 MB On March 26, 1997, the bodies of 39 men and women were found in an opulent mansion outside San Diego, all victims of a mass suicide. Messages left by the Heaven's Gate group indicate that they believed they were stepping out of their 'physical containers' in order to ascend to a UFO that was arriving in the wake of the Hale-Bopp comet. The Heaven's Gate suicides were part of a series of major incidents involving New Religions in the 1990s, as the new millennium approached. Despite the major attention that Heaven's Gate attracted at the time of the suicides, there have been relatively few scholarly studies. This anthology on Heaven's Gate includes a combination of articles previously published in academic journals, some new writings from experts in the field, and some original Heaven's Gate documents. All the material is expertly brought together under the editorship of George D. Chryssides.  David Harvey, "The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change" English | 1991 | ISBN: 0631162941 | 388 pages | PDF | 16.7 MB In this new book, David Harvey seeks to determine what is meant by the term in its different contexts and to identify how accurate and useful it is as a description of contemporary experience.  Terry Smith, "Antinomies of Art and Culture: Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity" English | ISBN: 0822342030 | 2009 | 456 pages | EPUB | 5 MB In this landmark collection, world-renowned theorists, artists, critics, and curators explore new ways of conceiving the present and understanding art and culture in relation to it. They revisit from fresh perspectives key issues regarding modernity and postmodernity, including the relationship between art and broader social and political currents, as well as important questions about temporality and change. They also reflect on whether or not broad categories and terms such as modernity, postmodernity, globalization, and decolonization are still relevant or useful. Including twenty essays and seventy-seven images, Antinomies of Art and Culture is a wide-ranging yet incisive inquiry into how to understand, describe, and represent what it is to live in the contemporary moment. |
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