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

Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 191 pages) : illustrations 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 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 .. Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Belief and doubt -- Social aspects Time -- Sociological aspects. Violence -- Social aspects Social & cultural history. Humanities. Phenomenology & Existentialism. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Violence in Society. Belief and doubt -- Social aspects Time -- Sociological aspects Violence -- Social aspects Form Electronic book Author Wardega, Artur K ISBN 9781443843058 1443843059

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