The Postmodern Challenge: Perspectives East and West

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Bo Stråth, Nina Witoszek
Rodopi, 1999 - 327 頁
This volume is designed to bridge a gap in the current theoretical debate about the nature, scope and relevance of postmodern perspectives in the humanist and social sciences in Eastern and Western Europe. While the debate has been reasonably comprehensive and certainly abrasive in Western European and Anglophone countries, it has signally failed to incorporate the viewpoints of Eastern European scholars and intellectuals. Even the current appropriation of Mikhail Bakhtin as a prophet of the postmodern is, paradoxically, a monologic engagement with his thought rather than a dialogic encounter of cultures. Doubtless different historical experiences, ideology and social aspirations go some way to account for the weariness of Eastern Europe with postmodern challenge and its glad embrace by Western scholars. The volume comprises some fifteen essays by leading historians, literary theorists and social scientists from Western and Eastern Europe and America. It has a threefold aim: firstly, to illuminate the distinctiveness of current Western and Eastern European theorizing about history and society; secondly, to reveal points of tension and disagreement, and, finally, to open up a space for a meeting of seemingly incompatible worlds.

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第 17 頁 - ... cemeteries grow larger the number of defenders is smaller yet the defense continues it will continue to the end and if the City falls but a single man escapes he will carry the City within himself on the roads of exile he will be the City...
第 311 頁 - Individualism was not simply a symptom of the dissolution of the primacy of the social whole, as that had been understood in traditional religious terms. It was also a necessary condition for what he once again called (following Karl Polanyi) the "discovery of society" — its discovery in strictly sociological terms, disengaged from the religious representations in which it had hitherto expressed its existence.
第 291 頁 - Gareth Stedman Jones, Languages of Class: Studies in English Working Class History, 1832-1982 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983); William H.
第 311 頁 - ... communicative interactions, in the political sphere proper. Thus, there is a transition to a social science that transcends the boundaries of the political sphere proper but also traces the implications and conditions of that sphere much further than the old political philosophy. Pierre Manent has put forward the notion that society is a "postrevolutionary...
第 126 頁 - In various ages and with various understandings of the world, this superaddressee and his ideally true responsive understanding assume various ideological expressions (God, absolute truth, the court of dispassionate human conscience, the people, the court of history, science, and so forth) . (PT 126) This third party forms "a constitutive aspect of the whole utterance.
第 34 頁 - In history, it is a denial of the fixity of the past, of the reality of the past apart from what the historian chooses to make of it, and thus of any objective truth about the past.
第 95 頁 - Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987). 26. Roger Kimball, Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education (New York: Harper and Row, 1990); Dinesh D'Souza, Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus (New York: Maxwell, 1991); Arthur M.
第 35 頁 - In the common cause of radicalism, structuralists and poststructuralists, new historicists and deconstructionists, have been able to overlook whatever logical incompatibilities there may be in their theories. Like the communists and socialists of an earlier generation, they have formed a "popular front," marching separately to a common goal.
第 167 頁 - The memory boom, however, is a potentially healthy sign of contestation: a contestation of the informational hyperspace and an expression of the basic human need to live in extended structures of temporality, however they may be organized.
第 10 頁 - ... universal' human history. We are now in the process of wakening from the nightmare of modernity, with its manipulative reason and fetish of the totality, into the laid-back pluralism of the post-modern, that heterogeneous range of lifestyles and language games which has renounced the nostalgic urge to totalize and legitimate itself.

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