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The first post 9-11 election gave the U.S. a choice between two
big-government, high-tax globocops quibbling over the details, not
an alternative to the aggressive international militarism that
makes America the natural and logical target of terrorism. This
book looks at the progression from republic protected by militia to
empire protected by standing armies in Athens and Rome - and the
similar progression in America. It looks at an alternative: The
Swiss way, which has kept Switzerland free and republican for 700
years in the center of a warlike continent. America once understood
and followed Washington's Great Rule and J. Q. Adams' admonition
not to go out into the world in search of monsters to destroy.
America was then the light of freedom, not the sword. Now it has
picked up the sword only to see the light grow dimmer year by year.
(Newly updated and expanded for 2007)CONTACT [email protected]
This volume suggests that reading and writing about literature are
ways to gain an ethical understanding of how we live in the world.
Postmodern narrative is an important way to reveal and discuss who
are society's victims, inviting the reader to become one with them.
A close reading of fiction by Toni Morrison, Patrick Suskind, D.M.
Thomas, Ian McEwan and J.M. Coetzee reveals a violence imposed on
gender, race and the body-politic. Such violence is not new to the
postmodern world, but reflects Western culture's religious
traditions, as this book demonstrates through a reading of stories
from the Hebrew Bible and the Christian New Testament.
Emerging Aesthetic Imaginaries considers aesthetic imaginaries as
they constitute and are constituted by and in our shared realities.
With contributions from twelve scholars working in the fields of
literary studies, visual studies, anthropology, cultural studies,
and digital culture, this book takes a multidisciplinary approach
to "aesthetic imaginaries," which tests the conceptual potential
from an array of perspectives and methodologies. It probes into the
continuous creation and re-creation of figures for the future that
invariably nod to their pasts, whether with a spirit of respect,
disgust, hope, or play. It is particularly in the intersections
between ideas and formations of "shared realities" and what Ranjan
Ghosh has called "entangled figurations" that the full and
intricate promise of the aesthetic imaginary as analytic and
conceptual prism comes into its own. As the chapters in this
collection demonstrate, "knots" of various aesthetic imaginaries
disseminate and manifest variously across place and time, to weave
and interweave again, and to offer themselves in each instance as
contours-so-far of cultural and aesthetic histories.
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