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Critique in a Neoliberal Age brings a critique of ideology to main
debates within economic sociology, populism studies, the neoliberal
university, therapy culture, contemporary intimacies and feminism.
Over the last decades, neoliberalism has worked to lift social
protections and political regulations from the market and to
identify modernity with capitalism itself. It has also engaged in
an ideological project to screen alternative measurements of
progress. Liberal and social democracy have been effectively
disabled as grounds for weighing the costs of neoliberal
predations. This volume examines the strategies through which
neoliberalism has reconstituted and de-politicized liberal precepts
such as universal justice, private right and a social democratic
project responsive to needs. As such it will appeal to scholars and
students of sociology and social and critical theory, political and
social philosophy, politics, cultural studies and feminist thought.
Originally published in 1984, this study deals with a number of
influential figures in the European tradition of Marxist theories
of aesthetics, ranging from Lukacs to Benjamin, through the
Frankfurt School, to Brecht and the Althusserians. Pauline Johnson
shows that, despite the great diversity in these theories about
art, they all formulate a common problem, and she argues that an
adequate response to this problem must be based on account of the
practical foundations within the recipient's own experience for a
changed consciousness.
Originally published in 1984, this study deals with a number of
influential figures in the European tradition of Marxist theories
of aesthetics, ranging from Lukacs to Benjamin, through the
Frankfurt School, to Brecht and the Althusserians. Pauline Johnson
shows that, despite the great diversity in these theories about
art, they all formulate a common problem, and she argues that an
adequate response to this problem must be based on account of the
practical foundations within the recipient's own experience for a
changed consciousness.
Critique in a Neoliberal Age brings a critique of ideology to main
debates within economic sociology, populism studies, the neoliberal
university, therapy culture, contemporary intimacies and feminism.
Over the last decades, neoliberalism has worked to lift social
protections and political regulations from the market and to
identify modernity with capitalism itself. It has also engaged in
an ideological project to screen alternative measurements of
progress. Liberal and social democracy have been effectively
disabled as grounds for weighing the costs of neoliberal
predations. This volume examines the strategies through which
neoliberalism has reconstituted and de-politicized liberal precepts
such as universal justice, private right and a social democratic
project responsive to needs. As such it will appeal to scholars and
students of sociology and social and critical theory, political and
social philosophy, politics, cultural studies and feminist thought.
Feminism is currently at an impasse. Both the liberation feminism
of the 1970's and the more recent feminism of difference are
increasingly faced with the limitations of their own perspectives.
While feminists today generally acknowledge the need to recognise
diversity, they lack a coherent framework through which this need
can be articulated. In "
If we are to believe what many sociologists are telling us, the
public sphere is in a near terminal state. Our ability to build
solidarities with strangers and to agree on the general
significance of needs and problems seems to be collapsing. These
cultural potentials appear endangered by a newly aggressive attempt
to universalize and extend the norms of the market. For four
decades Habermas has been trying to bring the claims of a modern
public sphere before us. His vast oeuvre has investigated its
historical, sociological and theoretical preconditions, has
explored its relevance and meaning as well as diagnosing its
on-going crises. In the contemporary climate, a systematic look at
Habermas lifelong project of rescuing the modern public sphere
seems an urgent task.
This study reconstructs major developments in Habermas thinking
about the public sphere, and is a contribution to the current
vigorous debate over its plight. It marshals the significance of
Habermas lifetime of work on this topic to illuminate what is at
stake in a contemporary interest in rescuing an embattled modern
public sphere.
Habermas project of rescuing the neglected potentials of
Enlightenment legacies has been deeply controversial. For many, it
is too lacking in radical commitments to warrant its claim to a
contemporary place within a critical theory tradition. Against this
developing consensus, Pauline Johnson describes Habermas project as
one that is still informed by utopian energies, even though his own
construction of emancipatory hopes itself proves to be too narrow
and one-sided.
If we are to believe what many sociologists are telling us, the
public sphere is in a near terminal state. Our ability to build
solidarities with strangers and to agree on the general
significance of needs and problems seems to be collapsing. These
cultural potentials appear endangered by a newly aggressive attempt
to universalize and extend the norms of the market. For the past
four decades the social theorist Jurgen Habermas has explored the
relevance and meaning of the public sphere, as well as diagnosing
its on-going crises. In the contemporary climate, a systematic look
at Habermas' lifelong project of rescuing the modern public sphere
seems an urgent task. This study reconstructs major developments in
Habermas' thinking about the public sphere. Throughout his work
Habermas has maintained that the complex ambiguity of the cultural
achievements and potentials of the Enlightenment have not been
properly understood. While his first major work tried to retrieve
this complexity by excavating the neglected public-democratic core
of Enlightenment liberalism, his later writings look to processes
within modernization that confer value on a human capacity to
interact communicatively. In recent times, Habermas has suggested
that the modern public sphere is still central to the way in which
liberal democratic societies reflect upon their normative
foundations, and that we can learn from the traumatic histories and
partial successes of the democratic nation states what needs to be
done to build democracy with a post-national, cosmopolitan reach.
Habermas' project of rescuing the neglected potentials of
Enlightenment legacies has been deeply controversial. For many, it
is too lacking inradical commitments to warrant its claim to a
contemporary place within a critical theory tradition. Against this
developing consensus, Pauline Johnson describes Habermas' project
as one that is still informed by utopian energies, even though his
own construction of emancipatory hopes itself proves to be too
narrow and one-sided.
For Johnson, feminism must recognize itself as a humanism in order
to avoid certain theoretical quagmires. [The argument] is extremely
provocative, and even, I would say, necessary. This book is sure to
be controversial and of interest to a wide audience in feminist
theory. I know of no other treatment of feminism and humanism that
is so clear, cogent, and systematic. Judith Grant University of
Southern California Feminism is currently at an impasse. Both the
liberation feminism of the 1970's and the more recent feminism of
difference are increasingly faced with the limitations of their own
perspectives. While feminists today generally acknowledge the need
to recognise diversity, they lack a coherent framework through
which this need can be articulated. In Feminism as Radical
Humanism, Pauline Johnson calls for a reassessment of feminism's
relationship to modern humanism. She argues that despite its very
thorough and necessary critique of mainstream formulations of
humanist ideals, feminism itself remains strongly committed to
humanist values. Drawing on a broad range of political and
intellectual traditions, Johnson demonstrates that, only by proudly
affirming its own humanist commitments can feminist theory find a
way to negotiate the impasse in which it currently finds itself.
Feminism as Radical Humanism is an important and controversial
contribution to feminist theory, and to the ongoing debate about
the meaning of contemporary humanism.
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The Flying Scotsman (DVD)
Moore Marriott, Pauline Johnson, Ray Milland, Alec Hurley, Dino Galvani, …
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The legendary Flying Scotsman provides the setting for this early
British thriller. The driver of the famous steam engine, one day
before his retirement, is forced to report his stoker for being
drunk on duty. The stoker is promptly fired, but sneaks aboard the
train the next day to exact his revenge. Also amongst the
passengers is the driver's daughter, whose relationship with the
new stoker sets off a disastrous chain of events.
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Legends of the Capilano (Hardcover)
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The Moccasin Maker
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