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Harnessing the empowering ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche to read the
human condition of modern existence through a sociological lens,
Employing Nietzsche's Sociological Imagination: How to Understand
Totalitarian Democracy confronts the realities of how modernity and
its utopianisms affect one's ability to purpose existence with
self-authored meaning. By critically assessing the ideals of modern
institutions, the motives of their pundits, and their political
ideologies as expressions born from the social decay of exhausted
dreams and projects of modernity, Jack Fong assembles Nietzsche's
existential sociological imagination to empower actors to
emancipate the self from such duress. Illuminating the merits of
creating new meaning for life affirmation by overcoming struggle
with one's will to power, Fong reveals Nietzsche's horizons for
actualized and empowered selves, selves to be liberated from
convention, groupthink, and cultural scripts that exact deference
from society's captive audiences.
This collection draws insights from an interdisciplinary group of
scholars who specialize in diverse methods ranging from
ethnography, archival research, and oral histories, to quantitative
data analysis and experiments used in the social sciences and
humanities to reflect on the empirical, methodological, and
practical implications of conducting research beyond one's national
borders. The goal of this book is to help researchers contemplate
existing orientations that dominate current research processes and
consider the need for transnational multidisciplinary practices
that remain aware of the inequalities which continually inform
research practices. With this focus, this collection is also a
resourceful initiative that seeks to share experiences as well as
extract key ideas and approaches likely to overlap or resonate in
different disciplines.
Harnessing the empowering ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche to read the
human condition of modern existence through a sociological lens,
Employing Nietzsche's Sociological Imagination: How to Understand
Totalitarian Democracy confronts the realities of how modernity and
its utopianisms affect one's ability to purpose existence with
self-authored meaning. By critically assessing the ideals of modern
institutions, the motives of their pundits, and their political
ideologies as expressions born from the social decay of exhausted
dreams and projects of modernity, Jack Fong assembles Nietzsche's
existential sociological imagination to empower actors to
emancipate the self from such duress. Illuminating the merits of
creating new meaning for life affirmation by overcoming struggle
with one's will to power, Fong reveals Nietzsche's horizons for
actualized and empowered selves, selves to be liberated from
convention, groupthink, and cultural scripts that exact deference
from society's captive audiences.
This sociological work examines the phenomenon of the Death Cafe, a
regular gathering of strangers from all walks of life who engage in
"death talk" over coffee, tea, and desserts. Using insightful
theoretical frameworks, Fong explores the common themes that
constitute a "death identity" and reveals how Cafe attendees are
inspired to live in light of death because of death. Fong examines
how the participants' embrace of self-sovereignty and confrontation
of mortality revive their awareness of and appreciation for shared
humanity. While divisive identity politics continue to foster
neo-tribalisms and the construction of myriad "others," Fong makes
visible how those who participate in Death Cafes end up building
community while being inspired toward living more fulfilling lives.
Through death talk unfettered from systemic control, they end up
feeling more agency over their own lived lives as well as being
more conscious of the possibility of a good death. According to
Fong, participants in this phenomenon offer us a sublime way to
confront the facticity of our own demise-by gathering as one.
The Karen Revolution for self-determination has the distinction of
being one of the world's longest-running struggles for freedom,
having begun in 1949 and continuing to this very moment. This
sociological work makes visible how ethnopolitical, petropolitical,
geopolitical, and ecosystemic issues affect the political economy
of a people experiencing ethnic cleansing. From the inception of
its self-determination struggle in 1949, readers will be taken on a
historical journey with the Karen, finally "arriving" in the 21st
century. Along the way, the author exposes readers to the anatomy
of how Karen revolutionary dynamics attempt to shield the Karen
people against internal colonization committed by the various
military regimes of Burma, and how these complex dynamics engaged
by Karen revolutionaries-in a novel reformulation and reading that
transcends oversimplified economisitic indicators of
progress-constitute development. A study of revolution that moves
beyond the simplicity of a clashing dualism exemplified by Aung San
Suu Kyi pitted against the military regime, this text is for
readers desiring to examine how other significant players such as
the Karen, a proud people living in systemic crisis, construct
nation and aspire toward democracy in the labyrinthine
ethnopolitical terrain of Burma.
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