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This book examines the lives of the Malay and Cham Muslims in
Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam and examines how they co-exist and
live in societies that are dominated by an alternative consensus
and are illiberal and non-democratic in nature. Focusing on two
major Muslim communities in Southeast Asia, both of whom live as
minorities in societies that are not democratic and have a history
of hostility and repression towards non-conforming ideas, the book
explains their circumstances, the choices and life decisions they
have to make, and how minorities can thrive in an unfriendly,
monocultural environment. Based on original field work and
research, the author analyses how people live, and how they adapt
to societies which are not motivated by Western liberal ideals of
multiculturalism. The book also offers a unique perspective on how
Islam develops in an environment where it is seen as alien and
disloyal. A useful contribution analyzing historical and
post-colonial experiences of Muslim minorities and how they survive
and evolve over the course of state monopoly in mainland Southeast
Asia, this book will be of interest to academics working on Muslim
minorities, Asian Religion and Southeast Asian Studies.
This book examines the lives of the Malay and Cham Muslims in
Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam and examines how they co-exist and
live in societies that are dominated by an alternative consensus
and are illiberal and non-democratic in nature. Focusing on two
major Muslim communities in Southeast Asia, both of whom live as
minorities in societies that are not democratic and have a history
of hostility and repression towards non-conforming ideas, the book
explains their circumstances, the choices and life decisions they
have to make, and how minorities can thrive in an unfriendly,
monocultural environment. Based on original field work and
research, the author analyses how people live, and how they adapt
to societies which are not motivated by Western liberal ideals of
multiculturalism. The book also offers a unique perspective on how
Islam develops in an environment where it is seen as alien and
disloyal. A useful contribution analyzing historical and
post-colonial experiences of Muslim minorities and how they survive
and evolve over the course of state monopoly in mainland Southeast
Asia, this book will be of interest to academics working on Muslim
minorities, Asian Religion and Southeast Asian Studies.
Taking Freud's seminal essay A Childhood Memory of Leonardo da
Vinci as his starting point and opposite, Hubert Damisch uses the
preposition 'by' instead of 'of' in the title of his book to
indicate that he is searching for a way of doing psychoanalysis
with art that does not amount to psychobiography. The book is in
some respects a parody of Freud's work on art. The return to Freud
was necessary because work in psychoanalysis and art has not solved
the problem of what is being analyzed. Damisch studies Piero della
Francesca's painting Madonna del Parto as a construction by the
artist of what viewers throughout history may have pursued on the
basis of their unconscious fantasies involving what Freud
considered the most characteristic question of human beings: where
do children come from, and how did they get there?
One of today's foremost art historians and critics presents a
strikingly original view of architecture and the city through the
twin lenses of cultural theory and psychoanalysis. Hubert
Damisch--whose work on the history of perspective, the notion of
imitation, and the question of representation has emerged as the
most important body of critical thought on painting since, perhaps,
Meyer Shapiro's collected essays--here engages a subject that has
been of continuing interest to him over the last thirty years.
In the field of architecture, this book has been awaited for a long
time; in the fields of art history and cultural studies, it will be
welcomed as a powerful argument for utilizing in an urban context
interpretive approaches developed for the analysis of spatial and
visual phenomena. Though architecture has served since Descartes as
a structural analogy for philosophical discourse and has played a
similar role in literature, contemporary studies on architecture
have tended to be very specialized, with little regard for their
accessibility to scholars in the humanities and social sciences.
This book, however, with its solid grounding in architecture and
urban theory and its profoundly humanistic approach, will prove
deeply rewarding to specialist and generalist alike.
The book engages a wide range of subjects, including
reconstructions of the Egyptian labyrinth, architectural museums,
European visions of New World cities, the great spaces and national
parks of the American West, and landscape gardening in the United
States. These subjects work together to develop a unique way of
looking at the city and its architecture, the landscape and its
spaces.
Taking Freud's seminal essay A Childhood Memory of Leonardo da
Vinci as his starting point and opposite, Hubert Damisch uses the
preposition 'by' instead of 'of' in the title of his book to
indicate that he is searching for a way of doing psychoanalysis
with art that does not amount to psychobiography. The book is in
some respects a parody of Freud's work on art. The return to Freud
was necessary because work in psychoanalysis and art has not solved
the problem of what is being analyzed. Damisch studies Piero della
Francesca's painting Madonna del Parto as a construction by the
artist of what viewers throughout history may have pursued on the
basis of their unconscious fantasies involving what Freud
considered the most characteristic question of human beings: where
do children come from, and how did they get there?
One of today's foremost art historians and critics presents a
strikingly original view of architecture and the city through the
twin lenses of cultural theory and psychoanalysis. Hubert
Damisch--whose work on the history of perspective, the notion of
imitation, and the question of representation has emerged as the
most important body of critical thought on painting since, perhaps,
Meyer Shapiro's collected essays--here engages a subject that has
been of continuing interest to him over the last thirty years.
In the field of architecture, this book has been awaited for a long
time; in the fields of art history and cultural studies, it will be
welcomed as a powerful argument for utilizing in an urban context
interpretive approaches developed for the analysis of spatial and
visual phenomena. Though architecture has served since Descartes as
a structural analogy for philosophical discourse and has played a
similar role in literature, contemporary studies on architecture
have tended to be very specialized, with little regard for their
accessibility to scholars in the humanities and social sciences.
This book, however, with its solid grounding in architecture and
urban theory and its profoundly humanistic approach, will prove
deeply rewarding to specialist and generalist alike.
The book engages a wide range of subjects, including
reconstructions of the Egyptian labyrinth, architectural museums,
European visions of New World cities, the great spaces and national
parks of the American West, and landscape gardening in the United
States. These subjects work together to develop a unique way of
looking at the city and its architecture, the landscape and its
spaces.
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