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Having studied philosophy at a time when its traditions were being
seriously uprooted by the atrocities of World War II, Theodor
Adorno had an enormous impact on thinking about aesthetics at a
transitional historical moment when the philosophy of science and
leftist politics were looking for new ground. Moreover, with his
focus on the rise of commercial culture and its effects on
identity-construction, Adorno can be said to have reinvigorated
modernist concerns by introducing the prevailing terms in our
contemporary versions of cultural politics and cultural studies.
Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism traces Adorno’s
social and aesthetic ideas as they appear and reappear in his
corpus. As per other volumes in the series, this book is divided
into three parts. The first, “Adorno’s Keywords,” is
organized by the aesthetic terms around which Adorno’s philosophy
circulates. The second section is devoted to “Adorno and
Aesthetics.” While Adorno’s philosophical viewpoints influenced
modernism’s evolution into the 21st century, the history of
modernist aesthetics also shaped his philosophical approaches. The
third and final part, “Adorno’s Constellations,” discusses
how aesthetic form in Adorno’s thinking underlies the terms of
his social analysis.
This book addresses how current debates about education could make a contribution to feminist thought. Contemporary feminist theory explores gender relations through theories of subjectivity with focusing on how education fosters the development of subjectivities. This book talks about how the new economics of schooling under regimes of global capitalism are affecting the gendering subjectivities. Reading the World looks at postcolonial literature and feminist novels in order to theorize how the shrinking of the public sphere, the diminishing powers of the nation-state, the waning democracy, the rise of the global corporation and the reign of corporate ideologies influences access to learning, what counts as knowledge, the socialization and reproduction of land, and subsequently, both the meaning of subjectivity and the possibilities of a radical feminism. Both global feminism and feminist history offer examples of the ways education has historically countered oppressive ideologies, injustices, economic inequality, disenfranchisement, and the knowledge factories which convey these imbalances of power. Because critical pedagogy is centrally concerned with using education to further democratic projects and economic redistribution, it is essential, given the gender of poverty, that it develops materialist theories of gender not exclusively based in psychoanalysis or libel ideas of assimilation, tolerance and inclusion. In order to construct a rationalist critique of feminist subjectivity, this books draws on black feminism, postcolonial feminism, socialist feminism, but also a rich postcolonial literary tradition which foregrounds learning as a means of resisting hegemonic power and imperialisms. This book is concerned with enriching a number of scholarly fields
Contents: Introduction 1. Critical Pedagogy and the Feminist Legacy 2. The Philosopher's Stoned: Harry Potter's Public 3. A Time for Flying Horses: Oil Education and the Future of Literature 4. The Triumphant but Tragic Wealth of the Poor: Buchi Emecheta Meets Hernando DeSoto's Informal Markets 5. Homework: School in Serowe 6. Conclusion
The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory was a PROSE
Award finalist. The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist
Theory is the most comprehensive available survey of the state of
the art of contemporary feminist thought. With chapters written by
world-leading scholars from a range of disciplines, the book
explores the latest thinking on key topics in current feminist
discourse, including: * Feminist subjectivity - from identity,
difference, and intersectionality to affect, sex and the body *
Feminist texts - writing, reading, genre and critique * Feminism
and the world - from power, trauma and value to technology,
migration and community Including insights from literary and
cultural studies, philosophy, political science and sociology, The
Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory is an essential
overview of current feminist thinking and future directions for
scholarship, debate and activism.
The conventional lineage of World Literature starts with Goethe and
moves through Marx, Said, Moretti, and Damrosch, among others. What
if there is another way to trace the lineage, starting with Simone
de Beauvoir and moving through Hannah Arendt, Assia Djebar, Octavia
Butler, Donna Haraway, Karen Barad, and Gayatri Spivak? What ideas
and issues get left out of the current foundations that have
institutionalized World Literature, and what can be added,
challenged, or changed with this tweaking of the referential
terminology? Feminism as World Literature redefines the thematic
and theoretical contents of World Literature in feminist terms as
well as rethinking feminist terms, analyses, frameworks, and
concepts in a World Literature context. Other ideas built into
World Literature and its criticism are viewed here by feminist
framings, including the environment, technology, immigration,
translation, work, race, governance, image, sound, religion,
affect, violence, media, future, and history. The authors recognize
genres, strategies, and themes of World Literature that demonstrate
feminism as integral to the world-making gestures of literary form
and production. In other words, this volume looks to readings and
modes of reading that expose how the historical worldliness of
texts allows for feminist interventions that might not sit clearly
or comfortably on the surfaces.
Gender for the Warfare State is the first scholarly investigation
into the written works of U.S. women combat veterans in
twenty-first century wars. Most recent studies quantify military
participation, showing how many women participate in armed services
and what their experiences are in a traditionally "male
institution." Many of these treatments regard women as victims
solely of enemy fire, even as they are also often victims of their
own military apparatus and of their own involvement in global
aggression. By applying literary analysis to a sociological
question, Gender for the Warfare State views women's experiences
through story and literary traditions that carry meaning into
present practices. Goodman shows that women in combat are not just
entering and being victimized in "male institutions," but are also
actively changing the story of gender and thus the structure of
power that is constructed through gender. Moreover, this book
unveils a new narrative of care that affects economic relations
more broadly and the contemporary politics of the liberal social
contract. Women's participation in combat is not just a U.S. event
but global and therefore has a deeper historical range than current
sociological accounts imply. The book compares the political
contexts of women's entry into war now with their prior,
twentieth-century contributions to wars in other cultural settings
and then uses this comparison to show a variety of meanings at play
in the gender of war.
Gender has become a commodity. Today's economy trades in symbols
and narratives as much as in objects. As such, gender can be bought
and sold, produced as an object, and demands constant work. What
makes the commodity object seem alien, mysterious, and even
threatening, Marx tells us, is that the worker's social relations -
his subjectivity - are taken away from him and stamped into the
object which then appears to have a life of its own, disassociated
and threatening. Gender Commodity argues that gender is a social
relation made into such an alienated object. In today's situation
of radical insecurity, people are reaching out and identifying with
objects - including symbolic ones - that promise quite falsely that
they grant stability, duration, and fulfillment, and gender has
been made into one of those. Gender Commodity is an
interdisciplinary study that brings literary studies into dialogue
with the surrounding mediascape around issues of gender, culture,
and economy. It also asks how the symbolic production of gender
commodity at home informs an imagination of gender policy as it
reaches out globally. As it criticizes gender-affirmative feminism
for participating in the culture of the commodity, Gender Commodity
also looks to feminism to imagine gender otherwise.
Literature and the Development of Feminist Theory offers an
insightful look at the development of feminist theory through a
literary lens. Stressing the significance of feminism's origins in
the European Enlightenment, this book traces the literary careers
of feminism's major thinkers in order to elucidate the connection
of feminist theoretical production to literary work. In addition to
considering such well-known authors as Mary Wollstonecraft,
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Simone de Beauvoir and Helene Cixous,
this book also reflects on the lasting influence of
postcolonialism, liberalism, and specific genres such as science
fiction and modernist poetry. Written by leading scholars and
focusing on the literary trajectories of feminism's noted
contributors, Literature and the Development of Feminist Theory
ultimately provides a new perspective on feminism's theoretical
context, bringing into view the effects of literary form on the
growth of feminist thought.
The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory was a PROSE
Award finalist. The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist
Theory is the most comprehensive available survey of the state of
the art of contemporary feminist thought. With chapters written by
world-leading scholars from a range of disciplines, the book
explores the latest thinking on key topics in current feminist
discourse, including: * Feminist subjectivity - from identity,
difference, and intersectionality to affect, sex and the body *
Feminist texts - writing, reading, genre and critique * Feminism
and the world - from power, trauma and value to technology,
migration and community Including insights from literary and
cultural studies, philosophy, political science and sociology, The
Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory is an essential
overview of current feminist thinking and future directions for
scholarship, debate and activism.
Gender for the Warfare State is the first scholarly investigation
into the written works of U.S. women combat veterans in
twenty-first century wars. Most recent studies quantify military
participation, showing how many women participate in armed services
and what their experiences are in a traditionally "male
institution." Many of these treatments regard women as victims
solely of enemy fire, even as they are also often victims of their
own military apparatus and of their own involvement in global
aggression. By applying literary analysis to a sociological
question, Gender for the Warfare State views women's experiences
through story and literary traditions that carry meaning into
present practices. Goodman shows that women in combat are not just
entering and being victimized in "male institutions," but are also
actively changing the story of gender and thus the structure of
power that is constructed through gender. Moreover, this book
unveils a new narrative of care that affects economic relations
more broadly and the contemporary politics of the liberal social
contract. Women's participation in combat is not just a U.S. event
but global and therefore has a deeper historical range than current
sociological accounts imply. The book compares the political
contexts of women's entry into war now with their prior,
twentieth-century contributions to wars in other cultural settings
and then uses this comparison to show a variety of meanings at play
in the gender of war.
Gender has become a commodity. Today’s economy trades in symbols
and narratives as much as in objects. As such, gender can be bought
and sold, produced as an object, and demands constant work. What
makes the commodity object seem alien, mysterious, and even
threatening, Marx tells us, is that the worker’s social relations
- his subjectivity - are taken away from him and stamped into the
object which then appears to have a life of its own, disassociated
and threatening. Gender Commodity argues that gender is a social
relation made into such an alienated object. In today’s situation
of radical insecurity, people are reaching out and identifying with
objects - including symbolic ones - that promise quite falsely that
they grant stability, duration, and fulfillment, and gender has
been made into one of those. Gender Commodity is an
interdisciplinary study that brings literary studies into dialogue
with the surrounding mediascape around issues of gender, culture,
and economy. It also asks how the symbolic production of gender
commodity at home informs an imagination of gender policy as it
reaches out globally. As it criticizes gender-affirmative feminism
for participating in the culture of the commodity, Gender Commodity
also looks to feminism to imagine gender otherwise.
As Junk Bond felon Michael Milken attempts to transform public
education on the model of the HMO, he is hailed in the mainstream
press as having "done more to help mankind than Mother Theresa."
Even as BP Amoco, a notorious U.S. polluter, is charged with
funding and arming paramilitaries in Colombia, it freely
distributes science curricula that portrays itself as a loving
protector of citizens from a dangerous and 'out of control' nature.
These as well as many other examples abound as Professors Robin
Truth Goodman and Kenneth J. Saltman take on the corporate
educators, media monopolies, and oil companies in their new book
Strange Love: How We Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Market.
Saltman and Goodman show how corporate-produced curricula, films,
and corporate-promoted books often use depictions of family love,
childhood innocence, and compassion in order to sell the public on
policies that ironically put the profit of multinational
corporations over the well-being of people. In doing so Goodman and
Saltman reveal the extent to which globalization depends upon
education and also show how battles over culture, language, and the
control of information are matters of life, death, and democracy.
Having studied philosophy at a time when its traditions were being
seriously uprooted by the atrocities of World War II, Theodor
Adorno had an enormous impact on thinking about aesthetics at a
transitional historical moment when the philosophy of science and
leftist politics were looking for new ground. Moreover, with his
focus on the rise of commercial culture and its effects on
identity-construction, Adorno can be said to have reinvigorated
modernist concerns by introducing the prevailing terms in our
contemporary versions of cultural politics and cultural studies.
Understanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism traces Adorno's
social and aesthetic ideas as they appear and reappear in his
corpus. As per other volumes in the series, this book is divided
into three parts. The first, "Adorno's Keywords," is organized by
the aesthetic terms around which Adorno's philosophy circulates.
The second section is devoted to "Adorno and Aesthetics." While
Adorno's philosophical viewpoints influenced modernism's evolution
into the 21st century, the history of modernist aesthetics also
shaped his philosophical approaches. The third and final part,
"Adorno's Constellations," discusses how aesthetic form in Adorno's
thinking underlies the terms of his social analysis.
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