Autore	Paolucci Paul
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Leiden Boston : , : BRILL, , 2019
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (594 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina	909.08
Collana	Studies in Critical Social Sciences
Soggetto topico	Social sciences - Philosophy Civilization, Modern - 21st century
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	9789004393950 9789004393943
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Illustrations -- No Rest Until Modernity is Acquired -- Speculation Ends, Science Begins -- Divesting Philosophy’s Ultimate Word -- The Concept of Society -- History and Human Development -- A History of Struggles -- Mystical Consciousness -- Illusions to this Day -- An Inverted World -- Educating the Educator -- Windy Idealists and Frothy Youth -- Middle Class Snobbism -- Pauperism and Artificial Impoverishment -- Social Scum -- Of Souls, Sighs, and Opium -- The Cult of Nature -- World Literature -- Modern Society’s All-dominating Power -- An Impulse Never Before Known -- Head of the Movement -- Absurd Epidemics -- Swindling Joint-stock Companies -- Machines -- Rule of the Towns -- Feverish Anxiety and Astonishment -- Solids Melting into Air -- Civilization and Barbarism -- Celebrating Orgies, Blood, and Fire -- Bureaucracy and the Bureaucrats -- The Economic Existence of the State -- Democracy for their Truth -- Parliamentary Disease and the Holy Ghost -- The Executive Committee -- Modern Mythology and its Goddesses -- Rolling Back the Wheel -- The Goal of Popular Desire -- National Egoism -- Every Sect is Religious -- Disgusting Despotism -- The Sycophantic Babblers -- Applying Chemistry to Industry and Agriculture -- The Measure of Social Progress -- Defiling Republics -- A Fetish Dark and Mysterious -- The World Market -- The Political Chessboard -- Throwing Dust in People’s Eyes -- Gravedigging Megalomaniacs -- The Sorcerer -- Prevailing Tendencies -- Common Ruin -- Chains, Riddles, Worlds -- Socialist Sentimentalizing -- Whether We Want it or Not -- Afterword -- Postmodernism?.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910511697903321

Autore	Wagner Peter
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2015
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (vii, 299 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina	327.4
Collana	Annual of European and global studies African, American and European trajectories of modernity
Soggetto topico	Civilization, Modern - 21st century World history
ISBN	1-4744-1247-5 1-4744-0041-8
Classificazione	NK 7400
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Part I Reconstructing the History of Atlantic Modernity -- 1 The American Divergence, the Modern Western World and the Paradigmatisation of History -- 2 The Limits of Recognition: History, Otherness and Autonomy -- 3 On Being in Time: Modern African Elites and the Historical Challenge to Claims for Alternative and Multiple Modernities -- 4 The Sublime Dignity of the Dictator:1 Republicanism and the Return of Dictatorship in Political Modernity -- 5 The Luso-Brazilian Enlightenment: Between Reform and Revolution -- Part II Comparing Trajectories of Modernity in the South -- 6 Inconsistencies between Social-democratic Discourses and Neo-liberal Institutional Development in Chile and South Africa: a Comparative Analysis of the Post-authoritarian Periods1 -- 7 HIV/AIDS Policies and Modernity in Brazil and South Africa: a Comparative Critical Analysis -- 8 Land and Restitution in Comparative Perspective: Analysing the Evidence of Right to Land for Black Rural Communities in Brazil and South Africa -- Part III Claims for Justice in the History of Modernity and in its Present -- 9 An Unsettled Past as a Political Resource -- 10 Injustice at Both Ends: Pre- and Post-apartheid Literary Approaches to Injustice, Sentiment and Humanism in the Work of C. Louis Leipoldt, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela and the Film Invictus -- 11 The Student Movement in Chile 2011–12: Rearming the Critique of Capitalism -- 12 Indignation and Claims for Economic Sovereignty in Europe and the Americas: Renewing the Project of Control over Production -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910153237803321

Edizione	[Enlarged ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Los Angeles, CA, : Feral House, 2005
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (288 p.)
Disciplina	335.83
Altri autori (Persone)	ZerzanJohn
Soggetto topico	Anarchism Civilization, Modern - 20th century Civilization, Modern - 21st century
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-282-74425-9 9786612744259 1-932595-70-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	CONTENTS; Foreword: Chellis Glendinning; Introduction: John Zerzan; Preface: Kevin Tucker, Unintended Consequences; SECTION I. OUTSIDE CIVILIZATION; Roy Walker, The Golden Feast; Hoxie Neale Fairchild, The Noble Savage: A Study in Romantic Naturalism; Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality; Henry David Thoreau, ""Excursions""; Fredy Perlman, Against His-story, Against Leviathan!; Arnold DeVries, Primitive Man and His Food; Marshal Sahlins, ""The Original Affluent Society""; Lynn Clive, ""Birds Combat Civilization""; John Landau, ""Wildflowers: A Bouquet of Thesis"" Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged LifeMarvin Harris, Our Kind; Ramon Wilson, Spokane Museum; SECTION II: THE COMING OF CIVILIZATION; George P. Marsh, The Earth as Modified by Human Action; Frederick Turner, Beyond Geography: The Western Spirit Against the Wilderness; James Axtell, The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America; John Zerzan, Elements of Refusal; Paul Shepard, Nature and Madness; Mark Nathan Cohen, Health and the Rise of Civilization; Robin Fox, The Search for Society Chellis Glendinning, My Name of Chellis and I'm in Recovery from Western CivilizationPierre Clastres, Society Against the State; Madhusree Mukerjee, The Land of the Naked People; Robert Wolff, Reading and Writing; SECTION III: THE NATURE OF CIVILIZATION; Friedrich Schiller, On the Aesthetic Education of Man; Charles Fourier, Theory of Four Movements and General Destinies; Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents; John Landau, ""Civilization and the Primitive""; Max Horkheimer, Eclipse of Reason; Max Horkheimer, Dawn and Decline; Richard Heinberg, ""Was Civilization a Mistake?"" Barbara Mor, Here: a small history of a mining town in the american southwest: Warren/Bisbee AZIvan Illich, Toward a History of Needs; Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust; T. Fulano, ""Civilization Is Like a Jetliner""; Unabomber (AKA ""FC""), ""Industrial Society and Its Future""; Tamarack Song, The Old Way and Civilization; Ursula Legun, Women/Wilderness; SECTION IV: THE PATHOLOGY OF CIVILIZATION; Max Nordau, Conventional Lies, or Our Civilization; William Koetke, The Final Empire: The Collapse of Civilization and The Seed of the Future Joseph Tainter, The Collapse of Complex SocietiesTheodore Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends: Politics and Transcendence in Postindustrial Society; Andrew Bard Schmookler, The Parable of the Tribes: The Problem of Power in Social Evolution; Peter Sloterdijk, Critique of Cynical Reason; Fredric Jameson, The Seeds of Time; Labor of Ludd, ""The Medium Is the Medium""; Des Rėfractaires, ""How Nice to be Civilized!""; David Watson, ""Civilization in Bulk""; Richard Heinberg, Memories and Visions of Paradise; Chrystos, ""They're Always Telling Me I'm Too Angry"" Oswald Spengler, Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910456963703321

Edizione	[First edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Madrid : , : Editorial Dykinson, S.L., , [2023]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (184 pages)
Disciplina	909.83
Soggetto topico	Civilization, Modern - 21st century Human rights
ISBN	84-11-22992-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	spa
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910780612203321

Autore	Ehrenfeld David
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (321 p.)
Disciplina	304.2
Altri autori (Persone)	EhrenfeldDavid
Soggetto topico	Human ecology Nature - Effect of human beings on Environmental degradation Civilization, Modern - 21st century Technology - Social aspects
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-282-05389-2 9786612053894 0-19-970611-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Pretending -- Brainstorming has its limits -- Nothing simple -- The comforts of fantasy -- Rejecting gifts -- The uses and risks of adaptation -- When machines replace people -- Pseudocommunities -- Obsolescence -- Accelerating social evolution -- Writing -- Affluence and austerity -- Energy and friendly fire -- Durable goods -- Preserving our capital -- Conservation for profit -- Hot spots and the globalization of conservation -- Putting a value on nature -- The downside of corporate immortality -- Wilderness as teacher -- An opposing view of nature -- Death of a plastic palm -- Scientific discoveries and nature's mysteries -- I reinvent agriculture -- Thinking about breeds and species -- Strangers in our own land -- Teaching field ecology -- The ubiquitous right-of-way -- A walk in the woods -- Old growth -- Intimacy with nature -- The utopia fallacy -- Traditions -- Jane Austen and the world of the community -- Universities, schools, and communities -- What do we owe our children? -- Epilogue: A call for fusion and regeneration.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910454494203321