Search Results - "postmodernism"

Socialism after Hayek by Burczak, Theodore A., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Hayek, Marx, and socialism -- Hayek's postmodern economics -- Hayek's theory of the common good: social evolution, law, and justice -- Recasting Hayek's good society: the non-neutrality of the law and the market -- Social justice and Hayekian knowledge problems -- Socialist appropriative justice and the labor-managed firm -- Socialist distributive justice and the stakeholder society -- Socialism after Hayek.…”
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Moving beyond Prozac, DSM, & the new psychiatry the birth of postpsychiatry / by Lewis, Bradley, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Theorizing psychiatry -- Dodging the science wars : a theoretical third way -- The new psychiatry as a discursive practice -- Psychiatry and postmodern theory -- Postdisciplinary coalitions and alignments -- Decoding DSM : bad science, bad rhetoric, bad politics -- Prozac and the posthuman politics of cyborgs -- Postempiricism : imagining a successor science for psychiatry -- Postpsychiatry today.…”
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Immigrants to the Pure Land : the modernization, acculturation, and globalization of Shin Buddhism, 1898-1941 / by Ama, Michihiro

Table of Contents: “…The modern development of Shin Buddhism -- Changes in organizational style -- The development of Shin Buddhist ministries in North America -- The transformation of Shin Buddhist rituals and architecture -- Shin Buddhist doctrine reconstructed -- A history of the Higashi Honganji in North America -- Local and translocal activities of Issei Shin Buddhist ministers -- Conclusion : rethinking acculturation in the postmodern world.…”
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Socialism after Hayek by Burczak, Theodore A., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Hayek, Marx, and socialism -- Hayek's postmodern economics -- Hayek's theory of the common good: social evolution, law, and justice -- Recasting Hayek's good society: the non-neutrality of the law and the market -- Social justice and Hayekian knowledge problems -- Socialist appropriative justice and the labor-managed firm -- Socialist distributive justice and the stakeholder society -- Socialism after Hayek.…”
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Moving beyond Prozac, DSM, & the new psychiatry the birth of postpsychiatry / by Lewis, Bradley, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Theorizing psychiatry -- Dodging the science wars : a theoretical third way -- The new psychiatry as a discursive practice -- Psychiatry and postmodern theory -- Postdisciplinary coalitions and alignments -- Decoding DSM : bad science, bad rhetoric, bad politics -- Prozac and the posthuman politics of cyborgs -- Postempiricism : imagining a successor science for psychiatry -- Postpsychiatry today.…”
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Immigrants to the Pure Land : the modernization, acculturation, and globalization of Shin Buddhism, 1898-1941 / by Ama, Michihiro

Table of Contents: “…The modern development of Shin Buddhism -- Changes in organizational style -- The development of Shin Buddhist ministries in North America -- The transformation of Shin Buddhist rituals and architecture -- Shin Buddhist doctrine reconstructed -- A history of the Higashi Honganji in North America -- Local and translocal activities of Issei Shin Buddhist ministers -- Conclusion : rethinking acculturation in the postmodern world.…”
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Social justice theories, issues, and movements / by Capeheart, Loretta, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Conceptions of justice: classic and modern forms -- Distributive justice -- Retributive justice -- Toward transformative justice -- Multiculturalism, globalism, and challenges to developing forms of justice -- Environmental and ecological justice -- Indigenous/postcolonial forms of justice -- Postmodern forms of justice -- Legal struggles and social justice -- Justice and grassroots struggles -- Emerging conceptions of justice in a global arena -- Conclusion.…”
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Otaku Japan's database animals / by Azuma, Hiroki, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…-mode material -- Otaku and postmodernity -- Narrative consumption -- The grand nonnarrative -- Moe-elements -- Database consumption -- The simulacra and the database -- Snobbery and the fictional age -- The dissociated human -- The animal age -- Hyperflatness and hypervisuality -- Multiple personality.…”
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Empire's wake postcolonial Irish writing and the politics of modern literary form / by Quigley, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Rerouting Irish modernism: postcolonial aesthetics and the imperative of cosmopolitanism -- Modernity's edge: speaking silence on the blaskets -- Seán O'Faoláin and the end of republican realism -- Unnaming the subject: Samuel Beckett and postcolonial absence -- Postmodern blaguardry: Frank McCourt, the celtic tiger, and the ashes of history -- Conclusion. …”
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Queer enchantments : gender, sexuality, and class in the fairy-tale cinema of Jacques Demy / by Duggan, Anne E., 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: queer enchantments -- Fairy tale and melodrama: Lola and The umbrellas of Cherbourg -- The camping of "donkey skin": Jacques Demy's cinematic re-vision of a classic tale -- Artistic freedom and grotesque satire: bohemians and bourgeois in The pied piper -- The queering of the French revolution: Lady Oscar and the tradition of the maiden warrior -- Epilogue: Demy's postmodern tales -- Filmography of Jacques Demy.…”
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Otaku Japan's database animals / by Azuma, Hiroki, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…-mode material -- Otaku and postmodernity -- Narrative consumption -- The grand nonnarrative -- Moe-elements -- Database consumption -- The simulacra and the database -- Snobbery and the fictional age -- The dissociated human -- The animal age -- Hyperflatness and hypervisuality -- Multiple personality.…”
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Empire's wake postcolonial Irish writing and the politics of modern literary form / by Quigley, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Rerouting Irish modernism: postcolonial aesthetics and the imperative of cosmopolitanism -- Modernity's edge: speaking silence on the blaskets -- Seán O'Faoláin and the end of republican realism -- Unnaming the subject: Samuel Beckett and postcolonial absence -- Postmodern blaguardry: Frank McCourt, the celtic tiger, and the ashes of history -- Conclusion. …”
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Queer enchantments : gender, sexuality, and class in the fairy-tale cinema of Jacques Demy / by Duggan, Anne E., 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: queer enchantments -- Fairy tale and melodrama: Lola and The umbrellas of Cherbourg -- The camping of "donkey skin": Jacques Demy's cinematic re-vision of a classic tale -- Artistic freedom and grotesque satire: bohemians and bourgeois in The pied piper -- The queering of the French revolution: Lady Oscar and the tradition of the maiden warrior -- Epilogue: Demy's postmodern tales -- Filmography of Jacques Demy.…”
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Social justice theories, issues, and movements / by Capeheart, Loretta, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Conceptions of justice: classic and modern forms -- Distributive justice -- Retributive justice -- Toward transformative justice -- Multiculturalism, globalism, and challenges to developing forms of justice -- Environmental and ecological justice -- Indigenous/postcolonial forms of justice -- Postmodern forms of justice -- Legal struggles and social justice -- Justice and grassroots struggles -- Emerging conceptions of justice in a global arena -- Conclusion.…”
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Visible deeds of music art and music from Wagner to Cage / by Shaw-Miller, Simon, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Ut pictura musica : interdisciplinarity, art, and music -- "Deeds of music made visible" : Wagner, the Gesamtkunstwerk, and the birth of the modern -- Instruments of desire : musical morphology in Picasso's cubism -- Quasi una musica : Kupka and Klee, music, and the idea of abstraction -- "Out of tune" : Hauer's legacy and the aesthetics of minimalism in art and music -- A chorus of voices : seeing music in Cage and Fluxus, the birth of the postmodern.…”
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Imagination and the contemporary novel by Su, John J.

Table of Contents: “…The pastoral and the postmodern; 4. Hybridity, enterprise culture, and the fiction of multicultural Britain; 5. …”
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Visible deeds of music art and music from Wagner to Cage / by Shaw-Miller, Simon, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Ut pictura musica : interdisciplinarity, art, and music -- "Deeds of music made visible" : Wagner, the Gesamtkunstwerk, and the birth of the modern -- Instruments of desire : musical morphology in Picasso's cubism -- Quasi una musica : Kupka and Klee, music, and the idea of abstraction -- "Out of tune" : Hauer's legacy and the aesthetics of minimalism in art and music -- A chorus of voices : seeing music in Cage and Fluxus, the birth of the postmodern.…”
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Imagination and the contemporary novel by Su, John J.

Table of Contents: “…The pastoral and the postmodern; 4. Hybridity, enterprise culture, and the fiction of multicultural Britain; 5. …”
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Social work and social exclusion the idea of practice / by Sheppard, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Social exclusion and social work -- Social work and social exclusion -- The nature of social work -- Knowledge and values, postmodernism and social work -- Need -- Authority and choice -- Empowerment -- Maintenance, social functioning and coping -- Interpretivism, reflection and social work as art -- Social work, science and technical instrumentalism -- Judgement and decision making : practical reasoning, process knowledge and critical thinking -- Social work intervention and human nature -- Conclusion : the discipline of social work.…”
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Social work and social exclusion the idea of practice / by Sheppard, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Social exclusion and social work -- Social work and social exclusion -- The nature of social work -- Knowledge and values, postmodernism and social work -- Need -- Authority and choice -- Empowerment -- Maintenance, social functioning and coping -- Interpretivism, reflection and social work as art -- Social work, science and technical instrumentalism -- Judgement and decision making : practical reasoning, process knowledge and critical thinking -- Social work intervention and human nature -- Conclusion : the discipline of social work.…”
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