Author: Sigmund FreudPublisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486282538
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
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Civilization and Its Discontents
Author: Sigmund FreudPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393059953
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
What influences led to the creation of civilization? How did it come to be? What determines its course? In this seminal volume of 20th-century thought, Freud elucidates the contest between aggression, the death drive, and its adversary eros.
French Civilization and Its Discontents
Author: Tyler Edward StovallPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9780739106471
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
What happens when the study of French is no longer coterminous with the study of France? French Civilization and Its Discontents explores the ways in which considerations of difference, especially colonialism, postcolonialism, and race, have shaped French culture and French studies in the modern era. Rejecting traditional assimilationist notions of French national identity, contributors to this groundbreaking volume demonstrate how literature, history, and other aspects of what is considered French civilization have been shaped by global processes of creolization and differentiation. This book ably demonstrates the necessity of studying France and the Francophone world together, and of recognizing not only the presence of France in the Francophone world but also the central place occupied by the Francophone world in world literature and history.
Author: Mohsin Hamid
Author: Sigmund Freud
Author: Sigmund Freud
Author: Susan SugarmanPuritanism and Its Discontents
Author: Laura Lunger KnoppersPublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874138177
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
By tracing core discontents, the essays restore the anxiety-ridden radical nature of Puritanism, helping to account for its force in the seventeenth century and the popular and scholarly interest that it continues to evoke. Innovative and challenging in scope and argument, the volume should be of interest to scholars of early modern British and American history, literature, culture, and religion."--BOOK JACKET.
Barbarism and Its Discontents
Author: Maria BoletsiPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804785376
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Barbarism and civilization form one of the oldest and most rigid oppositions in Western history. According to this dichotomy, barbarism functions as the negative standard through which "civilization" fosters its self-definition and superiority by labeling others "barbarians." Since the 1990s, and especially since 9/11, these terms have become increasingly popular in Western political and cultural rhetoric—a rhetoric that divides the world into forces of good and evil. This study intervenes in this recent trend and interrogates contemporary and historical uses of barbarism, arguing that barbarism also has a disruptive, insurgent potential. Boletsi recasts barbarism as a productive concept, finding that it is a common thread in works of literature, art, and theory. By dislodging barbarism from its conventional contexts, this book reclaims barbarism's edge and proposes it as a useful theoretical tool.
Troubling Confessions
Author: Peter BrooksPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226075853
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Literature has often understood the problematic nature of confession better than the law, as Brooks demonstrates in perceptive readings of legal cases set against works by Roussean, Dostoevsky, Joyce, and Camus, among others."--BOOK JACKET.
