A survey of the trajectory of research in literature, history, sociology, and economics over the past century, as well as the values, priorities and agendas of the modern research university, this book argues that in spite of its wealth, power and...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 04-Jun-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520414594)
Now that the collective death of mankind has become a possibility, no other thought can remain unimpaired. Harry Redner traces historically the onset of this acute state of Nihilism from what might be called the Faustian revolution, symbolized b...Lasīt vairāk
The Humanities, the Social Sciences and the University is an intellectual history of research in the humanities and social sciences. It scrutinizes the priorities, values, objectives and publishing agendas of the modern university in order to assess...Lasīt vairāk
The book makes a unique contribution to civilizational theory. It traces contemporary social and political crises in Western and Eurasian societies to a process of civilizational decline initiated by war and revolution last century and now being comp...Lasīt vairāk
This book provides a systematic study of how the epistemologically interesting features of contemporary science are to be understood. It argues that the shift from Classical science to a more complex and less orderly World science after World War II...Lasīt vairāk
This book aims to make the broad public aware of the full scope and amplitude of Charles E. Lindbloms thought and to convey something of the inner coherence that governs it. It presents his works either as direct commentary on it or criticism of it,...Lasīt vairāk
The tragedy of European civilization is a protracted historical event spanning the twentieth century and in many ways is ongoing. During this time some of the greatest modern thinkers were active, producing works that both reflected what was happe...Lasīt vairāk
This book deals with representation in science, politics and art both in its historical dimensions and in its contemporary expression. It aims to reveal the current trends of culture and guide these towards the goal of a future culture for the coming...Lasīt vairāk
Ulysses and Faust: Tradition and Modernism from Homer till the Present examines the most important authors of Western literature: Homer, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Marlowe, Goethe, Joyce, Eliot, Mann, Bulgakov and Pasternak, who based...Lasīt vairāk
Quintessence of Dust by Harry Redner argues for a science of matter and philosophy of mind based on emergence through five stages. It criticises mechanistic approaches to mind and advocates a philosophic synthesis of the natural sciences, soci...Lasīt vairāk
This book provides a systematic study of how the epistemologically interesting features of contemporary science are to be understood. It argues that the shift from Classical science to a more complex and less orderly World science after World War II...Lasīt vairāk
This is primarily, but not exclusively, a book on Lindblom. All the pieces in it bear on his work, either as direct commentary on it or criticism of it, or as extensions of his ideas. But at the same time every piece follows the trajectory of its own...Lasīt vairāk
The astonishing aim of this bold and original study is no less than the construction of a comprehensive theory of culturea theory that challenges many established approaches in disciplines such as philosophy, semiotics, sociology, political theory,...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 14-Aug-2018, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520303140)
Now that the collective death of mankind has become a possibility, no other thought can remain unimpaired. Harry Redner traces historically the onset of this acute state of Nihilism from what might be called the Faustian revolution, symbolized b...Lasīt vairāk
Ulysses and Faust: Tradition and Modernism from Homer till the Present examines the most important authors of Western literature: Homer, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Marlowe, Goethe, Joyce, Eliot, Mann, Bulgakov and Pasternak, who based...Lasīt vairāk
For Harry Redner, the phrase beyond civilization refers to the new and unprecedented condition the world is now entering specifically, the condition commonly known as globalization. Redner approaches globalization from the perspective of history...Lasīt vairāk
Redner presents the fourth and final volume in his tetralogy. This work is more closely concerned with ideas, ideologies, ideologues, and intellectuals in general. Collectively they portray the contemporary predicament of humanity and what historical...Lasīt vairāk
The century that began in 1914 with the outbreak of the First World War was catastrophic. Over the course of that one-hundred-year span, civilizations were destroyed in the Old World, the New World, and the Third World, the latter represented by C...Lasīt vairāk
Examining the work of ten influential thinkers who prophesied war, revolution, and all the other horrors of the tragedy of European civilization, Redner asks how much they actually knew about the approaching catastrophe. He covers Marx: the romance o...Lasīt vairāk
For Harry Redner, the phrase beyond civilization refers to the new and unprecedented condition the world is now enteringspecifically, the condition commonly known as globalization. Redner approaches globalization from the perspective of history...Lasīt vairāk
Redner examines the processes that have led to the destruction of civilizations in Europe, the Americas, and throughout Africa and Asia. He argues that, despite our quality of life and unprecedented material wealth, we are in the grips of a moral, sp...Lasīt vairāk
With coverage of history dating back to the Greek and Roman empires and a truly global focus, this 376 pages of dense and theoretical writing explores the replacement of unique worldwide civilizations with one unified global culture. Along the way it...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 25-Feb-2007, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University Press of America, ISBN-13: 9780761836773)
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Harry Redners Aesthetic Life examines the arts - all the arts from the earliest Paleolithic painting to the latest post-Modern music. Its aim is to account for the nature of art in its historical totality and to assess the role it has played...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 23-Feb-2007, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University Press of America, ISBN-13: 9780761836780)
Responding to the imbalance in the arts between the inherited wealth of the past and the impoverishment of the present, Redner explores features of past societies that favored the creation of art and how they are missing today. He covers general aest...Lasīt vairāk
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In our technological civilization, the forces of globalization are a threat to both nature and culture. The many and varied cultures of the world are beset by the homogenizing impact of the global media, which represents the triumph of technics. Natu...Lasīt vairāk
Redner, a wide ranging Australian academic who spend most of his career at Monash University, considers the loss of traditional and local cultures under the juggernaut of global consumerism to be as devastating to humans as the loss of biological div...Lasīt vairāk
Ethical Life sets out to act as a guide for those of us who want to better understand ethics. It offers answers to the two simplest and yet most difficult questions facing individuals who have fallen into the perplexities of contemporary life:...Lasīt vairāk
Ethical Life sets out to act as a guide for those of us who want to better understand ethics. It offers answers to the two simplest and yet most difficult questions facing individuals who have fallen into the perplexities of contemporary life: Why b...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Aug-1997, Hardback, Izdevniecība: St. Martin's Press, ISBN-13: 9780312173241)
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Redner (politics, Monash U., Victoria, Australia) finds in the early work of the four philosophers a common reaction to the experience of the First World War and the following Communist and Fascist revolutions. He also traces those common threads thr...Lasīt vairāk
