This book presents an overview of the varied experiences and representations of motherhood in India from ancient to modern times. The thrust of the arguments made by the various contributors is that the centrality of motherhood as an ideology in a woman' s life is manufactured. …
Ideology, Rhetoric, Aesthetics: for De Man
Ideology, rhetoric, aesthetics: for De Man
"This volume explicates Paul de Man's late project of a critique of aesthetic ideology and attempts to extend it in ways productive for critical thought. After a reading of de Man's work in all its rigour - and hence also the aesthetic theory of Kant, Schiller, and Hegel- the bo…
Ideology, rhetoric, aesthetics: for De Man
Readings of de Man's critique of aesthetic ideology and the strange 'materiality' that emerges from it This volume explicates Paul de Man's late project of a critique of aesthetic ideology and attempts to extend it in ways productive for critical thought. After a reading of de M…
"This monograph provides readings of literary and philosophical texts that work through the rhetoric of tropes to the material inscription at the origin of these texts. The book focuses on the practice and pedagogical value of rhetorical reading. Its readings follow an itinerary…
Jan Rehmann reconstructs the different strands of ideology theories, ranging from Marx to Adorno/Horkheimer, from Gramsci to Stuart Hall, from Althusser to Foucault, from Bourdieu to W.F. Haug. He puts them into dialogue with each other and applies them to today's high-tech-capi…
Military Effectiveness
En undersøgelse og sammenlignende analyse af Storbritanniens, USAs, Frankrigs, Tysklands, Ruslands/Sovjetunionens, Italiens og Japans militære kapacitet under 1. Verdenskrig, Mellemkrigstiden og 2. Verdenskrig.
First published in 1987, this title tracks the spy thriller from John Buchanan to Eric Ambler, Ian Fleming and John Le Carr, and shows how these tales of spies, moles, and the secret service tell a history of modern society, translating the political and cultural transformations…
Explores the limits and prospects of Afro-Caribbean Francophone writers in reshaping or producing action-oriented literature. This work shows how Francophone literatures have followed a hegemonic discourse that leaves little room for thinking outside of traditional cultural and …
"The Zizek Reader"--Which includes a foreword by Slavoj Zizek and an essay on cyberspace - provides a comprehensive introduction to the flamboyant work of a figure who has been variously described as "one of the most arresting, insightful and scandalous thinkers in recent memory…
Engelsk bog redigeret af professorer med speciale indenfor henholdsvis tysk og russisk historie. Bogen har bidrag fra en række historikere og sociologer, som beskriver ligheder og forskelle mellem de to totalitære systemer: nazismen og stalinismen. De to statssystemers magtudfol…
Forfatteren følger de politiske, økonomiske og diplomatiske relationer mellem Sovjetunionen og dets klientstat Vietnam, og han fortæller om den sovjetiske skuffelse over det beskedne udbytte af de store anstrengelser i Vietnam og om Vietnams mistænksomhed over for sovjetiske øns…
Flakhelfer – das waren Jugendliche vor allem der Jahrgänge 1926 bis 1928, die in den letzten Jahren des Zweiten Weltkriegs noch eingezogen wurden, um die Niederlage NS-Deutschlands weiter hinauszuzögern. Manch ein führender Kopf der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, der dieser Generat…