The Uses of Memory: The Critique of Modernity in the Fiction of Higuchi Ichiyo By Timothy J. Van Compernolle
2006 | 215 Pages | ISBN: 0674022726 | PDF | 3 MB
The pioneering writer Higuchi Ichiyō (1872-1896) has been described as "the last woman of old Japan," a consummate stylist of classical prose, whose command of the linguistic and rhetorical riches of the premodern tradition might suggest that her writings are relics of the past with no concern for the problems of modern life.Timothy Van Compernolle investigates the social dimensions of Ichiyō's artistic imagination and argues that she creatively reworked the Japanese literary tradition in order to understand, confront, and critique the emerging modernity of the Meiji period. For Ichiyō, the classical canon was a reservoir of tropes and paradigms that could be reshaped and renewed as a way to explore the sociopolitical transformations of the 1890s and cast light upon the human costs of modernization.Drawing critical momentum from the dialogical theory of Mikhail Bakhtin, the author explores in five of Ichiyō's best known stories how traditional rhetoric and literary devices are dialogically engaged with discourses associated with modernity within the pages of Ichiyō's narratives. In its close, sensitive readings of Ichiyō's oeuvre, The Uses of Memory not only complicates the scholarly discussion of her position in the Japanese literary canon, but also broaches larger theoretical issues.

Ecology and the Critique of Society Today: Five Selected Papers for the Current Context By Herbert Marcuse, Peter-Erwin Jansen, Charles Reitz, Sarah Surak (editor)
2019 | 130 Pages | ISBN: 1692833715 | PDF | 64 MB
Herbert Marcuse's late-period writing featured a "green turn," not otherwise undertaken in Frankfurt School critical theory, with his essays "Ecology and Revolution (1972)" and "Ecology and the Critique of Modern Society (1979)." Marcuse found that environmentalist criticisms of extractive and polluting economic policies implicitly or explicitly involved system-negations. He recognized the importance of ecology for the revolutionary movement and the importance of the revolutionary movement for ecology. Marcuse held that the restoration of nature depends upon human liberation; both are feasible yet blocked within the established framework. The enduring value of his strategy for revolutionary ecological liberation is that system negation can have the appeal of a new general interest-offering a constellation of feasible (i.e. not utopian) goals-racial equality, women's equality, the liberation of labor, the restoration of nature, leisure, abundance, and peace, that can bring together a global alliance of transformative forces. The key is the emancipatory universalization of resistance-the revolt of youth as a global phenomenon- today against guns, war, and militarism, women's oppression, racial animosity, labor force precarity and exploitation, LGBTQ stigmatization, and the devastation of the earth, solidarity with immigrants, and for socialism.

Johan E. de Jong, "Movement of Showing, The: Indirect Method, Critique, and Responsibility in Derrida, Hegel, and Heidegger"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1438476094 | PDF | pages: 386 | 1.7 mb
Explores why Derrida, Hegel, and Heidegger conceive their thought as a "movement" rather than as a presentation of results or conclusions, and of the consequences of such an indirect method for critique and responsibility.

Lawrence Perlman, "The Eclipse of Humanity: Heschel's Critique of Heidegger (Studia Judaica) "
English | ISBN: 3110441888 | 2016 | 216 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
It has been widely assumed that Heschel's writings are poetic inspirations devoid of philosophical analysis and unresponsive to the evil of the Holocaust. Who Is Man? (1965) contains a detailed phenomenological analyis of man and being which is directed at the main work of Martin Heidegger found primarily in Being and Time (1927) and Letter on Humanism (1946). When the analysis of Who Is Man? is unapacked in the light of these associations it is clear that Heschel rejected poetry and metaphor as a means of theological elucidation, that he offered a profound examination of the Holocaust and that the major thrust of his thinking eschews Heidegerrian deconstruction and the postmodernism that ensued in its phenomenological wake. Who Is Man? contains direct and indirect criticisms of Heidegger's notions of 'Dasein', 'thrownness', 'facticity' and 'submission' to name a few essential Heideggerian concepts. In using his ontological connective method in opposition to Heidegger's 'ontological difference', Heschel makes the argument that the biblical notion of Adam as a being open to transcendence stands in oppostion to the philosophical tradition from Parmenides to Heidegger and is the only basis for a redemptive view of humanity.

Law of Value and Theories of Value Symmetrical Critique of Classical and Neoclassical Political Economy by Tiago Camarinha Lopes
2022 | ISBN: 9004504214 | English | 236 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In Law of Value and Theories of Value, Tiago Camarinha Lopes presents the genesis of Karl Marx's understanding of the law of value by showing that Classical and Neoclassical economics are equally hit by Marx's Critique of Political Economy.

Marx, Uno and the Critique of Economics: Towards an Ex-Capitalist Transition
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031226291 | 287 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2 MB
This unique book, written in a question and answer style, brings to life the work of the world's foremost Marxian economist Thomas T. Sekine on the scientificity of Marx's project in Capital, its applicability to navigating world-historic change across capitalist stages of development and what Marxian economics teaches us about building viable future historical societies. Sekine, a student and follower of Marxist Kozo Uno, argues that capitalism neither constitutes the end of history nor does its overthrow await socialist revolution. Rather, based upon its own historical delimitations capitalism, following World War I and the Great Depression of the 1930s, has entered a period of disintegration. Grounded on a scathing critique of bourgeois economics in all its forms, Sekine exposes the futility of bourgeois policy interventions attempting to revive capitalism. This book will be of interest to economists in both the mainstream and heterodox schools, and those broadly interested in the history of economic thought.

Francisco de Goya and the Art of Critique by Anthony J. Cascardi
English | January 10, 2023 | ISBN: 1942130694 | True EPUB | 376 pages | 111 MB
An innovative study of Goya's unprecedented elaboration of the critical function of the work of art

Dr. Jasser Auda, "A Critique of the Theory of Abrogation"
English | ISBN: 086037730X | 2019 | 160 pages | PDF | 4 MB
A typical definition of abrogation found in the Jurisprudence literature is: 'The (heavenly) replacement of one juridical ruling with a later ruling.'

Sabine Broeck, Carsten Junker, "Postcoloniality-Decoloniality-Black Critique: Joints and Fissures"
English | 2015 | pages: 401 | ISBN: 3593501929 | PDF | 2,5 mb
Can Western modernity be analyzed and critiqued through the lens of enslavement and colonial history? As this volume reveals, such analysis is not only possible, it is essential to our understanding of contemporary race relations and society generally. Drawing from the fields of postcolonial, decolonial, and black studies, this book assembles contributions from renowned scholars that offer timely and critical perspectives from a variety of disciplines, including history, sociology, political science, gender studies, cultural and literary studies, and philosophy.

Liz Lerman, "Critique Is Creative: The Critical Response Process® in Theory and Action"
English | ISBN: 0819577189 | 2022 | 266 pages | EPUB | 1072 KB
A thorough introduction and lively exploration of a widely recognized method for giving and getting useful feedback