...This essay argues that the reductive and productive version of “naturalism” that we have come to associate with modern science is actually a relatively recent understanding of the natural world, especially in the biological sciences. It was not until World War II that the reductive and productive...

...This chapter focuses on the psychodynamics of modernity and traditionalism in the aftermath of French colonialism in Tunisia. Habib Bourguiba’s rule (1956–1987) produced a breed of men that might be aptly called Bourguiba’s sons. Suspended in a state of mutability that is simultaneously cultivated...

...? Melancholy Acts offers richly nuanced reflections on these questions through a series of wide-ranging analytical engagements with modern, postcolonial and contemporary Arab thought, literature, and film in the aftermath of the 1948 dispossession of Palestinians and the 1967 military defeat of Arab...

... against the theater of the Russian state’s political expansion and colonial aspirations, the chapter tracks the role Tibetan medicine has been assigned in relation to Russian and Soviet visions of medical modernization. It focuses on the production of translational gaps that made Tibetan medicine useful...

... of Russia's academic theologians, a large number of whom were also laymen, are no less significant for our understanding of modern Orthodox constructions of the West. As one-time students and teachers in seminaries and theological academies, and sometimes in secular universities, and as active scholars who...

...This chapter introduces the book's argument, situating it in relation to debates about Arab modernity in literature and culture. Presenting it as a somatic condition embodied in texts from the nineteenth century onward, the chapter explains the shift in emphasis from modernity as progress...

...This chapter discusses the historical background of the Jews' entry to modernity. It can be said that modernity has begun for Judaism in 1783. This accomplishment may be attributed to two achievements of Judaism on its own and one external event. These achievements are Moses Mendelssohn...

...This chapter discusses the role of the German Jewry in the increase in the diversity of Jewish modernity in the late Middle Ages. The German Jews had played a leading role during the first half-century of Jewish modernity partly because of the decisive role Germany itself played during the years...

...This chapter discusses the challenges faced by the Jews in their quest for equal rights after they have successfully gained full entry to modernity. In this struggle, the Jews were divided in two camps: those who fought for emancipation and equal rights on behalf of each and every citizen...

...This chapter discusses the negative impact of modernity's break with the Middle Ages on Judaism. It suggests that while Judaism has kept pace with the most advanced developments in antiquity and the Middle Ages, it was confronted with numerous challenges in staying in step with modernity...

...This chapter discusses the martyrdom of the innocent German Jews. It suggests that though the inner renewal and outer development of German and modern Jewry could somehow be erased or forced to a premature close by the surrounding world, the martyrdom of Jewish innocence could never be annulled...

...First published in 1957, this book is a rethinking of the German–Jewish experience. The book challenges the elegiac view of Gershom Scholem, showing us the German–Jewish legacy in literature, philosophy, and critical thought in a new light. Part One re-examines the breakthrough to modernity...

...To consider modern Vietnamese literature and its politics through questions of gender and sexuality is to challenge Vietnamese Marxist criticism that was made orthodox and inflexible by the machinations of state power and partisan politics. This book has aimed to contribute to this reassessment...

...This chapter argues that while the category of “modernity” is differential, it is so in several senses that intersect and vie with one another. It introduces certain theses on modernity which aim to “deconstruct” the institutions, presuppositions, and discourses of modernity, arguing...

...This chapter situates the current preoccupation with memory and remembrance in the context of philosophical modernity. After questioning the claim that the turn to memory in contemporary theory and culture promotes a shift away from meta-narrative accounts of history and toward perspectival or post...

... schemes. I Married a Communist Roth Roth Philip global war on terrorism terrorism global war on war on terrorism post modernism crisis Cold War Studies Orthodox vs. Revisionist Scholarship Modernity Close to the end of Philip Roth's 1998 novel, I Married a Communist...

...“Modernity” is usually used to refer to the proliferation of learning, the rise of the secular state, the scientific revolution, the Enlightenment, human skepticism, and other such developments, especially in the realm of knowledge. In this chapter, the chapter focuses on his notion of the modern...

... of the purported concreteness of the latter, which leads to the question of how creative language negotiates the relation between its materiality and its autonomy, a tension found in the thought of Lefebvre and the Surrealists. This opens up the issue of the nature of literature in modernity given its proximity...

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... not abandon lyric, but modernized it. The end of art—as Hegel put it—as the primary vehicle for belief or spirit does not mean the end of lyric but a proliferation of poetic practices and a turn from the conveyance of meaning to the interrogation of language and received ideas, a revolution in poetic language...