Postmodernism & cultural identities : conflicts and coexistence /
"Virgil Nemoianu's book starts from the assumption that, whether we like it or not, we live in a postmodern environment, one characterized by turbulence, fluidity, relativity, commotion, uncertainty, and lightning-fast communication and change. One question raised under these circumstances...
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Table of Contents:
- General cultural values
- Philosophy of culture in the present age
- Does postmodernism have a substance?
- Leibniz, Vico, and alternative modernities
- Conservatism as a branch of liberalism
- Christian democracy and subsidiarity in the world
- Christian martyrdom and Christian humanism
- The insertion of religion : the model of Benedict and Habermas
- Pieper, hope, imperfection, and literature
- General literary values
- Globalism, multiculturalism, and comparative literature
- Teaching literature from a Catholic angle
- Literary canons and social value options
- The argument from variety
- The argument from persecution
- The argument from practicality
- The argument from opposition
- The argument from defeat
- Specific applicative examples
- Following the classics : layers of stylistic mimesis
- Reinventing Romanticism or nineteenth-century Kitsch?
- Ernst Jünger, distance, proximity, and transfer of cultural values
- Epilogue
- A philosophical garden.