Product Description: In the past, culture was a kind of vital consciousness that constantly rejuvenated and revivified everyday reality. Now it is largely a mechanism of distraction and entertainment. Notes on the Death of Culture is an examination and indictment of this transformation―penned by Mario Vargas Llosa, who is not only one of our finest novelists but one of the keenest social critics at work today...read more

Basing his research on Gramsci s theory of hegemony, Rehmann provides a comprehensive socio-analysis of Max Weber s political and intellectual position in the ideological network of his time. Max Weber: Modernisation as Passive Revolution shows that, even though Weber presents his science as value-free, he is best understood as an organic intellectual of the bourgeoisie, who has the mission of providing his class with an intense ethico-political education. Viewed as a whole, his writings present a new model for bourgeois hegemony in the transition to Fordism . Weber is both a sharp critic of a passive revolution in Germany tying the bourgeois class to the interests of the agrarian class, and a proponent of a more modern version of passive revolution, which would foreclose a socialist revolution by the construction of an industrial bloc consisting of the bourgeoisie and labour aristocracy. (c) 1998 Argument Verlag GmbH, Hamburg. Translated from German Max Weber: Modernisierung als passive Revolution. Kontextstudien zu Politik Philosophie und Religion im Ubergang zum Fordismus ."

Product Description: Can Gandhi be considered a systematic thinker? While the significance of Gandhi’s thought and life to our times is undeniable it is widely assumed that he did not serve any discipline and cannot be considered a systematic thinker...read more

Product Description: George Steiner has enjoyed international acclaim as a distinguished cultural critic for many years. The son of central European Jews, he was born in France, fled from the Nazis to New York in 1940, and became a naturalized U.S...read more

Chaudhuri shares the wisdom of his life as a dispassionate scholar and political moralist on a prevalent issue of our time, the decline of western civilization. A highly readable and visionary meditation, this work is characterized by Chaudhuri's capacity for prescience, measured prose, and acerbic judgements on a great variety of twentieth-century issues in the western world. (view table of contents)

Citing key differences between the human species of the past and present, a study on the emergence of the future-driven society examines the Stone and Bronze Ages, the Egyptian and Roman periods, and the past two centuries (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Twelve essays exploring aspects of literacy and art criticism, retrospective sociology and the effects of relativism on moral behavior.