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French Instituions: Values and Politics
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FRENCH INSTITUTIONS
Values and Politics
By Saul K. Padover with collaboration from Francois Goguel, Louis Rosenstock-Franck, and Eric Weil
Publishered in 1947, this is one of a group of four related studies on French politics and society planned for the Hoover Institute Studies. This group also includes a study of national character by Rhoda Metraux and Margaret Mead, and two studies of French political symbolism and elites by Daniel Lerner and the RADIR staff. These, together with Mr. Padover's study of French political institutions and values, may give the reader an overview of the dynamics of modern France as a participant in the world political community.
Dean Padover's volume, worked out in collaboration with three prominent French scholars, surveys the conflicting values in the traditions of the French Revolution and French conservatism. It then examines what has happened to these values under the impact of twentieth-century social problems, war, and defeat. This study was initiated as part of the RADIR Project (Revolution and the Development of International Relations), of which
Mr. Padover was a consultant.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original:
Title: French Institutions
Author: Saul K. Padover
Publisher: Stanford University Press 1947
ISBN: 080473271X
The Dark Side of Reason
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THE DARK SIDE OF REASON Fictionality and Power
Reproduction edition from scan of 1992 edition
Luiz Costa Lima
Translated by Paulo Henriques Britto
Forward by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
“Costa Lima’s argument, highly original and likely to prove controversial, invites us to reread the course of literature from a new perspective. Such an invitation requires solid historical documentation and a persuasive reinterpretation of major texts; both are to be found here in abundance. Costa Lima enriches our understanding of the intellectual ground upon which literature has grown, and his reinterpretations challenge the place assigned in history to various writers and critics and force us to read many works anew. His perspective is not only transnational, but also it integrates the literature of the Americas, and specifically of South America, into the broader course of literary history as a full-fledged participant in the struggles of legitimization waged by imaginative writing.”
- Wlad Godzich, University of Geneva
This compelling, many-faceted work argues that Western culture has always found something profoundly unsettling about imaginative writing and that it has devised various ways of “containing” such writing or at least making it less dangerous. The historical record of censorship and other forms of the containment of literature is relatively well known, though it has been analyzed more often in terms of its effects on literature than its causes. Costa Lima demonstrates that theories of society and of human nature are at stake in these acts of rejection and condemnation.
A new historical consciousness has recently swept across the entire breadth of literary studies. However, Costa Lima shows that this return to history is frequently nothing more than the return of an unexamined old history of literature, merely updated in its vocabulary and reflecting current concerns with such issues as gender or cultural difference. By contrast, he challenges the assumptions of the old history (and therefore of the new, insofar as the latter reinstates the old) and calls for the elaboration of an entirely different perspective on the historical course of literature.
Costa Lima asserts that since the beginning of modernity, Western reason has been shaped in opposition to – and through the repression of – the imaginative faculty, typified by fictionality. He focuses on the history of such concepts as mimesis, individuality, and verisimilitude, and in the process covers a wide range of authors and topics – Cervantes, Diderot, Borges, autobiographical writing, and Latin American literature, among others.
The Dark Side of Reason consists of essays drawn from two books, Sociedade e dicurso ficcional (1986) and O Fingidor e o censor (1988). It also includes a chapter, written especially for this volume, that discussed Shakespeare’s Tempest in the light of Costa Lima’s argument about control of the imaginary.
Luiz Costa Lima is Professor of Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro.
Paradoxes of Modernity: Culture and Conduct in the Theory of Max Weber
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One of the world’s preeminent Max Weber scholars here presents a comprehensive analysis of Weber’s ambiguous stance toward modernity considered from a normative, theoretical, and historical point of view.
The book is in two parts. Part One scrutinizes Weber’s worldview. On the basis of his thinking about the meaning and interrelationships of science, politics, and ethics in the modern era, Weber is seen as the embodiment of a social scientist and political thinker who exposes himself to intellectual risks and existential tensions while resisting final solutions. His unceasing dedication to social science and to the politics of responsibility went hand in hand with his conviction that even living for these concepts could never be completely fulfilling. This becomes especially apparent in the author’s masterly analysis of Weber’s two famous speeches “Science as a Vocation” and “Politics as a Vocation.” The author explores the historical context of these influential but widely misunderstood addresses and describes in detail how they enunciated Weber’s distinction between an ethics of conviction and an ethics of responsibility.
Part Two considers Weber’s unfinished project on the sociology of religion. His planned but only partially achieved works on Islam and Western Christianity have challenged the author to attempt to piece them together and to locate them in the history and theory of Weber’s overall work. This reconstruction of Weber’s work on religion emphasizes its interplay between religion, economy, politics, and law. It also is the clearest and most detailed exposition of Weber’s view of the constellation of factors that were responsible for modern Western economic development.
Wolfgang Schluchter is Professor of Sociology at the University of Heidelberg.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following edition:
Title Paradoxes of modernity: culture and conduct in the theory of Max Weber
Authors Wolfgang Schluchter, Neil Solomon
Editor Neil Solomon
Translated by Neil Solomon
Edition illustrated, annotated
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1996
ISBN 0804724555, 9780804724555
Length 389 pages
Subjects:
Biography & Autobiography / General
Political sociology
Politics and culture
Religion and sociology
Social Science / Sociology / General
Sociology
Weber, Max
Vera Zasulich : A Biography
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This is the first complete biography in any language of the Russian revolutionary Vera Zasulich, who gained worldwide prominence in 1878 by walking into the office of the brutal General Trepov, Governor of St. Petersburg, and shooting him. Acquitted by a sympathetic jury, she escaped to Western Europe, where she became a Marxist and spent the next quarter-century tirelessly preaching the revolutionary cause and trying to keep the peace among Russian socialists and populists. Although she returned to Russia after the 1905 Revolution, she was too ill and discouraged by her failure to unite the various revolutionary factions to remain politically active.
Zasulich embodies many important characteristics of the Russian revolutionaries of her time. Some had their positive side: the disenchantment with autocratic rule that caused the intelligentsia to turn against the state; the peculiarly Russian penchant for carrying ideas to their logical conclusion, as in the shooting of Trepov; the conviction that the affluent and the educated must take the lead in redistributing society’s resources. But there were also, inevitably, the ravages that revolution inflicted on the lives of those who adopted it as a profession: the disillusionment, the broken friendships, the damaged psyches. In 1919, two years after the Bolshevik Revolution, which she condemned, Vera Zasulich died poor and virtually friendless in Petrograd.
Jay Bergman is Assistant Professor of History at Albright College.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition:
Title Vera Zasulich: a biography
Author Jay Bergman
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1983
ISBN 0804711569, 9780804711562
Length 261 pages
New cover image courtesy of Cherry Bomb Comics, New Zealand (cherrybombcomics.co.nz)
