Author: Sir Rutherford Alcock
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Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Life's Problems. Essays, Moral, Social and Psychological
Author: Sir Rutherford Alcock
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Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Category : Conduct of life
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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The Drama of Social Life
Author: T. R. Young
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412821957
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
These essays explore the many ways theatre and dramaturgy are used to shape the everyday experience of people in mass societies. Young argues that technologies combine with the world of art, music, and cinema to shape consciousness as a commodity and to fragment social relations in the market as well as in religion and politics. He sees the central problem of post-modern society as how to live in a world constructed by human beings without nihilism on the one hand or repressive dogmatism on the other. Young argues that in advanced monopoly capitalism, dramaturgy has replaced coercion as the management tool of choice for the control of consumers, workers, voters and state functionaries. Young calls this process the colonization of desire.' Desire is colonized by the use of dramaturgy, mass media, and the various forms of art in order to generate consumers, vesting desire in ownership and display rather than in interpersonal relationships with profound consequence for marriage, kinship, friendship and community. This gives rise to an ugly post-modern morality; moral action ceases to be mediated by self-other relations and is mediated by possession and use of commodities. While Young focuses his critique on capitalist societies undergoing great changes, he insists that the same developments are to be found in bureaucratically organized socialist societies. As social forces of self become untenable, other nonsocial source of self become attractive to the questing individual: body shape, body decorations, clothing fashions, astrological signs, Eastern religions as well as ownership of goods and the use of exotic services. Out of this quest for selfhood comes post-modern expression of music, art, dance, architecture as well as religion: highly variable, highly personal, and richly creative; often emancipatory but often hostile to common needs or to community. The Drama of Social Life will be of interest to those interested in theories of moral development, cultural studies, the uses of leisure, politics, or simply the uses of make believe and just pretend. It is intended for the informed lay public as much as for social psychologists. T.R. Young is director of the Red Feather Institute for Advanced Studies in sociology and a member of the faculty at Central Michigan University. He has edited the Transforming Sociology Series for the past eighteen years.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9781412821957
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
These essays explore the many ways theatre and dramaturgy are used to shape the everyday experience of people in mass societies. Young argues that technologies combine with the world of art, music, and cinema to shape consciousness as a commodity and to fragment social relations in the market as well as in religion and politics. He sees the central problem of post-modern society as how to live in a world constructed by human beings without nihilism on the one hand or repressive dogmatism on the other. Young argues that in advanced monopoly capitalism, dramaturgy has replaced coercion as the management tool of choice for the control of consumers, workers, voters and state functionaries. Young calls this process the colonization of desire.' Desire is colonized by the use of dramaturgy, mass media, and the various forms of art in order to generate consumers, vesting desire in ownership and display rather than in interpersonal relationships with profound consequence for marriage, kinship, friendship and community. This gives rise to an ugly post-modern morality; moral action ceases to be mediated by self-other relations and is mediated by possession and use of commodities. While Young focuses his critique on capitalist societies undergoing great changes, he insists that the same developments are to be found in bureaucratically organized socialist societies. As social forces of self become untenable, other nonsocial source of self become attractive to the questing individual: body shape, body decorations, clothing fashions, astrological signs, Eastern religions as well as ownership of goods and the use of exotic services. Out of this quest for selfhood comes post-modern expression of music, art, dance, architecture as well as religion: highly variable, highly personal, and richly creative; often emancipatory but often hostile to common needs or to community. The Drama of Social Life will be of interest to those interested in theories of moral development, cultural studies, the uses of leisure, politics, or simply the uses of make believe and just pretend. It is intended for the informed lay public as much as for social psychologists. T.R. Young is director of the Red Feather Institute for Advanced Studies in sociology and a member of the faculty at Central Michigan University. He has edited the Transforming Sociology Series for the past eighteen years.
The Conduct of the Understanding; By John Locke ... Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political; by Francis Bacon
Author: John Locke
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Languages : en
Pages : 164
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The Critic
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Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Choice Notes from
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Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Identity, Character, and Morality
Author: Owen Flanagan
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262560740
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Many philosophers believe that normative ethics is in principle independent of psychology. By contrast, the authors of these essays explore the interconnections between psychology and moral theory. They investigate the psychological constraints on realizable ethical ideals and articulate the psychological assumptions behind traditional ethics. They also examine the ways in which the basic architecture of the mind, core emotions, patterns of individual development, social psychology, and the limits on human capacities for rational deliberation affect morality.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262560740
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Many philosophers believe that normative ethics is in principle independent of psychology. By contrast, the authors of these essays explore the interconnections between psychology and moral theory. They investigate the psychological constraints on realizable ethical ideals and articulate the psychological assumptions behind traditional ethics. They also examine the ways in which the basic architecture of the mind, core emotions, patterns of individual development, social psychology, and the limits on human capacities for rational deliberation affect morality.
Aunt Judy's Tales
Author: Margaret Gatty
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Choice Notes from "Notes and Queries"
Author: P.P. - London. - Notes and Queries
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Legends and Lyrics
Author: Adelaide Anne Procter
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Category : Legends
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Publisher:
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Category : Legends
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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The Poor Incumbent: a Tale
Author: Margaret Gatty
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Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Languages : en
Pages : 96
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