community. This tyranny spread to Europe and victims of Nazi racism were taken to concentration camps where they were killed. Experts like Zygmunt Bauman state that this genocide was the result of modernity. As stated in “The Uniqueness and Normality of the Holocaust”‚ genocide is an example of modernity because genocide always has a purpose. The purpose in the eyes of Adolf Hitler was to have order and stability under his rule. Bauman writes that “The end itself is a grand vision of a better‚ and
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This definition may be limited only to modernity as it was experienced by European countries and Northern America; this is because there are‚ in fact‚ multiple possible modernities because the overarching characteristics and defining features of modernity were different for different peoples and locations. While this is a Eurocentric definition of modernity that fails to account for the perspectives of other peoples‚ it does‚ at least account for
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interest is the Black Atlantic diasporic culture. As a scholar of Cultural Studies and Sociology‚ he has done significant studies on race‚ racism and culture which have been greatly influential in the recent times. Gilroy’s book The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (published in 1993) marks a landmark in the study of diasporas. In The Black Atlantic‚ which is a critique of cultural nationalism‚ he applies a cultural studies approach to provide a study of African intellectual history
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disproving its predecessor. In Stanley J. Grenz’ book‚ A Primer on Postmodernism‚ he discusses the two most recent ideas supported by the public; modernism and postmodernism. The opposition is apparent between the eras of modernity and postmodernity. As described by Grenz‚ modernity focuses on the individual‚ using reasoning as a source of the truth. This belief causes truth to be relative. Postmodernity’s focal point is the group‚ rather than the individual. Truth‚ in the postmodern view‚ is created
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Review Paper: Geopolitical Models Since the twentieth century‚ the geopolitical concept has evolved and developed. Geopolitics is the attempt to explain international politics in terms of geography‚ which includes location‚ size‚ and resources of places. It tries to describe the relationship between geographic space‚ resources‚ and foreign policy. One of the most talented geographers and politicians who made this discipline evolve is Sir Halford John Mackinder. Through his researches and international
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Such claims‚ however‚ sound cacophonous to modern ears. One becomes so accustomed to the split between hard science and the social and‚ of course‚ the former’s dominance. Does not hard science investigate eternal natural laws while the human sciences tread water while describing social currents? Latour challenges such misconceptions with his provocative earlier work: We Were Never Modern. The title’s bold claim becomes clearer when one starts with an anecdote from one of Latour’s more recent works
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7 Chapter 13: Postmodern Theorizing Modernity: or the modern period‚ follows after 3 other periods in history: The Renaissance‚ Reformation and the Enlightenment. Modernity is how science and reason transcends the ways of the world and how it functions. The modernity began in the late 1800’s up until the beginning of WW1. The viewpoints were order‚ rationality and reason. And theorist worked to reconcile reason with faith. (Woods‚ 287) Forms of Modernity 1. The coherent‚ autonomous self = ideally
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How do the elements of ‘belonging’ and ‘return’ operate in Samson and Delilah and Whale Rider? Samson and Delilah and Whale Rider are two films which deal with the conflict that can occur between tradition and modernity at the hand of colonisation. In both of these films‚ within this conflict‚ the elements of belonging and return are dealt with. Samson‚ Delilah and Paikea all have a yearning to belong to their communities‚ families and culture‚ yet find themselves on the outer for various reasons
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constructed by the socio-economic movement of Modernity and ultimately rebels against it leading to the destruction of her private sphere‚ her family life. The nineteenth century movement known as Modernity renegotiated both the masculine and feminine identiies. “Modernity points to the emergence of instrumental rationality as the intellectual framework through which the world is perceived and constructed. As a socioeconomic concept‚ modernity designates an array of technological and social
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Jessica Baeza March 17‚ 2005 History 281 Journal Assignment #3 Post-Modernity and Its Effects on Historical Writings The struggle to find truth in telling the stories of history has been a source of constant debate amongst historians and intellectuals. With the emergence of religious rejection during the seventeenth and eighteenth century Enlightenment‚ the influence and undoubted supremacy of the heroic model of science provided historians with new ways for obtaining truth—absolute
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