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050	0	4	_aB831 _b.P678 2010
049			_aNTA
100	1		_aNemoianu, Virgil. _e1
245	1	0	_aPostmodernism & cultural identities _bconflicts and coexistence / _cVirgil Nemoianu.
246	3		_aPostmodernism and cultural identities
260			_aWashington, D.C. : _bCatholic University of America Press, _c(c)2010.
300			_a1 online resource (xii, 392 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_adata file _2rda
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505	0	0	_aGeneral cultural values -- _tPhilosophy of culture in the present age -- _tDoes postmodernism have a substance? -- _tLeibniz, Vico, and alternative modernities -- _tConservatism as a branch of liberalism -- _tChristian democracy and subsidiarity in the world -- _tChristian martyrdom and Christian humanism -- _tThe insertion of religion : the model of Benedict and Habermas -- _tPieper, hope, imperfection, and literature -- _tGeneral literary values -- _tGlobalism, multiculturalism, and comparative literature -- _tTeaching literature from a Catholic angle -- _tLiterary canons and social value options -- _tThe argument from variety -- _tThe argument from persecution -- _tThe argument from practicality -- _tThe argument from opposition -- _tThe argument from defeat -- _tSpecific applicative examples -- _tFollowing the classics : layers of stylistic mimesis -- _tReinventing Romanticism or nineteenth-century Kitsch? -- _tErnst Jünger, distance, proximity, and transfer of cultural values -- _tEpilogue -- _tA philosophical garden.
520	1		_a"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 is whether we have thus entered an age of "posthistory," one radically different from whatever happened in the past 10,000 years or so, or whether our present continues to be understandable by the methods of the philosophy of culture. The other important question is whether inside the postmodernist turmoil we can discover islands of stability, durability, continuity, and coherence." "In answering such questions Nemoianu provides examinations of a political, religious, and aesthetic (particularly literary) nature. The book draws the conclusion that relativity and skeptical uncertainty themselves require such components of coherence and stability to prevent postmodernity from turning into uniformity and predictability. To the extent that most, or even all, things are considered carriers of truth, their opposite (the cultural identities) must also be granted the very same privilege. The "adversarial" islands are engaged in a complex network of relations with their tempestuous surroundings, thereby ironically vindicating them by contrast. Hope is emphasized as the prominent and fundamental virtue of our time, and as the bridge connecting past, present, and future."--BOOK JACKET.
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650		0	_aPostmodernism.
650		0	_aCulture _xPhilosophy.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=500890&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell