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  1. Up from the Depths
    Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times
    Autor*in: Sachs, Aaron
    Erschienen: [2022]; ©2022
    Verlag:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ

    A double portrait of two of America’s most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them—and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisisUp from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important... mehr

     

    A double portrait of two of America’s most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them—and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisisUp from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American history—the novelist and poet Herman Melville (1819–1891) and one of his earliest biographers, the literary critic and historian Lewis Mumford (1895–1990). Deftly cutting back and forth between the writers, Aaron Sachs reveals the surprising resonances between their lives, work, and troubled times—and their uncanny relevance in our own age of crisis.The author of Moby-Dick was largely forgotten for several decades after his death, but Mumford helped spearhead Melville’s revival in the aftermath of World War I and the 1918–1919 flu pandemic, when American culture needed a forebear with a suitably dark vision. As Mumford’s career took off and he wrote books responding to the machine age, urban decay, world war, and environmental degradation, it was looking back to Melville’s confrontation with crises such as industrialization, slavery, and the Civil War that helped Mumford to see his own era clearly. Mumford remained obsessed with Melville, ultimately helping to canonize him as America’s greatest tragedian. But largely forgotten today is one of Mumford’s key insights—that Melville’s darkness was balanced by an inspiring determination to endure.Amid today’s foreboding over global warming, racism, technology, pandemics, and other crises, Melville and Mumford remind us that we’ve been in this struggle for a long time. To rediscover these writers today is to rediscover how history can offer hope in dark times

     
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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780691236940
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    Schlagworte: HISTORY / United States / General
    Weitere Schlagworte: A. Mitchell Palmer; Abolitionism; Adam Hochschild; Ahab; Ambiguity; Americans; At the Core; Awareness; Barbarian; Billy Budd; Biography; Captain Ahab; Career; City Of; Clarel; Commodity; Consciousness; Continuance; Countermovement; Cultural evolution; Deep history; Determination; Disenchantment; Dynasty; E. M. Forster; Emblem; Environmentalism; Escapism; Essay; Ethos; Exploration; Frigate; George Perkins Marsh; Gilded Age; Grief; Henry David Thoreau; Herman Melville; His Family; Human Desire; Imperialism; Impressment; In This World; In the Life; John Claggart; Joseph Conrad; Kitimat; Langston Hughes; Lewis Mumford; Lifeway; Malcolm Cowley; Manifest destiny; Mechanization; Memoir; Michael Shelden; Moby-Dick; Modernity; Monomania; Mr; Narrative; Nathaniel Hawthorne; Near East; Oahu; Omoo; Optimism; Organism; Poetry; Prometheus; Puritans; Queequeg; Redburn; Reign; Remarkable; Requirement; Role; Romanticism; Scientism; Scurvy; Slang; Slavery; Suffering; Technology; The Conduct of Life; The Encantadas; The Golden Day; The Other Hand; The Philosopher; The Rest of the Story; The Spirit of the Age; Tropic of Capricorn; Typee; Uncertainty; Utopia; V; W. Somerset Maugham; Warfare; White-Jacket; William Roscoe; Woolf; Works and Days; Writing
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  2. Up from the Depths
    Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times
    Autor*in: Sachs, Aaron
    Erschienen: [2022]; ©2022
    Verlag:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ

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    A double portrait of two of America’s most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between them—and their uncanny relevance to our age of crisisUp from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American history—the novelist and poet Herman Melville (1819–1891) and one of his earliest biographers, the literary critic and historian Lewis Mumford (1895–1990). Deftly cutting back and forth between the writers, Aaron Sachs reveals the surprising resonances between their lives, work, and troubled times—and their uncanny relevance in our own age of crisis.The author of Moby-Dick was largely forgotten for several decades after his death, but Mumford helped spearhead Melville’s revival in the aftermath of World War I and the 1918–1919 flu pandemic, when American culture needed a forebear with a suitably dark vision. As Mumford’s career took off and he wrote books responding to the machine age, urban decay, world war, and environmental degradation, it was looking back to Melville’s confrontation with crises such as industrialization, slavery, and the Civil War that helped Mumford to see his own era clearly. Mumford remained obsessed with Melville, ultimately helping to canonize him as America’s greatest tragedian. But largely forgotten today is one of Mumford’s key insights—that Melville’s darkness was balanced by an inspiring determination to endure.Amid today’s foreboding over global warming, racism, technology, pandemics, and other crises, Melville and Mumford remind us that we’ve been in this struggle for a long time. To rediscover these writers today is to rediscover how history can offer hope in dark times

     
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  3. The new science of the enchanted universe
    an anthropology of most of humanity
    Autor*in: Sahlins, Marshall
    Erschienen: [2022]; ©2022
    Verlag:  Princeton University Press, Princeton

    One of the world’s preeminent cultural anthropologists leaves a last work that fundamentally reconfigures how we study most other culturesFrom the perspective of Western modernity, humanity inhabits a disenchanted cosmos. Gods, spirits, and ancestors... mehr

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    Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden, Bibliothek
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    One of the world’s preeminent cultural anthropologists leaves a last work that fundamentally reconfigures how we study most other culturesFrom the perspective of Western modernity, humanity inhabits a disenchanted cosmos. Gods, spirits, and ancestors have left us for a transcendent beyond, no longer living in our midst and being involved in all matters of everyday life from the trivial to the dire. Yet the vast majority of cultures throughout human history treat spirits as very real persons, members of a cosmic society who interact with humans and control their fate. In most cultures, even today, people are but a small part of an enchanted universe misconstrued by the transcendent categories of “religion” and the “supernatural.” The New Science of the Enchanted Universe shows how anthropologists and other social scientists must rethink these cultures of immanence and study them by their own lights.In this, his last, revelatory book, Marshall Sahlins announces a new method and sets an exciting agenda for the field. He takes readers around the world, from Inuit of the Arctic Circle to pastoral Dinka of East Africa, from Araweté swidden gardeners of Amazonia to Trobriand Island horticulturalists. In the process, Sahlins sheds new light on classical and contemporary ethnographies that describe these cultures of immanence and reveals how even the apparently mundane, all-too-human spheres of “economics” and “politics” emerge as people negotiate with, and ultimately usurp, the powers of the gods.The New Science of the Enchanted Universe offers a road map for a new practice of anthropology that takes seriously the enchanted universe and its transformations from ancient Mesopotamia to contemporary America

     
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  4. That tyrant, persuasion
    how rhetoric shaped the Roman world
    Autor*in: Lendon, J. E.
    Erschienen: [2022]; ©2022
    Verlag:  Princeton University Press, Princeton

    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Section I The Strange World of Education in the Roman Empire -- 1 Education in the Roman Empire -- 2 The Social and Historical Significance of Rhetorical Education -- Section II Killing Julius... mehr

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    Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Section I The Strange World of Education in the Roman Empire -- 1 Education in the Roman Empire -- 2 The Social and Historical Significance of Rhetorical Education -- Section II Killing Julius Caesar as the Tyrant of Rhetoric -- 3 The Carrion Men -- 4 Puzzles about the Conspiracy -- 5 Who Was Thinking Rhetorically? -- Section III Rhetoric's Curious Children: Building in the Cities of the Roman Empire -- 6 Monumental Nymphaea -- 7 City Walls, Colonnaded Streets, and the Rhetorical Calculus of Civic Merit -- Section IV Lizarding, and Other Adventures in Declamation and Roman Law -- 8 Rhetoric and Roman Law -- 9 The Attractions of Declamatory Law -- 10 Legal Puzzles, Familiar Laws, and Laws of Rhetoric Rejected by Roman Law -- Conclusion rhetoric, maker of worlds -- Notes -- Abbreviations of some modern works -- Works cited -- Index How rhetorical training influenced deeds as well as words in the Roman EmpireThe assassins of Julius Caesar cried out that they had killed a tyrant, and days later their colleagues in the Senate proposed rewards for this act of tyrannicide. The killers and their supporters spoke as if they were following a well-known script. They were. Their education was chiefly in rhetoric and as boys they would all have heard and given speeches on a ubiquitous set of themes-including one asserting that "he who kills a tyrant shall receive a reward from the city." In That Tyrant, Persuasion, J. E. Lendon explores how rhetorical education in the Roman world influenced not only the words of literature but also momentous deeds: the killing of Julius Caesar, what civic buildings and monuments were built, what laws were made, and, ultimately, how the empire itself should be run.Presenting a new account of Roman rhetorical education and its surprising practical consequences, That Tyrant, Persuasion shows how rhetoric created a grandiose imaginary world for the Roman ruling elite-and how they struggled to force the real world to conform to it. Without rhetorical education, the Roman world would have been unimaginably different

     
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