Title:
The spectator and the spectacle : audiences in modernity and postmodernity / Dennis Kennedy.
Author:
Kennedy, Dennis, 1940-
General Notes:
Bibliography : p. 227-241 and index.
The problem of the spectator. Introduction: assisting at the spectacle -- The director, the spectator and the Eiffel Tower -- The avant-garde and the audience -- Shakespeare and the politics of spectation. Shakespeare and the Cold War -- The spectator as tourist -- Interculturalism and the global spectator -- The body of the spectator -- Subjectivity and the spectator. Society, spectacle and sport -- The aroused spectator -- Memory, performance and the idea of the museum -- Assisting belief: ritual and the spectator.
Publisher:
Cambridge University P.,
Publication Place:
Cambridge :
ISBN:
9780521899765 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subject:
Performing arts -- Audiences.
Arts audiences.
Contents:
The problem of the spectator. Introduction: assisting at the spectacle -- The director, the spectator and the Eiffel Tower -- The avant-garde and the audience -- Shakespeare and the politics of spectation. Shakespeare and the Cold War -- The spectator as tourist -- Interculturalism and the global spectator -- The body of the spectator -- Subjectivity and the spectator. Society, spectacle and sport -- The aroused spectator -- Memory, performance and the idea of the museum -- Assisting belief: ritual and the spectator.
Physical Description:
x, 249 p. : ill.
Publication Date:
2009.
Title:
The specter of democracy / Dick Howard.
Author:
Howard, Dick, 1943-
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Marxism and the intellectuals -- 1. Marxism in the postcommunist world -- 2. Can French intellectuals escape Marxism -- 3. The Frankfurt School and the transformation of critical theory into cultural theory -- 4. Habermas's reorientation of critical theory toward democratic theory -- 5. The anticommunist Marxism of Socialisme ou Barbarie -- 6. Claude Lefort's passage from revolutionary theory to political theory -- 7. From Marx to Castoriadis, and from Castoriadis to us -- 8. From the critique of totalitarianism to the politics of democracy -- pt. 2. Republican democracy or democratic republics -- 9. The burden of French history -- 10. Intersecting trajectories of republicanism in France and the United States -- 11. Reading U.S. history as political -- 12. Fundamentalism and the American exception -- pt. 3. Back to Marx -- 13. Philosophy by other means?
In this rethinking of Marxism and its blind spots, Dick Howard uses a critical rereading of Marx as a theorist of democracy to offer his audience an alternative way to think about this political ideal. He argues that it is democracy, rather than Marxism, that is radical and revolutionary.
Publisher:
Columbia University Press,
Publication Place:
New York :
ISBN:
9780231124850 (pbk.)
0231124856 (pbk.)
Subject:
Democracy.
Marx, Karl, 1818-1883 -- Political and social views.
Contents:
Marxism and the intellectuals -- Marxism in the postcommunist world -- Can French intellectuals escape Marxism -- The Frankfurt School and the transformation of critical theory into cultural theory -- Habermas's reorientation of critical theory toward democratic theory -- The anticommunist Marxism of Socialisme ou Barbarie -- Claude Lefort's passage from revolutionary theory to political theory -- From Marx to Castoriadis, and from Castoriadis to us -- From the critique of totalitarianism to the politics of democracy -- Republican democracy or democratic republics -- The burden of French history -- Intersecting trajectories of republicanism in France and the United States -- Reading U.S. history as political -- Fundamentalism and the American exception -- Back to Marx -- Philosophy by other means?
Physical Description:
xvii, 353 p. ;
Formatted Contents Note:
pt. 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. pt. 2. 9. 10. 11. 12. pt. 3. 13.
Electronic Location:
http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=009847872&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
Publication Date:
c2002.
Title:
The spectre of promiscuity gay male and bisexual non-monogamies and polyamories / Christian Klesse.
Author:
Klesse, Christian.
ebrary, Inc.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : beyond the myth equality and democracy -- The state of the law : heteronormative citizenship and sexual counterpublics -- Researching non-monogamies : stories on positionality, intersubjectivity, and power -- Sex and assimilation : gay male non-monogamies and the question of equality -- Gender troubles : bisexuality and non-monogamy -- Polyamory : different kinds of love stories -- Negotiating non-monogamy : difference, power, and intimacy -- Between resistance and normalisation : non-monogamy, sexual politics, and ethics.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Publisher:
Ashgate,
Publication Place:
Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT :
ISBN:
9780754649069
Subject:
Gay men -- Sexual behavior.
Non-monogamous relationships.
Electronic books.
Contents:
Introduction : beyond the myth equality and democracy -- The state of the law : heteronormative citizenship and sexual counterpublics -- Researching non-monogamies : stories on positionality, intersubjectivity, and power -- Sex and assimilation : gay male non-monogamies and the question of equality -- Gender troubles : bisexuality and non-monogamy -- Polyamory : different kinds of love stories -- Negotiating non-monogamy : difference, power, and intimacy -- Between resistance and normalisation : non-monogamy, sexual politics, and ethics.
Physical Description:
viii, 208 p.
Electronic Location:
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/excellence/Doc?id=10209163
Publication Date:
c2007.
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