Browsing by Subject "Modernity"
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Ali Yaycioglu, Partners of the Empire: The Crisis of the Ottoman Order in the Age of Revolutions (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016)
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Configuring Modernities: New Negro Womanhood in the Nation's Capital, 1890-1940
(2010)During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a cadre of black women merged the ideals of the "New Woman" and the "New Negro" to configure New Negro Womanhood. For these women, the combining of these two figurations ... -
Dystopia and Political Imagination in the Twentieth Century
(2017)My dissertation offers an interpretation of twentieth century political thought which emphasizes the influence of dystopian images, themes, and anxieties. Drawing examples from philosophy, literature, and social science, ... -
Ethics in the Afterlife of Slavery: Race, Augustinian Politics, and the Enduring Problem of the Christian Master
(2019)This project rereads the political thought of Augustine of Hippo in the Black Lives Matter era. In the last two decades, scholars of religion and politics made a striking return to the constructive resources of the Augustinian ... -
Martin Heidegger's Mathematical Dialectic: Uncovering the Structure of Modernity
(2016)Martin Heidegger is generally regarded as one of the most significant—if also the most controversial—philosophers of the 20th century. Most scholarly engagement with Heidegger’s thought on Modernity approaches his work with ... -
Modernity and Gender in Arab Accounts of the 1948 and 1967 Defeats
(International Journal Middle East Studies, 2000) -
Transforming Orthodoxies: Buddhist Curriculums and Educational Institutions in Contemporary South Korea
(2015)What do Buddhist monks really know about Buddhism? How do they imagine their religion, and more importantly, how does their understanding of their tradition differ from the one found in our typical introduction to Buddhism ... -
Virtue, Vice, and Western Identities: A Thomistic Approach to the Sins of White Power
(2018)How did our world’s wealth become so unevenly distributed? How did a small group of Europeans and Americans manage to acquire and retain so much wealth while so many others struggled to acquire enough to sustain their basic ...
