Review on: The Essential Mary Midgley / edited by D. Midgley. London; New York: Routledge, 2005. 424 p.; ISBN-13: 978-0415346429

2019 ◽  
pp. 312-317
Author(s):  
Олег Борисович Давыдов
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Philosophy ◽  
Mary Midgley

Философское наследие Мэри Миджли весьма разносторонне и входит в корпус важнейших текстов англоязычной философии второй половины XX столетия. Этот период был отмечен интенсивным возрожде нием философского интереса к классической метафизике и этике, сопровождавшемся одновременным разочарованием в модерных идеалах автономного разума и морали. В рецензируемом издании собраны эссе и статьи философа, чьё видение реальности, укоренённое в незыблемых и великих началах метафизики, позволяет проникать к сути вещей и процессов. Mary Midgley's philosophical legacy is very versatile and is included in the corpus of the most important texts of English-language philosophy of the second half of the 20th century. This period was marked by an intense revival of philosophical interest in classical metaphysics and ethics, accompanied by a simultaneous disillusionment with modern ideals of autonomous reason and morality. The peer-reviewed edition contains essays and articles of a philosopher whose vision of reality, rooted in the unshakable and great principles of metaphysics, allows you to penetrate to the essence of things and processes.

Twentieth-Century China: New Approaches. Edited by Jeffrey Wasserstrom. [London and New York: Routledge, 2003. xv+273 pp. $25.95. ISBN 0-415-19504-7.]

2004 ◽  
Vol 177 ◽  
pp. 221-223
Author(s):  
Antonia Finnane
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Natural Product ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
English Language ◽  
Important Change ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Chinese Revolution ◽  
Communist Revolution

This useful volume brings together a number of articles showing recent shifts in the English-language historiography of 20th-century China. Historians tend to talk in terms of centuries, and a book about historical approaches to the century just finished is timely. Wasserstrom's introduction establishes the grounds for thinking about China's 20th century as a discrete period of historical time, at the same time explaining the logic of the book and integrating its disparate elements.The chapters show considerable diversity. Joseph Esherick's “Ten theses on the Chinese revolution,” already well known in the field, rebuts some received wisdom about the (Communist) revolution and offers a series of alternative conclusions. Among these is “the need to break the 1949 barrier,” (p. 41) a point discussed at greater length in Paul Cohen's essay on “The 1949 divide in Chinese history.” The diminished significance of 1949 in recent studies is a natural product, as Cohen notes, of political and social change in China since the death of Mao, and he poses the problem of how to “probe the ways in which 1949 did indeed signal abrupt and important change, as well as the ways it did not” (p. 35).

Culture, Revolution, and the Times of History: Mao and 20th-Century China

2006 ◽  
Vol 187 ◽  
pp. 693-699 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca E. Karl
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
English Language ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Mao Zedong ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Global History ◽  
Global Era ◽  
The Times ◽  
The One

The recent spate of English-language exposés of Mao Zedong, most prominently that written by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, seems to announce a culmination of the tendency towards the temporal-spatial conflation of 20th-century Chinese and global history. This sense was only confirmed when the New York Times reported in late January that George W. Bush's most recent bedtime reading is Mao: The Unknown Story, or when, last month, according to a column in the British paper The Guardian, “the Council of Europe's parliamentary assembly voted to condemn the ‘crimes of totalitarian communist regimes,’ linking them with Nazism…” The conflation, then, is of the long history of the Chinese revolution with the Cultural Revolution, on the one hand; and, on the other hand, of Mao Zedong with every one of the most despicable of the 20th century's many tyrants and despots. In these conflations, general 20th-century evil has been reduced to a complicit right-wing/left-wing madness, while China's 20th century has been reduced to the ten years during which this supposed principle of madness operated as a revolutionary tyranny in its teleologically ordained fashion. In this way are the dreams of some China ideologues realized: China becomes one central node through which the trends of the 20th century as a global era are concentrated, channelled and magnified. China isglobal history, by becoming a particular universalized analytic principle, in the negative sense. That is, universality becomes a conflationary negative principle.

Book Reviews

2007 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 251-292
Author(s):  
Tor A. Åfarli ◽  
Jarosław Jakielaszek ◽  
Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka ◽  
Wiktor Pskit ◽  
Jolanta Szpyra-Kozłowska ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
English Language ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
East And Southeast Asia ◽  
Adverbial Modification ◽  
Secondary Predication ◽  
Oxford University Press

Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Eva F. Schultze-Berndt (eds), Secondary Predication and Adverbial Modification: The Typology of Depictives, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xxv + 448 pages Edward L. Keenan, Edward P. Stabler, Bare Grammar: Lectures on Linguistic Invariants. Stanford: CSLI Publications, 2003. 192 pp. Siobhan Chapman, Thinking about Language. Theories of English. Houndsmills and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. X + 174 pages. pb (Series: Perspectives on the English Language) Judith Rodby, W. Ross Winterowd, The Uses of Grammar, Oxford: Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xiv + 274 pp. Laura J. Downing, Alan T. Hall and Renate Raffelsiefen (eds), Paradigms in Phonological Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. 349 pages. Max W. Wheeler, The Phonology of Catalan. (The Phonology of the World’s Languages). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. XI + 387 pp. Jan-Olof Svantesson, Anna Tsendina, Anastasia Karlson, and Vivan Franzén, The Phonology of Mongolian. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xix + 314. Cliff Goddard, The Languages of East and Southeast Asia. An Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. pp. xvi + 315.

The American Opera Company

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine K. Preston
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
General Public ◽  
English Language ◽  
General Lack ◽  
American Opera ◽  
National Opera ◽  
Public Society

This chapter focuses on the philanthropist Jeannette Thurber, who founded the American (National) Opera Company (1885) to encourage high-caliber performances of continental operas translated into English. Her company was heavily subsidized by New York society and supported by establishment music critics. But both Thurber and her musical director Theodore Thomas misunderstood the American opera audience, and mounted serious works designed for cultural uplift, to the neglect of Italian and French operas that were popular among the general public. Society members were not interested in English-language opera because it was not sufficiently exclusive; middle-class operagoers were repelled both by the trappings of elitism and the expensive tickets. A close reinterpretation of the company’s failure reveals much about American operatic taste; it is also important in the context of this book because scholars have blamed the company’s spectacular demise on a general lack of support for English-language opera.

Canada

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
George L. Parker
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
English Language ◽  
Book Market ◽  
Canadian Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
Queen's University ◽  
American Authors

This chapter discusses the history of fiction publishing in Canada since 1950. It begins with the arrival of New York publisher Alfred Knopf in Canada in August 1955, a month after the Canadian Writers' Conference was held at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. During the conference, the sorry plight of the English-language book scene was tackled: bookstores, for example, were dominated by British and American authors, and Canadian literature was practically ignored in schools and universities. The chapter examines how many of these complaints were resolved by the 2000s. It considers changes in Canadian fiction from traditional realism towards modernism and postmodernism, and the importance of the New Canadian Library quality paperback series (1958). It also describes other significant developments that reshaped the Canadian book market, including the emergence of independent small presses, Harlequin Enterprises, the proliferation of international conglomerates, the marketing of e-books, and the rise of Amazon.

English-Language Philosophy 1750-1945.

1995 ◽  
Vol 45 (181) ◽  
pp. 540
Author(s):  
Stuart Brown ◽  
John Skorupski
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Language Philosophy
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