THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND ITS PERVERSION IN THE WEST

2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-108
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Roudinesco
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Critical Philosophy ◽  
The West ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Century Science ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

The concept of ‘perversion’ is introduced, with all its resonances from the vocabulary of psychopathology and more generally in critical philosophy, in juxtaposition to the philosophy and values of the Enlightenment, following Adorno and Horkheimer's evaluation in the light of the monstrosities of twentieth-century history. The author considers recent perverse developments in the culture of late twentieth-century science, in particular cognitivism, in their relation to the psychoanalytic tradition and the vision of humanity found in these competing traditions. The paper finally considers three modern test-domains: contradictory responses to prostitution; pornographic therapy; the borderlands between the animal, the robot and the human.

Feminine Economies: Thinking against the Market in the Enlightenment and the Late Twentieth Century

2000 ◽  
Vol 95 (2) ◽  
pp. 474
Author(s):  
Alison Chapman ◽  
Judith Still ◽  
Barbara Leah Harman ◽  
Suzanne Keen
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

The Myth of Cyril and Methodius and Competing Maps of Europe

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-272
Author(s):  
Brian Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
The Urals ◽  
The West ◽  
John Paul Ii ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

AbstractFor over a millennium, the myth of Saints Cyril and Methodius has played a vital role in European Christianity. In the late twentieth century, both John Paul II and Aleksii II appealed to the saints but, in doing so, projected different 'maps' of the continent. For the pope, who imagined a Christian Europe stretching from the Atlantic to the Urals, the saints were bridge-builders and exemplars of ecumenism. For the patriarch, the Cyrillomethodian heritage identified Russia as an Orthodoxbelieving, Cyrillic-writing nation distinct from the West. Thus, while John Paul used the myth to amalgamate, Aleksii used it to differentiate.

Narratives of Progress and Tragedy in

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Filmer
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Binary Structure ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Modes Of Representation ◽  
American Tradition ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
American Society ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

When it was first produced in 1976,Pacific Overturesattracted praise and opprobrium in almost equal measure. It was characterized by critics as both the supreme intellectual, as well as musical theatrical achievement of the Sondheim–Prince collaborations, and as the most cynical betrayal of the authentic vernacular American tradition of the musical. At a number of levels, both formal and substantive, it is a reflexive exploration of the tension between the national and global conditions of late twentieth-century American cultural identity and ambitions and their relation to the legacy of the Enlightenment origins of American society. The two levels discussed in detail are those of the relations between and modes of representation of the principal characters, and the processes of transition between traditional and modern societies. The chapter argues that the binary structure of the theatrical organization ofPacific Overturesin two sequential parts raises issues of the inevitability of the inversion of progress into tragedy.

Nine Centuries of Man

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Gender Expectations ◽  
Court Records ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Police Reports ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Scottish History ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

What did it mean to be a man in Scotland over the past nine centuries? Scotland, with its stereotypes of the kilted warrior and the industrial ‘hard man’, has long been characterised in masculine terms, but there has been little historical exploration of masculinity in a wider context. This interdisciplinary collection examines a diverse range of the multiple and changing forms of masculinities from the late eleventh to the late twentieth century, exploring the ways in which Scottish society through the ages defined expectations for men and their behaviour. How men reacted to those expectations is examined through sources such as documentary materials, medieval seals, romances, poetry, begging letters, police reports and court records, charity records, oral histories and personal correspondence. Focusing upon the wide range of activities and roles undertaken by men – work, fatherhood and play, violence and war, sex and commerce – the book also illustrates the range of masculinities that affected or were internalised by men. Together, the chapters illustrate some of the ways Scotland’s gender expectations have changed over the centuries and how, more generally, masculinities have informed the path of Scottish history

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