Postmodernism and cultural identities
Subtitle: conflicts and coexistence
By: Virgil Nemoianu.
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813216843
Subjects: Postmodernism; Culture -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: General cultural values; title: Philosophy of culture in the present age; title: Does postmodernism have a substance?; title: Leibniz, Vico, and alternative modernities; title: Conservatism as a branch of liberalism; title: Christian democracy and subsidiarity in the world; title: The tradition of Christian martyrdom and Christian humanism; title: The insertion of religion : the model of Benedict and Habermas; title: Pieper, hope, imperfection, and literature; title: Part II: General literary values; title: Globalism, multiculturalism, and comparative literature; title: Teaching literature from a Catholic angle; title: Literary canons and social value options; title: The argument from variety; title: The argument from persecution; title: The argument from practicality; title: The argument from opposition; title: The argument from defeat; title: Part III: Specific applicative examples; title: Following the classics : layers of stylistic mimesis; title: Reinventing Romanticism or nineteenth-century Kitsch?; title: Ernst Jünger, distance, proximity, and transfer of cultural values; title: Part IV: Epilogue; title: A philosophical garden.