Freud’s theory on narcissism was developed in a society where the bourgeois had influential dominant power, so analysis he proposed cultural and historical atmosphere created by upper class. Moreover, Christopher Lasch also mentioned his book The Culture of Narcissism (1978) that narcissistic culture taking place “late capitalism.” I intend to argue this paper Lasch’s embedded postmodern societ...

Yahudi postmodernizminin şekillendirmiş olduğu dört önemli felsefi eğilim ortaya çıktı; a. Rabbinik Yahudiliğin Hermenötik ile ahlak ve hukuksal yeniden okunmasını sağlayan felsefe b. modernizminin sağlamış paradigmalar tüm insanların evrensel hakları bunun İsrail ahdi içindeki değerleri öğretilerinin rasyonelliğini öne çıkaran c. Modernizmin savunduğu insan aklının bağlam özelliğinin nihai olm...

Post-postmodern authenticity is introduced and used in this conceptual article to characterise a new emergent approach negotiating reality fantasy by tourists through tourism. Alongside modern postmodern approaches, post-postmodern contextualises recent developments within discourse. Modernism involves constructive, objective verisimilitude stances for inauthenticity, including Postmodernism ta...

The notion and practice of development have been severely critiqued from both modernist and postmodernist perspectives, yet the global development industry flourishes. The latter have afforded important insights, but also suffer from unexamined ideological agendas, a disinclination to undertake detailed research into development processes and policy, a preoccupation with texts and representatio...

CHUM214 The Modern and the Postmodern In this course we will examine how the idea of "the modern" develops at the end of the 18th century and how being modern (or progressive, or hip) became one of the crucial criteria for understanding and evaluating cultural change during the last 200 years. Our readings will be drawn from a variety of areas-philosophy, novels, music, painting, and photograph...

The Internet plays a large role in disseminating anti-vaccination information. This paper builds upon previous research by analyzing the arguments proffered on anti-vaccination websites, determining the extent of misinformation present, and examining discourses used to support vaccine objections. Arguments around the themes of safety and effectiveness, alternative medicine, civil liberties, con...

In the past decades, we have witnessed the developments of various kinds of modern or postmodern control theories, such as LQG or LQR optimal control, H∞ control, and μ analysis and synthesis, from their emergence to maturity and applications in some practical systems. Despite of the success of the modern or postmodern control theory, we have to admit that the majority of the controllers used i...

Although critiques of objectivity have been vast, and experimental, postmodern approaches have been important and inspiring, the author argues that the pursuit of objectivity per se is not the biggest roadblock to producing critical knowledge. Rather, problems of objectivity are rooted in the larger issue of emotional detachment, which is facilitated by academic armor. Emotional detachment is i...

The article try to find why does it seem that the recent human development will be fatal. It employ two, so called postmodern theories, the information society idea and the concept of risk society. The thesis is that the information society is itself the risk society, and risk society is itself the information society. On theoretical level, both of them describe the characteristics of the same ...