1 Dewey, Mitra, and the “Technological Proletariat:” Democratizing the Information Revolution John Hartmann, Southern Illinois University [email protected] Pragmatism and Technological Practice Conference Rochester Institute of Technology February 14, 2003 Do not cite w/o permission – comments are always welcome Introduction In his 1939 essay, “Creative Democracy – The Task Before Us,” John De...

“Postmodernism” is a key word today, wielded by philosophers, cultural theorists, artists, people in the media, and intellectuals in general. When most people talk about postmodernism, they envisage the revolutionary imagery of our life and times— information revolution, hyperglobalisation, and consumerist culture—and they herewith feel the risks, anxieties, and ills associated with life in the...

Taking 170 works from the Museum of Arts in Budapest, Ara Pacis in Rome has produced a major exhibition on the painter-bohemian Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, of the late nineteenth century. It traces the artist’s life, and his rather premature death at only 36 years of age. The exhibition, organized by Zetema, contains a broad spectrum of this artist’s work: posters, illustrations, sheets, music cove...

between proto-industrialization or industrialization and changes in opportunities for marriage. The standard historical argument was summarized a decade ago by D. E. C. Eversley (1965:45): the ability to marry was contingent, in pre-industrial societies, upon access to land in the peasant economy; in the cities guilds &dquo;were supposed to be powerful bars to marriage.&dquo; When the system br...

Historians have become increasingly aware of the difficulty and inaccuracy of assigning the economic and social structures of modern societies to specific categories. In fact, at any given point a single group may incorporate economic arrangements ranging from the relative simplicity of barter to the complexities of international trade and finance. The village may well remain the primary social...

Jan de Vries revised Akira Hayami’s original theory of the “Industrious Revolution” to make idea more applicable early modern commercialization in Europe, showcasing development rural proletariat and especially consumer revolution women’s emancipation on way toward an “Industrial Revolution.” However, Japanese villages followed a different path from Western trajectory Revolution,” which is reco...

The development of the modern system vocational education in Ukraine requires a thorough and comprehensive analysis rethinking, including axiological point view, existing historical pedagogical experience different socio-political conditions ideological approaches. This article aims to consider one aspect this issue, which aspects functioning Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic (USSR) 1920s  ar...

This article analyses the educational differentiation of nobility during reign Elizabeth expressed in status their property (number “souls”); geographical location estates; institutions where they were sent; and age when began education. It is based on a wide array historical sources, among which archival records from collections Russian State Archive Ancient Acts. The data registration gentry ...

Adopting Marx's "Historical Materialism Theory", I will discuss the interaction between the Market Economic System and the Ideology of Mainland China, treating the former as the bottom structure and the latter as the upper structure. I used the concept of "a double head structure of ideology" by Seliger and split Mainland China's official ideology into a "core" concept and a "perimeter" concept...