Postmodernism & cultural identities : conflicts and coexistence / / Virgil Nemoianu.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Nemoianu, Virgil.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xii, 392 p.

Table of Contents

• General cultural values
• Philosophy of culture in the present age
• Does postmodernism have a substance?
• Leibniz, Vico, and alternative modernities
• Conservatism as a branch of liberalism
• Christian democracy and subsidiarity in the world
• Christian martyrdom and Christian humanism
• The insertion of religion : the model of Benedict and Habermas
• Pieper, hope, imperfection, and literature
• General literary values
• Globalism, multiculturalism, and comparative literature
• Teaching literature from a Catholic angle
• Literary canons and social value options
• The argument from variety
• The argument from persecution
• The argument from practicality
• The argument from opposition
• The argument from defeat
• Specific applicative examples
• Following the classics : layers of stylistic mimesis
• Reinventing Romanticism or nineteenth-century Kitsch?
• Ernst Junger, distance, proximity, and transfer of cultural values
• Epilogue
• A philosophical garden.