Results for "Buschendorf, Christa"

According to relational sociology, power imbalances are at the core of human conflicts. They shape subsequent physical and symbolic struggles between interdependent groups or individuals. The contributions to this volume highlight the role of power relations in the black experience. By applying key ... Read More about Power Relations in Black Lives: Reading African American Literature and Culture with Bourdieu and Elias (American Culture Studies)

An unflinching look at nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies. In an accessible, conversational format, Cornel West, with distinguished scholar Christa Buschendorf, provides a fresh perspective on six revolutionary African American leaders: Frederick ... Read More about Black Prophetic Fire

This volume collects new articles that explore the theoretical framework of figurational or relational sociology as represented by Norbert Elias and Pierre Bourdieu with regard to its relevance to American history, culture, and literature. The emphasis is put on Elias's theory of the civilizing proc... Read More about Civilizing and Decivilizing Processes: Figurational Approaches to American Culture

Wie die Bezeichnungen "New Buddha", "Prince of Atheists" oder "Highpriest of Pessimism" erkennen lassen, stellte Schopenhauer die christliche Weltsicht und den optimistischen Daseinsentwurf der Amerikaner auf eine harte Probe. In Interpretationen fiktionaler Texte, kulturkritischer Essays und philos... Read More about The Highpriest of Pessimism: Zur Rezeption Schopenhauers in Den USA (American Studies - A Monograph #160)

The classic Western film is characterized by the tension of open and enclosed spaces as well as by the lone hero's exposure to the vastness of both tempting and dangerous spaces. John Ford's cinematography in particular has contributed to a specific spatial iconography that is premised on this tensi... Read More about Violence and Open Spaces: The Subversion of Boundaries and the Transformation of the Western Genre (American Studies - A Monograph #277)