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The Future of Decline

Anglo-American Culture at Its Limits

By: Jed Esty

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The Future of Decline

Anglo-American Culture at Its Limits

By: Jed Esty

As the US becomes a second-place nation, can it shed the superpower nostalgia that still haunts the UK? The debate over the US's fading hegemony has raged and sputtered for 50 years, glutting the market with prophecies about American decline. Media experts ask how fast we will fall and how much we will lose, but generally ignore the fundamental question: What does decline mean? What is the significance, in experiential and everyday terms, in feelings and fantasies, of living in a country past its prime? Drawing on the example of post-WWII Britain and looking ahead at 2020s America, Jed Esty suggests that becoming a second-place nation is neither disastrous, as alarmists claim, nor avoidable, as optimists insist. Contemporary declinism often masks white nostalgia and perpetuates a conservative longing for Cold War certainty. But the narcissistic lure of "lost greatness" appeals across the political spectrum. As Esty argues, it resonates so widely in mainstream media because Americans have lost access to a language of national purpose beyond global supremacy. It is time to shelve the shopworn fables of endless US dominance, to face the multipolar world of the future, and to tell new American stories. The Future of Decline is a guide to finding them.

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Stanford University Press

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1503633675

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Unseasonable Youth

Modernism, Colonialism, and the Fiction of Development

By: Jed Esty

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Unseasonable Youth

Modernism, Colonialism, and the Fiction of Development

By: Jed Esty

Unseasonable Youth examines a range of modernist-era fictions that cast doubt on the ideology of progress through the figure of stunted or endless adolescence. Novels of youth by Oscar Wilde, Olive Schreiner, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, H.G. Wells, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and Elizabeth Bowen disrupt the inherited conventions of the bildungsroman in order to criticize bourgeois values and to reinvent the biographical plot, but also to explore the contradictions inherent in mainstream developmental discourses of self, nation, and empire. The intertwined tropes of frozen youth and uneven development, as motifs of failed progress, play a crucial role in the emergence of dilatory modernist style and in the reimagination of colonial space at the fin-de-siècle. The genre-bending logic of uneven development - never wholly absent from the coming-of-age novel -- takes on a new and more intense form in modernism as it fixes its broken allegory to the problem of colonial development. In novels of unseasonable youth, the nineteenth-century idea of world progress comes up against stubborn signs of underdevelopment and uneven development, just at the same moment that post-Darwinian racial sciences and quasi-Freudian sexological discourses lend greater influence to the idea that certain forms of human difference cannot be mitigated by civilizing or developmental forces. In this historical context, the temporal meaning and social vocation of the bildungsroman undergo a comprehensive shift, as the history of the novel indexes the gradual displacement of historical-progressive thinking by anthropological-structural thinking in the Age of Empire.

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Oxford University Press

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0199857970

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The Future of Decline

Anglo-American Culture at Its Limits

By: Jed Esty

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Unseasonable Youth

Modernism, Colonialism, and the Fiction of Development

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Modernism, Colonialism, and the Fiction of Development

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The Irritable Male Syndrome

Understanding and Managing the 4 Key Causes of Depression and Aggression

By: Jed Diamond

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The Irritable Male Syndrome

Understanding and Managing the 4 Key Causes of Depression and Aggression

By: Jed Diamond

A guide to dealing with hormone related mood swings in men describes the triggers and warning signs of Irritable Male Syndrome, the ways it can affect those suffering from it, and the best ways for men and their families to work through it. Reprint.

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Rodale

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1594862915

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Calder: The Conquest of Space

The Later Years: 1940-1976

By: Jed Perl

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Calder: The Conquest of Space

The Later Years: 1940-1976

By: Jed Perl

The concluding volume to the first biography of one of the most important, influential, and beloved twentieth-century sculptors, and one of the greatest artists in the cultural history of America--is a vividly written, illuminating account of his triumphant later years. The second and final volume of this magnificent biography begins during World War II, when Calder--known to all as Sandy--and his wife, Louisa, opened their home to a stream of artists and writers in exile from Europe. In the postwar decades, they divided their time between the United States and France, as Calder made his first monumental public sculptures and received blockbuster commissions that included Expo '67 in Montreal and the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. Jed Perl makes clear how Calder's radical sculptural imagination shaped the minimalist and kinetic art movements that emerged in the 1960s. And we see, as well, that through everything--their ever-expanding friendships with artists and writers of all stripes; working to end the war in Vietnam; hosting riotous dance parties at their Connecticut home; seeing the "mobile," Calder's essential artistic invention, find its way into Webster's dictionary--Calder and Louisa remained the risk-taking, singularly bohemian couple they had been since first meeting at the end of the Roaring Twenties. The biography ends with Calder's death in 1976 at the age of seventy-eight--only weeks after an encyclopedic retrospective of his work opened at the Whitney Museum in New York--but leaves us with a new, clearer understanding of his legacy, both as an artist and a man.

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Knopf

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0451494113

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9780451494115

Wings for Our Courage

Gender, Erudition, and Republican Thought

By: Stephanie H. Jed

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Wings for Our Courage

Gender, Erudition, and Republican Thought

By: Stephanie H. Jed

On January 6, 1537, Lorenzino de’ Medici murdered Alessandro de’ Medici, the duke of Florence. This episode is significant in literature and drama, in Florentine history, and in the history of republican thought, because Lorenzino, a classical scholar, fashioned himself after Brutus as a republican tyrant-slayer. Wings for Our Courage offers an epistemological critique of this republican politics, its invisible oppressions, and its power by reorganizing the meaning of Lorenzino’s assassination around issues of gender, the body, and political subjectivity. Stephanie H. Jed brings into brilliant conversation figures including the Venetian nun and political theorist Archangela Tarabotti, the French feminist writer Hortense Allart, and others in a study that closely examines the material bases—manuscripts, letters, books, archives, and bodies—of writing as generators of social relations that organize and conserve knowledge in particular political arrangements. In her highly original study Jed reorganizes republicanism in history, providing a new theoretical framework for understanding the work of the scholar and the social structures of archives, libraries, and erudition in which she is inscribed.

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Univ of California Press

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0520950054

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9780520950054

New Art City

Manhattan at Mid-Century

By: Jed Perl

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New Art City

Manhattan at Mid-Century

By: Jed Perl

In this landmark work, Jed Perl captures the excitement of a generation of legendary artists–Jackson Pollack, Joseph Cornell, Robert Rauschenberg, and Ellsworth Kelly among them–who came to New York, mingled in its lofts and bars, and revolutionized American art. In a continuously arresting narrative, Perl also portrays such less well known figures as the galvanic teacher Hans Hofmann, the lyric expressionist Joan Mitchell, and the adventuresome realist Fairfield Porter, as well the writers, critics, and patrons who rounded out the artists’world. Brilliantly describing the intellectual crosscurrents of the time as well as the genius of dozens of artists, New Art City is indispensable for lovers of modern art and culture.

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Vintage

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0307538885

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9780307538888

History of a Shiver

The Sublime Impudence of Modernism

By: Jed Rasula

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History of a Shiver

The Sublime Impudence of Modernism

By: Jed Rasula

A sweeping cultural history that draws on music, literature, painting, and film, 'History of a Shiver' uncovers how art pioneered in the 19th century provided the foundation for modernist aesthetics.

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Oxford University Press

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0199396299

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9780199396290

Roman Political Thought

By: Jed W. Atkins

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Roman Political Thought

By: Jed W. Atkins

A thematic introduction to Roman political thought that shows the Romans' enduring contribution to key political ideas.

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259

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Cambridge University Press

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1107107008

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9781107107007

Exploring Australian National Identity

Heroes, Memory and Politics

By: Jed Donoghue,Bruce Tranter

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Exploring Australian National Identity

Heroes, Memory and Politics

By: Jed Donoghue,Bruce Tranter

This book examines the influence of historical and popular figures on the way Australians see themselves in the 21st century. Investigating whether colonial figures such as convicts and bushrangers still influence contemporary Australian identity, and how the influence of sports figures, politicians and scientists manifests itself.

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Emerald Group Publishing

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1787565068

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9781787565067

Newton and the Origin of Civilization

By: Jed Z. Buchwald,Mordechai Feingold

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Newton and the Origin of Civilization

By: Jed Z. Buchwald,Mordechai Feingold

Reveals the manner in which Newton strove for nearly half a century to rectify universal history by reading ancient texts through the lens of astronomy, and to create a tight theoretical system for interpreting the evolution of civilization on the basis of population dynamics

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Princeton University Press

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0691154783

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9780691154787

The Enlightened Marriage

The 5 Transformative Stages of Relationships and Why the Best Is Still to Come

By: Jed Diamond

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The Enlightened Marriage

The 5 Transformative Stages of Relationships and Why the Best Is Still to Come

By: Jed Diamond

Love and marriage are two of the greatest gifts life has to offer, yet too many marriages fail because couples don’t fully understand the five stages of relationships. Because most of us have had hurtful experiences in past relationships, often going back to childhood, we develop an inaccurate love map that causes us to get off track when the stresses of life increase. For more than 40 years, Jed Diamond has been helping couples repair even the most damaged relationships and reweave the broken strands of marriage. In The Enlightened Marriage, Dr. Diamond will help you: Get through Stage Three—Disillusionment without losing your love. Understand that when your partner says, “I love you, but I’m not in love with you anymore,” it is not the end, but the beginning of Stage Four—Real Lasting Love. Learn why healing childhood wounds is the greatest gift of love you can give and receive from your partner. Recognize and address the mid-life stresses of “manopause,” irritable male syndrome, and male-type depression. Follow your calling in Stage Five to make a real difference in the world.

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Red Wheel/Weiser

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1632659484

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9781632659484

Jed Talks #1 2nd Edition

By: Jed McKenna

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Jed Talks #1 2nd Edition

By: Jed McKenna

2nd Edition contains Starship Gita: Song of the Borg. ContentsToe JamSatsang with JedInsane Little MonkeysThe Liberating AngelWhat Is Enlightenment?The Champions of DelusionYolanda PeriwinkleThe Spiritual AnarchistThe Second ComingGoldilocks UniverseThe Magic PartThe Cross of the MomentThe Caneless Cane

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Wisefool Press

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0997879734

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9780997879735

Book's by Jed Esty

The Future of Decline

The Future of Decline

Unseasonable Youth

Unseasonable Youth

The Future of Decline

The Future of Decline

Unseasonable Youth

Unseasonable Youth

The Irritable Male Syndrome

The Irritable Male Syndrome

Calder: The Conquest of Space

Calder: The Conquest of Space

Wings for Our Courage

Wings for Our Courage

New Art City

New Art City

History of a Shiver

History of a Shiver

Roman Political Thought

Roman Political Thought

Exploring Australian National Identity

Exploring Australian National Identity

Newton and the Origin of Civilization

Newton and the Origin of Civilization

The Enlightened Marriage

The Enlightened Marriage

Jed Talks #1 2nd Edition

Jed Talks #1 2nd Edition

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