Discussing modernity : a dialogue with Martin Jay /

"Martin Jay is one of America's leading intellectual historians. His work spans almost all important questions concerning the subject of modernity. Outstanding Polish scholars engage in a dialogue with Jay's work, discussing significant problems of modernity and postmodernity. The boo...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Koczanowicz, Dorota (Editor), Koczanowicz, Leszek (Editor), Schauffler, David (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2013.
Series:Value inquiry book series ; v. 262.
Value inquiry book series. Central-European value studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Mysterious power of intellectual history / Dorota Koczanowicz and Leszek Koczanowicz
  • Photography and event / Martin Jay
  • Regaining experience? / Dorota Wolska
  • Deconstruction and hermeneutics : on the controversy between Jacques Derrida and Hans-Georg Gadamer / Piotr Dehnel
  • The beautiful art of cooking / Dorota Koczanowicz
  • Exposing experience and facing photography / Teresa Bruś
  • Photography as means of re-presenting the past : caring for memories / Piotr Jakub Fereński
  • Abject spaces, pre-modern time and a baroque scopic regime in Andrzej Stasiuk's travel essays / Ewa Ignaczak
  • Scopic regimes and modernity : hypotyposis / Roma Sendyka
  • Modernity versus postmodernity : various aspects of the problem of periodization / Paweł Dybel
  • Dialogue, activity, and mendacity / Leszek Koczanowicz
  • Continuing the dialogue / Martin Jay.