Symbols and Myth-Making in Modernity Asteris Huliaras

Symbols and Myth-Making in Modernity Asteris HuliarasSymbols and Myth Making in Modernity unpacks the deep culture that nourishes human perception of reality through symbols. From ancient, mythical creatures and rites through Renaissance masterpieces to cinema, religion and art, the book illustrates how ever present symbols erupt in popular culture today and what work they do in transforming self and society.

a survey of the powerful and influential methodological debates between Marxists

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A thorough analysis of Britain's economic policy under the Labour governments in the 1960s

Shows how competing interpretations of sovereignty and human rights and the different visions of world order that they imply fed into the transatlantic debate over the ICC and transformed this debate into a conflict over the normative foundations of international society

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'The World Bank needs India more than India needs it

and continues to shape

It resuscitates the careers of a group of female producers who strategically defied the odds and used broadcasting as a site for their activism in the decades after World War II

Seven beautiful women – the Seven Roses – take a stand against an unheard-of threat to the integrity of Japanese culture in post-WWII Japan

care for the ageing

with how America kept changing its relationship with history and how many of the myths of the ‘West’ were just that – myths

What was the relationship between the grave sin of sodomy and the homoerotic images that fill Renaissance culture