Rethinking the Twentieth Century

Muslim Intellectuals and the Perennial Philosophy in the Twentieth Century

This paper will examine how Muslim intellectuals, as a result of their attachment to the doctrine of Divine Unity (taw¤hīd), the Quran, Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad, and the doctrines and methods of Sufism, were largely responsible for the restating of the perennial philosophy in the West in the twentieth century. The article consists of four sections: an introduction to the term 'philosophia...

The Twentieth Century

The articles, representing different schools of thought, include such subjects as "Sickness or Sin?" by Barbara Wooton; "The Rooted Sorrow" by Dr. Emanuel Miller; and "Psycho-Pathology in Industrial Life" by Elliott Jacques; two others poignantly describe conditions in individual mental hospitals as experienced by an ex-patient, and by a male mental nurse. All the articles are written designedl...

[Biopower and eugenics: rethinking the intrusion of power into sexuality in the twentieth century].

Twentieth-century Theatre

Downloaded: 30 May 2012 IP address: 148.88.176.155 In his excellent introductory essay, Mayer not only discusses the theatrical history, nature, and function of the plays, but also their ideological significance both in Britain and America. He sees them as a response to many of the cultural and social anxieties of the age: the crisis of religious faith, the rise of feminism, the emergence of cl...

Rethinking National Identities: Representations of the Mapuche and Dominant Discourses of Nationhood in Twentieth-Century Chile

Existing scholarship has tended to exclude Chile from studies of indigenismo in Latin America, on the basis that it has not experienced the same history of ethnic conflict as other countries in the region. My doctoral thesis challenges this consensus, highlighting various discursive manifestations of such a conflict in twentieth-century Chile, and investigating the successive attempts of intell...