Contrary to other scholarship on Strauss, this paper argues that Strauss understands himself as having decisively rejected Nietzschean thought. First, I hold notwithstanding the agreement between and Nietzsche critique of modern culture, defects liberal democracy, flaws in some kinds historicism, sees unable extricate from trap standards. Nietzsche's philosophy needs natural standards, but he d...

In this article the author explains the social role of Muslim woman in a postmodern society through a public symbol of her identity--the veil. The article's thesis is that the Muslim women's manifestation of their Islamic denomination through veiling and wearing appropriate clothes (in the case of men through growing beards and wearing clothes considered appropriate for them) signifies an expre...

A content analysis of 1387 commercials broadcast in China and Hong Kong in 1993 and 1998 was conducted using Cheng and Schweitzer’s framework of cultural values. The five cultural values that dominated Chinese television advertising were ‘modernity’, ‘family’, ‘tradition’, ‘technology’ and ‘collectivism’. The five dominant cultural values in Hong Kong television advertising were ‘quality’, ‘eff...

In the course of his short literary life, Liu Na'ou travelled across four geographical areas: Taiwan, Japan, Shanghai and Beijing, as well as five cultural domains: Taiwanese, Japanese, French, English and Chinese. The transnational facet of Liu's modernist writing is not merely literary or cultural but political and historical. The earliest modernist writing in China was initiated on the basis...

the challenge to re-think post-modernity opens up if we see modernity in the light ef the phenomenological reduction. 5uspending belief in the central tenets of modern philosopf?y discloses that the so-called post• modernist pbilosopby mere!j extends the earlier projec: the failure o] calculative reason trumpeted by po-mo thinkers need not result in the end of the proiect ef rationality. rather...