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HCJ FOUR: (The New Journalism) Tom Wolfe
New Journalism New Journalism was an American literary movement in the 1960s and ’70s that pushed the boundaries of traditional journalism and nonfiction writing. Tom Wolfe was one of the most influential promoters of the New Journalism but gave credit to Gay Talese for establishing the New Journalism … Continue reading
HCJ FOUR: (Economics) Smith to Keynes
History of Economic Theory 18th century: Adam Smith and free trade: “Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those … Continue reading
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Tagged adam smith, aggregate demand, bank charter act, citizen kane, civil government, communism, corn laws, darwinism, economics, fiscal policy, free market, gold rush, hearst, henry dundas, Hobbes, industrial revolution, iron law, john steinbeck, John Stuart Mill, keynes, lord carlisle, malthus, marx, mass population, Nietzsche, pulitzer, quantity theory of money, ricardo, richard cobden, sir robert peel, the grapes of wrath, the labour theory of value, the wealth of nations, weber
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HCJ FOUR: Totalitarianism (My Seminar Paper) Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism analyses the two major totalitarian movements of the 20th century, Nazism and Stalinism. Totalitarianism differs from other forms of political oppression such as despotism (a single entity rules with absolute power), tyranny (cruel and aggressive government or rule) and … Continue reading
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Tagged 1984, adolf eichmann, categorical imperative, communist party, control language, darwin, darwinism, despotism, dictatorship, foreign policy, george orwell, germany, government, hannah arendt, hero journalist, idealism, israeli secret service, kant, law of nature, marx, mass media, masses, milgram experiment, nazis, nazism, oceania, soviet constitution, stalin, stalinism, terror, the origins of totalitarianism, thoughtcrime, totalitarianism, tyranny
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HCJ THREE: Freud
Freud and Psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud is described by Anthony Kenny as the Continental thinker who had the ‘greatest influence’ on Anglo-American philosophical thought. Freud regarded himself as a scientist and was an inventor of a new science rather than a … Continue reading
HCJ THREE: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Nietzsche (1844-1900) is regarded as the successor of Schopenhauer (https://brackenstockley.wordpress.com/2013/03/23/hcj-hegel-and-schopenhauer/). Like Schopenhauer, Nietzsche’s view of women was very poor. In his “pseudo-prophetical” book, Thus Spake Zarathustra (1883-1885), he says that women are not, as yet, capable of friendship; they are … Continue reading
HCJ THREE: (Seminar Paper) Max Weber, Economy and Society
“It is horrible to think that the world could one day be filled with nothing but little men clinging to little jobs and striving toward bigger ones.” (Weber) Weber was fascinated with power and how it can be made legitimate. The German sociologist and political … Continue reading
HCJ THREE: WR Hearst, the Modernist Movement & Carey and the Masses
WR Hearst and the Modernist movement William Randolph Hearst had a powerful influence in many aspects of the modernist movement which extended to politics, publishing, art, Hollywood and architectural endeavours. Born in San Francisco, California in 1863, he was the … Continue reading
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Tagged American Indians, anti-populism, california, civilisation, crimean war, Flaubert, Gide, Harvard, Hermann, Hollywood, Ibsen, john carey, journal, journalism, Knut Hamsun, Lord Northcliffe, mid-west, modernism, modernist movement, New york, New York Journal, Nietzsche, pro-elitism, pulitzer, revolt of the masses, revolution, spanish american war, superman, Thomas Mann, urban poverty, war, west, WR Hearst, Zarathustra
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HCJ TWO: The Dreyfus Affair
Notes taken from a lecture held by Shira Pinczuk at the University of Winchester, 2013. Anti-Semitism, Media and Zionism The Dreyfus Affair highlights the importance of the ‘innocence project’, the power of the mass media, issues brought about by anti-Semitism, … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-semitism, arab, conflict, congress, democracy, Dreyfus affair, emile zola, Ferdinand Esterhazy, french army, herzl, human rights, j'accuse, media, military, Miscarriage of Justice, monarchist, piquard, politics, third republic, yellow journalism, zionism
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