Big Research Questions about the Human Condition

Big Research Questions about the Human ConditionAsk bigger, fewer, and clearer questions! This is the major message of this book, comprising a set of issues to focus on, hereby suggesting a way to overcome the fragmentation characterising the humanities today. It also urges humanists to regard humanities research as an integral part of science, although uniquely dealing with humans as decision making, meaning seeking and self reflecting agents.

arts practice and philosophy

experimental films and westerns

stressing important aspects of his work that are neglected in the literature

the "Brecht debate

Phil Powrie

multiculturalism and internationalization

interactivity and digital broadcasting

Using a range of practical examples

ideology and war

Ray Kiely examines the conservative anti-globalization that has manifested itself in recent years as a nostalgia for a former supposed age of economic and societal harmony and which has informed popular mantras of deregulation and economic nationalism

The book directs the reader who wishes to:

his cumulative volume is a celebration of the days of old Hawaii and the stories that have lived through the ages