http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog world media review website Sun, 31 May 2009 14:33:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 en hourly 1 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2006/04/07/heritage-wars/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2006/04/07/heritage-wars/#comments Fri, 07 Apr 2006 00:10:09 +0000 Milen Nedev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2006/04/07/heritage-wars/ A historian points out the problems behind today’s claims of cultural ownership over historical artefacts.]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2006/04/07/heritage-wars/feed/ 0 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2006/04/02/christian-humanism-past-and-present/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2006/04/02/christian-humanism-past-and-present/#comments Sun, 02 Apr 2006 06:46:20 +0000 Milen Nedev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2006/04/02/christian-humanism-past-and-present/ From the standpoint of postmodernist thinkers like Jean-François Lyotard, western cultures universalize assumptions about what is “human” and “rational,” as if these concepts are not culturally and historically specific, the malleable products of power and ideology. ]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2006/04/02/christian-humanism-past-and-present/feed/ 0 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/24/the-myth-of-national-decline/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/24/the-myth-of-national-decline/#comments Sat, 24 Sep 2005 08:20:35 +0000 Milen Nedev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/24/the-myth-of-national-decline/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/24/the-myth-of-national-decline/feed/ 10 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/24/the-origin-of-modernity/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/24/the-origin-of-modernity/#comments Wed, 24 Aug 2005 08:24:10 +0000 Tsoncho Tsonchev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/24/the-origin-of-modernity/ In the last several decades, modernity--the period initiated by the Enlightenment--has come under increasing criticism]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/24/the-origin-of-modernity/feed/ 0 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/18/first-crusade/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/18/first-crusade/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2005 08:19:44 +0000 Tsoncho Tsonchev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/18/first-crusade/ While the First Crusade is overwhelmingly portrayed as a decidedly Catholic (i.e., Western) affair, the aims and objectives of its chief participants from the West must never obscure those of the great Byzantine Empire to the East. ]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/18/first-crusade/feed/ 0