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Javier de la Higuera discusses in his “Foucault and the Recommencement of Philosophy” the idea of a recommencement of philosophy that Michel Foucault has posited on several occasions, although with ... Literature Commons, Continental Philosophy Commons , Ethics and Political Philosophy Commons, and the Metaphysics Commons Dedicated to the dissemination of scholarly and professional information, Purdue
any type being in a dominating majority in any of the districts. This is to e.g. prevent segregation or political domination of some political party. We conduct a fine-grained analysis of the ... the political choices of voters [ 3, 34, 35, 43, 44 ]. Wellstudied in this context is gerrymandering, which can be regarded as a “malicious” counterpart to our problem. In gerrymandering, the task is
Hannah Arendt’s On Violence (1970) is a seminal work in the study of political violence. It famously draws a distinction between power and violence and argues that the latter must be excluded from ... Review of Books, issue 13 , 1 January 1970 , p. 36 . --- . Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy , edited by Ronald Beiner, Chicago UP , 1982 . --- . ?Karl Jaspers: Citizen of the World? .? Men in Dark
human being (or, occasionally, an animal). Philosophy is tasked with providing the foundational cognitive tools to grasp the meaning of experience for the whole. In Hegelian terms, it unfolds the history ... Estok); Syrian refugees (Asaad), and Buddhist philosophy (Justin Hewitson). In Asaad and Estok’s work, we see a striving to use theory to complexify the political debates surrounding climate change and
apparatuses: how is it possible that the practical-political nature of the philosophy of history discourses has remained effectively silenced in political practice? After elucidating a barely bounded concept of ... turn it also counters the very discourses of political philosophy. The central slogan of all counter-history (Foucault focuses on the cases of England and France) is an inversion of Clausewitz?s famous
In his article “Watching Fight Club in Tel Aviv: Or The 2011 Social Protests in Israel, a Political Postmortem,” Eran Kaplan provides an analysis of the ideological underpinnings of the social
complicity with the status quo. This essay investigates the ambivalence of black anger, drawing on philosophy and feminist theory while also locating the current eruption of black anger in an ambivalent ... -blackness,? ?black love,? ?black joy,? ?black girl magic,? ?misogynoir,? and ?dignity.? Another pillar of this new black political discourse is ?rage.? It circulates in social media spaces and finds
In his article "Let the Other be Me - The Theo-Political Predicament and the Arab in Shin Shalom's Early Writings" Haim O. Rechnitzer explores the theo-political predicament as reflected in the ... creation and the presence of the Arab as the other and the enemy. Reading Shalom's works with an eye towards the theological-political predicament offers a perspective that is yet to be fully articulated in
discussed as pure economics replaces political economy in the Interwar period, with the 1938 Paris Congress of “liberal thinkers,” as the Vienna Circle became known, also comparing issues in philosophy. The ... reason for such a situation? Criticisms of classical political economy have to be understood in their French context. In comparison to other countries, this paper details the case of France, besides
discussed as pure economics replaces political economy in the Interwar period, with the 1938 Paris Congress of “liberal thinkers,” as the Vienna Circle became known, also comparing issues in philosophy. The ... reason for such a situation? Criticisms of classical political economy have to be understood in their French context. In comparison to other countries, this paper details the case of France, besides
patterns [ 31 ] to mainstream political philosophy, as the ‘maximin’ principle [ 18 ]. We seek to improve the position of the lowest member of the set of values, while also not entirely disregarding
In his article “Albert Camus’ social, cultural and political migrations,” Benaouda LEBDAI analyses Albert Camus’ posthumous autofiction The First man, a fascinating self-representation and self ... Benaouda Lebdai, ?Albert Camus' Social, Cultural and Political Migrations? CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture ISSN 1481-4374 Purdue University Press
today think of political antagonism towards the social structures of domination and therefore we cannot think of praxis and agency. The essay proceeds as follows: firstly, the author notes the places in ... , Ethics and Political Philosophy Commons, European Languages and Societies Commons, History of Philosophy Commons, Other Arts and Humanities Commons, and the Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons Follow
cognitive mechanisms [11, 12]. Within philosophy and psychology, two distinct accounts of ToM exist: Theory ToM (TT) and Simulation ToM (ST) [13]. The TT account views the cognitive abilities assigned to ToM
for appropriate market infrastructure. This also implied that if Russia's political and economic system had more than one competing hierarchy, the objective of the elites would not have entailed long ... state involvement in Russia?s economy during the last century summarized in Table 1. In period 1 the otherwise revo2003). Recently emerged political party competition, which thrived under Putin?s
simultaneously nominate a’. By contrast, team B cannot ensure the victory of their candidate under any circumstances, irrespective of the voting rule. In real life political parties usually carefully contemplate ... whom to nominate for important positions in the political structure of the country. This process is often performed through primaries where voters affiliated with the political party vote over candidates
This article offers a materialist reading of the poetry of Yehuda Amichai, the most well-known Israeli poet outside Israel. The article explores the political role of irony in Amichai’s early work ... rich and bold metaphorical devices to distance itself from the horrors of the war, and therefore also form the political and ethical meanings of the Naqba. That Amichai?s poetry translates the language
In their article "Philosophy of Modernity and Development in Jamaica ... journal is affiliated with the Purdue University Press monograph series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies. Contact: <> Novella Z. KEITH and Nelson W. KEITH Philosophy of Modernity and Development
living on the border of modern subjectivity embodying a cultural and existential crisis. Koza argues that "ethical reading" enables one to see the relation between philosophy and literature that not only ... Comparative Literature Commons, Comparative Philosophy Commons, Ethics and Political Philosophy Commons, European Languages and Societies Commons, Modern Literature Commons, Reading and Language Commons, and
and for political criticism which are tied neither to ideology nor to the Althusserian interpellated subject. While departing from previous readings of the novel, these claims nevertheless stand in a ... , Shammas explores the possibilities inherent in fictionality itself. Fiction, in our reading, is an alternative practice that opens up new possibilities for identity formations and for political criticism