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courts. One such argument grows from the First Amendment. Gun ownership, like speech, is a tool of political dissent. Both guns and speech empower individuals to resist governmental oppression, at least in ... political dissent must remain * J.D. Candidate, May 2015, University of Michigan Law School. I am especially thankful for Professor Mathias Reimann’s wise guidance, and for Joel Pratt’s brilliant editing eye
solidarity against these diseases. Although global epidemics cause an increase in mortality, they disrupt the social and political structure, negatively affect the economy, cause negative psychological effects
they also depicted the new artist as someone capable of withstanding or even mastering these shocks and transforming them into instruments of political action. Appearing as they did in the newspaper
government collapsed at the end of the Great War, Berliners took notice of a placard asking “What is Dada? An art? A philosophy? A fire extinguisher? Or a state religion? Is Dada actually energy? or is it ... whimsical rogues’ gallery is one example; the political photomontages of John Heartfield are another, persisting beyond Dada as trenchant repudiation of the Third Reich. But before such a large target
delved into all manner of definitions — ideological, stylistic, formal—allowing for political and social contexts, as well as literary and philosophical considerations. Yet how Dada functioned as an art ... form, a modernist movement, or political manifestation, generally defines Dada in terms that seem to exist beyond Dada, rather than in terms of what is unique to it. Pondering the question with which
say that in our view the premises for revolution, on the cultural as well as the strictly political level, are not only ripe, they have begun to rot” (Debord and Wolman 14). 5 Debord’s definition of ... distributed at the Festum Fluxorum in Düsseldorf in February 1963. There he railed against “bourgeois sickness,” and called for a “flood and tide in art,” to be led by a cadre of “cultural, social and political
Everyone has strong feelings about Justice Scalia. Lionized by the political right and demonized by the left, he has been among the most polarizing figures in American public life over the course of ... regard to the political consequences of applying those principles in a consistent way.”); Bruce Hay, I Thought I Could Reason With Antonin Scalia: A More Naive Young Fool Never Drew Breath, SALON (Feb. 27
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an unpleasant ring in the fiercely individualist West, where the term conjures images of socialism and state encroachment on political freedom. Catharine MacKinnon, a vocal advocate of substantive ... of the effectiveness of group movements. Both altered the social and political climate surrounding equality, as well as the substance of equality law. The engagement and empowerment of the groups
alone which totally dominated in Romans? political thought at that time, less that Stoic philosophy had any direct influence on politics and administration. Cicero was not a Stoic devotee. However, in his ... , but the providentially ordered Universe in which all live here and now?84. Also Cle82 M. S c h o f i e l d, Social and Political Thought, [in:] The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy, eds. K
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there could be as many as 150 children,” says Eric, a political philosophy and women’s and gender studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) who feels called to tackle oppression and strive ... , and entered a suicide prevention training program. “We’ve learned how one person can make a difference,” says Anthony, an A&S political science major who hopes to work in the field of mentor programming
administrating Roman empire. No philosophy does work in such straightforward way as to its influences could be detected in administration or political decisions21. Instead of exploring this badly stated question ... Commentary on Polybius I, Oxford 1957, pp. 40, 297–298; cf. D. H a h m, Polybius’ Applied Political Theory, [in:] Justice and Generosity. Studies in Hellenistic Social and Political Philosophy, eds. A. Laks
traditional account does not match reality. Individuals in Washington, D.C., are more interested in fighting for their political party than for their branch of government, and the essentially reactive ... more interested in fighting for their political party than for their branch of government,2 and the essentially reactive legislative branch lacks the capacity to respond to a rapidly changing policy
Voltaire’s parody indicates, the modern origins of this satire emerge from a Republican critique of the ancien regime and Catholicism. By 1920, however, virtually the whole spectrum of political opinion had ... staunchest defenders of Joan’s legacy. Ultra-nationalist Charles Maurras, Far Right Republican Maurice Barrès, and proto-fascist political theorist George Sorel all aligned Joan with their causes. So did
frequently by spiritualists themselves. The prominent French spiritist11 Allan Kardec, for instance, wrote that the task of spirit mediums 11 Kardec used the term “spiritism” to distinguish his philosophy from ... theory of spiritism; in a general sense, it appertains to the spiritualist school, of which it presents one of the phases. It is for this reason that we have inscribed the words Spiritualist Philosophy on
importance of images of the human figure in the Dada movement. Explaining that Dada’s bodies occupy not only a physical reality, but a social and political reality, Adamowicz examines how the body in Dada art ... becomes the locus of questioning, eroding, or subverting social conventions and dominant political ideology in post-World War I Europe. Aesthetic and philosophical challenges posed by Dada include, but are
political tendencies (democratic, nationalistic, feminist, regionalistic, postcolonial or whatever) on offer. (Ferguson 180) Despite the best intentions, it is challenging to effectively situate artworks ... ancestry, which, in turn, is indebted to the Enlightenment’s investment in the taxonomy and commodification of secular unknowns. One of the political tendencies mentioned above is nationalism, and London’s
care policies by hospital administration and sharing the philosophy of family centred care with families during hospitalization were suggested.
