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In recent years, film scholars have been increasingly preoccupied with questions as to how films can ‘be’ or ‘do’ or ‘be used for’ philosophy. From the ‘be used for’ position, films are seen as mere ... . Pippin, Robert B. 2012. Hollywood Westerns and American Myth: The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. Pippin, Robert B. 2013. Fatalism
If Slavoj Žižek belongs to a rather later generation of thinkers influenced by French philosophy, his allegiance to a Lacanian conceptual framework both aligns him and distinguishes him from the ... consider the earlier analytical context of philosophy of education, the move towards a more Continentalist approach in the 1990s can be seen as a move from a conceptualism to a more socio-political
Many daoist texts offer guidelines to political action. The following essay on Zhuangzi and the martial arts explores kinds of movement and thinking that remind Western political philosophy of the ... political philosophy of the breadth of action open to politics when we think outside of the neoliberal parameters of the modern world. Daoist traditions that have inspired the martial arts are commonly
This editorial introduces both JOMEC Journal itself and also the specific concerns of this first issue, reconnecting political disconnection. It first situates the journal in the context of the ... Semiotics, Postcolonial Studies and Educational Philosophy and Theory. With Richard Stamp he is co-editor of The Truth of ?i?ek (2007) and Reading Ranci?re (2011). In the School of Journalism, Media and
country that the fiction identifies with its political leadership. Italian directors criticize the country’s pervasive atmosphere of inertia and decadence. Sorrentino has often remarked that although his ... while belittling and overexposing, the (scantly-dressed) female body. For thirty years, this philosophy has secured viewership and bred a form of political consent supportive of populism, prompting many
perspectives – from ordinary language philosophy to deconstruction. The findings of their studies have both theoretical and practical value: among other discoveries, the authors came up with new critical tools ... Research (IFVCR) Network and an editor of JOMEC Journal. Her areas of interest are communication theory, the philosophy of communication, poststructuralism, and film. Citation Kazakeviciute, Evelina. 2019
times a science, sometimes an aesthetic discourse, or a philosophy of living. By way of reference to bel design, the Italian design of the 1950s, and particularly to the experience of Adriano Olivetti and ... political and ethical propensities. The article asks whether this conception of design is still possible nowadays. Contributor Note Loredana La Fortuna has a PhD in the Theory of Language and Sign Sciences
-contoured, and transformed Jesus into an array of subject positions, with each literary articulation relating to mythology, philosophy, and politics. Teaching Jesus as a literary event allows students to take ... subject a ?ticklish? subject in the history of philosophy. If Christianity is a myth, basically literary, then Christianity exceeds tragedy, according to ?i?ek, by expressing itself through the form of
in Egyptian society. Contributor Note Lawrie Phillips is a Lecturer in Political Sociology, Research Methods and Latin American Politics in the Political Science Department at the British University ... , providing fresh insights into the nature and implications of their coverage of political processes, and supplementing current mass and social media research by evaluating their role in supporting the
This paper attempts a consideration of some aspects of what has become known as the ‘philosophy of event’ as they apply to educational theory and specifically to the educational question of how ... first part of this paper will say something about what might be described as the philosophy of the ?event? but I will preface these remarks by placing them in a broader context that also contains
discusses singlehood in relation to traditional Chinese culture. There is no doubt that Confucian philosophy and ‘face’ are correlated with the fact that the family-kinship in China has a pervasive influence ... philosophy, which puts an over-emphasis on patriarchal beliefs and values. In this connection, subordination and obedience to men are expected from Chinese women. For instance, the ?Three Obedience and Four
university is at root a political problem whose resolution requires a political response. ... forgotten. Campus leaders and educational advocates cease to speak about these different functions. The political function here is perhaps fundamental. As C. Wright Mills emphasized, The prime task of public
experiment by including some voices or testimonials from former students and others who have experienced this attempt to teach the event. There is a political and philosophical value to this form of education ... -level courses. My upper-level classes are composed of majors and minors (and often also majors and minors in philosophy), however, who are much more open to thinking about and experiencing an event. Many
scale in political philosophy, going back to Aristotle’s Politics, but the issue tends to be under-estimated in current political thinking.) So the traditional way to mitigate the problems of
academic freedom go back to 1915. These carefully crafted statements aim at establishing the autonomy of the academic profession and its independence from political, economic and social pressures in the ... pursuit of knowledge and in teaching. The “Academic Bill of Rights Movement” uses AAUP principles rhetorically for political purposes. The “Academic Bill of Rights” movement not only distorts AAUP
essays (and an interview) from some of the finest critics in education, philosophy, literature and cultural studies in order to make sense of that very question. Readers will find here the voices of ... and teaching in Bangkok, Thailand, and working on a book on events of unlearning and the philosophy of weak pedagogy. He is the author of J. Hillis Miller and the Possibilities of Reading: Literature
’, ‘absorption’ or ‘appropriation’, I argue, there is a real danger that we obstruct or close down the horizon of textual experience. In development of this argument, I draw on the philosophy of Stanley Cavell. I ... the Philosophy of Education and the Philosophy of Literature. ?ine's first monograph, The Ironist and the Romantic: Reading Richard Rorty and Stanley Cavell, was published by Bloomsbury in 2014, and she
political discontent in Italy during the last years of Silvio Berlusconi’s government, highlighting the demand for a commitment to improved ethical and democratic standards in contemporary Italy. This ... democratic standards in contemporary Italy. This editorial also suggests a possible way to pursue such an ethico-political commitment, assigning particular importance to public pedagogy and cultural politics
2011 turned out to be an extraordinary year. The clustering of insurgencies around time and geography gave a political ring to the seasons: commentators spoke of the Arab Spring, the European Summer ... criticism misses the point by confusing the disruption of the given with the task of reconfiguring it. They are not standard political practices or policy-making exercises. Insurgencies are about saying
disciplinary structures and their premises, in constant dialogue with cultural studies, political philosophy, and feminisms ? I refer to works by Paola Zaccaria, Renate Siebert, Miguel Mellino, Caterina Romeo ... group on race and racisms, InteRGRace, that brings together methods from cultural studies, political philosophy, semiotics, social sciences and postcolonial studies. This take, 1 See http