Civic Liberalism: Reflections on Our Democratic Ideals. By Thomas A. Spragens, Jr. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999. 271p. $70.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 196-197
Author(s):  
Stanley C. Brubaker
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Theory ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Civic Liberalism ◽  
Democratic Ideals ◽  
The Many

Of the many endeavors in the last three decades to restate the central aspirations of liberalism, this important work is one of the most balanced, nuanced, and cogent. Part of its success lies in its willingness to stretch the boundaries of what we call liberalism, but in doing so, Spragens only brings liberal theory into better alignment with intuitions and sensibilities underlying liberal practice.

Emerson's Memory Loss

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Hanlon
Keyword(s):  
William James ◽  
Memory Loss ◽  
Margaret Fuller ◽  
Final Phase ◽  
Important Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One ◽  
Do So ◽  
The Way

Emerson’s Memory Loss is about an archive of texts documenting Emerson’s intellectual state during the final phase of his life, as he underwent dementia. It is also about the way these texts provoke a rereading of the more familiar canon of Emerson’s thinking. Emerson’s memory loss, Hanlon argues, contributed to the shaping of a line of thought in America that emphasizes the social over the solipsistic, the affective over the distant, the many over the one. Emerson regarded his output during the time when his patterns of cognition transformed profoundly as a regathering of focus on the nature of memory and of thinking itself. His late texts theorize Emerson’s experience of senescence even as they disrupt his prior valorizations of the independent mind teeming with self-sufficient conviction. But still, these late writings have succumbed to a process of critical forgetting—either ignored by scholars or denied inclusion in Emerson’s oeuvre. Attending to a manuscript archive that reveals the extent to which Emerson collaborated with others—especially his daughter, Ellen Tucker Emerson—to articulate what he considered his most important work even as his ability to do so independently waned, Hanlon measures the resonance of these late texts across the stretch of Emerson’s thinking, including his writing about Margaret Fuller and his meditations on streams of thought that verge unto those of his godson, William James. Such ventures bring us toward a self defined less by its anxiety of overinfluence than by its communality, its very connectedness with myriad others.

After Utopia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith N. Shklar
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Social Thought ◽  
Downward Trend ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Half Century ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many ◽  
New Generation

After Utopia was the author's first book, a harbinger of her renowned career in political philosophy. Throughout the many changes in political thought during the last half century, this important work has withstood the test of time. The book explores the decline of political philosophy, from Enlightenment optimism to modern cultural despair, and offers a critical, creative analysis of this downward trend. It looks at Romantic and Christian social thought, and shows that while the present political fatalism may be unavoidable, the prophets of despair have failed to explain the world they so dislike, leaving the possibility of a new and vigorous political philosophy. With a foreword examining the book's continued relevance, this current edition introduces a remarkable synthesis of ideas to a new generation of readers.

Afterword Uncertain trajectories and refigured social worlds: the image entourage and other practices of digital and social media photography

Africa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 89 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-328
Author(s):  
Corinne A. Kratz
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Photographic Images ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many ◽  
East West

Drawn from East, West, Central and Southern Africa, the case studies in this special issue build on several decades of important work on photography in Africa. That work has examined colonial photography and postcards, studio work from colonial times to the present, activist photography, photojournalism, and artists who work with photographic images. It has addressed issues of representation, portraiture, aesthetics, self-fashioning, identities, power and status, modernities and materiality, the roles of photographs in governance and everyday politics, and the many histories and modes of social practice around making, showing, viewing, exchanging, manipulating, reproducing, circulating and archiving photographic images. Yet these articles push such issues and topics in exciting directions by addressing new photographic circumstances emerging throughout the world, initiated through new media's technological shifts and possibilities. In Africa, this has fuelled a range of transformations over the last fifteen years or so, transformations that are still unfolding. As the articles show, digital images, mobile phone cameras and social media (also accessed via phone) constitute the potent triad that has set off these transformations.

scholarly journals Psychology Cannot Afford to Ignore the Many Harms Caused by Microaggressions

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monnica T. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Studies ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Medical Problems ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Many ◽  
Everyday Discrimination

In an ongoing debate, Scott Lilienfeld (2019) continues to question the merits and meaning of microaggressions research. Key issues include how to define microaggressions, whether microaggressions cause measurable harm, whether microaggression education is helpful, and defining the most important next steps in the microaggressions research agenda. I discuss the importance of understanding microaggressions in context and as they relate to pathological stereotypes about groups, given that this is critical to identifying them. I summarize some of the many longitudinal studies linking psychological and medical problems to experiences of everyday discrimination. In addition, the literature indicates that victims of microaggressions experience further harms when trying to respond to offenders, but there is little research to support any specific interventions, including those advanced by Lilienfeld. I discuss the importance of believing and supporting those reporting experiences of microaggressions. I conclude that there is a need for more research examining (a) how to reduce the commission of microaggressions, (b) how to best respond to offenders in the moment in a way that mitigates harm for all persons involved, and (c) how clinicians can best help those who are suffering as a result of microaggressions as the next frontier in this important work.

scholarly journals Unlocking the digital crypt: Exploring a framework for cryptographic reading and writing

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Quinn DuPont
Keyword(s):  
Important Work ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
Control Society ◽  
The Many

This article argues that we should take seriously Friedrich Kittler’s suggestion that we now live in a post-writing world. It is argued that much of this transition is due to the shift towards cryptographic writing. Shawn Rosenheim’s Cryptographic Imagination is briefly analyzed and critiqued; teasing out the many conceptual themes of that Rosenheim presents this article offers critique and analysis of this important work. As a way of rebuilding Rosenheim’s analysis, an original conceptualization of cryptography is also briefly sketched. Returning to Kittler’s suggestion, it is concluded that cryptographic writing performs an ordering role in our control society.

Some Financial and Statistical Considerations of the Old Age Pension Scheme

1909 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vyvyan Marr
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Pension Scheme ◽  
Important Work ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Statistical Aspect ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Old Age Pensions ◽  
The Many ◽  
Yearly Means

There are many references in the pages of the Journal to Old Age Pensions, and in view of the Act of last year the subject—from a financial and statistical aspect—may be discussed without transgressing on questions of State policy. I therefore venture to submit the following notes of some of the financial and statistical questions involved, stimulated in so doing by Mr. G. F. Hardy's statement in his Presidential Address, that he believed our most important work lies in the proper application of actuarial principles to the many practical questions which arise from time to time.Old age pensions ranging from 1s. to 5s. a week according to the yearly means of the pensioners are granted to British subjects resident in the United Kingdom who have attained the age of seventy years, provided their yearly means do not exceed ￡31 10s., and provided they are not disqualified on the ground of Poor Law Relief, imprisonment, or the other reasons set forth in Section 3 of the Act.

The Keynotes of the 2016 Political Conventions: The Death of a Genre?

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 401-413
Author(s):  
Theodore F. Sheckels
Keyword(s):  
Endangered Species ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Political Party ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Rhetorical Criticism ◽  
Keynote Address ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Presidential Nomination ◽  
Political Work ◽  
The Many

The concept of genre is an important one in rhetorical criticism. Important work has been done on presidential genres as well as more general ones such as the jeremiad and the apologia. In this vein is work on certain genres that recur at the many political party conventions. If one adopts an historical perspective, there are, from early-on, many genres—some explored by scholars, some not: the welcome address, the keynote address, the nominating and seconding speeches, and the vice presidential and presidential nomination acceptance speeches. There are also, more recently, addresses by former presidents, vanquished candidates, and—since the 1990s—prospective first spouses. This essay focuses on just one of these genres, the keynote. I argue that the genre is an important one, one that performs both important rhetorical and political work. Based on the 2016 party conventions, the genre is very much an endangered species of political communication, portending rhetorical problems for the nation’s two parties.

Don’t Waste Any Time In Mourning

2015 ◽  
Vol 66 (8) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Daniel Rosza Lang/Levitsky
Keyword(s):  
Index Volume ◽  
Cultural Work ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Concert Hall ◽  
Monthly Review ◽  
Revolutionary Politics ◽  
The Many ◽  
Cultural Worker

In the many accolades Pete Seeger received&hellip;after his death, there was often something missing&mdash;as absent in tributes from admirers who share his revolutionary politics as in those aiming to reclaim him for respectability. That absence is Seeger&rsquo;s role as an organizer, and, more broadly, the role of music (and other kinds of cultural work) as organizing, which his life exemplifies.&hellip; Seeger&rsquo;s work as an organizer may have been most obvious, its goals most blatant, in the field&hellip;. But his work, as a singer, as a song-collector, as a song-teacher, was not any less a labor of organizing in the concert hall. And that&rsquo;s not exceptional. That&hellip;is what makes someone a radical cultural worker. What&rsquo;s exemplary about Pete Seeger is how damn good at it he was. What we need to pay attention to and learn from is how he did this important work so well.<p class="mrlink">This article can also be found at the <a href="http://monthlyreview.org/index/volume-66-number-7" title="Vol. 66, No. 7: January 2015" target="_blank"><em>Monthly Review</em> website</a>, where most recent articles are published in full.</p><p class="mrpurchaselink"><a href="http://monthlyreview.org/index/volume-66-number-7" title="Vol. 66, No. 7: January 2015" target="_self">Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the <em>Monthly Review</em> website.</a></p>

Fame and its Vagaries in the Middle Ages

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Sennis
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Important Work ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Way

One of the many new avenues of research that Chris has opened up for us in the past decades is the study of fama in medieval contexts. In his important work on twelfth-century Tuscany, Chris considered fama as a form of superior hearsay, derived from gossip and talk, which could involve every member of the social group and to which some credibility could be given in court. This chapter attempts to develop this line of enquiry in a cultural perspective. I seek to show how the way in which the members of a social group bestow fame and celebrity (or their opposites) on some individuals can reveal a lot of the cultural context in which they operate; in other words, how the fame of certain individuals can, within their lifetime and after their death, alternate dramatically according to the way in which some members of future generations view the world in which they had lived. In this perspective, particularly revealing is the case of Theodoric, an individual who, in his lifetime, was famous almost in a modern sense, carving for himself a major role in the geopolitics of Late Antiquity. But Theodoric also become a paradigm, and the vagaries of his fame reveal a lot of the battle of memories and texts that took place in Italy, and more broadly in Europe, between the sixth and the ninth centuries.

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