British irony, global justice: a pragmatic reading of Chris Brown, Banksy and Ricky Gervais

2009 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAMES BRASSETT
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Richard Rorty ◽  
Global Ethics ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Comic Frame

AbstractThe article provides a critical analysis of the concept of irony and how it relates to global justice. Taking Richard Rorty as a lead, it is suggested that irony can foreground a sense of doubt over our own most heartfelt beliefs regarding justice. This provides at least one ideal sense in which irony can impact the discussion of global ethics by pitching less as a discourse of grand universals and more as a set of hopeful narratives about how to reduce suffering. The article then extends this notion via the particular – and particularly – ethnocentric case of British Irony. Accepting certain difficulties with any definition of British Irony the article reads the interventions of three protagonists on the subject of global justice – Chris Brown, Banksy and Ricky Gervais. It is argued that their considerations bring to light important nuances in irony relating to the importance of playfulness, tragedy, pain, self-criticism and paradox. The position is then qualified against the (opposing) critiques that irony is either too radical, or, too conservative a quality to make a meaningful impact on the discussion of global justice. Ultimately, irony is defended as a critical and imaginative form, which can (but does not necessarily) foster a greater awareness of the possibilities and limits for thinking/doing global justice.%‘‘The comic frame, in making a man the student of himself, makes it possible for him to ‘transcend’ occasions when he has been tricked or cheated, since he can readily put such discouragements into his ‘assets’ column, under the heading of ‘experience’. . . . In sum, the comic frame should enable people to be observers of themselves, while acting.Blackadder: Baldrick, have you no idea what irony is?Baldrick: Yes, it’s like goldy and bronzy only it’s made out of iron.’’

scholarly journals The concept of criminal procedural legal relations: definition of concept

2019 ◽  
pp. 185-196
Author(s):  
V. Vinnychenko
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Axiomatic Method ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Procedural Law ◽  
European Court ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Theory Of Law ◽  
Definition Of

The concept of criminal procedural legal relations in the context of modern globalism of criminal proceedings is considered in the article. Scientific approaches to definition of concept of legal relations, subject of criminal procedural law, method of criminal procedural law are investigated. The purpose of the article is to define the concept of criminal procedural legal relations under modern criminal proceedings. The author is investigated: Approaches to defining the concept of legal relations and Criminal procedural legal relations; Subject of criminal procedural law and method of criminal procedural law. During the research, a critical analysis of the mentioned scientific material is made and its own scientific approach to the definition of the criminal procedural legal relations is developed. During the copyright it is investigated a number of methods of scientific cognition, in particular, how: the method of scientific formalization; Axiomatic method; Hypoolytic-Deduktive method. The concept of the theory of Law on definition of notion and signs of legal relations was investigated, the analysis of these concepts was made and the concept of criminal procedural legal relations was chosen. The concept of criminal procedural legal relations provided by Ukrainian scientists and the critically-critical analysis of these concepts is investigated. It is given that existing approaches are not correct for modern legal reality and cannot be flexible in the face of progressive globalized development of the modern criminal procedural law. Scientific approaches to the subject of criminal procedural law as signs of criminal procedural legal relations are investigated. Scientific approaches to definition of criminal procedural law method as signs of criminal procedural legal relations are investigated. The analysis of the criminal procedural legislation and precedents of the European Court of Human Rights as a source of international public law is carried out. Generalized and scientifically deduction method output the concept of criminal procedural legal relations, which may be applied under the conditions of modern globalized criminal proceedings. The study has an interdisciplinary character. The author conducts research using the scientific base of Globalistics, Furturilogy, international relations.

EDITORIAL

1997 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. v-vi
Author(s):  
AbdulHamid A. AbuSulayman
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Thematic Issue ◽  
Religious Thought ◽  
Present Issue ◽  
Western Modernity ◽  
Working Definition ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of

The present issue of the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciencesrepresents a ground-breaking effort of sorts in that it is the first to beorganized around a single theme. Thus, all papers presented here revolvearound the issue of modernity and the response of Muslims to its challenges.Although this clearly is not a novel subject for the pages of thejoumal, this thematic issue brings to its readership a number of informedperspectives that contribute significantly to a deeper understanding of thephenomenon as it relates to the contempomy Islamic experience.In “The Dance of the Pen, the Play of the Sign: A Study in the Relationshipbetween Modernity, Immanence, and Deconstruction,” AbdelWabab Elmessiri delves into the Western philosophical tdition and itsdiscourse regarding modernity, recalling some of his earlier contributionsin the pages of this joumal. Elmessiri takes a hard look at the underlyingassumptions of modernity, including its view of humanity, and explainshow the nature-matter paradigm has insinuated itself as the underlyingparadigm of Western modernity. Of particular interest to readers will behis exploration of the idea of comprehensive secularism as opposed topartial secularism and his study of the metaphysics of immanence.The second study, M. Mumtaz Ali’s “The Concept of Modernization:An Analysis of Contempomy Islamic Thought,” may be viewedas an attempt to construct a working definition of Islamic modernizationthrough a critical analysis of the Western concept’s epistemologicalfoundations. The author discusses the responses of such contemporarythinkers as Iqbal, Qutb, Mawdudi, al-Faruqi, al-Attas, al-‘Alwani, andAbuSulayman on the subject of modernization and concludes by suggestinga four-phase project for the modernization of Islamic thought.While the next contribution to the joumal‘s theme takes the Indiansubcontinent as its venue, its discussion of modernization, like the workof the poet Iqbal himself, is directed towad the entire ummah. ThroughAthar Farqui‘s translation, readers of English may now have a look at thework of Justice Javaid Iqbal. In his “Modern Indian Muslims and Iqbal,”Iqbal’s son, who is a scholar in his own right, analyzes the substance andsignificance of his father‘s thought as expressed in the controversialMadras lectures and The Reconstruction @Religious Thought in Islam ...

scholarly journals Vexed questions of legal definition of unfair competition

2020 ◽  
pp. 81-89
Author(s):  
Vladislav Igorevich Shcherbatykh
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Unfair Competition ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Legal Definition ◽  
Uniform Approach ◽  
Legal Science ◽  
Efficient Protection ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of

The subject of this research is the legal definition of the concept of “unfair competition” established by the Federal Law “On Protection of Competition”. The goal of this research is to analyze the content of this legal definition, determine its elements, as well as assess the legal definition from the perspective of its unambiguousness and correspondence to the goal of regulation of relations pertaining to protection from unfair competition, including through the analysis of the existing views within the doctrine. The novelty of this research consists in the critical analysis of the existing within legal science approaches towards assessment of legal definition of unfair competition formulated in Russian legislation, as well as postulation of a previously undiscussed problem pertaining to establishment of such sign of unfair competition as possibility of causing losses. The conclusion is made on correspondence of the legal definition of unfair competition in the current legislation to the goals of efficient protection of competition contrary to critical assessments that are prevalent within the doctrine, as well as on the necessity to form a uniform approach of the practice towards proving the possibility of inflicting losses as a sign of unfair competition.

Planification: Potential and role in XXI century market economy

2016 ◽  
pp. 63-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Buzgalin ◽  
A. Kolganov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
New Economy ◽  
Real Socialism ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Planning Institutions

The authors, basing on a critical analysis of the experience of planning during the 20th century in a number of countries of Europe and Asia, and also on the lessons from the economics of "real socialism", set out to substantiate their conclusions on the advisability of "reloading" this institution. The aim is to create planning mechanisms, suited to the new economy, that incorporate forecasting, projections, direct and indirect selective regulation and so forth into integral programs of economic development and that set a vector of development for particular limited spheres of what remains on the whole a market economy. New planning institutions presuppose a supersession of the forms of bureaucratic centralism and a reliance on network forms of organization of the subject and process of planning.

Typologization of security regulation

2020 ◽  
pp. 20-27
Author(s):  
Denis Tikhomirov
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Procedural Understanding ◽  
Limited Ability ◽  
Methodological Basis ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Legal Understanding

The purpose of the article is to typologize terminological definitions of security, to find out the general, to identify the originality of their interpretations depending on the subject of legal regulation. The methodological basis of the study is the methods that made it possible to obtain valid conclusions, in particular, the method of comparison, through which it became possible to correlate different interpretations of the term "security"; method of hermeneutics, which allowed to elaborate texts of normative legal acts of Ukraine, method of typologization, which made it possible to create typologization groups of variants of understanding of the term "security". Scientific novelty. The article analyzes the understanding of the term "security" in various regulatory acts in force in Ukraine. Typological groups were understood to understand the term "security". Conclusions. The analysis of the legal material makes it possible to confirm that the issues of security are within the scope of both legislative regulation and various specialized by-laws. However, today there is no single conception on how to interpret security terminology. This is due both to the wide range of social relations that are the subject of legal regulation and to the relativity of the notion of security itself and the lack of coherence of views on its definition in legal acts and in the scientific literature. The multiplicity of definitions is explained by combinations of material and procedural understanding, static - dynamic, and conditioned by the peculiarities of a particular branch of legal regulation, limited ability to use methods of one or another branch, the inter-branch nature of some variations of security, etc. Separation, common and different in the definition of "security" can be used to further standardize, in fact, the regulatory legal understanding of security to more effectively implement the legal regulation of the security direction.

Antonio Negri

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Diran
Keyword(s):  
Critical Distance ◽  
Middle Voice ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Antonio Negri

Agamben describes his posture as a reader as one of seeking a text’s Entwicklungsfähigkeit, or capacity for elaboration.1 In examining Agamben’s practices of reading, we can attend to the opposite phenomenon: the counter-elaboration that a text, in having being read by the philosopher, performs upon Agamben’s own thought. This reciprocal elaboration might constitute a paradigm for Agamben’s use of reading, according to his own idiosyncratic definition of use as an event in the middle voice, in which (according to a definition of Benveniste) the subject ‘effects an action only in affecting itself (il effectue en s’affectant)’ (UB 28). With this definition in mind, we could say that Agamben effects a text (he writes) only to the extent that he is also affected by another text (he reads). This is why Agamben’s position as a reader proves particularly important to any assessment of his work, quite aside from the problem of influence or intellectual genealogy. For this same reason, however, assessing Agamben’s relation to Antonio Negri – a figure with whom, by most measures, he is at odds – poses an unexpected challenge: how can Agamben’s thought be a use of Negri? Answering this question means not only assessing the critical distance between the two thinkers, but also taking this distance as a measure, in the Spinozan sense, of mutual affection.

The Autobiographical Subject and the Death Penalty

2013 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-187
Author(s):  
E. S. Burt
Keyword(s):  
Death Penalty ◽  
First Person ◽  
Philosophical Investigation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Individual

Why does writing of the death penalty demand the first-person treatment that it also excludes? The article investigates the role played by the autobiographical subject in Derrida's The Death Penalty, Volume I, where the confessing ‘I’ doubly supplements the philosophical investigation into what Derrida sees as a trend toward the worldwide abolition of the death penalty: first, to bring out the harmonies or discrepancies between the individual subject's beliefs, anxieties, desires and interests with respect to the death penalty and the state's exercise of its sovereignty in applying it; and second, to provide a new definition of the subject as haunted, as one that has been, but is no longer, subject to the death penalty, in the light of the worldwide abolition currently underway.

CONCEPT AND CONTENT OF A RECONCILIATION AGREEMENT IN THE CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS OF UKRAINE

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariia Sirotkina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Main Attention ◽  
Criminal Offense ◽  
Procedural Law ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
Criminal Procedure Law ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of

The article is turned out to a scientific search for the concept of "a reconciliation agreement between the victim and the suspect or accused" through the study of the essence of reconciliation and role in criminal proceedings thereof. The author notes that criminal procedural law (until 2012) had been proclaimed another approach to reconciliation between victim and suspect, not involved a dispute procedure as a conflict, the result of which can be reached by compromise and understanding through reconciliation. It is stated that one of the ways to resolve the legal conflict in committing a criminal offense was the opportunity to reach a compromise between the victim and the suspect (the accused) by concluding a reconciliation agreement between them, provided by the Code of Сriminal Procedure of Ukraine (2012). The main attention is placed on the shortcoming of the domestic criminal procedure law which is the lack of the concept of "a reconciliation agreement between the victim and the suspect or the accused", which can be eliminated only through examining the essence or legal nature of reconciliation in criminal proceedings. Taking into consideration the current legislation and modern views on the institution of reconciliation in criminal proceedings, the author's definition of the concept of "a reconciliation agreement" is proposed. Thus, “The conciliation agreement is an agreement in criminal proceedings concluded between the victim and the suspect or the accused person on their own initiative in relation to crimes of minor or medium gravity and in criminal proceedings in the form of private prosecution, the subject of which is the compensation of harm caused by wrongdoing or committing other actions not related to compensation for the damage that the suspect or the accused is obliged to commit in favor of the victim, in exchange for an agreed punishment and sentencing thereof or sentencing thereof and relief from serving a sentence with probation, as well as the statutory consequences of conclusion and approval of the agreement".

Need of Human Rights as a Better Way of Life

Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 72-83
Author(s):  
Tushar Kadian
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Basic Needs ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Labour Unions ◽  
The People ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Made In

Actually, basic needs postulates securing of the elementary conditions of existence to every human being. Despite of the practical and theoretical importance of the subject the greatest irony is non- availability of any universal preliminary definition of the concept of basic needs. Moreover, this becomes the reason for unpredictability of various political programmes aiming at providing basic needs to the people. The shift is necessary for development of this or any other conception. No labour reforms could be made in history till labours were treated as objects. Its only after they were started being treating as subjects, labour unions were allowed to represent themselves in strategy formulations that labour reforms could become a reality. The present research paper highlights the basic needs of Human Rights in life.

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