scholarly journals ‘Let's Look at It Objectively’: Why Phenomenology Cannot be Naturalized

2013 ◽  
Vol 72 ◽  
pp. 89-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dermot Moran

AbstractIn recent years there have been attempts to integrate first-person phenomenology into naturalistic science. Traditionally, however, Husserlian phenomenology has been resolutely anti-naturalist. Husserl identified naturalism as the dominant tendency of twentieth-century science and philosophy and he regarded it as an essentially self-refuting doctrine. Naturalism is a point of view or attitude (a reification of the natural attitude into thenaturalistic attitude) that does not know that it is an attitude. For phenomenology, naturalism is objectivism. But phenomenology maintains that objectivity is constituted through the intentional activity of cooperating subjects. Understanding the role of cooperating subjects in producing the experience of the one, shared, objective world keeps phenomenology committed to a resolutely anti-naturalist (or ‘transcendental’) philosophy.

2011 ◽  
pp. 1-284
Author(s):  
Gabija Bankauskaitė

CONTENTS I. PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONSMichał Mazurkiewicz (Poland). Sport versus Religion... 11Natalia А. Kuzmina (Russia). Poetry Book as a Supertext... 19Jonė Grigaliūnienė (Lithuania). Possessive Constructions as a Purely Linguistic Phenomenon?... 31 II. FACTS AND REFLECTIONSAleksandras Krasnovas, Aldona Martinonytė (Lithuania). Symbolizing of Images in Juozas Aputis Stories...40Jūratė Kumetaitienė (Lithuania). Tradition and Metamorphosis of Escapism (Running “from” or “into”) in the Modern and Postmodern Norwegian Literature...51Natalia V. Kovtun (Russia). Trickster in the Vicinity of Traditional Modern Prose...65Pavel S. Glushakov (Latvia). Semantic Processes in the Structure of Vasily Shukshin’s Poetics...81Tatyana Kamarovskaya (Belarus). Adam and the War...93Virginija Paplauskienė (Lithuania). Woman’s Language World in Liune Sutema’s Collection “Graffiti....99Jolanta Chwastyk-Kowalczyk (Poland). The Models of e-Comunication in the Polish Society of Britain and Northern Ireland...111Vilma Bijeikienė (Lithuania). How Equivocation Depends on the Way Questions are Asked: a Study in Lithuanian Political Discourse...123Viktorija Makarova (Lithuania). The One Who Names the Things, Masters Them: Ruskij vs. Rosijanin, Ruskij vs. Rosijskij in the Discourse of Russian Presidents...136Dorota Połowniak-Wawrzonek (Poland). Idioms from the Saga Film “Star Wars” in Contemporary Polish Language...144Ilona Mickienė, Inesa Birbilaitė (Lithuania). Women’s Naming in Telsiai Parish in the First Dacades of the 18th Century...158Liudmila Garbul (Lithuania). Reflection of Results of Interslavonic Language Contacts in the Russian Chancery Language of the First Half of the 17th Century (Synchronic and Diachronic Aspects). Part II...168Vilhelmina Vitkauskienė (Lithuania). Francophonie in Lithuania... 179Natalia V. Yudina (Russia). On the Role of the Russian Language in the Globalizing World of the XXI Century...189Maria Lojko (Belarus). Teaching Legal English to English Second Language Students in the US Law Schools...200 III. OPINIONElena V. Savich (Belarus). On Generation of an Integrative Method of Discourse Analysis...212Marek Weber (Poland). Lexical Analysis of Selected Lexemes Belonging to the Semantic Field ‘Computer Hardware’...220 IV. SCIENTISTS ABOUT SCIENTISTSOleg Poljakov (Lithuania). On the Female Factor in Linguistics and Around It... 228 V. OUR TRANSLATIONSBernard Sypniewski (USA). Snake in the Grass. Part II. Translated by Jurga Cibulskienė...239 VI. SCIENTIFIC LIFE CHRONICLEConferencesTatiana Larina (Russia), Laura Alba-Juez (Spain). Report and reflections of the 2010 International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication in Madrid...246Books reviewsAleksandra M. Ponomariova (Russia). ЧЕРВИНСКИЙ, П. П., 2010. Номинативные аспекты и следствия политической коммуникации...252Gabija Bankauskaitė-Sereikienė (Lithuania). PAPLAUSKIENĖ, V., 2009. Liūnė Sutema: gyvenimo ir kūrybos keliais...255Yuri V. Shatin (Russia). Meaningful Curves. ГРИНБАУМ, О. Н., 2010. Роман А.С. Пушкина «Евгений Онегин»: ритмико-смысловой комментарий... 259Journal of scientific lifeDaiva Aliūkaitė (Lithuania). The Idea of the Database of Printed Advertisements: the Project “Sociolinguistics of Advertisements”...263Loreta Vaicekauskienė (Lithuania). The Project “Vilnius is Speaking: The Role of Vilnius Language in the Contemporary Lithuania, 2010”...265Daiva Aliūkaitė (Lithuania). The Project “Lithuanian Language: Fractures of Ideals, Ideologies and Identities”: Language Ideals from the Point of View of Ordinary Speech Community Members...267 Announce...269 VII. REQUIREMENTS FOR PUBLICATION...270 VIII. OUR AUTHORS...278


2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Cotterrell

AbstractThe work of the Polish–Russian scholar Leon Petrażycki from the early decades of the twentieth century holds a strikingly paradoxical position in the literature of juristic and socio-legal scholarship: on the one hand, lauded as a supremely valuable contribution to knowledge about the nature of law and, on the other, widely neglected and little known. This paper asks how far Petrażycki's theories, expressed in writings by and about him available to an international readership, can provide insight for contemporary socio-legal studies – not as historical background but as living ideas. How far can his work speak to current issues and inform current debates? What obstacles stand in the way of this? Why have few international scholars engaged with his theories despite their rigour and originality? The paper starts from this last issue before addressing the others. It argues that Petrażycki's radical legal theory offers strikingly distinctive resources for rethinking issues about the role of law in multicultural societies, the nature of developing transnational law, and the significance of law as an aspect or expression of culture.


Author(s):  
Clemena Antonova

This chapter begins from a simple observation, namely, that what has been called ‘the Russian religious renaissance of the twentieth century’ coincided in time with two important movements in the sphere of the visual arts. On the one hand, there was a sweeping revival of interest in the medieval icon at the beginning of the twentieth century, which left almost no sphere of cultural life untouched. On the other, in artistic terms, the whole period was largely defined by the advent of the Russian avant-garde. I would like to consider the junction at which these three developments overlapped, informed, influenced, even opposed and clashed with one another. According to the interpretation proposed here, it is the mixture and the coexistence of a revived Orthodoxy, a reawakened focus on the medieval artistic tradition, and the rise of avant-garde modernism that gave a unique flavour to early twentieth-century Russian culture. The debates on the function and the meaning of the icon in the period between the 1910s and the early 1920s ultimately suggested different answers to the problem of the role of religion in modernity.


2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Birkner ◽  
Daniel Nölleke

Using the concept of mediatization, in this article, we analyze the relationship between sport and media from a sport-centered perspective. Examining the autobiographies of 14 German and English soccer players, we investigate how athletes use media outlets, what they perceive as the media’s influence and its logic, and—crucially—how this usage and these perceptions affect their own media-related behavior. Our findings demonstrate the important role of the media for the sports systems from the athlete’s point of view and demonstrate the research potential of mediatization as a fruitful concept in studies on sport communication. On the one hand, the sport stars reflect in their autobiographies that their status and income depend on media coverage; and on the other hand, they complain about the omnipresence of the media, especially offside the pitch and feel unfairly treated by the tabloid press, both in England and in Germany.


2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 271-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suren Basov ◽  
M. Ishaq Bhatti

AbstractMost research in contract theory concentrated on the role of incentives in shaping individual behavior. Recent research suggests that social norms also play an important role. From a point of view of a mechanism designer (a principal, a government, and a bank), responsiveness of an agent to the social norms is both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, it provides the designer with extra instruments, while on the other it puts restrictions on how these new and the more conventional instruments can be used. The main objective of this paper is to investigate this trade-off and study how it shapes different contracts observed in the real world. We consider a model in which agent’s cost of cheating is triggered by the principal’s show of trust. We call such behavior a norm of honesty and trust and show that it drives incentives to be either low powerful or high powerful, eliminating contracts with medium powerful incentives.


2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 927-960 ◽  
Author(s):  
RICHARD WESTERMAN

For European literati of the early twentieth century, Fyodor Dostoevsky represented a mythically Russian spirituality in contrast to a soulless, rationalized West. One such enthusiast was Georg Lukács, who in 1915 began a never-completed book about Dostoevsky's work, a model of spiritual community that could redeem a fallen world. Though framing his analysis in the language and themes of broader Dostoevsky reception, Lukács used this idiom innovatively to go beyond the reactionary implications this model might connote. Highlighting similarities with Max Weber's account of political ethics, I argue that Lukács developed an ethic derived from his reading of Dostoevsky, which focused on the idea of a hero defined by an ability to resolve the specific ethical dilemma of adherence to duty and moral law on the one hand, and, on the other, the need to restore spontaneous human community at a time when the social institutions embodying such laws had fallen into decay. Crucially, he deployed the same framework after his conversion to Marxism to justify revolutionary terror. However different his position from Dostoevsky's, it was through engagement with these novels that Lukács not only clarified his thought but also came to identify Lenin as a Dostoevskyan hero figure.


Plato Journal ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 97-110
Author(s):  
Livio Rossetti

In Plato’s Laws several passages have been clearly conceived of as preambles. The most extended, and prominent, is the one we find at the beginnings of Book five. It amounts to a complicate tour de force, not easy to be accounted for.What surfaced during the present investigation is a meandrical line of thought which ends with the unexpected adoption of a proto-utilitarianist point of view. This turn is not only interesting (and possibly surprising) per se, since it implies that the author fully acknowledges the role of subjective evaluations that may well ignore the ontological hierarchy between gods-souls-bodies as well as the force of persuasion a wise legislator avails of.


2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 73-84
Author(s):  
Heriyanto ◽  
Ekaning Krisnawati ◽  
Elis Suryani ◽  
Eva Tuckyta Sari Sujatna ◽  
Kasno Pamungkas

Speech communication employs various and complex expressive ways ranging from linguistic to extralinguistic features, and it studies the interaction between the speaker and listener, including interpersonal interaction like the one between a patient and his or her traditional healer. This article discusses some of the issues concerning the language used in the traditional healing process which uses Baduy mantra among the community. Therefore, this study is interdisciplinary in nature and the overall approach is qualitative. Methodology-wise, this research is conducted using discourse analysis and an ethnography of communication. There are two aims from this study, which are: 1) to point out the linguistic and extralinguistic features utilised in the communication component related to activities contributing to the healing process; 2) to describe the meaning of the mantra used in the process of therapeutic practices; 3) to reveal the patterns of the Baduy medicinal mantra perceived from an ethnography of communication point of view. The results of the research indicate that the mimetic and expressive functions of mantra reflect the role of traditional therapeutic efforts as well as interpersonal relations among the members of the community. The extralinguistic elements are employed to arouse suggestion in order to support the effort of a treatment. Keywords: Baduy, communication, linguistic, extralinguistic, mantra.


Comunicar ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (25) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julio Tello-Díaz ◽  
José-Antonio Rebollo-González

Nowadays, the important role of the sport in our society is undeniable. From the Physical Education point of view, we must take its values and we must transmit them to our pupils. Let us think that it is not sufficient with presenting sports at school, but it must have a direct transference that affects our pupils’ free time transforming it into an active leisure, because the Physical Education has the purpose to achieve the integral education of the pupils. In this sense, it seems necessary to form good spectators to be critics with which they see and that they value the principles of all sport activity and to appreciate the different sport manifestations they attend, contributing to form different opinions to achieve an integral education. The mass media, and particularly the television, present a set of values that turn around several axes (exit, competition, consumption, possessiveness). The television must have the purpose of entertaining, of informing and of educating; but if we compared the values that arise from the sport competitions emitted on television with the values that we tried to promote at schools, we could question ourselves if they are at the same level, or, on the contrary, they aim in opposite ways. The sport activity occupies an important role in the leisure of the young people, on the one hand as a sport practice and, on a second hand, as spectators of sport events. From our subject, we want to contribute providing a meaningfulness to these activities for our students and, to reach, as Pierre de Couvertin said that all the sports were for everybody, pleading for a global sport in which any limit of age, physical condition, sex… En los tiempos que corren es innegable el papel que juega el deporte como gran agente social en nuestra sociedad. Desde el área de Educación Física debemos utilizar los valores tan extraordinariamente importantes que nos aporta y que de una manera decidida tenemos que transmitir a nuestro alumnado. Consideramos que no es suficiente con dar a conocer los deportes en el ámbito educativo; no parece suficiente con que trabajemos para que hagan deporte, sino que éste tenga una transferencia directa que incida en su tiempo libre transformándolo en un ocio activo, ya que la Educación Física, como área del currículum escolar, tiene como finalidad posibilitar la formación integral del alumnado, desarrollando todas las capacidades del ser humano. En este sentido, parece necesario conseguir buenos espectadores, que sean críticos con lo que ven y que valoren los principios de toda actividad deportiva y sepan apreciar desde una perspectiva crítica las diferentes manifestaciones a las que asisten como espectadores, aportando opiniones fundamentadas que contribuyan de alguna manera a su formación integral. Señala Cagigal que todo deporte organizado para el ocio y para la educación, como el espontáneo de cualquier movimiento popular es cada vez más, otra realidad distinta del deporte espectáculo. Por tanto, debemos ser conscientes de que no sólo es deporte el que sale en la televisión, sino mucho más, y nosotros desde estas líneas queremos mostrar algunas ideas encaminadas a desarrollar ese espíritu crítico en nuestro alumnado. Somos conscientes que desde los medios de comunicación, en general, y de la televisión, en particular, se desprende una jerarquía de valores que giran en torno a una serie de ejes (éxito, competencia, consumo, posesividad...). Aunque sabemos que la televisión debe tener la triple finalidad de entretener, informar y educar, si nos detenemos a analizar los valores que emanan de las competiciones deportivas emitidas por televisión y los valores que intentamos proporcionar, propiciar y potenciar desde los centros educativos, podríamos cuestionarnos si están en la misma línea, con el mismo frente común o, por el contrario, apuntan en sentidos opuestos. Como señalan los estudios al respecto, la actividad deportiva ocupa un lugar preponderante en lo que es el ocio activo de nuestros jóvenes, por una parte como práctica deportiva y, por otra, como espectadores de eventos deportivos. Por lo tanto, desde nuestra asignatura queremos contribuir a que estas actividades sean lo más significativas posible entre nuestro alumnado y, en definitiva, conseguir como señalaba el barón Pierre de Couvertin, que todos los deportes sean para todos, abogando por un deporte globalizador en el que no existan límites de edad, condición física, sexo…


2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 64-87
Author(s):  
Anabela Pereira

The aim of this article is to demonstrate how body-representations offer an opportunity for its visual interpretation from a biographical point of view, enhancing, on the one hand, the image’s own narrative dynamics, and, on the other, the role of the body as a place of incorporation of experiences, as well as, a vehicle mediating the individual interaction with the world. Perspective founded in the works of the artists Helena Almeida and Jorge Molder, who use self-representation as an expression of these incorporated (lived) experiences, constitutes an important discursive construction and structuring of their narrative identity through visual creation, the artists enable the other with moments of sharing knowledge, creativity and subjectivity, contributing also to the construction of the contemporary, cultural and social imagery.


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