Peter Gant, Seeing Light: A Critical Enquiry into the Origins of Resurrection Faith (Durham: Sacristy Press, 2019), pp. vii + 302. ISBN: 978-1-78959-050-0. RRP £24.49 or US$12.44.

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Peter Carnley
Keyword(s):  
Critical Enquiry

Little Dorrit

2018 ◽  
pp. 244-259
Author(s):  
Francesca Orestano
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Visual Studies ◽  
Critical Reception ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Critical Reading ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Critical Enquiry ◽  
Narrative Function

By dwelling first on the ‘faults’, then on the ‘excellencies’ remarked by reviewers and critics of Little Dorrit, this chapter also traces the history of that novel’s critical reception as it evolved from a close focus on contemporary politics and economics toward a study of the writer’s Hogarthian skill at building a visual satire. Subsequently the characters’ psychology as well as Dickens’s became the object of critical enquiry. When visual studies brought to the fore the import of perception and its narrative function, another area of investigation opened, in this chapter specifically connected with, and culturally encoded in, the technique of the stereoscope and the scientific notion of the binocularity of vision. Implemented by Dickens in the construction of Little Dorrit, this notion allows for a further critical reading of the novel as lieu de mémoire where real and imagined imprisonments, inscribed in history, also conjure the scene where cultural memory rewrites individual and collective identity in the present.

Was ist Gewalt?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dietrich Schotte
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Critical Enquiry

Unlike other subjects of philosophy, violence is a familiar part of our everyday life, even if we usually encounter it primarily in the news. But does this mean that we already know what “violence” really is? So it would seem. Yet on a second, philosophically mindful glance it becomes apparent that this seemingly trivial question is anything but easy to answer. This book offers a critical enquiry of the concept of violence, including detailed discussions of the concepts of collective and institutionalized violence. It shows that these concepts, while remaining “essentially contested”, can be defined sufficiently precise to expose and criticize the strategically motivated abuse of the concept of violence that we encounter all too often.

In Search of Respect in Criminal Justice

2020 ◽  
pp. 7-40
Author(s):  
Gabrielle Watson
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Methodological Choices ◽  
General Terms ◽  
The Social ◽  
Interpretive Approach ◽  
Simple Question ◽  
Critical Enquiry

The principal aim of the chapter is to examine the merits of respect as a concept of critical enquiry. This is an ambitious task, not least because it involves a challenge to the definitional self-evidence of respect to which criminal justice scholars and practitioners routinely subscribe. The chapter pursues three distinct lines of enquiry and reflection. What is respect? The first task is to attend to this deceptively simple question. In so doing, the chapter assembles materials on respect from philosophy and elsewhere in the social sciences. Second, having explored what respect means in general terms—though this is hotly contested—the chapter sketches and filters the most prominent classic and contemporary works into an understanding of respect for criminal justice. By initiating a dialogue with related disciplines in this way, the aim is to build a strong conceptual platform from which to engage with the substantive material on policing and imprisonment in subsequent chapters. Third, the chapter situates respect in criminal justice in contextual and methodological terms. Much of this work must be justificatory both of respect and of my own methodological choices. Having explained in some detail what respect means and why it has been selected for examination, the chapter considers why policing and imprisonment have been selected as contexts for that examination, and how an interpretive approach offers a means by which to conduct that examination.

Situated methodologies: A critical enquiry into art-based health research

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine M. Boydell ◽  
George Belliveau
Keyword(s):  
Health Research ◽  
Critical Enquiry

scholarly journals III. Part of a letter from the Reverend Mr. Benjamin Colman, of Boston in New England, to the late Bishop of Peterborough; giving an account of the late earthquake which happened there. Communicated by Dr. Jurin. R. S. S. &c

1730 ◽  
Vol 36 (409) ◽  
pp. 124-127
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Critical Enquiry

My Lord, Your Lordship hopes that some of our accurate observers took notes of the symptoms and incidents of our late storms and earthquake, to communicate to the Royal Society, for the more critical enquiry into the causes and effects of this.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document