Nations without nationalism

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Günther Sandner
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Popular Education ◽  
Politics Of Recognition ◽  
National Cultures ◽  
Politics Of Difference ◽  
Marxist Approach ◽  
The One ◽  
Marxist Concept ◽  
Contemporary Context ◽  
Cultural Concept

In addition to the socialist discourse on popular education, theoretical contributions of Austro-Marxist intellectuals such as Karl Renner, Otto Bauer and Otto Neurath on multiculturalism represent an important intellectual source of leftist culturalism. Considering actual debates, the Austro-Marxist approach on nation and culture moved between the politics of recognition and the politics of difference. Their concept combined both the recognition of (a positively evaluated) difference between national cultures and the demand for political unification transcending the nation state. Beyond their contemporary context, the Austro-Marxist concept gains in importance even for today by formulating a possible combination of political and economic unity on the one hand and cultural difference (and diversity) on the other. In a way, the Austro-Marxist approach represents a political and cultural concept of ‘nations without nationalism’.

scholarly journals Islam Nusantara as Strategy for Indonesian Nasionalism Inauguration

ADDIN ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 247
Author(s):  
Badrun Badrun
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Study Program ◽  
National Cultures ◽  
Religious Issues ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Grassroots Level ◽  
The One ◽  
New Religion ◽  
Islamic Institutions

<p>The discourse on Islam Nusantara has become quite popular discussion among Indonesian society in the last two to three years. Not only in the grassroots level, Islam Nusantara also becomes a study in several Islamic institutions in Indonesia. In fact, there are some Islamic universities that have opened Islam Nusantara study program. On the one hand, many groups welcomed the studies of Islam Nusantara after being proclaimed by <em>Nahdliyyin</em> in the 33<sup>th</sup> NU Congress in Jombang, 2015. But on the other hand, there are some groups who reject Islam Nusantara and considered it as heresy in Islam. Essentially, Islam Nusantara is not a new movement, not a new mazhab, not a new ideology, and certainly not a new religion. Islam Nusantara is Islam that exists in the nation and is not sourced from the nation. However, Islam Nusantara accepts and accommodates national cultures as long as it does not contradict the Islamic rules (sharia). It means, Islam Nusantara compromises the culture, appreciates the land where they live, but it does not eliminate tradition as long as it is still in harmony with Islamic sharia. This can become the foundation of our nationalism inauguration. In other words, Islam Nusantara does not only discuss about religious issues, but also about nationalism.</p>

Social and cultural determinants of self-realization in today’s service

Servis plus ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-23
Author(s):  
Владислав Шекелета ◽  
Vladislav Shekeleta ◽  
Василий Ивахнов ◽  
Vasiliy Ivakhnov ◽  
Ирина Герасимова ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Production ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
Services Sector ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Marxist Approach ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Economic Formation ◽  
Optimization Services

In article through the prism of social and cultural approaches to human personality and human activities, authors examine the nature of self-realization of the individual. The authors defend an original theory of the determinationproducing abilities cultural derivatives. On the other hand, the person, as shown in the article is the major determinant of the productive forces of society. The authors of the article rehabilitate in a certain sense the Marxist approach to the relation of individual and society, where the ability of the human is the product of work alienated from the worker; this product can be considered in the context of the categories of “service”, “product of social production” and so on. The article shows the conjugation of the three spectrums of solving the problems of human abilities; they are using the methodology of socio-cultural approach, using the perspective of philosophical anthropology, in the categorical field of psychological discourse. It’s provided by a person who acts simultaneously as an object and as a subject of social relationships, as a result, active life position, a certain strategy of behavior, a tendency to a kind of unique activities have great value towards socialization. The importance of such consideration is connected, on the one hand, with the need of “translating” philosophical problems of psychology and management in the modern language services sector, on the other hand with need to determine conditions for self-realization, and other spiritual factors of human existence in the modern capitalist production. Following consideration of the accompanying considered problem issues (psychological culture, professional development, optimization services and others.); the authors conclude that the social and cultural determination of personality self-actualization creates a dynamic variety of life strategies prejudicing a persons’ ability to realize adequately them in the market in the post-capitalist socio-economic formation.

A systematic theological theory of truth in Kathryn Tanner's Jesus, Humanity and the Trinity: A Brief Systematic Theology

2004 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Helmer
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Systematic Theology ◽  
Gift Giving ◽  
Concentric Circles ◽  
Christian Thought ◽  
The One ◽  
Ethical Response ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
Contemporary Context

This paper raises the truth question to explore the possibility of constructing a system of systematic theology in the contemporary context. By using Schleiermacher's thought as a constructive resource, two dimensions of truth are discussed in dialogue with Kathryn Tanner's book Jesus, Humanity and the Trinity: A Brief Systematic Theology: coherence and correspondence. Addressed in the first section is coherence, along with its auxiliary, comprehensiveness, as a requirement for system. The whole of the Christian world view is grasped by a principle of coherence that reflects both a subjective component of authorial individuality and an objective component of an individual grasp of the ‘spirit of the age’. Furthermore, consensus regarding systematic coherence in Western Christian thought agrees on a metanarrative structuring doctrines from creation to apocalypse. In Tanner's work, the principle of coherence is gift-giving that is traced from an inner-trinitarian narrative to its outer-trinitarian expressions in creation, the incarnation, eschatology, as well as in ethical response. Thematized in the second section is the tricky issue of theological correspondence between claims of redemption on the one hand and the sin, evil, and tragedy of the world on the other. Tanner's book offers one solution to this problem: analogical correspondence that situates doctrinal patterns of gift-giving (such as the incarnation, creation) as concentric circles in varying degrees of correspondence to their inner-trinitarian center. In view of this solution, this paper questions the relation between systematic coherence and the reality of both life's brokenness and the depths of divine self-giving pathos.

scholarly journals Argumenty z autorytetu a krytyczne myślenie. W nawiązaniu do „Logiki i argumentacji” Andrzeja Kisielewicza

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 77-93
Author(s):  
Mateusz Kotowski
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Expert Opinion ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Valuable Contribution ◽  
Rational Argumentation ◽  
The One ◽  
Contemporary Context

Arguments from authority and critical thinking. Side notes toLogic and Argumentation by Andrzej KisielewiczThe article focuses on the role of arguments from authority — or, more precisely, arguments from expert opinion – in rational argumentation and reasoning, in the contemporary context of specialisation of the sciences on the one hand, and the abundance of information on the other. The pretext for this is provided by Andrzej Kisielewicz’s new book: Logika i argumentacja. Praktyczny kurs krytycznego myślenia Logic and Argumentation. A Practical Course In Critical Thinking. I point out that, although Kisielewicz’s book is a valuable contribution to the Polish market of textbooks on argumentation, practical logic and critical thinking, it understates the importance of teaching the ways of proper assessment of arguments from authority, credibility of experts and information sources. I argue that arguments from authority should not be by definition dismissed as fallacies; on the contrary, appealing to authority to expert opinion is an unavoidable element of rational argumentation – at least whenever the discussion requires one to refer to contemporary scientific knowledge. However, relying on experts’ opinions involves genuine risks to the rationality of the debate, many of them having to do with the abundance of pseudoexperts and irresponsibility on the side of some scientists an extensive example is provided by the presentation of statements on GMO’s made by a certain Polish body of scientists. Therefore, the ability to distinguish correct appeals to authority from faulty ones including the ability to tell actual experts from pseudoexperst and reliable sources of information from unreliable ones should be considered a crucial competence which critical thinking courses should teach.

scholarly journals Postcolonial Practice of Interfaith With-ness

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-90
Author(s):  
Baiju Markose
Keyword(s):  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Religious Fundamentalism ◽  
Radical Politics ◽  
Politics Of Recognition ◽  
Politics Of Difference ◽  
Crony Capitalism ◽  
Religious Others ◽  
Analytical Tools

An attempt to develop the postcolonial practice of interfaith with-ness as a means of radical protest and resistance against the religious fundamentalism and crony capitalism in India has enormous significance today. The postcolonial practice of interfaith with-ness is not only a theoretical postulation but also a radical with-ness (being with) shared with the religious others. The idea proposes a radical politics of recognition, politics of difference, and politics of creative dialogue, rather than an apolitical “practice of tolerance” on which the traditional idea of interreligious dialogue is grounded. As a humble attempt, several Christian expropriations of the idea are being voiced in this essay with a spirit of religious confidentiality. And, the study uses empire criticism and intersectionality as the primary analytical tools.

scholarly journals Exploring Approaches to Italian Early Medieval Archaeology in Post-communist Europe

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 85-96
Author(s):  
Giulia Vollono
Keyword(s):  
Berlin Wall ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Local Identities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Marxist Approach ◽  
Fresh Perspective ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
Medieval Archaeology ◽  
The Impact

The fall of the Berlin Wall and, subsequently, of communism in Europe had profound consequences for the social and political environment of many European countries, including Italy. In this paper I discuss the impact that these, now historical, events and the new socio-political arena that emerged in their aftermath had upon Italian Early Medieval Archaeology from two interconnected perspectives. On the one hand I consider the history of a discipline that, although strongly characterised by a Marxist approach at its birth, appears not to have been subject to significant changes in its theoretical outlook as a consequence. On the other, through a consideration of the changing character of major exhibitions on the Lombard period, I explore the role that archaeology has played in the construction of a trans-national European narrative in a post-communist Europe while maintaining a central role in the negotiation of local identities. The ultimate aim of this paper is to re-evaluate the latest developments in Italian archaeology from a fresh perspective, considering the impact that major contemporary events can have on our perception, interpretation and narration of the past.

Socioeconomic Status and Cultural Difference

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keiko Ishii ◽  
Charis Eisen
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Cultural Dynamics ◽  
Analytic Thinking ◽  
Internal Attribution ◽  
National Cultures ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
External Causes ◽  
And Behavior

Socioeconomic status (SES) is a multidimensional construct based on access to material resources and one’s own rank relative to others in a social hierarchy. It fundamentally shapes individuals’ psychological and behavioral tendencies. In many ways, socioeconomic variation parallels East–West cultural dynamics. Like East Asian cultures, lower SES fosters interdependence, a reduced striving for personal choice, holistic thinking, and the attribution of events and behavior to external causes. In contrast, similar to Western cultures, higher SES supports independence, a strong desire for control, self-expression through choice, analytic thinking, and internal attribution. SES has also been found to shape additional psychological tendencies. Because limited access to resources and education makes it necessary to rely on other people, lower SES has been shown to be linked to a greater understanding of others’ emotions and a tendency to act altruistically. Although the evidence is still limited, this article describes what is known about the simultaneous influence of SES and culture. Some studies have explored similar SES effects across cultures. However, reflecting the variation in the dominant ideas and practices shared among people within sociocultural contexts, some studies have suggested that socioeconomic contexts elicit different psychological processes across national cultures. Higher-SES individuals especially seem to adjust themselves to culturally sanctioned ideas and practices. The article suggests directions for future research that will enhance our understanding of the interplay between SES and national cultures.

Ethnography and Education

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alpesh Maisuria ◽  
Dennis Beach
Keyword(s):  
Political Development ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Critical Realism ◽  
Critical Ethnography ◽  
Empirical Reality ◽  
State Education ◽  
Marxist Approach ◽  
The One ◽  
And Function

As described in Beach and Dovemark’s 2007 book, Education and the Commodity Problem, critical researchers have identified two fundamental roles for modern-day schools within capitalist states. These are the ideological and material roles and function, where schools produce ideologically compliant workers and consumers for a corporatist economy on the one hand, this is partly through a teaching and a curriculum, which is often hidden and informal; and, on the other form part of a corporate business plan for the accumulation of private capital in the welfare sector through mass outsourcing of welfare-State education provision and the wholesale commodification of education as a public service. This article presents a research method for investigating education in these circumstances. It is a method with a philosophical foundation not only for understanding contemporary educational empirical reality under neoliberal forms of capitalism, but also for developing critical consciousness for the transcendence and transformation of this condition toward a more just form of political economy and human existence. This research method draws from critical realism and its concept of explanatory critique as a way to forge a scientifically robust Marxist critical ethnography. In relation to this, the description of the method accompanies an overview of some of the basic principles and broadly accepted possibilities of and for ethnography and critical ethnography, followed by a presentation of what Marxist critical ethnography is and how Marxist critical ethnography functions as explanatory critique, respectively. This entails description of what explanatory critique is, and how it can be used to develop a philosophy of social science and an ontological base for ethnography. The aforementioned components together expand on a historical, theoretical, conceptual, and political development of ethnography as part of a Marxist approach to research and practice for social transformation.

Religion and the Social Economy

2016 ◽  
pp. 220-235
Author(s):  
Malcolm David Brown
Keyword(s):  
Church And State ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Societal Transformation ◽  
Spiritual But Not Religious ◽  
The Social ◽  
Elective Affinities ◽  
The One ◽  
Bear Witness ◽  
Contemporary Context

This chapter presents “elective affinities” between, on the one hand, strands in contemporary religiosity that seek to rediscover or reinterpret older religiosities in a contemporary context and idiom (e.g. liberation theology, multi-faith activity, the SBNR - spiritual but not religious - phenomenon, and the new monasticism), and, on the other hand, the contemporary phenomenon of the social economy (social business, social enterprise, and the sharing economy). As the social economy occupies a space between the values of capitalism and the strategies of socialism, rooted in a civil society that strives to maintain a freedom from both the economy and the state, so these religious phenomena occupy a space between secularisation and sacralisation, between a separation of church and state and a subsumption of state under church. They are all concerned with social justice now (rather than after the revolution), and bear witness to a potential for religious and societal transformation.

Our Civilizing Mission

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
The Other ◽  
Colonial Education ◽  
Civilizing Mission ◽  
National Cultures ◽  
The World ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Personal Accounts ◽  
The One ◽  
Conceptual Foundations

Our Civilizing Mission is at once an exploration of colonial education, and a response to current anxieties about the historical and conceptual foundations of the ‘humanities’. On the one hand, focusing in detail on the example of Algeria, it treats colonial education as a facet of colonialism, exploring francophone writing that attests to the suffering inflicted by colonialism, to the shortcomings of colonial education, and to the often painful mismatch between the world of the colonial school and students’ home cultures. On the other hand, it asks what can be learned by treating colonial education not just as an example of colonialism but as a provocative, uncomfortable example of education. Placing writers’ literary and personal accounts of their transformative and often alienating experiences of colonial education in historical context, it raises difficult questions – about languages, literatures, ways of thinking, nationalism and national cultures – that need to be reconsidered by anyone teaching subjects such as French, or English, especially through literature. [160]

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