What Exactly “History Has Taught us”? Enhancing the Socio-Political Perspective in Neuroethics

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-37
Author(s):  
Marcelo de Araujo ◽  
Murilo Vilaça
Keyword(s):  
Political Perspective

De-Finition

2019 ◽  
Vol 95 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-245
Author(s):  
Erik Ode
Keyword(s):  
Educational Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political Perspective ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Scientific Terms

Abstract De-Finition. Poststructuralist Objections to the Limitation of the Other The metaphysic tradition always tried to structure the world by definitions and scientific terms. Since poststructuralist authors like Derrida, Foucault and Deleuze have claimed the ›death of the subject‹ educational research cannot ignore the critical objections to its own methods. Definitions and identifications may be a violation of the other’s right to stay different and undefined. This article tries to discuss the scientific limitations of the other in a pedagogical, ethical and political perspective.

Interpreting Revelation through African American Cultural Studies

2020 ◽  
pp. 482-498
Author(s):  
Thomas B. Slater
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Social History ◽  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Resistance Literature ◽  
Political Perspective ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The Impact

African American scholarship on Revelation makes fruitful use of cultural studies as a discipline. This approach draws on the field of sociology, social history, literature, anthropology, linguistics, and other cultural markers. As a method for biblical interpretation it values both the ancient context and the current cultural contexts of readers, and is open to multiple interpretations. This essay considers the various ways Revelation has functioned in African American congregations, the impact of Liberation theology, womanist and postcolonial perspectives, and the notion that Revelation is subversive or resistance literature. Attention is given to similarities and differences between African American scholars concerning Revelation’s political perspective, its approach to identity construction, and the way in which the book might engage current readers.

scholarly journals Media Bias: A Corpus-based Linguistic Analysis of Online Iranian Coverage of the Syrian Revolution

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 584-600
Author(s):  
Amaal Al-Gamde ◽  
Thora Tenbrink
Keyword(s):  
Critical Time ◽  
Media Bias ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
News Agency ◽  
News Discourse ◽  
Syrian Civil War ◽  
Political Perspective ◽  
Islamic Republic Of Iran ◽  
The Government ◽  
Syrian Revolution

AbstractThis study explores the influence of a government’s ideology on linguistic representation in a news agency that characterizes itself as independent. It focuses on the coverage of the Syrian civil war as reported by the Iranian news agency Fars, addressing the discursive constructions of anti-government powers in relevant online reports released between 2013 and 2015. Since the Islamic Republic of Iran was a major regional ally of the Syrian government, we questioned the extent to which ideological independence could be expected during a politically critical time frame. Taking a corpus-based linguistic approach, the study explores the semantic macrostructures representing the opposition as well as the lexical clusters and keywords characterizing the news discourse. The findings indicate that Fars’ representation of the Syrian Revolution was, to some extent, biased, despite its claimed independence of the government’s political stance. It excluded the Sunni social actors, suppressed the Islamic faction identity of the rebels and depicted the uprising as a war against foreign-backed militants. The rebels were stereotyped in terms of terrorism and non-Syrians. In addition, the analysis reveals Fars’ tendency to emphasize the power of the government, depicting it as the defender of the Arab land and foregrounding the discourse of international conspiracy against Syria. The results of this work project the dimension of media bias caused by the underpinning political perspective of media institutions.

The practice of surrogacy as a phenomenon of ‘bare life’: An analysis of the Japanese case applying Agamben’s theory

2021 ◽  
pp. 001139212096489
Author(s):  
Yoshie Yanagihara
Keyword(s):  
Japanese Society ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Bare Life ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Surrogate Mothers ◽  
Political Perspective ◽  
Mothers And Children ◽  
History Of ◽  
Magazine Articles

This article elaborates the cultural and political structures that inform the belief among Japanese that surrogacy is legitimate. It argues that this belief reflects a transition from previously negative attitudes toward surrogacy practices developed in the United States. The article first elaborates the history of the Japanese recognition of surrogacy by introducing early forms of East Asian surrogacy that lasted until the first half of the 20th century. Second, it explores the recent shift in Japanese discussions about surrogacy through an analysis of cultural representations on the topic, mainly referring to a dataset of magazine articles published from 1981 to the present. The author then calls upon Giorgio Agamben’s theoretical framework to discuss the juridico-political perspective of ‘bare life’ as it relates to surrogacy, and argues that considering surrogate mothers and children conceived through surrogacy as bare life makes surrogate practice seem reasonable in modern Japanese society. To conclude, the article stresses the importance of incorporating women’s reproductive functions into law to prevent women and their conceived children from becoming bare life, and being exposed to violence, in the form of a surrogacy contract.

The Politics of Cross Demolition

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-75
Author(s):  
Fuk-tsang Ying
Keyword(s):  
Political Perspective ◽  
Religious Factor ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Church State Relations ◽  
Zhejiang Provincial ◽  
State Relations

From March to December 2014, various Wenzhou churches were affected by the unprecedented destruction wrought during the initial execution of the cross-demolition campaign. Subsequently, this campaign extended from Wenzhou to cities like Ningbo, Taizhou, Lishui, and Hangzhou before returning to Wenzhou in July 2015. This article centers on Wenzhou, where authorities removed at least four hundred crosses from churches. It investigates whether the reasons offered for demolishing illegal buildings justify cross demolition, examines the role of the religious factor in the overall campaign, and determines whether the Zhejiang provincial leader attempted to tackle religion-related problems under the guise of demolishing illegal buildings. This article places the cross-demolition campaign in the context of church-state relations and analyzes it from a religio-political perspective.

Alive and Sleepless: The Politics of Immortality in Republic X

2007 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-261
Author(s):  
Sara Brill
Keyword(s):  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Perspective

The discussion of immortality in Republic X is a much-maligned text whose function in the dialogue has frequently been drawn into question. This paper argues that the discussion addresses the insufficiency of the analogy between vice and disease that is established in Book IV and is challenged in Book IX by an account of tyranny which attributes to the tyrant a viciousness defying reduction to disease. It also argues that the discussion’s demonstration of immortality on the grounds of the soul’s capacity for viciousness must be read in light of its attention to the political life of the person. In its adoption of a political perspective, the discussion is designed to speak specifically to the concerns about justice thatGlaucon andAdeimantus voice in Book II.

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