scholarly journals Beyond Self-Interest: The Political Theory and Practice of Evangelical Women in Antebellum America

2002 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 477-499 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. D. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Political ◽  
Antebellum America ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Evangelical Women

scholarly journals Architecture as a tool for aesthetic and political thought

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 397-404
Author(s):  
Thomas Symeonidis
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Political ◽  
Contemporary Philosophy ◽  
Main Hypothesis ◽  
Scale Type ◽  
Type Form ◽  
Shed Light

Despite the usual approach of architecture in terms of conception, design and construction of the built environment in our paper we will argue that architecture can be used as a tool for aesthetic and political thought. To this end we will rely on definitions of architecture emphasising either its aspects of principle (arché) or construction either its relational character. In this regard, architecture will be used as a means for conceptualising and thinking issues at the intersection of the two pivotal notions of political theory - equality and justice. Our main hypothesis will be that in the contemporary aesthetic regime the thought of aesthetics is indissosiable from politics endorsing in that way the main aspects of Jacques Rancière's relevant contributions. In our analysis, we will first show the affinity between the political and aesthetic thought and then elaborate on aspects of architecture such as scale, type, form, diagram, history and hierarchy in order to show the functioning of architecture as a tool of thought. To this end we will provide a solid scheme and definitions of thought drawing from contemporary philosophy. By establishing analogies between the process of thought and the processes of architecture we will eventually attempt to show that architecture can be used in an inverted manner so as to shed light on matters of aesthetic and political theory and practice.

Auf der Suche nach einer komplexen Friedenslogik –Versuch einer metatheoretischen Verortung undNeuorientierung

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 158-163
Author(s):  
Wilfried Graf
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Dialogical Logic ◽  
Logic Of Action ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Theoretical Paradigms ◽  
Different Levels

The dualistic juxtaposition of the logic of peace and the logic of security is necessary for the political debate but not sufficient to overcome the dominance of the security approach in political theory and practice. This article seeks to broaden and deepen the understanding of the relationship between the logic of peace and the logic of security on different levels of meaning. Firstly, this relationship is explored on the level of meaning of a logic of action and intervention. Secondly, this relationship is discussed on the level of meaning of a logic of research and the meta-theoretical paradigms on which the logic of action is constructed. Thirdly, this relationship is further reflected on the level of meaning of a logic of thought and rationality. Founded in a philosophy of complexity a dialogical “logic of complexity” is proposed as a metaparadigm for a complex logic of peace that is both critical and integrative of the logic of security.

Human Rights

2018 ◽  
pp. 414-430
Author(s):  
Michael Forman
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Popular Sovereignty ◽  
The Political ◽  
Personal Integrity ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
The Core

Human rights is a way of articulating appeals for justice and aiming at the juridification of these claims. This chapter reconstructs the political theory of human rights to highlight how solutions to the crises it aims at addressing have been articulated in political theory and practice with the result that rights claims have been expanded from the early assertions of personal integrity, religious freedom, and property of a privileged minority to the demands for social, economic, and cultural rights of the victims of exploitation, imperialism, oppression, and exclusion. This chapter examines the notions of sovereignty that sit at the core of the idea, especially the tension between human rights and popular sovereignty, which can only be temporarily resolved in political practice. It argues that human rights, although incompletely realized, retains its appeal to movements everywhere because it is the best way of realizing justice claims in the context of modernity.

scholarly journals Experimental Conviviality: Exploring Convivial and Sustainable Practices

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-121
Author(s):  
Frank Adloff
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Living Together ◽  
The Gift ◽  
The One

AbstractThe paper develops a concept of conviviality as a form of friendly togetherness that includes people, technical infrastructures and nature. Therefore, Marcel Mauss’s concept of the gift, different strands of thinking about conviviality (e.g. Ivan Illich), John Dewey’ experimentalism and the political theory and movement of convivialism are firstly depicted and discussed. The goal, secondly, is to integrate these various theoretical perspectives in order a) to better grasp already existent forms of conviviality and to b) develop an analytical and normative standpoint that on the one hand helps to evaluate unsustainable, non-convivial and on the other convivial forms of living together.Thus, such an analytical and normative model of modes of conviviality points out that associative self-organisation is decisive for the theory and practice of conviviality. Exchange without remuneration (between people and between people and nature) as well as self-organised gathering can be seen as the basis of a convivial social order which is differentiated from a solely instrumental, unsustainable and monetarily defined version of prosperity and the good life.

scholarly journals From Fatherly Government to an Economic State

2021 ◽  
pp. 479-495
Author(s):  
Ere Nokkala
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Natural Law ◽  
The Political ◽  
Central Concept ◽  
Conceptual Changes ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
History Of ◽  
Economic State ◽  
New Interpretation

This article reinterprets late Cameralists’ contribution to the reorientation of Cameral sciences in the second half of the eighteenth century. It analyses the conceptual changes to the central concept of happiness during the second half of the eighteenth century that resulted from the rethinking of the natural law foundations of the discipline. Understanding the political philosophical underpinnings of universal Cameral sciences, as they were formulated using the language of natural law, enables a new interpretation of the history of Cameralism. The shift from duties based on natural law to an emphasis on inalienable natural rights helped the late Cameralists build a political theory of an economic state, which relied on the motivating forces of legitimate self-interest and passions. The late Cameralists redescribed happiness in terms of freedom, thereby accomplishing a shift from Cameral sciences’ legitimization of fatherly rule to a political thought that had its legitimacy in the provision of freedom, security, and wealth to householders, who in their part were the main agents and movers of the economic state.

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