Paul and Political Critique: Liberalism, Ontology, and the Pauline Community

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 591-608
Author(s):  
Taylor Weaver
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Thomas Hobbes ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Political Critique ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sustained Effort ◽  
Conceptual Problems ◽  
The Individual

While Paul has been used as a source for philosophy and politics in recent decades, his thoughts on community have not been well represented; nor has there been a sustained effort to bring together sophisticated debates on the community-individualism problem with Pauline communitarian thought. In light of the recent history of Paul in philosophy, the intention of this essay is to test the waters of interactivity through exploring how Paul’s communal activity and writing allows for thinking through contemporary political philosophical problems inherent in the concept of community, a problem that forms partially around notions of individuality and how communitarian or collectivistic sensibilities arrange the individual. The essay first points to a form of community found in Thomas Hobbes that is fraught with conceptual problems, before moving to an obverse conception of community found in Paul. The final section points to contemporary theorisations of community found in the work of Roberto Esposito and Jean-Luc Nancy, showing how they connect and help provide conceptual vocabulary to the Pauline motifs shown earlier, while also borrowing from the work of Paul. This points to the possibility for using Paulinist motifs in the current debate about community.


Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabian Holt
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Nordic Countries ◽  
Focal Points ◽  
Global Presence ◽  
Musical Knowledge ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual

This chapter introduces new analytical framings of popular music in the Nordic countries and the implications therefore for broader discussions of the region’s uniqueness and global presence. The introduction first develops a broad interpretative narrative a broad interpretative narrative grounded in social science and considers its implications for existing cultural and disciplinary narratives. The second part closes in on more detailed issues of musical knowledge, drawing from the intellectual history of music, particularly musicology, while also integrating lessons from other disciplines such as geography. The specific focal points of the second part are the three thematic dimensions of the handbook—geography, history, and identity. Moreover, the literatures on Nordic popular music are discussed in detail. The final section introduces the individual chapter contributions.

scholarly journals Interpretação Judicial na Transição do Antigo Regime ao Constitucionalismo

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Stolleis
Keyword(s):  
Separation Of Powers ◽  
Thomas Hobbes ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Judicial Interpretation ◽  
History Of Interpretation ◽  
Constitutional State ◽  
Essential Question ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual

INTERPRETAÇÃO JUDICIAL NA TRANSIÇÃO DO ANTIGO REGIME AO CONSTITUCIONALISMO JUDICIAL INTERPRETATION IN TRANSITION FROM THE ANCIEN RÉGIME TO CONSTITUTIONALISM RESUMO: “Todas as leis precisam de interpretação” (Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, parte 2, cap. 26). Se isso for pressuposto, uma questão essencial que surge é: quem será o intérprete e que limites ele terá que respeitar? No início do período moderno, quando o Estado absolutista surgiu, o juiz não era realmente independente, mas um instrumento obediente do príncipe. Desde a formação do Estado constitucional, o Judiciário ganhou cada vez mais independência. Em consequência, também a interpretação tornou-se “livre” – apenas limitada pelo texto da lei e da Constituição. A história da interpretação é uma história contínua de constitucionalizar o poder político no interesse dos direitos fundamentais do indivíduo. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Interpretação; Separação dos poderes; Independência do Judiciário; Estado Constitucional. ABSTRACT: “All Lawes need Interpretation” (Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, Part 2, chap. 26). If this is to be assumed, one essential question arises: who will be the interpreter and which limits has he to respect? In early modern period, when the absolutist state emerged, the judge was not really independent, but an obedient instrument of the prince. Since the formation of the constitutional state, the judiciary gained more and more independence. In consequence also the interpretation became “free” – merely restricted by the text of the law and of the constitution. The history of interpretation is a continuous history of constitutionalizing the political power in the interest of the fundamental rights of the individual. KEYWORDS: Interpretation; Separation of powers; Independence of justice; Constitutional state.

Hippos, billiards, and black boxes

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-115
Author(s):  
Cornelia Ruhe
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Trauma ◽  
Cultural Trauma ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Traumatic Memory ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Black Boxes ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Violence ◽  
The Individual

The article analyses the literary representation of traumatic memory in Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s novel El ruido de las cosas al caer (2011). It shows how different angles of interpretation that allow for a comprehensive understanding of the whole novel are already succinctly encoded in the first scene, a scene that has to be decoded like a palimpsest in order to present not only the individual and psychological trauma the protagonist suffered after becoming the accidental victim of a shootout, but also the collective and cultural trauma of Colombia’s recent history of violence. It is shown that the novel, whose narrator used to play billiards, is structured like a game of carom billiards, thus linking otherwise unrelated people and events through a series of successive collisions, directly or indirectly, via the rail cushions.

The Shrew Environment

1994 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 307-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juval Portugali
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Rational Planning ◽  
History Of Geography ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Control

The ArgumentThe paper begins by addressing the notions of technological pessimism, society and environment from the point of view of geography and planning. It identifies two pessimistic waves in the recent history of geography and planning thought: “technological or explanational pessimism” in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and “understanding pessimism” in the late 1980s. The first is a distrust of positivist geography and rational planning to explain and control the environment; the second adds to the first a distrust of that part of social theory which in the early 1970s was thought to provide the alternative to positivism — a distrust of structuralist-Marxist-humanistic (SMH) geography and planning to understand (and thus to control intellectually) the individual, society, and the environment. The paper proposes that at the root of both types of pessimism is the essentially causal, mechanistic, and thus aspatial, property of social theory as a whole. It then examines the conjunction of Bohm's orders and Haken's synergetics as a source for optimism — not to control, but to participate and dialogue.

Investigating the Relationship Between Self-Esteem and Stigma Among Young Adults With History of Suicide Attempts

Crisis ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 265-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meshan Lehmann ◽  
Matthew R. Hilimire ◽  
Lawrence H. Yang ◽  
Bruce G. Link ◽  
Jordan E. DeVylder
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
High Risk Population ◽  
High Functioning ◽  
People With Mental Illness ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. Background: Self-esteem is a major contributor to risk for repeated suicide attempts. Prior research has shown that awareness of stigma is associated with reduced self-esteem among people with mental illness. No prior studies have examined the association between self-esteem and stereotype awareness among individuals with past suicide attempts. Aims: To understand the relationship between stereotype awareness and self-esteem among young adults who have and have not attempted suicide. Method: Computerized surveys were administered to college students (N = 637). Linear regression analyses were used to test associations between self-esteem and stereotype awareness, attempt history, and their interaction. Results: There was a significant stereotype awareness by attempt interaction (β = –.74, p = .006) in the regression analysis. The interaction was explained by a stronger negative association between stereotype awareness and self-esteem among individuals with past suicide attempts (β = –.50, p = .013) compared with those without attempts (β = –.09, p = .037). Conclusion: Stigma is associated with lower self-esteem within this high-functioning sample of young adults with histories of suicide attempts. Alleviating the impact of stigma at the individual (clinical) or community (public health) levels may improve self-esteem among this high-risk population, which could potentially influence subsequent suicide risk.

Physiologic Measures In Patients with PTSD with and Without A Recent History of Alcohol Abuse

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eileen Ahearn ◽  
Mary Mussey ◽  
Catherine Johnson ◽  
Amy Krohn ◽  
Timothy Juergens ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Abuse ◽  
Recent History ◽  
History Of

Fictive Mode, ‘Journey to the West’, and Transformation of Space: ‘Ali Mubarak’s Discourses of Modernization

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-358
Author(s):  
WEN-CHIN OUYANG
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Theoretical Principle ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The West ◽  
Arab Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Journey To The West

I begin my exploration of ‘Ali Mubarak (1823/4–1893) and the discourses on modernization ‘performed’ in his only attempt at fiction, ‘Alam al-Din (The Sign of Religion, 1882), with a quote from Guy Davenport because it elegantly sums up a key theoretical principle underpinning any discussion of cultural transformation and, more particularly, of modernization. Locating ‘Ali Mubarak and his only fictional work at the juncture of the transformation from the ‘traditional’ to the ‘modern’ in the recent history of Arab culture and of Arabic narrative, I find Davenport's pronouncement tantalizingly appropriate. He not only places the stakes of history and geography in one another, but simultaneously opens up the imagination to the combined forces of time and space that stand behind these two distinct yet related disciplines.

Victorian Pain

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Ablow
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Victorian Literature ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Harriet Martineau ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Natural Philosophers ◽  
First Time

The nineteenth century introduced developments in science and medicine that made the eradication of pain conceivable for the first time. This new understanding of pain brought with it a complex set of moral and philosophical dilemmas. If pain serves no obvious purpose, how do we reconcile its existence with a well-ordered universe? Examining how writers of the day engaged with such questions, this book offers a compelling new literary and philosophical history of modern pain. The book provides close readings of novelists Charlotte Brontë and Thomas Hardy and political and natural philosophers John Stuart Mill, Harriet Martineau, and Charles Darwin, as well as a variety of medical, scientific, and popular writers of the Victorian age. The book explores how discussions of pain served as investigations into the status of persons and the nature and parameters of social life. No longer conceivable as divine trial or punishment, pain in the nineteenth century came to seem instead like a historical accident suggesting little or nothing about the individual who suffers. A landmark study of Victorian literature and the history of pain, the book shows how these writers came to see pain as a social as well as a personal problem. Rather than simply self-evident to the sufferer and unknowable to anyone else, pain was also understood to be produced between persons—and even, perhaps, by the fictions they read.

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