The Contemplative And The Political Forms Of Life (Book X.6–9)

2010 ◽  
pp. 205-223
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Forms Of Life

Dante Alighieri

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Bartoloni
Keyword(s):  
Dante Alighieri ◽  
The Political ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Artistic Process ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
Forms Of Life ◽  
The Aesthetic

The Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) is invoked several times in the work of Giorgio Agamben, often in passing to stress a point, as when discussing the political relevance of désoeuvrement (KG 246); to develop a thought, as in the articulation of the medieval idea of imagination as the medium between body and soul (S, especially 127–9); or to explain an idea, as in the case of the artistic process understood as the meeting of contradictory forces such as inspiration and critical control (FR, especially 48–50). So while Agamben does not engage with Dante systematically, he refers to him constantly, treating the Florentine poet as an auctoritas whose presence adds critical rigour and credibility. Identifying and relating the instances of these encounters is useful since they highlight central aspects of Agamben’s thought and its development over the years, from the first writings, such as Stanzas, to more recent texts, such as Il fuoco e il racconto and The Use of Bodies. The significance of Agamben’s reliance on Dante can be divided into two categories: the aesthetic and the political. The following discussion will address each of these categories separately, but will also emphasise the philosophical continuity that links the discussion of the aesthetic with that of the political. While in the first instance Dante is offered as an example of poetic innovation, especially in relation to the use of language and imagination, in the second he is invoked as a forerunner of new forms of life. Mediality and potentiality are the two pivots connecting the aesthetic and the political.

scholarly journals La pratique du squat comme processus de socialisation féministe dans le mouvement Okupa madrilène des années 1980 = La práctica de la “okupación” como proceso de socialización feminista dentro del Movimiento Okupa madrileño de los años 80 = The practice of "squatting" as a process of socialization to feminism within the Occupy Madrid squat movement of the 80s

2020 ◽  
pp. 629
Author(s):  
Karine Bergès
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
The Political ◽  
Gender Perspective ◽  
Patriarchal Culture ◽  
Radical Group ◽  
Forms Of Life ◽  
Las Mujeres

Resumen: Partiendo de los estudios que se han publicado sobre la cultura política okupa de los años 80, el presente artículo pretende ahondar en la militancia feminista de las mujeres okupas madrileñas. Siguiendo la trayectoria de un grupo minoritario y radical, LigaDura, fundado en 1987, nos centraremos en el estudio de la “okupación”, como práctica de resistencia en contra del orden neoliberal y de la especulación inmobiliaria. Si esta forma de acción plantea desarrollar otras formas de vida para una juventud rebelde e insumisa, el análisis de la “okupación”, desde una perspectiva de género, arroja luz sobre la reproducción de una cultura patriarcal en su seno, y al mismo tiempo, sobre el proceso de socialización feminista que induce para las mujeres okupas.Palabras clave: Occupación, Movimiento Okupa, patriarcado, feminismo, socialización, LigaDura.Abstract: Based on the studies that have been published on the political culture of the squat of the 1980s, this article aims to delve into the feminist militancy of the Madrid women squatters. Following the trajectory of a minority and radical group, LigaDura, founded in 1987, we will focus on the study of "squatting", as a practice of resistance against the neoliberal order and real estate speculation. If this form of mobilization proposes to develop other forms of life for a rebellious and rebellious youth, the analysis of "squatting", from a gender perspective, sheds light on the reproduction of a patriarchal culture in its midst, and at the same time, about the process of socialization to feminism that induces for women squatters.Keywords: Squatting, Movimiento Okupa, feminism, patriarchy, socialization, LigaDura.

The Post-Communist Manifesto

Human Affairs ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Václav Bělohradsky
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Strategies ◽  
Communist Manifesto ◽  
Current State ◽  
Forms Of Life ◽  
Political Spectrum

AbstractThe essay is the critical reflection on the current state of global politics. It points to the importance of reconnecting politics with more substantial “human affairs”. The search for new understanding and conceptual tools is necessary on both sides of the political spectrum, however, the left should press for its lost identity more urgently. But what is even more urgent is the planetary vision based on reflexive rationality and a politics of dialogue, respect for the environment and civil society, overcoming obsolete and pointless political strategies and forms of life. Knowledge and nature are to be taken as public assets.

scholarly journals Political and Contemplative Life in Aristotle’s Account of Happiness

2013 ◽  
pp. 143-154
Author(s):  
Laura Candiotto
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Forms Of Life ◽  
The City ◽  
Contemplative Life

Through the concepts of ἔργον and βίος, the article describes the twohappiest forms of life, i.e., the theoretical and the political one, askingwhether happiness is founded on the conjunction of the two. Focusingon the connection between philosophy, education and politics the paperemphasizes the role of contemplation as πράξις and the importance ofphilosopher for the city.

scholarly journals Biopolitics and/or biopower

2008 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-189
Author(s):  
Alpar Losonc
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Negative Answer ◽  
The Political ◽  
Sovereign Power ◽  
Western Tradition ◽  
The Common ◽  
Dynamic Relations ◽  
Forms Of Life ◽  
Classical Age

The author of this article thematizes the meanings of life in political philosophy. There are two answers to the question concerning the legitimacy of life in the political philosophy. The first, negative, answer is connected to Arendt, the second is connected to Michel Foucault who has delineated the genesis of the biopolitics in the Western tradition and argued that, since the classical age, "deduction" based on the practice of sovereign power has become merely one element in a range of mechanisms working to generate incite, reinforce, control, monitor, optimize and organize the forces of life. Nowadays, the capacity to manipulate our mere biological life, rather than simply to govern aspects of forms of life, implies a biopolitics that contests how and when we use these technologies and for what purposes. The author of this article emphasizes the significance of the common treating of the biopower and sovereignty, but he critizices the concept of biopolitics based on the idea of the emancipation of the subordinated body. Polical philosophy demonstrates that there is an irreducible difference between these types of power, but it is necessary to analyze them simultaneously. There are a lot of tendencies (for example, biosecurity) that prove the importance of sovereign power for the practice of biopower. However, the sovereignty without biopolitics is exposed to weaknesses and regression. The task for political philosophy is to articulate the dynamic relations between sovereignty and biopower today.

Perec and the Politics of Constraint

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison James
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Forms Of Life ◽  
Formal Experiment

This chapter argues that Perec’s engagement with the Oulipo at a crucial moment in the group’s history crystallizes the political potential of the Oulipian project, and determines the continuing significance of the group for today’s writers. Perec develops a mode of formal experiment that is perhaps ‘not so very anti’ when compared to the radically oppositional stance of the avant-garde, but which burrows beneath surfaces, exposing hidden determinisms and unexpected coincidences in the fabric of social life. Oulipian constraint thus operates, to borrow Jacques Rancière’s expression, as a ‘redistribution of the sensible’ that opens up the possibility of new forms of life.

scholarly journals The multiple temporalities of infrastructure: Atomic cities and the memory of lost futures

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 405-422
Author(s):  
Leila Dawney
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Nuclear Power Plants ◽  
The Political ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
Political Aesthetics ◽  
Forms Of Life

Nuclear power plants, with their promise of boundless cheap energy, are archetypal figures of progress modernity. As we acknowledge the limits of industrial progress and growth-based capital, places for where the dream is now over, and whose inhabitants are finding ways of living through its transition, offer emergent practical ontologies based on maintenance, bricolage and necessity. Through the case study of the atomic city of Visaginas, Lithuania, this paper addresses the question of how to account for forms of life that emerge in the aftermath of high modernity. Here, infrastructures operate as residual cultural and material resources for practical ontologies and world building after progress. Building on emerging scholarship on the political aesthetics of infrastructure, I suggest that their ontological transition involves what Fisher describes as the ‘memory of lost futures’, a future anterior that, through the remains of material connections, technocultures and cultural memory, provide limits and conditions for emergent ways of living ‘after progress.’

Introduction

2014 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Good Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nicomachean Ethics ◽  
English Translations ◽  
Forms Of Life ◽  
Eudemian Ethics ◽  
The Relationship

This book presents the English translations of four texts, written by or attributed to Aristotle, that offer insights into his ethics: Eudemian Ethics, Nicomachean Ethics, Magna Moralia, and Virtues and Vices. Eudemian Ethics, Nicomachean Ethics, and Magna Moralia are treatises of moral philosophy; their status and the relationship among them is complex and controverted. At the beginning of each of his treatises Aristotle reduces the possible answers to the question “What is a good life?” to three: wisdom, virtue, and pleasure. According to Aristotle, all thinkers connect happiness with one or other of three forms of life, the philosophical, the political, and the hedonistic. The book explores Aristotle's claim that happiness is the supreme good with which ethics is concerned and considers the arguments found in all four texts.

Slave Christologies: Augustine and the Enduring Trouble with the “Form of a Slave” (Phil 2:5–7)

2020 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-32
Author(s):  
Matthew Elia
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Political ◽  
Augustine Of Hippo ◽  
The Social ◽  
Contemporary Christian ◽  
Forms Of Life ◽  
Christian Thought ◽  
Racial Slavery

This essay finds in the thought of Augustine of Hippo a key moment in the development of a strand of the Western theological tradition I will call slave Christologies: theological accounts of the person and work of Jesus Christ that, drawing from the Philippians hymn (Phil 2:5–11), symbolically identify his body with the body of the enslaved, and in so doing, weave the order of slaveholding into the texture of Christian thought. I approach the political and theological implications of this tradition under the pressure of a twofold haunting: of the perennial, if hard to specify, interplay between ideas and forms of life, between the symbolic and the social; and of the contingent, specific historical afterlife of racial slavery which provides the conditions for contemporary Christian thought.

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