Epistemic justice for the dead

2021 ◽  
pp. 1468795X2110220
Author(s):  
Stephen Turner
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Epistemic Justice ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Current Concerns ◽  
Current List

The classics of social theory have a peculiar status: our current list is the product of past academic strategizing, and the list of favored classics has changed. Currently there is a process of replacing them with older writers who better fit current concerns, and to cancel those who hold the wrong views, or are of the oppressor class, in order to provide epistemic justice for those who don’t deserve their status and uplift those who were wrongly neglected. From an instrumental, careerist point of view, adapting to these changes makes sense. From the point of view of judgement, which differs from the capacity to produce, it does not. Exclusions narrow our range of reference and our capacity to assess in the present. We owe ourselves, and them, not only temporary, fashion driven justice but a larger capacity of judgement detached from the instrumentalization of scholarship.

scholarly journals THE PROBLEM OF NARRATION IN NOTES FROM A DEAD HOUSE BY FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 221-238
Author(s):  
Tamara Batalova
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Fyodor Dostoevsky ◽  
Theatrical Performance ◽  
Essential Idea ◽  
The Dead

Within the framework of Pavel Medvedev’s sociological poetics, the article identifies and studies the features of the narrative in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notes from a Dead House, and examines the role of these features in expressing the key idea of this novel, namely the desire of convicts for freedom, for “resurrection from the dead”. From this point of view, the author examines the significance of the narrator’s duality (Goryanchikov and Goryanchikov-Dostoevsky) and the juxtaposition of the characters in the narrative (positive and negative). He also analyzes the compositional function of the XI chapter of the first part of Notes from a Dead House, “Presentation”, in the plot. The Christian faith plays the vital role in the expression of the essential idea of the work. An open-minded attitude to people, a friendly, Christian approach towards them is a distinctive feature of Goryanchikov-Dostoevsky and all the positive characters in the book. Inspired by the celebration of the Nativity of Christ, the convicts staged a theatrical performance, which alters the moral state of both the actors and the audience, fortifies their sense of self-esteem required to resist the prison orders that “deaden” people, and strengthens the prisoners’ desire for freedom, for “resurrection from the dead”. The article concludes that Notes from a Dead House is the beginning of aesthetic and artistic changes that manifested themselves in Dostoevsky’s post-prison works.

scholarly journals The work market awake for aged people

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-50
Author(s):  
Ana Maya Goto Uyehara
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
Aging Process ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Aged People ◽  
Current Concerns ◽  
Life Projects

At the end of XX century, the old age theme has been approached due to concern of the society with the quality of man’s life in the aging process and the fact of seniors correspond to a growing representative portion of the population in the quantitative point of view. So the aging changes in a problem that wins expressiveness and legitimacy in the field of the daily current concerns. This article intends to demonstrate that the work can articulate other life projects for the seniors and to avoid psychic pathologies in the old age that can appear due to the loss of personal identity, to the involvement lack in motivated activities or starting from the adoption of inadequate consumption ways or lifestyles. For this, this article assumes a line of preventive character explanation under two slopes: the first refers to the fact that, if the work ennobles the man, he must acquire or improve this individual competences, adapting them to the new demands of the job market to get a job, or even to reactivate his professional life because new life projects. The second slope follows the direction of the discovery of the seniors’ potentialities for the companies, which can adapt the qualities [and limitations] of this workers category to the various functions in the organization. The Brazilian entrepreneur needs to be attentive to the image of his company and the differential competitive that can distinguish it of the other companies. And this can be to employee senior people or to maintenance it in the company personnel staff.

scholarly journals Dead Sea Scrolls dan Reliabilitas Alkitab Dalam Perspektif Injili

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-155
Author(s):  
Suyadi Tjhin
Keyword(s):  
Dead Sea Scrolls ◽  
Dead Sea ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Archeological Evidence ◽  
The Dead

This article discusses Dead Sea Scrolls and the reliability of the Bible from an evangelical perspective. This review from an evangelical point of view is needed to give perspective to Christian academics, so that they can take a position related to the above mentioned topic. From the results of a study of the Dead Sea Scroll's contribution in relation to the reliability of the Bible, Dead Sea Scroll is indeed a historical and important finding in the field of archeology, especially in connection with the Bible, but it must be realized that not because of archeological evidence that makes the Bible trusted, the Bible can be trusted so there is evidence.

Transformation and Transition Research: An Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Merkel ◽  
Raj Kollmorgen ◽  
Hans-Jürgen Wagener
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Wide Field ◽  
Meiji Restoration ◽  
Symbolic Resources ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Transition Research

Social institutions and governmental regimes are systems of action structured by values and norms. Within these systems, self-conscious actors communicate with each other using different material and symbolic resources. The systems develop and change in response to new knowledge, altered allocations of resources, and changes in values and institutions. ‘Transformation’ analyses radical systemic change from the intentional policy point of view while ‘transition’ describes the historical path along which such change is taking place. The pragmatic design of positive institutions, which is at the basis of the concept of transformation, is historically a rather recent phenomenon. Although these concepts gained prominence only with the great turnaround of 1989/90, they have a prehistory in social theory (Marx, Menger, Weber, Schumpeter, and Polanyi, for instance) and in historical development (the French and the Russian revolutions, Meiji Restoration, post-Civil War United States, for instance). Transformation research thus has at its disposal a wide field of cases and analytic levels.

Death, doubt, truth and charisma: Exhumations, enigmas and manipulations surrounding the deaths of Salvador Allende and Eduardo Frei Montalva

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-312
Author(s):  
Alfredo Joignant ◽  
Mauro Basaure ◽  
Manuel Gárate
Keyword(s):  
Political Power ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Salvador Allende ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Forensic Investigations ◽  
Do So ◽  
Sociological Concept

This essay explores what has been an undertheorized link between forensic investigations and the sociological concept of charisma. To do so, we examine the deaths of two illustrious men: former Chilean presidents Salvador Allende and Eduardo Frei Montalva. Our interest is not to elucidate the causes of their deaths from a medical or legal point of view, but rather to understand what is constitutive of the investiture of political power. Based on the notion of charisma and the sentiments produced by forensic investigations, this article explores those non-visible elements that emanate from charisma as a concept, vested in the dead leaders’ remains.

Gandhi's Contribution to Social Theory

1969 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 312-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Appadorai
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Home Rule ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
National Movement ◽  
British Rule

Gandhi (1869–1948) is known primarily as the leader who led the national movement for the freedom of India from British rule; he also has an important place in social theory. “The only nonofficial figure,” says Louis Fischer, “comparable to Gandhi in his effect on man's mind is Karl Marx.” His Collected Works, including his speeches, writings, and letters, have appeared in thirty volumes with some forty more scheduled for publication. The more important of his writings from the point of view of social theory are found in two weekly journals which he edited, Young India (1919–32) and Harijan (1933–48); his social and political ideas can also be gleaned from Hind Swaraj (1908) or Indian Home Rule, The Story of My Experiments With Truth (2 vols. 1927, 1929), Delhi Diary (1948), and Satyagraha in South Africa (1950).

scholarly journals A legitimacy-based approach to EU criminal law: Maybe we are getting there, after all

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-39
Author(s):  
Kimmo Nuotio
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Policy ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Eu Law ◽  
Member States ◽  
Strong Emphasis ◽  
European Criminal Law ◽  
The Eu

European Union (EU) law is known for its strong emphasis on effectivity and more generally for its instrumental character. This is not foreign even to European criminal law, a feature which creates some tension between the EU criminal law and criminal law in the national setting. EU Framework Decisions and Directives often require the Member States to criminalize certain forms of conduct with sanctions that are ‘Effective, Dissuasive and Proportionate’. In this article, I try to show that it would be timely to look at EU criminal law from an alternative point of view, as a more mature law. I call this a legitimacy-based approach. Such a reading would ease some of these tensions. It would also be helpful in developing a criminal policy for the EU, a policy which would be realistic and pragmatic. And it would be easier to look at EU criminal law from the point of view of justice. In order to get there, we need to see where the (current) narrow deterrence argument gets is wrong or one-sided. Some social theory is needed in order to make the point.

Postmodern Body Techniques: Some Anthropological Considerations on Natural and Postnatural Bodies

1996 ◽  
Vol 18 (s1) ◽  
pp. S95-S106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Franklin
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Body ◽  
Moral Value ◽  
Steroid Use ◽  
Body Building ◽  
The Past ◽  
Body Techniques ◽  
A Site

Debates concerning “the body,” embodiment, and corporeality have become increasingly central to cultural theory in the past decade. This article addresses the question of the “natural body” from the point of view of both traditional social theory (Marcel Mauss) and more recent arguments about the body as a site of enculturation. Why is the natural body preserved as a moral value within the realm of sport, while its limits are also pushed to “unnatural” extremes? By contrasting body building as sport (where anabolic steroid use is condemned) with reproductive body building (pregnancy, where steroid use is increasingly central), the paradoxical dimensions of the “(post)natural” body in sport are examined.

scholarly journals Social Philosophy and Interdisciplinarity

2018 ◽  
pp. 131-135
Author(s):  
Alexander Pavlov
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Juergen Habermas ◽  
Cultural Sociology ◽  
Social Philosophy ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Georg Simmel ◽  
Interdisciplinary Character ◽  
The Problem Of Evil

The present article considers the problematical nature of social philosophy’s interdisciplinary character. The author considers that we can discover its specification as an independent area of the humanities, with exarticulation of adjacent to social philosophy disciplines like political philosophy, historic sociology and social theory. If it will be done, we will be able as the scientists to prove that social philosophy, which if often considering as the synonymous of social theory, has right to exist. The author comes to conclusion that the most part of social theory supporters try to ignore valuative dimension in “theories” of thinkers they research (Georg Simmel, Hanna Arendt, Juergen Habermas, Zygmunt Bauman). In fact it is а duty of social philosophy which nature is valuative. In author’s point of view, such a trend in theoretical sociology as “cultural sociology,” which use not only explanatory and descriptive methods but also interpretations, reflects the differences between social theory and social philosophy because it emphasizes the cultural dimension of social processes. For example, cultural sociology deals with issues that are more relevant to philosophy than to sociology, in particular, it concerns the problem of evil.

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