Emerging morality

2019 ◽  
pp. 131-149
Author(s):  
Hans Boutellier
Keyword(s):  
Moral Order ◽  
Philosophy Of Life ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Security Discourse ◽  
The Future ◽  
Social Balance ◽  
Causes Of Crime ◽  
Stability And Resilience

The criminology of moral order refers to the moral causes of crime and disorder, but also investigates the mechanisms of societal stability and resilience. A vital social balance seems under pressure in super-diverse network societies that have to function without any explicit uniting philosophy of life. The concept of ‘complexity without direction’ has been used to describe the background of the challenges of our times. Many people experience the contemporary world as insecure, but do not have much trust in each other, in the institutions, or in the future. This explains the dominance of the safety and security discourse in politics and among citizens. This chapter argues for a dialogue, in which mutual claims to existence are respected and directed to the actual will of people to live together in one society.

Las estrategias discursivas de algunos artículos de opinión de Umberto Eco

2011 ◽  
pp. 266
Author(s):  
Loreta De Stasio
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Italian Society ◽  
Umberto Eco ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The Third ◽  
Binary Structure ◽  
Third Millennium ◽  
The Future ◽  
Economic Character

En este artículo examinaremos algunas de las principales estrategias discursivas empleadas en dos artículos publicados por U. Eco en L’Espresso, una revista semanal muy conocida en Italia de carácter político, social, cultural y económico, en el marco de una página personal titulada “La Bustina di Minerva”, es decir, “El Sobrecito de Minerva”. El título es una referencia a la comunicación breve, a las observaciones de cualquier tipo, pero igualmente, de forma simultánea. Los sobrecitos reflexionan sobre el mundo contemporáneo, la sociedad italiana, los medios de comunicación de masas; tratan de la actualidad y la relacionan con la historia y la filosofía, con Internet y el futuro del Tercer Milenio, y nos proponen los pensamientos de U. Eco con más viveza que una conferencia o un tratado.La ironía, la sátira y la parodia son las bases argumentativas de muchos “Sobrecitos”. Generalmente, el humor transmite dos sentidos a la vez. Detrás de una serie de textos tan variados temáticamente aparece a menudo una misma estructura binaria, un cuerpo dual. Con frecuencia, un mismo artículo obedece a una doble orientación tematica, ya que suelen mezclar dos motivos que pertenecen a áreas diferentes, alternando simultáneamente dos sujetos. A esta doble orientación temática del “Sobrecito” corresponde la doble orientación semántica de la palabra irónica que, junto con la parodia es un discurso dialógico o bi-direccional en el que se mezclan dos voces.In this article some of the main discursive strategies used in two articles published by U. Eco are examined. These articles have been published in L'Espresso, a weekly review very widespread in Italy, of political, social, cultural and economic character, within the framework of a column titled “La Bustina di Minerva”, that is to say, “The little bag/envelope of Minerva”. This title refers to a brief communication, to observations of any type, but also, immediate. The “bustine” reflects on the contemporary world, the Italian society, the mass media; they deal with present time and relate it to history and philosophy, Internet and the future of the Third Millennium, and they propose us Eco’s thoughts with more vividness than a conference or an essay.Irony, satire and parody are the argumentative bases of many “bustine”. Generally, humour transmits two senses simultaneously. Behind a series of texts so thematically varied there is often a same binary structure, a dual body. Frequently, a same article obeys to a double thematic direction, since usually they mix two arguments that belong to different areas, alternating two subjects simultaneously. To this double thematic direction of the “bustina” corresponds the double semantic direction of the ironic word that, along with parody, is a dialogic or bidirectional speech in which two voices are mixed.

Re-visioning obscure spaces

Thesis Eleven ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 145 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Jowel Canuday
Keyword(s):  
Social Spaces ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

In popular imagery, the littorals of Sulu and Zamboanga conjure visions of pirates, terrorists, and bandits marauding its rough seas, open shores, and rugged mountains. These bleak accounts render the region nothing but a violent and peripheral southern Philippine backdoor inconspicuous to the sophisticated constituencies of the world’s metropolitan centres. Obscured from these imageries are the lasting cosmopolitan traits of openness, flexibility, and reception of local folk to trans-local cultural streams that marked Sulu and Zamboanga as a globalised space across the ages and oceans. The distinctive features of these cosmopolitan sensibilities are strikingly discernible in inter-generationally shared narratives, artefacts, and performances that were continually renewed from the days when Sulu and Zamboanga served as a borderless trading and cultural enclave nestled at the crossroads of the Pacific and the Indian Oceans. These enduring cosmopolitan sensibilities are embodied in the blending, among others, of the time-honoured dance of pangalay and the pop-musical dance genre celebrated on actual, analogue, and digitally-mediated spaces of the contemporary world. Furthermore, these embodied sensibilities are evident in song compositions that proclaim the humanistic themes of hope, peace, and prosperity to their place and the world in ways that exemplify the local people’s broader sense of connections beyond the narrow association of family, community, ethnicity, religion, and identity. This mixed bag of age-old and recent imaginaries and cultural traffic evoke a sociality that link the social spaces of the troubled but once and current globalised region to continuing acts of transcendence in history, memory, and visions of the future. In these marginalized places, we can see an unyielding tradition of cultural re-adaptation and creativity made up of myriad everyday acts that are down-to-earth, pragmatic, interstitial, and practical cosmopolitanism.

The Musician and Philosopher

2020 ◽  
pp. 171-183
Author(s):  
Joseph B. Atkins
Keyword(s):  
Zen Buddhism ◽  
Close Friend ◽  
Lao Tzu ◽  
Philosophy Of Life ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Christian Fundamentalism

This chapter explores Harry Dean Stanton's music and philosophy of life, both very important in understanding him. Music had always been important, an inheritance from his family. His role as the guitar-playing Tramp in Cool Hand Luke (1967) introduced him to many moviegoers both as an actor and a musician. After decades on screen, he confessed to musician and close friend Jamie James that he had a dream of leading a band. He realized that dream in bands that performed everything from old standards to Mexican ballads at venues such as The Mint and The Troubadour. Sometimes both musician and philosopher were on stage, as when Harry Dean asked an incredulous James to stop playing and allow silence to work its magic. Harry Dean had early on rejected the Christian fundamentalism of rural Kentucky and turned toward the teachings of Zen Buddhism, ancient philosophers like Lao Tzu, and modern-day thinkers like Jiddu Krishnamurti, Alan Watts, and Eckhart Tolle. Alex Cox saw "utter mishmash" in Harry Dean's frequent philosophical musings, but others like Ed Begley Jr. said Harry Dean changed their lives by helping them focus more on the present than on the past or the future.

scholarly journals The future of utopias and dystopias in presentist times

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (46) ◽  
pp. 390-404
Author(s):  
Julio Bentivoglio
Keyword(s):  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
Historical Imagination ◽  
Social Expectations ◽  
Temporal Experience ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Hayden White ◽  
Temporal Representations

In this article, I try to answer some concerns raised by Patrícia Vieira’s article about the place of utopias and dystopias in the contemporary world. I underline the need to think of these historical categories based on the problems of historical consciousness and temporality from the perspective of Reinhart Koselleck, in order to locate contents and meanings emanating from these temporal representations. With Hayden White, I suggest the usefulness of evaluating the links between historical imagination and textual creation to connect the meaning of texts and social expectations. Finally, mobilizing the concept of presentism and the idea of closing the future, I try to understand this particular temporal experience of the beginning of millennium with the expansion of dystopias and the permanence of old and new utopias.

scholarly journals Rodzina współczesna - dysonans pomiędzy preferowanym modelem życia a znaczeniem życia rodzinnego

2016 ◽  
pp. 9-23
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Juszczyk-Frelkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The University

In the work the chosen as­pect of sociological empirical research, carried out among the students of the Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra and among students of the University of Silesia in Katowice, con­cerned their opinion on family life in the contemporary world and their preferred model of life and plans concerning mar­riage in the future

scholarly journals Beigbeder et l’immoralité de la société contemporaine

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Snezana Petrova
Keyword(s):  
Political Discussion ◽  
Human Being ◽  
French Society ◽  
Narrative Technique ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
French Writer ◽  
The Future

<p>Frédéric Beigbeder, French writer, takes a sarcastic and uncomfortable look at the future of the immediately contemporary world. His narrative technique, his bold, provocative and innovative style, the figure of his protagonist who looks much more like an antihero, create a literature voluntarily disengaged from explicit political discussion, to the benefit of the intimate and the anecdotal, where contemporary French society is carefully scrutinized. Our study therefore consists of an analysis of Beigbeder’s works with the purpose of bringing out their civilizational and societal notions and exposing the ambiguity of the society of our time and its oppression of the human being, described in all its truth, with its baseness, malaise, and solitary but deeply greedy and absurd nature.</p>

scholarly journals A sisterhood of letters

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Niineste
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Social Goals ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Apparent Lack ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Practical Usefulness ◽  
The Future ◽  
Feminist Theories

Solidarity has been a key topic for feminist thinkers of different times, schools and places. More than other disciplines, feminist theorists have dwelled upon the role of theory in the achievement of political and social goals. Calls for global sisterhood have incited proliferating debates as to the basis for solidarity between women and feminists. Theoretical disputes arising from the spread of deconstructionist ideas since the 1990s have led to a practical perplexity as to how to set feminist political goals if the category of woman is no longer straightforward. This article looks at how expectations for practical usefulness have resonated in feminist debates on solidarity and, drawing on Paul Ricoeur’s ideas of textuality and interpretation, reflects on the process of interaction between feminist theory and feminism as a social movement. It argues that in spite of the apparent lack of unanimity, or even outright hostility, that theoretical controversies might seem to indicate, the multiplicity of viewpoints and positions that various feminist theories collectively entail is a necessary vehicle for creating more solidarity between women in and outside academia in the contemporary world. Looking towards the future of feminist theory, the article invokes the metaphor of a sisterhood of letters to reflect on the value of shared intellectual endeavour in building solidarities between women of different social, racial, religious and cultural backgrounds.

scholarly journals The problem of reality in writings of Richard Wagner reality of artwork as transition from „reality of the contemporary world“ towards „reality of the future world“

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-273
Author(s):  
Dragana Jeremic-Molnar
Keyword(s):  
Actual World ◽  
Richard Wagner ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Way

Richard Wagner began perceiving the world in terms of decay as early as the mid-1840s and especially during the 1848-49 revolution. He did not critique the contemporary world (and its accompanying reality) as someone who merely understood it in his own way. Wagner actually developed his own version of the world that was meant to become the referential framework for creating an entirely different reality in the future. The most exhaustive source concerning Wagner?s idea of the world and reality is his famous letter to August R?ckel, from 25-26 January 1854. In it Wagner put together his earlier ref lections on reality into a relatively coherent and meaningful whole. He did it by the means of several different concepts: ?the World as a whole?, ?the actual world?, ?reality of the world?/?the modern reality?. In this letter and elsewhere, he failed to elaborate his idea of the world, as well as to explain its relationship with ?the modern reality? that was undergoing change. Instead, he developed another idea: that of the artwork which was supposed to be a sort of mediator between ?the actual world? and ?the world of the future?, as well as between their accompanying realities. Wagner?s version of the ?actual world? (as well as its appropriate reality) comprised two components: ?the actual world? itself and the artwork, which was already changing it. Such a work contained a description of the change, understood in terms of regeneration, and thus also a prediction of the way reality itself should change in the future, as well as the direction of the change.

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