“Inevitable Discovery”: Searches, Narrative, Identity

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Brooks
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Identity ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
The Self ◽  
Individual Identity ◽  
Inner Sense ◽  
The Law ◽  
Sense Of Identity ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Internal Sense ◽  
Modern Identity

This chapter explores how the question of searches and seizures in the law, and the legal doctrines both protecting the individual and providing for his or her capture by social institutions, images a kind of standoff between the self and knowledge of it. To the extent that individual identity is bound up with the notion of privacy, the issue of searches and seizures very much reflects central tenets of modern identity. There must be rules laid down to protect the individual's inner sense of identity against the state's need to know, classify, and inventory that identity. If courts often interpret this as a balancing act, attempting to draw lines and establish rules about where and what can be searched and seized and in what manner, fundamentally it represents a conflict and a clash, in which the internal sense of “inviolate personality” and the state's external need to know persons are at a standoff.

Promoting exchange between East and West management cultures: The role of dialogue

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 514-525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muayyad Jabri
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Narrative Identity ◽  
Instrumental Rationality ◽  
The Self ◽  
Mistaken Assumption ◽  
East And West ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Cross National

AbstractThis paper calls on cultural studies as a resource for rethinking East and West management cultures. An analysis of East and West management cultures reveals that much of our prevailing knowledge of East and West management cultures is derived from cross-national comparisons of culture. These comparisons are predicated on assumptions of instrumental rationality and the cultural homogeneity of the self with social others, which effectively presume an ontology of the self as stable, enduring, and the same as social others. For promoting exchange between East and West management cultures, there is a need to move beyond this mistaken assumption of ontological ‘sameness’. To achieve this, the paper argues that at least two changes are required: (i) reversing the tendency to treat culture as an entity that is separate from the individual; and (ii) reversing the tendency to treat the narrative identity of the individual as stable and enduring. With a view to realising these changes, the paper proposes the notion of ‘dialogical encounter’ as a means of enabling individuals to be given a role in determining how their culture is ‘made known’ to others.

scholarly journals Self-(de)constructions in J. M. Coetzee’s Dusklands

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 19-33
Author(s):  
Noémi Doktorcsik
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Nobel Prize Winner ◽  
The Self ◽  
Individual Identity ◽  
Fictional World ◽  
Special Regard ◽  
The Individual

The Nobel Prize-winner South African author, J. M. Coetzee in his debut novel, Dusklands (1974), allows the reader to take a look into the astonishing worlds of vulnerability and violence through the juxtaposition of two locally and temporally discrepant narratives, whose fictional world is dominated by authority. This paper attempts to explore the collapse of the individual identity of the narrators, along the prevailing literary discourses around the time of the novel’s publication, with special regard to the changing concept of the self in post-modern works and to the manners of rewriting its Cartesian concept.

scholarly journals Generation related self-identity of Lesia Ukrainka (Based on her epistolary heritage)

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (46) ◽  
pp. 101-108
Author(s):  
Tetiana Virchenko ◽  
Roman Koz
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Individual Identity ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Previous Generation ◽  
Present Generation ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
History Of Literature

The need to talk about the generation related self-identity of those writers who lived at the change of the century became more acute, because “fin de siècle” is the period of modernization of literature. The objective of the research is both historic-literary and purely theoretical. If in the first area we have to find out the individual identity of Lesia Ukrainka with a certain literary generation, and in the second area one should answer the question of whether the self-identification of the writeress with a certain literary generation can become the cornerstone for writing the history of literature. The process of working with the contents of letters was carried out with the help of systematic interpretation and hermeneutic reading. The main result of the research is the possibility to state that Lesia Ukrainka respected the experience of the representatives of the previous generation, but she desired to be appreciated by critics as part of the present generation gives reason to think that the writeress still identified herself as the representative of modernism.

Discovering the Self in Self-Pleasuring

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Brooks
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Original Form ◽  
Individual Identity ◽  
Productive Work ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Erotic

This chapter focuses on masturbation, the sex that one has with oneself. If masturbation becomes a “problem”—rather than simply a fact of life, dating from infancy and openly discovered at puberty—with the advent of modernity, this must have some bearing on the problem of individual identity, especially the sense of the individual as solitary, a system complete in itself, a body responsive to itself. The “problem” of masturbation may derive from a sense that the world outside the self has become unnecessary: that the self has become entirely solipsistic and self-satisfying. This is dangerously unproductive in an age of nascent capitalism, where the imperative to productive work includes the channeling of sexuality to disciplined reproduction. But even more disturbing is the suspicion that autoeroticism may suggest a discovery that self-love—narcissism—is the primary and original form of the erotic, which makes the socialization of the individual as crucial as it is difficult and possibly doomed.

Stages of Transformative Self-Authorship

2021 ◽  
pp. 401-446
Author(s):  
Jack Bauer
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Identity ◽  
Structural Complexity ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Successive Stage ◽  
The Self ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Developmental Theories ◽  
Advanced Stages ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Self Authorship

This chapter focuses on the development of narrative structure. The chapter first summarizes basic principles of structural–developmental theories of self. The stages mark increasing degrees of structural complexity and coherence (i.e., value perspectivity) in one’s narrative identity. At each successive stage, the individual is better able to differentiate and integrate perspectives on the self and others. Coupled with themes of eudaimonic growth, these stages also mark the development of wisdom. The stages of self-authorship are pre-authorship, impulsive, egoist, groupish, independent, constructivist, organismic, dynamic, integrative, and post-integrative. Unlike previous stage models, this model emphasizes stages of transformative self-authorship—that is, how the idea of growth is interpreted at each stage with greater complexity and coherence. The chapter also explains how the person of each stage interprets the thinking of previous stages and more advanced stages.

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SYSTEM OF MEASURES OF DETECTION AND PREVENTION OF CORRUPTION AT THE ENTERPRISE

2020 ◽  
pp. 121-123
Author(s):  
I. I. Bashta ◽  
V. V. Omelkovets
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Effective System ◽  
Legislative Support ◽  
The Law ◽  
Formation Section ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Real Responsibility ◽  
Legal Entities

The article deals with the existing problematic issues of anti-corruption measures, as there is a widespread practice of ignoring the laws, which in turn leads to the possibility of avoiding liability and the actual absence of real responsibility for corruption. Effective fight against corruption in Ukraine requires proper legislative support, formation of an effective system of state bodies, ensuring proper formation. Section 10 of the Law of Ukraine “On Prevention of Corruption” sets out the general principles for the prevention of corruption in the activities of legal entities. The general requirements for all, without exception, legal entities are to conduct regular assessment of corruption risks in their activities, as well as to develop and take necessary and reasonable measures to prevent and counteract corruption. However, the legislator does not establish specific forms and methods of implementation of these requirements of the Law, giving legal persons the freedom to choose the most optimal tools for them. In view of the above, corruption usually has a selfish purpose and a desire to obtain illicit remuneration to satisfy its own interest. Therefore, it can be defined that corruption is an act committed by an official or an official, through abuse of office and / or authority for the benefit of the individual at his (or other person's) request, which seeks to reward and satisfy the self-interest of the individual, who commits the act. Anti-corruption activities are carried out within different legal relationships. This fact necessitates the development of various means of preventing corruption, which will help to block this phenomenon in any public relations. Therefore, the paper identifies the main measures to prevent corruption in enterprises.

Promoting exchange between East and West management cultures: The role of dialogue

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 514-525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muayyad Jabri
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Narrative Identity ◽  
Instrumental Rationality ◽  
The Self ◽  
Mistaken Assumption ◽  
East And West ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Cross National

AbstractThis paper calls on cultural studies as a resource for rethinking East and West management cultures. An analysis of East and West management cultures reveals that much of our prevailing knowledge of East and West management cultures is derived from cross-national comparisons of culture. These comparisons are predicated on assumptions of instrumental rationality and the cultural homogeneity of the self with social others, which effectively presume an ontology of the self as stable, enduring, and the same as social others. For promoting exchange between East and West management cultures, there is a need to move beyond this mistaken assumption of ontological ‘sameness’. To achieve this, the paper argues that at least two changes are required: (i) reversing the tendency to treat culture as an entity that is separate from the individual; and (ii) reversing the tendency to treat the narrative identity of the individual as stable and enduring. With a view to realising these changes, the paper proposes the notion of ‘dialogical encounter’ as a means of enabling individuals to be given a role in determining how their culture is ‘made known’ to others.

Manageable Self in the Early Hellenistic Era

2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-36
Author(s):  
Vaia Touna
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
The Self ◽  
Hellenistic Period ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
The Individual

This paper argues that the rise of what is commonly termed "personal religion" during the Classic-Hellenistic period is not the result of an inner need or even quality of the self, as often argued by those who see in ancient Greece foreshadowing of Christianity, but rather was the result of social, economic, and political conditions that made it possible for Hellenistic Greeks to redefine the perception of the individual and its relationship to others.

„Rzymski” Żyd – nieznana twórczość Romana Brandstaettera

2012 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-61
Author(s):  
Dariusz Konrad Sikorski
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Free Speech ◽  
Role Model ◽  
The Self ◽  
Polish Literature ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Law

Summary After 1946, ie. after embracing Christianity, Roman Brandstaetter would often point to the Biblical Jonah as a role model for both his life and his artistic endeavour. In the interwar period, when he was a columnist of Nowy Głos, a New York Polish-Jewish periodical, he used the penname Romanus. The ‘Roman’ Jew appears to have treated his columns as a form of an artistic and civic ‘investigation’ into scandalous cases of breaking the law, destruction of cultural values and violation of social norms. Although it his was hardly ‘a new voice’ with the potential to change the course of history, he did become an intransigent defender of free speech. Brought up on the Bible and the best traditions of Polish literature and culture, Brandstaetter, the self-appointed disciple of Adam Mickiewicz, could not but stand up to the challenge of anti-Semitic aggression.

¿Quién soy yo? Reflexiones teórico sistémicas acerca de la indentidad individual

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-31
Author(s):  
Francisco Xavier Morales
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Individual Identity ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Moral Communication ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Individual

The problem of identity is an issue of contemporary society that is not only expressed in daily life concerns but also in discourses of politics and social movements. Nevertheless, the I and the needs of self-fulfillment usually are taken for granted. This paper offers thoughts regarding individual identity based on Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory. From this perspective, identity is not observed as a thing or as a subject, but rather as a “selfillusion” of a system of consciousness, which differentiates itself from the world, event after event, in a contingent way. As concerns the definition  of contents of self-identity, the structures of social systems define who is a person, how he or she should act, and how much esteem he or she should receive. These structures are adopted by consciousness as its own identity structures; however, some social contexts are more relevant for self-identity construction than others. Moral communication increases the probability that structure appropriation takes place, since the emotional element of identity is linked to the esteem/misesteem received by the individual from the interactions in which he or she participates.

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