Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omnia El Shakry
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Thought ◽  
Secular Ethics ◽  
Human Difference ◽  
Psychoanalytic Thought ◽  
Social Scientific

This introductory chapter briefly explores the topography of modern selfhood and its ethical and epistemological contours in postwar Egypt. More specifically, it asks what it means to think through psychoanalysis and Islam together, not as a “problem” but as a creative encounter of ethical engagement. In so doing, the chapter considers the points of intersection, articulation, and commensurability between Islamic discourses and modern social scientific thought, and between religious and secular ethics. This hybridization of psychoanalytic thought with pre-psychoanalytic Islamic discursive formations illustrates that the Arabic Freud emerged not as something developed in Europe only to be diffused at its point of application elsewhere, but rather as something elaborated, like psychoanalysis itself, across the space of human difference.

Bringing Moral Culture into the Fray

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Farrell
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Conflict ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
Moral Culture ◽  
Social Scientific Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Basic Level

This introductory chapter briefly presents the conflict in Yellowstone, elaborates on the book's theoretical argument, and specifies its substantive and theoretical contributions to the social scientific study of environment, culture, religion, and morality. The chapter argues that the environmental conflict in Yellowstone is not—as it would appear on the surface—ultimately all about scientific, economic, legal, or other technical evidence and arguments, but an underlying struggle over deeply held “faith” commitments, feelings, and desires that define what people find sacred, good, and meaningful in life at a most basic level. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.

Governance and Corruption

2002 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zafar Iqbal
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Remedial Action ◽  
The West ◽  
Scientific Thought ◽  
Moral Virtues ◽  
Order Preference ◽  
Rational Understanding ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Character Building ◽  
The Individual

This paper compares the Islamic and the western social scien­tific perspectives on corruption. Jt is argued that the emerging shift in social scientific thought in viewing corruption from "grease that oils the economic wheel" to a "menace that under­mines economic growth" has brought rational understanding of the phenomenon much closer to [slamic doctrine. Where they differ is with respect to remedial action. The western approach focuses on governance and designing appropriate systems and institutions that gear information and incentives toward minimiz­ing opportunities and enticement for corruption. In short, it emphasizes constraints external to the individual. By comparison, Islam seeks to go beyond such constraints, and also instill in believers a clear "second-order" preference for non­corrupt behavior. lt recommends developing a firm belief in transcendent accountability, stresses character building through practicing moral virtues and shunning vices. In essence, much of the restraint comes from within through a moral renovation. rt is our contention that both emphases are important in eliminating corruption and that the followers oflslam and the West can learn from one another.

scholarly journals ATTAMPTED SUICIDE – ITS CAUSES AND EFFECTS

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (9SE) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Shree Dwivedi
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Individual Decision ◽  
Scientific Thought ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Individual Choices

One's death is not the end, but the beginning for those who are still living. To the untrained eye, suicide may appear to be a highly individual decision, and undoubtedly it is. However, it can be shown that suicide, as with the results of so many other individual choices, is also a socially patterned and socially reactive phenomenon. Since ancient times, suicide has been an object of moral and philosophical speculation; later, it also became a matter for medical and social-scientific thought. Studies on attempted suicides have been conducted by many scientists and social workers in other countries, though very little work seems to have been done in our country on this problem. It is important to bear this distinction in mind, because the present study revealed that the patients concerned did not really want to die; they only utilized their attempts as a threat to express dissatisfaction with certain conditions.

Between worlds: The life and work of Albert O. Hirschman. Introduction

2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-18
Author(s):  
Jeremy Adelman ◽  
Emmanuelle Loyer
Keyword(s):  
Primary Objective ◽  
Scientific Thought ◽  
Advanced Study ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Scientific

Why Hirschman? There are several plausible answers: a fascinating life that traverses the world and its conflicts; a unique mind that transcends disciplines and moments of their conception; or an exemplary humanist concerned about humanity. In what follows, we invite readers to consider the “Hirschman case” for its considerable heuristic value. Our primary objective was to provide a number of situated histories of social scientific thought. Some are explored through the institutional locations where it developed – such as the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.

A listening theologian: Ecumenical and Jewish-Christian dialogue in the early theology of Gregory Baum

2003 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 449-460
Author(s):  
Harold Wells
Keyword(s):  
Political Theology ◽  
Scientific Thought ◽  
Social Scientific

This article explores the early theology of Gregory Baum concerning Christian ecumenical and Jewish-Christian relations, noting its essential continuity with his later critical political theology. Dialogue is, for Baum, central to our humanity and truly "revelatory" as a medium of the divine Word. Baum's openness to Protestants and to secular, social-scientific thought and his personal struggle in Jewish-Christian dialogue, led him to a "post-Auschwitz" christology, whereby he rejects "fulfilled messianism" while holding nevertheless an "orthodox" doctrine of the incarnation. We find in the shifting, yet dynamic and consistent, thought of Baum the work of a listening, dialogical theologian.

The Arabic Freud

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omnia El Shakry
Keyword(s):  
Oedipus Complex ◽  
Islamic Philosophy ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Psychic Life ◽  
Sexual Drive ◽  
New Science ◽  
Psychoanalysis And Religion ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
Human Difference ◽  
Psychoanalytic Thought

In 1945, psychologist Yusuf Murad introduced an Arabic term borrowed from the medieval Sufi philosopher and mystic Ibn ʿArabi—al-la-shuʿur—as a translation for Sigmund Freud's concept of the unconscious. By the late 1950s, Freud's Interpretation of Dreams had been translated into Arabic for an eager Egyptian public. This book challenges the notion of a strict divide between psychoanalysis and Islam by tracing how postwar thinkers in Egypt blended psychoanalytic theories with concepts from classical Islamic thought in a creative encounter of ethical engagement. The book provides an in-depth examination of psychoanalysis in Egypt and reveals how a new science of psychology—or “science of the soul,” as it came to be called—was inextricably linked to Islam and mysticism. It explores how Freudian ideas of the unconscious were crucial to the formation of modern discourses of subjectivity in areas as diverse as psychology, Islamic philosophy, and the law. Founding figures of Egyptian psychoanalysis, the book shows, debated the temporality of the psyche, mystical states, the sexual drive, and the Oedipus complex, while offering startling insights into the nature of psychic life, ethics, and eros. The book invites us to rethink the relationship between psychoanalysis and religion in the modern era. Mapping the points of intersection between Islamic discourses and psychoanalytic thought, it illustrates how the Arabic Freud, like psychoanalysis itself, was elaborated across the space of human difference.

scholarly journals Complexity, Relatedness and Uncertainty in Contemporary Social Science: A Preliminary Reflection

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 475-479
Author(s):  
Charalambos Tsekeris ◽  
Olga Papadopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social World ◽  
Analytic Framework ◽  
Scientific Thought ◽  
Social Scientific

This concise preliminary reflection seeks to offer a fresh transdisciplinary lens to comprehensively discern and evaluate the various interlinks and overlaps between theory and methodology in current social scientific thought. A brief elaboration on the metatheoretical issues of complexity, relatedness and uncertainty encourages a suitable and sustainable analytic framework for generating, developing and cultivating a more open, dialogical and critical-reflexive way of perceiving social science and the precarious social world in general.

Introduction

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Coleman ◽  
Rosalind I. J. Hackett
Keyword(s):  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Social Scientific Study ◽  
Anthropological Study ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
The Way

This introductory chapter examines the varied dimensions of the anthropological study of Pentecostalism and evangelicalism (P/e). It looks into a brief history of the anthropology of P/e as a growing field of study, tracing the “coming of age” of this subfield and how it occurred. In addition, the chapter explores the reasons why an ethnographer—however secular—might have taken up interest in an anthropological study of P/e, thus paving the way for a discussion on the vast potential of an anthropology of P/e for social scientific study due to its conjoining of the academic, cultural, and P/e worlds. Given the scope of the subject at hand, the chapter thus sets out the specific definitions of P/e to be undertaken in this volume, and elucidates further into the vast spectrum of an anthropology of P/e.

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