scholarly journals Power and force: Rethinking Kojève, Arendt and Camus in the populist era

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-55
Author(s):  
Maciej Kałuża
Keyword(s):  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Albert Camus ◽  
Power Relationship ◽  
Contemporary Situation ◽  
The Relationship

In the presented essay, I would like to focus on the relationship between force and power. The idea that power, without resorting to forceful, even violent solutions, is less problematic, is both deceitful and dangerous. Once accepted, it can cause an oversight of violence‐free but possibly harmful forms of power. My focus in the article will be on the two reinterpretations of Master‐Slave dialectics, as presented by Alexandre Kojève and Albert Camus. This will be presented with reference to the position of Hannah Arendt and her remarks on power and force. In conclusion, I will be abstemious: my goal is rather to diagnose and bind the existentialist judgement with the contemporary situation and suggest that thinking outside the force‐power relationship may be continuously fruitful and an important part of reflection on the nature of political power.

scholarly journals WHEN CULTURE MEETS RELIGION: THE MULUDAN TRADITION IN THE KA-NOMAN SULTANATE, CIREBON, WEST JAVA

Al-Albab ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamad Yusuf
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
Power Relationship ◽  
Royal Family ◽  
Religious Ritual ◽  
The Past ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

This article is based on a fundamental question, what is the relationship between practicing the Muludan tradition and seeking of power by the Royal family of the Kanoman Sultanate in Cirebon? The Muludan is a tradition conducted by the Royal family, and thousands of people participate in this tradition. This article is aimed to analyze the extent of which the Royal family uses Muludan tradition to regain their political power as they had in the past. Our participatory research shows that the Muludan tradition could be defined as a religious-cultural system. This is not only a religious ritual but also a cultural tradition. On the one hand this tradition is done primarily based on the knowledge, beliefs, norms and moral values of religious teachings. People participating in this tradition believe that they would gain God blessing (Ngalap Berkah) and Shafa’at as cited by the Quran and the Hadith. On the other hand, this tradition involves cultural tradition that has been practiced by the local people since long time ago. This research also found that the Royal family fails to use this tradition to gain political power as they intend to do. This tradition could mainly effectively be implemented in terms of the socio-cultural relationship between the Sultan and the followers. Political power, the Royal family aims to gain through conducting the Muludan tradition, does not significantly happen. Key words: The Muludan Tradition, Power Relationship, Religious Identity, and the Kanoman Sultanate

The Gallic Singularity and the Royal Mistress

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-66
Author(s):  
Christine Adams
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Political Power ◽  
The Political ◽  
Marie Antoinette ◽  
Louis Xvi ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Political Realm

The relationship of the French king and royal mistress, complementary but unequal, embodied the Gallic singularity; the royal mistress exercised a civilizing manner and the soft power of women on the king’s behalf. However, both her contemporaries and nineteenth- and early twentieth-century historians were uncomfortable with the mistress’s political power. Furthermore, paradoxical attitudes about French womanhood have led to analyses of her role that are often contradictory. Royal mistresses have simultaneously been celebrated for their civilizing effect in the realm of culture, chided for their frivolous expenditures on clothing and jewelry, and excoriated for their dangerous meddling in politics. Their increasing visibility in the political realm by the eighteenth century led many to blame Louis XV’s mistresses—along with Queen Marie-Antoinette, who exercised a similar influence over her husband, Louis XVI—for the degradation and eventual fall of the monarchy. This article reexamines the historiography of the royal mistress.

scholarly journals Capitalism and democracy in the twenty-first century: does it still take two to tango?

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Matteo Marenco
Keyword(s):  
Political Power ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
First Century ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Digital Capitalism ◽  
Global Power ◽  
Rise Of China ◽  
Science Question ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This article reviews three books that offer thought-provoking insights on a central political science question, namely the relationship between capitalism and democracy in the twenty-first century. First, ‘Democracy and Prosperity’ by Iversen and Soskice posits a symbiotic relationship between capitalism and democracy. Advanced capital thrives on nationally rooted institutions, hence it needs democratic politics. A majority of voters ask for pro-advanced-capital reforms, hence democratic politics needs advanced capital. Second, ‘Capitalism, Alone’ by Milanovic depicts a troubled coexistence between capitalism and democracy. The former's tendency to concentrate economic and political power in the hands of the few is the main reason why democratic politics is under pressure. Third, ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’ by Zuboff suggests a negative relationship between digital capitalism and democracy. Surveillance capitalism increasingly acts as a control means of individuals' behaviour, which undermines democracy at its roots. The last section brings the three contributions together. It maintains that a mutually beneficial coexistence between capitalism and democracy currently faces both internal (from within) and external (from without) challenges. In line with Milanovic and Zuboff, it argues that the concentration of economic and political power in the hands of the few is the most apparent from-within challenge. Drawing on Milanovic, it contends that rise of China as a global power combining capitalism with non-democracy challenges the relationship between capitalism and democracy from without. Finally, it contends that the environmental question and the pandemic represent two windows of opportunity for democracy to recover lost ground and re-establish a more balanced relationship with capitalism.

Questioning territories and identities in the precolonial (nineteenth-century) Lake Kivu region

Africa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 91 (3) ◽  
pp. 493-515
Author(s):  
Gillian Mathys
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Lake Kivu ◽  
Territorial Claims ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

AbstractThroughout Africa, contemporary boundaries are deemed ‘artificial’ because they were external impositions breaking apart supposedly homogeneous ethnic units. This article argues that the problem with the colonial borders was not only that they arbitrarily dissected African societies with European interests in mind, but also that they profoundly changed the way in which territoriality and authority functioned in this region, and therefore they affected identity. The presumption that territories could be constructed in which ‘culture’ and ‘political power’ neatly coincided was influenced by European ideas about space and identity, and privileged the perceptions and territorial claims of those ruling the most powerful centres in the nineteenth century. Thus, this article questions assumptions that continue to influence contemporary views of the Lake Kivu region. It shows that local understandings of the relationship between space and identity differed fundamentally from state-centred perspectives, whether in precolonial centralized states or colonial states.

Creative Confinement and Narratives of Violence: Charles Baudelaire, Shumona Sinha and Assommons les pauvres!

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-75
Author(s):  
SONYA STEPHENS
Keyword(s):  
Political Power ◽  
Charles Baudelaire ◽  
Literary Form ◽  
Prose Poem ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
The Social ◽  
Spleen De Paris ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines the relationship between Baudelaire’s prose poem, “Assommons les pauvres!” (Le Spleen de Paris, 1869) and Shumona Sinha’s 2011 novel of the same title. Focusing on questions of reading and intertextuality, from Baudelaire’s reference to Proudhon to Sinha’s engagement with the prose poem and Le Spleen de Paris more broadly, it explores forms of confinement and creativity, the connections between narrative and freedom and the ways in which lyrical subjectivity and literary form reflect the social challenges of each period. In expressing socio-cultural and linguistic alienation, these texts centre the textual in an exploration of the marginal, thereby demonstrating that the connection between them goes beyond a critical act of violence and the presumed equality or dignity it confers, to represent a shared interrogation of universalism, multiculturalism, and authorial and political power.

Reading a History of Writing: heritage, religion and script change in Java

Itinerario ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 419-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronit Ricci
Keyword(s):  
Political Power ◽  
History Of Writing ◽  
Literary Cultures ◽  
History Of ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Scripts are sites of religious, cultural and political power. Although scripts are often viewed solely as technical devices in the service of meaning, the particular histories of scripts’ coming into being, their uses and sometimes disappearance can tell us much about shifting religious agendas, memory, and attachments to community, place, and particular literary cultures. In my essay I explore the history of writing in Java, including the story of the letters’ creation, to think about cultural and religious transformations, the relationship of foreign to local, and the powerful hold certain texts have on the imagination.

scholarly journals On the Exception of Hannah Arendt

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 684-704 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayça Çubukçu
Keyword(s):  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Banality Of Evil ◽  
The Relationship

This article offers a close reading of Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. It argues that in this text, Arendt consistently, even obsessively, evaluates the legal and moral challenges posed by Eichmann’s trial through the relationship between exception and rule. The article contends that the analytical lens of the exception allows us to appreciate the perplexities that Eichmann in Jerusalem presents – some fifty years after the book’s publication – from a still uncommon perspective, and enables us to attend in new ways to Arendt’s own suppositions, propositions, and contradictions in this text.

scholarly journals El pensamiento de resistencia de de Hannah Arendt: Un análisisi de la relación entre filosofía y política en una de las lecturas de Miguel Abensour

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 121
Author(s):  
Juan Pablo Yáñez Godoy
Keyword(s):  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Relationship

<p align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">La siguiente investigación busca dilucidar el sentido tras la consideración que Miguel Abensour realiza sobre Hannah Arendt, concibiéndola como una «figura de resistencia». Exploraremos, por tanto, el significado de este concepto de resistencia en el pensamiento de Abensour, el contexto donde se inscribe, para luego concebir qué contenido adopta en determinada lectura de la obra de Arendt. Lectura que estará guiada por la reflexión que este filósofo francés lleva a cabo sobre la obra de la alemana, poniendo énfasis en la manera en que ahí se articula la tensión entre filosofía y política. En ese recorrido, nos detendremos principalmente sobre dos puntos: la operación de «desmontaje» que Arendt lleva a cabo sobre la tradición, el movimiento que esta comporta, y la relación que este ejercicio guarda con la Academia, inspirados ciertamente en el combate declarado que Abensour hace de la «empresa académica». </span></p><p align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Palabras clave: filosofía, política, academia, resistencia, contra, Hannah Arendt.</span></p><p align="JUSTIFY"><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></em></p><p align="JUSTIFY"><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></em></p><p align="JUSTIFY"><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">The thought of resistance of Hannah Arendt: an analysis of the relationship between philosophyy and politics in one of Miguel Abensour's readings<br /></span></em></p><p align="JUSTIFY"><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">This research aims to elucidate Miguel Abensour’s consideration about Hannah Arendt as a ‘figure of resistance’. Hence the meaning of ‘resistance’ as presented by Abensour’s thought and the context in which it is inserted will be explored, in order to understand the content used by the autor when presenting his reading of Arendt’s work. This reading will be guided by Abensour’s reflection about the German writer, emphasizing the tension between politics and philosophy present in her work. Then, two main points will be analyzed: the ‘dismantling’ operation that Arendt’s makes over tradition, the movement that this operation involves, and the relation between the ‘dismantling’ and the Academy, inspired in the declared attack to the ‘academic enterprise’ by Abensour.<br /></span></em></p><p align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><em>Keywords: philosophy, politics, Academy, resistance, against, Hannah Arendt.</em> </span></p><p align="JUSTIFY"> </p><p align="JUSTIFY"> </p>

scholarly journals Os ritos tridentinos na construção do absolutismo : a importância de Luís XIV

2021 ◽  
pp. 207-240
Author(s):  
Eduardo Gonçalves Almeida
Keyword(s):  
European Society ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Ancien Regime ◽  
Louis Xiv ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
French Case ◽  
Pertinent Question ◽  
Ancien Régime ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Modern Era

The influence of the Tridentine rites in sustaining the Absolutism of the Catholic States of the Ancien Regime is a pertinent question, despite the fact that thisform of government has already been abundantly discussed. The existing analyzes on Absolutism did not look directly at the prism that we propose to the reader with this work. Centered on the French case of Louis XIV, we will try to better understand the close relationship between the Throne and the Altar in Europe under the Ancien Regime, and how this osmosis strengthened and ensured until the liberal revolutions the domination of European society by these two institutions. We will do this through a particular prism: that of religious, Catholic, post-Tridentine rites, and those of Louis XIV's “Court Society”. Since times immemorial, humanity has used symbols to express different realities and ways to legitimize the exercise of power. From the Pharaoh gods, through the Augustus of Antiquity, we know that religion was absolutely fundamental and indispensable and articulated and legitimized forms of political power. The study of the relationship between ecclesiastical rites and those of a monarchy in times of affirmation of Absolutism, in the final centuries of the Modern Era, emerges as necessary in this context. Therefore, this paper seeks to answer the following question: what role did Catholic rites play in the construction of the maximum icon of European Absolutism?

scholarly journals The woman had to fall? Jean-Baptiste Clamence and the literary infection by evil

2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 81-99
Author(s):  
Maciej Kałuża
Keyword(s):  
Main Part ◽  
Albert Camus ◽  
Severe Trauma ◽  
Problem Of Evil ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Social Evil ◽  
The Problem Of Evil ◽  
The Relationship

The article presents the concept of evil, as developed in the literary as well as philosophical works of Albert Camus. After a short, preliminary notice on the relationship between literature and evil, the article presents two spheres, in which the problem of evil was grasped by the author of The Rebel. In the main part of the article, the complexity of the problem of evil, as represented by Jean-Baptiste Clamence from The Fall is shown. It is seen as a development of the concept of evil from The Plague, with the potency to disseminate onto others. It is also perceived, as something resulting from severe trauma of the main character. In conclusion, I claim, that the problem of evil, as experienced by Clamence may be understood as a still relevant metaphor of contemporary culture, struggling with passivity against the rise of social evil.

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