scholarly journals Beauty and the wonder of poetry. Voices of a poetic education to revive our times

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefania Ulivieri Stiozzi
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Bearing Witness ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
The World ◽  
Art Of Life ◽  
Way Of Thinking

Poetry is an epiphany of the gaze, an arousing vision. It opens a passage unexpectedly, where a glimmer of truth is found. The poetic word is a metaphor for this extraordinary time, revealing not only a fear of the other and the threat of death – which has become a tangible presence – but also the beauty of fragility when it is cultivated as a gesture of care for oneself and for the world. A word capable of restoring a look of wonder accords the verses of some poets, bearing witness to a different way of thinking. The text seeks to explore their voices, linked by a word that cultivates the expansion of detail and the beauty hidden between the folds of a troubling time. In a moment of estranging separation, their inspiration promotes an education consisting of listening and receptivity, reviving silence, inviting gestures of devotion and intimacy towards oneself and to others and cultivating an imperishable art of life.

Précis: Our Moral Fate: Evolution And The Escape From Tribalism

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 443-448
Author(s):  
Allen Buchanan
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The World ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Zero Sum ◽  
Winner Take All ◽  
Take All

Abstract The book uses evolutionary principles to explain tribalism, a way of thinking and acting that divides the world into Us versus Them and achieves cooperation within a group at the expense of erecting insuperable obstacles to cooperation among groups. Tribalism represents political controversies as supreme emergencies in which ordinary moral constraints do not apply and as zero-sum, winner take all contests. Tribalism not only undermines democracy by ruling out compromise, bargaining, and respect for the Other; it also reverses one of the most important milestones of progress in how we understand morality: the insight that morality is not a list of commands to be unthinkingly followed, but rather that morality centrally involves the giving and taking of reasons among equals. Tribalism rejects this insight by branding the Other as a being who is incapable of reasoning.

scholarly journals Advertising and/ Is Educating

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 84-96
Author(s):  
Gabriela Rigotti ◽  
Verena Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
Fields Of Study ◽  
Egalitarian Society ◽  
The World ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Neutral Language

The objective of this article is to discuss how gender narratives have been used in the field of advertising, seeking to understand the textual and imagery aesthetics involved in them and how they would act in the process of educating consumers on the issue. Communication and education are "volatile" fields of study, with seasonality and changing conceptualizations; thus, each new analysis represents not a theoretical objectivism based on the search for truth, but rather an addition, to the market and to the world, of a new way of thinking, understanding, and above all, transmitting messages. With this in mind and to support the theoretical discussion undertaken, two case studies of advertising campaigns were conducted, one of them international, of L'Oreal and the other, national of Avon brand, both using neutral language, in order to understand how and with what results the commitment to use this type of language acts in consumers’ ways of thinking and acting towards a more inclusive and egalitarian society.

Equality Derby

Outsiders ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 135-158
Author(s):  
Zachary Kramer
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Slow Growth ◽  
The Other ◽  
The World ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The Law

In the world of civil rights, the new relies on the old. Emerging groups base their claims on those who came before them. Some resist this way of thinking. Justice for one may mean less attention for the other. As groups jockey for protection under the law—in a kind of Equality Derby—they battle over history. Whose history is worse, whose deserves the most attention? When new outsider groups take up the mantle of civil rights, what happens to the unfinished work of civil rights? How will we know when the law is stretched too thin? This is a recipe not so much for disaster, but for the slow growth of justice. This chapter is about history. It is about the path toward equality. It is about what, in the broadest sense, civil rights law is trying to accomplish. Ultimately, this is a debate about history, and civil rights law has a complicated relationship to history.

scholarly journals Neurocracia: la Democracia del Tercer Milenio

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (68) ◽  
pp. 896-913
Author(s):  
Juan Guillermo Estay Sepúlveda ◽  
Mario Lagomarsino Montoya ◽  
Juan Mansilla Sepúlveda ◽  
Rosalba Mancina-Chávez ◽  
Alex Véliz Burgos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Social Media ◽  
The Other ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Living Together ◽  
The World ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The One

Democracy is a chimera for many who feel that she will never knock on her doors. But that democracy is already part of a past when it comes to seeing science move forward and the world begins a gap between those who have and those who do not have in every sense of thinking and acting of the human. In these new times of social media-fed cyber millennialism on the one hand and laboratories on the other hand, the new war for those who master thought will be fought at the bit level and Artificial Intelligence. This is where neurocracy begins its journey as -perhaps- the new way of living and living together. The objective of this essay is to make known how this new way of thinking, feeling, and acting of human coexistence is entering into our daily work. The results obtained when thinking about the work, is of having shown that the middle maas and AI have arrived to stay in an increasingly dystopian planetary scenario.

scholarly journals Architecture and philosophy: Paradoxes and metamorphoses of their meeting

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 39-46
Author(s):  
Chris Younès
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
The World ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

It is well known that Jacques Derrida emphasized the idea of an essential cohabitation between philosophy and architecture, declaring: "The Collège international de philosophie should provide the place for a meeting (rencontre), a thinking meeting, between philosophy and architecture. Not in order to finally have them confront each other, but to think what has always maintained them together in the most essential of cohabitations." This paper addresses in particular a hypothesis about the metamorphoses of this meeting that, from unity of architectonics and principles, becomes multiple and of another nature. So there is a reevaluation in terms of limits and passages; in other words, in terms of opening up. The first meeting can be considered as a metaphorical game of mirrors in which each presents itself as prevailing over the other forms of knowledge - one as the science of theory, the other as a science of techniques. This ordered and oriented posturing will collapse at the same time as the disappearance of a finite cosmos. In this dissolution, architecture and philosophy have recomposed themselves to deal with the space and time of inhabited milieus that affect not only the constitution of the gaze, but also a transformation of the world. It is examined how their interface is a heuristic structure of questioning.

On the nature of theoretical archaeology and archaeological theory

2006 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew H. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Agency Theory ◽  
Concrete Structures ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Archaeological Theory ◽  
Theoretical Terms ◽  
The World ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The One

In this paper I want to make some general comments on the state of archaeological theory today. I argue that a full answer to the question ‘does archaeological theory exist?’ must be simultaneously ‘yes’ and ‘no’. Yes, there is, demonstrably, a discourse called archaeological theory, with concrete structures such as individuals and schools of thought more or less substantively engaged with it; no, in that the claims for a distinctive way of thinking about the world in theoretical terms specific to archaeology, to which most or even the largest group of archaeologists would willingly or knowingly subscribe, are over-stated. In particular there is a lack of correspondence between theoretical backgrounds and affiliations that are overtly cited by archaeologists, on the one hand, and, on the other, the deeper underlying assumptions and traditions that structure their work and condition its acceptance. These underlying traditions stretch from field habits to underlying paradigms or discourses. I will explore this latter point with reference to the manner in which agency theory and phenomenology have been developed in archaeology. My conclusion suggests some elements of a way forward for archaeological theory; it is striking that many of these elements have been addressed in recent issues of Archaeological dialogues.

scholarly journals O olhar de Medusa e a reparação do mundo: 6 flashes e um álbum aberto

2021 ◽  
pp. 53-65
Author(s):  
Ana Paula Coutinho
Keyword(s):  
Social Communication ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
The Other ◽  
Photographic Image ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
The World ◽  
The One

In Thinking about the “salvation of the world” from the vantage point of photography, understood not so much as the product of an optical mechanism or as a form of social communication but as the art of the gaze, has led me to gather a series of reflections which seek to elucidate, on the one hand, the idea of “salvation” as a “reparation” paradigm in contemporary literature and, on the other, some intrinsic and extrinsic conditions, through a more or less protracted process that extends from the rendering of the photographer’s gaze by the camera to its reception by the gaze(s) of different spectators, that allow the photographic image to effectively participate in a leisurely and life-enhancing revelation of reality that all kinds of viewers can enjoy

scholarly journals Cosmic Dance of Dialogue!

Illuminatio ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 240-255
Author(s):  
Leonard Swidler
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Partial Knowledge ◽  
The World ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Holy Man

The author starts from the obvious statement that no one knows everything about everything and that we can have only partial knowledge of any limited study of reality, although, when it comes to religion, many still claim to know everything they need to know. Since people cannot know everything, dialogue is necessary, because through a conversation with another, a person learns what he cannot notice from his place and with his personal lenses of knowledge.  Dialogue is not just a way to get more information: Dialogue is a whole new way of thinking! Dialogue in its broadest sense is at the very heart of the cosmos, that is, the very essence of the cosmos and our humanity is dialogical, and fulfilled human life is the highest expression of the Cosmic Dance of Dialogue. Therefore, the author emphasizes, we humans today have an obvious choice: dialogue or death! The text points out that there are three main dimensions of dialogue, which correspond to the structure of humanity: The dialogue of the head, hands and heart in the holistic harmony of the holy man. In the dialogue of the head we reach out to those who think differently from us to understand how they see the world and the reason for their behavior. The world is too complicated for anyone to figure it out on their own. In hand dialogue, we team up with others to make the world a better place where we all need to live together. In the dialogue of the heart we open ourselves to perceive/receive the beauty of the other. The author concludes that people cannot live divided. If they want to survive, and even flourish, they must not only dance individually the dialogues of head, hand, and heart but also bring together the various parts in harmony.

What Does the Comparative Do for Theory?

PMLA ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 128 (3) ◽  
pp. 675-682
Author(s):  
Ming Xie
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
Thought Process ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Critical Reflexivity ◽  
The World ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Way Of Knowing ◽  
The One

Two arguments about theory and comparative literature have been influential in recent years. on the one hand, there has been much talk of the “death of theory,” or the “end of theory,” or “post-theory” in the humanities. On the other hand, there is a “crisis” of comparative literature, perhaps a perennial condition, if it hasn't culminated in the “death of a discipline.” Under these circumstances, the question “What does the comparative do for theory?” assumes a poignant significance, which depends on what is meant by “comparative” and “theory.” To answer this question, I explore an epistemological category I call “comparativity”—that is, metacomparison or the theoretical potential of comparison—in contrast to the usual term “comparison.” If there is a crisis of comparative literature, it may be because we have moved too far from thinking comparativity as a way of knowing and engaging the world. Epistemology does not precede ontology, or ethics, or politics, but it is deeply involved in all of them. In this paper, I will argue for comparativity as at once an epistemological and metaepistemological mode of inquiry. Comparativity cannot be displaced or replaced by another disciplinary way of thinking, for comparativity is a trans- and metadisciplinary thought process, which by virtue of its self-critical reflexivity applies to all humanistic studies. My focus is therefore on the theoretical implications of comparativity.

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