scholarly journals Postfazione. Il socialismo di Bruno Trentin come liberazione della persona

2021 ◽  
pp. 261-274
Author(s):  
Giovanni Mari
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
Continuous Process ◽  
The Self

Through the commentary on a particularly interesting period taken from the Introduction to La libertà viene prima, the author intends to focus on Bruno Trentin's idea of socialism. Giovanni Mari underlines how this idea foresees the critique of four theses of the modern socialist tradition: 1) socialism is not a model of society, but a continuous process; 2) in our company the company does not constitute a world in itself; 3) the socialization of property does not solve the problems of democracy; 4) the center of civil coexistence is not constituted by the class but by the person. And four positive theses: 1) the form of political action does not foresee two separate times, first the seizure of power and then the reforms; 2) the measure of society is the freedom of the person; 3) the goal of the socialist process is the self-realization of the person; 4) everything begins with the person who works, that is, with the battle for freedom in work.

Maximus

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Byers
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Action ◽  
American Art ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Self ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
The One

This concluding chapter charts the continuing significance of the early postwar moment in Olson’s later work, particularly The Maximus Poems. The philosophical and political concerns of the American avant-garde between 1946 and 1951 play out across The Maximus Poems just as they inform later American art practices. The search of the early postwar American independent left for a source of political action rooted in the embodied individual is seen, on the one hand, to have been personified in the figure of Maximus. At the same time, Maximus’s radical ‘practice of the self’ charts a sophisticated alternative to the Enlightenment humanist subject widely critiqued in the United States in the immediate postwar period.

Charles Olson and American Modernism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Byers
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Political Action ◽  
The Self ◽  
Instrumental Reason ◽  
Charles Olson ◽  
American Modernism ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
American Poet ◽  
Mark Rothko

The Practice of the Self situates the work of American poet Charles Olson (1910–70) at the centre of the early postwar American avant-garde. It shows Olson to have been one of the major advocates and theorists of American modernism in the late 1940s and early 1950s; a poet who responded fully and variously to the political, ethical, and aesthetic urgencies driving innovation across contemporary American art. Reading Olson’s work alongside that of contemporaries associated with the New York Schools of painting and music (as well as the exiled Frankfurt School), the book draws on Olson’s published and unpublished writings to establish an original account of early postwar American modernism. The development of Olson’s work is seen to illustrate two primary drivers of formal innovation in the period: the evolution of a new model of political action pivoting around the radical individual and, relatedly, a powerful new critique of instrumental reason and the Enlightenment tradition. Drawing on extensive archival research and featuring readings of a wide range of artists—including, prominently, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, David Smith, Wolfgang Paalen, and John Cage—The Practice of the Self offers a new reading of a major American poet and an original account of the emergence of postwar American modernism.

Intersubjective Stance and Argumentation in Zimbabwean Parliamentary Discourse

2019 ◽  
pp. 97-115
Author(s):  
Ernest Jakaza
Keyword(s):  
Language Use ◽  
Continuous Process ◽  
The Self ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Parliamentary Debates ◽  
Its Analysis ◽  
Argumentative Activity ◽  
Dialogic Space

Language use in the parliament is a matter of stance taking and appraisal of others and the self-invoking systems of socio-cultural value and dis/alignments. This chapter examines the language of evaluation and appraisal in parliamentary debates and speeches. In order to account for the language of evaluation and stance in the parliament, the study evokes the appraisal resource of engagement. The research draws its analysis from the key notions of appraisal and argumentation theories focusing on how parliamentarians position themselves dis/aligning with co-participants. The research examines how the continuous process of alignment impacts on argumentation in parliamentary debates. The research concludes that intersubjective stance is an argumentative activity that involves pro and contra argumentation with parliamentarians critically testing propositions submitted in the dialogic space.

scholarly journals “Millennial India”: Global Digital Politics in Context

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 343-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sahana Udupa ◽  
Shriram Venkatraman ◽  
Aasim Khan
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Internet User ◽  
The Self ◽  
Contextual Approach ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Civic Action ◽  
Digital Politics

In this special issue, we examine the two decades of digital media expansion in India, the world’s second largest Internet user domain, to propose the idea of “millennial India.” Millennial India highlights the processes of digitalization as a distinct sociopolitical moment entailing new conditions of communication, and the stakes of “millennials” who are drawn to digital media to articulate political matters. These processes, we suggest, have led to a democratization of public participation through the self-activity of online users. Qualifying the assumption that participation leads to empowerment, we show that a politics of civic action has grown simultaneously with violent exclusions via digital circulation. Millennial India emphasizes the need to take a contextual approach to global digital politics, and recognizes the continuities in the structures of political action in as much as the disruptions engendered by digital infrastructures.

The Ideology of the Ante-bellum Northern Democrats

1977 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Collins
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
Party Politics ◽  
The Self ◽  
Free Society ◽  
Dominant Class ◽  
Class Society ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Federal Administration ◽  
Future Growth

Why did large numbers of Northerners vote for the Democrats on the eve of the Civil War? This is a question which the most recent studies of Northern ante-bellum politics leave unanswered. Professor Formisano's pains-taking study of Michigan's party politics amply shows the eclectic character of the Republicans' appeal. Republicans combined a stern mixture of moral purpose and narrow puritanism with a powerful critique of the South. Republicanism emerges from Professor Foner's influential study as a species of stalwart, visionary parochialism quite irresistible to the northern electorate. It represented the self-satisfied affirmation that the proper maintenance of existing Protestant and entrepreneurial values in the socially harmonious North was essential to America's future growth. It also rested upon a belief in the need to resist Southern attempts to push slavery into the western territories. This belief stemmed from a defensive, slightly paranoid interpretation of the operation of federal politics. Congress and the federal administration in Democratic hands were, according to the Republicans, the merest tools of “ the Dominant Class in the Republic, ” the Southern slaveowners. Thus high faith in free society and deep fear of Southern expansion co-existed uneasily together. Republicans, in Eric Foner's view, articulated an ideology which merged together an over-arching notion of the good society (a basically non-class society, in which the ladder of status was short and its ascent easy, and in which the fundamental interests of labourers, farmers and small entrepreneurs were identical) with an immediate call to political action.

scholarly journals Narrative Reflections on Masculinity and Fatherhood during Covid-19 Confinement in Spain

Societies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Gustavo González-Calvo
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Process ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Autobiographical Narratives ◽  
Process Of Change ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
World Crisis ◽  
Bodily Experiences ◽  
Change Of Life ◽  
Advance Knowledge

This article explores the intersectionalities of masculinity, corporal identity, fatherhood, relationships, and bodily experiences in relation to a person who is living in a period of home confinement. In so doing, I draw on autobiographical narratives to delve into how embodied subjectivities are constructed to advance knowledge on an embodied way of being a man in the context of a health world crisis. In the telling, I attempt to engage the reader by communicating the subjectivity of different moments in a provocative, fragmented, physical, and emotional manner. The results suggest that narratives, such as those presented in this article, contribute to understanding the continuous process of change of life and body projects due to the health crisis pandemic, and serve as a corporeal resource to challenge some of the (self-)imposed tyrannies around the body.

The Tragic Vision in Postcolonial Time

PMLA ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 129 (4) ◽  
pp. 799-808 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Scott
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
The Self ◽  
National Liberation ◽  
Colonial Power ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
The Past ◽  
Tragic Vision ◽  
Postcolonial State

I have been arguing, over some years, that thinking about the postcolonial condition in relation to tragedy or, rather, through a critical perspective informed by the idea of the tragic is especially useful in a historical conjuncture in which the triumphalist narratives of national liberation, anti-imperialism, and socialism have become exhausted, if not extinct (Scott, Conscripts and Omens). Romance, it seems to me, is the predominant mode of emplotment of the anticolonial and radical postcolonial imaginarles. This is because the salient questions animating the critique of the colonial past have turned, understandably enough, on the identification of the disabling repressive harms of colonial power and the construction of the justificatory narrative of resistance that, at length, overcomes the perceived obstacles to a postcolonial state without these sources of (moral, political, cultural, economic) dissatisfaction. These are narratives of longing and vindication that link past, present, and future in a steady rhythm of progressive (sometimes righteously exultant) redemption. But what if the futures anticipated in this story form come to be fundamentally thrown into doubt so that they lose the self-evidence that so long sustained them as an effective horizon of political desire and political action? What if the futures anticipated by the past are now themselves a part of the past? I have been arguing that, as a consequence of the collapse of the great social and political hopes that went into the anticolonial imagining and postcolonial making of national sovereignties, we do indeed inhabit a postcolonial present marked by such an irreversible transformation. I have been arguing that the problem about the former colonial worlds for the present is not the superficial one of finding better answers to existing questions but the more fundamental one of altering the questions concerning the relation between past and present that have organized our expectations of possible futures.

scholarly journals Relações entre psicologia analítica e o processo formativo do sacerdote católico

2018 ◽  
Vol 73 (290) ◽  
pp. 409-438
Author(s):  
Maurício Gomes dos Anjos
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Continuous Process ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Analytical Psychology ◽  
The Self ◽  
Training Process ◽  
Educational Work ◽  
Catholic Priests ◽  
The Catholic Church

O presente trabalho contém algumas considerações a respeito da formação do sacerdote católico e sua ligação com a Psicologia Analítica de Jung. A Igreja católica, atenta a este processo, vem demonstrando uma atenção especial ao discernimento vocacional dos candidatos ao sacerdócio, para que a natureza deste ministério seja vivida de acordo com o sacerdócio de Cristo, que é o modelo do Arquétipo sacerdotal de Melquisedec. O trabalho formativo consiste, em parte, na ativação deste arquétipo, mas também na ajuda necessária para um discernimento e desenvolvimento da integralidade do processo formativo, que, na linguagem de Jung, pode estar ligado ao Self, como eixo integrador das dimensões da formação. Outro caminho se relaciona a Cristo (o Si-mesmo na linguagem analítica), como modelo de sacerdote. E, enfim, existe a relação mais aproximada do processo de individuação, que ocorre de forma progressiva e não tem um fim, pois constantemente cada um é chamado a individuar-se, num contínuo processo de amadurecimento psíquico, espiritual, intelectual e pastoral, exigindo de cada vocacionado revisões constantes em vista de um crescimento pessoal.Abstract: The present work contains some considerations about the training of Catholic priests and its connection with Jung’s Analytical Psychology. The Catholic Church, careful of this process, has been giving special attention to the vocational discernment of the candidates to priesthood, in order that the nature of the ministry may be lived in accordance with the priesthood of Christ who is the model for Melquisedec’s sacerdotal archetype. The educational work consists partially in the activation of the archetype, but also in the necessary help towards a discernment and development throughout the training process, that, in Jung’s language, may be linked with the Self as the integrating axle of the educational dimensions. Another path is related to Christ (the Oneself in the analytical language) as a model of priesthood. And, finally, there exists a closer relation with a process of individuation that happens progressively and has no end, for each one is constantly asked to individuate himself, in a continuous process of psychic, spiritual, intellectual and pastoral maturation, demanding of each trainee constant revisions in benefit of his personal growth.Keywords: Educational process. Priesthood. Individuation. Vocational discernment.

Michael Oakeshott – Die Ansprüche der Politik (The Claims of Politics)

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-156
Author(s):  
Michael Henkel
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
The Self ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
Social Purpose ◽  
Cultural Workers ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Living Together ◽  
Art And Culture ◽  
Michael Oakeshott ◽  
September Issue

With the following essay, Michael Oakeshott took part in a symposium of the Journal Scrutiny whose articles were published in the September issue of 1939. The authors who spoke up pursued the question of whether artists, writers and philosophers had a special political task. As part of his presentation, Oakeshott outlined the specific task that politics has to accomplish for a society. It consists in ensuring security and in maintaining law and order. Oakeshott then shows the contribution that cultural workers and intellectuals make to the successful living together of a community. It is to clear the self-image and understanding of a society. Oakeshott’s argument thus creates the image of a social whole that includes a plurality of social sub-areas, that only contribute to the success of the whole by providing the services and tasks that are characteristic of them – even in times of crisis. The argumentation shows that art and culture have no specific political mandate, no duty to take political action, and that they would miss their social purpose if they put themselves in the service of a political mission and would thus neglect their indispensable cultural role.

Eric Voegelin's Theory of Consciousness

1992 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-111
Author(s):  
Steven R. McCarl
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
The Self ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
Open Nature ◽  
The Way

The self stands in the way of understanding and appreciating consciousness. The self is a reflexive, asymmetrical bit of consciousness that displaces the whole of consciousness and the open nature of consciousness. Such displacements of consciousness are expressions of gnosticism. Some political movements (e.g., fascism) are expressions of such restrictions of the horizon of consciousness. To understand and appreciate consciousness requires a degree of selflessness on the part of the inquirer. Philosophy and myth are modes of discourse that embody and cultivate the selflessness necessary for participating in, appreciating, and understanding consciousness. Such philosophizing enhances the possibility of more inclusive joint political action.

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