Jewish Internationalists

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan M. Wald
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
Lionel Trilling ◽  
Horace Kallen

The role of Jewish radicalism is the theme of this chapter, especially as it was expressed in the pages of Menorah Journal. The ideas of Isaac Deutscher in regard to the “Non-Jewish Jew” and of Horace Kallen about “cultural pluralism” are treated in relation to the debate about assimilation and internationalism. Elliot Cohen, Lionel Trilling, and Herbert Solow are treated as representative figures.

Cultural Pluralism and Educational Policy: In Search of Stable Multiculturalism

1981 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.J. Smolicz
Keyword(s):  
Educational Policy ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Core Values ◽  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
International Context ◽  
Australian Society ◽  
Plural Societies ◽  
Conceptual Confusion

The significance and meaning of cultural pluralism, or of multiculturalism as it is more commonly referred to in Australia, continue to excite much debate, as well as conceptual confusion. In this paper three possible types of multiculturalism in ethnically plural societies are analysed, namely those of ‘transitional‘, ‘residual’, and ‘stable’ or enduring multiculturalism. The latter orientation is carefully distinguished from separatism, while the transitional and residual types of multiculturalism are related to assimilationist solutions to pluralism. Throughout the paper the emphasis is placed on the paramount significance of culture in social life and on the need to distinguish between viable cultures that can be transmitted and modified by future generations, and cultures that have been reduced to residues through the loss of their core values. Such a concept of ethnic cultures, each with its distinct core, is discussed within the framework of values that are supra-ethnic, or shared by all sections of Australian society. From this vantage, the role of the school appears to be that of cultivating such shared values, and of transmitting the cores of all groups, within a social matrix that is dynamic and capable of change. This type of viable and developing pluralism is only possible if it is related to the personal cultural worlds of all Australians, since plurality remains a sterile notion unless it is seen to permeate the lives of individuals from all groups in society. The focus of the paper is on Australia, but examples from other ethnically plural societies are introduced, in order to highlight those developments that bear upon the Australian scene, and to explicate certain conceptual distinctions that are best understood in an international context.

Freud and the Neocons: The Narrative of a Political Encounter from 1949–2000

2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matt ffytche
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
Leo Strauss ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Lionel Trilling ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Political Right ◽  
The Impact

This article examines the impact of Freud on conservative liberal intellectuals in America particularly during the Cold War. It argues that, compared with studies of the ‘radical’ or left-wing assimilations of psychoanalysis, the Freud of the political Right has been relatively neglected. It concentrates on three figures in particular – Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz and Leo Strauss, all of whom were a major influence on the formation of American neoconservatism, and ultimately on the Bush administration at the time of the War on Terror. The article also examines the role of Lionel Trilling in mediating Freudian ideas to Kristol and Podhoretz, who were disaffected with the progressive aspects of liberalism, and shifted their allegiance to the Right by the 1980s. Freud's work, especially Civilization and its Discontents, functions as an ideological landmark at the borderline of their reflections on religion, morality, the failures of democracy and the foundations of social order.

The Importance of Being Ethnic: Minorities in Post-Soviet States—The Case of Russians in Kazakstan

1998 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 473-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Davis ◽  
Steven O. Sabol
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
Ethnic Violence ◽  
Ethnic Tensions ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
National Question ◽  
Gorbachev Era

IntroductionThe fall of the Soviet Union prompted an outpouring of concern over borders, identity, and stability. Many students of the region predicted that the breakup would lead to violence and instability. Scholars of the Soviet region emphasized cultural pluralism—in particular ethnic and religious pluralism or the “national question”—as the ultimate lesson of the Gorbachev era. In other words, ignore ethnicity at your own peril. To this point, that has not been the case. There have been only a few areas where instability, ethnic strife, and violence have been rampant—the Transdniestr region, Tajikistan, and Chechnia in particular. Why has this been the case? The lack of ethnic violence and severe ethnic tensions in this diverse region should lead one to reconsider the role of ethnicity in politics.

A Chosen People in a Pluralist Nation: Horace Kallen and the Jewish-American Experience

2006 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Greene
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Identity ◽  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
Jewish American ◽  
American Democracy ◽  
American Jews ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
American Experience ◽  
American Jewish Identity ◽  
Ethnic Pluralism ◽  
Horace Kallen

AbstractThis article examines the ways that ethnic pluralism and Jewish exceptionalism coexisted in philosopher Horace M. Kallen’s thought from the time that Jewish identity began to play a significant and positive role in his own self-conception, roughly in 1900, until his coining of “cultural pluralism” in 1924. Kallen conceived of pluralism, in large part, to address concerns about American Jewish identity, but its conception created a vexing problem for Jews. If Jews were the “chosen people,” then how could they fit into a model of the nation that emphasized equality, or at least harmony, between many different groups? Kallen would solve the dilemma of pluralism and chosenness by advocating that American Jews maintain their particularity on the basis of cultural distinctiveness rather than of superiority. Interrogating Kallen's thought on this question illuminates how his enduring theory of cultural pluralism owed its origins, in part, to specific Jewish concerns and how it developed in conjunction with a sustained struggle to articulate a meaningful Jewish identity that would prove continuous across generations. Kallen’s solution to the dilemma of pluralism and Jewish exceptionalism also demonstrates one instance of how debates about Jewish particularity profoundly influenced understandings of cultural, racial, and religious difference within American democracy during the early twentieth century.

scholarly journals Religion and political form: Carl Schmitt's genealogy of politics as critique of Jürgen Habermas's post-secular discourse

2012 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 975-994 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANTONIO CERELLA
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
Carl Schmitt ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Political Form ◽  
Role Of Religion ◽  
Western Democracies

AbstractJürgen Habermas's post-secular account is rapidly attracting attention in many fields as a theoretical framework through which to reconsider the role of religion in contemporary societies. This work seeks to go beyond Habermas's conceptualisation by placing the post-secular discourse within a broader genealogy of the relationships between space, religion, and politics. Drawing on the work of Carl Schmitt, the aim of this article is to contrast the artificial separation between private and public, religious and secular, state and church, and the logic of inclusion/exclusion on which modernity was established. Revisiting this genealogy is also crucial to illustrating, in light of Schmitt's political theory, the problems underlying Habermas's proposal, emphasising its hidden homogenising and universalist logic in an attempt to offer an alternative reflection on the contribution of religious and cultural pluralism within Western democracies.

Images of Filipino Racialization in the Anthropological Laboratories of the American Empire: The Case of Daniel Folkmar

PMLA ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 123 (5) ◽  
pp. 1692-1699 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oscar V. Campomanes
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Racial Difference ◽  
Chicago School ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
American Empire ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Natural Signs ◽  
Classic Essay ◽  
Horace Kallen

In his now classic essay of race discourse analysis, “race under representation,” David Lloyd observes that “the discourse of race … undergoes a crucial shift in the late eighteenth century from a system of arbitrary marks to the ascription of natural signs” (69). The consequent fetishistic obsession with phenotype and somatology holds hegemonic sway over discourses of racial difference from that moment up to the early 1900s and the 1920s, when anthropological relativism and the cultural pluralism of Horace Kallen and Robert Park (of the Chicago school) eclipse nineteenth-century biological racism, at least in the United States.

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