Drapers and Gardeners

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 98-119
Author(s):  
Shawn Loht ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Life ◽  
Being And Time ◽  
True Self ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mad Men ◽  
Crucial Component ◽  
The World ◽  
Core Concepts ◽  
Public Lives ◽  
Being There

This article examines Martin Heidegger's concept of conscience in Being and Time as it is manifested by the characters Don Draper from the television series Mad Men (Matthew Weiner, 2007-2013) and Chauncey Gardiner in the film Being There (Hal Ashby, 1979). The article suggests that Draper hears and occasionally responds to what Heidegger terms the “call of conscience,” whereas Gardiner neither hears this call nor responds to it. Gardiner poses a problem case for Heidegger’s account of Dasein by virtue of failing to exhibit conscience. A question latent in Gardiner’s makeup is what causes him to be this way. The contrast of the characters Draper and Gardiner is approached through the lens of the portrayal of secret identity in filmic media. Both characters live public lives that are at odds with their genuine selves, but they react to this disconnect differently. Core concepts addressed vis-a-vis Heidegger’s account of conscience include facticity, falling, discourse, authenticity, and death. The article concludes that Draper hears and responds to conscience’s call because he has a discursive comprehension of the disconnect between his true self and the public life he has lived; a crucial component of the phenomenon of conscience according to Heidegger is the existential capacity for discourse. Gardiner, in contrast, does not hear conscience at all because his Dasein lacks the discursive element that conscience requires in order to be activated. Gardiner’s being-in-the-world is such that he fails to understand the divide between his lived self and his public self. For Gardiner, these are the same.

La imposible moral

2001 ◽  
pp. 73-77
Author(s):  
Alberto Constante
Keyword(s):  
Being And Time ◽  
Ethical Approach ◽  
Biological Matter ◽  
Ontological Question ◽  
The World ◽  
Being There

The impossible moral in Heidegger is based on two fundamental facts: firstly, that Heidegger devoted himself to the theme of being. All other issues, thesis or questions derive from that fundamental and unique “question about the meaning of Being”. Secondly, the ontological question in Heidegger wasn’t the question for the entity, but the question for the Being. On these bases, “The impossible moral” in Heidegger arises from his initial ontological argumentation from which all other structures derive and that Heidegger tries to separate from each anthropological, psychological or biological matter. In fact, we may suggest that an ethical approach in Heidegger could only arise from the exegesis of the structural whole of the “being-in-the-world”. This would happen by apprehending the original being of the “being-there” as “care” that isn’t anything else that the manifestation of the following features: “being-with” and “being one’s self”. All these without forgetting that Being and time has an ontological fundamental intention. Finally, “The impossible moral” in Heidegger is given by his radical antihumanism.

The Disappearance of the Homemakers Club: A Dilemma for School Leaders

Public Voices ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Ketelle
Keyword(s):  
Educational Leadership ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Public Schooling ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Purpose ◽  
The World ◽  
Civic Community

How can we return to a broader notion of education?  There is a currently a need to focus on the public purpose of schooling.  The notion of leading with public purpose derives from the progressive idea that human beings have bot hthe desire and capacity to make the world a better place.  Educational leadership should engage individuals in the educational and civic community and assist in the bettering of public life and public schooling.

A CONSTITUIÇÃO ONTOLÓGICO-EXISTENCIAL DA CORPOREIDADE EM HEIDEGGER

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (117) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Acylene Maria Cabral Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Being And Time ◽  
The World ◽  
Being There ◽  
Mode Of Being ◽  
The Relationship

Nosso objetivo é refletir sobre a constituição ontológico-existencial da corporeidade em Heidegger, a partir da estrutura ser-no-mundo e dos existenciais da mundanidade do mundo, disposição e compreender. Nossa hipótese consiste em que a corporeidade é um modo de ser e, portanto, um existencial da presença (Dasein). Primeiramente, analisaremos a importância e as dificuldades relativas ao tema da corporeidade no pensamento heideggeriano, ao mesmo tempo em que indicaremos a viabilidade da temática proposta. Em seguida, discutiremos o caráter de abertura dos existenciais com o intuito de estabelecermos o nexo ontológico entre estas aberturas. Com isto, pretendemos esclarecer porque a corporeidade é um existencial que estrutura a presença em modos de ser. Fundamentados nos Seminários de Zollikon e em Ser e tempo discutiremos a relação entre espacialidade e corporeidade existencial, através das características constitutivas de direcionamento, distanciamento e proximidade. Por fim, apontaremos que a constituição ontológico-existencial da corporeidade é, ao mesmo tempo, uma constituição hermenêutica da corporeidade.Abstract: Our aim is to reflect over the ontological and existential constitution of corporeity in Heidegger in the lighit of the being-in-the-world structure as well as of the existentials of the mundanity of the world, disposition and conunderstanding. Our hypothesis is that corporeity is a mode of being and, therefore, an existential of the being-there (Dasein). First of all, we will analyze the importance and difficulties related to the issue of corporeity in Heideggerian thought, and indicate the viability of the proposed theme. We will then discuss the openness characteristic of existentials, in order to establish the ontological connection between them. This approach will help us clarify why corporeity is an existential that structures the being-there into modes of being. Taking as a basis the Zollikon Seminars and Being and Time, we will discuss the relationship between spaciality and existential corporeity, through the constitutive characteristics of direction (“directioning”), distanciation and proximity. Finally, we will point that the ontological-existential constitution of corporeity is also a hermeneutic constitution of corporeity.

The Fiery Chariot

1975 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 509-509
Author(s):  
James Cornford
Keyword(s):  
Public Life ◽  
Prime Ministers ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
The Ideal

At the end of his entertaining and thoughtful review [this Journal, iv (1974), 345–69, p. 362], Professor Berrington writes ‘if it is lonely at the top it is because it is the lonely who seek to climb’. But this is to miss a point that undermines the significance of Mrs Iremonger's thesis. It is indeed lonely at the top, and men who have already coped with loneliness are peculiarly fitted to bear the burdens of the Prince. Nor is there a contradiction between the public aloofness of prime ministers and their domestic felicity: those who are surrounded by a close and affectionate family and supported by a devoted wife can afford to do without the gratification of friendship in public life. They make good butchers. This suggests that the ideal characteristics required of prime ministers are not those put forward by Mrs Iremonger and apparently accepted by Professor Berrington. I recall, in loose translation, the words of a chronicler on King Stephen: ‘He was a mild man and good and did no justice’. The world has need of its bastards.

scholarly journals An Appalling Scenario Growing Corruption and Its Obnoxious Impacts on Public Lives -With Special Reference of South-Asian Stigma

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
Atindra Dahal
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
South Asia ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Interpretive Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Erosion ◽  
Public Lives

Despite reiterated commitment from government and other stakeholders everywhere in the world, curbing corruption has been a seriously ticklish and almost next to an impossible effort, especially in south Asia. The failure to remarkably detain corruption not only left the countries financially crumbled but also transfigured them into zone of psychological and mental degradation followed with cultural erosion as well. This paper has revealed a surreal and sordid scene of growing corruption in south Asia and severe stigmatization of public life fashioned on ground of corruption. For the purpose, the author consulted plenty of relevant literature related to corruption theories, corruption realties and its suffocation to demonstrate the plague that the corruption has crowned to people. This research adopted a descriptive strategy with paradigm of interpretive analysis for building the proposition. 

scholarly journals CONCEPT OF DIGITALIZATION AND RESEARCH IN THE FIELD OF GERT-NETWORKS OF PUBLIC SECTOR PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND PROGRAMS

2021 ◽  
pp. 27-31
Author(s):  
Ihor Zasukha
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Gert Networks ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Productivity And Competitiveness

The modern world space has long gone beyond the construction of the information society, because digital technologies are absorbing more and more areas of public life, radically changing the forms and methods of their implementation. Therefore, most countries in the world focus on development in the direction of building a "digital economy", using all possible competitive advantages from its implementation. Ukraine is trying to keep up with the development of information technology in various areas of both public sector governance and public life. Some achievements have been made, but the systemic and synergistic effect on the development of the country has not been achieved, despite the significant potential of domestic IT professionals, who are among the top five IT outsourcers in the world. In my opinion, the very use of digitalization in the field of governance in the public sector can be the first impetus for digital transformations for the development of Ukraine's competitive economy. Therefore, they need -analysis of theoretical and practical approaches to a detailed study of the features of digitalization in the public sector of Ukraine during its digital transformation and the development of proposals for their implementation, which was the topic of my research. The word "digitalization" has entered our vocabulary so imperceptibly, but quite thoroughly, that in 2019 it was even recognized as the word of the year. Although the very definition of the concept is still debated not only in the domestic scientific field, but also abroad. The Dictionary of Modern Ukrainian Language and Slang "Myslovo" explains this neologism as a transliteration of the English "digitalization", which means changes in all spheres of public life related to the use of digital technologies, and is a manifestation of the global digital revolution. In my opinion, I agree with my colleagues that the development of digital transformations in the system of public sector management and administration is a potential example for the whole country, which in general also provides significant benefits for private companies - increased productivity and competitiveness, as well as for people. - acquisition of new knowledge and skills, choice of work and expansion of opportunities.

Heidegger II

Anxiety ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 361-396
Author(s):  
Bettina Bergo
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Philosophical Anthropology ◽  
Being And Time ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
The World ◽  
World Poverty ◽  
Being There ◽  
Jakob Von Uexküll ◽  
Von Uexküll

Following claims that Being and Time was essentially philosophical anthropology, and questions about the embodiment and mortality of Dasein, and Heidegger recurred to the distinction between humans who, as being-there, create a “world” for themselves and confront their death resolutely, versus animals who are caught up in their natural environments and do not die so much as “perish” biologically. In 1929 he studied the work of gestalt biologists like Jakob von Uexküll to support his arguments for the world-poverty of animals, unable hermeneutically to forge a real “world.” By 1936, nevertheless, his logic faltered when he argued that the age of technology and giganticism had reduced most humans to mere “technicized animals.” Even if this was a rhetorical flourish, it remained that only an anxious few remained among us who could dwell poetically and be free for their death, an idea with significant implications for the metaphysical politics Heidegger developed in response to Nazi politics. By 1949, the technicized animal—poor in world—appeared to perish with no greater resoluteness and dignity than its animal relatives.

Bobs and the “Character of Our Citizenship”

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-63
Author(s):  
Leah Payne
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Public Life ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Public ◽  
White Middle Class ◽  
The World ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Twenty First Century

Many view the twenty-first-century white Pentecostal-charismatic rejection of feminism, and enthusiasm for self-professed harasser of women, Donald J. Trump, as a departure from the movement’s late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century origins wherein many Pentecostal-charismatic women were welcomed into the public office of the ministry. Early Pentecostal writings, however, demonstrate that twenty-first-century white Pentecostal orientations toward women in public life are based in the movement’s early theological notions that women must uphold the American home, “rightly” ordered according to traditionally conservative, white, middle-class norms. An America wherein women work and minister primarily in the domicile, according to early white Pentecostals, would be a powerful instrument of God in the world. Thus, no matter how transgressive they may have appeared when it came to women speaking from the pulpit, for the most part, white Pentecostals sought to conserve the traditional social order of the home.

The “Fall” of What? FIFA’s Public Viewing Areas and Their Contribution to the Quality of Public Life

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 395-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Rowe ◽  
Stephanie Alice Baker
Keyword(s):  
Public Life ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
Western World ◽  
World Cup ◽  
The Public ◽  
Association Football ◽  
The World ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Private Domain

Much conventional scholarship considers “the public” to be in decline in the modern Western world, following a range of cultural developments believed to encourage withdrawal into the private domain. Public Viewing Areas devoted to communicating live events may be interpreted as countering such a trend by attracting audiences to the public sphere. This article examines how the world governing body of association football, FIFA, recently aimed to achieve such an objective by broadcasting the 2010 World Cup at six designated international Fan Fest sites. Drawing on theories of “spectacle” and sociality, the implications of FIFA’s initiative are interrogated by examining whether the environment and surveillance measures characterizing the “global spectacle” facilitated social interaction. In the process, established understandings of the “fall” and “quality” of public life are canvassed to propose how these collective fora might engender “meaningful” public communication beyond crowd assimilation through spatial co-presence and shared mediated imagery alone.

“Dizzi-Ben-Dizzi”: Disraeli as Alien

1995 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 375-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony S. Wohl
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Social Climate ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
National Party ◽  
Marked Contrast ◽  
The Public ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
The World ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Most of Disraeli's recent biographers have drawn attention to the anti-Semitism which he experienced as a schoolboy and as an aspiring politician at the raucous free-for-all of the early Victorian hustings. But the barrage of anti-Semitism directed at him when he was prime minister between 1874 and 1880 has not received the same scholarly attention. Lord Blake, for example, in a work of almost 800 pages, devotes only three short sentences to the anti-Semitism of this period. To some degree it is easy to see why this is so. Although Disraeli was baptized into Christianity just before he turned thirteen, he was so harangued and ridiculed as a Jew during his early election campaigns that the anti-Semitic mood of the public could not be ignored, either by contemporary observers or by historians. The anti-Semitism he faced as prime minister, however, was not literally thrust in his face, and it did not intrude on his public appearances. It is perhaps understandable then that historians, contemplating the marked contrast between the vigorous Jew baiting of Disraeli's early elections and the absence of it in his later ones, would assume that, whatever prejudices might lurk in private diaries, letters, and memoirs, expressions of anti-Semitism in that most public of all arenas, the world of politics, were now unacceptable. Increasing political decorum, the triumph of liberal and nonconformist ideologies, the Emancipation of the Jews in 1858, their continuing acculturation and assimilation, their greater role in public life, and of course Disraeli's own prominence as leader of the “national” party combined, it might be argued, to create a political and social climate in which public expressions of anti-Semitism were neither profitable nor respectable.

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