Playing with Others

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-322
Author(s):  
Karen E. Davis ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Unify Theory ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Shared Experience ◽  
Hermeneutic Ethics

Scholars of hermeneutics have recently taken up the task of elucidating Gadamer’s ethics by studying his work on the structure of understanding and human experience. This article seeks to contribute to that scholarship through an examination of Gadamer’s aesthetics. I suggest that Gadamer’s notions of play and aesthetic non-differentiation provide further resources for understanding Gadamer’s hermeneutic ethics as an ethics of non-differentiation, i.e., a unification of theory and practice (understanding and application). For Gadamer, an understanding of the good is its enactment in the context of the dialogical play we find ourselves engaged in with others. Furthermore, Gadamer’s identification of aesthetic non-differentiation with play reveals that his ethics aims not only to unify theory and practice but also to unite participants in the ethical play as intersubjective elements of a shared experience. Retrieving the ethical import of Gadamer’s aesthetics also helps to unfold Gadamer’s suggestion that hermeneutics itself is an ethical enterprise.

scholarly journals Towards a Left Secretariat for the Pacific

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 119-132
Author(s):  
Tim Bryar
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Islands ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Shared Experience ◽  
Development Indicators ◽  
Political Independence ◽  
Economic Dependency ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
History Of ◽  
Class Divisions

The Pacific Islands region occupies a vast ocean continent, consisting of a diversity of cultures. What draws the islands together is a shared experience of economic dependency and vulnerability driven by global warming, geopolitical competition, and class divisions. Together, these factors account for poor performance on a range of development indicators, including policy and inequality. It is in this context that Epeli Hau‘ofa has argued that the hoped-for era of autonomy following political independence has not materialised in the Pacific. In response, this paper explores the possibilities and potential aims of a Left secretariat in the Pacific. It aims to rethink political and economic autonomy in the Pacific by bringing together Left theory and practice with the history of Indigenous and class struggles.

Charity and grace

2022 ◽  
pp. 146349962110578
Author(s):  
João Pina-Cabral
Keyword(s):  
Human Experience ◽  
Donald Davidson ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Shared Experience ◽  
Southern France ◽  
Shared Intentionality ◽  
Personal Interaction ◽  
The Face ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Analytical Philosopher

This essay attempts to reconcile charity with grace, the central concepts of two thinkers whose views may seem irreconcilable to many: Donald Davidson, an analytical philosopher and the most distinguished follower of Quine; and Julian Pitt-Rivers, an Europeanist anthropologist, who wrote at length on Spain and Southern France. The latter's historicist exegesis of gracia points to basic aspects of human experience that are also salient in the reduction to basics that Davidson carried out concerning interpretation and truth. For Davidson, in the face of ultimate indeterminacy, interpretation is made possible due to the rational accommodation that charity sparks off. For Pitt-Rivers, gratuity highlights how processes of personal interaction depend on the drawing of shared trajectories: that is, not only do I have to grant others charity to make sense of them, I also have to frame others as subjects with a future by relation to myself as already in existence. The paper proposes that human interaction involves processes of sensemaking that integrate shared intentionality (i.e. the credit with which we respond to the indeterminacy of meaning) with shared experience (i.e. the debt implicit in the ultimate underdetermination of the world's entities). Thus, it brings both concepts together under the label of charis, their common etymological root, suggesting that the dynamic it represents is a broader feature of life itself.

The Ineffable

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen C. Behrendt
Keyword(s):  
Visual Art ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Reference Systems ◽  
Linguistic Context ◽  
Visual Artists ◽  
Shared Experience ◽  
Visual Expression ◽  
Romantic Era

This chapter examines three figurative modes Romantic authors used to represent the ineffable: allegory, symbol, and myth. In literary studies, these terms identify verbal structures which are usually evaluated in linguistic or semantic terms, although visual expression also has a ‘language’. The chapter emphasizes the linguistic context while also exploring analogies with visual art, explaining how allegory, symbol, and myth provide familiar reference systems both for the verbal and visual artists who employed them and for the audiences who perceived them. All three modes offered ways of encoding, communicating, and interpreting human experience through semantically organized data whose complex referentiality seeks both to reconcile the differences and to reveal the continuities characteristic of a culture of shared experience during the Romantic era.

scholarly journals Praca socjalna w mieście. Perspektywa koinopolityczna

2019 ◽  
pp. 77-96
Author(s):  
Jarosław Rutkowski
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Common Knowledge ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Social ◽  
Strongly Connected ◽  
Relief Operations

Social work sensitive to meeting man, strongly connected with the pulsating experience of human lives, take the effort of effective relief operations with concern for the dignity and human agency. Reflection on social work in meeting with “point” of human experience affected by the suffering, it shapes possibilities for creative and emancipatory for so undertaken social practice. The aim of this paper is to look at the social work in the koinopolis perspective in the context of the subjectivity and social inclusion. Significant for the theory and practice of social work in view of the koinopolis is to undertake the point of human experience and the extraction of it to expand the local community experience and knowledge. This social practice for human recovery returning to society, can effectively develop the community of thought and the common knowledge socially useful for agreement and cooperation

Addressing the Content Vocabulary With Core: Theory and Practice for Nonliterate or Emerging Literate Students

2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 74-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debbie Witkowski ◽  
Bruce Baker
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Written Communication ◽  
Academic Tasks ◽  
Meaningful Participation ◽  
Core Theory ◽  
Communication Needs ◽  
Core Vocabulary ◽  
Personal Success

Abstract In the early elementary grades, the primary emphasis is on developing skills crucial to future academic and personal success—specifically oral and written communication skills. These skills are vital to student success as well as to meaningful participation in the classroom and interaction with peers. Children with complex communication needs (CCN) may require the use of high-performance speech generating devices (SGDs). The challenges for these students are further complicated by the task of learning language at a time when they are expected to apply their linguistic skills to academic tasks. However, by focusing on core vocabulary as a primary vehicle for instruction, educators can equip students who use SGDs to develop language skills and be competitive in the classroom. In this article, we will define core vocabulary and provide theoretical and practical insights into integrating it into the classroom routine for developing oral and written communication skills.

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