Sharing On Suffering Experiences As The Secularity Of Incarnation

The changing context of the Christian life brings Christian life at a crossroads, the first whether to remain in a comfort zone or the second whether to enter into the realm of profane daily life. The urge to get out of selfness and deal with the public world makes the Church deal with questions about its own identity. In this article, I want to explore the question of incarnation in Johan Baptist Metz's secularity. However, the concept of incarnation is applied solely to Jesus Christ as the Divine Word became flesh. Ricoeurian hermeneutics could help explain the term secularity on incarnation to immediate. And corporeal suffering of the others. The turn to Ricoeur as a methodological resource for theology provides a philosophical account of the methodology behind critical theology. The article concludes that the human being in their relationship its suffering experience is an experience of encounter.

Reflection

Elizabeth Bishop’s celebrated poem relates a story in which six-year-old Elizabeth is confronted, in the mundane surroundings of a dentist’s waiting room, with her self as an entity in the public world. Her discovery—that she is “one of them”—is met first with disbelief, then horror. This reflection argues that the poem provides a unique expression of a profound philosophical discovery—one not communicable in standard philosophical writing.

TIM THALER'S EXAMPLE IS CONTAGIOUS: THE RIGHT TO PUBLICITY AS AN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHT

Most of the articles presented in this review were written in order to discuss the recently published J. Rothman’s book «The right of publicity: Privacy reimagined for a public world». We are talking about a specific intellectual right recognized by most of the US states - the right of a person to control the commercial use of elements of her personality.

Reflection: The Personal Is Public

In this article, the author from Rochester General Hospital reflects on COVID impact: “Communication has sometimes suffered cold and automated relationship outcomes but there are oases in this dessert.” Personal signals in a public world are humanizing artifacts in a new sterile and hypercontrolled virtual reality.

Doing Motherhood, Doing Home: Mothering as Home-Making Practice in Half of a Yellow Sun

Home and motherhood are tightly interwoven, particularly in the dominant conceptualizations of home as a physical and emotional refuge from the public world. However, a closer look into these concepts helps question the naturalization of both motherhood and home, revealing them as shaped by complex lived experiences and relations instead. I argue that such a rethinking of home and motherhood beyond essentialist discourse is prominent in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s postcolonial novel Half of a Yellow Sun. Drawing on concepts and theories from the fields of gender studies and geography, and taking into account the postcolonial, Nigerian context of the novel, I address how Adichie’s 2006 piece of historical fiction thematizes the intersection point of motherhood and home as a relational practice. Adichie provides alternative conceptualizations of motherhood and home through her focus on performative, ritualized mothering practices that also function as relational home-making practices and that stretch beyond gender and biological relations. Through the central ambivalence that emerges in the novel when the female protagonist chooses and practices a traditional mother role but simultaneously does not correspond to the dominant Nigerian ideal of a mother, Adichie destabilizes binary views of both home and of motherhood.

Sex, Blood, Guns, and Gambling

Chapter 2 explores the meaning of public commercial spaces to African American men, with special attention to how saloons, bars, and pool halls bolstered their sense of manhood. Those spaces gave them refuge from the broader public world, connected them to a prosperous legal and illegal economy, and provided a number of services unavailable elsewhere. It also gave them a novel sense of control over a realm of leisure whether as a proprietor or a customer. However, as the chapter makes clear, saloons provided opportunities for others to criminalize them, or for them to participate in criminal enterprises.

The Spinning of the Wheels: Women’s Travel Stories in Latin Funerary Inscriptions

This contribution examines Latin funerary inscriptions in which the movements of middle-class women within and beyond the Italian peninsula constitute the focus point of the text. It aims to shed light on how these texts relate to other social discourses, such as those centred on class and gender. Travel is by default a disruptive activity as it took women out of the household and into the public world. When a commemorator made the deliberate choice to include a reference to a woman’s journey, he or she must have been well aware of the fact that such an inclusion deviated from the canonical description of a woman as an ideal matrona. In this article, I will argue that this awareness and the desire to conform to the dominant ideological discourses of their time led to the embedment of these small travel accounts in a broader discourse of ideal female conduct.