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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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THE FATHERS, COMPUTERS AND US

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
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Remédier aux injustices épistémiques basées sur le langage

Glad!
This paper aims to reveal how the ethics of attention to language can counteract and repair the hermeneutic harms that anyone who engages in everyday language games may encounter. It draws on research I conducted during my doctoral thesis on Iris Murdoch,
Camille Braune
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Hermeneutical injustice and outsourced domestic work [PDF]

Women's Studies International Forum, 2018
This paper argues that conceiving of paid domestic labour as ordinary work constitutes a hermeneutical injustice against domestic workers, whose work differs from other occupations in morally significant ways. Amongst other distinctive properties, outsourced domestic work inevitably rests on gendered and racialised asymmetries of wealth and social ...
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Lonergan, Decolonization and First Nations Peoples: An Apologetic from an Insider on the Outside

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The purpose of this article is to respond critically to a research project initiated out of the Board of the Lonergan Research Institute that seeks to expose colonialist assumptions in Lonergan's thought. Some of the initiatives seek to link Lonergan with complicity in Canadian residential schools, spiritual violence, and cultural genocide ...
John D. Dadosky
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A Sense of Justice and Civil Society [PDF]

, 2023
This hermeneutic examination is based on the thesis that civil society is essential for the development of a sense of justice. John Rawls and Amartya Sen both wanted to avoid the consequences of societally-influenced decisions in their theoretical ...
Wolf, Nadja
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Hermeneutical Injustice: Distortion and Conceptual Aptness

Hypatia, 2022
AbstractThis article develops a new approach for theorizing about hermeneutical injustice. According to a dominant view, hermeneutical injustice results from a hermeneutical gap: one lacks the conceptual tools needed to make sense of, or to communicate, important social experiences, where this lack is a result of an injustice in the background social ...
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City of God and the Duty of Just Memory

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract In a recent essay, Richard Miller claims that Augustine presumes a duty to remember justly in his City of God. However, Miller's brief reference to a presumed duty of “just memory” does not fully explain how Augustine conceptualizes this duty or how it relates to his theological concerns.
Zachary J. Taylor
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Mental Illness Terms and Hermeneutic Hijacking [PDF]

Nonliteral uses of mental illness terms abound. Common examples include criticizing a person’s mood swings by saying “you’re bipolar”, hyperbolically exclaiming that a particularly difficult college exam “gave me PTSD”, or responding to a compliment ...
Keith, Rachel
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Secrecy: An Epistemological Account

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although the ethical and political implications of secrecy are significant, I argue here that its fundamental nature is epistemological and that any account of its nature must be based on its epistemological profile. In particular, I propose examining secrecy within the framework of social and political epistemology, considering secrets as ...
Jesús Navarro
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