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Introduction: Beyond public reason Introduction : Par‐delà la raison publique
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 965-983, December 2025.This introduction situates the special issue within longstanding debates on liberal public reason, tracing its Enlightenment roots through Habermas and Rawls to contemporary political dilemmas. It highlights how anthropology has revealed the exclusions embedded in public reason's universalist claims, particularly for those marginalized by culture, race,
Charis Boutieri +2 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 1041-1059, December 2025.Through the synagogue‐cum‐community space of St‐X in Marseille's infamous peripheral northern districts, local urban‐invested intercommunal communication and solidarity are generated via self‐help initiatives that particularize humanitarianism. Because of their traditionalist Jewish and Muslim religious anchorings and the stranglehold of laïcité over ...
Samuel Sami Everett
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, 2014 This article discusses the concern with the improvement or perfectibility of human nature in eighteenth-century English society and the necessity of its encouragement considering the prevalence of human degeneration at different levels: intellectual ...
Culea, Mihaela
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Simón Rodríguez and the sentimental roots of social republicanism
American Journal of Political Science, Volume 69, Issue 2, Page 471-482, April 2025.Abstract In this article, I claim that Simón Rodríguez, a 19th‐century Venezuelan thinker, used and reconfigured Jean‐Jacques Rousseau's understanding of amour‐propre to construct a new political foundation for Latin America. He sought to channel it and other sentiments toward productive ends with a social education. In doing so, Rodríguez departs from
Alejandro Castrillón
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Natural Religion and Human Perfectibility: Tocqueville\u27s Account of Religion in Modern Democracy
, 2004 Few issues are as troublesome as the problem of technology. On the level of common opinion, people wonder whether our consumptive culture will destroy the ecosystem necessary to sustain human life, whether the proliferation of biological and nuclear ...
Yenor, Scott
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Monkey Tails: D’Aulnoy and Unger Explore Descartes, Rousseau, and the Animal–Human Divide
, 2022 “Monkey Tails” presents a side-by-side analysis of two fairy tales with metamorphosed monkey princesses, Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy’s “Babiole” (1698) and Friederike Helene Unger’s “Prinzessin Gräcula” (1804).
Jarvis, Shawn C
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Human enhancement drugs and the pursuit of perfection
Adicciones, 2012 The emerging threat to public health posed by the use of human enhancement drugs has remained largely unrecognised. In attempts tobecome stronger, happier or smarter, or to look thinner, younger or morebeautiful, people are turning to a diverse range of pharmaceuticals.
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The Animal-Human Relation in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality [PDF]
, 2019 The Discourse on Inequality disputes the human–animal hierarchy in its denunciation of social inequality as unnatural. Stripping away social artifice, it reveals a deep physical continuity between man and animals.
Inston, K
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The free animal: free will and perfectibility in Rousseau's Discourse on inequality
, 2002 In his Discourse on Inequality Jean Jacques Rousseau proposes two different interpretations of what distinguishes men from the animals. Firstly he suggests that man is separated from the other animals through his freedom of will.
MacLean, Lee Margaret
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Ostium, 2018 Rétif de La Bretonne is well known as an erotic writer, but he also imagined strange and exotic worlds as in The Austral Discovery by a Flying Man, first published in 1781. The novel could be seen as a pa- rody of travel books, surprising the reader with
Florence Boulerie
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