Results 261 to 270 of about 63,117 (354)

Aestheticism, desire, and morality: Revisiting Wilde's Dorian Gray through Tanzer's lesbian reimagining

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the interplay of aestheticism and morality in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Molly Tanzer's reimagining, Creatures of Will and Temper. Wilde's original narrative positions aestheticism as both a refuge and a source of ruin, interweaving themes of homoerotic desire, moral ambiguity, and societal condemnation ...
Younes Poorghorban
wiley   +1 more source

Can Okinawa Escape the “Sacrificial System”? – Examining the Intersection of Collective Memory and Politics

open access: yesPacific Focus, EarlyView.
This article explores Okinawa's ongoing status as a “sacrificial system,” wherein specific regions are exploited for national benefit, and the persistent challenges faced by Okinawans due to the disproportionate concentration of US military bases. The Battle of Okinawa is pivotal in understanding how collective memory shapes political identity, yet it ...
Miyoung Kim, Seok won Song
wiley   +1 more source

The Real Problem of Envy

open access: yesPhilosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Envy poses a threat to the stability of cooperative institutions. John Rawls advances a provocative articulation of how this could be, arguing that increasing inequality generates sufficient envy to threaten stability. I contend that this perspective is mistaken due to a faulty understanding of the psychology of envy.
Harrison Frye
wiley   +1 more source

Look Who's Back [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Schaffner, Anna Katharina
core  

Power and the History of Peace and Conflict Studies: Disremembering Gladdys Muir and the First Peace Studies Program

open access: yesPeace &Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines a silence in the histories of the formation of peace and conflict studies as an academic field, focusing on the elision of a female‐identified academic: Gladdys Esther Muir. Muir occasionally appears in histories as a datapoint in peace education chronologies where she is listed as the director of the first peace studies ...
Reina C. Neufeldt
wiley   +1 more source

A Hundred Thousand Darlingtons: Self‐Respect, Moral Judgement, and the Right to an Equal Democratic Say

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I defend the non‐instrumentalist thesis that every adult member of a political society has a pro tanto fundamental moral right to an equal democratic say in determining the content of the laws to which she is subject. I begin by giving an account of an important kind of servility that has received only glancing notice in philosophical ...
Shruta Swarup
wiley   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy