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The Problem of the Noble and the Practicality of Platonic Political Philosophy
The Journal of Politics, 1994A crucial dimension of Platonic political philosophy is the investigation of eros for to kalon, the desire for beauty or nobility that is at the core of heroic and political virtue. Socrates' "turn" to the investigation of "the human things" is due in part to his discovery that his ostensibly apolitical eros for the beauty of the ideas is based on ...
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Political-Ethical Implications of Defining Technical Communication as a Practice
, 1990Let me present one possible version of the history of teaching writing in the last century and a half. When the tradition of classical rhetoric was restricted to composition in the nineteenth century, teachers of writing found themselves teaching service
Dale L. Sullivan
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, 2020
The anthropology of art is currently at a crossroads. Although well versed in the meaning of art in small-scale tribal societies, anthropologists are still wrestling with the question of how to interpret art in a complex, post-colonial environment ...
C. Pinney, N. Thomas
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The anthropology of art is currently at a crossroads. Although well versed in the meaning of art in small-scale tribal societies, anthropologists are still wrestling with the question of how to interpret art in a complex, post-colonial environment ...
C. Pinney, N. Thomas
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Human Geography, 2023
The cities in India have emerged as highly contested space of ‘geographical and institutional’ reconfiguration and reproducing urban neoliberal policy experiments such as place-marketing, public–private partnership, and local boosterism projects producing new forms of ‘urban entrepreneurialism’ (Smitha, 2017a; Sudhira, 2017).
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The cities in India have emerged as highly contested space of ‘geographical and institutional’ reconfiguration and reproducing urban neoliberal policy experiments such as place-marketing, public–private partnership, and local boosterism projects producing new forms of ‘urban entrepreneurialism’ (Smitha, 2017a; Sudhira, 2017).
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Researching Disability Politics, Or, Some Problems with the Social Model in Practice
Disability & Society, 2000This article arises from a research project involving the disabled members' group in UNISON, and problematises the social model which explicitly undergirds the discourses and practices of this group. In abstract terms, there are dangers that the social model can be interpreted in a way which privileges some impaired identities over others, sanctions a ...
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The Problems and Politics of Authenticity in Chinese Heritage Practices
2022Despite obvious distortion and intentional biases, heritage has a history. When did a particular heritage story arise? Why did it arise at that time? What purposes does it serve? Using archival and ethnographic fieldwork, I examine the power interplay and conflicts between UNESCO’s Outstanding Universal Values, Chinese nationalistic discourses and ...
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Making and Treating Trans Problems: The Ontological Politics of Clinical Practices
Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2016ABSTRACTThis essay investigates a divergence between medical and autobiographical accounts of transexuality. By analyzing a letter to the editor in the journal Aesthetic Plastic Surgery that defends trans patients as a “special case” (Selvaggi and Giordano, 2014), I examine how medicine produces trans patients as a separate category of patients.
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Hume and the Problem of Theory and Practice in Philosophy and Political Theory
2012What can theory do and what can it not do? What is, and what should be, the relationship between theory and practice? This book examines the relationship between theory and practice in the philosophy and political theory of the Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776).
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The Overdose Crisis in the 2024 Election—Political Fights and Practical Problems
JAMAThis Viewpoint discusses the 2024 presidential election in the context of the addiction and overdose crisis in the US, which has been a unifying challenge and a source of major ideological division in US politics.
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Knowledge and the Impasse in Left Politics: Potentials and Problems in Social Movement Practice
Studies in Political Economy, 2000In the 1920s, in a context of historic transformations and of crisis and defeat on the left, Antonio Gramsci argued for the historically-specific character of hegemonic power and the need for the left to engage in historically-specific analysis. In the context of the rise of fascism in Italy, such analysis led Gramsci to distinguish between and ...
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