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A banner year : studying religion and the enlightenment in 2019 (Editorial Introduction)
, 2019 Studies in Religion and Enlightenment (SRE) returns after a brief hiatus during the very busy spring and summer of 2019! This year was a milestone for eighteenth-century studies with the 50th Anniversary of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century ...
Singh, Brijraj +2 more
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Constellations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paper compares Hartmut Rosa's resonance theory of “the good life” and Daniel Haybron's psychic affirmation theory of “happiness,” which he differentiates, as a descriptive notion, from “well‐being” as an evaluative notion. Haybron suggests that a central determinant of happiness has to be the somewhat reliable occurrence of positive ...
Ole Höffken
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[Book review] Interiors in the Age of Enlightenment: A Cultural History
Comprising an introduction and eight chapters by authors at the forefront of research on historical interiors, this volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to interpretations of interior spaces—built or imagined—located in Europe and North America ...
McCormack, Helen
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Individualism Without Individuality: Friedrich Hayek and the Neoliberal Citizen
Constellations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Critics of neoliberalism increasingly examine its corrosive effects on democracy. Scholars often turn to Friedrich Hayek's political theory, arguing that it produces citizens who passively conform to spontaneous social orders. Yet insufficient attention has been paid to the normative conception of the human individual underlying his ...
Tal Tzur
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The Unfulfillable Enlightenment: Deskilling and Creation of Spectacles
, 2009 [[abstract]]In “What is Enlightenment?” Foucault uses Kant’s words that we should never be guided by authority, tutelage, religion, or depend on any forms of authority. However, Foucault raises a question: Are we really enlightened?
Bing-Yong Chung
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John Gray: ‘Americanism’ and the Perversion of Post‐liberalism
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article will make the case for John Gray's inclusion in the canon of post‐liberals despite his protests to the contrary, and will argue that his peculiar post‐liberalism is important for its challenges to the dominance of liberalism as both a political culture and way of theorising the ends of politics based on the model of the American ...
Paul Kelly
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Democracy and the Mundane: Reflections on John Boswell, How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract John Boswell's How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State offers a unique and compelling analysis of democracy and its challenges, and also of the mainstream academic study of citizen disengagement by political scientists and theorists. While the majority of academics focus on big structural reasons for citizens’ increasing disaffection for ...
Phil Parvin
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
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Digitizing Enlightenment: Digital Humanities and the Transformation of Eighteenth-Century Studies
, 2020 The book explores how a set of inter-related digital projects are transforming our vision of the Enlightenment. The featured projects are some of the best known, well-funded and longest established research initiatives in the emerging area of ‘digital ...
Burrows, Simon (R17300), Roe, Glenn
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