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Who Is the System? On the Externalisation and Depersonalisation of Responsibility for Abuse

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the externalisation and depersonalisation of responsibility in the institutional communication of the Roman Catholic Church in the context of sexualised violence. Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems is used to show how semantic constructions such as ‘systemic causes’ rhetorically blur responsibility and contribute ...
Thomas Kron
wiley   +1 more source

The History and Ideas of George Herbert Mead's Pragmatism and Its Relevance for Operational Research and Systems Thinkers

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT George Herbert Mead is an oft forgotten or ignored American philosopher who was one of the originators of pragmatism. Today, he is recognised as a creative thinker who has teased out knotty problems that others in the field had not realised were problems. Understanding Mead's analysis has been made difficult because he died prematurely without
Richard Ormerod
wiley   +1 more source

Excerpt from Chapter One of Frank Engster’s Book: Das Geld als Maß, Mittel und Methode Das Rechnen mit der Identität der Zeit (Berlin: Neofelis Verlag UG, 2014)

Identities, 2021
The question of the book is how a radical critique of capitalism is possible when critique in the tradition of Kant and Hegel means that the criticized subject itself has to “give” the measure of its critique.
Identities Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Frank Engster   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Temporalization as Transcendental Aesthetics - Avant-Garde, Modern, Contemporary

, 2014
Reflections on the relationship of aesthetics to politics tend to circle, almost compulsively, around a relatively stable set of conceptual oppositions, inherited from German philosophies of the late 18th century.
P. Osborne
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Post‐Traumatic Growth in the Global South: Possibilities in Relational Ethics from Communities to Classrooms

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reports on a qualitative study of the way instructors and students understand and respond to traumatizing events in a Sri Lankan university. It shows how the attitudes and practices in the society at large are carried over to classrooms even though local institutions do not have a programmatic trauma‐informed pedagogy.
Suresh Canagarajah, Canista Arthie Hensman   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Darkness Endemic to Mississippi: Jesmyn Ward’s Haunted Places

Iperstoria, 2020
The literature of the Southern United States has always been expression of a multilayered connection with ‘place,’ a complex term encompassing identity, history, and politics.
Marco Petrelli
doaj   +1 more source

Transcendental Theosophy and Political Science: An Introduction to the Possibility of Basing Political Sciences on the Concept of Transcendental Theosophy

Journal of Islamic Political Studies, 2019
Is it possible to use transcendental theosophy and the fundamental doctrine of Existentialism for the sake of political science? If Philosophy is to be a basis for the guidance of political science, then how is it possible for transcendental theosophy to carry out this crucial task?
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Interrogating Kant and Husserl on the Ethico-Political Implications of Transcendental Philosophy

Ethiopian Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanities, 2023
Transcendental philosophy is characterized by the attempt to understand the fundamental structures of our ordinary experience- it is in a sense ‘metaphysics of experience’. In the history of western philosophy we find various conceptions of the transcendental.
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Post-modernism's use and abuse of Nietzsche [PDF]

, 2001
I focus on Nietzsche's architectural metaphor of self-construction in arguing for the claim that postmodern readings of Nietzsche misunderstand his various attacks on dogmatic philosophy as paving the way for acceptance of a self characterized by ...
Allison D., Cario A., Deleuze G., Derrid J., Ecce Homo, Faber M., Foucault M., Frampton K., Habermas J., Hollingdale R. J., Hollingdale R. J., Hollingdale R.J., Hollingdale R.J., Kaufman W., Kaufman W., Kaufman W., Kaufman W., Kolb D., Lyotard J., Marti U., Miller J., Nehamas A., Nietzsche F., Pippin R., Richardson J., Schrift A., Vidler A.   +26 more
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Imagination in Critical Theory: Utopia, Ideology, Aesthetics

Constellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the role of imagination in critical theory, addressing its conceptual ambiguity and its synthesis of three distinct but interrelated strands. The first, rooted in Freud's theory, sees imagination as wish‐fulfillment—necessarily unreal yet foundational to utopian thought.
Markus Gante
wiley   +1 more source