Deconstructing the rational respondent - Derrida, Kant, and the duty of response
- Authors: Mummery, Jane
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Philosophy Today Vol. 50, no. 5 (Win 2006), p. 450-462
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- Description: 2003001982
Knowledge discovery from legal databases
- Authors: Stranieri, Andrew , Zeleznikow, John
- Date: 2005
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- Description: A1
- Description: 2003000833
On|off (Goes from alienation to allegiance to alienation)
- Authors: Eyssens, Terry
- Date: 2007
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Overland Vol. 188, no. (Spr 2007), p. 62-67
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Virginia Woolf : The patterns of ordinary experience
- Authors: Sim, Lorraine
- Date: 2010
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Global encounters in Japanese social thought during the Meiji era
- Authors: Smith, Jeremy
- Date: 2004
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Paper presented at the Second International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Prato, Italy : 20th May, 2004
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- Description: Postwar approaches to Japan’s modern era have functioned within a metanarrative of modernization. Contemporary comparative analysis approaches Japan from the vantage point of civilisational sociology and a paradigm of multiple modernities. The development of sociological thought itself in Japan could also be interpreted through this framework, although there has been little research to date along these lines. This paper explores how Japanese social thought coalesced in global encounters in the 1870s and 1880s. It analyses the radical reinterpretation of classical Western sociology in the reception of Comte, Mill and Spencer by Japan’s scholars and modernisers in the nascent public spheres of Meiji society. Special attention is paid to the philosophy of Nishi Amane.
- Description: E1
- Description: 2003001226
Glory, spectacle and inoperativity : Agamben's praxis of theoria
- Authors: Abbott, Mathew
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Agamben and Radical Politics (Critical Connections series) Chapter 2 p. 27-48
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- Description: In this chapter, I work to show how Agamben has extended and complicated his account of this differential relation in The Kingdom and the Glory. Connecting theoria with spectatorship, he intertwines a quasi-Marxist critique of spectacle with a Heideggerian thesis regarding the history of being as nihilism. The resultant political ontology has at its centre a dialectical notion of theoria as a form of praxis.
No life is bare, the ordinary is exceptional : Giorgio Agamben and the question of political ontology
- Authors: Abbott, Mathew
- Date: 2012
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy Vol. , no. 14 (2012), p. 23-36
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- Description: In his studies of the thought of Carl Schmitt, Heinrich Meier insists on a distinction he takes to be crucial for understanding the challenge posed by the jurist’s ‘lesson’: the difference between political philosophy and political theology. If political philosophy is the study of the political good carried out “entirely on the ground of human wisdom,”2 Meier argues, then political theology is the study of the same from the standpoint of a “faith in revelation.”3 In a trenchantly Straussian fashion, then, Meier understands the difference as far more than simply doctrinal, arguing instead that it “concerns the foundation and assertion of an existential position.”4 As he puts it: “What could be less immaterial than the distinction between a thought that wants to move and conceive itself in the obedience of faith and one that is not bound by any authority and spares nothing from its questions?”5
Engaging Gadamer and qualia for the mot juste of individualised care
- Authors: Peck, Blake , Mummery, Jane
- Date: 2019
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Nursing Inquiry Vol. 26, no. 2 (2019), p. 1-10
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- Description: The cornerstone of contemporary nursing practice is the provision of individualised nursing care. Sustaining and nourishing the stream of research frameworks that inform individualised care are the findings from qualitative research. At the centre of much qualitative research practice, however, is an assumption that experiential understanding can be delivered through a thematisation of meaning which, it will be argued, can lead the researcher to make unsustainable assumptions about the relations of language and meaning-making to experience. We will show that an uncritical subscription to such assumptions can undermine the researcher's capacity to represent experience at the high level of abstraction consistent with experience itself and to thus inform genuinely individualised care. Instead, using qualia as a touchstone for the possibilities of understanding and representing experience, we trace the ‘designative’ and ‘expressive’ distinction to language in order to raise critical questions concerning both these assumptions and common practices within qualitative research. Following the ‘expressive’ account of language, we foreground in particular the hermeneutic work of Gadamer through which we explore the possibilities for a qualitative research approach that would better seek the mot juste of individual experience and illuminate qualia in order to better inform genuinely individualised care.
Michael Fried and philosophy : Modernism, intention, and theatricality
- Authors: Abbott, Mathew
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Book
- Relation: Routledge Research in Aesthetics series Vol. 1
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- Description: This volume brings philosophers, art historians, intellectual historians, and literary scholars together to argue for the philosophical significance of Michael Fried’s art history and criticism. It demonstrates that Fried’s work on modernism, artistic intention, the ontology of art, theatricality, and anti-theatricality can throw new light on problems in and beyond philosophical aesthetics. Featuring an essay by Fried and articles from world-leading scholars, this collection engages with philosophical themes from Fried’s texts, and clarifies the relevance to his work of philosophers such as Ludwig Wittgenstein, Stanley Cavell, Morris Weitz, Elizabeth Anscombe, Arthur Danto, George Dickie, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Schiller, G. W. F. Hegel, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Denis Diderot, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Roland Barthes, Jacques Rancière, and Søren Kierkegaard. As it makes a case for the importance of Fried for philosophy, this volume contributes to current debates in analytic and continental aesthetics, philosophy of action, philosophy of history, political philosophy, modernism studies, literary studies, and art theory.
The problem of wild minds : Knowing animals in grizzly man and ming of harlem
- Authors: Abbott, Mathew
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Sub-Stance Vol. 45, no. 3 (2016), p. 137-154
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Lyotard reframed : Interpreting key thinkers for the arts
- Authors: Jones, Graham
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Book
- Relation: Contemporary Thinkers Reframed Series
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- Description: Lyotard's claims concerning the postmodern have often been misunderstood or misrepresented. Lyotard Reframed provides an analysis of Lyotard's most influential writings on the postmodern alongside a detailed commentary on his broader philosophy, demonstrating and clarifying his work's ongoing relevance to creative endeavour and debates concerning the value and significance of the visual arts. It also situates Lyotard's discussion of the postmodern within the context of his other key concepts: the figural, the libidinal and the sublime. Accessible in style and approach, Lyotard Reframed employs numerous examples drawn from the arts to critically examine and evaluate the nature, history and significance of these important concepts and explore their respective links with phenomenology, Marxism, structuralism, psychoanalysis and deconstruction.
The personal construct and language: Toward a rehabilitation of Kelly's inner outlook
- Authors: Peck, Blake
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Theory and Psychology Vol. 25, no. 3 (2015), p. 259-273
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- Description: The core consideration with which George Kelly is concerned is distilled in his suggestion that the psychology of personal constructs represents an attempt to catch a glimpse of the person going about the business of being human. Whatever the business of being human is for Kelly, he is clear that he wishes to understand that business from the perspective of those who are going about it. To use Kelly’s words, he wants to take the perspective of the “inward outlook†and in so doing move away from the “outward inlook,†providing a radical rethink of the psychology that was contemporary of his time. This article will suggest that the unsophisticated way that Kelly dealt with language has implications for the theoretical carriage of this “inner outlook†and opens up Personal Construct Psychology to elaboration in the direction of a more sophisticated account of language. This article will culminate in a suggestion that Personal Construct Psychology make a more tight hermeneutic turn to Hermeneutic Constructivism. © The Author(s) 2015
States of exception
- Authors: Mummery, Jane
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Borderlands e-journal Vol. 5, no. 2 (2006), p.
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- Description: States of exception cannot be understood in the terms of any otherwise prevailing rules or discourses. They are, after all, exceptional. They mark, by definition, special cases, anomalies, irregularities. And, because of this special status, we may of course take exception to them. Now this is not a new insight, we can all think of exceptional people for whom the rules just do not seem to apply, and exceptional situations where the normal rules just do not seem able to help.
Fractured legitimations
- Authors: Mummery, Jane
- Date: 2006
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Borderlands e-journal Vol. 5, no. 3 (2006), p.
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- Description: Modern worldviews must accept the conditions of post-metaphysical thought tothe extent that they recognize that they are competing with other interpretations of the world within the same universe of validity claims. This reflective knowledge concerning the competition between equally warring "gods and demons" creates an awareness of their fallibility and shatters the naiveté of dogmatic modes of belief founded on absolute truth claims (Habermas, 2001: 94).
The look of silence and the problem of monstrosity
- Authors: Abbott, Mathew
- Date: 2017
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Film-philosophy Vol. 21, no. 3 (2017), p. 392-409
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- Description: In Beyond Moral Judgment, Alice Crary defends a version of moral objectivism which turns on the idea that participation in moral life involves acquired affective proclivities: subjective capacities which nevertheless allow us to be receptive to objective features of the world. In this article, I draw out key aspects and implications of her account with reference to Joshua Oppenheimer's 2014 film The Look of Silence, a companion piece to 2012's The Act of Killing. The film depicts a series of confrontations between optometrist Adi Rukun and warlords and gangsters involved in massacres perpetrated during Indonesia's anti-communist purges. Many of the interviews were carried out under the pretext of conducting eye tests, and the optometric equipment Rukun affixes to the faces of the perpetrators – who often appear quite cavalier about or even proud of their deeds – functions as a stark metaphor for their failures to see the meaning and consequences of their actions. As I work to show, there is something disquieting for philosophy about these men, and the urge to call them monsters. In particular, they cause disquiet by tempting us to say that there are agents who lack the means to see all moral features of the world, or who simply do not feel anything in response to them. As I argue, these explanations are not open to Crary, but that may be a sign not of the weakness of her account but of the glibness of accounts to which they are.
'Inequality is not a problem': How (Some) economists responded to Thomas Piketty
- Authors: King, John
- Date: 2019
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- Relation: Analyse & Kritik Vol. 41, no. 2 (2019), p. 359-374
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- Description: Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century makes hardly any reference to the ethics of inequality. Surprisingly, this is an omission shared by most of his critics. In this paper I investigate the literature on which he and his reviewers might have drawn and speculate on the reasons why they did not. I outline the four 'views of society' and the related issues in moral philosophy that were presented by Michael Schneider in his book on the distribution of wealth. I then summarise the criticisms of Piketty made by those few reviewers who did show some interest in ethical questions and examine the slightly earlier and quite different case against reducing inequality made by one of these critics, N. Gregory Mankiw. I consider the economic, political and social costs of inequality identified in a book-length study of Piketty's work by Steven Pressman, and conclude by reflecting on the reasons for the widespread neglect of moral philosophy by mainstream economists.