The free movement of viral matter—whether biological or ideological—threatens the free movement and total control of the liberal, humanist, white-propertied-male individual. I highlight this tension ...as exhibited in Alessandro Manzoni’s the Promessi sposi and the Storia della Colonna Infame, and set it alongside ongoing legacies of misogyny and racism, which facilitate economic determinism under global capitalism by dissolving social bonds. I complicate Fredric Jameson’s assertions of Manzoni’s latent agitation for change, which he discovers in the latter’s recourse to a Manichean worldview in the Promessi sposi, by pointing to the exclusionary patterns in Manzoni’s organizing schemes. In particular, I examine how in both the Promessi sposi and the Storia della Colonna Infame, the category of “woman” is inserted, sacrificially, to close the gap of uncertainty pried open by the historical inquiry. I address how Manzoni’s advocacy for liberal, possessive individualism mismatches his notions around the necessarily “passionate” transmission of ideas from an author to a reader; and how his purported interest in reanimating history is curbed by a manifest fear of la folla—of bodies in public, in proximity, that are therefore vulnerable to contagion and the violation of “individuality.” I relocate the problem of sameness that Manzoni warns about, to the limits of the dialectic: its exclusionary structure that always regathers itself into a single, ascendant line, incapable of accommodating difference. Reading between different lines than Jameson, then, I suggest that Lucia’s starkly other role to Renzo’s “self” in the Promessi sposi conveys a glimmer of a radically feminist political subjectivity.
En este trabajo se abordan las ideas de Arturo Andrés Roig, Joaquín Sánchez Macgrégor y Luis Villoro, filósofos quienes reflexionaron en torno al tema del contrapoder, el cual surge por la necesidad ...de poner límites al ejercicio despótico que se lleva a cabo en la práctica del poder político. Así, el epígrafe expresa la tendencia manifiesta en un número significativo de las personas que buscan los puestos de representatividad social, debido a que su objetivo de mantenerse en estos obedece a la pretensión de obtener beneficios personales y grupales. Con el propósito de ofrecer orientaciones sobre las propuestas del contrapoder o poder alternativo, se expone un análisis sobre sus características, así como de las propuestas de mediación dialéctica, debido a que en estas se exponen ideas en torno a cómo ir mejorando el malestar social.
St.-Petersburg’s school of acmeology has gone the way of fruitful development from the original understanding of its subject field as a psychological discipline to its foundation as a fundamental ...science. On the basis of the dialectical and synergistic replenishment of its central notion “acme” with the polar notion of “kate” acmeology expanded not only due to a new direction – katabology but it also obtained the benefits of dialectical completeness. Instead of a temporary alternation of anabolic and catabolic poles there comes understanding of their penetration into each other, like any other “pair” of dialectical oppositions. As S.D. Pozharsky puts it, acmeology describes development as an alternation of ascents and slumps, the ascending line and descending line, progress and regress. However, it isn’t possible to have an adequate description of the development only by the alternation of higher stages of maturity (acme) and its low-lying phases (kate). Overcoming such a theoretical “circle” requires the consideration of the problem in the context of the methodological paradigm of structural-functional approach. This allows us to reveal own influence of the acme point on the qualitative changes in various types of structures. We formulate a conclusion that the degree of influence of the acme point on its subsystems is a measure (criterion) of the level of Acme itself that is everything that is applied to a wide range of objects.
En este artículo desarrollamos la paradoja señorial elaborada por René Zavaleta Mercado en su libro Lo Nacional-Popular en Bolivia. Para tal propósito, primero mostramos qué supone concebir a ...Zavaleta Mercado como un intelectual en diálogo con la tradición filosófica y como un pensador que elabora a través de conceptos tales como crisis, disponibilidad y ‘lo nacional popular’, una original ontología de lo social. Una vez delimitada la figura de Zavaleta Mercado como filósofo, nos adentramos en el problema de la nacional-popular, la paradoja señorial que la atraviesa y la importancia de la dialéctica del amo y el esclavo en Hegel para pensar el problema. A su vez, esto nos permite reflexionar no sólo sobre la presencia de la dialéctica del amo y el esclavo en la obra de este autor, sino también en aquellos nuevos aspectos que logra dilucidar al pensar lo nacional-popular en Bolivia.
Eagleton explores the work of Swedish sociologist Gran Therborn, who has developed a series of arguments on global politics and the changing aims of the left. Therborn argues that the industrial age ...was governed by grand dialectics, but the contemporary period does not have the same binary structure. He suggests that perpetual crisis will likely determine the terrain of struggle in the coming years, and Marxism's status in the new reality is less certain. However, by drawing on left social thought, we can still map the existing politicaleconomic landscape and identify new masses that could transform it. Therborn's work has evolved over time, reflecting the recession of socialist prospects and a more sober and reflective tone. Eagleton concludes by discussing Therborn's assessment of the new century's left movements and the challenges they face in a post-dialectical age.
My thesis began as a practical problem addressing the undervaluing of informal mathematical language and methods used by low prior attaining students. I wanted to gather teacher and student ...perspectives on mathematical methods. I began by exploring the dialogic theory of Bakhtin but discovered a debate in the field about whether Bakhtin's work could be used as an extension of Vygotsky's dialectic theory. As a result, I used Radford's connecting theories framework (2008) to shape an investigation which explores principles, methodology and research questions as points of connection between the theories of Vygotsky and Bakhtin. Linking the networking approaches of Prediger et al. (2008), to Radford's connecting theories allowed me to analyse the work of other authors in the field and develop my own analytical framework based on Vygotsky and Bakhtin. I used this framework both to analyse transcriptions of teacher group discussion and student group discussion based around examples of student work, and to explore networking approaches. Initially, I used "comparing"/ "contrasting" approaches to extend my understanding of Bakhtin's and Vygotsky's theories before adopting a "combining" networking approach to further investigate the perspectives of students on mathematical methods. I used a dialectic approach to represent the significance of the curriculum in discussion around mathematical methods, and a dialogic approach to analyse the detail of how the context and socio-cultural background shapes impacts on discussion. I concluded that a connecting theories approach allowed for analysis of more data and a deeper level of analysis than using a single theory. Through connecting theories, I also investigated the possibility of analysing mathematical methods as utterances using Bakhtin's work. I suggest that Bakhtin and Vygotsky's theories can be effectively networked to provide analysis and suggest a number of future steps to either apply the networked theories to practical problems or further theoretical issues.
I—The Presidential Address McCabe, Mary Margaret
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society,
04/2023, Volume:
123, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
The neglected Platonic dialogue Euthydemus is peculiar in many ways. It is, apparently, an extensive catalogue of bad arguments by disgraceful sophists; but its complex composition suggests that this ...focuses attention on the shape and nature of argument—attention that some think Plato is incapable of giving. He uses the idiom of games, and of seriousness and play, to provoke reflection on logical and syntactic structure and their normative features; but to see how he does so we need to consider the complex background of the fiction of a Platonic dialogue, and its use of surprise and humour. Comparison with the bbc Radio 4 game ‘Mornington Crescent’ might help.
Italo Calvino (1923-1985) travelled to Japan in the autumn of 1976 and, throughout his career, got acquainted with Japanese literature and culture: this encounter is attested to by the 'Japanese ...shelf' of his Roman library and by several authorial reflections, but has been granted little attention so far. The aim of this research project is to highlight for the first time the semiotic relevance of Calvino's contact with Japanese cultural configuration, as an epitome of the author's gradual relativisation of Eurocentrism, logocentrism and anthropocentrism. In particular, this study addresses Japanese gardens in light of their role in Calvino's reflections on the interdependency between the human and the other-than-human. This deconstruction of a hierarchical humanism is discussed by interlacing trans-cultural and post-human coordinates, which illuminate the poetical and philosophical mature formulation of Calvino's age-long ecological awareness. Moreover, if Buddhist meditation, as well as many poetical, artistic and architectural expressions that capture Calvino's attention in Japan can be understood as forms of praxis - interrelation of theory and practice -, they are here put in dialogue with the author's development of dialectical materialism over time, especially in his last completed work, Palomar (1983). By investigating Calvino's treatment of perspective changes, language, silence, void, time and death in his works, this thesis brings to the fore the manifold contradictions, potentialities and dialectical processes that inform these themes in Calvino's oeuvre, which fruitfully interact with his exploration of Japanese (and in general non-Western) art, literature and thought in the late 1970s.
As materialization of their discursive stance as instructional communicators and media producers, textbook authors instantiate various development debates as well as interpose a wide range of ...pedagogical interventions for critical reflection and adoption by learners. This qualitative study sought to situate these development debates and the counterpart pedagogical interventions within the context of textbook task design as an application and embodiment of social justice communication. The development debates serve as the proposed contexts for media text analyses, reflective exercises, case studies, and media production, among others. Correspondingly, the interposition of interventions allows students to make sense of and act upon the instantiated development debates. Intrigued by the intricacies of textbook task design, I undertook this media education inquiry to contribute to the goals of foregrounding pressing development and policy issues and applying appropriate critico-creative pedagogies. By employing critical thematic analysis, I was able to extract, code, and interpret the qualitative data that revealed the diverse but interconnected socio-sectoral issues and the dialectical categories of pedagogical interventions. As contextual themes, the following development debates surfaced: poverty-related, governance-related, election-related, migration-related, tourism- and sports-related, women- and gender-related, misrepresentation- and marginalization-related, information- and media-related, and technology-related issues. As forms of intermediation, the interposition of pedagogical interventions to development debates can be classified into the following dialectical categories, namely: traditional versus critical, individual versus collective, isolated versus intersectional, personal versus structural, and academic versus more than academic.
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