The present paper discusses Angela Carter’s Heroes and Villains (1969), which parodies both “post-apocalyptic” novels in the Cold War era and Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s theory on civilisation. By ...analysing this novel in comparison, not only to Rousseau’s On the Origin of Inequality (1755), but also to the works of various science fiction writers in the 1950s and 1960s, the paper aims to examine Carter’s reinterpretation of Rousseau in a post-apocalyptic context. As I will argue, Heroes and Villains criticises Rousseau from a feminist point of view to not only represent the dystopian society as full of inequality and violence, but also to show that human beings, having forgotten the nuclear war as their great “sin” in the past, can no longer create a bright future. Observing the underlying motifs in the novel, the paper will reveal how Carter attempts to portray a world where human history has totally ended, or where people cannot make “history” in spite of the fact that they biologically survived the holocaust. From this perspective, I will clarify the way in which Carter reinterprets Rousseau’s notion of “fallen” civilisation in the new context as a critique of the nuclear issues in the late twentieth century.
In this study, we will try to show that human nature can be handled with a political determination in Rousseau. Human nature has always been a controversial subject of political philosophy in the ...historical process. So much so that in these discussions we can see that human nature, especially with Rousseau, is now treated as something that is shaped and changed separately for each of various processes of history. Therefore we will first focus on how human nature is defined in Rousseau in the state of nature to show that human nature has been subjected to political influence in the historical process. Then we will examine how the human nature takes shape with the civilization leading to the end of the state of nature. Finally, through social contracting, we will focus on how human nature is transformed into a political thing by gaining a new dimension.
En un mundo donde crecen las desigualdades, la economía se impone a la política y la virtud abandona la política, hay que tener a mano la obra de Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Inspirador de la Revolución ...Francesa, este pensador diagnostica los males de la sociedad, los desequilibrios de poder y las formas de servidumbre, y propone un contrato social sobre el que construir una sociedad legítima y justa. Este libro nos acerca a sus escritos más políticos, pero también a su biografía e ideas sobre la educación, y nos descubre unos principios que han influido en diferentes generaciones, de necesaria relectura hoy en día.
Rousseau avec les Confessions n’a pas fini d’explorer les profondeurs de son moi, d’autant qu’il ne cesse de connaître de nouvelles souffrances, ou de nouveaux bonheurs. Les Dialogues, les Rêveries ...sont le fruit d’une démarche d’un auteur qui expérimente diverses formes d’écriture: il se libère de la chronologie; il préfère les coups de sonde du fragment à la continuité du récit. Dans ces expériences extrêmes de la folie et du rêve, il s’interroge et nous interroge sur l’identité, la mémoire, le statut de la littérature, toutes questions qui n’ont cessé de hanter notre xxe siècle et risquent de connaître une acuité toujours plus grande au xxie siècle.
“As is” America: Subcontracting freedom Baptist, Najja K.
Social science quarterly,
December 2021, 2021-12-00, 20211201, Volume:
102, Issue:
7
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Objective
This study examines the nature and uses of the Constitution as a social contract. America's original agreement with its Black citizens, under the three—fifths clause of the Constitution, is ...one of commodification. The Constitution constructs the Black body as expendable property in a subcontract. Police protect and serve in maintaining this status quo.
Methods
This research analyzes the literature on the social contract theory. This paper compares classical theorists such as Locke, Rawls, and Nozick with opposing literature from Rousseau, Mills, and Pateman. This comparison highlights what many consider “just” as a thinly veiled attempt to justify the legality of the state's actions. Also, there is a review of Graham v. Oconnor to determine how case law upholds the subjugation of Black bodies as part of the subcontract.
Results
My research suggests that Black citizens are only entitled to the rights and privileges of a subcontract. This subcontract allows for the harassment, unequal treatment, and in some instances, the death of marginalized groups by police at any time.
Conclusion
From the extrajudicial killing of Amadou Diallo to that of Breonna Taylor, it is evident from the past two decades that Black lives are expendable; police officers continue to enforce the fugitive slave clause, which allows for punishment by death for the assumption of criminal behavior. My research helps illuminate the relationship between the Black experience and police encounters as a proxy of a subcontract within the Constitution. These events—the lawless actions of police officers, and a political and legal system that supports these actions—fuel recent waves of the BLM movement.
This paper investigates the prominence of rationalism in the major Western pedagogical theories of Plato, Rousseau, and Dewey, all of whom conceptualize formal teaching, as the inculcation of ...rationality in individual learners. After each of their theories has been described, the argument turns against the tradition of pedagogical rationalism to question what happens in the education of artists, quasi-artists, and creative designers. The answer given is that imagination must be paramount and strongly encouraged in the education of such students, despite the problematic fact that imagination - seeing the truth - cannot be taught the way that rationality can, relying instead on the analysis of successful works of art and design as exemplary and allowing students to freely pursue their own individual inspirations.
Creolizing Political Institutions Gordon, Jane Anna
Journal of French and Francophone philosophy,
12/2017, Volume:
25, Issue:
2
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
This essay engages the contributions to the forum by Nathalie Etoke, Kevin Bruyneel, Michael Neocosmos, and Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun to consider what it means to creolize political identities, political ...memory, and political institutions.
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