Controversies And Subjectivity

Author : Pierluigi Barrotta,Marcelo Dascal
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9027218811

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This collective volume focuses on two closely connected issues whose common denominator is the embattled notion of the subject. The first concerns the controversies on the nature of the subject and related notions, such as the concepts of 'I' and 'self'. From both theoretical and historical viewpoints, several of the contributors show how different and incompatible perspectives on the subject can help us understand today's world, its habits, style, power relations, and attitudes. For this purpose, use is made of insights in a broad range of disciplines, such as sociology, psychoanalysis, pragmatics, intellectual history, and anthropology. This interdisciplinary approach helps to clarify the multifaceted character of the subject and the role it plays nowadays as well as over the centuries. The second issue concerns the subject in inter-personal as well as in intra-personal controversies. The enquiry here focuses on the ways in which different aspects of the subject and subjective differences affect the conduct, content, and rationality of controversies with others as well as within oneself on a variety of topics. Among such aspects, the contributors analyse the subject's emotions, cognitive states, argumentative practices, and individual and collective identity. The interaction between the two issues, the controversies on the subject and the subject of controversies, sheds new light on the debate on modernity and its alleged crisis.

Author : Pierluigi Barrotta,Marcelo Dascal
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789027294258

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Controversies and Subjectivity by Pierluigi Barrotta,Marcelo Dascal Pdf

This collective volume focuses on two closely connected issues whose common denominator is the embattled notion of the subject. The first concerns the controversies on the nature of the subject and related notions, such as the concepts of ‘I’ and ‘self’. From both theoretical and historical viewpoints, several of the contributors show how different and incompatible perspectives on the subject can help us understand today’s world, its habits, style, power relations, and attitudes. For this purpose, use is made of insights in a broad range of disciplines, such as sociology, psychoanalysis, pragmatics, intellectual history, and anthropology. This interdisciplinary approach helps to clarify the multifaceted character of the subject and the role it plays nowadays as well as over the centuries. The second issue concerns the subject in inter-personal as well as in intra-personal controversies. The enquiry here focuses on the ways in which different aspects of the subject and subjective differences affect the conduct, content, and rationality of controversies with others as well as within oneself on a variety of topics. Among such aspects, the contributors analyse the subject’s emotions, cognitive states, argumentative practices, and individual and collective identity. The interaction between the two issues, the controversies on the subject and the subject of controversies, sheds new light on the debate on modernity and its alleged crisis.

Author : Stephen Burwood,Tom Feldges,Josh N.W. Gray
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781443862028

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Subjectivity and the Social World by Stephen Burwood,Tom Feldges,Josh N.W. Gray Pdf

At a time when the US government is spending enormous amounts of money on a project called BRAIN and the European Union has committed itself to the multi-million Human Brain Project, the chances of revealing the workings of the neuronal components of the brain are as good as they have ever been. Nevertheless, even if brain functions – or the entire brain – could be simulated on a computer one day, as the EU project aims for, the question of the relation between the experiencing subject and the brain is still an open one. The tension between experienced subjectivity and its biological basis is at the core of recent philosophical, psychological, sociological, biological and interdisciplinary debates. The traditional Cartesian inner theatre and the resulting substance dualism cannot be made to fit scientific requirements. Reductive accounts, claiming some identity between mental and physical occurrences, display difficulties when it comes to accounting for the experiential dimension of human life. The central question is: What is a subject and how does a subject interact with others? This book is a collection of papers that provides innovative and insightful answers to this question. It is, therefore, as its name suggests, a discussion of subjectivity and the social world.

Author : Manouchehr Moshtagh Khorasani
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3039117114

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The Development of Controversies by Manouchehr Moshtagh Khorasani Pdf

Has the internet changed the nature of conducting controversies? This question cannot be answered easily as different forms of human interaction in an online environment exist and controversies in an online environment have not been analyzed from a linguistic point of view so far. On the other hand, there are many linguistic analyses of controversies in the Early Modern Period. First, this volume describes the communicative background of two online discussion forums dedicated to the study of historical arms and armor. Then, the volume analyzes the similarities and differences between Early Modern controversies and controversies in online internet discussion forums. Further, this book offers an accurate analysis of the strategies used in online discussion forums, analyzing two controversial threads taken from two online discussion forums and provides insights into the individual tactics and strategies applied in online controversies and highlights the similarities and differences of applied principles, norms, and rules. The book finally comments on stylistic choices used by participants in the controversies.

Author : Marcela Knapp
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030400866

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Cultural Controversies in the West German Public Sphere by Marcela Knapp Pdf

This book develops a theory of aesthetic fiction’s impact on social identities. Throughout five case studies, the author develops the argument that social identities are nurtured by and may even emerge through the conflict between different aesthetic expressions. As it creates affective structures, narrative fiction enables the development and formation of political and cultural identities. This work is part of a field of research that deals with the aesthetics of the everyday and the idea of social aesthetics. It argues for a central role for the arts in the creation and formation of modern society. Social identities emerge in response to aesthetic-sensual patterns of perception. Focusing on five West German public debates in the years 1950 to 1990, this work sheds light upon the transformation of social reality through the discursive adaption of art.

Author : Jens Allwood,Olga Pombo,Clara Renna,Giovanni Scarafile
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789027260758

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Controversies and Interdisciplinarity by Jens Allwood,Olga Pombo,Clara Renna,Giovanni Scarafile Pdf

Nowadays, the forms assumed by knowledge indicate an unhinging of traditional structures conceived on the model of discipline. Consequently, what was once strictly disciplinary becomes interdisciplinary, what was homogeneous becomes heterogeneous and what was hierarchical becomes heterarchical. When we look for a matrix of interdisciplinarity, that is to say, a primary basis or an essential dimension of all the complex phenomena we are surrounded by, we see the need to break with the disciplinary self-restraint in which, often completely inadvertently, many of us lock ourselves up, remaining anchored to our own competences, ignoring what goes beyond our own sphere of reference. However, interdisciplinarity is still a vague concept and a much demanding practice. It presupposes the continuous search for convergent theoretical perspectives and methodologies, and the definition of common spaces and languages, as well as a true dialogical and open mind of several scholars. From ethics to science, from communication to medicine, from climate change to human evolution the volume Controversies and Interdisciplinarity offers a series of original insights beyond disciplinary fragmentation for a new knowledge model.

Author : George Melville Bolling,Bernard Bloch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Comparative linguistics
ISBN : UOM:39015066110092

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Language by George Melville Bolling,Bernard Bloch Pdf

Author : Kang Liu
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015048516549

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Aesthetics and Marxism by Kang Liu Pdf

DIVLiu’s study examines writers, philosophers, and political leaders in China and the West and reveals the extent to which they incorporate ideas about “culture” and “aesthetics” in their theories and practices./div

Author : Bethany Morris,Chase Kelly O'Gwin,Sebastienne Grant,Sakenya McDonald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000051049

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Subjectivity in Psychology in the Era of Social Justice by Bethany Morris,Chase Kelly O'Gwin,Sebastienne Grant,Sakenya McDonald Pdf

The notion of social justice permeates much of current Western political and cultural discourse with a newfound urgency. What it means to be socially just is a question Morris et al investigate and interrogate, looking at psychology’s contributions to the subject and considering the practicality of social justice in light of modern subjectivity. The book begins by examining the lack of equity and inclusivity in education and the ways in which psychology has been complicit in the margninalization of oppressed groups. Drawing upon Lacanian theory, it goes on to discuss how diversity initiatives take on an obsessive-neurotic characteristic that can stifle those it claims to understand and promote .The authors investigate the anxiety around the performance of being socially just or "woke" and suggest how psychology can contribute to the development of socially just humans, more attuned to the needs of others, through the appreciation of interconnectivity and compassion. An imperative text for scholars and students of philosophical and theoretical psychology, critical psychology, social psychology, psychoanalysis, social work, and education.

Author : Dr. Njau Florence W, Caroline Kihara Njagi, Stephen Kamau Nguthi, Dr. Joyce Kivuva, Dr. John Manyanja
Publisher : AJPO Journals USA LLC
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9789914745955

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A Guide to Adventurous Tourism by Dr. Njau Florence W, Caroline Kihara Njagi, Stephen Kamau Nguthi, Dr. Joyce Kivuva, Dr. John Manyanja Pdf

TOPICS IN THE BOOK Post Covid Resilience and Recovery Strategy for Tourism in Developing Countries: Tourism and Hospitality Innovations during the Covid-19 Pandemic Influence of Service Quality on Emotional Satisfaction in Game Lodges The Moderating Role of Visitors’ Nationality on the Relationship between Service Quality and Behavioural intentions in Star Rated Game Lodges Pull Motivation Factors Influencing Tourists’ Destination Loyalty in the Lake Victoria Region Tourism Circuit, Kenya Role of Forest Diversification in Promoting Tourism: A Critical Literature Review Influence of Demographic Factors, Economic Factors, Social-Cultural Factors and Geographic Factors on Demand for Domestic Tourism in Kenya: A Critical Literature Review

Author : Walter Albert Davis
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0299120147

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Inwardness and Existence by Walter Albert Davis Pdf

A profound, challenging, wide-ranging book, back in print for a new generation "Inwardness and Existence accomplishes what no book before or after has even approximated: it demonstrates with great lucidity and insight the shared philosophical project that animates psychoanalysis, Marxism, existentialism, and Hegelian dialectics. Davis roots the reader in the enterprise of questioning what is given and probing beyond what is safe in order to demonstrate that psychoanalytic inquiry, Marxist politics, existential reflection, and dialectical connection all move within the same orbit. No one who reads it will ever think about existence itself in the same way again. Davis's landmark work will profoundly transform anyone who reads it."--Todd McGowan, author of The Real Gaze: Film Theory after Lacan

Author : Patrick Fuery,Nick Mansfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020451584

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Cultural Studies and the New Humanities by Patrick Fuery,Nick Mansfield Pdf

The contemporary humanities--which stretch from "intertextuality" to "queer theory"--are a disciplinary minefield of new theories and controversies. Where does the traditional view of the humanities belong in today's arena? Or does it still belong to begin with? And how should that view be defined nowadays? This book explores some of the new ways of thinking about the liberal arts and human sciences by providing historical backgrounds, defining key terms, and introducing the ideas of important personalities.

Author : Donald E. Hall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134444885

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Subjectivity by Donald E. Hall Pdf

Explores the history of theories of selfhood, from the Classical era to the present, and demonstrates how those theories can be applied in literary and cultural criticism. Donald E. Hall: * examines all of the major methodologies and theoretical emphases of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including psychoanalytic criticism, materialism, feminism and queer theory * applies the theories discussed in detailed readings of literary and cultural texts, from novels and poetry to film and the visual arts * offers a unique perspective on our current obsession with perfecting our selves * looks to the future of selfhood given the new identity possibilities arising out of developing technologies. Examining some of the most exciting issues confronting cultural critics and readers today, Subjectivity is the essential introduction to a fraught but crucial critical term and a challenge to the way we define our selves.

Author : Fernando González Rey,Albertina Mitjáns Martínez,Daniel Magalhães Goulart
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811331558

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Subjectivity within Cultural-Historical Approach by Fernando González Rey,Albertina Mitjáns Martínez,Daniel Magalhães Goulart Pdf

This book offers a theoretical and epistemological-methodological framework as an alternative approach to the instrumental-descriptive methodology that has prevailed in psychology to date. It discusses the differences between the proposed approach and other theoretical and methodological positions, such as discourse analysis, phenomenology and hermeneutics. Further, it puts forward a proposal that allows the demands of studying subjectivity to be addressed from a cultural-historical standpoint. The book mainly highlights case studies that have been conducted in various countries, and which employ or depart from the theoretical, epistemological and methodological proposals that guide this book. The research discussed here introduces readers to new discussions on theoretical and methodological issues in subjectivity that have increasingly attracted interest.

Author : Christine Pearson Casanave
Publisher : University of Michigan Press ELT
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015058086086

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Controversies in Second Language Writing by Christine Pearson Casanave Pdf

Controversies in Second Language Writing is not a how-to book, but one that focuses on how teachers in L2 writing can be helped to make reasoned decisions by understanding some of the key issues and conflicting opinions about L2 writing research and pedagogy. This book will assist teachers in making informed decisions about teaching writing in the ESL classroom. To counteract some of the debates, Casanave explores the different sides of the arguments and provides examples of how other teachers have dealt with these issues. The book presents novice and seasoned teachers with thought-provoking issues and questions to consider when determining and reflecting on their own teaching strategies and criteria. Topics discussed include: contrastive rhetoric product vs. process fluency and accuracy assessment of student work audience plagiarism politics and ideology.