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Author : George Yancy Publisher : State University of New York Press Page : 409 pages File Size : 12,23 MB Release : 2012-01-01 Category : Philosophy ISBN : 1438440049
This daring and bold book is the first to create a textual space where African American and Latin American philosophers voice the complex range of their philosophical and meta-philosophical concerns, approaches, and visions. The voices within this book protest and theorize from their own standpoints, delineating the specific existential, philosophical, and professional problems they face as minority philosophical voices.
This daring and bold book is the first to create a textual space where African American and Latin American philosophers voice the complex range of their philosophical and meta-philosophical concerns, approaches, and visions. The voices within this book protest and theorize from their own standpoints, delineating the specific existential, philosophical, and professional problems they face as minority philosophical voices.
How are we to characterise the context in which organisations operate? The notion that organisational activity is shaped by institutional logics has been influential but it presents a number of problems. The criteria by which institutions are identified, the conflation of institutions with organisations, the enduring nature of those institutions and an exaggerated focus on change are all concerns that existing perspectives do not tackle adequately. This book uses the resources of historical work to suggest new ways of looking at institutional logics. It builds on the work of Roger Friedland who has conceived of institutional logics being animated by adherence to a core substance that is immanent in practices. Development of this idea in the context of organisation theory is supported by ideas drawn from the work of the social theorist Margaret Archer and the broader resources of the philosophical tradition of critical realism. Institutions are seen to emerge over time from the embodied relations of humans to each other and to the natural world on which they depend for material existence. Once emergent, institutions develop their own logics and endure to form the context in which agents are involuntarily placed and that conditions their activity. The approach adopted offers resources to ‘bring society back in’ to the study of organisations. The book will appeal to graduate students who are engaging with institutional theory in their research. It will also be of interest to scholars of institutional theory, of the history of organisations and those seeking to apply ideas from critical realism to their research.
In this book, Flynn stresses the vital role of intercultural dialogue in developing a non-ethnocentric conception of human rights. He argues that Jürgen Habermas’s discourse theory provides both the best framework for such dialogue and a much-needed middle path between philosophical approaches that derive human rights from a single foundational source and those that support multiple foundations for human rights (Charles Taylor, John Rawls, and various Rawlsians). By analyzing the historical and political context for debates over the compatibility of human rights with Christianity, Islam, and "Asian Values," Flynn develops a philosophical approach that is continuous with and a critical reflection on the intercultural dialogue on human rights. He reframes the dialogue by situating it in relation to the globalization of modern institutions and by arguing that such dialogue must address issues like the legacy of colonialism and global inequality while also being attuned to actual political struggles for human rights.
An examination of the moral and political aspects of the philosophical work of Jan Patočka, one of the most influential Central European philosophers of the twentieth century.
One way to chart an intersection between philosophical and literary discourses is by tracing lines of self-directed inquiry, in either discipline, that arrive at language as a limit condition for not only the articulation but the determination of conceptual frameworks. When attention is directed to discourse itself, it becomes increasing apparent that, to a certain degree, language is both bearer and generator of meaning, so a fundamentally self-reflexive concern with exposition attaches itself to its examinations. There are any number of entry points into how and where problems of linguistic expression announce themselves. After all, the possibilities and limits of language describe the contours of both disciplines from their outsets. For the present purposes, it is useful to choose moments where the disciplines are prompted to diverge from their traditional content to address their linguistic forms. In philosophy, Immanuel Kant's grand project of Critical Philosophy in the latter part of the eighteenth century marks a moment when the investigation of limits to knowledge comes up against a tangle of concerns with self, logic and mind-world division that creates an opening for the consideration of language in reframing/resolving some of its difficulties. In the latter part of the twentieth century, and from a wholly different direction, a preoccupation with linguistic mechanics is introduced into literary criticism and disrupts ideas about meaning and interpretation. In between these moments, linguistics and philosophy of language develop unavoidable contentions about the structures, instabilities and parameters of language, and these have direct implications for the status of meaningful determination in either discipline. The idea here is not to posit or trace the historical influence of linguistics on philosophy and literature but rather to examine various iterations of discourse that arrive at limits in language, whether in paradox or exhaustion, so as to investigate an overall dilemma in the determination of meaningful discourse, without recourse to sceptical or nihilistic suppositions. In the twentieth century, an increased consideration of language as potential bearer, generator and condition of meaning leans toward a logical positivism, carrying over the classical emphasis on essential structures of discourse and thought, but then away from this, into more rhetorical considerations of how language does or does not relate to the world. This latter shift is paralleled by an overall philosophical deemphasis, post-Kant, on essentialized logic and metaphysical 'ideas' that might 'ground' discourse, and so, in step with the rhetorical shift is a rise of scepticism toward determinate meaning: if there is no essential referent behind representations of and discourses about the world, then perhaps there is only an untethered chain of relative interpretations. Scepticism becomes a seductive, negative position that rejects the idea of objective reality in favor of interpretive relativity. In literary discourse, scepticism is tied to a linguistic formalism in which language is stripped of an essential, logically structured capacity for reference outside of itself- language bends into and disrupts itself. The modern-contemporary period exhibits continued debates between essentialist and sceptical notions of knowledge, reality and language, and the shift away from essence/logic and toward rhetorical methods manifests in a conflicting array of approaches to language that illustrate an overall sense of indeterminacy in discourse. Given the host of confusions that attend this scenario, it is understandable that intractable debates and dilemmas concerning the status of meaning and the parameters of interpretive practice inflect both philosophical and literary disciplines. With an aim to examining how such considerations of language affect literary theory and criticism, problematically, mistakenly, insightfully or otherwise, the effort here is to untangle lines of inquiry that reach toward various limits of language and assess how these frame ongoing discourse. Since the perceived (im)possibility of resolution or determination in literary-linguistic debates is precisely what perpetuates misunderstandings and dilemmas about the terms, stakes and parameters of discourse, the present, pragmatic examination is an attempt to clarify rather than contend; it is an attempt to clear out misconstrued, sometimes willfully obstructive ideas about the functions and capacities of language to expose the 'ground' of discourse- starting with the problematic influence of the Kantian model of self and knowledge that prefigures a modern linguistic turn in critical discourse.
Author : William B. Irvine Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company Page : 224 pages File Size : 31,67 MB Release : 2019-09-03 Category : Philosophy ISBN : 0393652505
A practical, refreshingly optimistic guide that uses centuries-old wisdom to help us better cope with the stresses of modern living. Some people bounce back in response to setbacks; others break. We often think that these responses are hardwired, but fortunately this is not the case. Stoicism offers us an alternative approach. Plumbing the wisdom of one of the most popular and successful schools of thought from ancient Rome, philosopher William B. Irvine teaches us to turn any challenge on its head. The Stoic Challenge, then, is the ultimate guide to improving your quality of life through tactics developed by ancient Stoics, from Marcus Aurelius and Seneca to Epictetus. This book uniquely combines ancient Stoic insights with techniques discovered by contemporary psychological research, such as anchoring and framing. The result is a surprisingly simple strategy for dealing with life’s unpleasant and unexpected challenges—from minor setbacks like being caught in a traffic jam or having a flight cancelled to major setbacks like those experienced by physicist Stephen Hawking, who slowly lost the ability to move, and writer Jean-Dominique Bauby, who suffered from locked-in syndrome. The Stoics discovered that thinking of challenges as tests of character can dramatically alter our emotional response to them. Irvine’s updated “Stoic test strategy” teaches us how to transform life’s stumbling blocks into opportunities for becoming calmer, tougher, and more resilient. Not only can we overcome everyday obstacles—we can benefit from them, too.
In this theological work, readers are seated in a metaphorical balcony as a counter melody is composed within America’s operatic tradition. By using imaginary opera glasses, readers are invited to critically view American society and history. The most popular folk songs of white Southerners, Western settlers, and Northern elites were composed from chords of colonialism, white supremacy, patriarchy, hegemony, and xenophobia—forms of anthropological poverty. These songs were, and remain, the most discordant melodies heard by indigenous and enslaved persons in America. Indicting the “church” for its complicity in these oppressions, this work offers the reader a historical glimpse at the philosophical and religious underpinnings of systemic racism. A new healing hermeneutic, the balcony hermeneutic, enables the reader to view, critique, assess, correct, and reverse the devastating consequences of anthropological poverty. By taking a “reversed gaze” of traditional Western Eurocentric systems of knowledge production, through theomusicology, this work privileges the voices of indigenous scholars—philosophers, anthropologists, theologians, and performers—to sing a new song as we correct negative narratives and lyrics through resistance operatic performances.
Mark Strom unveils Paul in his original context and invites us to engage with him in new terms. He courageously draws Paul into vital conversation with contemporary evangelicalism. This book is for anyone who wants to learn how the church can be an attractive community of transforming grace and conversation.
This book reconstructs major paradigms in the history of economic ethics up to, and including, the present day. Asserting that ethics should be integral rather than marginal to economics and management education, Reframing Economic Ethics highlights the need for a paradigm change from mechanistic to humanistic management, and argues that the failures of markets and managers in recent years were paved by a misguided management education. The author shows how the reader can and must learn from the history of economic thinking in order to overcome the theoretical shortcomings and the practical failings of the present system.