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Journal articles on the topic "Affirmative Critique"
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Sonderegger, Ruth. "Critical Wishes and Affirmative Critique." International Journal of Philosophical Studies 16, no. 4 (September 20, 2008): 595–606. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09672550802367567.
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Gaon, Stella. "Il la faut (la logique), Yes, yes: Deconstruction's Critical Force." Derrida Today 11, no. 2 (November 2018): 196–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/drt.2018.0186.
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Jacques Derrida regularly appeals to an affirmative gesture that is ‘prior’ to or more ‘originary’ than the form of the question, and this suggests one way to understand deconstruction's critical force. The ‘Yes, yes’, he says, situates a ‘vigil or beyond of the question’ with respect to an ‘irreducible responsibility’. Some Derrida scholars therefore construe the double affirmation as a source or ground of critique. In this paper, I refute this suggestion. While an originary ‘Yes, yes’ or ‘come’ (viens) does open the fields of (for example) ‘inheritance’, language, or ‘holistic webs’, I argue, it only marks (will have marked) the processes of différance or of trace that make signification possible in general. No thing, as such, is thereby affirmed. This is why the originary affirmation cannot be said to constitute, in itself, the imperative (il la faut) of the logic (la logique) of ethical-political critique. To explain why a certain ethical imperative can be associated with deconstruction, one must determine why one is always already subject to a vigil that opens critique to its own possibility. One must also determine how the affirmative gesture relates to deconstruction's critical force.
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Massumi, Brian. "Becoming Architectural: Affirmative Critique, Creative Incompletion." Architectural Design 83, no. 1 (January 2013): 50–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ad.1524.
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Karahan Balya, Gülizar. "Affirming the Pandemic or Aversion to Life? A Nietzschean Assessment." Kilikya Felsefe Dergisi / Cilicia Journal of Philosophy 9, no. 1 (2022): 87–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/kilikya2022917.
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This paper is a reflection on the impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic on social life and draws on Nietzsche’s views on pessimism, will to power and affirmation. The question that lies at its centre is what it means to experience the pandemic with an affirmative or a life-negating attitude. It aims to open up a space for discussion for how the pandemic actually is or can possibly be experienced affirmatively. In order to do so, first of all it provides an outline of Nietzsche’s analysis of the ancient Greek culture and the Greek myth of the wisdom of Silenus and secondly Nietzsche’s critique of the ascetic ideal. Lastly, putting the two topics side by side, it explores reactions towards the current pandemic on a scale of economy ranging from preservation to enhancement.
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Bargetz, Brigitte, and Sandrine Sanos. "Feminist matters, critique and the future of the political." Feminist Theory 21, no. 4 (November 1, 2020): 501–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464700120967311.
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Over the last decades, many scholars, feminist and others, have argued that critique must be reframed in different and more ‘productive’ ways because its ‘conventional’ formulation and practice have outlived its usefulness as a conceptual tool. Instead, they have called for affirmation or affirmative critique and a more generative mode of critical engagement in the search for new imaginaries, transformative potentialities and other futures. New feminist materialist thought’s emergence is, we argue, symptomatic of this contemporary intellectual landscape that claims to move beyond critique. While sympathetic with the desire to rethink a form of critique that speaks to the (urgent) politics of the present and the remaking of political imaginaries, we argue that the theoretical gesture to move beyond critique may offer a potentially troubling remapping organised around certain kinds of repression (of the undetermined and ambivalent work of critique) and amnesia (of feminist genealogies and over different feminist projects’ conceptualisation of matter) that yield a politics without politics.
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Andersen, Camilla Eline. "Affirmative Critique as Minor Qualitative Critical Inquiry." International Review of Qualitative Research 10, no. 4 (February 1, 2017): 430–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/irqr.2017.10.4.430.
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This article considers what to do with a political questioning of how to perform qualitative research when engaging with stuck bodily happenings. It does so inspired by philosophical-theoretical-methodological flows in the field of qualitative research where working against colonial ways of knowing and justice-oriented knowledge creation is of importance. The article's storying evolves from a reality- and philosophy-driven curiosity of race in relation to professionalism in early childhood education in a Nordic landscape. As a way of thinking through how to perform critical qualitative inquiry when positioned in a monist materialist thinking and within a philosophy of desire (Deleuze & Guattari, 1983, 1987), it explores Braidotti's (2011, 2013) “affirmative critique” as a way of working creatively with resistance.
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Trivedi, Chitvan. "Book Review: Pascal Dey and Chris Steyaert (Eds.), Social Entrepreneurship: An Affirmative Critique." Journal of Entrepreneurship 28, no. 1 (January 15, 2019): 192–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0971355718810280.
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Smith, Rogers M. "Response to Karen Orren." Journal of Policy History 8, no. 4 (October 1996): 479–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0898030600005431.
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Karen Orren's critique wages more war with itself than it does with my main arguments and evidence, most of which she does not engage directly. The bulk of my essay was devoted to textual critiques of Tocqueville, Myrdal, Hartz, and a number of more recent authors. I argued that their assumptions that liberal democratic traditions formed the core of American political culture led to inadequate accounts of major systems of ascriptive hierarchy, especially racist, nativist, and patriarchal ones. Orren mentions none of the authors I critiqued except Carol Pateman, whom she invokes in a paragraph ending, like a third of her paragraphs in her first two sections, with a rhetorical question about my view, not a forthright contrary proposition. Her failure to address my specific critiques, and her recurring reliance on questions to do the work of affirmative arguments, make it unclear precisely how far she is defending the authors, challenging the criticisms, and disputing the evidence to which my essay was largely devoted.
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Irr, Caren. "Ideology Critique 2.0." South Atlantic Quarterly 119, no. 4 (October 1, 2020): 715–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00382876-8663615.
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This essay differentiates the project of ideology critique proper from its less ambitious relative, propaganda labeling. It then proceeds to identify four tasks whose undertaking is necessary in order to update and refresh the project of ideology critique. These four tasks include: 1) distinguishing between ideology and propaganda; 2) understanding ideology in relation to current conditions—especially the abundance and novelty of affect, the shrinkage and acceleration of the ideologeme, and the global circuitry of intellectual exchange; 3) emphasizing the affirmative aspects of critique; and 4) situating ideology in relation to the dynamism of matter—that is to say, capital. Tackling these tasks brings ideology critique into a new phase and confirms its contributions to a collective project of emancipation and survival.
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Hjorth, Daniel. "Critique nouvelle – an essay on affirmative-performative entrepreneurship research." Revue de l’Entrepreneuriat 16, no. 1 (2017): 47. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/entre.161.0047.
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Nel, Erin Leigh. "The justifications and limits of affirmative action : a jurisprudential and legal critique." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/17948.
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Thesis (LLD )--Stellenbosch University, 2011.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Affirmative action with its wide array of manifestations, ranging from BEE (Black Economic Empowerment) to special measures within the Public Procurement sector, was intended to aid South Africa in redressing past patterns of disadvantage and realising a more equal society and economic dispensation. Whether the present policy has achieved this goal or is capable of doing so has been the subject of much controversy. The aim of my thesis is to rethink the justifications and limits of the current race-based affirmative action policy of South Africa in view of current debates, in which both its potential as a tool for eradicating inequality at the individual and systemic levels and the constitutionality and viability of different policy options are contested. In my thesis, a range of conceptual and theoretical tools are employed which are not only derived from the constitutional law literature, but also from jurisprudence, moral philosophy and political theory. Compensatory and distributive theories of justice are analysed and juxtaposed to each other, as are substantive and remedial conceptions of constitutional equality and recognition-based and redistributive notions of politics. Throughout, my focus is on the perspectives that these theories can bring to bear on the justifications and limits of affirmative action. It is also asked whether a re-crafted affirmative action policy would not be better able to reach the intended goals. With this end in mind, alternative affirmative action policies are analysed, namely, a class-based affirmative action policy which uses socio-economic standing as a measure for identifying beneficiaries and an affirmative action policy based on Sen‘s capability approach. The thesis also contains a comparative analysis of the affirmative action policies of Malaysia, Brazil and India. The aim of this study is to ascertain whether there are any valuable lessons to be learnt from their respective successes and failures. It is argued that affirmative action as currently applied has an assortment of negative consequences, ranging from stigmatization of beneficiaries as incapable individuals, the perpetuation of racial division and a detrimental impact on the South African economy as a result of a loss in efficiency. These issues could possibly be better addressed if the specific beneficiaries of affirmative action are rethought. In this regard, it is suggested that, if a class-based affirmative action policy is thought to be too radical, South Africa should follow India‘s example of excluding the ―creamy layer‖ from the current affirmative action beneficiaries. This should ensure that affirmative action benefits are not continually distributed and redistributed to the same individuals, whilst also ensuring that a wider range of individuals do in fact benefit. However, it must be borne in mind that transformation will always be stifled if educational resources and policies do not keep up with social and political policies.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Regstellende aksie met sy wye reeks manifestasies, wat strek van SEB (Swart Ekonomiese Bemagtiging) tot spesiale maatreëls in die voorkeurverkrygingsektor, is oorspronklik ingestel om 'n meer gelyke samelewing en ekonomiese verspreiding te verseker. Of die huidige regstellende aksiebeleid wel hierdie doel bereik het of in staat is om dit te bereik, is egter die onderwerp van heelwat kontroversie. Die doel van hierdie studie is om die regverdigings en beperkings van die huidige rasgebaseerde regstellende aksie beleid van Suid Afrika te heroorweeg in die lig van debatte waarin beide sy potensiaal as hulpmiddel vir die uitskakeling van ongelykheid op individuele en sistemiese vlakke en die grondwetlikheid en lewensvatbaarheid van verskillende beleidsopsies, in geskil gestel word. Die studie maak gebruik van 'n reeks konseptuele en teoretiese hulpmiddels wat nie net vanuit die staatsregtelike literatuur afgelei word nie, maar ook vanuit jurisprudensie, morele filosofie en politieke teorie. Kompenserende geregtigheid ("compensatory justice") en verdelende geregtigheid ("distributive justice") word geanaliseer en naas mekaar gestel, sowel as substantiewe en remediële opvattings van konstitusionele gelykheid en erkenning-gebaseerde en herverdelende opvattings van politiek. Die fokus strek deurentyd op die perspektiewe wat hierdie teorieë kan bied met betrekking tot die regverdigings en beperkings van regstellende aksie. Dit word ook bevraagteken of dit nie moontlik is om die regstellende aksie beleid op so 'n manier te verander binne die raamwerk van die bogenoemde retoriek dat dit 'n groter kans staan om sy bedoelde uitkomste te bereik nie. Met hierdie doel in gedagte word alternatiewe vorme van regstellende aksie beleid, naamlik klasgebaseerde regstellende aksie en 'n beleid gebaseer op Sen se "capability" benadering, geanaliseer. Naas hierdie teoretiese raamwerk word daar ook ‗n regsvergelykende studie gevolg deur ag te slaan op die regstellende aksie beleide van Maleisië, Brasilië en Indië. Die uiteindelike doel hiervan is om vas te stel of daar enige waardevolle lesse te leer is uit hierdie nasies se welslae en mislukkings. Die studie argumenteer dat die regstellende aksie beleid soos wat dit tans toegepas word 'n wye reeks negatiewe gevolge het, wat strek van stigmatisering van begunstigdes as onbekwame individue, tot die voortbestaan van rasse verdeeldheid en die nadelige impak op die Suid Afrikaanse ekonomie as gevolg van die verlies aan doeltreffendheid. Hierdie kwessies kan moontlik beter aangespreek word indien die spesifieke groep begunstigdes herbedink word. In hierdie verband word daar voorgestel dat, indien 'n klasgebaseerde regstellende aksie beleid as te drasties gesien word, Suid Afrika dit moet oorweeg om Indië se voorbeeld te volg en die "romerige laag" ("creamy layer") van die groep regstellende aksie begunstigdes uit te sluit. Dit behoort te verseker dat regstellende aksie voordele nie deurentyd aan dieselfde individue verdeel en herverdeel word nie, en dat 'n groter groep individue daarby baat. Dit moet egter in gedagte gehou word dat transformasie altyd belemmer sal word indien opvoedkundige bronne en beleid nie tred hou met sosiale en politieke beleid nie.
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Gomalo, Kena. "Affirming Actions, Fallacy of American Post Racial Society: Policy Analysis and Critique of United States Supreme Court Effect on Black Student Access To Higher Education." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23194.
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Affirming actions, fallacy of American post racial society: Policy analysis and critique of United States Supreme Court effect on Black student access to higher education.
Since the inception of the country that is now known as the United States of America, the inquiry of racial equity and inclusion is one that has not been unequivocally and diligently answered. In attempt to remedy these societal burdens, the government leadership has retreated to various affirmative action policy initiatives.
The affirmative action policies range from Executive Order from the President of the United States, policies in governmental contractors work sector, to university admissions policies. In turn, these policies, especially the college admissions policies, have been legally scrutinized and attenuated by the United States Supreme Court. As a result, theses policies, that were initially put in place to help Black students get equitable access to higher education, have had meager effects on creating a equitable education society. The meager effects are attributed to continuous restrictive guideline and regulations of the Supreme Court. In that vein, chronological research findings suggests that the Supreme Courts decisions have had injuriously powerful impact on Black students ability to get into an institute of higher education and subsequently find economic success. Furthermore, society’s increasing apprehension and non-understanding of the fundamental goals of affirmative action suggests that the Supreme Courts affirmative action decisions will morph from the restrictive and injurious strict scrutiny to permanent decease of any utilization of race based policy.
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Esau, Michelle Gildenhuys. "Administrative neutrality in a democratic state: A critique of current approaches and considerations for post-apartheid South Africa." University of the Western Cape, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7787.
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Masters in Public Administration - MPAThe ideal and practice of administrative neutrality has been problematic in the public services of liberal democracies since the middle of the 19th century. Either the ideal was interpreted very narrowly to exclude public administration from political processes, or it has been too broadly incorporated to render its meaning practically useless. However, both literature and practice continue to emphasize the importance of the ideal. This study has attempted to clarify the meaning of the concept by examining its evolution and applicability in various liberal democratic states. Additionally, the study has developed a model of administrative neutrality for the post- apartheid South African public service. The study was guided by three broad assumptions: and these were: i) that the concept of administrative neutrality was not an antonym of politicization, and that whenever such meaning was imputed its applicability was bound to be compromised if not misguided; ii) that the applicability of administrative neutrality depended, among other things, on the constitutional experience and context of a given country; and that iii) administrative neutrality tended to emphasize those elements that are topical at a given time in a given country. Comparative experiences of older liberal democracies examined in the study lent support to these broad assumptions: thus, the British version of administrative neutrality has been conditioned by its political and administrative traditions in which the evolution of democratic political institutions dictated the subjection of administrative institutions to elected political leadership. By contrast, the French experience has reflected that country's administrative history in which public administration evolved much earlier than liberal democracy, and practices like permitting civil servants to seek political office without having to resign their posts was perceived as posing no danger to the ideal of neutrality. Similarly, the American model in which the top layer of public administrators are political appointees has been a product of its history which has had a heavy dosage of partisan patronage. However, despite the differences in terms of models and applicability of the concept the public services in all older liberal democracies examined showed a clear commitment to administrative neutrality in the form of a professionally appointed and managed public service. All the three older democracies examined here has clearly done away with the concept of patronage in the professional section of their public services. Based on the analysis of the three older democracies, a model has been developed for post-apartheid South Africa. First, it was observed that current practices of administrative neutrality in South Africa have been heavily influenced by both apartheid and British or Whitehall traditions. However, the 1996 constitution prescribes a public service that is nonpartisan and impartial, with the public service commission as the watchdog for its implementation. The study has noted that a few problems exist in the current practice of administrative neutrality. First, the practice of involving the minister in the department or premier in the province in matters of appointing permanent staff was regarded as anomalous. Second, that there was lack of specification of involvement by level of civil servants in partisan activities. Third, that the present arrangements do not make adequate checks and balances between ministerial responsibility for personnel and the role of the public service commission, and between the minister and the director- general. Fourth and finally, the absence of the head of the civil service who could cultivate, promote and defend the ethic of civil service neutrality. The proposed model addresses these issues and includes the following elements: commitment to national goals as a recognition of the fact that administrative neutrality does not mean avoidance of national political ideals and goals; merit as the basis for appointment and promotion to ensure against the spoils system; partisan neutrality in which civil servants at all levels do not participate in any partisan activities, but that this provision could be reviewed from time to time as the country's administrative culture evolves; institutional checks and balances in which the public service commission, the head of the civil service , and the re-designing of the office and even title of the director-general. At the moment there are no really checks and balances vis-a-vis ministerial role in the civil service. Finally, the model recommends general fairness and impartiality of the civil service as part of the neutrality concept. The model might meet some resistance due to entrenched traditions of the past or misconstruing of the ideal of neutrality itself by current practitioners. The study concludes by posing a few questions: what is the relationship between neutrality and civil service effectiveness? How does the policy of representative bureaucracy (i.e.: affirmative action) impact upon the merit principle? These and other questions have not been addressed in the study due to limitation of time and resources. Nonetheless, the ideal of administrative neutrality holds out the hope for a civil service that is emerging from the scars of apartheid politicization.
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Charles, Stephen. "A critique of the concept of disadvantage in relation to the identification of affirmative action beneficiaries race as proxy for disadvantage." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6049.
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Burtscher-Bechter, Beate. "Entre affirmation et critique : le développement du roman polcier algérien d'expression française." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA040079.
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Entre 1970 et 1997 furent publies vingt-deux romans policiers algériens écrits en français. Ceux-ci forment le corpus de notre étude dont le but est de voir comment le roman policier s'est développé en Algérie et dans quelle mesure son évolution reflète des évènements historiques, sociaux et politiques. Parallèlement nous nous concentrons davantage sur les caractéristiques du genre en Algérie ce que révèlent nos analyses des structures, des thèmes, des personnages principaux, des espaces et de l'enracinement graduel du roman policier dans la réalité algérienne. Précédées par un chapitre théorique qui résume la terminologie allemande et française du genre et qui donne un aperçu du développement du roman policier en Europe et aux états unis, nos analyses montrent que le développement du roman policier algérien se situe entre les sous-genres du roman d'espionnage et roman noir et parallèlement a cela entre affirmation et critique, entre écriture idéologique et écriture critique. Tandis que les premiers romans policiers algériens reprennent les idées politiques du gouvernement sans réflexion critique, tandis qu'ils légitiment ces idées et soutiennent donc le système politique de l'époque, les romans policiers algériens des années quatre-vingt-dix critiquent durement le régime en place et sa politique réalisteFrom 1970 to 1997, twenty-two Algerian crime novels written in French were published. They represent the corpus of our study, where we focus on the development of the genre in Algeria in parallel with the social, historical and political conditions of the young nation. The specific expression of the Algerian crime novels will be scrutinized by analyzing their structure, their contents as well as by taking a close look at the protagonists and the setting of the novels; finally, we illustrate the gradual embodiment of the genre in Algerian reality. Summing-up, we note that the development of the Algerian crime novel is situated in a field of tension between the subgenres of spy-novel and thriller, and, in parallel with that, between affirmation and critique, and, furthermore, between an ideological and a critical writing concerning especially the social conditions and the political system in Algeria. The first Algerian crime novels adopt the political ideas of the government without reflecting them. They justify these ideas and thus support the current political system, whereas the Algerian crime novels of the nineties, in particular, criticize the present regime and its policies. The text-based interpretations of this study are significantly extended and completed by a sociological perspective. Preceding the analysis, a theoretical basis is given by presenting a commented summary of the French and German terminology and a detailed review of the development of the genre in Europe and in the United States
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Berkemeier, Caleb Anthony. "The Affirmation of Blindness: A Nietzschean Critique of Interpretations of Suffering from Disability." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1627135400515518.
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Dubois, Olivier, and PHILIPPE JULIN. "L'affirmation de soi en service d'hospitalisation psychiatrique : mise en place d'un groupe therapeutique et reflexion critique au terme d'un an de pratique." Lille 2, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992LIL2M283.
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Pan, Yi-fan. "Sur l’écriture : la question de l’innommable chez Maurice Blanchot." Thesis, Paris 10, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA100106.
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L’écriture de Maurice Blanchot est-elle dirigée par sa pensée philosophique ou par sa pensée littéraire ? Du fait de son double rôle, le critique et le romancier, son écriture nous paraît pouvoir présenter ces deux genres de pensées, philosophique et littéraire. La pensée philosophique vise le but de dévoiler la vérité et, avec elle, l’écriture devient la représentation qui met en œuvre la pensée dialectique ; à ce titre, chaque mot doit correspondre au propos d’un penseur afin que le lecteur puisse le suivre. La pensée littéraire repose sur la transformation de ce qui était et, avec elle, ce qui est écrit n’est pas encore écrit mais à écrire ; un romancier demande au lecteur de chercher le deuxième sens dans son écriture, autrement dit, ce qu’il dit peut ne pas être ce qu’il veut dire. C’est de là que viennent deux sortes d’écritures : l’une dit le vrai, l’autre ment. Comment le lecteur distingue-t-il la réalité de la littérature de Blanchot ? En lisant la critique de Blanchot, le lecteur parvient-il à croire en son auteur qui est aussi un romancier ayant une écriture détournée ? Nous nous demandons si, en écrivant, Blanchot ne se trompe jamais entre ses deux rôles. En ce sens, notre thèse interroge sur l’indétermination de l’écriture de Maurice BlanchotIs the writing of Maurice Blanchot determined by its philosophical thought or literary thought? Because of his dual roles, critic and novelist, Blanchot’s writing seems to display two possible thoughts: philosophical and literary thoughts. Philosophical thought is the aim on uncovering the truth. As a result, the writing becomes an implement to represent the dialectical thinking. Every chosen word must correspond to what the thinker stated so that the reader can follow it. Literary thought bases on transforming the original fact. A novelist asks the reader to look for the second meaning in his writing, in other words, what he wrote is not equal to what he meant. Thus what is written (by the author) is not yet written, but is waiting for written (by readers). There are two kinds of writing: one tells the truth, the other tells the lie. How can readers distinguish the reality from the writing of Blanchot? Can readers believe Blanchot’s literary criticism while he is also a novelist along with those rhetorical writing skills? One questing would Blanchot never confuse between his double roles. Accordingly, this thesis will discuss the indeterminacy within the writing of Maurice Blanchot
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MENDITTI, CARLOS HENRIQUE. "CRISTIANISME EN DIALOGUE AVEC L´ATHÉISME: LES CRITIQUES DE L´ATHÉISME HUMANISTE, SES INTERPELLATIONS ET LE FONDEMENT DE LA FOI CHRÉTIENNE COMME AFFIRMATION ET DÉVELOPPEMENT INTÉGRAL DE L´HUMAIN." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2009. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=15175@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROFUNDAÇÃO DE APOIO À PESQUISA DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO
Nous constatons qu´aujourd´hui apparaît une littérature athée qui cherche à s´opposer aux religions monothéistes, et tout spécialement au christianisme, en voulant démontrer qu´elles sont un obstacle à l´affirmation de l´être humain et à son développement. Cette littérature qui accompagne l´héritage de l´athéisme humaniste de Feuerbach et des maîtres du soupçon (Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche et Sigmund Freud), prétend nier systématiquement et de façon militante la religion et un Dieu Personnel au nom d´un supposé humanisme. Prenant en compte ce phénomène culturel, cette thèse de doctorat cherche à établir un dialogue respectueux entre le christianisme et l´athéisme. Cette recherche, en plus d´exposer la critique que la pensée athée élabore, hier comme aujourd´hui, contre la foi chrétienne, elle accueille cette critique comme une interpellation au christianisme d´aujourd´hui. Elle cherche aussi à fonder, à partir de la réflexion théologique de trois auteurs contemporains (Andrés Torres Queiruga, Jon Sobrino e Carlos Domínguez Morano), la possibilitée pour le christianisme d´être une affirmation de l´humain et la possibilitée d´humanisation des chrétiens, hommes et femmes. Nous en arrivons à la concluson que l´expérience chrétienne, fidèle à son noyau originel (Jesus de Nazaré), se présente comme proposition et chemin d´humanisation bien plus significatif que la proposition humaniste de l´athéisme.
Tem surgido, atualmente, uma literatura ateísta que procura rechaçar as religiões monoteístas, especialmente o cristianismo, por considerá-las como obstáculo à afirmação do ser humano e ao seu desenvolvimento. Esta literatura, ao seguir o legado do ateísmo humanista de Feuerbach e dos mestres da suspeita (Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche e Sigmund Freud), pretende ser uma negação sistemática e militante da religião e do Deus Pessoal em nome de um suposto humanismo. Levando em conta esse fenômeno cultural, esta pesquisa doutoral procura estabelecer um diálogo respeitoso entre o cristianismo e o ateísmo. Ela, além de expor a crítica que o pensamento ateu, de ontem como o de hoje, elabora contra a fé cristã, acolhe essa crítica como interpelação ao cristianismo hodierno. Ademais, busca fundamentar, a partir da reflexão teológica de três autores contemporâneos (Andrés Torres Queiruga, Jon Sobrino e Carlos Domínguez Morano), a plausibilidade do cristianismo como afirmação do humano e como possibilidade de humanização dos homens e mulheres cristãos. Chega à conclusão de que a experiência cristã, resguardando fidelidade ao seu núcleo originário (Jesus de Nazaré), se apresenta como uma proposta e um caminho de humanização mais significativo que a proposta de humanismo do ateísmo.
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Blondin, Marie-Michèle. "Vivre et vivre encore : la notion de vie chez Arthur Schopenhauer." Thesis, Paris 1, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA010616.
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Grâce à une étude exhaustive de la notion de vie dans l'œuvre d'Arthur Schopenhauer, la thèse répond à la question de la vie et du vivre-encore. Il s'agit de montrer comment la métaphysique schopenhauerienne de la volonté explique et justifie le phénomène de la vie ainsi que celui de la persistance dans le vivre. D'emblée, la thèse propose d'établir la définition ultime et métaphysique de la vie. C'est alors que le phénomène de la vie se trouve défini de part en part comme volonté de vivre et alors, comme un phénomène qui cherche à vivre et à vivre encore. La thèse explique aussi comment les différentes approches de la vie proposées par Schopenhauer permettent de définir cette notion selon une perspective biologique, philosophique, existentielle et métaphorique, mais toujours relativement à la définition métaphysique de la vie. Une étude du sentiment de vie révèle l'épreuve de la vie comme volonté de vivre, c'est-à-dire d'une vie qui se veut toujours elle-même. C'est alors que la vie s'impose en soi comme une nécessité de vivre, mais aussi comme une nécessité de souffrir parce que vivre c'est aussi toujours souffrir. La négation de la volonté comme solution à la douleur de vivre se trouve alors critiquée et remise en cause par un examen des tensions entre le besoin d'affirmation de la volonté dans le phénomène de la vie et l'intention de négation de la volonté chez le sujet qui cherche son salut. Il apparait donc clairement qu'en ayant placé au cœur du sujet une volonté de vivre aveugle et puissante Schopenhauer a fait de la vie un phénomène quasi incorruptible : l'affirmation de la volonté s'impose comme un impératif et ainsi s'impose la vie comme nécessité de vivreThe thesis answers the question of life and further living by means of an exhaustive study of the concept of life in Arthur Schopenhauer's work. The principal concern is to demonstrate how Schopenhauer's metaphysics explains and justifies the phenomenon of life as well as the phenomenon of the persistence into the living. From the beginning the thesis establishes the ultimate and the metaphysical definition of life. Therefore the phenomenon of life is defined throughout as Will-to-live and then, as a phenomenon that seeks for life and further living. The thesis also shows how Schopenhauer's different approaches to the concept of life allow one to define life from a biological, philosophical, existential and a metaphorical perspective, but which is always related to the metaphysical definition of life. A study of the feeling of life reveals that what is always felt is the Will-to-live i.e. a life that always wants itself. Then life imposes itself into itself as a necessity to live, but also as a necessity to suffer because living always entails suffering. The negation of the will as a solution for existential pain and suffering is therefore criticized and reconsidered by an examination of all the existing tensions between the need of the phenomenon of life to affirm the will and the intention to negate the will in the subject looking for salvation. Subsequently it appears evident that by putting a blind and powerful Will-to-live into the heart of the subject Schopenhauer has rendered life into an almost incorruptible phenomenon: the affirmation of the will imposes itself as an imperative and so life imposes itself as a necessity to live
Books on the topic "Affirmative Critique"
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Ministry, Living Stream. Affirmation & critique. Anaheim, CA: Living Stream Ministry, 1996.
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Bolaños, Paolo A. On affirmation and becoming: A Deleuzian reading of Nietzsche's critique of nihilism. St. Catharines, Ont: Brock University, Dept. of Philosophy, 2005.
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Steyaert, Chris, and Pascal Dey. Social Entrepreneurship: An Affirmative Critique. Elgar Publishing Limited, Edward, 2018.
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Steyaert, Chris, and Pascal Dey. Social Entrepreneurship: An Affirmative Critique. Elgar Publishing Limited, Edward, 2018.
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Steyaert, Chris, and Pascal Dey. Social Entrepreneurship: An Affirmative Critique. Elgar Publishing Limited, Edward, 2019.
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Came, Daniel, ed. Nietzsche on Morality and the Affirmation of Life. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198728894.001.0001.
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At the core of Nietzsche’s famous critique of ‘morality’ lies the sweeping claim that morality is the primary source of a stance of ‘life-denial’, and hence an obstacle to the possibility of an affirmative stance towards life. Moral values, Nietzsche argues, are inimical to the affirmation of life, since they typically denigrate certain ineliminable features of the world and human existence (suffering, loss, impermanence, the body, instinctual desire). Other values, allegedly, are life-affirming because they cultivate or augment a life-affirming tendency. Nietzsche’s pervasive concern with undermining morality and fostering an affirmative attitude towards life are thus closely intertwined: he attacks morality because it underwrites a condemnation of life and seeks to supplant morality with an alternative, life-enhancing ethics of affirmation. This volume brings together a number of new essays by leading Nietzsche scholars to examine these centrally important and overlapping themes in Nietzsche’s philosophical enterprise.
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Defending Access: A Critique of Standards in Higher Education. Boynton/Cook, 1999.
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Wankhede, Asang. Affirmative Action for Economically Weaker Sections and Upper-Castes in Indian Constitutional Law: Context, Judicial Discourse, and Critique. Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
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Wankhede, Asang. Affirmative Action for Economically Weaker Sections and Upper-Castes in Indian Constitutional Law: Context, Judicial Discourse, and Critique. Routledge, 2022.
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Wankhede, Asang. Affirmative Action for Economically Weaker Sections and Upper-Castes in Indian Constitutional Law: Context, Judicial Discourse, and Critique. Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
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Sonderegger, Ruth. "Negative versus Affirmative Critique: On Pierre Bourdieu and Jacques Rancière." In Conceptions of Critique in Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, 248–64. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230357006_15.
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Andreasen, Lise Ulrik. "Menstruation Mediated: Monstrous Emergences of Menstruation and Menstruators on YouTube." In The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies, 901–14. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0614-7_65.
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Abstract The chapter engages with feminist theories of the monstrous, performativity, and new materialism to examine how menstruation is negotiated and performed by young menstruators in the context of YouTube videos. It further asks what menstruation and menstruators can be(come) in the intersection of mediation and multiple cultural, material, affective, and discursive agents at play. By examining two YouTube videos that address menstruation, Andreasen explores how menstruation is entangled with “the monstrous” and how this relation makes new emergences of menstruation and menstruators possible. With the reservation of racial, bodily, and social privileges in mind, the chapter concludes with a proposal for a feminist affirmative critique, where the videos can be read as imaginative work and as possibilities for menstrual change for some.
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Nieto, Sonia. "Affirmation, Solidarity, and Critique." In Language, Culture, and Teaching, 163–80. Third edition. | New York : Routledge, 2018.: Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315465692-12.
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Kioupkiolis, Alexandros. "Post-Foundational Reason and Sustainable Affirmation." In Freedom After the Critique of Foundations, 198–225. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137029621_10.
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Motta, Sara C. "Decolonising Critique: From Prophetic Negation to Prefigurative Affirmation." In Social Sciences for an Other Politics, 33–48. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47776-3_3.
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Braidotti, Rosi. "Critique, Power, and the Ethics of Affirmation." In Throwing the Moral Dice, 145–61. Fordham University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823298075.003.0007.
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This essay outlines the defining features of relational affirmative ethics in the Continental philosophical tradition known as critical Spinozism, notably the materialist but vital life philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. This tradition emphasizes immanence as a nature-culture continuum, which is developed further into a general ecology encompassing technological mediation as our second nature. The chapter defends the relevance of neo-materialist affirmative ethics for the contemporary world, as an antidote to the shallow optimism and pervasive anxiety of our times. The chapter argues that an ethics of affirmation constitutes a robust alternative to the state of disenchantment and conflict that marks the posthuman convergence between great technological advances—the Fourth Industrial Revolution—and the climate change crisis—also known as the Sixth Extinction. In this juncture, affirmative ethics also offers a rigorous vision of the role of affectivity and the imagination in the making of ethical subjectivity.
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"The Social Science Critique of Affirmative Action." In Right Turn, edited by Raymond Wolters, 169–204. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351292443-14.
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Thayer, Willy. "Critique and Life." In Technologies of Critique, translated by John Kraniauskas, 1–4. Fordham University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823286744.003.0001.
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This chapter talks about Georg Lukács who emphasized that critique and life must be strictly kept apart. It explains that what Lukács was really separating was not simply life from critique but the understanding of life and of critique as they had been immersed in and explained by the so-called “philosophies of life.” Lukács opposed his own historical dialectical materialist understanding of critique, stressing his understanding of critique, revolution, and life as negation. This chapter also talks about the production of knowledge without gaps, the undialectical, nonnegative, and purely affirmative understanding set out by the philosophies of life. It describes indices of irrationalism, mysticism, and mythology to nourish fascism's blindness.
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"A RAWLSIAN CRITIQUE OF LEGACY AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION." In Rawlsian Explorations in Religion and Applied Philosophy, 66–89. Penn State University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/j.ctt7v67f.7.
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Came, Daniel. "Introduction." In Nietzsche on Morality and the Affirmation of Life, 1–15. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198728894.003.0001.
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At the core of Nietzsche’s critique of ‘morality’ lies the sweeping diagnostic claim that morality is the primary source of a stance of ‘life-denial’, and hence an obstacle to the very possibility of an affirmative stance towards life. Moral values, Nietzsche insists, are inimical to the affirmation of life, since they typically denigrate certain pervasive and ineliminable features of the world and human existence (suffering, loss, impermanence, the body, instinctual desire, and so on). Other values, allegedly, are life-affirming because they cultivate or augment a life-affirming tendency. Nietzsche’s almost ubiquitous concerns with undermining morality and fostering an affirmative attitude towards life are thus closely intertwined: he denigrates or criticizes morality because it underwrites a condemnation of life, and he seeks to supplant morality with an alternative, life-enhancing ethics of affirmation. This volume brings together a number of new essays to examine these centrally important and overlapping themes in Nietzsche’s philosophical enterprise....
Conference papers on the topic "Affirmative Critique"
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Jensen, Dan, John Wood, Scott Dennis, Kristin Wood, and Matthew Campbell. "Design Implementation and Assessment of a Suite of Multimedia and Hands-on Active Learning Enhancements for Machine Design." In ASME 2005 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2005-81599.
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Over the last eight years, the Machine Design courses at the United States Air Force Academy and at the University of Texas, Austin have evolved through the development, implementation and assessment of extensive active learning methods. In particular, the courses have evolved to include extensive hands-on projects that are integrated throughout the course as well as a significant multimedia component. The hands-on educational innovations, which promote experiential investigation using devices such as remote controlled cars, Lego RoboLab, and reverse engineering of consumer products, have received very positive assessment. The multimedia content, which includes extensive foundational content on Mechanics of Materials as well as a separate multimedia experience for learning about planetary gear systems, has also been assessed and received very affirmative feedback. The assessment of these active learning educational innovations has been multifaceted. Quantitative components of the assessment have included student end-of-course critiques, homework, specific exam questions and survey data. Qualitative assessment has been achieved through focus groups as well as both written and verbal feedback from students and professors using the active learning aids. Although the majority of the assessment has been positive, we have also received important constructive criticism during the development of these educational enhancements. The “iterative” development of these active learning techniques has involved responding to these criticisms and reassessing the program’s effectiveness. In this paper, we first provide an overview of the previous work done in this area, then move on to show new developments and related assessment. In particular, new assessment, which is correlated with Myers Briggs personality types, is reported, showing results of the current integrated use of active learning techniques, including hands-on and multimedia experiences. In this light, the current paper should work as a roadmap for others who desire to integrate active learning into their courses, whether they are courses in Machine Design or not.