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Journal articles on the topic "Ethico-political practices"
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Rybačiauskaitė, Karolina. "Towards a Diffractive Mimesis: Karen Barad’s and Isabelle Stengers’ Re-Turnings." Journal of Posthumanism 2, no. 2 (June 30, 2022): 139–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.33182/joph.v2i2.1943.
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This article seeks to further the discussion of mimesis in the current new materialist philosophies that are charged with doubts about the potential of mimetic practices, i.e., practices of reflection, and propose a more differential /diffractive notion of mimesis. It argues that the concept of mimesis and performative approaches to knowledge making can be compatible. The figures of mimesis appear in the conceptualizations of both reflective and diffractive practices, and if mimesis is considered rather as a diffractive operation, it could be seen as having a different efficacy and ethico-political function. Drawing on Karen Barad’s and Isabelle Stengers’ arguments, I start by showing why in the representationalist view of knowledge making, the tool of mimesis is dysfunctional—it is a way of separating and classifying copies of reality. Then, I introduce a diffractive notion of mimesis in line with the mimetic re-turn in posthuman studies. From the perspective of relational understanding of knowledge making supported in Barad’s and Stengers’ ethico-political proposals, mimesis can be perceived as a tool for provoking change and thus, imply a need to do it carefully.
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Goffey, Andrew. "Introduction to Guattari on Trandisciplinarity." Theory, Culture & Society 32, no. 5-6 (September 2015): 125–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263276415599110.
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Written roughly a year before the end of his life, Guattari’s ‘The Ethico-Political Foundations of Interdisciplinarity’ elaborates an account of transdisciplinary research processes closely informed by his conception of transversality. Tacitly critiquing institutions of research that separate it from the political practices associated with the reinvention of democracy, the paper explores in particular the possibilities of conducting transversal research into urban life, and speculates on the value of information technology.
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Ucnik, Lenka. "Ethico-political engagement and the self-constituting subject in Foucault." Ethics & Bioethics 8, no. 1-2 (June 1, 2018): 63–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ebce-2018-0006.
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Abstract Foucault is critical of the tendency to reduce all social and political problems according to predetermined ends and verifiable procedures. For Foucault, philosophical activity is a condition of possibility for the articulation of the question of the self. Inspired by his work on the desiring subject, Foucault begins to explore the ethical and political implications of self-care for modern day concerns. He presents an account of self-care that centres on developing an attitude that questions the personal relationship to truth, and puts to test those ideas and truths held most dearly. Processes of self-care evaluate the consistency between those truths a person regards as necessary and a person’s actions in the world. Interested in the ways in which people see themselves as subjects, Foucault directs his attention to the connection between systems of knowledge, power, and practices of the self. Crucial to Foucault’s process is the recognition that the self-subject is not given and does not have ontological precedence, and that subjectivity is transformable. By finding the lines and fractures in external and internal modes of objectification Foucault hopes to open up the space of freedom to bring about transformative events. The care of the self serves as a form of critique and resistance where it is both a way of living and acting in the world, and a critical response to a particular time and place.
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De Luca, Adam. "Review Essay– Fuyuki Kurasawa's, The Work of Global Justice: Human Rights as Practices (2007) - [Fuyuki Kurasawa, The Work of Global Justice – Human Rights as Practices (Cambridge University Press, 2007); ISBN: 9780521673914; 256 pp.; $31.99 Paperback]." German Law Journal 11, no. 4 (April 1, 2010): 457–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s2071832200018630.
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This is a book review of Fuyuki Kurasawa's, TheWork of Global Justice: Human Rights as Practices.Fuyuki Kurasawa is an associate professor of sociology, political science and social and political thought at York University in Toronto. Professor Kurasawa has a particular interest in human rights and global justice through the exploration of the theoretical underpinnings of global justice projects. Kurasawa proposes a theoretical model that strikes a balance between normative universalism and empiricism. This leads to a vision of an alternative globalization marked by radical redistribution of economic and political power. The work of global justice is largely the emancipation of those who are systemically barred from justice, through five modes of ethico-political practice: bearing witness, forgiveness, foresight, aid and solidarity. This book review is a critical look at this theoretical model and his vision of an alternative globalization.
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Henry, Jade Vu, and Martin Oliver. "Who Will Watch the Watchmen? The Ethico-political Arrangements of Algorithmic Proctoring for Academic Integrity." Postdigital Science and Education 4, no. 2 (November 9, 2021): 330–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42438-021-00273-1.
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AbstractCritics of artificial intelligence have suggested that the principles of fairness, accountability and transparency (FATE) have been used for ‘ethics washing’, in order to appease industrial interests. In this article, we develop this relational and context-dependent analysis, arguing that ethics should not be understood as abstract values or design decisions, but as socio-technical achievements, enacted in the practices of students, teachers and corporations. We propose that the ethics of using AI in education are political, involving the distribution of power, privilege and resources. To illustrate this, we trace the controversies that followed from an incident in which a student was misclassified as a cheat by an online proctoring platform during the Covid-19 lockdown, analysing this incident to reveal the socio-technical arrangements of academic integrity. We then show how Joan Tronto’s work on the ethics of care can help think about the politics of these socio-technical arrangements — that is, about historically constituted power relations and the delegation of responsibilities within these institutions. The paper concludes by setting the immediate need for restorative justice against the slower temporality of systemic failure, and inviting speculation that could create new relationships between universities, students, businesses, algorithms and the idea of academic integrity.
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Käpylä, Juha, and Denis Kennedy. "Cruel to care? Investigating the governance of compassion in the humanitarian imaginary." International Theory 6, no. 2 (June 20, 2014): 255–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1752971914000025.
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Compassion is a key moral emotion of liberal modernity. Traditionally, it is seen as an unproblematic moral compass, both theoretically and ethico-politically. This applies especially in the case of humanitarian action, which hinges on the compassionate impulses of individuals – to care, to give and to act – in the face of distant suffering. The article takes a critical approach to compassion. It argues that humanitarian action is incomprehensible outside of a general theory of how compassion structures the encounter between the suffering object of relief and the caring public. It does this by elaborating a pragmatist and eclectic approach to compassion in which seemingly internal affective responses have a socio-political existence and are already enabled by productive power, in particular by socially circulated and embodied narrative frames. By engaging a representative sample of NGO imagery related to the 2010 post-earthquake response in Haiti, the article illustrates not only how specific narrative frames seek to both elicit and govern the ways of feeling compassion, but also how these aesthetic and emotional practices are ethico-politically problematic in portraying distant sufferers and facilitating action. As a result, the benevolent self-image of compassion becomes circumspect. The article concludes by exploring two alternative avenues for compassion and caring.
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SYLVEST, CASPER. "‘Our passion for legality’: international law and imperialism in late nineteenth-century Britain." Review of International Studies 34, no. 3 (July 2008): 403–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0260210508008097.
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AbstractThis article deploys a historical analysis of the relationship between law and imperialism to highlight questions about the character and role of international law in global politics. The involvement of two British international lawyers in practices of imperialism in Africa during the late nineteenth century is critically examined: the role of Travers Twiss (1809–1897) in the creation of the Congo Free State and John Westlake’s (1828–1913) support for the South African War. The analysis demonstrates the inescapably political character of international law and the dangers that follow from fusing a particular form of liberal moralism with notions of legal hierarchy. The historical cases raise ethico-political questions, the importance of which is only heightened by the character of contemporary world politics and the attention accorded to international law in recent years.
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Koskinen, Outi, Malla Mattila, Elina Närvänen, and Nina Mesiranta. "Hoiva ruokahävikin vähentämisen arkisissa käytännöissä." Alue ja Ympäristö 47, no. 2 (December 20, 2018): 17–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.30663/ay.72986.
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This article explores the ways through which care manifests in everyday food waste reduction practices. The article is positioned within a more-than-human approach, which emphasises blurred ontological and epistemological boundaries among and across (assemblages of) humans, nonhumans, things and issues (re)forming sociomaterial worlds. Drawing empirical insights from (n)ethnographic materials that have been generated in an ongoing research project focusing on consumers as active reducers of food waste, the article discusses three overlapping ways (labour/work, affect/affection and ethics/politics) through which we care for and live with food waste in both research and everyday life. Labour/work entails hands-on relations with food (waste), wherein food is understood as an active participant in the reduction practices. In affective practices, food waste reduction is closely attached to our bodies (and other bodies) as well as the senses of sight, touch and smell. Through ethico-political doings, food waste reduction becomes a collective issue, encompassing, for instance, gendered division of labour. The article argues for understanding food waste as a matter of care and maps out the consequences of such understanding for environmental-political agency.
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Bippus, Elke. "(Re)thinking Critique: Transversal and Ethico-Aesthetic Dimensions in Partaking Practices." REGAC - Revista de Estudios Globales y Arte Contempor�neo 8, no. 1 (December 22, 2022): 121–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1344/regac2022.8.41417.
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The article examines critique in relation to current theories pursued and addressed in contemporary art and activism. The conception of a “partaking critique” seeks to conceive critique beyond universalising abstractions and totalising gestures. By reformulating critique as a partaking practice, we set ourselves in relation to the current demands and urgencies of a world that must confront the challenges of climate change, migration flows, inequalities between the global north and south, and the mistrust of democracy. We find it important that critique results not merely in a judging and condemning analysis and the division between correct and false. A “partaking critique” deals with historical conditions and traditional formulations of critique. Critique as a partaking practice is situated, local, transversal, and reparative, and thus mobilises dispositions to act in a panorama of neo-liberal mechanisms of paralysis and paranoia.
We developed our understanding of critique based on our engagement with critical examples at the crossroads of artistic and activist practices, such as Colectivo Situaciones, which in the scope of this article can only be briefly presented. We queried, shifted and transformed the concept of critique employing discourse analysis and a close reading of critical (queer)feminist concepts of the late 1980s. The perspectives taken by Donna Haraway and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick allow us to place the focus not on negative critique but on instituent and transversal processes, and thus on rethinking the transformative potentials of ethico-aesthetic practices.
The current socio-political and ecological challenges require a thinking that transverses and queers traditional valorisations of critique: we do not offer a universal, objective and strong theory, but instead favour categories of partiality, situatedness and responsibility. Critique as a practice of partaking is communicated not as the judgement of a critical subject, but in, through and with instituent processes as well as in materialities.
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Oelgemöller, Christina. "The Illegal, the Missing: an Evaluation of Conceptual Inventions." Millennium: Journal of International Studies 46, no. 1 (July 14, 2017): 24–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0305829817708812.
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Migration Management, a regime of radical differentiation and exclusion, renders many people illegal because they violate the laws of access across geopolitical borders. Migration Management further disappears some of these illegal people outside of the external boundaries of the Global North. Recently, however, discursive moves to mobilise the concept of the ‘missing person’ in the context of illegal migration have been introduced when discussing Mediterranean migration in particular. This article offers an ethico-political evaluation of such conceptual innovations. The article asks if a reconceptualisation of the illegal migrant as ‘missing person’ is able to destabilise Migration Management and concludes that this is unlikely. The article illustrates how this reconceptualisation cements the more radical practices of exclusion whilst the boundary-drawing is reformulated as one between dead and living migrants.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Ethico-political practices"
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Nicholas, Lucy Katherine, and n/a. "Australian Anarcha-Punk Zines: Poststructuralism in Contemporary Anarchist and Gender Politics." Griffith University. School of Arts, Media and Culture, 2006. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20070104.115215.
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This thesis describes and analyses the politics of the Australian DIY anarcha-punk scene and the ethos of the culture's participants. Eschewing the orthodox sub-cultural approach which situates 'punk' within a structuralist hegemony / resistance paradigm, the thesis uses participant observation and textual analysis techniques to understand the role played by zines (hand made publications) in fostering the intellectual and ethical capacities needed to participate in the Australian DIY anarcha-punk scene. The zines, in their deviation from classical anarchism, often invoke concepts of power and 'the political' analogous with those of poststructuralist theory, yet DIY anarchist politics also diverge from poststructuralism. I therefore address DIY anarchist politics by questioning the significance of these inconsistencies with Theory. In doing so I am led to suggest that the zines may be more usefully approached as elements in the ethico-political practice of DIY anarchism, which nonetheless draws on the 'conceptual vocabulary' of much poststructuralism, as well as other theoretical approaches. Thus I re-describe DIY anarchism as an ethos which seeks to argue for its agendas and values on non-foundational terms. Further, I demonstrate that by pursuing an ethos of 'autonomy', the culture's participants seek to develop their intellectual and ethical capacities through a self-consciously 'developmental' engagement of power relationships, in the form of DIY 'prefiguration' or exemplification. Following the preoccupation with gender politics in the zines and the wider scenes, I describe the approach to gender politics in similarly ethico-political terms, drawing likewise on various elements of poststructuralist and other theories. I show this feminist ethical practice to be based on assumptions about gender which embody a certain poststructuralist approach to 'gender', one that is predicated on the material effects of a discursively congealed gender structure, but forms part of an ethos aiming to deconstruct this structure. By re-describing the political approaches of these zines in reference to various theoretical perspectives and ethico-political practices, I am able to offer perspectives to the culture in question, as well as to the interdisciplinary academic context within which I am writing.
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Nicholas, Lucy Katherine. "Australian Anarcha-Punk Zines: Poststructuralism in Contemporary Anarchist and Gender Politics." Thesis, Griffith University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367436.
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This thesis describes and analyses the politics of the Australian DIY anarcha-punk scene and the ethos of the culture's participants. Eschewing the orthodox sub-cultural approach which situates 'punk' within a structuralist hegemony / resistance paradigm, the thesis uses participant observation and textual analysis techniques to understand the role played by zines (hand made publications) in fostering the intellectual and ethical capacities needed to participate in the Australian DIY anarcha-punk scene. The zines, in their deviation from classical anarchism, often invoke concepts of power and 'the political' analogous with those of poststructuralist theory, yet DIY anarchist politics also diverge from poststructuralism. I therefore address DIY anarchist politics by questioning the significance of these inconsistencies with Theory. In doing so I am led to suggest that the zines may be more usefully approached as elements in the ethico-political practice of DIY anarchism, which nonetheless draws on the 'conceptual vocabulary' of much poststructuralism, as well as other theoretical approaches. Thus I re-describe DIY anarchism as an ethos which seeks to argue for its agendas and values on non-foundational terms. Further, I demonstrate that by pursuing an ethos of 'autonomy', the culture's participants seek to develop their intellectual and ethical capacities through a self-consciously 'developmental' engagement of power relationships, in the form of DIY 'prefiguration' or exemplification. Following the preoccupation with gender politics in the zines and the wider scenes, I describe the approach to gender politics in similarly ethico-political terms, drawing likewise on various elements of poststructuralist and other theories. I show this feminist ethical practice to be based on assumptions about gender which embody a certain poststructuralist approach to 'gender', one that is predicated on the material effects of a discursively congealed gender structure, but forms part of an ethos aiming to deconstruct this structure. By re-describing the political approaches of these zines in reference to various theoretical perspectives and ethico-political practices, I am able to offer perspectives to the culture in question, as well as to the interdisciplinary academic context within which I am writing.Thesis (Masters)
Master of Philosophy (MPhil)
School of Arts, Media and Culture
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Chamberlain, Linda. "Converting policies into practice in a primary school : examining school improvement and ethico-political dilemmas of a senior manager." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.410802.
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Nettleton, Robert John. "Improvising advanced practice in healthcare : an interpretive narrative enquiry into professionalism as an ethico-political accomplishment in the context of education for workforce development." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.574510.
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The overall argument in this thesis is that the ethico-political aspiration to . professionalism eludes any particular instantiation but that narrative practices , of improvisation serve to realise such aspirations even while questioning the givens of received instantiations of professionalism and policy- led interventions. As such they are also serviceable as resources for research and professional education. The purpose of the research was to examine professionalism in the context of education for workforce development in the National Health Service (NHS) to develop the role of the Advanced Practitioner (AP) through a work-based Masters degree programme in partnership with the researcher's employing University. The research engaged critically with debates within the literature concerning professionalism and identified methodological debates and approaches to the examination of the achievement of professionalism in the current context of public sector reform. It established that received notions of professionalism linked to definitions of profession and professsionalization ,are inadequate to conceptualise the ethico-political task of achieving professionalism in this context. It aimed to provide empirical evidence and theoretical argument to show how professionalism can be conceived and realised under these conditions. The methodology adopted hermeneutic and ., narrative methods of enquiry for analysis of accounts of students and lecturers participating in the delivery of the AP masters programme. The r findings of the research built upon identification of improvisation as a core sensitising concept which was then further detailed as narrative practices of achievement. Analysis of these accounts identified two broad approaches to the achievement of professionalism characterised by different stances in respect of how the ethico-political enterprise is conceived in practice: for 'modernisation' , improvisation is an unfortunate fall-back position in the project of seeking occupation of a strategic position; alternatively, 'improvisation' provides the possibilities for achieving professionalism notwithstanding received notions of professions, professionalization and modernisation in the current context of workforce development and neoliberal reform of public services.
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Dekker, Cornelis. "Judging in the Public Realm : A Kantian Approach to the Deliberative Concept of Ethico-Political Judgment and an Inquiry into Public Discourse on Prenatal Diagnosis." Doctoral thesis, Linköping : Dept. of Technology and Social Change, Linköping University, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-16942.
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Steyn, Jan, ed. Translation. Cambridge University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108756846.
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The various dimensions of translation studies, too often studied independently, are here brought into conversation: Translation practice, including the various crafts employed by its practitioners; the specialized contexts in which translation occurs or against which translation can be considered; and the ethico-political consequences of translations or the manner of their making. Including exciting new work from leading translation theorists, practicing literary translators, and prominent thinkers from adjoining disciplines such as psychoanalysis and neuroscience, the essays gathered here demonstrate many rich areas of overlap, with translation pedagogy, the fundamental nature of translation, the translator's creativity, retranslation, canon formation, and the geopolitical stakes of literary translation among them.
Book chapters on the topic "Ethico-political practices"
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Lundberg, Anna. "What Should We Do as Intellectual Activists? A Comment on the Ethico-political in Knowledge Production." In Research Methodologies and Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Studies, 247–58. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81226-3_11.
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AbstractThis research comment makes an argument on the need to develop epistemic communities of belonging. These are spaces facilitating conversations about and enabling transformative ethico-political research. A research practice that can invoke attentiveness, responsibility, curiosity, and awareness to the field we study. Rather than answering what we should do as intellectual activists to maintain ethically integrity, the author here investigates the spaces we may develop as intellectual activists. Based on her work in the transformative collective initiative, the Asylum Commission and the reading of the Caring for Big Data book, the author proposes two concepts that are valuable for the creation of such spaces: epistemic injustice and hope.
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Goldberg, Sanford C. "What We Owe Each Other, Epistemologically Speaking." In Foundations and Applications of Social Epistemology, 41–61. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198856443.003.0004.
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The aim of this chapter is to articulate and defend a particular role for ethico-political values in social epistemology research. After describing a research program for social epistemology, it goes on to argue that by the lights of this research program, there is an important role to be played by ethico-political values in knowledge communities, and (correspondingly) an important role in social epistemological research in describing the values inhering in particular knowledge communities. It concludes by noting how, even as it expands its focus beyond the traditional one to include descriptions of our “knowledge practices,” this sort of project relates to some of the core questions that have been pursued by traditional epistemology.
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Desmond, Will D. "Beautiful City, Lawful Empire, Rational State." In Hegel's Antiquity, 43–110. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198839064.003.0002.
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Hegel’s exposition of the ‘rational’ state in The Philosophy of Right draws on ancient ethics, politics, and history, and cannot be fully understood without reference to his Lectures on the Philosophy of History. This chapter seeks to explore the many ‘moments of antiquity’ in the Philosophy of Right, when ancient practices or ideas infiltrate Hegel’s more abstract analysis of ethico-political phenomena. It does so by following the tripartite division of the Philosophy of Right: for example, the analysis of property in ‘Abstract Right’ is incomplete without appreciating Hegel’s response to ancient forms of slavery and the Roman ‘law of things’; the second section on ‘Morality’ is primarily Kantian, yet is also implicitly in dialogue with Socratic thinkers for its evaluation of virtue, the Good, and conscience; finally, Hegel’s innovative concept of ‘Ethical Life’ is significantly indebted to his understanding of the Greek and Roman families, ancient constitutional arrangements, and Justinian’s Code. Turning from these and other ‘moments of antiquity’, the chapter then offers a more continuous presentation and evaluation of Hegel’s understanding of Greek and Roman histories, explaining how his concept of the ‘beautiful’ Greek polis and ‘lawful’ Roman empire were for him the two historically necessary stages in the development of the modern ‘rational state’.
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Leonte, Florin. "The Didactic Voice: The Orations (Seven Ethico-Political Orations)." In Imperial Visions of Late Byzantium, 161–98. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474441032.003.0007.
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This chapter argues that, despite the differences of form, the seven orations included in this collection constituted a unitary collection and, for this reason, one should consider their interrelations as well as their distinctive features. Furthermore, the seven orations establish a tight connection with the preceding work, the Foundations, with which they share several themes. Admittedly, far from being a text focused on kingship, the Orations are rather geared towards the presentation of an individual’s acquisition of moral values. The correlation between ethics, the rulers’ virtues and rhetorical skills is framed in a tradition that originated in the writings of the rhetoricians of Hellenistic and Graeco-Roman times. Yet in Manuel’s case, through the development of the idea of a special kind of imperial behaviour, the presentation of moral virtues reflects, on the one hand, such a tradition and, on the other hand, an insight that could only have come with practical experience. Drawing on multiple philosophical sources, this formulation of imperial behaviour was based on the ideal of tolerance, with strong bonds of friendship and values such as education and moderate enjoyment of life.
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Fuery, Kelli. "Habit the Cinematic Encounter: Cheryl Dunye and the ‘Dunyementaries’." In Ambiguous Cinema, 91–120. Edinburgh University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781399504232.003.0005.
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This chapter discusses phenomenologies of habit as a way to think through the relationship between racialized vision, situation, and freedom within film experience. It discusses Cheryl Dunye’s disruptive, experimental filmmaking style with respect to Alia Al-Saji’s (2014) phenomenology of hesitation to argue Dunye’s filmmaking as ethico-political action that interrupts complacent viewing habits in the cinematic encounter. Simone de Beauvoir emphasizes ambiguity within the experience of perception as a pointer to the more prevalent ambiguity within the human condition, supporting Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s use of the phenomenological approach that facilitates authentic connections with the world. In other words, becoming enworlded as conscious and reflexive agents requires recognition and acceptance of ambiguous experience. This philosophy is clearly personified in Dunye’s creative practice, which blends various reflexive, participatory and poetic modes to destabilise established narrative and documentary genres, crafting a subtle, yet effective style that celebrates ambiguity in women’s identity.