Moral Textures
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Moral Textures
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Author : María Pía Lara
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1998
Moral Textures written by María Pía Lara and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this original work, Maria Pia Lara develops a new approach to public sphere theory and a novel understanding of the history of the feminist struggle.
The Open Texture Of Moral Concepts
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Author : J. M. Brennan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
The Open Texture Of Moral Concepts written by J. M. Brennan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Philosophy categories.
The Open Texture Of Moral Concepts
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Author : John M. Brennan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
The Open Texture Of Moral Concepts written by John M. Brennan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Ethics categories.
Textures Of The Ordinary
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Author : Veena Das
language : en
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Release Date : 2020-05-05
Textures Of The Ordinary written by Veena Das and has been published by Fordham University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-05 with Social Science categories.
How might we speak of human life amid violence, deprivation, or disease so intrusive as to put the idea of the human into question? How can scholarship and advocacy address new forms of war or the slow, corrosive violence that belie democracy's promise to mitigate human suffering? To Veena Das, the answers to these question lie not in foundational ideas about human nature but in a close attention to the diverse ways in which the natural and the social mutually absorb each other on a daily basis. Textures of the Ordinary shows how anthropology finds a companionship with philosophy in the exploration of everyday life. Based on two decades of ethnographic work among low-income urban families in India, Das shows how the notion of texture aligns ethnography with the anthropological tone in Wittgenstein and Cavell, as well as in literary texts. Das shows that doing anthropology after Wittgenstein does not consist in taking over a new set of terms such as forms of life, language games, or private language from Wittgenstein’s philosophy. Instead, we must learn to see what eludes us in the everyday precisely because it is before our eyes. The book shows different routes of return to the everyday as it is corroded not only by catastrophic events but also by repetitive and routine violence within everyday life itself. As an alternative to normative ethics, this book develops ordinary ethics as attentiveness to the other and as the ability of small acts of care to stand up to horrific violence. Textures of the Ordinary offers a model of thinking in which concepts and experience are shown to be mutually vulnerable. With questions returned to repeatedly throughout the text and over a lifetime, this book is an intellectually intimate invitation into the ordinary, that which is most simple yet most difficult to perceive in our lives.
The Damaged Particular
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Author : Daniel Carranza
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
The Damaged Particular written by Daniel Carranza and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
Research Handbook On Law And Literature
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Author : Goodrich, Peter
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 2022-03-22
Research Handbook On Law And Literature written by Goodrich, Peter and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-22 with Law categories.
In this original and thought-provoking Research Handbook, an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars, artists, lawyers, judges, and writers offer a range of perspectives on rethinking law by means of literary concepts. Presenting a comprehensive introduction to jurisliterary themes, it destabilises the traditional hierarchy that places law before literature and exposes the literary nature of the legal.
The Obituary As Collective Memory
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Author : Bridget Fowler
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-11-13
The Obituary As Collective Memory written by Bridget Fowler and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-13 with Social Science categories.
The first serious academic study of obituaries, this book focuses on how societies remember. Bridget Fowler makes great use of the theories of Pierre Bordieu, arguing that obituaries are one important component in society's collective memory. This book, the first of its kind, will find a place on every serious sociology scholar's bookshelves.
Narrating Evil
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Author : María Pía Lara
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2007
Narrating Evil written by María Pía Lara and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Literary Criticism categories.
Conceptions of evil have changed dramatically over time, and though humans continue to commit acts of cruelty against one another, today we possess a clearer, more moral way of analyzing them. In Narrating Evil, María Pía Lara explores what has changed in our understanding of evil, why the transformation matters, and how we can learn from this specific historical development. Drawing on Immanuel Kant's and Hannah Arendt's ideas about reflective judgment, Lara argues that narrative plays a key role in helping societies acknowledge their pasts. Particular stories haunt our consciousness and lead to a kind of examination and dialogue that shape notions of morality. A powerful description of a crime can act as a filter, helping us to draw conclusions about what constitutes a moral wrong, and public debates over these narratives allow us to construct a more accurate picture of historical truth, leading to a better understanding of why such actions are possible. In building her argument, Lara considers Greek tragedies, Shakespeare's depictions of evil, Joseph Conrad's literary metaphors, and movies that portray human cruelty. Turning to such philosophers and writers as Jürgen Habermas, Walter Benjamin, Primo Levi, Giorgio Agamben, and Ariel Dorfman, Lara defines a reflexive relationship between an event, the narrative of the event, and the public reception of the narrative, and she proves that the stories of perpetrators and sufferers are always intertwined. The process of disclosure, debate, and the public fashioning of collective judgment are vital methods through which we make sense not only of new forms of cruelty but of past crimes as well. Narrating Evil describes the steps of this process and why they are a crucial part of our attempt to build a different, more just world.
Texture
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Author : Richard H. R. Harper
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2012-09-21
Texture written by Richard H. R. Harper and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-21 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Why we complain about communication overload even as we seek new ways to communicate. Our workdays are so filled with emails, instant messaging, and RSS feeds that we complain that there's not enough time to get our actual work done. At home, we are besieged by telephone calls on landlines and cell phones, the beeps that signal text messages, and work emails on our BlackBerrys. It's too much, we cry (or type) as we update our Facebook pages, compose a blog post, or check to see what Shaquille O'Neal has to say on Twitter. In Texture, Richard Harper asks why we seek out new ways of communicating even as we complain about communication overload. Harper describes the mistaken assumptions of developers that “more” is always better and argues that users prefer simpler technologies that allow them to create social bonds. Communication is not just the exchange of information. There is a texture to our communicative practices, manifest in the different means we choose to communicate (quick or slow, permanent or ephemeral).
Textures Of Place
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Author : Paul C. Adams
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2001
Textures Of Place written by Paul C. Adams and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Social Science categories.
Annotation A fresh and far-ranging interpretation of the concept of place, this volume begins with a fundamental tension of our day: as communications technologies help create a truly global economy, the very political-economic processes that would seem to homogenize place actually increase the importance of individual localities, which are exposed to global flows of investment, population, goods, and pollution. Place, no less today than in the past, is fundamental to how the world works. The contributors to this volume -- distinguished scholars from geography, art history, philosophy, anthropology, and American and English literature -- investigate the ways in which place is embedded in everyday experience, its crucial role in the formation of group and individual identity, and its ability to reflect and reinforce power relations. Their essays draw from a wide array of methodologies and perspectives -- including feminism, ethnography, poststructuralism, ecocriticism, and landscape ichnography -- to examine themes as diverse as morality and imagination, attention and absence, personal and group identity, social structure, home, nature, and cosmos.