Truth is Cultural Chauvinism

ASAP/Journal ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-207
Author(s):  
Postcommodity
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Chauvinism

Education as Transformation: Commentary and Replies

1982 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Griswold
Keyword(s):  
Harvard Educational Review ◽  
Identity Change ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Cultural Chauvinism

The February 1981 special issue of the Harvard Educational Review, "Education as Transformation: Identity, Change, and Development, " was "dedicated to those engaged in the struggle for freedom—whether it is waged against political or economic subjugation, illiteracy, racism, or sexual and cultural chauvinism. " Its intent was to focus on the role of education in that struggle. The editors of HER are pleased to present critiques by Wendy Griswold and Jonathan Kozol of "Education as Transformation, "and replies from several of the authors who contributed to that issue.

Cohen, Marx and the Primacy Thesis

1981 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
David-Hillel Ruben
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Marxist Philosophy ◽  
Theory Of History ◽  
Cultural Chauvinism

As Jon Elster remarked in an earlier review, G. A. Cohen's Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence ‘sets a new standard for Marxist philosophy’. In one way, the praise is too faint. Existing paradigms of continental Marxist philosophy are marred by an absence of careful definition, clear and precise argumentation, and the sort of sustained discussion that is committed to the teasing out of the intellectual difficulties of the author's own position – in short, marred by an absence of those virtues in the attainment of which the philosophy practised in Britain, the United States, and the Scandinavian countries on the whole excels. Cohen would, presumably, agree that this has nothing intrinsically to do with Marx, or Marxism, but in the main arises from the fortuitous coupling of Marxism with continental philosophical fashions. If this sounds like some sort of cultural chauvinism, it also happens to be the truth. So the ‘new’ standards for Marxist philosophy, then, are only the same standards by which it is right to judge all philosophy, wherever it is written, and which any philosophy must pass in order to be accounted good. What is perhaps less faint praise of Cohen is to say that his book is good philosophy (without the qualifying adjective ‘Marxist’). It is an ingenious and imaginative volume, in which precision and detailed attention to argument count for everything.

Cultural Competence versus Cultural Chauvinism: Implications for Social Work

2001 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 185-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Taylor-Brown ◽  
A. Garcia ◽  
E. Kingson
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Cultural Chauvinism

Religion, Hybrid Forms, and Cultural Chauvinism in Japan

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-187
Author(s):  
Ugo Dessì
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Active Role ◽  
External Source ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Native Culture ◽  
Buddhist Tradition ◽  
Japanese Buddhism ◽  
Hybrid Forms ◽  
Cultural Chauvinism

Abstract This article analyzes a few selected case studies from different religious traditions in contemporary Japan to illustrate, first, the active role played by religion in Japan in the creation of hybrid forms and, secondly, the potentiality in two instances to promote cultural chauvinism. The topics explored here are Japanese Buddhism and the issue of human rights, Shintō’s self-representation as a ‘religion of the forest,’ and Kōfuku no Kagaku’s adoption of Theosophical themes. The discourse of human rights found in traditions such as Jōdo Shinshū, Jōdoshū, and Sōtōshū shows how this western idea is made to resonate with religious concepts from the Buddhist tradition, thus making possible a reshaping of local religious identities. While in this case the catalyst in the process is provided by an external source, the recent reshaping of Shintō as a ‘religion of the forest’ may be characterized as a glocalization leaning to ‘native’ sources, in which the ‘native’ religious tradition is subject to a creative reading following the worldwide growing awareness of ecology. Here a tendency to emphasize the superiority of the ‘native’ culture may also be noticed. However, as the case of Kōfuku no Kagaku’s adoption of various Theosophical themes illustrates, also glocalization leaning to external sources may be accompanied by forms of cultural chauvinism.

Analytic of the Exquisite

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-33
Author(s):  
Grace E. Lavery
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Aesthetic Judgment ◽  
Material Source ◽  
Victorian Britain ◽  
Aesthetic Structure ◽  
Cultural Chauvinism

This introductory chapter presents a picture of the Victorian perspective of Japan, the so-called “Other Empire.” Accordingly, it highlights Japan as a precondition for the exquisite aesthetic structure implicit in Immanuel Kant's description of aesthetic judgment. In addition, the chapter shows how Japan is an Other Empire radically threatening the cultural chauvinism of late-Victorian Britain and an eccentric modernity populated by eccentric men. Therefore, it is a model for the subcultural socialities of British aestheticism and a material source of influential writers and artists shaping the emerging aesthetic discourses, usually away from the interests of the white avant-gardes whose achievements are all-too-frequently centered in cultural histories of the period. Japan is an influence, direct and indirect, on the post-structuralist historiographies of theory, and therefore embedded, invisibly, in many of the most cherished categories of cultural analysis.

scholarly journals Askari at Hitler’s Frontier:Racial-Cultural Chauvinism and Colonial Systems in Germany and the Territories of the Eastern Front, 1941-1945

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Drew Eisenberg-Holmes
Keyword(s):  
German Text ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Eastern Front ◽  
English Translations ◽  
The University ◽  
Second World ◽  
Cultural Chauvinism

This is a paper written for the University of Toronto and adheres to it's standards. It was written and formatted in Chicago 17th style and uses written and digital scholarly and published sources. One source is the author's own translation of a German text. Otherwise, widely accepted English translations are used (i.e. original English translation of "Mein Kampf"). This paper covers the interrelationship between German colonial thought and German / non-German relationships on the Eastern Front during the Second World War, particularly relations with collaborationist states and Slavic volunteers to the Waffen SS.

scholarly journals Children as an Object of the Right-Wing Populist Politics and Discourse in Poland

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-91
Author(s):  
Mikołaj Rakusa-Suszczewsk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Systemic Transformation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Law And Justice ◽  
The Right ◽  
Cultural Chauvinism

In Central and Eastern Europe populist regimes are attracting attention as a result of the traumatic legacy of communism, the subsequent overburdening reforms and exhausting systemic transformation, resurgence of ever-lurking nationalism, regional conservatism, parochialism and cultural chauvinism, and/or as an example of the structural shortcomings of young democracies at the borders of civilization. The subject literature also indicates numerous and universal elements of populist governments, present as well in this part of Europe. Without prejudging the aptness and strength of these various concepts and arguments, this article is an attempt to include in these wideranging themes a particular issue that absorbs conservative populists, namely “childhood” and “children”. While the problem of children in politics has already received numerous interpretations, the importance of childhood in the right-wing populist discourse and politics has so far remained an issue discussed only occasionally. We put forward the thesis that children play an important and specifi c role in the right-wing populist superstructure – they constitute an illusory picture of the nation, an allegory of its renewal, as well as a convenient, though inconsistently used, instrument for achieving political, ideological and propaganda goals. Attitudes towards children can be an important characteristic of populism as such, and should be taken into account in research on the subject. We will illustrate these problems using the example of Poland and the populist Law and Justice (PiS) Party that is in power there now.

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