Progressive Politics in the Global Age

2002 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 590
Author(s):  
Timothy Patrick Moran ◽  
Henry Tam
Keyword(s):  
Progressive Politics ◽  
Global Age

Psychology in the global age.

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 59 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey B. Rubin
Keyword(s):  
Global Age

On Metaphysics and the Political: A Polemics of Reading Baudelaire in the 1930s

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-259
Author(s):  
Joseph Acquisto
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Modern Poetry ◽  
Progressive Politics ◽  
The World ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

This essay examines a polemic between two Baudelaire critics of the 1930s, Jean Cassou and Benjamin Fondane, which centered on the relationship of poetry to progressive politics and metaphysics. I argue that a return to Baudelaire's poetry can yield insight into what seems like an impasse in Cassou and Fondane. Baudelaire provides the possibility of realigning metaphysics and politics so that poetry has the potential to become the space in which we can begin to think the two of them together, as opposed to seeing them in unresolvable tension. Or rather, the tension that Baudelaire animates between the two allows us a new way of thinking about the role of esthetics in moments of political crisis. We can in some ways see Baudelaire as responding, avant la lettre, to two of his early twentieth-century readers who correctly perceived his work as the space that breathes a new urgency into the questions of how modern poetry relates to the world from which it springs and in which it intervenes.

Toward a Curricular Balance of High School in Global Age

2008 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 69-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
강익수 ◽  
Kyeongsun Baek ◽  
박하식
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Global Age

Beyond Onto-theology and Metaphysics: the Cases of Heidegger and Nietzsche

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 329-345
Author(s):  
Vinod Acharya
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Philosophical Critique ◽  
Evaluative Study ◽  
Common Criticism ◽  
Global Age ◽  
Uncritical Acceptance ◽  
Critique Of Religion

AbstractTwo recent works will be considered that discuss Heidegger and Nietzsche in the context of the problem of overcoming metaphysics and the onto-theological tradition. A common criticism will be that these works in their attempt to retrieve a conception of religion, politics or faith beyond onto-theology and metaphysics tend to justify or idealize particular historically and culturally conditioned perspectives, which are not immune from further philosophical critique. Simon Oliai’s approach to countering the burgeoning fundamentalisms in our global age is ultimately not very convincing, representing as it does, a Western, liberal, Eurocentric worldview. The author’s use of Nietzsche or Heidegger for this purpose is also not very compelling. The remainder of this review essay appraises the volume edited by Cimino and van der Heiden, which attempts to rethink faith beyond onto-theology in several interesting ways. Although meant to be a comparative study, several contributions subscribe to a general Heideggerian (or Heidegger-inspired phenomenological-hermeneutical) theoretical framework, which itself is not rigorously scrutinized. A problematic implication is that Nietzsche’s own critical and constructive views of philosophy, his critique of religion and history, and his positive appraisal of faith and divinity are not seriously considered on their own terms: they are either mostly ignored, or they are selectively interpreted through a Heideggerian lens, with the result that this volume puts forward a mostly unfavorable view of Nietzsche. Some of the conceptual moves credited to Heidegger in the volume have their equivalents in Nietzsche’s philosophy, which a comparative and evaluative study such as this one must seriously take into account by resisting the uncritical acceptance of Heidegger’s own view of Nietzsche.

Global Gandhi

Social Change ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-22
Author(s):  
Mark Juergensmeyer
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Moral Standard ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Global Age ◽  
The World

Gandhi is regarded as something of a global saint, and his non-violent methods of satyagraha have been employed around the world—these alone would make him a figure relevant to the global age. But what is even more significant about his thinking is the applicability of satyagraha in situations of a diverse multicultural milieu. The satyagraha methodology of conflict resolution assumes that although there is a truth to be found in conflicting perspectives, there is no one side that is necessarily correct, there is no moral standard. Gandhi’s approach to conflict requires an engagement of contending sides to see what elements of their positions are truthful and to build a new syncretic view of truth based on this engagement. It is an approach to moral consensus and conflict resolution that is particularly relevant to the multicultural situation of globalised societies in the contemporary world.

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