scholarly journals Political aspects in Hans Blumenberg’s philosophy

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (41) ◽  
pp. 523 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix Heidenreich
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Community ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Carl Schmitt ◽  
The Political ◽  
Single Subject ◽  
Hans Blumenberg ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The World ◽  
Extensive Exchange ◽  
Post War

The scientific community in the humanities agrees that the work of the German post-war philosopher Hans Blumenberg is fascinating, compelling and inspiring, although the texts remain to some extent hard to understand. His extensive exchange with authors like Carl Schmitt, Jacob Taubes or Hannah Arendt show the often forgotten and sometimes systematically hidden political aspects of his philosophy. The theory of modernity, the theory of myth and of course his metaphorology are the main areas of debate which can be checked for their political implications and ramifications. However, the a priori exclusion of republican arguments and ideas points to a systematic problem in Blumenberg’s thought. All his thinking remains in the framework of what has been called “subject-philosophy”, it seems. While his early publications allowed a certain critique of ideology (from the perspective of metaphorology), this gesture almost disappears in his later writings. It is basically the single subject which works on myth, which seems to project “significance” (Bedeutsamkeit) into the world, which makes sense of his life in anecdotes. However, human self-assertion is always a common project, an inherited technique which creates not only myths but also institutions and law. The political aspects in Blumenberg’s work therefore also make transparent the limitations of his thought.

Images and the Political: On Jan Assmann’s Concept of Idolatry

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-306
Author(s):  
Aaron Tugendhaft
Keyword(s):  
Reception History ◽  
Carl Schmitt ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
The Political ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The World ◽  
Historical Basis ◽  
Political Understanding

Abstract This essay explores the political implications and historical basis of noted Egyptologist Jan Assmann’s assertion—based on a distinction made canonical by Carl Schmitt—that the Biblical prohibition of images polarizes the world into friend and enemy. The focus is on two aspects of Assmann’s position: his claims regarding how the Bible represents Egypt and how he reads the first two commandments of the Decalogue. The essay concludes that Assmann relies more on the reception history than on the biblical text itself and ends with a suggestion regarding how to get at an alternative view of the Bible’s political understanding of idolatry.

The Stakes of Decolonization, 1945–1960

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Talbot C. Imlay
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Majority Rule ◽  
Minority Rights ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Individual Rights ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Common Position ◽  
Human Individual ◽  
Post War

In examining the efforts of European socialists to forge a common position towards the issue of post-war empires, this chapter highlights some of the political stakes involved in decolonization. As debates between European and Asian socialists suggest, the process of decolonization witnessed a struggle between competing rights: national rights, minority rights, and human (individual) rights. Each set of rights possessed far-reaching political implications, none more so than minority rights, as they were often associated with limits on national sovereignty. These limits could be internal, such as constitutional restraints on the working of majority rule; but they could also take the form of external constraints on sovereignty, including alternatives to the nation state itself. The victory of the nation state, in other words, was inextricably tied to the defeat of minority rights as well as the growing predominance of human rights.

scholarly journals East Asian Regionalism

1969 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 34-49
Author(s):  
J. Ryan Davis
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Process ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Asian Financial Crisis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Concerted Effort ◽  
The World ◽  
Asian Regionalism ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
Post War ◽  
The 1960S

East Asian regionalism is a dynamic process changing the political and economic environment of an increasingly important area of the world. The region has experienced a variety of cooperation mechanisms, including post-war American-led regionalism, the closed regionalism of the 1960s and 1970s, and the new regionalism of the 1980s and 1990s. Yet it was the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis that forced East Asia to embark on a deliberate and concerted effort to construct a regional architecture. Recent successes demonstrate the determination with which this task has been undertaken. The process has also attracted a considerable amount of attention. Despite some overly critical opinions, East Asian regionalism today should be recognized as a decidedly unique process with great deal of promise for the future.

scholarly journals Eurocentrism and International Thinking - a brief introduction

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 15-17
Author(s):  
Thomas M. Fesich
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Community ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
Common Language ◽  
Islamic Culture ◽  
Important Phenomenon ◽  
New Development ◽  
The World ◽  
European Values ◽  
The Common

International thinking – a nice expression, widely used by political and economical leaders and easily found on all major newspapers nowadays. But has it been always like that? Globalisation is considered to be a rather new development in history. On the contrary, the term eurocentrism is not spread so widely in the common language (not taking into consideration the so-called scientific community). However, eurocentrism has been an important phenomenon during the development of Europe in the world. Eurocentrism, as a variant of ethnocentrism, describes the way of emphasising European values and culture (often also described as the Western culture, contrasting with the Islamic culture – which actually compares a geographical character with a religious one and therefore, a priori, leads to confusion and unfair comparisons!) i compared to other cultures.

Population, Resources, and Technology: Political Implications of the Environmental Crisis

1972 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nazli Choucri ◽  
James P. Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Precise Nature ◽  
Popu Lation ◽  
World Today ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The World ◽  
Exponential Rates

Virtually eveyone reconizes the existence on an environmental crisis in the world today, but may uncertianties remain concerning the precise nature of this cirsis and its domestic and interational implications. This much is clear: The world's popu;lation is continuing to grow at an alarming pace; finite resources are being utilized at exponential rates; and technological advances are contributing to negative ecological outcomes. These trends have been documented extensively. Their political significance, however, has received little attention if only because the visibility of the problem is such a recent phenomenon. This article is addressed to some of the political consequences and international implications of the environmental crisis.

scholarly journals Religious Motifs in Polish Contemporary Art Using the Crucifixion: An Outline of the Problem

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-166
Author(s):  
Beata Bigaj-Zwonek
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Artistic Expression ◽  
The Political ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
The World ◽  
Post War

Sacred motifs have a long tradition in art and ample figurative representation. They have been present in the visual arts for numerous reasons, from the need to identify faith to artistic expression based on commonly-known truths and stories saturated with meaning. In the art of the twentieth century, Christian motifs were often an excuse to speak about the world, its threats and fears, and the human condition. Polish artists frequently availed themselves of religious symbols and systems in the post-war era, and during the political transforma­tion of the 1980s, they became a way to articulate uncertainty, expectation, and hope for change. Today, the religious trope is a pretext for artistic commentary on religion, social problems, and internal issues of the creators themselves. The article explores the causes and the nature of artistic practice rooted in Christian iconography in Polish contemporary art, with a particular emphasis on the motif of the crucifixion.

scholarly journals New European Constitutions: In Poland, Czechoslovakia and the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croates and Slovenes

1922 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralston Hayden
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
The Political ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
Conscious Effort ◽  
The World ◽  
Good Government ◽  
Post War

In this period during which all political institutions are being tested as never before by the searching criticism of an awakened world and by application to the well-nigh insoluble problems left by the World War, the constitutions which have been developed by the post-war states of Europe possess a peculiar interest to the student of public affairs. They are the results of the conscious effort of the statesmen of these new commonwealths to combine with the historic institutions of their own lands those features of the public law and the political practises of the older democracies which experience has proven to be workable, to be conducive of good government, and to make possible a more or less popular control over affairs of state. The product of a season when democracy is the fashion, all of these instruments are filled with rules and phrases which have a familiar ring in American ears, despite a more than occasional Gallic or native accent.

Yugoslavia as World History: The Political Economy of Self-Managed Art

ARTMargins ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-93
Author(s):  
Ivana Bago
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Art History ◽  
World History ◽  
Self Management ◽  
The Political ◽  
Historical Inquiry ◽  
The World ◽  
New Strategy ◽  
Post War ◽  
Analytical Frameworks

Branislav Jakovljević's study on performance and self-management in Yugoslavia and Armin Medosch's research on New Tendencies and post-Fordism share a number of analytical frameworks that the review argues partake in a broader shift towards political economy as a key framework for art historical inquiry. This shift elicits what could once again be called a world-historical perspective: both of these books anchor their narratives in post-war Yugoslavia but only in order to show that the telling of the story of Yugoslav art requires the telling of the story of the world, a story that is not simply an instance of global or transnational (art) history. Instead, these accounts affirm a certain political teleology; they (re)turn to Yugoslavia to recall something that is lost, a ruptural, future-bound history that never saw its future, and whose interrupted course they historicize, offering a recourse to historical understanding as a step towards a new strategy of resistance.

scholarly journals Die Privatisierung des mexikanischen Ejido

2002 ◽  
Vol 32 (126) ◽  
pp. 149-173
Author(s):  
Susanne Hildebrandt
Keyword(s):  
Structural Changes ◽  
Agrarian Reform ◽  
The Political ◽  
Agrarian Sector ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The Social ◽  
World Markets ◽  
The World

The article starts with an introduction into the structural changes on the world markets of agrarian goods occurred since the 1970s and its effects for the Mexican agrarian sector. As a consequence of the political shift towards an export oriented model in the countryside the Ejido and the peasants became dysfunctional. In 1992, the reform of article 27 of the Mexican Constitution brings the agrarian reform to an end. The case study of Ejido Sayula/Jalisco highlights the social and political implications of this historical reform.

Citizenship For Sale?

2017 ◽  
pp. 788-816 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayelet Shachar
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Political Community ◽  
The Political ◽  
Net Worth ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

“There are some things that money can’t buy.” Is citizenship among them? This chapter explores this question by highlighting the core legal and ethical puzzles associated with the surge in cash-for-passport programs. The spread of these new programs is one of the most significant developments in citizenship practice in the past few decades. It tests our deepest intuitions about the meaning and attributes of the relationship between the individual and the political community to which she belongs. This chapter identifies the main strategies employed by a growing number of states putting their visas and passports “for sale,” selectively opening their otherwise bolted gates of admission to the high-net-worth individuals of the world. Moving from the positive to the normative, the discussion then elaborates the main arguments in favor of, as well as against, citizenship-for-sale. The discussion draws attention to the distributive and political implications of these developments, both locally and globally, and identifies the deeper forces at work that contribute to the perpetual testing, blurring, and erosion of the state-market boundary regulating access to membership.

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