Chapter 6. Converso Paulinism and Residual Jewishness: Conversion from Judaism to Chris tianity as a Theologico- political Problem

2020 ◽  
pp. 112-133
Keyword(s):  
Political Problem

Existentialism as a Political Problem in Karl Löwith's Thought

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 (7) ◽  
pp. 951-964
Author(s):  
Arkadiusz Górnisiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Political Problem

Republican conception of liberty in early republican Turkey and its contemporary implications

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 429-439
Author(s):  
Boğaç Erozan
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Ample Evidence ◽  
Republican Period ◽  
Initial Failure ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Problem ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Early Republican

Established in 1923, Turkey has been a republic without a dominant republican conception of liberty. A chance to install such a conception was missed in the early republican period and never recaptured. The republic was unable to get rid of vestiges of the authoritarian tradition of the past. Centuries-old authoritarian tradition persisted well into the recent and the contemporary periods. Presenting ample evidence, the article underlines the weight of history and the legacy of authoritarian mentality that promoted the use of authority, not liberty, in political problem-solving. The initial failure to abandon an authoritarian problem-solving approach proved fateful for the chances of the deepening of democracy in Turkey.

Euripides' Medea and the Problem of Spiritedness

1991 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 587-601 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aristide Tessitore
Keyword(s):  
Political Dimension ◽  
Central Figure ◽  
Citizen Soldiers ◽  
Political Problem

The Medea is Euripides' most famous play and perhaps his most enigmatic. The unwieldy character of the play's central figure and the movement of the play as a whole defy the traditional categories of tragedy. Attentiveness to the usually neglected political dimension of Medea sheds new light on some of its persistent enigmas. It also suggests that Euripides was less than sanguine about the kinds of excesses the impending war with Sparta was likely to call forth from citizen soldiers. Most importantly, it brings to light Euripides' sober assessment of an enduring political problem: the irreducibly ambiguous character of spiritedness, the warrior virtue par excellence.

scholarly journals Using Natural Resources for Development: Why Has It Proven So Difficult?

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony J. Venables
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Investment Decisions ◽  
Private Investment ◽  
Adverse Impacts ◽  
Political Problem ◽  
Fiscal Regimes ◽  
Resource Wealth ◽  
Natural Resource Wealth

Developing economies have found it hard to use natural resource wealth to improve their economic performance. Utilizing resource endowments is a multistage economic and political problem that requires private investment to discover and extract the resource, fiscal regimes to capture revenue, judicious spending and investment decisions, and policies to manage volatility and mitigate adverse impacts on the rest of the economy. Experience is mixed, with some successes (such as Botswana and Malaysia) and more failures. This paper reviews the challenges that are faced in successfully managing resource wealth, the evidence on country performance, and the reasons for disappointing results.

scholarly journals Tilsynekomstens politik. Om virkelighedsmodellering i Joseph Conrads Nostromo

2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (111) ◽  
pp. 7-26
Author(s):  
Jonas Kjærgård Laursen
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Politics And Literature ◽  
Ideological Criticism ◽  
Jacques Ranciere ◽  
Politics Of Literature ◽  
Material Interests ◽  
Political Problem ◽  
Novelistic Form

POLITICS OF APPEARANCE. ON REALITY MODELLING IN JOSEPH CONRAD’S NOSTROMOArtistically Nostromo is arguably the most ambitious of Joseph Conrad’s novels. It is also without a doubt the most explicitly political in that it openly engages with the question of how capitalism, imperialism, and revolution affect the human consciousness. There is however no agreement as to how this political problem is to be understood or, more precisely, what kind of understanding of the interrelationship between politics and literature is necessary when engaging this artwork. As a necessary supplement to both a 60’s Marxist reading and readings from the 70’s and 80’s dealing with ideological criticism, this article suggests a reading focusing on how the text creates a model of society by reconfiguring certain real life elements. By developing a specific artistic idiom Nostromo attempts to show the very limited view of the whole of society caused by, in the wording of the novel, the material interests of imperial capitalism. Under the inspiration of both Jurij Lotman and Jacques Rancière the analysis presented here is able to address some key political insights that appear as a consequence of the novelistic form when understood as a relatively autonomous model of society. And that is what is meant by the expression politics of appearance: the politics of literature is to be analysed as something generated by the specific gestalt of the text, as something that comes into sight with – and only with – the text.

scholarly journals The King Never Dies: Royal Renunciation and the Fiction of Jain Sovereignty

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 986
Author(s):  
Sarah Pierce Taylor
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Metaphorical Language ◽  
Political Problem

To theorize Jain sovereignty, this essay takes up Ernst Kantorowicz’s underlying query of what happens when a king dies. In turning to medieval Jain authors such as Jinasena, we see how sovereignty and renunciation were mutually constituted such that the king’s renunciation completely subverts the problem of the king’s death. If the fiction of Jain kingship properly practiced culminates in renunciation, then such a movement yields up a new figure of the ascetic self-sovereign. Renunciation does not sever sovereignty but extends it into a higher spiritual domain. Worldly and spiritual sovereignty share a metaphorical language and set of techniques that render them as adjacent but hierarchical spheres of authority. In so doing, Jain authors provide a religious answer to a political problem and make the political inbuilt into the religious, thereby revealing their interpenetrating and bounded nature.

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