Abstract:This essay is a memoir exploring how Herbert Marcuse's One Dimensional Man changed the author's life. How can such a text so shake us from our indifference, or our undiscriminating curiosity, as if calling us to follow a different path in life? And how does such a revelation of the written word—even if it is regarded as the gospel truth for a significant period of one's life—subsequently fall apart, to be set aside emphatically, as if shaking off a mistaken set of convictions?
{"title":"When I Was One-Dimensional: One-Dimensional Man, Herbert Marcuse","authors":"J. Miller","doi":"10.1353/sor.2022.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2022.0027","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay is a memoir exploring how Herbert Marcuse's One Dimensional Man changed the author's life. How can such a text so shake us from our indifference, or our undiscriminating curiosity, as if calling us to follow a different path in life? And how does such a revelation of the written word—even if it is regarded as the gospel truth for a significant period of one's life—subsequently fall apart, to be set aside emphatically, as if shaking off a mistaken set of convictions?","PeriodicalId":21868,"journal":{"name":"Social Research: An International Quarterly","volume":"53 1","pages":"397 - 408"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85756902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:The term "identity politics" was coined by the Combahee River Collective in 1978. Today, the concept is under attack from all sides—even among critical theorists. Despite this, the United States just witnessed the largest political protests in its history, organized around Black identity. It is important to return to the Combahee River Collective Statement, in conversation with Stuart Hall's The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation, to explore a concept of identity politics that recognizes the power of identities while remaining open to how notions of identity change in response to shifting relations of power and politics.
摘要:1978年,“身份政治”一词由Combahee River Collective提出。今天,这一概念受到了来自各方的攻击,甚至在批判理论家中也是如此。尽管如此,美国刚刚见证了历史上规模最大的围绕黑人身份的政治抗议活动。在Stuart Hall的《命运的三角:种族、民族、民族》一书中,我们有必要回到《Combahee River集体声明》,探讨身份政治的概念,它既承认身份的力量,又对身份概念如何随着权力和政治关系的变化而变化保持开放的态度。
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Abstract:Phillis Wheatley's 1773 collection, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, is surely a book that matters. It matters as the first book published by an American slave of African origin; it matters as an emblem of the complex political, moral, and philosophical debates at hand in the American colonies on the eve of revolution; it matters as an aesthetic achievement; and it matters, perhaps most of all, as evidence of the persistence of antiblack racism and the discourse of white supremacy that have indelibly impacted the reception of this book from its eighteenth-century release to the present day.
{"title":"A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects (1773): Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, Phillis Wheatley","authors":"D. Mcbride","doi":"10.1353/sor.2022.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2022.0026","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Phillis Wheatley's 1773 collection, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, is surely a book that matters. It matters as the first book published by an American slave of African origin; it matters as an emblem of the complex political, moral, and philosophical debates at hand in the American colonies on the eve of revolution; it matters as an aesthetic achievement; and it matters, perhaps most of all, as evidence of the persistence of antiblack racism and the discourse of white supremacy that have indelibly impacted the reception of this book from its eighteenth-century release to the present day.","PeriodicalId":21868,"journal":{"name":"Social Research: An International Quarterly","volume":"25 1","pages":"369 - 395"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90815186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This essay is an appreciation of Ivo Andrić's novel, The Bridge on the Drina, and Georg Simmel's essay, "Bridge and Door," which provide an infrastructure for meaning and hope in times of social despair.
{"title":"Tribute to a Bridge: The Bridge on the Drina, Ivo Andrić","authors":"Elżbieta Matynia","doi":"10.1353/sor.2022.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2022.0025","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay is an appreciation of Ivo Andrić's novel, The Bridge on the Drina, and Georg Simmel's essay, \"Bridge and Door,\" which provide an infrastructure for meaning and hope in times of social despair.","PeriodicalId":21868,"journal":{"name":"Social Research: An International Quarterly","volume":"10 1","pages":"361 - 368"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72916664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:I compare a new book by young climate activist Daniel Sherrell, published in August 2021, the same month the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its most recent report, to the famous 1930 essay by John Maynard Keynes "Economic Possibilities of Our Grandchildren." Keynes's exceedingly optimistic view of the future is contrasted with Sherrell's smart, sober, and respectful memoir about the end of the world. Economists, writers, and activists do what they can to bring the future forward to the present.
摘要:我将年轻的气候活动家丹尼尔·谢雷尔(Daniel Sherrell)于2021年8月出版的新书与约翰·梅纳德·凯恩斯(John Maynard Keynes) 1930年的著名文章《我们子孙后代的经济可能性》(Economic Possibilities of Our Grandchildren)进行了比较。联合国政府间气候变化专门委员会(ipcc)在同月发布了最新报告。凯恩斯对未来极其乐观的看法与谢雷尔关于世界末日的聪明、冷静和尊重的回忆录形成了鲜明对比。经济学家、作家和活动家尽其所能把未来带到现在。
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Abstract:This essay explores a common theme in Margaret Jacob's The Radical Enlightenment and M. H. Abrams's Natural Supernaturalism, arguing they traverse the trajectory of a doctrine that may be called "realism about values" from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century and the political possibilities it offers for a form of radicalism that stands apart from the political commitments of the orthodox Enlightenment. Such radicalism stresses the ideal of overcoming alienation and reconfigures the great ideals of the Enlightenment—liberty and equality—to nest within this more fundamental ideal, addressing the chronic tension and trade-off between liberty and equality as standardly conceived.
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The essay is an intersectional reading of W. E. B. Du Bois's classic.
摘要:本文是对杜波依斯名著的交叉阅读。
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Abstract:Hobbes's Leviathan has long been recognized as a classic in the history of Western political thought. This essay argues that this work deserves this accolade because some of the central antinomies of modern political experience—between scientific knowledge and the search for meaning, between reason and the passions in human psychology, and between the individual's will and the power of the collective—are brilliantly recounted in this work. Above all, the piece emphasizes the originality of Hobbes's construction of sovereignty through the theory of authorship and representation. The essay concludes by suggesting a feminist critique of Hobbes's view of human nature.
{"title":"Thomas Hobbes on My Mind: Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes","authors":"S. Benhabib","doi":"10.1353/sor.2022.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2022.0015","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Hobbes's Leviathan has long been recognized as a classic in the history of Western political thought. This essay argues that this work deserves this accolade because some of the central antinomies of modern political experience—between scientific knowledge and the search for meaning, between reason and the passions in human psychology, and between the individual's will and the power of the collective—are brilliantly recounted in this work. Above all, the piece emphasizes the originality of Hobbes's construction of sovereignty through the theory of authorship and representation. The essay concludes by suggesting a feminist critique of Hobbes's view of human nature.","PeriodicalId":21868,"journal":{"name":"Social Research: An International Quarterly","volume":"42 1","pages":"233 - 247"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82454882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Cities are the most complex creations of human imagination and endeavor. Their physical forms and social relations map the landscape of history and a geography of future possibility. In an age of climate crisis, whither cities, so too humanity. Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino's multivalent parable of urban life, is a traveling companion for those seeking to understand how cities came to be and what they might become.
{"title":"Make Them Endure, Give Them Space: Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino","authors":"J. Towers","doi":"10.1353/sor.2022.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2022.0033","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Cities are the most complex creations of human imagination and endeavor. Their physical forms and social relations map the landscape of history and a geography of future possibility. In an age of climate crisis, whither cities, so too humanity. Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino's multivalent parable of urban life, is a traveling companion for those seeking to understand how cities came to be and what they might become.","PeriodicalId":21868,"journal":{"name":"Social Research: An International Quarterly","volume":"20 1","pages":"469 - 481"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83560351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}