Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.5325/soundings.105.2.0226
William Whitmore
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Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.5325/soundings.105.2.0113
Maria Varsam
Abstract:This essay will explore a different aspect of the meanings attributed to the activist group FEMEN that has hitherto been underexplored, the utopian. While critics question the effectiveness of its bare-breasted demonstrations, their assumptions remain based upon a logic of cultural dualisms that prevent an interpretation that may restructure the problem beyond an either/or logic of radicalism or co-optation. An application of the utopian, as theorized by Lucy Sargisson, will illuminate the import of FEMEN's protests within the parameters of utopia as process rather than product, and a utopian impulse that erupts and threatens to disrupt accepted structures of thought based on binaries. This conceptualization of utopia allows a new type of consciousness-raising for both the feminist and nonfeminist audience because it shifts the perspective from a goal-oriented approach to one of social function by redirecting the issues raised by the analysis of results to a vision of a better world.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.5325/soundings.105.2.0224
D. Powell
{"title":"Unruly Audience: Folk Interventions in Popular Media","authors":"D. Powell","doi":"10.5325/soundings.105.2.0224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/soundings.105.2.0224","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":231294,"journal":{"name":"Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129066646","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}
Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.5325/soundings.105.2.0143
Kevin M. Clark, Eric Bain-Selbo
Abstract:This essay draws on resources in philosophy, psychology, and related social sciences—specifically, works by Joshua Greene, Jonathan Haidt, George Lakoff, and Martha Nussbaum—to analyze the moral and political dimensions of the recent polarization in the United States related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Three questions are addressed: (a) What psychological factors may have contributed to this polarization? (b) Why have conservatives and liberals taken the positions they have on issues relating to the pandemic (e.g., masks, economic reopening, vaccines, science)? and (c) How can we reduce this polarization and work more effectively with others to face societal challenges, despite our differences?
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Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.5325/soundings.105.2.v
Joseph B. Keener, Maria Varsam, Kevin M. Clark, Eric Bain-Selbo, D. Powell, William Whitmore
Abstract:This essay will explore a different aspect of the meanings attributed to the activist group FEMEN that has hitherto been underexplored, the utopian. While critics question the effectiveness of its bare-breasted demonstrations, their assumptions remain based upon a logic of cultural dualisms that prevent an interpretation that may restructure the problem beyond an either/or logic of radicalism or co-optation. An application of the utopian, as theorized by Lucy Sargisson, will illuminate the import of FEMEN's protests within the parameters of utopia as process rather than product, and a utopian impulse that erupts and threatens to disrupt accepted structures of thought based on binaries. This conceptualization of utopia allows a new type of consciousness-raising for both the feminist and nonfeminist audience because it shifts the perspective from a goal-oriented approach to one of social function by redirecting the issues raised by the analysis of results to a vision of a better world.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-24DOI: 10.5325/soundings.105.1.0060
D. Smith
Abstract:This article examines the articulation of praxis and phronēsis in book VI of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. With some help from Vernant, Heidegger, and Agamben, it brings out a dimension of Aristotle's thought that makes it challenging for us to think today, namely its lack of a concept of the will. Instead of seeing this as a deficiency, this paper argues that Aristotle's thinking can be more productively read as carving out a space for an ethics that is not governed by this metaphysical concept, in this way showing it not to be as essential to ethical thought as we often think. Phronēsis appears as the point of in-distinction between many oppositions that govern modern thought such as thinking and doing, being and acting, or theory and practice. In this way, it provides a suggestive example for those interested in developing new forms of ethics beyond those that have been bequeathed to us by the modern European tradition.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-24DOI: 10.5325/soundings.105.1.0028
J. Feldmann
Abstract:This essay traces the displacement of the equality ideal and progressive taxation from the US tax code in the 1980s. After a brief background on the origin of the equality ideal and the current vast income and wealth disparities, the article examines the political process and philosophical premises of the 1986 tax reform. It shows how "supply side" tax arguments made their way into and ultimately prevailed in Congressional deliberations, a success resting in part on Robert Nozick's misinterpretations of John Locke's entitlement and taxation theories. The article then counters the Nozickian interpretation with biographical and textual evidence of Locke's egalitarian commitments.
{"title":"Equality Lost: John Locke and the United States 1986 Tax Reform","authors":"J. Feldmann","doi":"10.5325/soundings.105.1.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/soundings.105.1.0028","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay traces the displacement of the equality ideal and progressive taxation from the US tax code in the 1980s. After a brief background on the origin of the equality ideal and the current vast income and wealth disparities, the article examines the political process and philosophical premises of the 1986 tax reform. It shows how \"supply side\" tax arguments made their way into and ultimately prevailed in Congressional deliberations, a success resting in part on Robert Nozick's misinterpretations of John Locke's entitlement and taxation theories. The article then counters the Nozickian interpretation with biographical and textual evidence of Locke's egalitarian commitments.","PeriodicalId":231294,"journal":{"name":"Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"208 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133935989","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}
Pub Date : 2022-01-24DOI: 10.5325/soundings.105.1.0084
Rebekkah Stuteville
Abstract:Publicly funded scientists and scientists within government juggle an array of accountability arrangements. They answer to peers, government officials, and society. This paper examines the types of accountability experienced by these scientists in the United States. It recounts the historical events that prompted various forms of accountability and it explores common themes in the debates surrounding scientific accountability. Finally, the paper suggests that interdisciplinarity has emerged as a possible solution to the problem of scientists accounting for their actions to laypeople.
{"title":"Competing Accountability Frameworks and the Role of Interdisciplinary Practice for Publicly Funded Scientists and Scientists within Government","authors":"Rebekkah Stuteville","doi":"10.5325/soundings.105.1.0084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/soundings.105.1.0084","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Publicly funded scientists and scientists within government juggle an array of accountability arrangements. They answer to peers, government officials, and society. This paper examines the types of accountability experienced by these scientists in the United States. It recounts the historical events that prompted various forms of accountability and it explores common themes in the debates surrounding scientific accountability. Finally, the paper suggests that interdisciplinarity has emerged as a possible solution to the problem of scientists accounting for their actions to laypeople.","PeriodicalId":231294,"journal":{"name":"Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122042283","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}
Pub Date : 2022-01-24DOI: 10.5325/soundings.105.1.0001
M. Cervera-Marzal
Abstract:The idea of hegemony, in its Gramscian sense, contributed to the renewal of several fields of social sciences in the 1970s and 1980s. This idea circulates between different geocultural spaces and different times. The approach adopted in this article starts from the contexts in which this idea is mobilized in order to show to which theoretical and practical stakes it answers. Focusing on four authors (Antonio Gramsci, Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe, and Pablo Iglesias) and on the transfers from one author to another, the aim of this paper is to highlight the social conditions conducive to the deployment of the idea of Gramscian hegemony and to identify the (dis)continuities that punctuate its history. Throughout the socio-historical course marked out by the written productions of these four authors, one constant appears: the vitality of the concept of hegemony seems linked to periods of crisis— theoretical and / or strategic—of the Left.
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