Pub Date : 2021-11-16DOI: 10.5325/soundings.104.4.0281
Dunn
Abstract:This article situates arguments against identity politics within a broader context of philosophical and political arguments about identity and the subject. One pervasive argument is that identity politics is a key factor working against social solidarity in a pluralistic democracy. In order to contest this claim, I use the work of feminist theorists who address a persistent bias against collective identity in Western philosophical thought. Finally, I argue that the practice of social solidarity requires not jettisoning identity, but re-conceptualizing identity in terms of narrative, which can serve as a basis for understanding one's moral responsibility to others.
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Pub Date : 2021-11-16DOI: 10.5325/soundings.104.4.0299
C. Murray
Abstract:Scholars have debated the nature and merit of William James's "Individualism." Influential readings maintain that James errantly privileges categories like "interiority" and personal "experience." Rather than downplaying James's preferred categories—categories like experience, interiority, and the individual—simply because such categories are shibboleths of the contemporary academy, this article takes up two of James's most "private" categories ("self," "despair") in order to better understand the complexity of Jamesian individualism. Acknowledging James's unflagging individualism and individualism's place in his philosophical and ethical system, this article maintains that James's personal and private concepts not only promote—but are prerequisite to—public-facing ethics and socially-contingent philosophical inquiry.
{"title":"The Sociality of Despair: William James on the Making of Ethical Selves","authors":"C. Murray","doi":"10.5325/soundings.104.4.0299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/soundings.104.4.0299","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Scholars have debated the nature and merit of William James's \"Individualism.\" Influential readings maintain that James errantly privileges categories like \"interiority\" and personal \"experience.\" Rather than downplaying James's preferred categories—categories like experience, interiority, and the individual—simply because such categories are shibboleths of the contemporary academy, this article takes up two of James's most \"private\" categories (\"self,\" \"despair\") in order to better understand the complexity of Jamesian individualism. Acknowledging James's unflagging individualism and individualism's place in his philosophical and ethical system, this article maintains that James's personal and private concepts not only promote—but are prerequisite to—public-facing ethics and socially-contingent philosophical inquiry.","PeriodicalId":231294,"journal":{"name":"Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123980389","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 : 2021-11-16DOI: 10.5325/soundings.104.4.0362
Akshaya Kumar
Abstract:Adding nuance to the accusation of sustained caste blindness against Indian cinema, this article situates Nagraj Manjule's Marathi blockbuster Sairat (2016) within the trajectories of Marathi cinema, and vis-à-vis the historical traffic between the Hindi film industry and its southern counterparts. The article grapples with sociological and formal valences of realism and melodrama, which co-constitute Sairat, so as to argue that the re-visioning must address the "invisible" embeddedness of caste in universalized abstractions; or more appropriately, in its (mis)translations away from the "limiting" particularity of caste politics to be subsumed under more universally legible aesthetic of social justice.
{"title":"Re-Visioning Caste in Indian Cinema","authors":"Akshaya Kumar","doi":"10.5325/soundings.104.4.0362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/soundings.104.4.0362","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Adding nuance to the accusation of sustained caste blindness against Indian cinema, this article situates Nagraj Manjule's Marathi blockbuster Sairat (2016) within the trajectories of Marathi cinema, and vis-à-vis the historical traffic between the Hindi film industry and its southern counterparts. The article grapples with sociological and formal valences of realism and melodrama, which co-constitute Sairat, so as to argue that the re-visioning must address the \"invisible\" embeddedness of caste in universalized abstractions; or more appropriately, in its (mis)translations away from the \"limiting\" particularity of caste politics to be subsumed under more universally legible aesthetic of social justice.","PeriodicalId":231294,"journal":{"name":"Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121193369","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 : 2021-11-16DOI: 10.5325/soundings.104.4.0320
Ochiai
Abstract:The years following the Civil Rights Movement witnessed the erection of African American monuments in traditionally white-dominated public spaces, especially in the South. While this terrestrial integration acknowledges the historic centrality of race, their juxtaposition with former Confederate monuments ironically created a parallel "dual heritage." Around the turn of the twenty-first century, newer types of counter-monuments contest prior memorialization and proffer a more nuanced history. Since the 2015 Charleston church shooting, calls for removal of old Confederate monuments have been dynamized by the Black Lives Matter movement, particularly following the murder of George Floyd. Using a framework contrasting dialogic with anti-monumental monuments, this essay analyzes the past half-century of African American monument construction to reconsider desegregation of the memorial landscape. In doing so, it further explores new ways of anti-monumental commemoration in the post-Floyd era.
{"title":"From Underrepresentation to \"Dual Heritage\" and Beyond: Contemporary African American Monument-Building","authors":"Ochiai","doi":"10.5325/soundings.104.4.0320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/soundings.104.4.0320","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The years following the Civil Rights Movement witnessed the erection of African American monuments in traditionally white-dominated public spaces, especially in the South. While this terrestrial integration acknowledges the historic centrality of race, their juxtaposition with former Confederate monuments ironically created a parallel \"dual heritage.\" Around the turn of the twenty-first century, newer types of counter-monuments contest prior memorialization and proffer a more nuanced history. Since the 2015 Charleston church shooting, calls for removal of old Confederate monuments have been dynamized by the Black Lives Matter movement, particularly following the murder of George Floyd. Using a framework contrasting dialogic with anti-monumental monuments, this essay analyzes the past half-century of African American monument construction to reconsider desegregation of the memorial landscape. In doing so, it further explores new ways of anti-monumental commemoration in the post-Floyd era.","PeriodicalId":231294,"journal":{"name":"Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131210783","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 : 2021-06-05DOI: 10.5325/SOUNDINGS.104.2-3.0252
B. Taylor
{"title":"“But Could You Persuade Us, If We Won’t Listen?”","authors":"B. Taylor","doi":"10.5325/SOUNDINGS.104.2-3.0252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/SOUNDINGS.104.2-3.0252","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":231294,"journal":{"name":"Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125410493","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 : 2021-06-05DOI: 10.5325/SOUNDINGS.104.2-3.IV
Eric Bain-Selbo
{"title":"Introduction: On Learning, Freedom, and Democracy","authors":"Eric Bain-Selbo","doi":"10.5325/SOUNDINGS.104.2-3.IV","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/SOUNDINGS.104.2-3.IV","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":231294,"journal":{"name":"Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121300314","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 : 2021-06-05DOI: 10.5325/SOUNDINGS.104.2-3.0260
Frank.
Abstract:Interventions aimed at promoting student belonging on college campuses are important and should be promoted. Saying this, we must also understand their limitations. This article explores some of the limitations of belonging interventions through a discussion of philosopher John William Miller. In particular, this article suggests that belonging interventions don't do enough to create inclusive communities built on the practice of self-criticism and concludes by suggesting that we must appreciate the difference between an intervention and an education.
{"title":"Belonging in College: John William Miller on Liberal Education’s Promise of Freedom","authors":"Frank.","doi":"10.5325/SOUNDINGS.104.2-3.0260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/SOUNDINGS.104.2-3.0260","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Interventions aimed at promoting student belonging on college campuses are important and should be promoted. Saying this, we must also understand their limitations. This article explores some of the limitations of belonging interventions through a discussion of philosopher John William Miller. In particular, this article suggests that belonging interventions don't do enough to create inclusive communities built on the practice of self-criticism and concludes by suggesting that we must appreciate the difference between an intervention and an education.","PeriodicalId":231294,"journal":{"name":"Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123073005","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 : 2021-06-05DOI: 10.5325/SOUNDINGS.104.2-3.0141
Korstange, Blum, Fernández, Imad, N. Laird, Pantelides
Abstract:What would American public higher education look like if it was unencumbered by its own history? What if it were designed from scratch today, in full view of everything we have come to know about student learning, schooling, and our projections about the future of knowledge and work? This thought experiment project does just that. After justifying the need for a thoroughgoing redesign now, the backward-designed axiomatic approach is used to determine the essential features of public education, which are assembled into a model that centers teamed learning and is organized around authentic questions from learners or their community.
{"title":"A Theory of Public Higher Education","authors":"Korstange, Blum, Fernández, Imad, N. Laird, Pantelides","doi":"10.5325/SOUNDINGS.104.2-3.0141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/SOUNDINGS.104.2-3.0141","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:What would American public higher education look like if it was unencumbered by its own history? What if it were designed from scratch today, in full view of everything we have come to know about student learning, schooling, and our projections about the future of knowledge and work? This thought experiment project does just that. After justifying the need for a thoroughgoing redesign now, the backward-designed axiomatic approach is used to determine the essential features of public education, which are assembled into a model that centers teamed learning and is organized around authentic questions from learners or their community.","PeriodicalId":231294,"journal":{"name":"Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"209 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116518288","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 : 2021-02-03DOI: 10.5325/SOUNDINGS.104.1.0013
J. Seery
Abstract:This article, coupling music and political theory, calls for belated recognition of John Coltrane’s “My Favorite Things” as an exercise in civil disobedience. The article first examines the history of the piece, including controversies in music scholarship surrounding its apparently buried racial politics. Distinguishing between composition and performance, the paper proffers that improvisational performance, à la Coltrane, enacts an unwritten license to disobey, even break, prevailing rules and conventions. With a focus on Coltrane’s musical misconduct, the essay amends Hannah Arendt’s use of the term “civil disobedience” to include a wider range of acts of resistance beyond those of state law-breaking.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-03DOI: 10.5325/SOUNDINGS.104.1.0113
Black
Abstract:Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park can be read through the lens of a Kierkegaardian interpretive option that allows us to see the novel as endorsing inwardness, a choice for the internal over the external, for that which is identical to our selves over that which is distinct from our selves. There is freedom in choosing inwardness, Kierkegaard maintains. So, since Fanny Price, Mansfield Park’s beleaguered protagonist, chooses a life lived in pursuit of inwardness, we can see her as securing her own emancipation: she is free, liberated, in a way that distinguishes her from other characters in Mansfield Park.
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