Pub Date : 2018-01-25DOI: 10.5325/SOUNDINGS.101.1.0018
Maxwell Uphaus
Abstract:The events of the last few years have given the mid-twentieth century fresh salience as a mirror for and guide to our contemporary moment. This article explores an outstanding example of such salience: C. L. R. James's Mariners, Renegades and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In (1953). Written under detention by the McCarthy-era U.S. government, James's book reads Melville's Moby Dick as a prophecy of the rise of totalitarianism. In other words, it finds in Melville a mid-nineteenth-century anticipation of some of the twentieth century's quintessential fears. This article argues that both authors' fears are distinctively oceanic: fears aroused by the kind of experience the ocean exemplifies. However, James also finds grounds for hope in the skills and qualities of the maritime community Melville portrays. This article concludes by sketching the present-day resonance of the oceanic fears and maritime hopes James traces in Melville.
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Pub Date : 2018-01-25DOI: 10.5325/SOUNDINGS.101.1.0006
Elvira Roncalli
Abstract:This article contends that Hannah Arendt's understanding of the political as the space of appearance of many unique and distinct individuals is particularly instructive for our time. With a political reality that has become increasingly antagonistic, her work urges us to recover the political as the space where many interact in words and deeds, bringing visibility and reality to such plurality. Arendt teaches that power lies in the coming together of people. By creating spaces where people interact in words and deeds, acknowledging and sharing their differences, politics comes alive and the new is possible.
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Pub Date : 2018-01-25DOI: 10.5325/SOUNDINGS.101.1.0030
Min Seong Kim
Abstract:This article presents two theories of social change, developed by Ernesto Laclau and Alain Badiou. Laclau offers a theory of how political movements come to acquire wide acceptance. Badiou, by drawing conceptual resources from his elaborate ontological system, theorizes politics as a process by which something genuinely new comes to be in social situations. Tracing the implications of their respective approaches, this article identifies shortcomings in each. It argues, however, that the difficulties that are encountered are not solely indications of theoretical shortcomings, but are indicative of the real difficulty of both conceiving and practicing a politics of radical social change today.
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Pub Date : 2018-01-25DOI: 10.5325/SOUNDINGS.101.1.0001
Dane J. Cash
Virtually every historical moment is one in which people are afraid of something, but we seem to be living in a period of time that is particularly marked by a mood of collective fear and anxiety. This was perhaps most obvious during the 2016 presidential campaign, when Americans (and many millions of observers around the world) on both sides of the ideological divide were quite afraid of the consequences should their preferred candidate lose. But the mood of fear extends well beyond politics. Both before and after the electoral dust settled, fears relating to climate change, terrorism, economic stability, and race relations (to name just a few issues) hung over the heads of people throughout the developed world. Given this climate, we in the various humanities departments at Carroll College in Helena, MT, decided to host an interdisciplinary conference in the humanities on the theme of “Hope and Fear” during the 2016–17 academic year. With generous grant support from both the Hearst Foundation and Humanities Montana, we were able to invite proposals from scholars in history, philosophy, literature, and religious studies to address hope and fear through their own disciplinary lens but with an appeal to those in other fields. The call for papers included the following language:
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Pub Date : 2017-10-28DOI: 10.5325/SOUNDINGS.100.4.0329
Allen Dunn
This is a response to the 1984 exchange between Richard J. Bernstein and Alasdair MacIntyre.
这是对1984年理查德·伯恩斯坦(Richard J. Bernstein)和阿拉斯代尔·麦金太尔(Alasdair MacIntyre)对话的回应。
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Pub Date : 2017-10-28DOI: 10.5325/SOUNDINGS.100.4.0293
R. Bernstein
cism, for if Maclntyre is right, this is precisely the genre required for understanding moral philosophy, and for appreciating the tradition of the virtues which he seeks to defend. Like the English novels he so admires, it is crammed full with "characters" (who sometimes make rapid entrances and exits) and intricate "sub-plots," but so much so, that it is easy to lose the thread of the main plot. Since Maclntyre's primary intention is to provide a rational vindication of "the moral tradition to which Aristotle's teaching about the virtues is central" (p. 238), it is essential to outline the main story line even at the risk of neglecting the extraordinary richness of detail as his narrative unfolds.
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Pub Date : 2017-10-28DOI: 10.5325/SOUNDINGS.100.4.0353
Luciana Lolich, Kathleen Lynch
In recent years, choice and autonomy have been prioritized as key quality indicators in palliative care services. This article examines current palliative care discourses with respect to patient choice. While recognizing the importance of personal autonomy, using evidence from Ireland, this article explores how a discourse on choice can contribute to inequalities in palliative care because it fails to take account of pre-existing structural inequalities, human relationality, and bodily decline. This article proposes a relational approach to care that takes account not only of the relational lives in those in need of care but also of their careers.
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Pub Date : 2017-10-28DOI: 10.5325/SOUNDINGS.100.4.0337
David A. Hoekema
This is a response to the 1984 exchange between Richard J. Bernstein and Alasdair MacIntyre.
这是对1984年理查德·伯恩斯坦(Richard J. Bernstein)和阿拉斯代尔·麦金太尔(Alasdair MacIntyre)对话的回应。
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Pub Date : 2017-08-04DOI: 10.5325/SOUNDINGS.100.3.0234
Nathan Bracher
Beyond the accumulation of knowledge, can we really learn from the past? Can we make an intellectually serious case for seeking, obtaining, and teaching "the lessons of history"? Is it legitimate to ask why the Holocaust happened? Answering in the affirmative, the present article will indicate why these questions remain pertinent for the twenty-first century and how several recent books by some of the most prominent historians of World War II and the Holocaust prompt us to engage anew in the interrogation of the past for the enlightenment of our present. Ethics prove to be inescapable and desirable.
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