This paper focuses on the link between bodies and public space, proposing a reflection on embodied subjectivities and embodied practices of performing in public space. It takes into account bodies as political means and sites of resistance, revolt, reinvention, and creation, following an embodied and feminist approach. This paper aims to underline the fact that bodies are political and that an embodied approach to public space is fundamental in order to re-think contemporary democracies. It will show how the embodied and feminist approach can provide essential tools to undo the modern idea of an absolute individual subject that lies at the heart of the neoliberal vision, pinpointing dependency, relationship, and vulnerability as defining attributes of being human. This approach has been giving life to new visions of politics, such as those we have seen embodied in a number of protests and political practices of dissent marking the latest years, here investigated in their political potential for a reshaping of the democratic public space.
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Parliamentary debates may seem as anachronistic today given their limited role in forging majorities within parliaments. Yet, this paper seeks to demonstrate that they still play a diversity of other roles. They contribute to frame ideologically a debate and therefore to link policy proposal to electoral politics. They can also be regarded as ways of both controlling and motivating members. They bring credibility to the view that parliaments are representative – feeding people mimetic relations to politics. Last, they help implementing the accountability process forcing ministers to speak, to listen to criticisms and to answer them. Those four aspects, based on a variety of literature, are considered to be still relevant in the contemporary period.
{"title":"Why Should Parliaments Continue to Debate?: The Intertwined Virtues of\u0000 Parliamentary Debates","authors":"O. Rozenberg","doi":"10.7227/R.21.2.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7227/R.21.2.4","url":null,"abstract":"Parliamentary debates may seem as anachronistic today given their limited role in forging majorities within parliaments. Yet, this paper seeks to demonstrate that they still play a diversity of other roles. They contribute to frame ideologically a debate and therefore to link policy proposal to electoral politics. They can also be regarded as ways of both controlling and motivating members. They bring credibility to the view that parliaments are representative – feeding people mimetic relations to politics. Last, they help implementing the accountability process forcing ministers to speak, to listen to criticisms and to answer them. Those four aspects, based on a variety of literature, are considered to be still relevant in the contemporary period.","PeriodicalId":33650,"journal":{"name":"Redescriptions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47530696","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}
{"title":"The Second Concept of Friendship","authors":"E. Nokkala","doi":"10.7227/R.21.2.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7227/R.21.2.9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33650,"journal":{"name":"Redescriptions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49133639","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}
When there is a voting system in place that has continuously resulted in a situation in which one of two traditional major parties has been able to secure enough seats to form a government, change to this puts all participants in a new situation. In the United Kingdom, the term “hung parliament” refers to a situation in which the first-past-the-post voting method fails to provide any single party with the needed majority. As the country needs a stable government in order to have votes of confidence to handle everyday business and lead the country, the party with the most seats can either form a coalition government together with junior partner, as happened in the UK in 2010, or form a government with the support of another party without a formal coalition agreement, as happened in 2015. The former option in particular requires negotiations to reach an agreement and work in order to have the government survive the length of the entire parliament, and it is on this that Judi Atkins’ Conflict, Co-operation and the Rhetoric of Coalition Government focuses. The period of the book, namely 2010–2015 is promising and also affords a brief view of the subsequent general elections of 2015, when the Conservative Party formed a government supported by the small Northern Ireland DUP without a formal coalition agreement. The coalition between the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats, formed in 2010, offered the latter party its best chance to rise to power and to implement its much-desired electoral reform, but at the same time establishing the coalition subjected the junior partner to strain from a numerically larger and ideologically different governing partner. Dividing her book into eight chapters, Atkins aims to afford her readers a view of the rhetorical aspects of coalition life, a task she accomplishes by restricting her analysis to the rhetorical identification strategies of key politicians such as Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, and to some contributions from both backbenchers and other frontbenchers. As her starting point, Atkins utilizes Kenneth Burke’s theory of rhetoric as identification in order to illustrate how attention is directed in a particular situation to some aspects rather than others. Her book approaches the coalition politics by means of a thematic division that seems to benefit the analysis. Simultaneously, author does not systematically engage at great length with the exhausting corpora of coalition, but focuses on some particular fo-
{"title":"Talking It Through","authors":"Teemu J. Häkkinen","doi":"10.7227/R.21.2.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7227/R.21.2.7","url":null,"abstract":"When there is a voting system in place that has continuously resulted in a situation in which one of two traditional major parties has been able to secure enough seats to form a government, change to this puts all participants in a new situation. In the United Kingdom, the term “hung parliament” refers to a situation in which the first-past-the-post voting method fails to provide any single party with the needed majority. As the country needs a stable government in order to have votes of confidence to handle everyday business and lead the country, the party with the most seats can either form a coalition government together with junior partner, as happened in the UK in 2010, or form a government with the support of another party without a formal coalition agreement, as happened in 2015. The former option in particular requires negotiations to reach an agreement and work in order to have the government survive the length of the entire parliament, and it is on this that Judi Atkins’ Conflict, Co-operation and the Rhetoric of Coalition Government focuses. The period of the book, namely 2010–2015 is promising and also affords a brief view of the subsequent general elections of 2015, when the Conservative Party formed a government supported by the small Northern Ireland DUP without a formal coalition agreement. The coalition between the Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats, formed in 2010, offered the latter party its best chance to rise to power and to implement its much-desired electoral reform, but at the same time establishing the coalition subjected the junior partner to strain from a numerically larger and ideologically different governing partner. Dividing her book into eight chapters, Atkins aims to afford her readers a view of the rhetorical aspects of coalition life, a task she accomplishes by restricting her analysis to the rhetorical identification strategies of key politicians such as Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, and to some contributions from both backbenchers and other frontbenchers. As her starting point, Atkins utilizes Kenneth Burke’s theory of rhetoric as identification in order to illustrate how attention is directed in a particular situation to some aspects rather than others. Her book approaches the coalition politics by means of a thematic division that seems to benefit the analysis. Simultaneously, author does not systematically engage at great length with the exhausting corpora of coalition, but focuses on some particular fo-","PeriodicalId":33650,"journal":{"name":"Redescriptions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44888735","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}
The article analyses Judith Butler’s Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly (2015), arguing that the volume can be read as presenting Butler’s politics of philosophy with respect to Hannah Arendt and Adriana Cavarero, and the existentialist philosophy of the human that they represent. The first part of the article introduces the approach of the “politics of philosophy,” and the rest of the article scrutinizes Butler’s use of two concepts, “appearing” and “plurality,” in the book, presenting how they shift into different meanings in Butler’s text in comparison to their charged philosophical meaning in Arendt and Cavarero. The article argues that Butler engages in “discharging” of these concepts of their existentialist philosophical charge, and that this gives evidence of her different philosophical choice. Instead of asking the existential philosophical question “what is a human being” in the omnitemporal philosophical tradition, Butler’s different philosophical starting point is in changing sociality, and she engages the tradition of philosophy in interventions in the here and now, asking “who counts as the human”.
本文分析了朱迪斯·巴特勒（Judith Butler）的《走向表演集会理论的笔记》（Notes to a Performive Theory of Assembly）（2015），认为该卷可以解读为呈现了巴特勒关于汉娜·阿伦特（Hannah Arendt）和阿德里安娜·卡瓦雷罗（Adriana Cavarero）的哲学政治，以及他们所代表的人类存在主义哲学。文章的第一部分介绍了“哲学政治”的方法，文章的其余部分仔细审查了巴特勒在书中使用的“出现”和“多元”两个概念，与阿伦特和卡瓦雷罗的哲学意义相比，它们在巴特勒的文本中是如何转变为不同的意义的。文章认为，巴特勒参与了对这些存在主义哲学概念的“释放”，这为她不同的哲学选择提供了证据。巴特勒不同的哲学出发点是改变社会性，而不是在全时哲学传统中提出“人是什么”的存在主义哲学问题，她将哲学传统介入此时此地，询问“谁算人”。
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Oxford Dictionaries chose “post-truth” as the “Word of the Year 2016”, while the association of German linguists (Gesellschaft fur deutsche Sprache) did the same for “postfaktische Politik”. “Alternative facts”, launched by Kellyanne Conway concerning the attendance at Donald Trump’s inaugural, was a third variant in this cluster. In this article, I shall discuss Max Weber’s parliamentary perspective on the critique of given facts and of the powers of science in relation to the debates around post-truth politics. A critical assessment of Leo Strauss’s critique of Weber as a nihilist and relativist introduces the problematic. One aim of the article is to illustrate how even trivial slogans can be situated in the history of political concepts, political theory and rhetoric.
牛津词典选择“后真相”作为“2016年度词汇”，而德国语言学家协会（Gesellschaft fur deutsche Sprache）也选择了“后真相政治”。凯莉安娜·康威（Kellyanne Conway）就出席唐纳德·特朗普（Donald Trump）的就职典礼发起的“另类事实”（Alternative facts）是该集群中的第三个变体。在这篇文章中，我将讨论马克斯·韦伯的议会视角，即对给定事实的批判，以及与围绕后真相政治的辩论有关的科学力量的批判。对利奥·施特劳斯作为虚无主义者和相对主义者对韦伯的批判进行了批判性评价，引入了问题。这篇文章的目的之一是说明即使是微不足道的口号在政治概念、政治理论和修辞史上也是如何定位的。
{"title":"Submitting “Alternative Facts” to Debate: A Weberian Perspective on\u0000 Post-truth Politics","authors":"Kari Palonen","doi":"10.7227/R.21.2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7227/R.21.2.2","url":null,"abstract":"Oxford Dictionaries chose “post-truth” as the “Word of the Year 2016”, while the association of German linguists (Gesellschaft fur deutsche Sprache) did the same for “postfaktische Politik”. “Alternative facts”, launched by Kellyanne Conway concerning the attendance at Donald Trump’s inaugural, was a third variant in this cluster. In this article, I shall discuss Max Weber’s parliamentary perspective on the critique of given facts and of the powers of science in relation to the debates around post-truth politics. A critical assessment of Leo Strauss’s critique of Weber as a nihilist and relativist introduces the problematic. One aim of the article is to illustrate how even trivial slogans can be situated in the history of political concepts, political theory and rhetoric.","PeriodicalId":33650,"journal":{"name":"Redescriptions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43586414","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}
{"title":"World War and Revolution: The Spring and Springs of Democracy","authors":"B. Stråth","doi":"10.7227/R.21.2.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7227/R.21.2.8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":33650,"journal":{"name":"Redescriptions","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46084398","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}
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