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Scott H. Boyd, Ana Cristina Gil, and Baldwin Wong (ed.), Culture, Politics, Ethics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Inter-Disciplinary Press, Oxford, 2009
Episodic Ethics, Post-modern Culture and the Sources of the Self
2009 •
Jorge Martínez-Lucena
As David Hume in the eighteen century, Gallen Strawson has shook the recent Philosophy of Mind. He has undermined the typical western notion of the Self. In Against Narrativity, he asserts that: (A) the Self is something different from the Human Being; (B) the self is not always diachronic (or pre-narrative); (C) each Self roughly has a three seconds duration; (D) there are several (infinite) sorts of Selves between the most diachronic and the most episodic ones; (E) the kind of Self that I am being depends on my genetics and on my present situation, … This notion of the Self changes the typical western anthropology and Ethics. The Self as a strong concept disappears and our ethics must be revised. Kathy Wilkes disagrees and argues against this episodic ethics in his Know Thyself. Marya Schechtman also disagrees, but hardly modifies her notion of the Self in her Stories, Lives, and Basic Survival: A Refinement and Defense of the Narrative View in order to get a difficult agreement with Strawson and his materialism. At the same time, the sociological analysis of the Post-modern culture is talking about deep changes in our ethics. Lyotard said that all the metanarratives had ended up. Without ideologies, ethics are now more selfish, narcissistic, individualistic, liquid… Lipovetsky, Lasch or Bauman would agree. And the former would also affirm that this is a good thing and a great step forward. This paper aims to understand the connection between the metamorphosis of the Self –happened inside the specific world of Philosophy of Mind- and the turn of our culture and ethics. First of all, I will try to outline the Strawson/Schechtman debate about the Self, and the Strawson/Wilkes ethical debate. These will let us weigh up the pros and cons of each their views. Then, I will look for some reasonable solutions to the opened questions in the current bibliography. After that, I will try to find the connection between the episodic ethics, as explained by Strawson in his Episodic Ethics, and the Lipovetsky’s sociological view. I would like to elucidate whether the strawsonian episodic ethics are merely a theoretical attempt to answer to the ethical question objectively. Or, following a genealogical interpretation, it also might just be that the origin of the strawsonian discourse were a nihilist culture that uses the materialistic philosophy to justify the way of life that it promotes. In other words, in the later our culture would be drying up the Sources of the Self explained by Taylor.
eBook chapter: Active listening
Michelle Duffy
There has been much research on festivals as events that celebrate identity and community, but in my research I have focused on the ways such music events offer an intensification of connections - social, cultural, political, musical, emotional - because of the ways in which we experience music. This paper explores the cultural work of the community music festival and the ethics implicit in listening in terms of co-performance–a ‘doing with’ that is a deep commitment–in which we were not separate from the event, but swept into its intellectual, emotional and performative practices. Key Words: Ephemeral, ethics, experiential, festival, intangible, listening, music, public space.
Culture, Politics, Ethics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Scott H. Boyd, Ana Cristina Gil
Thinking Difference: Nietzsche and Adorno on the Ethics of Thinking
Paolo A Bolaños
This paper experiments on the notion of the “ethics of thinking” drawn from the works of Friedrich Nietzsche and Theodor W. Adorno. One could make a modest claim that, at a very fundamental level, Nietzsche and Adorno are brothers-in-arms, in particular with regard to the philosophical treatment of praxis and critique. Philosophical praxis and the critique of philosophy are the strongest links between these philosophers. I will focus on 1) the question of style as philosophical praxis and 2) the critique of philosophy’s tendency toward concept fetishism. I will argue that Nietzsche’s and Adorno’s preoccupation with style can be deemed as their political engagement with method and aesthetics. What I refer to in this paper as the “ethics of thinking” is, roughly, a way of thinking or of doing philosophy that takes as its point of departure a critical stance towards what has been described above as the “rigidifying tendency” of metaphysical thinking and takes negativity as its fundamental structure or form. I consider Nietzsche and Adorno as exemplars of this “ethical” way of thinking since they are the only philosophers who consciously and explicitly declare style or writing style as constitutive of critical philosophy and used their own writings to demonstrate this.
A clamour of voices: negotiations of power and purpose in Australian spoken-word radio from 1924 to 1942
2018 •
Jennifer Bowen
Blood, sweat and queers' : (re)imagining global queer citizenship at the Sydney 2002 Gay Games
2007 •
Kellie Burns
xxii, 260 leaves :ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm. Includes bibliographical references. "September 17, 2007". University of Otago department: School of Physical Education.
Media, Culture & Society
Global Sport? Core Concern and Peripheral Vision
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Toby Miller
Tamara Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry
Genealogies of Becoming-Antenarrative Inquiry in Organizations
2009 •
David Boje
We propose in this article to take a story approach to organizational analysis. This implies that organizational life is perceived as polyphonic, equivocal, dialogical, unfinished and unresolved. We describe this approach as antenarrative inquiry in that it seeks to question established truths and moralities embedded in the narratives of the present. Antenarrative inquiry thus suspends beginnings, middles and ends in narratives and gives room for other voices. We propose Foucault's power analysis, genealogy, as a method for ...
TAMARA JOURNAL
Excess of History and Dance of Narrative with Living Story Noticing
David Boje
Freidrich Nietzsche has declared an 'excess of history.'History is not being crafted for the purpose of life. Nietzsche posits three kinds of history: antiquarian (excessive concern for the past as just trivia about heroes), monumental (emerging history of becoming that is being stifled), and need for critical history (a resistance to antiquarian that can degenerate into skepticism and cynicism). My purpose is to develop the three modes of past into a critique of retrospective narrative and point to its antithesis, living story of becoming. Organizations ...
A Companion to Cultural Studies
bani koumachi
Evaluation of a Youth CaLD (Cultural and Linguistically Diverse) Sports Program in Western Australia: Resettling refugees using sport as a conduit to integration
2009 •
Susanne Bahn
