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In re Anastaplo Revisited - A Half Century Later
No full textA sitting US Federal Judge re-examines the 50 year old supreme court case In Re Anastaplo
Law and Ideas of Justice
No full textThe social contract approach concentrates on identifying perfectly just social arrangements, taking the characterization of "just institutions," along with compliant human behaviour, to be the principal - and often the only identified - task of the theory of justice. Rather than following the contractarian tradition of beginning the exercise by asking what is perfect justice, or what principles should govern the choice of perfectly just institutions for the society, Amartya Sen here argues for asking about the identification of clear cases of injustice on which agreement could emerge on the basis of public reasoning (even in the absence of an agreement on the nature of "perfect justice"). In arguing, for example, for the abolition of slavery, as the Marquis the Condorcet, Adam Smith and Mary Wollstonecraft all did, they did not have to seek an agreement on the nature of the perfectly just society, or the characteristics of ideally just social institutions. That is, agreement can be reached on the manifest injustice of particular institutions and behaviour patterns even without having the same view of an ideally just society, or of perfectly just institutions
Poetry and Democracy
No full textRobert Pinsky is one of America's best-known poets and critics. Born in 1940 in New Jersey, his own writing, as well as his three terms as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1997–2000), have been critical to creating a robust dialogue in American poetry. Author of more than nineteen books that span the genres of poetry, essay, translation, and libretto, his oeuvre is a testimony to the essential place of poetry in America. A memoir, entitled Jersey Breaks, will be published this October. The founder of the Favorite Poem Project (videos available at www.favoritepoem.org), Pinsky has received numerous honorary doctorates and is the recipient of many awards including a Premio Capri (Italy), the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. His volume, The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
Bodily Capital and ‘Realness’ in Pose
No full textIn this article, the pilot of the 2018 show Pose, which explores the ballroom scene of the 1980s in New York, will be analyzed. In the show, the life and struggles of transgender, poor, Black, Latinx, or generally marginalized characters are narrated as they navigate their own colorful world but also deal with AIDS, heartbreak and discrimination. As a basis for my reading, I will connect the theory of ‘bodily capital,’ which is an adaptation of Pierre Bourdieu’s work, to the concept of ‘realness,’ which plays an important role in the ballroom scene and LGBTQ culture in general but can also be employed as a theoretical concept. The latter describes the practice of performing gender and racial norms, stemming from the desire to belong, to fit in. Ultimately, I argue that in this episode of Pose, the pictured field of 1980s ballroom culture is structured by bodily capital and that realness is depicted as being unavailable to those not possessing the ‘right’ kind of bodily capital
Bodies in the Americas: Subjectivities and Identifications in Times of Polarization
No full textLas Madres de Los Falsos Positivos de Soacha (MAFAPO) is a civil organization of relatives of victims of extrajudicial executions and enforced disappearance of Colombia. They have demanded justice, reparation, and guarantees of non-repetition, as well as the delivery of the bodies of their murdered relatives between 2006 and 2009. This research article explores the memories that have emerged within this group of victims and analyzes the body as a territory from and for the construction of narratives of enforced disappearance related with art, photography, and performance. This research is based on a documentary review, interviews, and conversations held with members of the collective, photographers, artists, and theater directors who have been involved in the construction of these memory narratives.El Colectivo Madres de los Falsos Positivos de Soacha (Mafapo) es una organización civil de familiares de víctimas de ejecuciones extrajudiciales y desaparición forzada de Colombia. Desde su origen han exigido justicia, reparación y garantías de no repetición, así como la entrega de los cuerpos de sus familiares asesinados entre los años 2006 y 2009. Este artículo de investigación describe las prácticas de memoria que han surgido al interior de este colectivo de víctimas y analiza el rol que ha desempeñado el cuerpo como un territorio desde y para la construcción de narrativas de desaparición forzada desde el arte, la fotografía y el teatro. La investigación se desarrolló a partir de la revisión documental, entrevistas y conversaciones sostenidas con miembros del colectivo, fotógrafos, artistas y directores de teatro que han estado involucrados en la construcción de estas narrativas de memoria.An English version of the article, translated by Patricia Arancibia, is included in this document
Refractions
No full textPut simply, refraction describes a change in the direction of light or sound due to a change in the medium the light or sound goes through. Writing a Bachelor’s or Master’s thesis means changing the direction of light shed on a particular text or topic, as the theses collected in this volume conclusively show: A dystopian novel is shown to hinge on questions of animal rights; a complex novelistic structure is revealed to have its origins in scientific discourses; a clearly Gothic novel has its foundation in aesthetic Christianity, to outline just some of the topics. All these papers have in common that they take a well-known text or idea and change the angle through which it is read and analysed – and suddenly a rainbow of new insights is created
Ambiguities of Self-Annotation in Pope and Byron
No full textWhat literary and social functions do self-annotations (i.e. footnotes and endnotes that authors appended to their own works) serve?
Focussing on Alexander Pope’s Dunciads and a wide selection of Lord Byron’s poems, Lahrsow shows that literary self-annotations rarely just explain a text. Rather, they multiply meanings and pit different voices against each other. Self-annotations serve to ambiguate the author’s self-presentation as well as the genre, tone, and overall interpretation of a text.
The study also examines how notes were employed for ‘social networking’ and how authors used self-annotations to address, and differentiate between, various groups of readerships.
Additionally, the volume sheds light on the wider literary and cultural context of self-annotations: How common were they during the long eighteenth century? What conventions governed them? And were they even read? The study hence combines literary analysis with insights into book history and the history of reading
A Remembrance
No full textThis essay constitutes the author's eulogy for his mentor, Professor George Anastaplo
Review of Susanne Rohr, Von Grauen und Glamour: Repräsentationen des Holocaust in den USA und Deutschland
No full textMuch has already been written on the Holocaust and its history, but the question of how we can cope with it, how we can live with what we know about it, or how we can imagine what has been called “unimaginable” has been haunting several generations of those who collectively inherited either a history of pain and suffering or a history of collective crime. In view of such moral complexities, Susanne Rohr’s study of representations of the Holocaust in the United States and Germany is a remarkable scholarly achievement. It deals with seventy years of artistic and literary documents—memoirs, autobiographies, fictions, films, graphic novels—written by subsequent generations of artists (survivors, the children and grandchildren of survivors, or the children and grandchildren of the perpetrators)—i.e., texts in at least two languages and in the changing historical contexts of at least two cultures and societies. (In addition to American and German documents Rohr occasionally includes Israeli sources.) She is also aware of the changing theoretical frame surrounding these documents—the problems inherent in the concept of a “generation,” of “collective memory,” of “trauma” and the possibility of its generational transmission; of the postmodern or poststructuralist rejection of even the possibility of representation. The questions raised by this book and its author concern the status of the Holocaust in the memory of those who did not experience it, for whom, therefore, it will always be a mediated event—mediated through historiography, literature, and, increasingly, through genres of popular culture (i.e., by films, TV-shows, comic books and graphic novels)