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In the Name of the Future: Prophecy as Critique in Schelling and Tillich
No full textMy goal in this paper is to show how the question of the future in Schelling can be a starting point for a political reading of his metaphysics. Since the 1960s, German Schelling researchers like Jürgen Habermas and Hans-Jörg Sandkühler have repeatedly reiterated their critical judgment that “Schelling is not a political thinker.”1 When we look at Schelling’s work, it quickly becomes apparent that political philosophy in the narrower sense occupies a very small space in it
Genius in the People: On Collective Resistance and Musical Instrument Making in the Jails of the Colonizer
No full textWriting to Right the Wrongs: Truth, Appropriation, and Poetry on a Genocide Site (an essay in three-and-a-half parts)
No full textFive years ago, an ill-worded editorial in a literary trade newsletter brought international attention to the so-called “appropriation debate” in Canadian literature. This essay examines literary cultural appropriation as a tool of settler colonialism, and reflects on the lasting impact of the “appropriation debate” on the author’s own research and writing methodologies as a non-Indigenous poet, scholar, editor, and instructor. Establishing my own positionality as a white, female, disabled Newfoundland writer, and taking creative non-fiction methods as critical starting points, I ask: what are the obligations and possibilities inherent in reading and teaching poetry? What are the boundaries of settler interpretation of Indigenous writing? What does “living in right relation” look like in a region captured through genocide? These questions are deliberately open-ended, urging the reader to examine their own reading and writing practices
The Gift of Drugs: Oriental Geographies and Decolonizing Space in Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
No full textThis article argues that Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater subverts the colonial representation of foreign places by providing a counter geographical narrative of English imperialism. De Quincey’s subversion of colonial geographic and cultural superiority is made possible through the practice of opium-eating. Not only does the consumption of opium open up other dimensions and interpretations of non-English places that remain decentralized and inferior in colonial narratives, but it also helps to reshape the conventional configurations of the relationship between European selfhood and spatial otherness. In this regard, De Quincey’s employment of arabesque characteristics, which are essentially imaginative, non-referential and relational elements, frustrates the colonial potential and desire of mapping national spaces, here London, as a pivotal site of supremacist fantasy. In Confessions, all spaces turn abstract and are decentralized through the power of opium dreams in which arabesque geographies frustrate the dichotomous categorizations of spaces and selves as self/other or superior/inferior
"Dear Folks"
Get PDFJohn Benton (M.A. B.Ed. B.A.) is an active scholar and educator. He has published academic articles and books in the philosophy of language, method, and co-authored a book on economics. Benton engages in international outreach to graduate university students
McShane’s Influence on My Understanding of Lonergan (and of myself)
Get PDFPierrot Lambert is the author of Bernard Lonergan: Introduction à sa vie et à son œuvre (Montréal: Guérin, 2008), co-author (with Charlotte Tansey and Cathleen Going) of Caring about Meaning: Patterns in the Life of Bernard (Montreal: Thomas More Institute, 1982), and co-author (with Philip McShane) of Bernard Lonergan: His Life and Leading Ideas. He translated Lonergan’s Insight into French (1996) and is the webmaster of the French Lonergan website http://francais.lonergan.org
McShane on the Transformation of Botany: An Outline for a Dissertation
Get PDFDaniel Mayer, leadership educator and researcher into the epistemology of biology, has long reflected on the nature of organization, both of organisms and of organizations. This is the topic of his recently completed PhD dissertation Distinguishing Distinctions: The Nature of Living Being. He has read several papers at the Annual Fallon Memorial Lonergan Symposium, the Annual International Gathering in Biosemiotics and regularly participates in the Leadership for Change conferences at the University of San Diego
Functional Collaboration: A Novel Challenge
Get PDFJames Duffy received his Ph.D. from Fordham University. Currently he teaches English as a second language at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Mexico. He is also coordinating a series of ongoing dialectic exercises. He wrote “Fratelli Tutti and Colorful Fruit to Be Borne,” (Divyadaan 32/2-3 [2021]), edited “Religious Faith Seeding the Positive Anthropocene Age” (Divyadaan 30/1 [2019]), and co-edited (with Patrick Brown) Seeding Global Collaboration (Vancouver: Axial Publishing, 2016)