334 research outputs found
Review of the book How Fascism Works, by J. Stanley
No full textDr. Devin Z. Shaw (Douglas College) reviews the book How fascism works, by J. Stanley (2020).Final article published
Review of the book Critiquing Brahmanism: A collection of essays, by K. Murali (Ajith)
No full textDr. Devin Zane Shaw (Douglas College) reviews the book Critiquing Brahmanism: A collection of essays, by K. Murali (Ajith) (2020).Final article published
From German communist antifascism to a contemporary united front
No full textDr. Devin Z. Shaw (Douglas College) writes the book chapter From German communist antifascism to a contemporary united front (2021).Final book published.DC Author's celebration 202
Philosophy of antifascism: Punching Nazis and fighting white supremacy
No full text"Through the existentialism of Simone de Beauvoir, with some reference to Fanon and Sartre, this book identifies the philosophical reasons for the political action being enacted by contemporary antifascists. In addition, using the work of Jacques Rancière, it argues that the alt-right and the far right aren’t a kind of politics at all, but rather forms of parapolitical and paramilitary mobilization aimed at re-entrenching the power of the state and capital. Devin Shaw argues that in order to resist fascist mobilization, contemporary movements find a diversity of tactics more useful than principled nonviolence. Antifascism must focus on the systemic causes of the re-emergence of fascism, and thus must fight capital accumulation and the underlying white supremacism. Providing new, incisive interpretations of Beauvoir, existentialism, and Rancière, he makes the case for organizing a broader militant movement against fascism."--From publisher description.bookpublishe
Egalitarian moments: From Descartes to Rancière
No full textDrawing on the claim that egalitarian politics persistently appropriates elements from political philosophy to engage new forms of dissensus, Devin Zane Shaw argues that Rancière's work also provides an opportunity to reconsider modern philosophy and aesthetics in light of the question of equality. In Part I, Shaw examines Rancière's philosophical debts to the 'good sense' of Cartesian egalitarianism and the existentialist critique of identity. In Part II, he outlines Rancière's critical analyses of Walter Benjamin and Clement Greenberg and offers a reinterpretation of Rancière's debate with Alain Badiou in light of the philosophical differences between Schiller and Schelling. From engaging debates about political subjectivity from Descartes to Sartre, to delineating the egalitarian stakes in aesthetics and the philosophy of art from Schiller to Badiou, this book presents a concise tour through a series of egalitarian moments found within the histories of modern philosophy and aesthetics. --From publisher description
Freedom and nature in Schelling's philosophy of art
No full textSchelling is often thought to be a protean thinker whose work is difficult to approach or interpret. Devin Zane Shaw shows that the philosophy of art is the guiding thread to understanding Schelling's philosophical development from his early works in 1795-1796 through his theological turn in 1809-1810. Schelling's philosophy of art is the 'keystone' of the system; it unifies his idea of freedom and his philosophy of nature. Schelling's idea of freedom is developed through a critique of the formalism of Kant's and Fichte's practical philosophies, and his nature-philosophy is developed to show how subjectivity and objectivity emerge from a common source in nature. The philosophy of art plays a dual role in the system. First, Schelling argues that artistic activity produces through the artwork a sensible realization of the ideas of philosophy. Second, he argues that artistic production creates the possibility of a new mythology that can overcome the socio-political divisions that structure the relationships between individuals and society. Shaw's careful analysis shows how art, for Schelling, is the highest expression of human freedom. --From publisher description.bookPublished
The age of analogy: comparative science and social history in the nineteenth-century British novel
No full textThis dissertation pursues the rich vein of comparative historicism found in the written works of nineteenth-century novelists and naturalists, including Scott, Dickens, Eliot, and Darwin. The Victorian novel shared with contemporary natural history an animating fascination with interconnection, both between individuals, and between individuals and history. "The Age of Analogy" argues that the historical novel formulated this comparative historicism, both as it specified older traditions of analogy as aging modes of outdated speculative philosophy, and honed comparative strategies to examine the historicity of the "age" itself. The linguistic technology of this comparative philological, historical, and scientific analysis transformed older hermeneutic traditions of analogy into sophisticated methods of ethnographic and evolutionary inquiry. Drawing from a range of historicist, linguistic, and informatic approaches, I specify analogy and the comparative method as historically-embedded textual forms that structured engagements of comparison and narrative connection. This thesis analyzes the narrative naturalism of Victorian science, an empiricism that explained heterogeneous scientific observations by coordinating these accounts in narratives of fundamental historical process. While the extensive cultural influence of period science has received substantial critical attention, this thesis reverses the direction of influence, and examines the representational and methodological dependence of mid-century naturalism upon the innovations of socio-historical novels, particularly by Scott and Dickens. Comparative textual strategies reshaped period naturalism, and conditioned the scientific theories, models, and configurations of "objectivity" that nineteenth-century science offered. These comparative practices also challenge the secularization hypothesis as it bears upon Victorian literature and science, by foregrounding how ostensibly secular writers like Eliot and Darwin engaged the hermeneutic tradition of analogy as a set of practices with deep roots in biblical scholarship and natural theology. In gauging the relationship between contemporary observations and past processes, novelists and naturalists alike adapted interpretive strategies first crafted to discern God's fingerprints on creation, and in doing so, created the modern vocabulary of multiplicity and differentiation. Revitalized in the historical novel, historicist analogy gave to Dickens' "innumerable histories of the world" and Eliot's "tempting range of relevancies" a logic of organization, and a vantage from which to survey the extensive interrelation that underwrites nineteenth-century writing.Ph.D.Includes abstractVitaIncludes bibliographical referencesby Devin Scott Griffith
Operationalizing Occupation-Centered Education: Exploring the Subject-Centered Integrative Learning Model in Academic Education
No full textAbstract
Date Presented 4/1/2017
The purpose of this study was to explore the usefulness of the Subject-Centered Integrative Learning Model for academic educators developing occupation-centered practices. The model was found to guide the educators and has the potential to shape occupational therapy education.
Primary Author and Speaker: Addy Brown
Additional Authors and Speakers: Barbara Hooper, Devin Barth, Amanda Zorn</jats:p
“The metropolis of the West”: the camera, the locomotive, and the imagined West in the making of modern America
No full textThe purpose of this thesis is to track the development of American visual culture over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth century to identify the impact of the photography of the construction of the transcontinental railroad on the way American culture producers imagined their Western Frontier. Through a close analysis of the style, form, and function of various visual artifacts from early-modern and modern American artists, I have come to the conclusion that the photography of the transcontinental railroad played a substantial role in transforming the American visual culture to celebrate the machine, find safety in the institutions of government and capitalism, and champion the greater industrialization of the American nation. The results of this thesis provide strong evidence that not only did the transformation of the visual culture play a large role in shaping American modernity, but it did so by reimagining America’s Western Frontier.M.A.Includes bibliographical referencesby Devin Devrie
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