168 research outputs found
Questione di confini: diritto, diritti e guerra in Michael Walzer
No full textBy a comparative analysis of Walzer’ scientific works in the field “social criticism” and
“just/unjust war”, the essay shows that the tension between the categories internal/
external is working in the complex of author arguments. Such a contraposition,
examined from the strict perspective of the disciplinary languages, which articulate the
“modern” moral-historical world, has to be considered constitutive of the separation
between juridical and moral paradigm, social acting and communitarian belonging,
reasons and meaning, critics and interpretation. Walzer’ attitude to contaminate
disciplinary languages, on the contrary, make it impossible for him to investigate the
aporetic overcoming from the juridical “boundaries” to political and cultural “frontier”
M. Walzer and contemporary communitarianism
No full textThe author in her article focuses on the views of M. Walzer, encompassed specifically in his works „Spheres of Justice“ – „The Defence of Equality and Pluralism“, and „The Just and Unjust Wars“. The focus is given to equality, pluralism, and justice which represent the main issues considered by the contemporary communitarianism
Guidebook and Resources for Starting Community Supported Enterprises
No full textBy Norman Walzer, Northern Illinois University, in collaboration with Jacob Smith, NIU, and David Ivan, Michigan State University. (2019) In 2014, the North Central Regional Council for Regional Development published a report that examined 20 Community Supported Enterprises (CSEs) operating across the U.S., plus listed many others in operation at that time (Walzer and Sandoval, 2014). The CSEs mainly involved grocery-related stores and eating establishments typically in small towns. The enterprises fit the CSE model because they had local investment and were motivated by a social purpose, often to build social capital and improve quality of life. In several instances, these CSEs have closed due mainly to adverse financial conditions but with important lessons learned in the process. Others are profitable and flourishing. Growing interest in a CSE approach among public officials and community leaders generated interest in preparing a guidebook to help other groups chart a course to evaluate, and possibly start, a local CSE. Providing that assistance is the main purpose of this guidebook. It is not a manual providing a set course of action because each situation differs in market conditions, financial interests, and willingness of residents to invest or otherwise participate in financing the project. Nevertheless, common features among successful CSEs are highlighted in this Guidebook. It builds on the previous report by examining additional CSEs that vary in organizational structure, goods or services delivered, or financing approaches. In addition, more attention is paid to who was involved in the organizational effort and how the venture was marketed to potential investors. The intent is to provide sufficient information that readers interested in launching a local effort will gain insights into how to proceed even under different scenarios.https://huskiecommons.lib.niu.edu/ctrgovernment-reports/1014/thumbnail.jp
La teoría de la justicia de Michael Walzer frente al pluralismo y la desigualdad educativa en México
No full textThe American philosopher
Michael Walzer poses a conception of
justice regarding a differentiation on
social goods. The educational milieu
has peculiar criteria on justice.
Walzer�s ideas are particularly interesting,
for his theoretical proposal is
closely linked to the cultural context
and the empirical observation. The
author refl ects on Walzer�s proposal
considering the educational problems
in his country.El filósofo estadounidense
Michael Walzer propone una
concepción de la justicia en función
de una diferenciación de los bienes
sociales. Al ámbito de la educación
corresponden criterios peculiares de
justicia. Las ideas de este pensador
resultan de particular interés, dado
que su propuesta teórica está estrechamente
ligada al contexto cultural
y a la observación empírica. Aquí se
refl exiona sobre su propuesta a la luz
de los problemas educativos en el
país de origen del auto
zweihändig / 17 Steirisches Tanz-Album : für Pianoforte 2-händig
No full text25. Polonaise, Op. 62 Otto GrosseUnter Platanen (Walzer) Lust und Leid (Polka Mazur) Franz Henhapel5 Steirische, Op. 74 S.O. SorgeLenz und Liebe (Walzer), Op. 44 Thauperlen (Polka française), Op. 79 Josef SparýBeatrix (Polka française) Eduard HornyJugendträume (Quadrille), Op. 2 Salon-Polka-Schnell, Op. 75 Jacob StolzGraziella (Polka Mazur), Op. 21 Jos. GödelHeil Graz (Marsch), Op. 5 Jos. EizenbergerRadsport (Galopp) F. Blaschk
La Nueva Izquierda. 1968 y post scriptum
No full textThe author, a well know theorist and activist of the civil rights movement and the movement
against the Vietnam War, published the first part of this article in 1968. There, he analyses
the emergence of the New Left in the United States –and its global connection– through the
social structure, the actors’ class background and their cultural configuration to account for
the aspirations and limits that accompanied the middle class youth that lead this movement. The dilemmas that emerged between the racial, ethnic, social and economic axes that defined the actors framed the diverse social movements and throw light on the promises, scope and weaknesses that characterized them. In the post scriptum, written explicitly for the Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales 50 years later with a great analytical and existential wisdom, the author inspects the way in which class profile, radicalization and separatism led to an isolation of the New Left from the natural support basis it should have reached. It evaluates the consequences of its integration either to the Old Left or to the system, as it manifests in the turn towards right that progressive and democratic sectors had in the United States. Furthermore, he underlines the way it influenced the inequality and vulnerability that prevails among the social class –the “precateriat”– the left should have represented, and projects itself in the current situation and in Trumpism. Without a doubt, the depth, realism and theoretical and practical vision of Michael Walzer have turned him into one of the representative figures of political theory. JBL.El autor, teórico y activista del movimiento de los derechos civiles y de los movimientos contra la guerra en Vietnam, publicó la primera parte de este artículo en 1968. En él, analiza la emergencia de la Nueva Izquierda en Estados Unidos –y su conexión global– a partir de la estructura social, la pertenencia de clase de los propios actores y su configuración cultural para dar cuenta de las aspiraciones y limitantes que acompañaron a la juventud de clase media que encabezó este movimiento. Los dilemas que emergieron
entre la configuración étnico-racial, social y económica de los actores enmarcados en el movimiento por los derechos humanos arrojan luz sobre las promesas, alcances y debilidades que éste tuvo. En el post scriptum, escrito explícitamente para la Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales 50 años después, con una gran sabiduría analítica y existencial, el autor revisa el modo como el perfil de clase, la radicalización y el separatismo condujo a un aislamiento de la Nueva Izquierda de las naturales bases de
apoyo que debió haber alcanzado. Evalúa las consecuencias ya sea de su integración a la Vieja Izquierda o bien al sistema, tal como se manifiestan en el viraje a la derecha que los sectores progresistas y democráticos tuvieron en Estados Unidos, y cómo se reflejó en la situación de desigualdad y vulnerabilidad prevaleciente en gran parte de las clases sociales que la izquierda debió representar, e incluso en el Trumpismo hoy. Sin duda, la profundidad, realismo y visión teórica y práctica de Michael Walzer lo han convertido en una de las figuras representativas de la teoría política. JBL
The new left: 1968 and post scriptum
No full textThe author, a well know theorist and activist of the civil rights movement and the movement against the Vietnam War, published the first part of this article from his own intervention and experience in 1968. There, he analyses the emergence of the New Left in the United States -and its global connection- through the social structure, the actors’ class background and their cultural configuration to account for the aspirations and limits that accompanied the middle class youth that lead this movement. The dilemmas that emerged between the racial, ethnic, social and economic axes that defined the actors framed the diverse social movements and throw light on the promises, scope and weaknesses that characterized them.
In the post scriptum, written explicitly for the Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales 50 years later with a great analytical and existential wisdom, the author inspects the way in which class profile, radicalization and separatism led to an isolation of the New Left from the natural support basis it should have reached. It evaluates the consequences of its integration either to the Old Left or to the system, as it manifests in the turn towards right that progressive and democratic sectors had in the United States. Furthermore, he underlines the way it influenced the inequality and vulnerability that prevails among the social class –the “precateriat”– the left should have represented, and projects itself in the current situation and in Trumpism. Without a doubt, the depth, realism and theoretical and practical vision of Michael Walzer have turned him into one of the representative figures of political theory. JBLEl autor, teórico y activista del movimiento de los derechos civiles y de los movimientos contra
la guerra en Vietnam, publicó la primera parte de este artículo en 1968. En él, analiza la emergencia de la Nueva Izquierda en Estados Unidos -y su conexión global- a partir de la estructura social, la pertenencia de clase de los propios actores y su configuración cultural para dar cuenta de las aspiraciones y limitantes que acompañaron a la juventud de clase media que encabezó este movimiento. Los dilemas que emergieron entre la configuración étnico-racial, social y económica de los actores enmarcados en el movimiento por los derechos humanos arrojan luz sobre las promesas, alcances y debilidades que éste tuvo. En el post scriptum, escrito explícitamente para la Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales 50 años después, con una gran sabiduría analítica y existencial, el autor revisa
el modo como el perfil de clase, la radicalización y el separatismo condujo a un aislamiento
de la Nueva Izquierda de las naturales bases de apoyo que debió haber alcanzado. Evalúa las consecuencias ya sea de su integración a la Vieja Izquierda o bien al sistema, tal como se manifiestan en el viraje a la derecha que los sectores progresistas y democráticos tuvieron en Estados Unidos, y cómo se reflejó en la situación de desigualdad y vulnerabilidad prevaleciente en gran parte de las clases sociales que la izquierda debió representar, e incluso en el Trumpismo hoy. Sin duda, la profundidad, realismo y visión teórica y práctica de Michael Walzer lo han convertido en una de las figuras representativas de la teoría política. JBL
The Mediocre Growth of a Grandiose Simpleton: An Analysis of Howard Jackobson’s The Mighty Walzer.
No full textThe Mighty Walzer is the story of a boy who dreams of winning fame, fortune and the adoration of beautiful women, as a table tennis player. He wants to make his life grandiose like all of us. However, it is a pity that he fails. Oliver, the protagonist is not disheartened. Even though he has not struck his fortune, life gives him other riches- the riches of life and growing up itself. Thus, the novel can be seen as the celebration of the trivial processes of growing up. The more we read, the more we realise that the mediocre lives presented in the novel are grandiose in their own ways. Thus, the author is examining the grandiosities of our mediocre lives. The novel is the life story of each and every one of us. It is the celebration of the simple life of a commoner with its trivialities and mediocrities. However, there is an exuberant grandiosity in this existence. It is this grandiose process of life which is emphasised in this study.
Set in the1950s England, The Mighty Walzer is semi-autobiographical. Howard Jacobson in the veil of the character Oliver,Walzer depicts his own self as a confused Jewish boy growing up in Manchester. When it comes to home, nothing is closer to heart than the childhood memories. Jacobson’s the Mighty Walzer is indeed a childhood memoir. The novel is a bildungs roman narrative. It is absolutely hilarious, comic and sublime. It has the grace and charm of a childhood dream. Jacobson’s wit was lauded from all quarters, when the novel was first published. Sunday Times observes: “Jacobson writes with agility that gives pleasure akin to humour even when it isn’t actually funny. It is the sheer charm of his intelligence that feels like wit.” The Independent in its review quotes: “This mature novel has the sustained exuberance and passion of his youthful writing but within an epic…. An achingly funny book….An amazing achievement….There is few novelists today who can imbue the trifles of life with such poetry.”
Jacobson wrote this rollicking, loose limbed, semi-autobiographical novel in Australia at the end of 90s, having finally put enough distance between events to revisit the humiliation. He puts before us a number of childhood milieus in a straight forward and grandiose fashion. There is no holding back when it comes to a number of intimate sexual and mental give and takes. It is these truthful ejaculations that make the novel hilarious. One can really denominate the novel in Mario Vargas Illosa’s terms as a piece of ‘mental masturbation.’Howard Jacobson amuses his readers in The Mighty Walzer. The characters and milieus in the novel are regular, common and mediocre. We can connect ourselves with the various characters and their eccentricities. The more we go into the novel, the more we realize that the desires, anxieties, failures, successes, sufferings and frailties of the characters are in fact the mirror reflections of our own milieus. Thus, when we look at with disdain the ‘jacking off’ –of Oliver, Sheeney’s women hunting, Sabine’s promiscuity, Aunt Fay’s mid 30’s love affair etc., we are pitying our own repressed desires and inhibitions. Such is the psychological depth with which each of the characters are handled
Obi Okechukwu, Baritone
No full textTutta raccolta ancor, from Scipione; Finche lo strale, from Floridante / G.F. Händel; Liebeslieder Walzer, Opus 52 / Johannes Brahms; The Rovin\u27 Gambler; The Gambler\u27s Lament; Gambler, don\u27t you lose your place; Gambler\u27s song of the Big Sandy River / John Jacob Niles; Esato / Fred Onovwerosuok
[[alternative]]Michael Walzer's 'complex equality' and its application to citizenship education
No full text[[abstract]]Michael Walzer’s ‘Complex Equality’
and its Application to Citizenship Education
Wen-hsien Su
Abstract
In the field of contemporary political philosophy, Michael Walzer undoubtedly occupies a significant position. In his book Spheres of Justice: A defense of pluralism and equality, he put forward his arguments of “complex equality” in an attempt to reinterpret the concept of equality. The primary purpose of this study is to explore and explicate the concept of complex equality, analyze Walzer’s ideas of citizenship, and, by combining them, work out the implications for and application to citizenship education. To sum up, the purposes of this thesis are as follows:
1.To comprehend Michael Walzer’s academic achievements and concerning issues.
2.To analyze Walzer’s “complex equality” and its application to education.
3.To elucidate Walzer’s ideas of citizenship.
4.To elaborate the implications for citizenship education in Walzer’s works.
5.To provide recommendations for citizenship education based on the research results.
According to the purposes, the conclusions of this thesis are as follows:
1.The basis of Walzer’s academic works is political pluralism.
2.Abandoning Rawl’s methods of pursuing abstract principles, Walzer takes a different path by appealing to the consensus and interpretation of justice and equality in a society, signaling a turn to the interpretation approach.
3.When defining the meaning of equality, Walzer tries to take into consideration the distribution of all social goods, which is more holistic.
4.Walzer thinks that citizens nowadays are more indifferent to public affairs and less public-spirited, which really deserves our attention.
5.Walzer regards education as an essential social good which has its own distribution sphere. Furthermore, the cultivation of civic virtues should also be incorporated into citizenship education.
Finally, the recommendations for citizenship education can be summarized as follows:
1.Under the present context of multicultural societies, what the nation should do is to provide equal opportunities for every group and grant all citizens equal standings and fundamental capacities.
2.We should contemplate and preserve the autonomy of education. Moreover, the closure and autonomy of schools should also be safeguarded.
3.As for the curricular arrangements of citizenship education, the nation should establish core curriculum so as to guarantee all citizens equal fundamental capacities and knowledge.
4.To achieve the goal of developing mature and responsible citizens, the cultivation of civic virtues should also be emphasized.
Key words: Michael Walzer, complex equality, citizenship, citizenship education
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