—have done their utmost to prove that volition is nothing but a fabrication, European intellectual and social movements like Renaissance humanism, the Enlightenment, nineteenth-century liberalism, and twentieth-century existentialism have argued that the
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Iver B. Neumann
strongman model for politics, his anti-Semitism, his religious mysticism that cohabits with his techno-optimism, his railing against American consumerism and materialism, his backing of an anti-enlightenment conservative revolution, his explicit building on
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The Social Life of Fighting Words
The Case of Political Correctness
Ronald S. Stade
historical reference for both right-wing pundits like D’Souza and most left-wing activists is the European Enlightenment, of which Fish is critical because of its rationalist and universalist legacy. The academic debate on political correctness subsided
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Analyzing Resistance to Transitional Justice
What Can We Learn from Hybridity?
Briony Jones
Leeuwen, Willemijn Verkoren, and Freerk Boedeltje point to the individualist and secularist worldview of the European Enlightenment that forms the basis of liberal peacebuilding and assert that “As a consequence, liberal interventions may face resistance
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Danger, Moral Opacity, and Outrage
Fear of Jihadism and the Terrorist Threat in Southern Mali
Tone Sommerfelt
Ressortissants du Nord (COREN) in Bamako .” Mande Studies 19 : 59 – 76 . https://doi:10.2979/mande.19.1.05 . 10.2979/mande.19.1.05 Schulz , Dorothea . 2011 . “ Renewal and Enlightenment: Muslim Women’s Biographic Narratives of Personal Reform in Mali
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Introduction
Exceptionalism and Necropolitical Security Dynamics in Olympic Rio de Janeiro
Margit Ystanes and Tomas Salem
progress to other continents ( Nascimento 1989 ; Santos 1993 ). The ideas of equality and freedom from slavery that philosophers and others debated during the European Enlightenment did not extend beyond white men and hence were not seen as contradictory
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Co-constituting Bodyguarding Practice through Embodied Reflexivity
Methodological Reflections from the Field
Paul Higate
aspects of Enlightenment and modernist thought that valorizes reason above all else, the body has been the absent presence in sociological thought ( Shilling 2012 ). For example, Stuart Hall (1986 ) argues that Marx foregrounded the role of the working
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Recapturing the Lost
Digitalized Memories of the Rhodesian Bush War
Ane Marie Ørbø Kirkegaard
abandoned in European agriculture. The coat of arms tells the story of white European historical civilization pulling African ahistorical tradition out of primitive darkness, and into modern, industrialized Enlightenment, while retaining a connection with
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