impotence expressed in the affect of depression.’ 4 Courage is needed to sustain subjective discernment of and commitment to the ‘communist invariants’ (e.g. egalitarianism, refusal of private property, free association, polymorphous work, repudiation of
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A Malady of the Left and an Ethics of Communism
Badiouian Diagnosis, Lacanian Cure, Sartrean Responsibility
Andrey Gordienko
In Sartre Studies International
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- 01 Jun 2021
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- Research Article
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- 99–128 (30 total)
Devin Zane Shaw
In this essay, I propose a mutually constructive reading of the work of Jacques Rancière and Jean-Paul Sartre. On the one hand, I argue that Rancière's egalitarian political thought owes several important conceptual debts to Sartre's Being and Nothingness, especially in his use of the concepts of freedom, contingency and facticity. These concepts play a dual role in Rancière's thought. First, he appropriates them to show how the formation of subjectivity through freedom is a dynamic that introduces new ways of speaking, being and doing, instead of being a mode of assuming an established identity. Second, Rancière uses these concepts to demonstrate the contingency of any situation or social order, a contingency that is the possibility of egalitarian praxis. On the other hand, I also argue that reading Sartre with Rancière makes possible the reconstruction of Sartre's project within the horizon of freedom and equality rather than that of authenticity.
In Sartre Studies International
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- 01 Mar 2012
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- Research Article
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- 29–48 (20 total)
Mike Gane
Real Marx (with its small niche market). Such a critique seems reminiscent of writings in the 1960s when Durkheim was presented as the naïve conservative dedicated to a functionalism that justified all kinds of inequalities against a radical egalitarian
David Schweikart
are less good, and which Hitler made into doctrine. 31 These are serious charges—and they are, for the most part, true — although, as we shall see, less true now than when Camus was writing, during those relatively egalitarian postwar years dubbed as
In Sartre Studies International
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- 01 Dec 2018
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- Research Article
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- 1–24 (24 total)
A Dignified Meal
Negotiated Spaces in India’s School Meal Program
Sony Pellissery, Sattwick Dey Biswas, and Biju Abraham
brought by the parents was balanced with the administrative-legal authority of the schoolteachers. The system of SMCs was designed to ensure cooperation between these two types of authority and to ensure an egalitarian self-organizing mode of public
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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- 01 Dec 2016
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- Research Article
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- 35–51 (17 total)
Matthew Eshleman
for universal freedom contradict Irwin’s moral nihilism, it does not easily fit with Irwin’s non-egalitarian, first come, first to accumulate economic libertarianism. Irwin’s account of authenticity merely requires an affirmation of individual freedom
In Sartre Studies International
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2018
- Article Type:
- Review Article
- Pages:
- 84–100 (17 total)
Sartre
The Civil Code and the Rights of Arabs
Nathalie Nya
members within the colonial system. As J. C. Benrendzen pertinently remarked: “Sartre aimed to show how supposedly ‘western’ ideals such as egalitarianism and humanism had turned into fronts for oppression.” 43 If Western ideals could dehumanize people
In Sartre Studies International
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- 01 Dec 2021
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- 37–47 (11 total)
‘Nothing Is Less Universal than the Idea of Race’
Alfred Métraux, American Social Science and UNESCO's Anti-Racist Campaign in 1950s Paris
Alice L. Conklin
truer than in the United States, where a new generation of racial egalitarians demonstrated that so-called ‘innate differences’ were in fact culturally and socially determined. Yet this long overdue realisation only begged a new question: Since it was
In Durkheimian Studies
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- 01 Dec 2021
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- 107–132 (26 total)
A Mistrustful Society?
The Lack of Trust in Government Institutions in the Czech Republic
Nicole Horáková
countries, including Austria, more than 75 percent of all respondents believe that a certain group in society is preferred to others ( Globsec 2020 ). This result also coincides with the argument by Gergő Medve-Bálint and Zsolt Boda (2014) that egalitarian
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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- 01 Dec 2020
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- Research Article
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- 52–71 (20 total)
Human Connection in the Light of the Writings of Karl Marx and Amartya Sen
An Investigation Using Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis and Manik Bandyopadhyay's Ekannoborti
Simantini Mukhopadhyay
1953, though “the quality of sympathy and egalitarian commitment of the ‘left’” appealed to him greatly, he could not “develop enough enthusiasm to join any political party.” This was because “there was something rather disturbing about standard
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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- 01 Dec 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 35–57 (23 total)