, by and large, have lost this sunny sense of optimism about the possibility of progress. As a graduate student in the late 1980s, I was taught that the first serious doubts arose in the wake of the Holocaust, as historians began to confront the horrors
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In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2018
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- 117–127
Does the City of Ends Correspond to a Classless Society?
A New Idea of Democracy in Sartre's Hope Now
Maria Russo
, ‘Introduction: Sartre's Last Words’, in Jean-Paul Sartre and Benny Lévy, Hope Now: The 1980s Interviews , trans. Adrian Van Den Hoven (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 3-40, here 3. And, again, ‘Think of Sartre's fluid intellectual itinerary to the
In Sartre Studies International
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- 01 Jun 2019
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- 52–68
Joanna Bourke
female victim, while women overestimate how upsetting sexual aggression is to a male victim.” 60 In fact, Buss’s research was done in the 1980s, and rather than showing a universal pattern differentiating male versus female responses, it is based on a
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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Amanda H. Littauer
early 1980s described growing up in Wheaton, Illinois. She recalled: “I was in love with my junior high PE teacher,” for whom “I would have run through fire,” and “also had this huge crush on my high school English teacher,” for whom “I would have done
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2020
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- 95–108
Whitewashing History
Pinker’s (Mis)Representation of the Enlightenment and Violence
Philip Dwyer
done on the impact of violence on the screen, big and small, on children. Finally, can we ever really “feel” the pain of others? It is a question Elaine Scarry posed in the 1980s; she did not believe we could. 7 It adds an additional layer to the
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2018
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- 54–65
Contested Memory
Retrieving the Africanist (Liberatory) Conception of Non-racialism
Ndumiso Dladla
National Congress Youth League, the Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania in the 1950s, the Black Consciousness Movement of Azania in the 1960s and 1970s, the Azanian Peoples Organisation in the 1980s and more recently by the #RhodesMustFall Movement and the
Ajume H. Wingo
or from foreign NGOs. African states still serve as the leading examples of political corruption, conflict and fraud, and they are a recurring source of health crises (from politically induced famine in the 1980s, to malaria and Ebola in Liberia
From Exoticism to Authenticity
Textbooks during French Colonization and the Modern Literature of Global Tourism
Claudine Moïse
antinomic to the white, civilized race. Nowadays, individualism prevails: expressing both egotism and withdrawal, inwardly looking into a narcissistic EGO, as conceived in the 1980s, 5 but also meaning “individuation” 6 and construction of the self in the
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Neoliberalism, Hedonism and the Dying Public
Reclaiming Political Agency through the Exercise of Courage
Grant M. Sharratt and Erik Wisniewski
mid-1980s. Yet, the kind of hedonism that we are describing here is not entirely dependent on the disposable income associated with the lavish kind of hedonism that is often envisioned; rather, this more humble form of neoliberal hedonism is more
Contesting Paradigms in Society’s Poverty Alleviation and Development Arena
Theoretical Debates on Agency
Sunday Paul Chinazo Onwuegbuchulam and Khondlo Mtshali
point of departure the Liberal system’s emphasis on the individual and rationality. According to Sirianni and Friedland (2001: 1) , ‘Communitarianism emerged in the 1980s as a response to the limits of liberal theory and practice. Its dominant themes