approach into account. Finally, I conclude by emphasizing that when metaphors and concepts interact on the conceptual field of liquidity, the common core is a demand for clarity. Although I leave behind the tactics formulated by Bauman, his metaphor remains
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Dec 2019
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- Research Article
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- 46–66
Laurent J.G. van der Maesen
and the encompassing reciprocity of these dynamics. All four articles demonstrate that more clarity should emerge about the explicit and implicit assumptions that are at stake in the communication about their subjects. What is the ontological and
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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- 01 Dec 2019
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- Editorial
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- v–xx
Jeanne Favret-Saada’s Minimal Ontology
Belief and Disbelief of Mystical Forces, Perilous Conditions, and the Opacity of Being
Theodoros Kyriakides
identifies in such accounts is that ethnographers treat both belief and disbelief as separate cognitive states of certainty and clarity. In return, emotional reactions of disbelief, which seemingly indicate that natives do not believe in mystical forces but
Hannah Landecker, Charis Thompson, and Sarah Franklin
What’s in the Dish? Comments on Franklin’s In Vitro Anthropos Hannah Landecker
Conceptual Clarity for Conception Frameworks: Comments on Franklin’s In Vitro Anthropos Charis Thompson
Reply Sarah Franklin
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
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- 01 Mar 2013
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- Discussion
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- 33–39
COVID-19 as method
Managing the ubiquity of waste and waste-collectors in India
Tridibesh Dey
Events like the COVID-19 pandemic can become what Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey have called ‘binding crises’: ‘events with the clarity and immediacy of a terrifying threat’ (2018: 12), impacting the rich and the poor, the powerful and the powerless
Peter Marcuse
This article examines the conceptual structure of the Social City Program as it has been formulated in legislation and applied in practice. It raises serious questions as to the actual impact of the program as formulated, and suggests that conceptual clarity may help both to expose its flaws and to propose alternate positive potentials. The program has a complex intellectual underlay, and clarity in the concepts used can avoid some potential dangers in its implementation. More specifically, integration is not the opposite of exclusion, and inclusion is not the same as reducing poverty. Spatial clustering can either support or weaken solidarity. Enclaves and ghettos are not the same thing, although both reflect a clustering of population groups. Finally, emphasizing "social capital" can be a way of highlighting the strength of the oppressed or blaming them for their own oppression-and these distinctions are loaded with consequences for policy.
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Dec 2006
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- Research Article
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- 122–130
Mehri Niknam
I am very pleased and honoured to have this opportunity to speak at a gathering of the Muslim delegates in London. For the sake of brevity and clarity, I shall limit my comments in general to the Muslim community in this country, though much of what I say may equally be applied to the Muslims in general. Furthermore, since the Maimonides Foundation is an interfaith organisation and does not comment on political issues, I shall steer clear of politics.
T. Storm Heter
This article presents a novel defense of Sartrean ethics based on the concept of interpersonal recognition. The immediate post-war texts Anti-Semite and Jew, What is Literature? and Notebooks for an Ethics express Sartre's inchoate yet ultimately defensible view of obligations to others. Such obligations are not best understood as Kantian duties, but rather as Hegelian obligations of mutual recognition. The emerging portrait of Sartrean ethics offers a strong reply to the classical criticism that authenticity would license vicious lifestyles like serial killing. In addition to acting with clarity and responsibility, existentially authentic individuals must respect others.
In Sartre Studies International
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- 01 Dec 2006
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- Research Article
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- 17–43
David J. Goldberg
The Liberal movement that John Rayner joined in the mid-1950s and speedily came to dominate was small, inward-looking, aimlessly treading water and intellectually undistinguished. But my conviction is that whether in its sister movement in the U.S.A., the two million strong Union of American Hebrew Congregations or in the glory days of nineteenth- century German Reform Judaism, John's powerful intellect, wide Jewish knowledge, conviction of principle, clarity of thought and concision of expression would have brought him to the forefront. When the history of Progressive Judaism comes to be written in a hundred years time, his name will be mentioned in the same breath as luminaries like Abraham Geiger, Kaufmann Kohler, Isaac Mayer Wise, Leo Baeck and Solomon Freehof. He was one of the great ones for his and future generations.
The Response of Catholic and Protestant Thinkers to the Work of Emile Durkheim
With Special Reference to Les formes élémentaires
W. S. F. Pickering
This article attempts to record and examine the way that Catholic and Protestant thinkers reacted to Durkheim's work. The bulk, but by no means all, of their reflections relate to religion, especially after the publication of Les formes élémentaires. Surprisingly, there were some who praised Durkheim for his clarity and imagination. The specific aspects of his work dealt with here are: the nature of religion, its definition, the role of the social and individual, the nature of God, effervescent gatherings. In relation to these, and other topics, the writings of Catholics such as Besse, Bureau, Deploige, Lemonnyer, and Protestants, Boegner, Bois, Richard, Paul Sabatier, are considered. One conclusion is that, surprisingly or otherwise, the substantial criticisms of Durkheim are similar to both Catholics and Protestants. Another is that this kind of material is a necessary prelude to the study of the later development of the sociology of religion in France.
