writer? Of What Is ‘God’ the Name? That Sartre presents atheism as a cruel enterprise invites us to consider that, far from being an a priori spiritual assertion wherefrom ensue major consequences such as the awareness of contingency, freedom
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In Sartre Studies International
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2016
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- Research Article
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- 58–68 (11 total)
‘This Is a Farce’
Sartrean Ethics in History, 1938–1948 – From Kantian Universalism to Derision
Juliette Simont
Translator : Ârash Aminian Tabrizi
beyond History and ethics. This freedom goes hand in hand with some kind of irreducible absurdity and contingency. This movement is not Kantian at all but is actually specific to Sartre’s time and his own philosophy. The same operator is used in the
In Sartre Studies International
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- 01 Mar 2016
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- Research Article
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- 3–20 (18 total)
Engaged Lingering
Urban Contingency in the Pandemic Present with COVID-19 in Denmark
Mikkel Bille and Mikkel Thelle
and paralysis, respectively. This raises the third central point that with COVID-19 we see how the intensifying contingency of urban life made people engage with the experienced crisis, spanning from its apparent incommensurability for some to
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
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- 01 Dec 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 110–125 (16 total)
Of choice, chance and contingency
‘Career strategies’ and tactics for survival among Yoruba women traders*
Andrea Cornwall
Women's economic empowerment has come to play an increasingly prominent role in the policies of mainstream development agencies. This article draws on fieldwork amongst small‐scale traders in southwestern Nigeria to suggest that the capacity of traders to exercise ‘choice’ is more complex than development narratives suggest. Deploying de Certeau's (1984) distinction between strategies and tactics, the article argues that making clear‐cut, choices is dependent on having the power to realise them: power that many women in this as in other settings, including those with considerable buying and spending power, are not in a position to fully exercise. Women's struggles for success and survival in this context, the article argues, are waged in domains where their positions as agents are relational, situational, and above all, provisional. As members of families, associations and hearth‐holds, their abilities to make active, purposive, choices are constantly reconfigured in relation to these others. ‘Empowerment’ may be defined by mainstream development agencies as a destination, but looking more closely at the experiences of poor women in this setting reveals journeys along pathways that may be pitted with obstacles, in which chance and contingency may play as much of a part as deliberate choice, and for which tactics are needed for survival as well as success. A central argument in this article, then, is for the need to factor contingency into representations of women's working lives in development discourse, which in turn calls for an approach that can accommodate the mediation of agency and the tensions between autonomy and connectedness that course through women's lives.
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Feb 2007
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- Research Article
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- 27–46 (19 total)
Our Present Misfortune
Games and the Post-Bureaucratic Colonization of Contingency
Thomas M. Malaby
Anthropology is turning toward a new engagement with a central question of Weber: how do people come to understand the distribution of fortune in the world? Our discipline's recent examination of the uses of the past prompts us to ask how stances toward the future are both the product of cultural logics and the target of institutional interests. In this article, I trace the engagement with contingency in anthropology and social thought, and then compare the nonchalant stance toward the future found in Greek society with the different disposition of individual gaming mastery in the digital domain, such as in Second Life, but also in the longest-running Greek state-sponsored game: Pro-Po. These examples illustrate how games are increasingly the sites for institutional efforts both to appropriate creativity and to generate distinctive subjectivities.
In Social Analysis
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- 01 Jun 2012
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- Research Article
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- 103–116 (13 total)
Pablo Facundo Escalante
historical contingency is removed from the heart of historiographical discourse. Such an operation is possible thanks to the illusion of continuity and causality, which creates a narrative structured on a unilineal and progressive conception of historical
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Dec 2018
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- Introduction
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- 1–24 (24 total)
Jeanette Edwards
Local family historians in the north of England are not only intent on "finding" their ancestors but in adding "flesh" to the bones of genealogy. Many are as interested in the social life of their ancestors as they are in their family tree or pedigree and, through their research, they excavate particular social and classed histories which combine discourses of land, labor, love, and loss. As well as deepening a sense of the workings of class in England, their research renders class identity more contingent than other contemporary public and media-driven versions. This article argues that family history and genealogical research destabilizes readings of English class identities as fixed, bounded and inescapable by revealing the vagaries of fate and chance and by making explicit other relevant and overlapping social distinctions in the provenance of one's ancestors.
Contingency and Constraint
African-American Migration as Seen through Jacob Lawrence's “Migration” Series
Deborah Breen
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 11 West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019 http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2015/onewayticket/ Admission: USD 25/18/14 “I pick up my life, / And take it with me, / And I put it down in Chicago, Detroit, / Buff alo, Scranton, / Any place that is / North and East, / And not Dixie.” Th ese are the opening lines from “One-Way Ticket,” by African-American poet, Langston Hughes (1902–1967). Th e poem provides the emotional and historical core of the “Migration” paintings by Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000), a series that depicts the extraordinary internal migration of African Americans in the twentieth century. Not coincidentally, the poem also provides the title of the current exhibition of the sixty paintings in Lawrence’s series, on display at MoMA, New York, from 3 April to 7 September 2015.1 Shown together for the first time in over twenty years, the paintings are surrounded by works that provide context for the “great migration”: additional paintings by Lawrence, as well as paintings, drawings, photographs, texts, and musical recordings by other African-American artists, writers, and performers of the early to mid-twentieth century.
Book Review
Mabogo Percy More, Sartre on Contingency: Antiblack Racism and Embodiment
Thomas Meagher
Mabogo Percy More, Sartre on Contingency: Antiblack Racism and Embodiment (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021), 303 pp., $44 (paperback), ISBN: 9781538157046 Contingency denotes that what is need not be so. In this text, Mabogo More
In Sartre Studies International
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2022
- Article Type:
- Book Review
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- 98–101 (4 total)
Introduction
Natural Philosophies of Fortune—Luck, Vitality, and Uncontrolled Relatedness
Giovanni da Col
Despite the resurgence of interdisciplinary interest in concepts of fortune, luck, and chance, anthropology has failed to engage with the social imagination of these concepts and their incorporation into quotidian moralities and decisions. This essay, which introduces the first of two special issues on this topic, will first present different conceptions and uses of notions of luck and chance and their relation with moral ontologies and notions of skeptical efficacy. By focusing on the interface between cosmology, economics, and human relatedness—that is, cosmoeconomics—this introduction shall then highlight how idioms of luck and fortune foreground a social topology that explicates how innate conceptions of vitality and 'mystical' influence, deemed to be of uncertain and uncontrolled nature, are nonetheless able to connect humans and non-humans, organisms and material entities.