Rawls’s
"invoking the muses" : taking Rawls' claim as the guding principle-- institutions can be just.
Rawls’s
"invoking the muses" : taking Rawls' claim as the guding principle-- institutions can be just.
left-wing policy
what is the left though?
organic food rose
also a trend toward consumption though
The story of anti-genderism in CEE isnot simply about the power of the Catholic Church in countries like Poland, Croatia,or Slovenia, but also about intense collaboration between the most conservative forceswithin the Church and the nationalist groups in the respective countries.
this is striking
religious polarization
how?
Framing of Religious Ideology:
how were these selected? why these specifically?
online polarization
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he impact of international influences, such as Saudifunding for madrassas, on sectarian politics remains underexplored.
i feel like this does not arise logically out of the lr
Through a methodological lens informed by Van Dijk (2009) and Wodak (2001), this researchunderscores the role of manifestos in reinforcing or challenging the dominant religiousnarratives.
needing to go into more depth abiut it, quite unclear
For instance, while manifestos may advocate for minority rights, they simultaneouslyreinforce the supremacy of Islam, reflecting broader societal and political tensions.
do people actually look at manifestos? -> arent they a guiding frame for the politicians, needs to further expand on the interplay between voters and manifestos
N’s 2018 manife
examples?
instruments for shaping public discourse
not convinced
To what extent d
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how will it be circulated/
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sampling?
how might democratic systems of government, like utopian ideals, beunderstood in the sense of perpetual works in progress that can thus never be fully realised inan “ultimate” form?
the question right now seems to be guided too much by the main idea of the book, i think it should be more open ended?
y kind of democracy becomes fundamentally unnecessar
what do you mean by democracy here?
hese two features exclude today’s leftist movements, which almostsystematically defend cultural liberalism and largely advance an inclusive definition ofthe nation.
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mind so open that it was an-chored by no assumptions, no convictions of the kind that order and stabi-lize perception, would be a mind without gestalt and therefore without thecapacity of keeping anything in.
there is no reference point to fixate what we deem important
everything wesayimpingesontheworldinwaysindistinguishable fromtheeffectsofphysicalaction,we musttakeresponsibilityforour verbalperformances—allofthem—andnotassumethattheyarebeing takencaresof byaclauseintheConstitution.
enhances accountability
expres-sion,asanactivityandavalue,hasapureformthatisalwaysindangerofbeingcompromisedbytheurgingsofspecialinterestcommunities;butindependentlyofacommunitycontextinformedbyinterest(thatis,pur-pose),expressionwouldbeatonceinconceivableand unintelligible.
expression is always situational
ree speech,in short, is not an independent value but a political prize, and if that prizehas been captured by a politics opposed to yours, it can no longer be in-voked in ways that further your purposes, for it is now an obstacle to thosepurposes.
it is a shallow term that finds meaning based on the agenda of the governance
free speech as intreumental, enabling information to get to a decision
quite reductionist thoug, plenty of empirical examples would be able to counteract this argument.
contestation
Thediscovery of the book installs the sign of appropriate representation: theword of God, truth, art creates the conditions for a beginning, a practice ofhistory and narrative.
knowledge as power and control; fixing origins
To be a colonial was to know a kind of security; it was to inhabit afixed world
the immutable essence of the rest
as a sign that they are clean, and rid of their sins.
commodity racism
and, through thatrepetition, so triumphantly inaugurates a literature of empire
cue to judith butler and the idea of repetition
We must either deliberately oppose it, or draw back under colorof not understanding it, in order to feel out on all sides how it is lodgedin its author
emphasis on comprehensive contestation
unless he can derive from that experience the meansof forming his judgment and can make us aware that he has become wiserin the practice of his art.
there is an emphasis on knowledge that comes from personal experience; rather than the one that is didactical
their dexterity attacks and overpowers our senses, but it does not shakeour belief at all.
Montaigne here seems to attack those who weaponise their access to studies as a way to intimidate others in conversations; to instill hierarchy
At every opposition we do not considerwhether it is just, but, right or wrong, how we can get rid of it
people are afraid of confrontation, and even worse, of correction.
ll such idle fancies,which are in credit around us, deserve at least to be listened to
exploration of alternatives
The study of books is a languishing and feeble activity that givesno heat, whereas discussion teaches and exercises us at the same time
Yet again, this parallels mill.
London became the focus of wealthy Victorians’ growing anx-ieties about the unregenerate poor, variously described as the “dangerous”or “ragged” classes, the “casual poor,” or the “residuum.
but besides this, i think this was done to also eliminate members of the society who could not aid to the production of profit.
Inthemappingofprogress,imagesof“archaic”time—thatis,non-Europeantime—weresystematicallyevokedtoidentifywhat washistoricallynewaboutindustrialmodernity.
familiar to hall, the west used non-western traits to pinpoint difference as where their "greatness" lies.
All too often, Enlightenment metaphysics presented knowledge as arelation of power between two gendered spaces, articulated by a journeyand a technology of conversion: the male penetration and exposure of aveiled, female interior; and the aggressive conversion of its “secrets” into avisible, male science of the surface.
via which the men establish their dominance
In general,opinions contrary to those commonly received can only obtain a hearingby studied moderation of language, and the most cautious avoidance ofunnecessary offence, from which they hardly ever deviate even in a slightdegree without losing ground: while unmeasured vituperation employedon the side of the prevailing opinion really does deter people from pro-fessing contrary opinions, and from listening to those who profess them
problematisation
Each of these modes of thinking derivesits utility from the deficiencies of the other;
some kind of utilitarian logic applied to dialectics
the teachers of mankind endeavouring to provide a substitutefor it; some contrivance for making the difficulties of the question aspresent to the learner’s consciousness, as if they were pressed upon himby a dissentient champion, eager for his conversion
intellectual stimulation constantly provided
with acquiescence, which are received as truisms, yet of which most
the act of habituation takes the place of that of contestation
they believe these doctrines just up to the point to which it isusual to act upon them
it is still connected to custom
He must be able to hear them frompersons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest, and dotheir very utmost for them. He must know them in their most plausibleand persuasive form; he must feel the whole force of the difficulty whichthe true view of the subject has to encounter and dispose of; else he willnever really possess himself of the portion of truth which meets andremoves that difficulty
culture of listening and proper, authentic engagement
Because it has been his practice to listen to all that could besaid against him
here he assumes that there is an inherent ethic that underlies freedom of expression
which is struggling - not verysuccessfully - to catch up with "the West
it operates as the desired target of development
Our ideas of "East" and "West" have never been freeof myth and fantasy, and even to this day they are not primarily ideasabout place and geography.
these ideas have a mythical baseline and are more based on visions and assumptions juxtaposed against one another. rather than empirical observations.
Another aspect of the topic of free speech rarely mentionedis that in a climate where people do not feel able to expresstheir views, or are actively prevented from doing so, it maynot be possible simply to internalize the illicit view.
"tyranny of the privileged"
Laws and policies are not legitimateunless they have been adopted through ademocratic process, and a process is notdemocratic if government has preventedanyone from expressing his convictions aboutwhat those laws and policies should be.
contestation as the necessary condition for legitimation
but are oftenpresented in novels, poems, lms, cartoons, and lyrics
hidden under the layers of art
Further, the Sudanese people will know that there is a great deal ofmoney waiting to be turned over to them if they can replace the regimethat is looting their resources with a minimally decent, unified govern-ment.
Quite reductionist
to destroy.
can it allude to the destruction of the idelogical/ political hegemony of a state?
This mere existence, that is, all thatwhich is mysteriously given us by birth
what cannot be controlled, an object of subjection to the state?
Because only savages have nothing more to fall back upon than theminimum fact of their human origin, people cling to their nationality all themore desperately when they have lost the rights and protection that suchnationality once gave them.
this goes hand in hand with whta modernist presupposed: that instrinsic differences are flattened and rather obscured under in the made up national identity
he human being who has losthis place in a community, his political status in the struggle of his time, andthe legal personality which makes his actions and part of his destiny a con-sistent whole, is left with those qualities which usually can become articulateonly in the sphere of private life and must remain unqualified, mere exist-ence in all matters of public concern.
the dichtomoy of the private/ public sphere and the shape the individual takes, moulds her dignity
that's the way they are,
Essentialism- we follow the transition from a culture that is dynamic and nuanced, to it being subjugated and instrumentalised by the colonizers to essentialise the groups -> objectification
The social panorama is destructured; values are flaunted,crushed, emptied.
Culture acts a binding element that could mobillize the people against domination; culture can also act as a means in this sense, but also as an end: it is something that is worth fighting for intrinsically.
Culture is also a refertial system which estblishes the belogning of an individual
The Third World ought not to be content todefine itself in the terms of values which have preceded it.
Here, the idea of value sterility makes itself recognizable again.
The colonial world is aManichean world
There is the reoccurring theme of the split, the dichtomoy, the good and the bad.
yet he is the bringer of violence into the homeand into the mind of the native
Violence as an universal language, both of submission and liberation.