...Jardar Østbø The Russian authoritarian regime is not necessarily immoral, but its morality shares characteristics with that of street gangsters—and aristocrats. As argued in this article, there are two competing moral orders in Russia—the culture of honor and the culture of dignity. The article...

...Nouri Gana This article examines the cultural politics of bastardy in the films of Tunisian filmmaker Nouri Bouzid at a time when questions of national and cultural identity have come to the fore in Tunisia in the wake of the Revolution of Freedom and Dignity. Nouri Bouzid is the doyen of Tunisian...

... to redeem their humanity. In their view, the dignity and freedom of the soul is what makes them human, and this humanity can't be attained without risking the body, which is transformed into a weapon for their fight for dignity. In this way I expand on Foucault's framework to explain the hunger strikers...

..., the inmates can also be described – despite their very limited scope of action – as “subjects and formers of this society” ( Pätzold 2005: 111 ) as well, thereby restoring to them some of their human dignity (see Suderland 2008 ). If one reads the documents of former concentration camp inmates carefully...

... dignity becomes a function of how one spends one’s time, which is constituted by one’s relationship to productive labor. Philanthropy, like other practices of governing, encourages a particular manner of conduct because philanthropy provides for and thus makes possible some manners of conduct...

... with that of the nation: it promises that if you invest your energies in work and family-making, the nation will secure the broader social and economic conditions in which your labor can gain value and your life can be lived with dignity” (4). Citizenship generally, and not just for women, comes to be measured against...

.... In the nuclear age, there is no outside. A common theme in Shute's novels is the dignity of work and the ingenuity and leadership shown by those willing to face difficult or daunting situations. He emigrated to Australia in 1950 partly to escape the postwar UK Labour government's welfare socialism and its...

... to the erosion of humanist conceptions of selfhood, Harcourt addresses issues such as the right to privacy, dignity, and freedom to be let alone. His work thereby contributes to debate in the field of cultural politics, particularly with respect to digital cultures, new media interactions, and the value of human...

... and a wider variety of craftsmen were allowed the dignity of signing their own work as artists. It would be unfair to expect Ross’s book to settle the questions surrounding communal luxury. But what it achieves is the presentation of a sympathetic account of the communards’ attempts to realize a higher...

... their labors (cooking, leaf blowing, driving fire trucks and taxis), Slavick sets her camera to capture them with all the dignity of a formal studio portrait. They appear before us, singly and in groups, with their eyes closed and faces at rest and expressionless. What are they dreaming? We’re prompted...

... produced a mixed people, who inherit and embody both components, no longer either Spanish or African, but Cuban. ( Morejón 1993: 232 ) Having found endorsement and protection under the revolution, the fashionable Havana Carnival depicts some measure of the “equality and dignity” the revolution sought...

... look” was to see something of oneself. The dignity of the warrior, of the brave and fearless man of honor, is etched too deep in the noble savage’s visage for this look (or this new nation?) to be available to women. In their study of postcard images of Native American women, Albers and James (1987...

... (and not just kind) endowed with sentience, volition, and dignity. They participate as interagentive members within a shared community of life and are bound to other life-forms—including the human—through relations of reciprocal care and nurture (Kimmerer 2013 ). These relations are in turn inextricable from...

... acutely in relation to Kant's view that extramarital sex is fornication, since each partner treats the other as an object for pleasure. Only in marriage is sex a genuinely moral relationship with human dignity. In Sex and the Failed Absolute Žižek muses, “Enjoyment introduces asymmetry, surplus, envy...

... percent, USA 1.7 percent, Canada 4.9 percent of their countries’ total populations). 8. There are other points of inflection we might seek, but I restrict the discussion to just two in this article. On reciprocity, see, for example, Whyte and Cuomo 2017 ; Kimmerer 2013 . On dignity, see Watene...

... by the West African Yoruba and also in other parts of Africa such as amongst Bantu-speakers in the south. When Africans were forced into slavery in the Americas, itutu became a means of maintaining a sense of dignity in oppressive conditions. There is an obvious line here from slavery through mid-twentieth...

... segments of the population the very basic dignity of their humanity. Trump’s attacks on historical memory, facts and science, public education, the press, and the institutions of governance are paired with his shocking disrespect for the rule of law, including civil, individual, and political protections...

... specific dignity and often humorous gravitas, a whole dimension that, reading this piece, one is reminded is lacking in so much of what has come from France since in the name of “philosophy”), this unpresentable and ungraspable archaic dimension functions as a kind of element or milieu (what he himself...

... that is in some sense perfection realized but to gather moments of dignity and goodness from the messy business of history. A cultural politics might be glimpsed here, one that isn't searching out new ways of reenchanting itself but that, in the name of pragmatism, is prepared to pursue a melancholic quest...

... again and presents himself as the man who will restore the freedom of their destiny to human beings. Far from being anti-humanist in the ordinary sense of the term, then, Heidegger embarks on a critical interpretation of humanism that aims to show that this latter offends against the dignity...