... onwards, a newly practical-political orientation tasked with an interventionist mandate—the practice of ‘truth-telling’, ‘political spirituality’, and an ethics of the ‘care of the self’, a self-transformation through revolution. But in between these periods and problematics lies a peculiar moment between...

... of critical “studies” areas and their relationship to posthuman knowledges. © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 critical posthumanities immanence ethics of affirmation actual/virtual References Alaimo Stacy . 2010 . Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self...

... in the widely held historical consensus that the most violent act toward and abuse of another is the taking of W. D. White is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at St. Andrews Presbyterian College at Laurinburg, North Carolina. He studied biomedical ethics and taw at Indiana University. As a Fellow...

... ethical qualms regarding exclusions and premature closure, it must be acknowledged that everything we say is contaminated by its other and can potentially lead to affirmations we abhor. However, we cannot describe matters of importance such as secular human- ist community without running the risk...

... to stare into history in order to re­ member the suffering of the past and that out of this remembrance a theory of ethics should be developed in which solidarity, compassion, and care become central dimensions of an informed social practice. Central to a critical pedagogy is the need to affirm the lived...

... 2011 : 27–28). How is such an affirmation to be understood? In what sense can the no of political refusal be said to envelop a moment of ethical positivity? A first answer looks to the shifting logic of revolt itself, treating the violent and transformative shock of partisan confrontation...

... of suspicion), as well as from ethics, politics, and philosophy. Critique is, after all, a theory. It builds concepts, patterns, and systems in order to model and interpret. Because it is a project of building, it is an Irr Ideology Critique 2.0 721 inherently affirmative act employing rational, social...

... Like Noddings, she affirms the ethical significance of particular, highly intimate re­ lationships in which one party tunes in to, and receives, the other. Recalling a comparison touched on by both Ruddick and Noddings between ethical receptiveness and the kind involved in intellectual or artistic...

... title to sovereignty but, rather, to atheistically prove the emptiness of what such machines have to offer. The theory of the double Sophia signals Jesi's effort to place mythic time in the service of an ethics of insurgent self-abolition. Instead of treating revolt as the occasion to affirm...

... relationship in this book? Is it one discussion, or are there three? Are they all reflecting in the wake or withdrawal of one common silent affirmation...

... and an affirmation. An affirmation of a different political economy. A world built upon a different set of relationships and ethics. An affirmation of life” (56). The Freedom Convoy demonstrated loud and clear that the tactic of the blockade could be appropriated for settler world-building projects. But it also...

...” leads to “a politics of life, of ethics, which emphasizes the crucial political value of the mobilization and shap- ing of individual capacities and conduct.”5 Viral sex calls into question the political meanings of life that emerge within the liberal discourse of natu- ral rights and state...

... on offer), but also some- thing suspiciously like nostalgia for the disreputable back-­alley encounters that gay liberation was so soon to disavow. What is at stake in that “nostal- gia,” however, is nothing less than a “nonpositive affirmation” of the gen- eral circulation of the affects...

... memory, Augustine identifies with the meaning of death itself, (thanatos), his passing reflecting both a verbal sentence and a kind of death. Rightly, Sartre affirms, “Death becomes the meaning of life as the resolved chord is the meaning of the melody. There is nothing miraculous in this.”7...

... to what is impossible to bear witness to, in revolt martyrdom, by affirming the pure mediality of a power (the moment of desubjectivation), exposes the catastrophe of a world, the collapse of all its legitimacy, which carries power to the limit of its powerlessness. By not constituting anything...

... and the modernist. Mr. Borah is a Constitutional fundamentalist. He is the irreconcilable foe of nullification, under whatever guise or pretext it may appear. He is the indomitable champion of law against lawlessness, with the in­ herent opposability of up and down in physics and right and wrong in ethics...

... of the illusion of free will, which is at the heart of ethics. Burke distrusts the arbitrary ideology perfected and dictated by science. Something is lacking in the scientific ideal, he insists, which is tremendously important for mankind. Negatively we are given to understand that science leaves out of account...

.... Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1959. Pp. xii, 195. $4.50. Mr. Battestin s chief aims in this study are to view the major themes of Joseph Andrews, and to view the ethics of the novel in the related contexts of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century latitudinarian Christianity and of Fielding s own...

...Vassilis Lambropoulos Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Vassilis Lambropoulos Introduction: Approaches to Ethical Politics Ethical politics is neither a field nor a trend within scholarship. It is, rather, a focal point around which diverse modes of inquiry that are breaking...

... by the more overt recognition of the male’s input that is legitimized by the historical construction of war as a male-centered nar- rative whose agency is affirmed by the consequent eclipsing or marginal...