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... and mutual implication of civil society and state, first articulated by G. W. F. Hegel and developed by Hannah Arendt. The essay rereads Hegel’s state/society diremption through Gillian Rose’s conception of “speculative thinking” and the historical openness of the “broken middle.” It argues that “Cyclops...

...) and the outer material domain that adheres to the colonial model. Having re­ jected civil society (individualistic and capitalistic), the postcolonial nation adheres to a sense of community that invokes the rhetoric of love and kin­ ship that must in turn be suppressed by the state governments that try...

...,” a poem set partly in the British protectorate of the Gold Coast of West Africa circa 1875. Merging the Gold Coast with 1920s London, condensed imagery with chant-like metrical experiment, the poem generates its central argument: so-called civilized society is sliding backward in time to its...

...” (28). For Spencer, cosmopolitanism provides that positive doctrine, and he believes that by yoking the methodology of postcolonial theory to cosmopolitanism’s vision of a “global civil society” (34) we can restore the revolutionary possibilities of literature. Any writer who wishes to use...

... in which men gather for informal conversations. Chakrabarty (2008 : 204) characterizes adda and modern civil society as two “mutually antithetical organizations of time and place.” While civil society values developmental and utilitarian thinking, adda embodies “a sense of time and space...

... about their applicability as well as their range” (181–82). Western civil societies, comprising as they do social groups with incompatible values, are beset with the necessity of making difficult choices and putting limits on what they deem acceptable. Caveat lector: thin-skinned college...

...” and then “everyone.” For this doctor, the desire to “move on” and leave the spill in the past is not merely a sentiment shared by some corners of civil society; no, the desire to “forget about the disaster” and move forward is the prerequisite that constitutes the whole of society or at least “everyone” who counts...

... indistinguishable in their language and logic. Instead of a pack or herd we have the “cor- porate whole” by which the chances of a society’s survival are improved; processes of natural selection are likewise sublimated as a “cosmic strug- gle”—indeed, the most successful, “civilized” societies are those which...

... ago and was played out in a proud society the bloodiest war and harshest peace in modern history could not destroy, returning, to be played out again on private ground in the twilight of a civilization no wars and no peace could save. (122) Here, the narrator offers an uncritical depiction...

...” projects a certain vi- sion of the relationship between the state and civil society. Specifically, it posits separate-but-interconnected zones. There is a zone for “political” involvement, where nongovernmental actors should advocate for their interests, and a separate zone for the “institutions...

...: American Prose Writing at a Time of Crisis .” American Literary History 21 , no. 1 : 128 – 51 . Havel Václav . 1988 . “ Anti-Political Politics .” In Civil Society and the State: New European Perspectives , edited by Keane John , 381 – 98 . New York : Verso . Hemon...

... to “civilize” traditional antisemitic discourses. By civilize, I do not mean that antisemitic attitudes in the 1930s are eliminated or even diminished, but rather that discomfort about the prominence of virulent hate rhetoric in Britain’s famously “civil” society gives rise to more subtle...

... countries to plunge into capitalism. Wlad Godzich (2014) , however, has called the postsocialist Eastern Bloc “Second-Hand Europe” to denote its difficulties with building a strong civil and liberal society in the face of its sudden exposure to the ravages of the market economy and a rapacious economic...

... Great Society––programs that were in part responses to the unrest of the 1960s––Bush refused to grant the LA Riots the rhetorical weight of a comparison to the civil rights movement or the programs it mobilized. Addressing the nation on May 1, 1992, Bush asserted, What we saw last night...

...Suzette Henke Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde: War, Civilization, Modernity , by Froula Christine , New York : Columbia University Press , 2005 (paperback 2007). 428 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2008 The Bloomsbury Enlightenment Project Virginia Woolf...

...Steven Belletto This essay focuses on the life and writing of African American novelist, playwright, and activist Julian Mayfield, whose under-studied work and extraordinary life tell a story about race and civil rights in literature that challenges familiar accounts. By analyzing Mayfield’s...

.... Her call is particularly alluring to women writers seeking to invent or claim a space for desire between women, to express alienation from conventional society, to escape “civilized” boundaries and court difference. She opens up possibilities of escape and freedom, and her links...

... to Do Things with Words and John R. Searle’s Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language. 4. Hurston and Wright were both concerned with the systems through which 260 Early Civil Rights “Voice Work” in Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston their state and society functioned. Wright...

...Nathaniel Mills This article challenges long-standing narratives of Ralph Ellison’s response to civil rights-era struggles as one of quietism, conservatism, or apolitical aestheticism. Focusing on a key episode early in Ellison’s Three Days before the Shooting …, in which a jazz musician burns his...

... Disraelis Sybil (1845), Gaskell’s North and South (1855), and Dickens’s Hard Times (1854), share certain distinguishing features: they focus on landmark movements in the society of their time, such as rampant industrialization and urbanization, and their action often involves weighty public events...