Doing the Twist: Modern American poetry and vitalism

Doing the Twist: Modern American poetry and vitalis

The twilight of the Liberal Social Contract? On the Reception of Rawlsian Political Liberalism

This chapter discusses the Rawlsian project of public reason, or public justification-based 'political' liberalism, and its reception. After a brief philosophical rather than philological reconstruction of the project, the chapter revolves around a distinction between idealist and realist responses to it. Focusing on political liberalism’s critical reception illuminates an overarching question: was Rawls’s revival of a contractualist approach to liberal legitimacy a fruitful move for liberalism and/or the social contract tradition? The last section contains a largely negative answer to that question. Nonetheless the chapter's conclusion shows that the research programme of political liberalism provided and continues to provide illuminating insights into the limitations of liberal contractualism, especially under conditions of persistent and radical diversity. The programme is, however, less receptive to challenges to do with the relative decline of the power of modern states

Constitutivism

A brief explanation and overview of constitutivism

Philosophy of action

The philosophical study of human action begins with Plato and Aristotle. Their influence in late antiquity and the Middle Ages yielded sophisticated theories of action and motivation, notably in the works of Augustine and Aquinas.1 But the ideas that were dominant in 1945 have their roots in the early modern period, when advances in physics and mathematics reshaped philosophy

Three Reviews: Tyrone Williams, Lawrence Giffin, and Judith Goldman

Three Review

Three Reviews: Tyrone Williams, Lawrence Giffin, and Judith Goldman

Three Review

Doing the Twist: Modern American poetry and vitalism

Doing the Twist: Modern American poetry and vitalis

Cinco Questões por uma Prática Contemporânea com Suzanne Lacy

A carreira de Suzanne Lacy como artista, educadora e ativista abrange várias décadas e importantes movimentos na história da arte contemporânea (arte feminista, novo gênero de arte pública [expressão cunhada pela artista] e, mais recentemente, prática social). Isso proporciona um dos mais importantes modelos que temos de uma prática que explora dinâmicas sociais complexas e questões políticas, sem se afastar do lugar da arte enquanto fonte de imaginação e como catalisadora de mudanças. Trabalhos recentes de Paul Chan, Rick Lowe e Tania Bruguera têm atraído bastante atenção por suas colaborações com comunidades em conflito