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Discourse or dialogue? Habermas, the Bakhtin Circle, and the question of concrete utterances
This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final publication is available at Springer via the link below.This article argues that the Bakhtin Circle presents a more realistic theory of concrete dialogue than the theory of discourse elaborated by Habermas. The Bakhtin Circle places speech within the âconcrete whole utteranceâ and by this phrase they mean that the study of everyday language should be analyzed through the mediations of historical social systems such as capitalism. These mediations are also characterized by a determinate set of contradictionsâthe capital-labor contradiction in capitalism, for exampleâthat are reproduced in unique ways in more concrete forms of life (the state, education, religion, culture, and so on). Utterances always dialectically refract these processes and as such are internal concrete moments, or concrete social forms, of them. Moreover, new and unrepeatable dialogic events arise in these concrete social forms in order to overcome and understand the constant dialectical flux of social life. But this theory of dialogue is different from that expounded by Habermas, who tends to explore speech acts by reproducing a dualism between repeatable and universal âabstractâ discursive processes (commonly known as the ideal speech situation) and empirical uses of discourse. These critical points against Habermas are developed by focusing on six main areas: sentences and utterances; the lifeworld and background language; active versus passive understandings of language; validity claims; obligation and relevance in language; and dialectical universalism
Evidence for antiferromagnetism coexisting with charge order in the trilayer cuprate HgBaCaCuO
Multilayered cuprates possess not only the highest superconducting
temperature transition but also offer a unique platform to study disorder-free
CuO planes and the interplay between competing orders with
superconductivity. Here, we study the underdoped trilayer cuprate
HgBaCaCuO and we report the first quantum oscillation
and Hall effect measurements in magnetic field up to 88 T. A careful analysis
of the complex spectra of quantum oscillations strongly supports the
coexistence of an antiferromagnetic order in the inner plane and a charge order
in the outer planes. The presence of an ordered antiferromagnetic metallic
state that extends deep in the superconducting phase is a key ingredient that
supports magnetically mediated pairing interaction in cuprates.Comment: 6+5 pages, 4+6 figure
Struggles over access to the Muslim public sphere: Multiple publics and discourses on agency, belonging and citizenship (Introduction to the Themed Section)
Abstract This introductory essay provides the context for the articles in this Themed
Section. Despite the diversity in locations, historical backgrounds and contemporary
processes of change, all contributors to this Themed Section focus on the struggle of
Muslim groups over access to an emergent Muslim public sphere. They highlight the
contestations of and shifts in the notions of agency, belonging, and citizenship in
nation-states with Muslim communities within its borders. The introduction consists
of two parts. The first part reviews the notion of the public sphere as conceptualized by
Habermas and critiqued by scholars of a diversity of backgrounds. In relation to the
concept of the Muslim public sphere, three aspects of critique are given closer
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