John S. Dryzek
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780199250431
- eISBN:
- 9780191717253
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/019925043X.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
Comparative historical analysis of democratization is deployed to show that sometimes it makes sense to highlight the state as the best home for deliberative democracy, sometimes civil society, and ...
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Comparative historical analysis of democratization is deployed to show that sometimes it makes sense to highlight the state as the best home for deliberative democracy, sometimes civil society, and sometimes both. Everything depends on the particular configuration of state imperatives and social movement interests, as well as the kind of inclusion that the state can offer to groups. Exclusive states sometimes prove surprisingly positive when it comes to the democratic vitality of the public sphere. Guidelines are developed for the strategic choices facing social movements.Less
Comparative historical analysis of democratization is deployed to show that sometimes it makes sense to highlight the state as the best home for deliberative democracy, sometimes civil society, and sometimes both. Everything depends on the particular configuration of state imperatives and social movement interests, as well as the kind of inclusion that the state can offer to groups. Exclusive states sometimes prove surprisingly positive when it comes to the democratic vitality of the public sphere. Guidelines are developed for the strategic choices facing social movements.
James K. Wellman Jr.
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195300116
- eISBN:
- 9780199868742
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195300116.003.0015
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Entrepreneurial evangelicals have carved out a foothold in the region though the future is less certain. They use the aesthetics of the popular culture; create networks of small groups; nurture ...
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Entrepreneurial evangelicals have carved out a foothold in the region though the future is less certain. They use the aesthetics of the popular culture; create networks of small groups; nurture entrepreneurial leaders; appeal to young families; offer alternative forms of religiously‐based activities; provide a core conservative theology that puts forward religious and moral absolutes that attract and maintain vital subcultures in suburban, and in urban settings. With less numerical success, liberal congregations create vital congregations that embody a progressive liberal theology; mixing traditional liturgy and active social justice programs; facilitating adult education and worship experiences that allow for informal communities; and, with effort — shown by several congregations in this study — integrate a worship design that appeals to families and children.Less
Entrepreneurial evangelicals have carved out a foothold in the region though the future is less certain. They use the aesthetics of the popular culture; create networks of small groups; nurture entrepreneurial leaders; appeal to young families; offer alternative forms of religiously‐based activities; provide a core conservative theology that puts forward religious and moral absolutes that attract and maintain vital subcultures in suburban, and in urban settings. With less numerical success, liberal congregations create vital congregations that embody a progressive liberal theology; mixing traditional liturgy and active social justice programs; facilitating adult education and worship experiences that allow for informal communities; and, with effort — shown by several congregations in this study — integrate a worship design that appeals to families and children.
James K. Wellman Jr.
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195300116
- eISBN:
- 9780199868742
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195300116.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter outlines the methodology of the study, developing a non‐random group of thirty-four churches, ten liberal and twenty-four evangelical, which are defined as vital. Vitality means the ...
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This chapter outlines the methodology of the study, developing a non‐random group of thirty-four churches, ten liberal and twenty-four evangelical, which are defined as vital. Vitality means the ability to sustain growth in numbers and finances, stability of leadership, and a coherent institutional vision. The data from the interviews is statistically presented. The data shows that liberal churches do not grow in part because they mirror the social and moral ethos of the region. Evangelicals do grow because they overlap the region in their entrepreneurial emphasis and are attractive to those in the region because they offer strong family programs, community to new immigrants, and a “non‐church” church relative to architecture, aesthetics, and social ethos.Less
This chapter outlines the methodology of the study, developing a non‐random group of thirty-four churches, ten liberal and twenty-four evangelical, which are defined as vital. Vitality means the ability to sustain growth in numbers and finances, stability of leadership, and a coherent institutional vision. The data from the interviews is statistically presented. The data shows that liberal churches do not grow in part because they mirror the social and moral ethos of the region. Evangelicals do grow because they overlap the region in their entrepreneurial emphasis and are attractive to those in the region because they offer strong family programs, community to new immigrants, and a “non‐church” church relative to architecture, aesthetics, and social ethos.
Margaret Florey (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199544547
- eISBN:
- 9780191720260
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199544547.001.0001
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
This book explores challenges to linguistic vitality confronting many minority languages in the highly diverse and geographically far-flung Austronesian language family. The contributions bring ...
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This book explores challenges to linguistic vitality confronting many minority languages in the highly diverse and geographically far-flung Austronesian language family. The contributions bring together Indigenous language activists and academic researchers with a long-standing commitment to language documentation in Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Brunei, East Timor, and Vanuatu. Working in partnership with Indigenous communities, the research in this book is the forefront of the development of innovative capacity building strategies and is part of cutting edge, practical solutions for language revitalization.Less
This book explores challenges to linguistic vitality confronting many minority languages in the highly diverse and geographically far-flung Austronesian language family. The contributions bring together Indigenous language activists and academic researchers with a long-standing commitment to language documentation in Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Brunei, East Timor, and Vanuatu. Working in partnership with Indigenous communities, the research in this book is the forefront of the development of innovative capacity building strategies and is part of cutting edge, practical solutions for language revitalization.
Duana Fullwiley
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691123165
- eISBN:
- 9781400840410
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691123165.003.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This chapter explores prevailing attitudes in Senegal about sickle cell anemia and its biomedical and political stewards. It also looks at how the Senegalese have had to perform the discursive double ...
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This chapter explores prevailing attitudes in Senegal about sickle cell anemia and its biomedical and political stewards. It also looks at how the Senegalese have had to perform the discursive double duty of protesting public neglect and political apathy with regard to the disease, while promoting a self-based conception of vitality for those who have the capacity to “live well” with it. Their frustration that Senegal's health ministry, and larger government, has long ignored sickle cell as a public health problem, is articulated alongside their own strength and will to live “normally.” This chapter takes a closer look at this configuration of crisis and subsequent contrary affirmation of an intuited, lived (but not yet officially sanctioned) description of the nature of things.Less
This chapter explores prevailing attitudes in Senegal about sickle cell anemia and its biomedical and political stewards. It also looks at how the Senegalese have had to perform the discursive double duty of protesting public neglect and political apathy with regard to the disease, while promoting a self-based conception of vitality for those who have the capacity to “live well” with it. Their frustration that Senegal's health ministry, and larger government, has long ignored sickle cell as a public health problem, is articulated alongside their own strength and will to live “normally.” This chapter takes a closer look at this configuration of crisis and subsequent contrary affirmation of an intuited, lived (but not yet officially sanctioned) description of the nature of things.
Robert E. Ulanowicz
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780198564836
- eISBN:
- 9780191713828
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198564836.003.0016
- Subject:
- Biology, Aquatic Biology
Recent advances in the theory of complexity have engendered a shift away from ‘physicalism’, where all nature is reducible to fundamental physical laws towards ‘naturalism’, where natural phenomena ...
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Recent advances in the theory of complexity have engendered a shift away from ‘physicalism’, where all nature is reducible to fundamental physical laws towards ‘naturalism’, where natural phenomena are considered within a circumscribed domain of time and space. The study of ecological networks has led the way in this shift, because it can be demonstrated that ecological dynamics are incompatible with the fundamental assumptions that have supported science since Newton. The direction in which causality operates in ecosystems proves more likely to come from the larger configurations of processes (networks) towards their more ephemeral and complicated constituents and their attendant mechanisms. This focus on the macroscopic makes possible a self-consistent description of ecosystem dynamics based solely on the attributes of the network of processes.Less
Recent advances in the theory of complexity have engendered a shift away from ‘physicalism’, where all nature is reducible to fundamental physical laws towards ‘naturalism’, where natural phenomena are considered within a circumscribed domain of time and space. The study of ecological networks has led the way in this shift, because it can be demonstrated that ecological dynamics are incompatible with the fundamental assumptions that have supported science since Newton. The direction in which causality operates in ecosystems proves more likely to come from the larger configurations of processes (networks) towards their more ephemeral and complicated constituents and their attendant mechanisms. This focus on the macroscopic makes possible a self-consistent description of ecosystem dynamics based solely on the attributes of the network of processes.
John Casey
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195092950
- eISBN:
- 9780199869732
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195092950.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, World Religions
The ancient Egyptians were the first culture that we know of systematically to correlate an afterlife with good and evil actions in this world. Far from being obsessed with death, the Egyptians were ...
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The ancient Egyptians were the first culture that we know of systematically to correlate an afterlife with good and evil actions in this world. Far from being obsessed with death, the Egyptians were above all lovers of life. Their ideas about post‐mortem survival affirmed the value of life in this world. Their joyous feeling for a bounteous land teeming with fertility carried over into a hope for resurrection—entailing mummification—that lacks the pessimism of many earlier cultures. The evolution of belief in Osiris as judge of the dead, from the early Pyramid texts to the Book of the Dead, both enforces fear of post‐mortem judgment and seems to open the possibility of resurrection to all, and not only to Pharaoh and his immediate circle.Less
The ancient Egyptians were the first culture that we know of systematically to correlate an afterlife with good and evil actions in this world. Far from being obsessed with death, the Egyptians were above all lovers of life. Their ideas about post‐mortem survival affirmed the value of life in this world. Their joyous feeling for a bounteous land teeming with fertility carried over into a hope for resurrection—entailing mummification—that lacks the pessimism of many earlier cultures. The evolution of belief in Osiris as judge of the dead, from the early Pyramid texts to the Book of the Dead, both enforces fear of post‐mortem judgment and seems to open the possibility of resurrection to all, and not only to Pharaoh and his immediate circle.
Michael Jackson
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231172356
- eISBN:
- 9780231539050
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231172356.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, African Cultural Anthropology
We all experience qualms and anxieties when we move from the known to the unknown. Though our fulfillment in life may depend on testing limits, our faintheartedness is a reminder of our need for ...
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We all experience qualms and anxieties when we move from the known to the unknown. Though our fulfillment in life may depend on testing limits, our faintheartedness is a reminder of our need for security and our awareness of the risks of venturing into alien worlds. Evoking the hot, dust-filled Harmattan winds that blow from the Sahara to the Gulf of Guinea, this book creatively explores what it means to be buffeted by the unforeseen and the unknown. Celebrating the life-giving potential of people, places, and powers that lie beyond our established worlds, this book connects existential vitality to the act of resisting prescribed customs and questioning received notions of truth. At the book's heart is the fictional story of Tom Lannon, a graduate student from Cambridge University, who remains ambivalent about pursuing a conventional life. After traveling to Sierra Leone in the aftermath of its devastating civil war, Tom meets a writer who helps him explore the possibilities of renewal. Illustrating the fact that certain aspects of human existence are common to all people regardless of culture and history, this book remakes the distinction between home and world and the relationship between knowledge and life.Less
We all experience qualms and anxieties when we move from the known to the unknown. Though our fulfillment in life may depend on testing limits, our faintheartedness is a reminder of our need for security and our awareness of the risks of venturing into alien worlds. Evoking the hot, dust-filled Harmattan winds that blow from the Sahara to the Gulf of Guinea, this book creatively explores what it means to be buffeted by the unforeseen and the unknown. Celebrating the life-giving potential of people, places, and powers that lie beyond our established worlds, this book connects existential vitality to the act of resisting prescribed customs and questioning received notions of truth. At the book's heart is the fictional story of Tom Lannon, a graduate student from Cambridge University, who remains ambivalent about pursuing a conventional life. After traveling to Sierra Leone in the aftermath of its devastating civil war, Tom meets a writer who helps him explore the possibilities of renewal. Illustrating the fact that certain aspects of human existence are common to all people regardless of culture and history, this book remakes the distinction between home and world and the relationship between knowledge and life.
David Fairer
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199296163
- eISBN:
- 9780191712289
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199296163.003.0011
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism, Poetry
John Thelwall, the radical activist, posed a double challenge to Coleridge — as a materialist atheist and as a man with decided views on poetic form. This chapter argues that these two elements were ...
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John Thelwall, the radical activist, posed a double challenge to Coleridge — as a materialist atheist and as a man with decided views on poetic form. This chapter argues that these two elements were intimately connected. Their disagreement became centred on Coleridge's idolised Bowles, whose verse Thelwall considered debilitatingly sentimental both in its emotive metrical emphasis and in its melancholy retrospection, which contrasted with Thelwall's own ‘vivifying principle’ of ‘animal vitality’, a material electric stimulus to thought and action. He continued his ‘sparring’ by annotating his wife's copy of Bowles's Poems, which Coleridge had given her, and gave vent to his mockery of Bowles's elegiac sympathies. But in the late summer of 1797, after visiting Nether Stowey, Thelwall's own poetry began to express his deep need for a common life of ‘kindred sympathies’ and ‘sweet converse’ with his friend. Within Thelwall too there were evident tensions and contradictions.Less
John Thelwall, the radical activist, posed a double challenge to Coleridge — as a materialist atheist and as a man with decided views on poetic form. This chapter argues that these two elements were intimately connected. Their disagreement became centred on Coleridge's idolised Bowles, whose verse Thelwall considered debilitatingly sentimental both in its emotive metrical emphasis and in its melancholy retrospection, which contrasted with Thelwall's own ‘vivifying principle’ of ‘animal vitality’, a material electric stimulus to thought and action. He continued his ‘sparring’ by annotating his wife's copy of Bowles's Poems, which Coleridge had given her, and gave vent to his mockery of Bowles's elegiac sympathies. But in the late summer of 1797, after visiting Nether Stowey, Thelwall's own poetry began to express his deep need for a common life of ‘kindred sympathies’ and ‘sweet converse’ with his friend. Within Thelwall too there were evident tensions and contradictions.
Rebecca Pope-Ruark
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780226463018
- eISBN:
- 9780226463292
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226463292.001.0001
- Subject:
- Education, Higher Education
Agile Faculty is a faculty development book that introduces strategies to help faculty improve their goal-setting, productivity, vitality, and career satisfaction. To do so, the book adapts the Scrum ...
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Agile Faculty is a faculty development book that introduces strategies to help faculty improve their goal-setting, productivity, vitality, and career satisfaction. To do so, the book adapts the Scrum project management framework popular in software development. Scrum is a framework for dividing large projects into smaller pieces that can be accomplished in a short amount of time. The Scrum roles, meetings, strategies, and terminology can easily be adapted to faculty work in research, service, and teaching, and this work can be individual or collaborative. Faculty often juggle multiple projects and responsibilities including completing research, serving on committees, designing and teaching classes, and mentoring students and peers. Faculty can experience stress when these responsibilities compete for their time. Faculty can benefit from a set of flexible and adaptable strategies to achieve meaningful personal and professional goals. Scrum is considered an Agile framework. Agile is an umbrella term for a set of human-centered project management values and principles. The Agile values of focus, commitment, openness, courage, and respect align with faculty values. Agile Faculty introduces everything faculty readers need to know about the basics of Agile and Scrum and includes chapters with advice and specific strategies to improve how faculty approach different aspects of their research, service, and teaching priorities. The goal of Agile Faculty is to help faculty readers determine their most meaningful personal and professional goals and to use the Agile and Scrum strategies outlined in the book to make regular incremental progress toward their highest priorities for career satisfaction.Less
Agile Faculty is a faculty development book that introduces strategies to help faculty improve their goal-setting, productivity, vitality, and career satisfaction. To do so, the book adapts the Scrum project management framework popular in software development. Scrum is a framework for dividing large projects into smaller pieces that can be accomplished in a short amount of time. The Scrum roles, meetings, strategies, and terminology can easily be adapted to faculty work in research, service, and teaching, and this work can be individual or collaborative. Faculty often juggle multiple projects and responsibilities including completing research, serving on committees, designing and teaching classes, and mentoring students and peers. Faculty can experience stress when these responsibilities compete for their time. Faculty can benefit from a set of flexible and adaptable strategies to achieve meaningful personal and professional goals. Scrum is considered an Agile framework. Agile is an umbrella term for a set of human-centered project management values and principles. The Agile values of focus, commitment, openness, courage, and respect align with faculty values. Agile Faculty introduces everything faculty readers need to know about the basics of Agile and Scrum and includes chapters with advice and specific strategies to improve how faculty approach different aspects of their research, service, and teaching priorities. The goal of Agile Faculty is to help faculty readers determine their most meaningful personal and professional goals and to use the Agile and Scrum strategies outlined in the book to make regular incremental progress toward their highest priorities for career satisfaction.
Robert Garland
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781904675020
- eISBN:
- 9781781380611
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781904675020.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Ancient History / Archaeology
Julius Caesar was, as this book maintains, quite simply the most famous Roman who ever lived. His influence endures to the present day: in our ‘Julian’ calendar of 365.25 days, which he introduced; ...
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Julius Caesar was, as this book maintains, quite simply the most famous Roman who ever lived. His influence endures to the present day: in our ‘Julian’ calendar of 365.25 days, which he introduced; in the geographical entity we call France, whose boundaries he established; and, thanks to his ‘invasion’ of 55 bce, his is virtually the earliest familiar name in the history of Britain. This introductory book seeks to explore the many facets of his complex character — his vanity and his vitality, his charisma and his cruelty. It seeks to set his astounding career and accomplishments against the background of late republican Rome, so enabling the reader to understand not only Caesar himself but also the violent and destructive world in which he grew up. The book traces in detail the sources of his phenomenal rise to power and the deep unpopularity that ultimately made him ‘one of the loneliest men alive’. The book pays particular attention to the day of Caesar's death, which can, like no other day of the ancient world, be re-constructed on an almost hour-by-hour basis. Caesar's powerful legacy is also examined, as is his ‘reception’ in European thought and culture from antiquity to the present day in a variety of media, including epic poetry, drama, fiction, and film.Less
Julius Caesar was, as this book maintains, quite simply the most famous Roman who ever lived. His influence endures to the present day: in our ‘Julian’ calendar of 365.25 days, which he introduced; in the geographical entity we call France, whose boundaries he established; and, thanks to his ‘invasion’ of 55 bce, his is virtually the earliest familiar name in the history of Britain. This introductory book seeks to explore the many facets of his complex character — his vanity and his vitality, his charisma and his cruelty. It seeks to set his astounding career and accomplishments against the background of late republican Rome, so enabling the reader to understand not only Caesar himself but also the violent and destructive world in which he grew up. The book traces in detail the sources of his phenomenal rise to power and the deep unpopularity that ultimately made him ‘one of the loneliest men alive’. The book pays particular attention to the day of Caesar's death, which can, like no other day of the ancient world, be re-constructed on an almost hour-by-hour basis. Caesar's powerful legacy is also examined, as is his ‘reception’ in European thought and culture from antiquity to the present day in a variety of media, including epic poetry, drama, fiction, and film.
Paul Turner
- Published in print:
- 1990
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198122395
- eISBN:
- 9780191671401
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198122395.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
What makes Robert Browning’s poetry exhilarating is not optimism, but strenuous vitality. Life is presented as a challenge. Failure is inevitable but unimportant, so long as the fight goes on. The ...
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What makes Robert Browning’s poetry exhilarating is not optimism, but strenuous vitality. Life is presented as a challenge. Failure is inevitable but unimportant, so long as the fight goes on. The murdered Pompilia, refusing on her deathbed to admit ‘one faint fleck of failure’ in Caponsacchi’s attempt to save her life, expresses almost too literally this never-say-die spirit. Even Andrea del Sarto, the most depressed and defeatist of all Browning’s characters, is last heard planning to paint a vast mural in heaven, and stressing (‘as I choose’) that he is still, in a way, the master of his fate. This sense of irrepressible vitality is conveyed, not just through character, action, or explicit statement, but more immediately by language, versification, and poetic texture. Browning’s very individual style was evidently developed to satisfy the special feeling for ‘fact’ that he shared with Thomas Carlyle, and that drew him towards historical subjects.Less
What makes Robert Browning’s poetry exhilarating is not optimism, but strenuous vitality. Life is presented as a challenge. Failure is inevitable but unimportant, so long as the fight goes on. The murdered Pompilia, refusing on her deathbed to admit ‘one faint fleck of failure’ in Caponsacchi’s attempt to save her life, expresses almost too literally this never-say-die spirit. Even Andrea del Sarto, the most depressed and defeatist of all Browning’s characters, is last heard planning to paint a vast mural in heaven, and stressing (‘as I choose’) that he is still, in a way, the master of his fate. This sense of irrepressible vitality is conveyed, not just through character, action, or explicit statement, but more immediately by language, versification, and poetic texture. Browning’s very individual style was evidently developed to satisfy the special feeling for ‘fact’ that he shared with Thomas Carlyle, and that drew him towards historical subjects.
Dana D. Nelson
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780823268382
- eISBN:
- 9780823272525
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823268382.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, American History: early to 18th Century
Chapter 2 analyses how the consensus narrative reframes localist vernacular democracy in the late eighteenth century through such terms as chaos, lawlessness, and anarchy. Taking up a specific ...
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Chapter 2 analyses how the consensus narrative reframes localist vernacular democracy in the late eighteenth century through such terms as chaos, lawlessness, and anarchy. Taking up a specific historical instance, the Whiskey Rebellion, it studies how key participants fought back against this characterization of local citizen participation. One of those participants, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, transported what he deemed the key political lessons about citizen participation and good self-governance into his novel-in-progress, Modern Chivalry. The chapter studies how that novel theorizes a democratic practice that does not oppose formal government to commons democracy, but instead reimagines a democratic practice in between the two: between the governed and governing, between the representatives and represented, between the vernacular and the institutional, between freedom and despotism, between either and or.Less
Chapter 2 analyses how the consensus narrative reframes localist vernacular democracy in the late eighteenth century through such terms as chaos, lawlessness, and anarchy. Taking up a specific historical instance, the Whiskey Rebellion, it studies how key participants fought back against this characterization of local citizen participation. One of those participants, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, transported what he deemed the key political lessons about citizen participation and good self-governance into his novel-in-progress, Modern Chivalry. The chapter studies how that novel theorizes a democratic practice that does not oppose formal government to commons democracy, but instead reimagines a democratic practice in between the two: between the governed and governing, between the representatives and represented, between the vernacular and the institutional, between freedom and despotism, between either and or.
Yue Chim Richard Wong
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9789888139446
- eISBN:
- 9789888180349
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888139446.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
Sir John Cowperthwaite, Financial Secretary from 1961 to 1971, said that the aggregate of decisions of individual businessmen in a free economy is more likely to do good than the centralized ...
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Sir John Cowperthwaite, Financial Secretary from 1961 to 1971, said that the aggregate of decisions of individual businessmen in a free economy is more likely to do good than the centralized decisions of a government. The chapter examines the ways in which the Hong Kong government becomes less limited, and analyzes the extent to which it might evolve into a deep contradiction. In additiion, the consequences in terms of economic vitality and economic growth brought by a limited government are also examined.Less
Sir John Cowperthwaite, Financial Secretary from 1961 to 1971, said that the aggregate of decisions of individual businessmen in a free economy is more likely to do good than the centralized decisions of a government. The chapter examines the ways in which the Hong Kong government becomes less limited, and analyzes the extent to which it might evolve into a deep contradiction. In additiion, the consequences in terms of economic vitality and economic growth brought by a limited government are also examined.
Arménio Rego, Miguel Pina e Cunha, and Stewart Clegg
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199653867
- eISBN:
- 9780191742057
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199653867.003.0003
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Organization Studies, HRM / IR
This chapter discusses how cognitive and energizing virtues (wisdom/knowledge and courage) enable global leaders to interpret the complexity of the world and to energetically face its challenges, ...
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This chapter discusses how cognitive and energizing virtues (wisdom/knowledge and courage) enable global leaders to interpret the complexity of the world and to energetically face its challenges, difficulties, and opportunities. The chapter starts by explaining the meaning of each virtue and its corresponding character strengths. References to the opposites and the excess of the strength are also made. Then the chapter explains how the strength contributes to the global leaders’ positive performance. Examples are provided to support the arguments. The chapter also suggests that ‘excessive’ levels of virtues may be dysfunctional. The discussion reflects the golden mean paradigm, showing that virtues are in the middle between two opposite sides (e.g. courage representing a middle way between cowardice and foolhardiness).Less
This chapter discusses how cognitive and energizing virtues (wisdom/knowledge and courage) enable global leaders to interpret the complexity of the world and to energetically face its challenges, difficulties, and opportunities. The chapter starts by explaining the meaning of each virtue and its corresponding character strengths. References to the opposites and the excess of the strength are also made. Then the chapter explains how the strength contributes to the global leaders’ positive performance. Examples are provided to support the arguments. The chapter also suggests that ‘excessive’ levels of virtues may be dysfunctional. The discussion reflects the golden mean paradigm, showing that virtues are in the middle between two opposite sides (e.g. courage representing a middle way between cowardice and foolhardiness).
Wilma Koutstaal
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195367188
- eISBN:
- 9780199918232
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195367188.003.0061
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
Our day-to-day environment is a crucial but not always sufficiently recognized sculptor of our brains and of our ability to use agile thinking. The things we see, hear, imagine, and plan each day, ...
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Our day-to-day environment is a crucial but not always sufficiently recognized sculptor of our brains and of our ability to use agile thinking. The things we see, hear, imagine, and plan each day, the activities we perform, and the “contents” of our leisure and work pursuits simultaneously and reciprocally shape our thinking and our brains. Research findings from a wide range of methodologies and disciplines converge in demonstrating a simple fact: agile thinking thrives in stimulating environments. This chapter considers indirect—correlational and longitudinal—evidence that is broadly consistent with this claim. The consideration of indirect forms of evidence begins by focusing on clear cases of brain plasticity associated with prolonged behavioral alterations in one's experiences, such as the acquisition of complex skills (e.g., learning to play a musical instrument) or adaptations to the loss of a particular sense modality. The chapter then turns to a consideration of the many longitudinal and epidemiologic studies that have sought to identify longer term contributions of our day-to-day cognitive, intellectual, and social-emotional environments to the preservation and optimization of cognitive function, and also to the likelihood and timing of the onset of degenerative brain diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease. A final section considers the outcomes of longitudinal field experiments that aim to determine the effects of a cognitively and socially engaged lifestyle on cognitive vitality.Less
Our day-to-day environment is a crucial but not always sufficiently recognized sculptor of our brains and of our ability to use agile thinking. The things we see, hear, imagine, and plan each day, the activities we perform, and the “contents” of our leisure and work pursuits simultaneously and reciprocally shape our thinking and our brains. Research findings from a wide range of methodologies and disciplines converge in demonstrating a simple fact: agile thinking thrives in stimulating environments. This chapter considers indirect—correlational and longitudinal—evidence that is broadly consistent with this claim. The consideration of indirect forms of evidence begins by focusing on clear cases of brain plasticity associated with prolonged behavioral alterations in one's experiences, such as the acquisition of complex skills (e.g., learning to play a musical instrument) or adaptations to the loss of a particular sense modality. The chapter then turns to a consideration of the many longitudinal and epidemiologic studies that have sought to identify longer term contributions of our day-to-day cognitive, intellectual, and social-emotional environments to the preservation and optimization of cognitive function, and also to the likelihood and timing of the onset of degenerative brain diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease. A final section considers the outcomes of longitudinal field experiments that aim to determine the effects of a cognitively and socially engaged lifestyle on cognitive vitality.
Steven N. Dworkin
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199541140
- eISBN:
- 9780191741395
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199541140.003.0012
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Language Families
This chapter offers a summary of this book’s findings with regard to the issues raised in Chapter 1. The Latin/Spanish continuum has been receptive throughout its history to the incorporation of ...
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This chapter offers a summary of this book’s findings with regard to the issues raised in Chapter 1. The Latin/Spanish continuum has been receptive throughout its history to the incorporation of loanwords resulting from oral and written language contact. Any analysis of the impact of loanwords must rest on a base of solid etymologies. A study of cross-linguistic trends observable in loanwords may help evaluate hypotheses that identify a specific lexical item as a loanword. This chapter offers thoughts concerning the grammatical category of loanwords, the rivalry between loanwords and items already present in the language, their diffusion through the speech community, and their subsequent integration, vitality, and survival.Less
This chapter offers a summary of this book’s findings with regard to the issues raised in Chapter 1. The Latin/Spanish continuum has been receptive throughout its history to the incorporation of loanwords resulting from oral and written language contact. Any analysis of the impact of loanwords must rest on a base of solid etymologies. A study of cross-linguistic trends observable in loanwords may help evaluate hypotheses that identify a specific lexical item as a loanword. This chapter offers thoughts concerning the grammatical category of loanwords, the rivalry between loanwords and items already present in the language, their diffusion through the speech community, and their subsequent integration, vitality, and survival.
Holly Watkins
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780226594705
- eISBN:
- 9780226594842
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226594842.003.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Philosophy of Music
The Introduction presents the rationale of the book and defines musical vitality in relation to music’s ability to both stimulate and simulate life—whether human, nonhuman, or some indeterminate ...
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The Introduction presents the rationale of the book and defines musical vitality in relation to music’s ability to both stimulate and simulate life—whether human, nonhuman, or some indeterminate mixture of the two. It outlines a biotic aesthetics that engages with thought spanning the humanities and the sciences and discusses the book’s indebtedness to the theory and philosophy of embodied cognition, systems theory, biosemiotics, animal studies and critical plant studies, and contemporary philosophy and aesthetics. The Introduction summarizes the six chapters and positions the book with respect to posthumanism, ecomusicology, and studies of nineteenth-century music and aesthetics. Finally, it explores the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche as a predecessor to approaches that question that boundaries between the human and the nonhuman and between culture and nature.Less
The Introduction presents the rationale of the book and defines musical vitality in relation to music’s ability to both stimulate and simulate life—whether human, nonhuman, or some indeterminate mixture of the two. It outlines a biotic aesthetics that engages with thought spanning the humanities and the sciences and discusses the book’s indebtedness to the theory and philosophy of embodied cognition, systems theory, biosemiotics, animal studies and critical plant studies, and contemporary philosophy and aesthetics. The Introduction summarizes the six chapters and positions the book with respect to posthumanism, ecomusicology, and studies of nineteenth-century music and aesthetics. Finally, it explores the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche as a predecessor to approaches that question that boundaries between the human and the nonhuman and between culture and nature.
Cyrus Schayegh
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520254473
- eISBN:
- 9780520943544
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520254473.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, Middle East History
Specific biomedical sciences have not been passively received from Western countries. They can be described as being accurate in interaction with—and thus able to shed of light on—conditions seen to ...
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Specific biomedical sciences have not been passively received from Western countries. They can be described as being accurate in interaction with—and thus able to shed of light on—conditions seen to be necessary for and problems believed to be created by Iran's modernity. These interactive processes truly took off in the 1910s. They materialized into three focal points, which are known as “The Dangers of Modernity,” “Biopower,” and “The Self-Reliant Personality.” All three centered on managing physical, mental, and moral health. Individual and national vitality were the objectives of a strategy of “medicalizing” modernity, which formed part of a global pattern boosted in the nineteenth century and shaped by international hierarchies of power and modern knowledge. The modern middle class, the social agent acculturating biomedical sciences, had a decisive hand in shaping this medicalizing strategy. The problems and conditions of Iranian modernity were not simply objectively existing realities.Less
Specific biomedical sciences have not been passively received from Western countries. They can be described as being accurate in interaction with—and thus able to shed of light on—conditions seen to be necessary for and problems believed to be created by Iran's modernity. These interactive processes truly took off in the 1910s. They materialized into three focal points, which are known as “The Dangers of Modernity,” “Biopower,” and “The Self-Reliant Personality.” All three centered on managing physical, mental, and moral health. Individual and national vitality were the objectives of a strategy of “medicalizing” modernity, which formed part of a global pattern boosted in the nineteenth century and shaped by international hierarchies of power and modern knowledge. The modern middle class, the social agent acculturating biomedical sciences, had a decisive hand in shaping this medicalizing strategy. The problems and conditions of Iranian modernity were not simply objectively existing realities.
Paul S. Ropp
- Published in print:
- 1990
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520064409
- eISBN:
- 9780520908932
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520064409.003.0012
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Asian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter mentions a definite “impersonality” in an emperor's portrait: the real subject of the painting is the awesome imperial role, not the mere individual who happens to sit on the throne at ...
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This chapter mentions a definite “impersonality” in an emperor's portrait: the real subject of the painting is the awesome imperial role, not the mere individual who happens to sit on the throne at any given moment. Order, harmony and vitality can be use to summarize the aesthetic ideals expressed in Chinese art. Chinese stone sculpture is essentially a linear rather than a plastic art, its beauty being of movement rather than of mass. The stylistic and technical range of Chinese painting is far greater than the Westerner generally imagines. It is also noted that long before the idea of four-dimensional art was discovered in the West, the Chinese had made it their natural mode of pictorial expression. The language of Chinese painting is rich and varied. Some traditions are more accessible than others.Less
This chapter mentions a definite “impersonality” in an emperor's portrait: the real subject of the painting is the awesome imperial role, not the mere individual who happens to sit on the throne at any given moment. Order, harmony and vitality can be use to summarize the aesthetic ideals expressed in Chinese art. Chinese stone sculpture is essentially a linear rather than a plastic art, its beauty being of movement rather than of mass. The stylistic and technical range of Chinese painting is far greater than the Westerner generally imagines. It is also noted that long before the idea of four-dimensional art was discovered in the West, the Chinese had made it their natural mode of pictorial expression. The language of Chinese painting is rich and varied. Some traditions are more accessible than others.
