Search results for "Oppression"
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Nikolai Marr and the idea of a unified language
2006
Abstract Nikolai Marr’s idea of the class-character of language assumes that language mechanically reflects the characteristics of the socio-economic basis. Marr argued that typological similarities between different languages are not based on ‘blood relationship’ but derive from the fact that all languages have developed through the same stages corresponding to the stages in the development of the socio-economic basis. For Marr, national oppression resulted from ‘racial’ or ‘ethnic’ definitions of such concepts as language and nation. His aim was to battle against oppression by replacing ‘racial’ definitions proposed by Indo-European linguistics with his non-ethnic and ‘sociological’ under…
Vers une historiographie des politiques des traductions en Belgique durant la période française
2014
The language policy of the French Revolution is known today especially for the imposition of the national language and the oppression of dialects and regional languages in France. This pilot study focuses on a less-known phenomenon of that period: translation policy. From 1790 on, several decrees stipulated the translation of national laws and decrees into the regional languages of France and some languages of other European countries. We will illustrate this translation policy focusing on translations of political and administrative texts from French into Flemish in Belgium (which was annexed by the French Republic in 1795 and remained French until the end of the Napoleonic era). We will n…
Comparative Decadence? Male Queerness in Late Nineteenth- and Late Twentieth-Century Fiction
2018
Emig’s chapter compares Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray and Alan Hollinghurst’s The Swimming-Pool Library. After outlining the different historical contexts of queer masculinity in the novels, it points out parallels, such as its legal repression in late Victorianism and at the time of the AIDS crisis under Thatcher. Wilde’s novel provokes with homoerotic longing, Hollinghurst’s with pornographic depictions of gay sex. Both texts are decadent fantasies, yet also criticise double standards of hegemonic masculinity and heteronormativity. Hollinghurst’s novel further exposes its Wildean subtext as class-ridden and colonial. In addition, the scandalous male as narcissistic consumer of …
The meaning of critic and political responsibility in Iris M. Young
2013
The meaning of critic and political responsibility in Iris Marion Young This article aims to show how the conception of «critic» in Iris Marion Young is to articu- late the critical theory of society with the phenomenological analysis. This is essential to consider that injustice is based on «oppression» and defend the «political responsibility» to fight injustices. This articulation between critical theory and phenomenological analysis can be seen in her descriptions of the tensions between the structural and the immediate ways to achieve justice. If oppression is the fundamental form of injustice, political respon- sibility is the key to understanding her proposal to seek it as a way to m…
When Living Is Only Not Dying
2020
Abstract This article examines the intertwining of oppression, animality, and biological life in Simone de Beauvoir’s concept of immanence. Analyzing the roots of this discussion in G.W.F. Hegel’s philosophy and tracing its development from Pyrrhus and Cineas to The Second Sex, the author suggests that Beauvoir’s insight that oppression involves a deprivation of transcendence is of lasting value, whereas her concept of immanence remains problematic.
The Personal Nature of Individual Criminal Responsibility and the ICC Statute
2007
By affirming criminal responsibility of the individual, the ICC Statute recognizes a distinction from the international responsibility of states, which is the basis of modern international criminal law. The importance of the principle is evident not only in the breadth and analytical nature of the provision dealing with it, i.e. Article 25 of the Statute, but by its being placed in the part of the Statute devoted to the ‘General Principles of Criminal Law’. After an introductory consideration of the context of the Article and of its general implications, this article analyses the contents of the regulation and the type of responsibility outlined in it. The principle that emerges could be ca…
Care research and disability studies: Nothing in common?
2009
Disability researchers have voiced the criticism that the concept of care, together with research based on it, consists of the view that disabled people are dependent non-autonomous second-class citizens. The perspectives of disability studies and care research certainly are different from each other. Disability studies analyse the oppression and exclusion of disabled people and emphasize that disabled people need human rights and control over their own lives. Care research focuses rather on care relationships, informal and formal care, care-giving work and `an ethics of care'. Nevertheless, it is suggested here that the two perspectives are not mutually exclusive and that the two groups co…
Osservatorio della Corte costituzionale (n. 4/2013)
2013
Corte cost. n. 7 del 2013 (in tema di soppressione di stato, perdita di diritto della potestà dei genitori e irragionevoli automatismi)
El significado de la crítica y de la responsabilidad política en Iris Marion Young
2013
Este artículo tiene el objetivo de mostrar cómo la concepción de la crítica en Iris Marion Young consiste en articular la teoría crítica de la sociedad con el análisis fenomenológico. Ello es fundamental para que considere que la injusticia se basa en la opresión y defender la responsabilidad política para luchar contra las injusticias. Esa articulación entre teoría crítica y análisis fenomenológico se puede apreciar en su descripción de las tensiones entre lo estructural y lo inmediato en las formas de conseguir justicia. Si la opresión es la forma fundamental de injusticia, la responsabilidad política es la clave para entender su propuesta de buscar en lo político una forma de atenuar las…
Marcella Campanelli, "Geografia conventuale in Italia nel XVII secolo. Soppressioni e reintegrazioni innocenziane", prefazione di Giuseppe Galasso, E…
2016
Questo volume di Marcella Campanelli prosegue il pluriennale impegno di ricerca della studiosa sul clero regolare della prima età moderna, aggiungendo nuove e interessanti prospettive.