Political Theory - Science topic

Plato's dialogues The Republic and Gorgias engage deeply with the nature of justice, rhetoric, and the human soul, offering profound insights into political theory, ethics, and the art of persuasion. While The Republic presents a detailed philosophical vision of an ideal society governed by justice, Gorgias explores the darker side of rhetoric, exp...

This paper presents the findings of a qualitative study focused on the civic engagement of founders of associations operating dog and cat shelters. The author approaches the topic from the perspective of civil society studies, viewing it through the lens of social movements, utilizing models that analyze the relationship between volunteering and ac...

Contextualização: Há farto debate acerca do republicanismo na teoria política contemporânea, sendo uma das mais fortes tradições de pensamento político do Ocidente. Tal tradição foi reavivada como autônoma em relação ao liberalismo por pensadores, como Quentin Skinner, Philip Pettit e Maurizio Viroli, inseridos em uma tradição de pensamento polític...

Este artículo examina cómo la ficción del contrato social en la teoría política perpetúa estructuras de dominación que marginan a las mujeres, al legitimar su exclusión de la esfera pública y su subordinación en la privada. A través de una lectura feminista y republicana revisada, se explora también cómo Mary Shelley, en Frankenstein, critica la us...

Se busca dar a conocer la originalidad del libro de Vincent Bloch, Cuba. Une révolution, una investigación interdisciplinaria que combina la historia, la historiografía, la filosofía política, la ciencia política, la sociología y la antropología en un mismo análisis. Al ser la Revolución el fenómeno político por excelencia, el autor se propone pens...

Orientado por perspectivas pós-estruturais de currículo (Lopes, 2016; 2018a; 2018b; Macedo, 2011; 2012) e pela Teoria Política do Discurso (Laclau, 2000), o artigo tenciona problematizar a hegemonia de um discurso que significa as propostas curriculares de formação de professores como garantia da produção curricular docente em alfabetização. Tem co...

Transboundary Water Management Institutions (TWMI) are traditionally seen as comprehensive solutions for addressing the distribution of transnational river water resources, among other alternative strategies. TWMI plays a crucial role in redirecting the potential for conflict in transnational rivers towards more constructive and cooperative outcome...

Isu Lingkungan telah menjadi isu hangat yang sering diperbincangkan dikarenakan mulai terasa dampak yang ditimbulkan olehnya. Salah satu dampak nyata yang dapat dirasakan adalah pemanasan global dimana salah satu faktor penyebabnya adalah banyaknya pembakaran bahan bakar fosil seperti batu bara dan minyak bumi, yang telah menyebabkan sebuah fenomen...

Past studies have examined Shakespeare’s historical plays through the lenses of political theory in multiple ways, focusing primarily on formal access to policymaking — official, structured channels of influence. This paper hereby uses Volumnia from Shakespeare’s Coriolanus as a model to examine the attainment of effective political agency through...

This research analyses the application and violation of the Politeness Principle in Maxims used by President Joe Biden's speech using Geoffrey Leech's politeness theory approach. This research aims to identify what is the dominant relationship between the application and violation of the maxim of politeness in President Biden's speech regarding the...

Ribadire il ruolo della geografia nel campo dell’organizzazione degli assetti istituzionali è un’operazione necessaria per tornare a creare immaginari politici e geografici alternativi. Il presente contributo intende evidenziare i rapporti che sussistono tra riflessione geografica e federalismo, intendendo quest’ultimo sia come teoria politica, sia...

This introductory chapter sets the theoretical backdrop for the theme of the book and subsequent chapters. The chapter commences from the long pedigree of Western political theory and its focus on the security and safety of citizens. Providing external and internal security for the citizens has been considered the most central task of states and go...

This paper offers a metaethical analysis of so-called political moralism’s metaethical assumptions and proposes shifting away from them. It does so by taking migration ethics’ methodology as a case study of the field. First, the paper shows political moralism’s commitment to moral monism and moral overridingness. Second, it explains how such commi...

Populism is one of the most discussed topics in political theory. Nonetheless, much work remains to be done in order to understand populism in historical context. To what extent is contemporary populism a distinctively modern phenomenon? To what extent does it have roots and precedents in earlier periods of political history? And how can studying p...

En este artículo se explora la relación entre el pensamiento político de Noam Chomsky y la teoría de la justicia de John Rawls, estableciendo un diálogo crítico entre ambas perspectivas para identificar áreas de convergencia y divergencia. El objetivo es analizar cómo las ideas de Chomsky en torno a la justicia, la democracia y la responsabilidad m...

zet: Çalışma, siyasetin toplumsal yapı içindeki rolünü, kaynağını, ilgi alanlarını, karar alma süreçlerini, aynı zamanda siyasetin tarihsel gelişimi ve çağdaş siyasetin karmaşıklığına odakla-narak, bireylerin ve toplumların siyasi süreçlere katılımını, siyasetin adalet, özgürlük ve eşitlik gibi temel değerlerle ilişkisini inceler. Çalışma üç bölümd...

What if the quest for recognition, not power, rank or security, were the overriding objective of foreign policies? What if practices of recognition both empower and subjugate by fixing identities and reproducing the terms upon which agents become recognisable in the first place? Can recognition as encounter become the diplomatic task of, and condit...

Este artigo se propõe a examinar o papel crucial da educação na promoção da transformação democrática, inspirando-se nas profundas reflexões de Norberto Bobbio. Ele explora os desafios complexos e as oportunidades emergentes que se manifestam em um mundo em constante evolução, marcado pela revolução digital, mudanças climáticas globais e transforma...

1. The proposition, as stated in the American document of declaration of independence, 'The Declaration of Independence, 1776', is 'First come rights, and then comes government;' we can consider the proposition as a political theory. 2. Human rights and fairness are the inner issues in democracy. 3. One should be a genuine human rights activist...

This research is motivated by the hypothesis that Law no. 12 of 2022 concerning Crimes of Sexual Violence is influenced by gender political contestation. Women are the actors behind the emergence of these policies so that they are involved in the contestation of formation and ratification. Therefore the focus of this research is the involvement of...

This chapter is in two sections: first, this opening section (which is 10% of the chapter) stating the theory, and then the closing section (90%, which will be a detailed empirical exemplification and demonstration of this new theory being applied) displaying both the truthfulness and the importance of everything that’s asserted in this opening, th...

The integration of red culture into the ideological and political theory course is not only the requirement of the era but also provides a rich nutrient for the education goal of moral education and soul education. However, with the multi-infiltration of social thoughts, the surface of teaching research and the hollowing of teaching practice, the r...

In Philosophizing the Indefensible Shmuel Nili proposes strategic political theory as a productive and respectful manner for political philosophy to engage with unreasonable political views. One objection to his proposal he considers is that strategic political theory gives ‘excessive attention' to unreasonable views. In this paper I offer a perspe...

This study attempts to analyze politeness strategies as employed in the play Heat Lightening by Robert F. Carroll following Brown and Levinson’s (1987) politeness theory. The primary aim of the research is to find out how the analysis of these strategies can help in the understanding of the characters’ personalities and their role in the play. For...

This research aims to analyze politeness strategies in online comments on social media, with a focus on the application of Brown and Levinson's politeness theory. Social media as a virtual public space presents challenges in maintaining communication ethics, especially regarding user anonymity and spontaneity. Research data is obtained from online...

En las dos últimas décadas un sector de la doctrina colombiana y española ha acudido al término laicidad positiva para definir y explicar el modelo de Estado constitucional y democrático de derecho en cuanto al tratamiento de la religión. A partir de la teoría política, en este artículo se presenta una crítica a dicha postura, enmarcándola según lo...

PHILIP PETTIT is L.S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University, where he has taught political theory and philosophy since 2002, and for a period that began in 2012-13 holds a joint position as Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University, Canberra. He was appoint...

Im Zentrum von Stefan Eichs Buch steht die Frage, ob und wie sehr der Wert von Geld politischen Entscheidungen unterworfen sein soll. Solche Entscheidungen haben erhebliche Verteilungswirkungen und sind daher wesentliche politische Machtfragen. Eine Tendenz, den Geldwert aus der Sphäre des politischen Diskurses drängen zu wollen, zeichnete sich sch...

This manuscript introduces the hypothesis of "feralization"-an interdisciplinary concept exploring the adaptive cycles of human societies, wherein individuals and groups revert to instinctual, survival-driven behaviors under extreme environmental pressures. Drawing from key works in political theory, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and biologi...

The book, "Do It as Wilson says" 1 , examines the enduring impact of Woodrow Wilson's idea on American foreign relations from the perspective of Wilsonian precepts as an American principle in international politics. In other words, the text authored by Ellias Aghili Dehnavi and Mobin Karbasi integrates historical studies and modern political theory...

El trabajo aquí presentado se centra fundamentalmente en nuestra experiencia como docentes de la Especialización en intervención social con niñas, niños, adolescentes y jóvenes. Así, las reflexiones que compartimos están doblemente determinadas, por un lado, porque es una reflexión situada derivada de un ejercicio de enseñanza teórica y, por otro l...

This essay examines June Jordan’s design writings to elaborate a political theory of redesign in her work. I show that Jordan’s redesign offers political principles for reimagining space at multiple scales and speaks to the question of how more livable, beautiful worlds may be wrought from the material contexts in which we presently live. Against t...

Previous studies on politeness have focused on such areas as doctor-patient consultative engagements, courtroom discourse, and media interviews, etc., without accounting for how the politeness phenomenon features in business discourse. Meanwhile, the whole gamut of activities known as business is the defining essence of man's day to day life and in...

This article challenges prevailing national interpretations of solidarity by examining its colonial dimensions. Employing the Durkheimian school as a historical lens, I demonstrate how the colonial context during the Third Republic shaped the emergence and application of solidarity as a scientific concept. Informed by colonial ethnographies, solida...

Most participatory strands of democratic theory hold a conception of the transformative potential of democratic participation. According to those theories, involvement in deliberative or decision-making processes makes better citizens by teaching them political skills and orienting them towards the common good. This article draws from original inte...

O artigo examina os conceitos de imperialismo e império conforme desenvolvidos por David Harvey e Partha Chatterjee. Harvey buscou atualizar o legado da economia política marxista sobre o imperialismo mediante as noções de “acumulação por despossessão” e “ajuste espaço-temporal”. Para Chatterjee, o império responde por uma forma política histórica,...

Este libro está escrito para mujeres y hombres que buscan entender la incursión de las mujeres en los partidos políticos desde una mirada politológica. Parte de la teoría política y del estudio organizativo de estas instituciones y de que existe un movimiento que busca cambiar las estructuras políticas; no parte de la teoría feminista, y busca desm...

In their attempt to reposition Germany in an international context after World War II, actors from both the fine arts and the literary scene turned to the idea of art as a universal language. Two major projects that shaped the West German cultural sphere in the 1950 s and 1960s – the contemporary art exhibition documenta 2 and Hans Magnus Enzensber...

Zusammenfassung Dieser Beitrag der Zeitschrift „Gruppe.Interaktion.Organisation (GIO)“ fragt, was „das Politische“ in der Gruppendynamik ist. Auf dem Hintergrund der politischen Theorie von Chantal Mouffe entwickelt die Autorin das Konzept, dass kollektive Konfliktvermeidungsstrategien, allgemeine Normen und Selbstoptimierungsstrategien gravierende...

Since 2015, the instances of citizen participation in the Environmental Assessment System (SEA) have increased significantly in the O'Higgins region. In Chancón, a town belonging to Rancagua, regional capital, the community is currently carrying out observations on an Agrosuper project, something unprecedented or at least unusual. All of this news...

Objectives:This study aimed at identify the state's emergence theories in Western political thoughts. Methods The study employs three interrelated approaches to examine the research problem. The approaches are historical, descriptive-analytical approach, and the structural-functional. Results: The study concluded with a set of results, the most imp...

In my examination of Sophocles’ Antigone , I use Beauvoir’s existential philosophy as a lens and hermeneutic model and apply her language and terms—immanence, transcendence, and ambiguity—to the original ancient text to understand the gendered metaphors of the play and to reveal an area of oversight in her superficial treatment of the tragedy. Taki...

This article analyses three historical fiction films, Footloose, Land and Freedom and The Beguiled, to help illuminate aspects of politics and political theory. We study them to explore the relationship between Habermas’s concepts of the lifeworld and political spheres, which analysts have critiqued as opaque. Drawing on Habermas’s theory of commun...

Jürgen Habermas se pronunció en dos ensayos acerca de la guerra de Rusia en Ucrania, los cuales le trajeron muchas críticas. Desde su punto de vista intelectual, correspondiente a la tradición de la teoría crítica, pide el cese del armamento de Ucrania además de negociaciones inmediatas con todas las partes con el propósito de proteger a los ciudad...

This study examines the politeness strategies employed by male and female undergraduate students in online interactions, focusing on conversation initiation and termination. A pragmatic analysis was conducted using House and Kasper's (1981) linguistic politeness theory alongside Miles and Huberman's model for data interpretation. The findings indic...

Sophokles'in tragedyaları tragedya sanatının siyasal niteliğini anlamak için son derece özel bir örnek oluşturur. Sophokles, başta Antigone olmak üzere, Kral Oidipus ve Oidipus Kolonos'ta oyunlarında Atina polis'indeki siyasal mevzuları yurttaşların (tiyatro) sahnesine taşır. Bu tragedya üçlemesinin başkahramanları Atina polisinin kurucu siyasal ed...

A nossa pesquisa considera a Ética da Autenticidade uma obra síntese da teoria política de Charles Taylor, a partir da qual realiza uma avaliação crítica da cultura moderna ocidental e analisa as suas principais maleitas para seguidamente destacar o seu princípio de vitalidade: a autenticidade. A autenticidade foi, ao longo da história ocidental, c...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the politeness strategies used by condolers in expressing condolence in Kῖmwῖmbῖ. Death is a natural part of human life. Regardless of its cause, it is usually very painful and therefore, losing a loved one causes deep feelings of loss and sorrow not only to the family of the deceased but also to friends...

El último discurso de campaña electoral de Hugo Chávez, conocido como Discurso de la lluvia (2012), constituye un evento de habla de gran trascendencia y repercusión en el escenario político venezolano de la segunda década del siglo XXI, no solo por la explícita e incluso exacerbada emotividad que implicó a causa del contexto en el que se produjo,...

The excellent traditional Chinese culture has the educational value of never fading. Integrating the excellent traditional Chinese culture resources into ideological and political education can not only provide rich nourishment for college students to practice the socialist core values, but also provide a solid foundation for teachers and students...

In contemporary Chinese education, a significant feature is the alignment and synergistic integration of ideological and political theory across various disciplines, including university English curricula. This integration involves embedding ideological and political education within all subject areas, thereby achieving a cohesive and comprehensive...

La edificación de este canon, la construcción de mausoleos forma parte de la articulación de una identidad; que conlleva el silenciamiento de autores, preguntas y problemas, durante largo tiempo y su reaparición súbita leída en una clave distinta al pasado. En general la tradición canónica que hemos heredado responde a las claves progresistas liber...

This article formulates an original account of the Enlightenment through an interpretation of C. L. R. James’s The Black Jacobins , a landmark work of transatlantic anti-colonial thought. It defends a dialectical account of the Enlightenment as a singular transatlantic historical process whose content and critical import changes across space and ti...

This article explores the importance and implementation strategies of comprehensive educational reform in ideological and political theory courses in universities. The article point south at comprehensive education reform is not only an inevitable requirement to adapt to the development needs of the new era, but also a key to improving the quality...

Feminist philosophers of language have, in the last several decades, demonstrated the usefulness of employing a speech-act theoretical lens to understand how expression works to enact and reinforce oppression. Despite the growing influence of these approaches in the philosophy and political theory literature, however, their use in other disciplines...

Two important methodological debates in political theory concern (i) the place of historical research and interpretation in normative inquiry; and (ii) the importance of comparing different cultural traditions of political thought. The first question animates a long-standing controversy over the relative importance of ‘history of political thought’...

The author argues that Locke's theory of revolution in his "Two Treatises of Government" and in his the first "Letter of Toleration" is written in support of the people's struggle against their rulers for civil and religious liberty. To this end he gives an interpretation of Locke's argument, which can be broken down into two distinct claims. First...

Integrating ideological and political education into teaching in colleges and universities can stimulate students' interest in learning, improve the quality of course teaching, and enhance their sense of social responsibility and professional ethics. This paper explores the effectiveness and feasibility of ideological and political theory integrati...

This study demonstrated the theory of Thomas Hobbes on the necessity to move from the state of nature and form a state. Law is a prerequisite for ensuring peace, tranquillity and effective governance in a society. When law is in place, it fosters human beings' interaction with each other and creates a conducive environment for socio-economic empowe...

This study sought to address the relevance of Thomas Hobbes's political theory in addressing the challenges facing the principle of public participation in Kenyan governance. Law brings order in the society, and it is a prerequisite for ensuring peace, tranquillity and effective governance in a society. Despite the principle of public participation...

This study sheds light on the German left-liberal political discourse during the early years of the Weimar Republic. It turns out that Max Weber (1864-1920) and his concept of political leadership are significant in this regard, precisely regarding the internal fragmentation of German liberalism between left and right. Originated in the nineteenth...

Pluralism is the variety of existing vocation, talent or charisma towards the common good. Only in this way, man will be able to satisfy each and every one of his human needs in reciprocity, feeling solid, safe or compact, as a member of the Nation, to which he is a part. Pluralist State will be one whose public power duly constituted, guarantees t...

Soma design is intimately entangled with the politics, not only of design itself, but of bodies. We combine perspectives from soma design, political theory, and Sara Ahmed's work The Cultural Politics of Emotions, to develop five political provocations that reflect on the politics of soma design and the possibilities and frictions therein. Inspired...

John Stuart Mill is central to parallel debates in mainstream contemporary political epistemology and philosophy of federalism concerning the epistemic dimension(s) of legitimate authority. Many scholars invoke Mill to support epistemic arguments for democratic decision-making and decentralized federalism as a means of conferring democratic legitim...

p style="text-align: justify;"> Objective . The article problematizes the theoretical field of gender studies and the concept of “gender”, which are currently vulnerable in the socio-political context. The aim of the article is to determine the range of theories of Russian psychologists capable of solving topical issues in the field of gender socia...

This chapter explains the aim, the background and the most important questions that this book attempts to answer. While proceeding from Hannah Arendt’s thesis of the “break in the (political) tradition” that occurred with the totalitarianisms of the twentieth century, the book analyses some main trends in existing forms of government and their rela...

Brazilian philosopher Roberto Mangabeira Unger, a professor at Harvard University (USA) for over forty years, presents and discusses his perspective on politics in this interview. In it, he discusses elements of his social and political theory, one of the highlights of which is his treatment of institutional issues in an original way that differs f...

This article aims to analyze and highlight the contributions of the Centro de Altos Estudios Nacionales (CAEN) in the construction of the nation state and the consolidation of national security in Peru. It addresses the growth of the institution from its founding as the Centro de Altos Estudios Militares (CAEM) to its transformation into CAEN, and...

The debate on bottom-up approaches in political theory has been recently enriched by Jonathan Floyd’s “normative behaviourism”, an approach that starts from and refers to actual behaviours so as to let normative concerns emerge and political responses be found. Despite its merits, I argue that normative behaviourism suffers from three weaknesses: t...

This contribution to a symposium on Samantha Frost’s Lessons from a Materialist Thinker considers her innovative reinterpretation of Thomas Hobbes’s philosophy, situating him as a precursor of New Materialism. Frost’s reading emphasizes Hobbes’s conception of human beings as ‘thinking bodies’ inextricably intertwined with their environment. This ma...

Este artículo pretende abrir una vía de investigación para explorar en qué sentido la metodología y algunas de las obras de Hannah Arendt pueden ser interpretadas como formas de historia cultural. Esta primera incursión se realizará, en especial, a partir del estudio de tres escritos que coinciden en su época de publicación Rahel Varnhagen (1957),...

Seeing Like an Activist is a profound—and profoundly political—book. Skillfully distilling complex historical evidence into a vivid narrative and advancing a compelling theoretical argument, Pineda unsettles conventional accounts of the civil rights movement to ask what we can learn about the nature and limits of civil disobedience “by reconsiderin...

El presente trabajo propone una sistematización y análisis de las discusiones desarrolladas en el universo conceptual (pos) laclauseano en torno al estatuto ideológico del populismo y, más específicamente, alrededor de la posibilidad de definir como populistas a los emergentes globales de “derecha radical” que surcan el horizonte contemporáneo. Nue...

If we consider Kitāb al-Milla as the foundation for Al-Farabi's other civil and political thoughts, we are not making an exaggerated claim. Abu Nasr Al-Farabi presents the philosophy of his civil and political theory through this treatise, embedding his ideas within it. Upon reflecting on the content of this work, it can be clearly divided into two...

Pineda's book is an original and imaginative reconstruction of activist strategy and political theory, upending the orthodox account of civil disobedience during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Against liberal and democratic theorists who domesticate civil disobedience in the United States, with the aim of legitimizing the nation'...

As environmental problems transcend national boundaries, they come to be a feature of international politics. This paper seeks to draw a distinction between two ways of thinking about the relationship between international political theory and the global environment. It scrutinizes five sets of arguments which suggest that the traditionalist accoun...

This article delves into the relation between the terms social dissonance, necropolitics and Sophocles' tragedy, Antigone. By attempting an interdisciplinary analysis and by bringing together elements of sound studies, political theory and classical literature, I will explore the contemporary dynamics between social dissonance, necropolitics and re...

Resumen: En los últimos 20 años la teorización de Ernesto Laclau del populismo como un instrumento de lucha para proyectos políticos emancipadores se ha vuelto dominante en el campo de la teoría política. Muchos de los autores que siguen la estela de Laclau concuerdan que dicha teoría es suficiente como principio de democratización e inclusión de s...

This study examined inter-party unopposed candidacy in Tanzania. It was prompted by opposition political parties’ consistent protests against unopposed candidacy, a phenomenon that is common in modern democracies. Using data generated through key informant interviews and documentary analysis, the study identifies seven tactics on which unopposed ca...

O livro Reflexões sobre a teoria política do jovem Poulantzas (1968-1974), de Décio Saes e Francisco Farias, consiste na transcrição de diálogos realizados em cinco reuniões entre os dois pesquisadores nas quais foram discutidos textos específicos de Nicos Poulantzas. Como reconhece Farias, por vezes o texto é repetitivo, resultado do discurso oral...

A atualidade da teoria política de Nicos Poulantzas, livro organizado por Tatiana Berringer e Angela Lazagna, apresenta o estado da arte das pesquisas teóricas poulantzianas realizadas no Brasil e na América Latina na última década, com exceção do capítulo de Bob Jessop, autor inglês que contribui com texto inédito traduzido para o português. Em su...

This article argues that compassionate helping has radical political potentials. Observing practices of assistance to and collaboration between newly arrived refugees and established citizens in what has been called the long summer of migration, I argue that hegemonic norms of in-group sharing gave way to cosmopolitan solidarity: When, in the face...

Civic and political education plays an important role in implementing the fundamental task of establishing morality, giving full play to the function of educating people, constructing an all-embracing, all-encompassing and all-encompassing pattern of educating people, and cultivating socialist builders and successors who are all-rounded in morality...

This research tackles the play of Synge "Rider to the Sea" to find out whether the theories of Leech (1983) and Brown and Levinson (1987) can be applied or not to this study. The model of Leech (1983) consists of seven principles and for Brown and Levinson (1987),it consists of two principles of politeness where one of them is positive and the othe...

Kolliniati’s groundbreaking book, Interpreting Human Rights: Narratives from Asylum Centers in Greece and Philosophical Values, challenges the notion that the interpretation and application of human rights primarily occur within the corridors of power in Strasbourg or official European institutions. It argues that such interpretation takes place in...

David Schmidtz's book *Living Together* contains rich discussions of several important topics in political philosophy, political economy, legal philosophy, and moral philosophy. The overall theme tying these topics together is that our theories must be realistic, based on empirical evidence. Ideal theories ignore this. A famous example of such a th...

This paper aims to compare the understanding of human nature in Chanakya‘s Arthashastra and Machiavelli‘s The Prince from the perspective of the Comparative Political Theory. Both these political thinkers belong to varied continents of time and place. While Chanakya belonged to ancient India, Machiavelli belonged to the period of the Renaissance...

Lutas de resistência algorítmica em busca de uma teoria política. O novo campo de tensões aberto pelos investimentos privados e mediáticos na área da inteligência artificial remete-nos para um cenário que pode ser em blemático desta necessária repolitização dos bens (comuns) tecnológicos. Para analisarmos tais tensões (sociais e tecnológicas, dem...

Dette er en omtale av How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy av John Mearsheimer og Sebastian Rosato (Yale University Press, 2023) .

This article discusses the body politic of Yu Hong in the postsocialist Chinese film–Summer Palace (2006). Director Lou Ye places Yu Hong’s body in the sex scenes that metaphorically expresses a traumatic and sensitive political event, the “June Fourth Incident.” The portrayal of sexual intercourse, nudity, and this historical event is the unspeaka...

El patronazgo es una característica informal del régimen político colombiano que constituye un obstáculo para la democracia. Este argumento se presenta como complemento al diagnóstico que el profesor Iván Darío Arango hace de la democracia colombiana, marcada por la anomia y el provincialismo como características de una sociedad lejana del ideal de...

In this article, we evaluate the politics of recommendation engines by focusing on an indispensible feature of their operation: training. We use the notion of training as a key word which helps us link three bodies of knowledge: data science, the history of automation, and aesthetic and political theory. Training is a staple in the operation of alg...

The paper attempts to highlight Muhammad Asad's epistemological postulate as reflected in his groundbreaking works pertaining to the principle of Islamic governance and its basic constitution and foundational structure. In this regard, he formulated the constitutional ideas of Islamic state whose constitution contains the provision of Islamic law t...

In the 21st century, humanity ushered in a wave of artificial intelligence. In the context of big data, generative artificial intelligence has become an important auxiliary tool in the field of education. ChatGPT has gradually entered the learning life of students and reflected its value in ideological and political education in particular. Through...

The idea of a distinctively political normativity came under sustained fire lately. Here I formulate, test, and reject a moderate and promising way of conceiving it. According to this conception, political normativity is akin to the kind of normativity at play in all-things-considered judgments, i.e., those judgments that weight together all the re...

La fuerza de los símbolos se encuentra presente en el culto al poder político y en la persuasión de sus expresiones litúrgicas. El artículo versa sobre el sustrato simbólico del poder en occidente en su relación con lo sagrado. A partir de la filosofía y la teoría política, se analiza la persistencia del ámbito simbólico en el poder unipersonal de...

The study of the rise of Islamic conservatism in the context of local politics has not been the main focus of studies on Islamic conservatism in Indonesia. Studies on Islamic conservatism have so far emphasized the national political aspect, which illustrates that there has been a change in the dynamics of Islam towards a conservative turn. This ar...