After UtopiaPub Date : 2021-09-14DOI: 10.4324/9781003149958-4
Nelli Sargsyan
{"title":"Experience-sharing as feminist praxis: Imagining a future of collective care in Armenia","authors":"Nelli Sargsyan","doi":"10.4324/9781003149958-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003149958-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":211156,"journal":{"name":"After Utopia","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123976748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
After UtopiaPub Date : 2020-04-07DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvrdf1hf.9
Judith N. Shklar
{"title":"Christian Fatalism","authors":"Judith N. Shklar","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvrdf1hf.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvrdf1hf.9","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explains the condition of the absence of all faith that creates the unhappy consciousness and assumes that Christianity could assuage its restless longing. It discusses the loss of all social allegiance as the real source of romantic feeling today and confirms that Christians also feel estrangement from modern history. It also emphasizes how the new secular doctrine could present itself as an alternative since the origin of romantic alienation is now social and not solely religious in character. The chapter addresses why romantics can no longer endure their predicament that tend to seek self-immolation in totalitarian movements. It describes Catholicism as a familiar haven for tired romantics in the 19th century.","PeriodicalId":211156,"journal":{"name":"After Utopia","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115487373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
After UtopiaPub Date : 2020-04-07DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvrdf1hf.10
Judith N. Shklar
{"title":"The End of Radicalism","authors":"Judith N. Shklar","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvrdf1hf.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvrdf1hf.10","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores what answers can be offered to counsels of social despair. It explains why Romanticism refuses to analyze the social world with any degree of thoroughness. It also discusses how Christian fatalism subjects modern history to an excess of simplification in order to satisfy its sense of outrage. The chapter talks about Jean-Paul Sartre, who very characteristically notes that the conformism of Americans is due to their universal rationalism and optimism, although this spirit is no longer encountered among social philosophers in America. It mentions President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points as the last great document to testify of the faith that the advantages of democratic government appeal to all.","PeriodicalId":211156,"journal":{"name":"After Utopia","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127533282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
After UtopiaPub Date : 2020-04-07DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvrdf1hf.6
Judith N. Shklar
{"title":"The Romantic Mind","authors":"Judith N. Shklar","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvrdf1hf.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvrdf1hf.6","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter investigates how Romanticism found its first clear expression in the aesthetic revolt against the Enlightenment. It discusses the awakening of the “unhappy consciousness” even before Romanticism appeared in the literary world, which was at odds with society and every established faith. It also describes how Romanticism was nourished by two streams of feeling: a longing for a more purely aesthetic culture and a profound disgust for the rationalist excesses of the Enlightenment. The chapter provides the distinction between romantic feeling and Romanticism proper, which is particularly important in tracing the origins of the movement. It mentions Jean-Jacques Rousseau as the first great example of romantic feeling, although his philosophy is not romantic at all.","PeriodicalId":211156,"journal":{"name":"After Utopia","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122270794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
After UtopiaPub Date : 2020-04-07DOI: 10.23943/princeton/9780691200859.003.0007
Judith N. Shklar
{"title":"Conclusion","authors":"Judith N. Shklar","doi":"10.23943/princeton/9780691200859.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691200859.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter reviews why the disgust with omnipresent political activity is the greatest incentive to Romanticism. It highlights how politics induced an estrangement from the entire social world and with it a mixture of hatred and anxiety about the future of European culture as a whole. It also explains the reasons why the romantic suffers from political claustrophobia while the social theologian allowed political and cultural involvement to encompass its faith. The chapter analyzes how the new justification of some form of politics as culturally valuable and intellectually necessary answers the quasi-politics of despair. It also talks about skepticism as an attitude of expectation that leads to the unhappy consciousness.","PeriodicalId":211156,"journal":{"name":"After Utopia","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133257434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
After UtopiaPub Date : 2020-04-07DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvrdf1hf.3
Samuel Moyn
{"title":"Foreword to the 2020 edition","authors":"Samuel Moyn","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvrdf1hf.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvrdf1hf.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":211156,"journal":{"name":"After Utopia","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122317093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
After UtopiaPub Date : 2020-04-07DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvrdf1hf.7
Judith N. Shklar
{"title":"The Unhappy Consciousness in Society","authors":"Judith N. Shklar","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvrdf1hf.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvrdf1hf.7","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter points out how the “unhappy consciousness” does not just assert itself against the laws of reason and nature. It mentions the struggles of Prometheus that are part of the revolt of Romanticism against “things as they are.” It also explains the restless longing of Romanticism that finds its most vehement expression in its opposition to all historical and social optimism. The chapter describes romantics that were brought to self-recognition as a result of their radical dissatisfaction with their social environment. It recounts the prevalence of utilitarianism as first target of Romanticism, which of all attitudes is the most repulsive to poetry.","PeriodicalId":211156,"journal":{"name":"After Utopia","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127883053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
After UtopiaPub Date : 2020-04-07DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvrdf1hf.8
Judith N. Shklar
{"title":"The Romanticism of Defeat","authors":"Judith N. Shklar","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvrdf1hf.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvrdf1hf.8","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter looks into the possibility of pure Romanticism no longer existing in the present day, while the “unhappy consciousness” flourishes as never before. It talks about how Romanticism does not express itself today in spontaneous outbursts of feeling, noting that the change in tone has not brought Romanticism an inch closer to traditional philosophy. It also mentions how the unhappy consciousness has become acutely aware of itself as the realization that God is dead and how it analyzes its condition with a detachment unknown to the earlier romantics. The chapter examines the distance between the unique self, the increase of the surrounding world, and the unhappy consciousness that openly admits its sense of meaninglessness in the present. It discusses the survival of aesthetic idealism in its negative form as a basis for social criticism.","PeriodicalId":211156,"journal":{"name":"After Utopia","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133644244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}