{"title":"Reinventing the Humanities","authors":"Wayne Hudson","doi":"10.3817/0922200033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3817/0922200033","url":null,"abstract":"The humanities are currently under pressure from vocational studies and electronic technologies. The more education is mechanized and corporatized, the less room there is often thought to be for the Bildung that the modern humanities aimed to impart. At the same time, radical critiques of the neoliberal university have appeared, implicating it in colonial practices, racism, and the promotion of casteism, hierarchy, and inequality. Currently there are major schisms between defenders of the traditional humanities and advocates of technologically based higher education, advocates of radically politicized higher education, and advocates of entirely vocational training, which dispenses with the humanities altogether.","PeriodicalId":43573,"journal":{"name":"Telos","volume":"22 6 1","pages":"33 - 43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82919925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Paradoxical Academic Cultural Revolution: A Long March to a Capitalist Road","authors":"M. Kelly","doi":"10.3817/0922200153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3817/0922200153","url":null,"abstract":"1. Techno-hegemony I would like to begin by juxtaposing a personal anecdote of mine with a recent online “hot take.” The former is a remembrance of a meeting of the members of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex University with our dean in 2010, at which he was explaining why the university was effectively shutting us down. Against the invocation of conventional norms of higher education, he offered a contrasting vision of a university that was open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and that had no students at all. Even today, more than a decade…","PeriodicalId":43573,"journal":{"name":"Telos","volume":"3 1","pages":"153 - 169"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82349384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Within an American Grain","authors":"M. S. Weiner","doi":"10.3817/0622199175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3817/0622199175","url":null,"abstract":"Timothy W. Luke, The Travails of Trumpification. Candor, NY: Telos Press Publishing, 2021. Pp. x + 163.","PeriodicalId":43573,"journal":{"name":"Telos","volume":"1 1","pages":"175 - 179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89224873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"China and the West: Methodologies for Comparison","authors":"Xudong Zhang","doi":"10.3817/0622199020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3817/0622199020","url":null,"abstract":"When it comes to methodologies of comparison between China and the West, it is difficult to recall many meaningful discussions based on the conventional, by now largely obsolete, textbook formula of “influence studies” and “parallel studies” as stock “methods” in comparative literature as an academic discipline.1 To compare, say, landscape poetry or female protagonists in Chinese and European literary traditions almost invariably leads to something too capricious or too general. Such studies often result in mere explanations, even descriptions, of cultural features or aesthetic distinctions standing outside the space of critical interpretation.","PeriodicalId":43573,"journal":{"name":"Telos","volume":"40 1","pages":"20 - 34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88809002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sartre","authors":"Eleni Mahaira-Odoni","doi":"10.3817/0981049212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3817/0981049212","url":null,"abstract":"While the imminent Pléiade edition of Sartre's literary writings promises to attract fresh interest in many of his texts so far unpublished, Sartre's known oeuvre has continued to produce a steady flow of commentaries. In an article commemorating the first anniversary of Sartre's death, Michel Contat has logged a year rich in colloquia, books and artistic events honoring Sartre in all French-speaking countries as well as Germany, Portugal, England, and the United States. What most recent tributes share is a heightened urgency for capturing the global sensibility at the heart of each Sartrean enterprise, regardless of particularities in his choice of context or genre.","PeriodicalId":43573,"journal":{"name":"Telos","volume":"41 1","pages":"212 - 216"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74531040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unemployment","authors":"Antonio Carlo","doi":"10.3817/1278038005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3817/1278038005","url":null,"abstract":"It is widely accepted that in monopoly capitalism there is a tendency toward growing accumulation and production without an adequate and proportional rise in employment. According to one law, a minimum increase of 4 percent in the GNP is necessary to prevent an increase in unemployment, and a much larger one to reduce it. This has been confirmed by the small recovery of 1976-77. This state of affairs, however, was already evident during the 1960s when, despite the boom, there were already clear indications to discourage the optimism of that period and to infer that, in terms of employment, capital was heading for disaster.","PeriodicalId":43573,"journal":{"name":"Telos","volume":"297 1","pages":"31 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74782868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
TelosPub Date : 2021-09-16DOI: 10.15304/TELOS.24.1-2.7154
G. Martín, F. Javier
{"title":"Triaje y ética de desastres","authors":"G. Martín, F. Javier","doi":"10.15304/TELOS.24.1-2.7154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15304/TELOS.24.1-2.7154","url":null,"abstract":"La investigacion que ha dado como resultado este articulo esta vinculada al proyecto Civic Constellation \u0000III: Democracy, Constitutionalism, and Anti-Liberalism (PGC2018-093573-B-100) y a mi participacion como docente \u0000en el Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Public Health in Disasters, coordinado por la Universidad \u0000de Oviedo, la Universidad de Nicosia y el Karolinska Institutet de Suecia. Agradezco a los y las colegas del \u0000grupo de investigacion Etica Salubrista para la Accion, Cuidados y Observacion Social (ESPACyOS) sus enriquecedores \u0000comentarios a la version previa de este articulo.","PeriodicalId":43573,"journal":{"name":"Telos","volume":"34 1","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79841070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Divine Violence, Profane Peace: Walter Benjamin, Rabbis for Human Rights, and Peace in Israel–Palestine","authors":"Jon Simons","doi":"10.3817/0920192041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3817/0920192041","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: Disaffection with Peace In this article I make a case for a Judaic conception of peace, derived from the work of Walter Benjamin, that might play a modest role in building Israeli–Palestinian peace. There is a need for Judaic notions of peace to counter significant disaffection with “peace” among Jewish Israelis.1 “Peace” is most often associated with a binding negotiated agreement, or the “peace process.” When the Camp David negotiations broke down in July 2000, most Jewish Israelis and even peace activists blamed the Palestinian side.2 The title of Tamar Hermann's book, The Israeli Peace Movement: A Shattered Dream,3…","PeriodicalId":43573,"journal":{"name":"Telos","volume":"17 1","pages":"41 - 66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87954515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"After Liberalism?","authors":"P. Gottfried","doi":"10.2307/j.ctt7rtpk","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt7rtpk","url":null,"abstract":"It is natural that the appearance of Telos' 100th issue should evoke the same contentiousness among its editors that one finds in all the back issues. There is the predictable lively discussion whether Dialectic of the Enlightenment and other texts of choice for Telos continue to be relevant. Some also wonder whether the magazine still has — or ever had — a clear and defensible prise de position amid the political programs of this by now waning century. All this is, for me, profoundly ironic. For most of my life I have been an old-style European liberal and, in American politics, an unreconstructed Taft Republican. I have literally reeked of liberalism to the point of defending Max Weber's “value-free science” and Vilfredo Pareto's metodo sperimentale.","PeriodicalId":43573,"journal":{"name":"Telos","volume":"16 1","pages":"169 - 172"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77406210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gender","authors":"L. Birken","doi":"10.3817/0385063219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3817/0385063219","url":null,"abstract":"The emergence of a consumer civilization is associated with the extension of the democratic model to embrace both men and women. But from the gendered viewpoint inherited from past epochs, this democratization may appear as a dissolution. In Gender, Illich criticizes this psychosexual democratization, thus establishing himself as one of the most elegant theoreticians of the sexual counterrevolution. Highly idiosyncratic, he differs from other cultural conservatives such as Lasch and Gilder, who criticize the consumerist values of the sexual revolution from a 19th-century, quasi-productivist perspective. Illich criticizes this very perspective for its modernity. Collapsing the consumerist into the productivist viewpoint, he presents them as different aspects of the same capitalist civilization.","PeriodicalId":43573,"journal":{"name":"Telos","volume":"1 1","pages":"219 - 223"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89960986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}