"If only I were better informed," remarks the Charwoman in Bourdieu's cross-section
of French societal, political participation.
Here Bourdieu, establishes the statistical viewpoint on the interest in politics, a view that is very much a picture of less-than- ideal political participation. Men appear in the data to have more of an interest than women, in politics, no doubt a function of fewer opportunities for education of women, or at least the absence of a lengthy tradition of schooling for women.
Here Bourdieu, establishes the statistical viewpoint on the interest in politics, a view that is very much a picture of less-than- ideal political participation. Men appear in the data to have more of an interest than women, in politics, no doubt a function of fewer opportunities for education of women, or at least the absence of a lengthy tradition of schooling for women.
"He uses the words freedom, progress, etc., as a gargle...," remarks Nordau of
Ibsen, in a polemical gesture that seeks to include only dominant
classes in world literature.
Ibsen's concept of freedom was not necessary for truth, according to Nordau, but rather the biological constraints on literature provided a stronger determination on artistic merit. The so-called picture of health needed to be rethought, in the same way in which Nordau asks for Ibsen to rethink "freedom".
Ibsen's concept of freedom was not necessary for truth, according to Nordau, but rather the biological constraints on literature provided a stronger determination on artistic merit. The so-called picture of health needed to be rethought, in the same way in which Nordau asks for Ibsen to rethink "freedom".
Ibsen was uncharacteristic of one represented in the system of political opinion,
dissemination, and power, in his century. With his dramatic success
with women, more than men, he positioned himself within a space
of relative political indifference saved only by the progressive
ideologies reflected in his stories, and saved only momentarily
at that: his stories are the first hideout under shady ideas
about progress, obscuring the view of anyone looking to understand
literature through political life, and political life through
literature.
Fiction, whether a drama or a novella, science understands as having a complexity that interacts with the social and political worlds. Although, while discernable, ultimate causes should not be linked to ultimate effects only to other causes, and while similarly effects should not be linked to causes, Robert Jervis has provided for complexity with alternative effects or causes, with highly contrasting intentions and outcomes. Everyone knows that the author's intention and the literary product can be extremely different, so much so that symbolically, a speaker or a writer (in practice) speaks or writes in multiple tongues at once--or symbolically, a traveller navigates two directions at once, taking a diagnol route which is a synthesis of north or south and west or east. This basis of literary construction is a synthesis into complete realizations of intention and completely other intentions, obtained from realizations of the work in the act of reading by readers. The reader, too, is responsible for a synthesis that can make perplexing, practices and theories of intentions and outcomes.
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When Literature Informs Us About Politics
...Is there any information in literature as high art that cannot be discovered and conveyed by the literature of social science? I think there is.(Dannhauser, 1994, 190)
...Moreover, if poetry is of equal worth to philosophy in teaching understandings it may be that poetry is ultimately of greater worth because reading it yields more pleasure. Who would not prefer an evening at a Mozart opera to an evening of the study of Kant? That too is not a rhetorical question. I have known people I admire who do in fact prefer Kant to Mozart(ibid,191-2).
--Michigan State University
...As I have stated it, this controversy has something of a "chicken vs. the egg" ring to it. One may feel tempted to split the difference and say that a democratic polity and a democratic culture mutually interact and reinforce each other. Still, it is worth examining the two positions in their stark opposition because they point to an important controversy concerning the motive forces in human history.(Cantor;1994, 193)
--University of Virginia
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Fiction, whether a drama or a novella, science understands as having a complexity that interacts with the social and political worlds. Although, while discernable, ultimate causes should not be linked to ultimate effects only to other causes, and while similarly effects should not be linked to causes, Robert Jervis has provided for complexity with alternative effects or causes, with highly contrasting intentions and outcomes. Everyone knows that the author's intention and the literary product can be extremely different, so much so that symbolically, a speaker or a writer (in practice) speaks or writes in multiple tongues at once--or symbolically, a traveller navigates two directions at once, taking a diagnol route which is a synthesis of north or south and west or east. This basis of literary construction is a synthesis into complete realizations of intention and completely other intentions, obtained from realizations of the work in the act of reading by readers. The reader, too, is responsible for a synthesis that can make perplexing, practices and theories of intentions and outcomes.
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When Literature Informs Us About Politics
...Is there any information in literature as high art that cannot be discovered and conveyed by the literature of social science? I think there is.(Dannhauser, 1994, 190)
...Moreover, if poetry is of equal worth to philosophy in teaching understandings it may be that poetry is ultimately of greater worth because reading it yields more pleasure. Who would not prefer an evening at a Mozart opera to an evening of the study of Kant? That too is not a rhetorical question. I have known people I admire who do in fact prefer Kant to Mozart(ibid,191-2).
--Michigan State University
...As I have stated it, this controversy has something of a "chicken vs. the egg" ring to it. One may feel tempted to split the difference and say that a democratic polity and a democratic culture mutually interact and reinforce each other. Still, it is worth examining the two positions in their stark opposition because they point to an important controversy concerning the motive forces in human history.(Cantor;1994, 193)
--University of Virginia
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