This study examines the responses of European intellectuals since the 1880s to an increasingly virulent and organized anti-Semitism in Europe, and the ways in which they sought to understand the character and origins of the hatred, and to fathom and work out the problems, terms and possibilities for Jewish identity. Focusing on the French figures Bernard Lazare and Marcel Proust from the time of the Dreyfus Affair and then on the Frankfurt School of social theory and Hannah Arendt from the period around and after the Second World War, the thesis argues that these thinkers created a common historical-psychological discourse on anti-Semitism, which attempted to confront, comprehend and explain the historically critical issues of anti-Semitism and Jewish identity. The study explores the discourse’s fundamental assumptions, insights, and arguments regarding the origins, character, and magnitude of anti-Semitism. It also analyzes its contentions concerning the contradictions, sources, and alternatives for Jewish identity. But, more, it claims that, despite their frequent perceptiveness, these figures’ interpretations of the two concerns proved limited, deficient, even deeply flawed. The thesis seeks to show that its intellectuals’ attempt to understand the twin issues was hence a failure to grasp and interpret them adequately, and to resolve them. It contends further that what impaired the authors’ engagements with anti-Semitism and Jewish selfhood were ideas that were fundamental to their thinking. These intellectual factors, moreover, connected the figures solidly to important historical contexts that they inhabited, thereby implicating the significant settings in the epistemological errors and defeats. These momentous ideas thus operated as both contextualizing and destructive forces—linking the intellectuals to their home contexts and transforming their understanding of their historic problematic into a misunderstanding. / Thesis (Ph.D, History) -- Queen's University, 2009-04-16 08:34:25.821

In this thesis, Lisa Figge analyzes the political space of ecological citizenship by theorizing her art practice. Beginning with an Arendtian lens, Figge creates projects in the vein of New Genre Public Art, to trace the qualitatively-distinct activities of the public sphere, in which ecological citizens appear. The art practices of Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Colette Urban, Pat Aylesworth, Helen and Newton Harrison help move this critique along. Then, taking Judith Butler’s thinking on the bond between speech and action, or speech acts, Figge situates her art practice and thesis writing as an account of herself as an ecological citizen. Figge is interested in finding ways to multiply opportunities, for her and others, to perform concerned engagement with the world. In order to begin this process Figge acts out and analyses her three art interventions: Madame E and her suit of environmentally conscious a(r)mour, Ecological Citizen in Training, and 86 Hands on Wolfe Island. In giving an account of herself, she shows how our aptitude for sorting things should not be used to override our capacity to make a meaningful life. The art exhibition Dust to Dust, 2010 is the twin of this accounting, which was held at Queen’s University’s Union Gallery. / Thesis (Master, Environmental Studies) -- Queen's University, 2010-09-06 18:48:33.277

By way of five microhistories focusing on the lives of Cecelia Davies Sylvester, Hannah Director, Leon Koerner, Harry Adaskin, and Nathan Nemetz, this study examines various modes of integration for Jews within particular periods of British Columbian (BC) history. Each microhistory explores the boundaries that were crossed and fostered by Jews whose careers and social contributions led them outside the confines of the established Jewish community. These Jews represent the vanguard of Jewish integration for each era to which they contributed.

Ascetic Citizens: Religious Austerity and Political Crisis in Anglo-American Literature, 1681-1799, attends to a number of scenes of voluntary self-restraint in literary, political, and religious writings of the long eighteenth century, scenes that stage, what Alexis de Tocqueville calls, “daily small acts of self-denial” in the service of the nation. Existing studies of asceticism in Anglo-American culture during the period are extremely slim. Ascetic Citizens fills an important gap in the scholarship by re-framing religious practices of seclusion and self-denial as a broadly-defined set of civic practices that permeate the political, religious, and gender discourses of late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Anglo-American culture. This thesis focuses on the transatlantic relevance of the ascetic citizen—a figure whose rhetorical utility derives from its capacity, as a marker of political and religious moderation, to deploy individual practices of religious austerity as a means of suturing extreme political binaries during times of political crisis. My conception of asceticism’s role in Anglo-American society is informed by an understanding of ascetic citizenship as a cluster of concepts and cultural practices linking the ascetic’s focus on bodily control to republican theories of political subjectivity. The notion that political membership presupposes a renunciation of personal liberties on the part of the individual citizen represents one of the key assumptions of ascetic citizenship. The future guarantee of individual political rights is ensured by present renunciations of self-interest. As such, the ascetic citizen functions according to the same economy by which the religious ascetic’s right to future eternal reward is ensured by present acts of pious self-abnegation. That is to say, republican political liberty is enabled by what we might call an ascetic prerequisite in which the voluntary self-sacrifice of civic rights guarantees the state’s protection of such rights from the infringements of one’s neighbour. While the abstemious nature of ascetic practice implies efficiency grounded in economic frugality, bodily self-restraint, and physical isolation, the ascetic citizen functions as the sanctioned perversion of a normative devotional practice that circumvents the division between profane self-interest and sacred disinterestedness. The relevance of ascetic citizenship to political culture is its political fluidity, its potential to exceed the ideological functions of the dominant culture while revealing the tension that exists between endorsement of, and dissent from, the civic norm. Counter-intuitively, the ascetic citizen’s practice is marked by a celebration of moderation, of the via media. Forging a space at the threshold between endorsement/dissent, the ascetic citizen maps the dialectic movement of cultural extremism, forging a rhetorically useful site of ascetic deferral characterized by the subject’s ascetic withdrawal from making critical decisions. Ascetic Citizens provides a detailed investigation of how eighteenth-century Anglo-American authors such as Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Hannah Webster Foster, and Charles Brockden Brown conceive of individual subjectivity as it exists in the pause or retired moment between competing political orders.

Thesis (DPhil)--University of Stellenbosch, 2005. / Bibliography. Also available via the Internet.

Cette recherche, préoccupée de traiter les questions inaugurées par le mouvement de la Réforme Psychiatrique et, par conséquent, par la restructuration politique de la prise en charge des sujets porteurs de troubles mentaux graves, vise à situer et à délimiter les questions essentielles que ce mouvement impose au champ de la santé mentale. Pour cela, en prenant comme point de départ le texte d’Hannah Arendt intitulé Entre o passado e o futuro, ce travail envisage de souligner la position adoptée par la réhabilitation psychosociale depuis que le mouvement de la Réforme Psychiatrique a été déclenché, ainsi que d’examiner l’évolution du concept de réhabilitation psychosociale et de faire des recherches sur les possibilités d’action dans le cadre de l’attention psychosociale. Cette étude s’est organisée à partir de l’analyse de la dyade expérience-transmission – comprise par le biais du paradigme psychanalytique et basé sur les concepts de transfert de S. Freud et de structure moebienne de Jacques Lacan – et y sont présentés les dispositifs thérapeutiques qui sont en train de développement dans le Caps Cais Mental Centro, tout comme les voies de transmission de l’expérience clinique que de tels dispositifs peuvent rendre possible pour le champ de l’attention psychosociale, en traitant l’expérience du Projeto Insere comme pratique dans le réseau de la réhabilitation psychosociale, sa transmission et sa possibilité d’insertion dans l’histoire du mouvement de la réforme de l’assistance sans le rendre un paradigme ou un protocole. / A presente pesquisa, interessada em abordar questões inauguradas pelo movimento da Reforma Psiquiátrica e, consequentemente, pela reestruturação política do atendimento a sujeitos portadores de transtornos mentais graves, busca situar e delimitar as questões essenciais que este movimento impõe ao campo da saúde mental. Para tanto, tomando como ponto de partida o texto de Hannah Arendt, Entre o passado e o futuro, propõe-se a destacar a posição que a reabilitação psicossocial vem assumindo desde que este movimento foi deflagrado, bem como examinar a evolução do conceito de reabilitação psicossocial e investigar as possibilidades de atuação no campo da atenção psicossocial. Também utiliza-se Walter Benjamin como autor central desta tese para desenvolver o termo experiência. O estudo organizou-se a partir da análise da díade experiência-transmissão – entendida a partir do paradigma psicanalítico e com base no conceito de transferência, de S. Freud, e na noção de estrutura moebiana, de Jacques Lacan – e, nele, são apresentados os dispositivos terapêuticos que vem sendo desenvolvidos no CAPS Cais Mental Centro, assim como as vias de transmissão da experiência clínica que tais dispositivos podem propiciar para o campo da atenção psicossocial, abordando a experiência do Projeto Insere como prática na rede de reabilitação psicossocial, sua transmissão e possibilidade de inserção na história no movimento de reforma da assistência sem torná-lo paradigma ou protocolo. / The present research, concerned with the questions raised by the movement of Psychiatric Reform and, therefore, by the political restructuring of the care of subjects with severe mental disorders, aims to situate and delimit the key questions this movement imposes on the field of mental health. For this task, taking as a starting point Hannah Arendt's text, Between Past and Future, it intends to highlight the place that psychosocial rehabilitation has assumed since this movement was started, as well as to examine the evolution of the concept of psychosocial rehabilitation and to investigate the possibilities of action in the field of psychosocial care. The study was built from the analysis of the experience-transmission dyad – understood from a psychoanalitic paradigm and based on the concepts of transference, of S. Freud, and Moebian structure, of Jacques Lacan –, and it presents the therapeutic tools that have been developed at the Psychosocial Care Center Cais Mental Centro, as well as the paths of transmission of the clinical experience these tools may provide to the field of psychosocial care, addressing the experience of Project Insere as a practice in the network of psychosocial rehabilitation, its transmission and possibility of insertion in the history of the movement of care reform without making it a paradigm or protocol.

CABRAL, João Edson Gonçalves. A problemática do trabalho humano em Marx e Arendt: de atividade constituidora do humano ao resgate da dignidade da política. 2013. 138f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Filosofia, Fortaleza (CE), 2013. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2014-01-09T15:54:31Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2013-DIS-JEGCABRAL.pdf: 735353 bytes, checksum: 14c2cded880284b409123896de248867 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo(marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2014-01-09T15:56:09Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2013-DIS-JEGCABRAL.pdf: 735353 bytes, checksum: 14c2cded880284b409123896de248867 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-01-09T15:56:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2013-DIS-JEGCABRAL.pdf: 735353 bytes, checksum: 14c2cded880284b409123896de248867 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / This research has as proposals explain the Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Hannah Arendt’s (1905-1976) conceptions of labor, considering the internal articulations presents in Manuscritos-Econômico-Filosóficos (Marx), and A Condição Humana (Arendt). In the initial part of this research we will present the Marx’s conception of labor analyzing the universal labor, such as, the way that the labor constitutes the sociability. In the sequence, the second and last part of this research, we will present the Hannah Arendt’s critics of Marx’s labor conception, showing the action’s category as a nuclear and complementary aspect of Arendt’s critics, what result in a necessary rescue of politics as a kind of face a serious human’s contemporary crisis. / A presente pesquisa tem como proposta explicitar as concepções de Karl Marx (1818-1883) e Hannah Arendt (1905-1976) referentes à atividade humana do trabalho, considerando principalmente as articulações internas mais decisivas em relação a esta problemática, contidas em dois textos referenciais dos autores: os Manuscritos Econômico-Filosóficos, no caso de Marx, e A Condição Humana, no caso de Arendt. Na parte inicial da pesquisa buscaremos apresentar a compreensão de Marx sobre a temática do trabalho, investigando a universalidade do trabalho, ou seja, o modo como o trabalho assume o estatuto de constituidor da sociabilidade. Em seguida, na segunda parte finalizadora da pesquisa, buscaremos delinear a crítica de Hannah Arendt à concepção marxiana do trabalho, apresentando a categoria ação como aspecto nuclear e complementar da crítica arendtiana à Marx, culminando na necessidade de resgate da política em Arendt como forma de enfrentamento da vida banalizada da epocalidade em curso.

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Cette recherche, préoccupée de traiter les questions inaugurées par le mouvement de la Réforme Psychiatrique et, par conséquent, par la restructuration politique de la prise en charge des sujets porteurs de troubles mentaux graves, vise à situer et à délimiter les questions essentielles que ce mouvement impose au champ de la santé mentale. Pour cela, en prenant comme point de départ le texte d’Hannah Arendt intitulé Entre o passado e o futuro, ce travail envisage de souligner la position adoptée par la réhabilitation psychosociale depuis que le mouvement de la Réforme Psychiatrique a été déclenché, ainsi que d’examiner l’évolution du concept de réhabilitation psychosociale et de faire des recherches sur les possibilités d’action dans le cadre de l’attention psychosociale. Cette étude s’est organisée à partir de l’analyse de la dyade expérience-transmission – comprise par le biais du paradigme psychanalytique et basé sur les concepts de transfert de S. Freud et de structure moebienne de Jacques Lacan – et y sont présentés les dispositifs thérapeutiques qui sont en train de développement dans le Caps Cais Mental Centro, tout comme les voies de transmission de l’expérience clinique que de tels dispositifs peuvent rendre possible pour le champ de l’attention psychosociale, en traitant l’expérience du Projeto Insere comme pratique dans le réseau de la réhabilitation psychosociale, sa transmission et sa possibilité d’insertion dans l’histoire du mouvement de la réforme de l’assistance sans le rendre un paradigme ou un protocole. / A presente pesquisa, interessada em abordar questões inauguradas pelo movimento da Reforma Psiquiátrica e, consequentemente, pela reestruturação política do atendimento a sujeitos portadores de transtornos mentais graves, busca situar e delimitar as questões essenciais que este movimento impõe ao campo da saúde mental. Para tanto, tomando como ponto de partida o texto de Hannah Arendt, Entre o passado e o futuro, propõe-se a destacar a posição que a reabilitação psicossocial vem assumindo desde que este movimento foi deflagrado, bem como examinar a evolução do conceito de reabilitação psicossocial e investigar as possibilidades de atuação no campo da atenção psicossocial. Também utiliza-se Walter Benjamin como autor central desta tese para desenvolver o termo experiência. O estudo organizou-se a partir da análise da díade experiência-transmissão – entendida a partir do paradigma psicanalítico e com base no conceito de transferência, de S. Freud, e na noção de estrutura moebiana, de Jacques Lacan – e, nele, são apresentados os dispositivos terapêuticos que vem sendo desenvolvidos no CAPS Cais Mental Centro, assim como as vias de transmissão da experiência clínica que tais dispositivos podem propiciar para o campo da atenção psicossocial, abordando a experiência do Projeto Insere como prática na rede de reabilitação psicossocial, sua transmissão e possibilidade de inserção na história no movimento de reforma da assistência sem torná-lo paradigma ou protocolo. / The present research, concerned with the questions raised by the movement of Psychiatric Reform and, therefore, by the political restructuring of the care of subjects with severe mental disorders, aims to situate and delimit the key questions this movement imposes on the field of mental health. For this task, taking as a starting point Hannah Arendt's text, Between Past and Future, it intends to highlight the place that psychosocial rehabilitation has assumed since this movement was started, as well as to examine the evolution of the concept of psychosocial rehabilitation and to investigate the possibilities of action in the field of psychosocial care. The study was built from the analysis of the experience-transmission dyad – understood from a psychoanalitic paradigm and based on the concepts of transference, of S. Freud, and Moebian structure, of Jacques Lacan –, and it presents the therapeutic tools that have been developed at the Psychosocial Care Center Cais Mental Centro, as well as the paths of transmission of the clinical experience these tools may provide to the field of psychosocial care, addressing the experience of Project Insere as a practice in the network of psychosocial rehabilitation, its transmission and possibility of insertion in the history of the movement of care reform without making it a paradigm or protocol.

O direito à verdade frente a graves violações de direitos humanos foi criado recentemente e tem um significado jurídico que permanece incerto em diversos aspectos relevantes. As divergências em torno do seu conceito, que ainda está em formação, geram problemas práticos quando se busca tornar esse direito efetivo. A tese analisa a questão que está na base do debate jurídico-dogmático sobre esse direito, a saber, o significado que o termo verdade adquire ao se tornar o seu objeto. É feita uma investigação sobre a forma como este tema é abordado pelos estudos sobre justiça de transição e sobre como se deu a emergência e o desenvolvimento do direito à verdade no direito internacional dos direitos humanos, nas esferas universal e interamericana. O objetivo é, depois, buscar compreender o que, de um ponto de vista teórico, fez com que surgisse na história e no pensamento político-jurídico a necessidade de sua criação e passou a alimentar o esforço para a sua conceituação. Essa análise aponta que a verdade almejada com o direito em estudo tem outras dimensões para além da busca de informações desconhecidas sobre casos individuais de violações a direitos humanos. Como o tema da verdade, sabidamente, é de enorme extensão no campo filosófico, o presente trabalho faz uso de temas de reflexão de Hannah Arendt, que para essa temática tem tido grande repercussão inclusive em sede doutrinária, com o fim de, por meio de um desenvolvimento extensivo, examinar as diferentes dimensões do problema. / The right to the truth concerning gross human rights violations was created recently, and has a legal meaning that remains uncertain in many relevant aspects. The disagreements about its concept, which is still in development, cause practical problems when one tries to make this right effective. The thesis analyses the issue that underlies the legal-dogmatic debate about this right, i.e., the meaning of the term truth when it becomes its object. An investigation is undertaken on how this theme is addressed by studies on transitional justice and also on the emergence and development of the right to the truth in international human rights law, in the universal and in the inter-American systems. The goal is then to try to understand what, from a theoretical point of view, led to the emergence in history and political-legal thought of the need for its creation, and began to feed the effort to its conceptualization. This analysis indicates that the truth sought with the right examined here has dimensions other than the search for unknown information about individual cases of human rights violations. The theme of truth being, as known, a subject of enormous extension in the philosophical field, the present study makes use of topics of reflection by Hannah Arendt, which have had a great repercussion on this subject even in legal dogmatic thought, in order to examine, through an extensive development, the different dimensions of the problem. By doing so, it is intended to shed light on the way the conceptualization of the right to the truth is being consolidated and on the difficulties it faces.