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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Unreason"”.
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Public Unreason: Essays on Political Disagreement
<p>Why is political disagreement such a persistent and pervasive feature of contemporary societies? Many political philosophers answer by pointing to moral pluralism and the complexity of relevant non-moral facts. In Chapter 1, I argue that this answer is seriously inadequate. Drawing on work from …
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Whose madness is it anyway: perspectives from the voice of unreason
Overview: Currently service users views are included as part of the diagnostic construction. The impact of mental health language is difficult to explore as terminology is shifting through the decades. The term madness has survived. Therefore constructions of this term and its societal and …
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Das Prinzip vom Grund bei Kant und Meillassoux. Über Anfangs- und Ungründe des post-metaphysischen Denkens
… in Kant and Meillassoux: On the Reason and Unreason of Post-metaphysical Thought. The aim of this thesis is to probe the alleged grounds of post-metaphysical thought in order to unearth its foundations. This genetic-systematic inquiry thus not only aims to scrutinize possible interpretations …
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Advanced ideas, Anachronistic landscapes: The Contradictions of Science in Machado de Assis
… this research examines how a broad concept of ‘unreason’ critiques modern state institutions such as hospitals, museums, prisons and government-sponsored medical projects. The critique extends to the self-professed liberal and politically independent scientific discourse in Brazil in the late …
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The Subaltern Clinic
… Subaltern Clinic explores a certain legacy of unreason that Sigmund Freud identified throughout the course of his writings as the "death drive," or the compulsion to repeat. In Freud's work, the death drive is often thought as the opposite of the pleasure principle, which situates the …
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Madness and narrative understanding: A comparison of two female firsthand narratives of madness in the pre and post enlightenment periods.
… development of conceptualisations of reason and unreason, the rise of psychiatry and the marginalisation of the voice of madness. I argue that this marginalisation is continued in narrative research where the focus is on the stories of the physically ill, rather than madness. The narrative method …
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Perceptions of illicit drugs and drug users: myth-understandings and policy consequences
… based is often the result of fear, prejudice and unreason. The core of the submission, eight papers researching the dangerous adulteration of illicit drugs, reflects these issues strongly. An area almost untouched by social science prior to this research these papers represent an attempt to pull …
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The Discourse of Racial Violence: Chicago, 1914--1923
… arguments. By identifying racial violence with unreason, though, these elites suggested that a similarly restrained and rational black elite could work with respectable whites to maintain order. African-American leaders had also identified ""hoodlums"" as responsible for the riot, yet also …
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Embracing the Wound of Contingency: Transcribing Reality in Supernatural Horror and Found Footage
… to implicate an absolute contingency or unreason structuring reality: in effect, anything could happen for no reason at all. Meillassoux suggests the trauma of the contingent event and the sudden impossibility of inductive science in its wake may be explored in an “Extro-Science Fiction” …
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The Reconciliation of Science and Religion in Symbolo-Fideism
… twentieth-century conflict between reason and unreason, of which the nineteenth-century battle between science and religion was but the opening salvo.</p>