Social Research articles from December 1998

Social Research archives from December 1998

The "Healing" Value of Truth-telling: Chances and Social Conditions in a Secularized World.
December 22, 1998... Introduction TO ASK for truth-telling in our present public or political climate seems to be a very naive request. Everybody knows that politics as well as our private lives are full of lies, and this is not new or modern, but a long...

Confronting the Past and Creating the Future: The Redemptive Value of Truth Telling(*).(South Africa)
December 22, 1998... NELSON Mandela's Government in South Africa was elected under an interim constitution. It ended with these words: This constitution provides a historic bridge between the past of a deeply divided society, characterised by strife,...

Continuity or Rupture: The City, Post-Apartheid.(South Africa)
December 22, 1998... Introduction Since coming into power in April 1994, the democratically elected South African government, led by the African National Congress (ANC), has begun to address the massive legacy of apartheid. Deracializing and equalizing the...

What Shall We Tell the Children?(*).(children's rights to science education)
December 22, 1998... "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me," the proverb goes. And since, like most proverbs, this one captures at least part of the truth, it makes sense that Amnesty International should have devoted most of its...

Language, Mythology, and Enlightenment: Historical Notes on Horkheimer and Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment.
December 22, 1998... Turning Fifty Fifty is an awkward age, for books no less than people. While it is not quite time to think of it as inhabiting a different age, there are difficulties in viewing a work of social criticism written in 1947 as a commentary on...

Writings, Ruins, and Their Reading: The Dead Sea Discoveries as a Case Study in Theory Formation and Scientific Interpretation(*).
December 22, 1998... Foreword SCIENTIFIC research in various disciplines is itself often the object of study by philosophers and others. This essay takes up a case study from the field of research, known as Qumran studies, that has arisen as a result of the...

The Prophet and the Dandy: Philosophy as a Way of Life in Nietzsche and Foucault.
December 22, 1998... More than a theoretical discipline, philosophy was once a way of life. To be a philosopher entailed striving for happiness, or peace of mind, aiming at one's goal by living one's life according to a thoughtfully examined set of precepts and...

Tolerance as Grace and as Rightful Recognition(*).
December 22, 1998... 1. Tolerance as Grace and as Right The history of the concept of tolerance suggests a major theoretical distinction. Tolerance in the past (even in such Enlightenment writers as Locke, Voltaire, and Mendelssohn) had a patronizing...

The Ecole Libre at the New School 1941-1946.
December 22, 1998... Prologue: Those Who Did Not Come In 1939, Marc Bloch reached the apex of the French academic pyramid. Cofounder with Lucien Febvre of Annales, the journal that revolutionized social and economic history, he was also an ardent practitioner...

Adolph Lowe's Political Economics: A Review Essay.(Review)
December 22, 1998... The publication of a new collection of essays edited by Harald Hagemann and Heinz D. Kurz(1) gives occasion to reflect on Adolph Lowe's rich scientific legacy. Lowe, who died in 1995 at the age of 103, was for nearly forty years, beginning in...