Social Research articles from June 2003

Social Research archives from June 2003

Editor's introduction.(Editorial)
June 22, 2003... Unlike most of our volumes, this is one of those occasionally recurring issues that has no single theme. However, although the papers that follow bear no particular thematic relation to each other, all but four do have a different kind of...

Remarks at new school university's sixty-seventh commencement ceremony.
June 22, 2003... A UNIVERSITY commencement is an occasion for congratulations to those awarded degrees, and for celebration of the occasion itself. Let me begin my remarks this afternoon by saying how pleased I am to participate in this celebration, and all the...

An interview with Professor Hans Jonas.(Interview)
June 22, 2003... IN THE spring of 1990, the author conducted an interview spanning four long mornings with Professor Hans Jonas at his home in New Rochelle, New York. Professor Jonas taught philosophy at the New School for Social Research from 1955 to 1976....

Wittgenstein's pragmatic strain *.
June 22, 2003... 1. A CENTRAL debate within conversations about Wittgenstein's later philosophy turns on the significance of what is sometimes called the "pragmatic strain" in his writings. At issue in the debate is Wittgenstein's tendency to urge...

Love and law: Hegel's critique of morality.
June 22, 2003... THE Spirit of Christianity and its Fate" (hereafter "Spirit") provides the most direct and eloquent presentation of the logical structure and moral content of Hegel's ethical vision. This is a vision of ethical life itself, of how Hegel...

The politics of indigenous identity: neoliberalism, cultural rights, and the Mexican Zapatistas.
June 22, 2003... Like millions of indigenous people elsewhere, Mexican Indians demand rights to cultural self-determination. They insist on the right to live according to traditional usos y costumbres, to self-government in accord with local practices and...

Democracy and groups *.
June 22, 2003... HOW can relations among groups be arranged in ways that are compatible with sustaining democracy? In this article I consider three ways that groups can order their relations within a democratic framework--national separation, liberal...

Provincializing global feminism: the Polish case.
June 22, 2003... IS GLOBALIZATION a threat to or an opportunity for local feminism? In Poland, globalization intersects with three political and cultural processes: the post-1989 systemic transformation; the process of integration into the European Union; and...

Who pays for the "welfare" in the welfare state? A multicountry study.
June 22, 2003... I. Introduction THERE was a time, not so long ago, when the welfare state was viewed as a proud social accomplishment. But recently it has been under considerable attack. At the heart of this attack has been the claim that during its...

Science and citizenship under postsocialism.
June 22, 2003... Introduction THIS essay explores science as a political technique and the place of scientific knowledge in the dynamics of a postsocialist transition by taking the management of the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe as a case...

Undermining the Constitution *.
June 22, 2003... THIS paper was conceived, tided, and partly drafted before September 11, 2001. What I am about to say does not, for the most part, deal directly with that awful day and the numerous consequences that have flowed from it, especially the American...

Political identities in changing polities *.
June 22, 2003... HENRY VIII was, as we know, a bit of an opportunist. In 1521, at a time when Henry had allied England with the Habsburgs against France and also laid claim to the French crown, he wrote a pamphlet criticizing Martin Luther's doctrines. For his...

Folk psychiatry: lay thinking about mental disorder.
June 22, 2003... PSYCHOLOGICAL abnormality holds a great fascination in the public mind. People regard the mad, the odd, the miserable, and the intemperate with a mixture of amusement, alarm, and repugnance. We gossip about them, demonize some and romanticize...

Governing through speech: the new state administration of bodies *.
June 22, 2003... CONDITIONAL decriminalization is the most obvious common feature of the change in practices affecting the relationship between the individual and his or her body that has taken place over the last few decades. This is particularly true of...