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Jacques-Alain Miller

Bio: Jacques-Alain Miller is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: The Imaginary & Humanities. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 33 publications receiving 1023 citations.


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TL;DR: A partir d'une analyse des aspects philosophiques et ideologiques de la mecanique quantique et de la relativite generale, l'A. as discussed by the authors etudie le developpement scientifique que constitue l'emergence des nouvelles theories de la gravite quantique and en mesure les consequences culturelles et politiques.
Abstract: A partir d'une analyse des aspects philosophiques et ideologiques de la mecanique quantique et de la relativite generale, l'A. etudie le developpement scientifique que constitue l'emergence des nouvelles theories de la gravite quantique et en mesure les consequences culturelles et politiques

831 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a critical review focuses on 13 articles and 5 book chapters by prominent special education scholars, who write in support of a continuum of special education services and recommend that only the results of empirical research should inform special education practice.
Abstract: This critical review focuses on 13 articles and 5 book chapters by prominent special education scholars. These authors write in support of a continuum of special education services and recommend that only the results of empirical research should inform special education practice. They also express wariness about the concept of inclusion and the direction of the inclusion movement. In touting the superiority of their own scholarship, they accuse inclusion supporters of being political, subjective, and ideological. This article challenges the supposed neutrality of the special education status quo and the moral grounding of the reviewed authors’ position. Drawing from the insights of theorists who study ideology, the analysis sheds light on the ideological nature of the reviewed authors’ own writing. The major recommendation put forth in this article is that scholars and other professionals need to think seriously about the impact of their educational preferences on the least powerful members of society if ...

297 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the insurance industry's position on nuclear hazards is described as "that the nuclear is what cannot be insured against", and there is something touching about the company's desire to communicate to its customers the fact that it considers the nuclear threat to be the ultimate one, the one that eludes its capacities to compensate one for one's losses.
Abstract: . This would seem to offer a definitive account of the insurance industry's position on nuclear hazards-that the nuclear is what cannot be insured against, and there is something touching about the company's desire to communicate to its customers the fact that it considers the nuclear threat to be the ultimate one, the one that eludes its capacities to compensate one for one's losses. Yet the starkness of this statement of helplessness gives way to a series of other statements about the chinks in the insurance company's protective armor:

107 citations

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TL;DR: Kirschner as mentioned in this paper argues that today's Anglo-American psychoanalysis is deeply rooted in the religion and cultural values of the West and argues that the fall in interest in the soul with respect to God has resulted in a modern secular theory of life and growth of the ego.
Abstract: Kirschner’s book aims to demonstrate that today’s Anglo-American psychoanalysis is deeply rooted in the religion and cultural values of the West. By Anglo-American psychoanalysis the author understands the theories of ego psychology, object-relation theory and self psychology which have split off from Freudian postulates to become objects of study in their own right. Kirschner considers how ego psychology marks a break with the Judaeo-Christian inheritance. These psychoanalytical theories tell the story of human development in terms of a range of narrative patterns that derive from the Bible and Greek mythology. The author aims to demonstrate how the fall in interest in the soul with respect to God has resulted in a modern secular theory of life and of the growth of the ego. For Kirschner, the Romantic movement is vital to the development of this secularization. The ‘soul’ was reshaped as the concept of the ‘mind’ or the self; the idea of God gradually disappears from view. For the Romantic movement, salvation is not to be found in heaven, but on earth: in art, in love, in each one of us. The Romantics rewrite and modernize stories of heaven and hell and the apokalypsis, although their versions acknowledge the Judaeo-Christian influence.

98 citations

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01 Jan 1995

97 citations