Reidar Thomte

Bio: Reidar Thomte is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: SOCRATES & Irony. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 168 citations.

The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin

Abstract: A work that "not only treats of irony but is irony, " wrote a contemporary reviewer of The Concept of Irony, with Continual Reference to Socrates. Presented here with Kierkegaard's notes of the celebrated Berlin lectures on "positive philosophy" by F.W.J. Schelling, the book is a seedbed of Kierkegaard's subsequent work, both stylistically and thematically. Part One concentrates on Socrates, the master ironist, as interpreted by Xenophon, Plato, and Aristophanes, with a word on Hegel and Hegelian categories. Part Two is a more synoptic discussion of the concept of irony in Kierkegaard's categories, with examples from other philosophers and with particular attention given to A. W. Schlegel's novel Lucinde as an epitome of romantic irony.The Concept of Irony and the Notes of Schelling's Berlin Lectures belong to the momentous year 1841, which included not only the completion of Kierkegaard's university work and his sojourn in Berlin, but also the end of his engagement to Regine Olsen and the initial writing of Either/Or.

Prosperity without growth : economics for a finite planet

Abstract: Foreword 1. Prosperity Lost 2. The Age of Irresponsibility 3. Redefining Prosperity 4. The Dilemma of Growth 5. The Myth of Decoupling 6. The 'Iron Cage' of Consumerism 7. Keynesianism and the 'Green New Deal' 8. Ecological Macro-Economics 9. Flourishing - within Limits 10. Governance for Prosperity 11. The Transition to a Sustainable Economy 12. A Lasting Prosperity Appendices References Endnotes

Prosperity without growth? : the transition to a sustainable economy : [summary]

Abstract: This report is summarised by the documents 'Prosperity without growth? : summary' and 'Ffyniant heb dwf? : crynodeb'

From Butler to Thornton: A Typology of Conflicting Readings of the Two Books of Scripture and Nature in the Church of England from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century

Abstract: summary): This dissertation studies the persistence within modern Anglicanism of (a) a classical "high view" of Scripture as the exemplar of creation, (b) the apologetic and phenomenological advantages of this view in the wake of Joseph Butler (1692-1752) due to (c) the kind of theodicy the Bible displays in contrast to more rationalistic proposals from deism to panentheism. (d) Finally, the view of theodicy and Scripture one takes will determine whether or not one reads the two books of Scripture and nature figurally. The "high view" was undercut by nineteenth-century sectarian polemics between Protestants and Tractarians. Yet a minority kept this tradition alive. Lionel Thornton (18841960) is important to this project because he escaped from Tractarian and Protestant dead ends. The dissertation lays out this broader Anglican story and then focuses on Thornton, for whose work I provide historical context and a detailed examination. I first analyze his early, philosophical-theological period where he defended an incarnational theodicy over against the panentheistic-monist alternative: the "soul-making" theodicy. Thornton's theodicy led him to take up a realist ("Platonist") metaphysic and phenomenology in order to resist the monist tendency to smooth over antinomies in Scripture and nature, especially the problem of evil. Next, I look at the theodical alternatives through the lens of Thornton and his mentor, John Neville Figgis (1866-1919). In contrast to the Modernist monism of Charles Raven and others, Figgis and Thornton resisted the temptation to offer an etiology of evil. They concluded that grace overcame evil by reordering the past. The last chapter, therefore, looks at Thornton’s view of the temporal and cosmic reach of Christ's reordering work of "recapitulation", and the hermeneutical consequences that follow: namely, that having reunited creation by rescuing it from the dispersive power of evil, every trivial detail of creation came to reflect Christ. I argue that this way of handling the Bible follows consistently from a biblical, non-monist, theodicy. Furthermore, I believe Thornton's project shared a family resemblance to Butler's, for, like the latter's, it indicated that the rejection of figural reading implied methodological atheism. This larger argument touches on contemporary hermeneutical debates within the Church. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/90365

Fanon: A Critical Reader

Abstract: Foreword: Leonard Harris (Purdue University) & Carolyn Johnson Introduction Part I: Oppression: 1 Fanon, Oppression and Resentment: The Black Experience in the United States: Floyd W Hayes III (Purdue University) 2 Perspectives of Du Bois and Fanon on the Psychology of Oppression: Stanley O Gaines, Jr 3 Racism and Objectification: Reflections on Themes from Fanon: Richard Schitt (Brown University) Part II: Questioning the Human Sciences: 4 Fanon's Body of Black Experience: Ronald A T Judy (University of Pittsburgh) 5 The Black and the Body Politic: Fanon's Existential Phenomenological Critique of Psychoanalysis: Lewis R Gordon 6 To Cure and to Free: The Fanonian Project of Decolonized Psychiatry: Francoise Verges (UC Berkeley) 7 Revolutionizing Theory: Sociological Dimensions in Fanon's Sociologie D'Une Revolution: Renee T White (Purdue University) Part III: Identity and the Dialectics of Recognition: 8 Casting the Slough: Fanons New Humanism for a New Humanity: Robert Bernasconi (University of Memphis) 9 Fanon, Sartre and Identity Politics: Sonia Kruks (Oberlin College) 10 The Difference Between the Hegelian and Fanonian Dialectic of Lordship and Bondage: Lou Turner Part IV: Fanon and the Emancipation of Women of Color: 11 Antiblack Femininity - Mixed-Race Identity: Engaging Fanon to Reread Capecia: T Denean Sharpley-Whiting (Purdue University) 12 Violent Women: Surging into Forbidden Quarter: Nada Elia (Western Illinois University-Macomb) 13 To Conquer the Veil: Fanon's Continued Relevance to Algeria: Eddy Souffrant (Marquette University) 14 Invisibility and Super/Vision: Fanon on Race, Veils, and Discourses of Resistance: David Theo Goldberg (Arizona State University) Part V: Postcolonial Dreams, Neocolonial Realities: 15 Public (Re)Memory, Vindicating Narratives, and Troubling Beginnings: Towards a Postcolonial Psychoanalytical Theory: Maurice Stevens (Santa Cruz) 16 Fanon, African and Afro-Caribbean Philosophy: Paget Henry (Brown University) 17 Fanon and the Contemporary Discourse of African Philosophy: Tsenay Serequeberhan (Simmons College) 18 On the Misadvertures of National Consciousness: A Retrospect on Frantz Fanon's Gift of Prophecy: Olufemi Taiwo (Loyola University, Chicago) Part VI: Resistance and Revolutionary Violence: 19 Jammin' the Airwaves and Tuning Into the Revolution: The Dialectics of the Radio in L'An Cinq du la Revolution Algerienne: Nigel Gibson (Columbia University) 20 Fanon on the Role of Violence in Liberation: A Comparison to Gandhi and Mandela: Gail M Presby (Marist College) 21 Fanon's Tragic Revolutionary Violence: Lewis R Gordon (Purdue University) Afterword: Joy Ann James (University of Massachusetts & University of Colorado) Bibliography