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The Enlightenment: An Interpretation. Vol. II: The Science of Freedom

01 Dec 1970-British Journal of Sociology-Vol. 21, Iss: 4, pp 469
About: This article is published in British Journal of Sociology.The article was published on 1970-12-01. It has received 28 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Interpretation (philosophy).
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11 Dec 2008
TL;DR: In this article, the spirit and its expression in the ancient world, from Sun King to Revolution, and World War II to the present day, are discussed, and a survey of the results is presented.
Abstract: 1. Introduction 2. Fear, interest and honor 3. The spirit and its expression 4. The ancient world 5. Medieval Europe 6. From Sun King to Revolution 7. Imperialism and World War I 8. World War II 9. Hitler to Bush and beyond 10. General findings and conclusions.

403 citations

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Maria Kaika1
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze the historical-geographical process through which nature became scripted as "the other" to the bourgeois home, and explain the contribution of this separation to the conceptual construction of the home as a distinct and autonomous "space envelope", supposedly untouched bysocio-natural processes.
Abstract: This article studies the western bourgeois home, and argues that its social construction as a familiar, autonomous, safe, private haven is predicated not only upon the exclusion of undesired social elements (anomie, homelessness, social conflict, etc.) but also upon the exclusion of undesired natural elements (cold, dirt, pollution, sewage, etc.). Using the domestication of water in the western world as a vehicle, the article analyses the historical-geographical process through which nature became scripted as ‘the other’ to the bourgeois home, and explains the contribution of this separation to the conceptual construction of the home as a distinct and autonomous ‘space envelope’, supposedly untouched bysocio-natural processes. This analysis identifies an inherent contradiction: despite the intense efforts at ‘othering’ and excluding nature from the premises of the home, the function and familiarity of this space is increasingly dependent upon the production of nature. Although the complex set of socio-natural networks, pipes and cables that carry clean, produced, commodified nature inside and pump bad, metabolized nature outside the bourgeois home remain visually excluded, it is this same excluded socio-nature that constitutes the material basis upon which the familiarity of the home is constructed. Thus, in a simultaneous act of need and denial, the bourgeois home remains the host of the elements that it tries to exclude. This contradiction surfaces at moments of crisis (such as power cuts, burst mains and water shortage) when familiar objects acquire uncanny properties. At such moments, the continuity of the social and material processes that produce the domestic space is unexpectedly foregrounded, bringing the dweller face to face with his/her alienation, within his/her most familiar environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

208 citations


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  • ...As the opening quote by Ruskin demonstrates, the right to a private space became closely linked to the idea of individual freedom (of the white western male subject) that constituted the core of Enlightenment thinking, and access to an isolated private sphere became part of a broader social project of emancipation (Gay, 1973)....

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  • ...…constituted the core of Enlightenment thinking, and access to an isolated private sphere became part of a broader social project of emancipation (Gay, 1973).1 Whilst individual freedom became the sacred principle of the modernizing western world, the individualized space of the private house…...

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26 Jun 2001
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the history of True Crime Discourses of Law and Order in modern Britain, and discuss the body in the new True Crime Magazine Figure in a Landscape: The Dangerous Individual in Criminal Biography.
Abstract: Preface Acknowledgements PART ONE: TRUE CRIME: ISSUES, HISTORIES, CONTEXTS Introduction 'True Stories Only' Histories of True Crime Discourses of Law and Order in Modern Britain PART TWO: TRUE CRIME: STORIES, BODIES, CRIMINALS Crime Magazine Stories: From American Idiom to an English Vernacular Period True Crime: History from Below? Daring to Know: Looking at the Body in the New True Crime Magazine Figure in a Landscape: The Dangerous Individual in Criminal Biography Bibliography Index

62 citations


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  • ...…the criminal and the body of the victim Towards the end of the eighteenth-century physicians had begun to observe morbid phenomena and to diagnose from concrete observations rather than abstract speculation, signalling the emergence of modern anatomical-clinical medicine (Foucault 1963; Gay 1973)....

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  • ...Towards the end of the eighteenth-century physicians had begun to observe morbid phenomena and to diagnose from concrete observations rather than abstract speculation, signalling the emergence of modern anatomical-clinical medicine (Foucault 1963; Gay 1973)....

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the influence of Enlightenment thought on U.S. west land management and examine four dimensions including the relationship between humans and nature; the concept of rationality; the nature of science; and social relations among humans.
Abstract: Federal agencies, scientists, and others are increasingly calling for ecosystem management as a new approach to resource management. This approach represents a change in philosophy for resource management that will require changes in how we view nature, science and politics. This paper draws upon critical theory to examine this shift in philosophy. The paper focuses on the influence of Enlightenment thought on U.S. Western resource policy and examines four dimensions including the relationship between humans and nature; the concept of rationality; the nature of science; and social relations among humans. Alternative theoretical principles suggested by ecosystem management are discussed. Examples of natural resource management projects that reflect ecosystem management in practice are also presented. Keywords: natural resource policy, political thory, ecosystem management, U.S. west land management, critical theory, enlightenment thought.

50 citations