Common-sense Constructivism and Hegemony in World Politics

The Structures of the Common-Sense World!

World of Islam According to Constructivism

From the beginning of twentieth century Islamic intellectual movements called Islamic Awakening Movement were formed in the world of Islam. They were aimed at fighting colonization of Islamic countries by west and help Muslims return to forgotten Islamic laws and regulations. Their primary objective was to regenerate and revive political Islam in twentieth century. Islamic awakening process and...

The Fourth World and Politics of Social Identity in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy

With the advent of the 21st century, the way characters and identities interact under the influence of dominant powers has brought a new world into existence, a world dubbed by Manuel Castells as the ‘Fourth World’. Within the Castellsian theoretical matrix of the Fourth World and politics of identity, the present study seeks to investigate the true nature of the futuristic world Margaret Atwoo...

Common sense and "relevance"

Introduction The "relevance" logicians of North America and the "relevant" logicians of the Antipodes have long claimed that their logical systems are in better agreement with common sense than is classical logic. The present paper is a critical examination of such claims. Though it is part of an on-going debate between classical and relevantistic logicians, I have tried to keep my discussion o...

Common Sense and Nonsense

The irrepressible Bernard E. Rollin has written a lively, provocative, and scholarly book on several pivotal bioethical issues in nonhuman animal research. Professor Rollin of Colorado State University asksand answers whether nonhuman animals think, feel, and suffer. Rollin asks whether the prevailing scientific justification for banning nonhuman animals is based on rational assessment of the i...