Wigman's Witches: Reformism, Orientalism, Nazism

Television and Orientalism

Orientalism, proposed by Edward Said (1995), refers to the network of interlocking discourses about the “orient” constructed in western civilization. The orients, in western conceptions, are stereotypically inflated others drastically different from the collective imagination of the civilized West. Said’s argument was initially focused more on Europe and Islamic Culture, but has been applied to...

Book Review: China and Orientalism

Radical Reformism: Towards Critical Ecological Modernization

According to a specialized research area within environmental sociology – ecological modernization theory – the shift towards seeking to protect the environment constitutes a broadly emergent sociological phenomenon: the radicalization of modernity. The understanding of the fundamentals of such phenomenon is, therefore, crucial for both the practice and theorization of organization and environm...

Reformism Revisited: Does Form of Government Matter?

Wondering about Witches

Some people wonder whether there are witches, others believe that there are some, and many think there are none. All of them raise hard issues about meaning and propositional attitudes. Suppose, for example, that there are no witches. Then it seems the term ‘witch’ refers to nothing. So, plausibly, the word ‘witch’ means nothing. Hence, sentences that contain the term ‘witch’, such as ‘There ar...