Degrowth, American Style: No Impact Man and Bourgeois Primitivism

مطالعه‌ای بر آثار لوئیز بورژوا از دیدگاه زیبایی‌شناسی فمینیسم

In the world of art, gender, race and social class issues were ignored traditionally and it was assumed there is a kind of human that is universal, historical, without sex and is male and white of course. From this perspective, woman was only as the subject of artistic creation and thus art has been mixed with gender. But Feminist Aesthetics increases woman value from just being a subject and d...

Primitivism and Identity in Latin America: The Appropriation of Indigenous Cultures in 20th-Century Latin American Art

Tarski and Primitivism About Truth

The view that truth is a primitive, indefinable notion was of central importance to the originators of analytic philosophy. Moore and Russell adopted the view after abandoning their idealism (though they soon turned to correspondence accounts), and Frege subscribed to it until the end of his life.1 But save for some attention given to the view by Davidson (1990, 1996), primitivism about truth h...

The social psychiatry of Frantz Fanon.

Frantz Fanon, a black psychiatrist, was both concerned with human liberation and committed to a cult of violence. His own life exemplified the lack of gratification in practicing a psychiatry focused on the individual in a social milieu where the glaring ills were not intrapsychic fantasies but real problems of poverty, racism, and colonialism. Fanon’s experience in denouncing a bourgeois psych...

Voluntary Simplicity and the Social Reconstruction of Law: Degrowth from the Grassroots Up

Degrowth scholars and other growth skeptics have done a considerable amount of important work exposing the many defects inherent to the dominant macroeconomics of growth (Kallis, 2011; Latouche 2009; Jackson 2009; Victor 2008; Daly 1996). In recent years a growing body of literature has also emerged exploring what structural changes could be undertaken to facilitate the emergence of a degrowth ...