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Narrativa e a construção da nação: Um diálogo entre Homi Bhabha, "Leni" Riefenstahl e Franz Neumann
(2013)
O objetivo deste artigo é demonstrar a importância da narração na construção do consenso em torno da ideia de nação nacional-socialista, especificamente pela análise do filme de Leni Riefenstahl “Triunfo da Vontade”. Considerando que a cinematografia era controlada pelo Estado totalitário, procuraremos ilustrar os recursos de convencimento narrativos utilizados nesta propaganda nazista. Para tanto, utilizaremos tanto a análise crítica de Franz Neumann sobre a desconstrução da ideia de nação sob Hitler – um dos autores (mais desconhecidos) da Teoria Crítica/ Escola de Frankfurt –, quanto Homi Bhabha – um dos principais expoentes do pós-colonialismo – para fundamentar o papel e importância da(s) narrativa(s) sobre a formação do Estado nacional.
Anxiety and politics
(2017)
The English version of this article was first published in 1957. The journal tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique republished it 60 years later in 2017. In this essay, Franz L. Neumann discusses the role of anxiety in politics. The article asks: How does it happen that the masses sell their souls to leaders and follow them blindly? On what does the power of attraction of leaders over masses rest? What are the historical situations in which this identification of leader and masses is successful, and what view of history do the men have who accept leaders? For answering these questions, the author suggests a combination of political economy, Freudian political psychology, and ideology critique. He sees anxiety in the context of alienation. Alienation is analysed as a multidimensional phenomenon consisting of economic, political, social and psychological alienation. Neumann introduces the notions of Caesaristic identification, institutionalised anxiety and persecutory anxiety. The essay shows that fascism remains an actual threat in capitalist societies.
Una historia filosófica de la identidad estadounidense: Balance de propuestas y su crisis actual
(2018)
Este trabajo de síntesis crítica, realiza un balance de los principales aportes de pensamiento que han favorecido la configuración de la identidad estadounidense y su reformulación periódica. Se sistematizan las escuelas, según su transición de teólogos-políticos (como los puritanos, carismáticos y trascendentalistas, con aportes tipo pactismo bíblico, libre albedrío, caridad pietista, destino manifiesto, etc.), pasando por filósofos pragmáticos (como los constituyentes, democratizadores y reconstructores, con recursos como libre-pensamiento -free masonry & whigs-, federalismo, pragmatismo, etc.), hasta académicos socio culturales (sobre todo, de Estudios culturales, vía nociones de consenso, v.g. fronterismo, excepcionalismo y crisol cultural; así como artificios de hecho diferencial –a raíz de la fuga de cerebros de la Escuela de Frankfurt, Normale Annales, Birmingham, etc.-, con categorías de clase, status y conflicto social, metámeros etnoculturales, constructos de género, etc.). El estudio llega hasta la crisis actual, sin soluciones generalmente aceptadas y bajo la amenaza transoccidental.
Jürgen Habermas har i sin sociologiska tolkning av den filosofiska diskursen fasthållit vid möjligheten av att i en idealisk samtalssituation nå konsensus att lägga till grund för gemensamma tillvägagångssätt och samförstånd om vad som är sant. Han har också förklarat värdet av "offentligheten" som det moderna borgerliga samhällets möjliga demokratiska plattform; en plattform som dock i stor utsträckning tagits över av resursstarka grupper som genom t.ex. tolkningshegemonier driver sitt egenintresse i en skenbart öppen offentlighet. Habermas avvisar inte Upplysningstidens modernism utan ser den som ett "oavslutat projekt" som bör utvecklas och förbättras snarare än förkastas. (Shabani, 2003, 44-50; Habermas, 1981) ...
There has been a burgeoning interest in the sociology of the Frankfurt School as well as the oeuvre of Theodor W. Adorno since the 2016 presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump. The objectives of this study are to both illustrate the enduring importance of Adorno and to provide an important theoretical outline in making sense of Trump’s 2016 United States presidential campaign. Using Adorno’s understudied textual analysis of the radio addresses of Martin Luther Thomas and data from Trump’s 2016 US presidential campaign, we find that Trump’s own discourse can be condensed into three of Adorno’s rhetorical devices: (1) the lone wolf device or anti-statism/pseudo-conservatism, reflecting his criticism of "special interests" and his appraisal of business and (self-)finance; (2) the movement device, which amounted to glorification of action; and (3) the exactitude of error device which amounted to xenophobic, ethnonationalist hyperbole.
Auf Grundlage einer interviewbasierten Studie zu heterosexuellen Paaren, in denen die Frau das Haupteinkommen verdient, beschäftigt sich der Beitrag mit milieuspezifischen Bewältigungsmustern prekärer Beschäftigungsverhältnisse. Vor dem Hintergrund der Erosion des Ernährermodells werden dabei Transformationen von Männlichkeit in den Blick genommen. Es wird die These entwickelt, dass sich mit dem Selbstverständnis als "Künstler" im hochqualifizierten individualisierten Milieu des urbanen Raums ein spezifisches Bewältigungsmuster von Prekarität herausgebildet hat.
In cancer medicine, particularly in drug research and development, structural changes in professionalism can be observed as examples. This field is characterized by a strong tension between social expectations concerning the control of existential risks to health, on the one hand, and strong commercial interests of a shareholder value-driven industry, on the other hand. Based on a qualitative empirical analysis, two subfields within the field of cancer medicine are reconstructed. One of these subfields—colon cancer therapy—could be interpreted as representing a renewal of the knowledge-power nexus. The pattern of the other subfield—brain tumour research—refers to a much more vulnerable professionalism. Both fields are characterized by development in professional work, which could be described with the hybridization concept. Therefore, the contrast between the two empirical examples presented still challenges the theoretical interpretation of contemporary professionalism.
Editorial
(2017)