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Chalier, Catherine. "Emmanuel Levinas." Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 14, no. 1-2 (2006): iii—iv. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/105369906779159580.

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Simmons, J. Aaron, and Kevin Carnahan. "When Liberalism Is Not Enough: Political Theology after Reinhold Niebuhr and Emmanuel Levinas." Religions 10, no. 7 (2019): 439. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel10070439.

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In this paper, we are interested in extending out the dialectical models of religious ethics and political theology that Reinhold Niebuhr and Emmanuel Levinas began by enacting a conversation between these two theorists. We do this by presenting and critically comparing Niebuhr’s and Levinas’s thought as concerns three key issues in moral and political theory: (1) the nature of persons, (2) the source and content of the moral ideal of love and the political ideal of justice, and (3) the impossibility and yet continued practical relevance of ideals for social life. Ultimately, we conclude that

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Galí, Marta Camell, Matteo Polleri, and Federico Puletti. "The Gilets Jaunes." South Atlantic Quarterly 119, no. 4 (2020): 866–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00382876-8663771.

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This contribution is dedicated to an in-depth look at the cycle of the Gilets Jaunes protests that marked the French and European political landscape between November 2018 and the beginning of 2020. An unexpected social and political phenomenon, this movement accompanied the presidency of Emmanuel Macron and influenced his political agenda. Through “co-research” work done in direct contact with the movement, the essay analyzes the social and geographical composition of the participants, the political context in which it emerged, and its forms of organization and struggle. It argues that by sub

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Ngeh, Dr Andrew T. "Power and Marginality in the Poetry of Nol Alembong and Emmanuel Fru Doh." World Journal of Social Science Research 3, no. 4 (2016): 463. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/wjssr.v3n4p463.

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<p><em>The political history of Anglophones in Cameroon in determining their evolution and growth as a people and community has been bedeviled by intrigues, fraud, manipulations, betrayals, double standards, abuse of power and the marginalization of Anglophones. Given the numerical disadvantage of the Anglophones who constitute only one fifth of Cameroon’s population, the Francophones who are in the majority use the political power they possess to oppress, subjugate and repress the Anglophones. The fundamental question that is raised in this article is: for what reason is power acq

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Crignon, Philippe, Nicole Simek, and Zahi Zalloua. "Figuration: Emmanuel Levinas and the Image." Yale French Studies, no. 104 (2004): 100. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3182507.

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McQueen, Fraser. "Zombie Catholicism Meets Zombie Islam: Reading Michel Houellebecq's Soumission with Emmanuel Todd." Forum for Modern Language Studies 56, no. 2 (2020): 155–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqaa002.

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Abstract Following the publication of Michel Houellebecq’s novel Soumission (2015), which depicts the French public electing an Islamist government in 2022, some critics accused Houellebecq of Islamophobia; others defended his novel as primarily an attack on the French intellectual class rather than Islam or Muslims. Reading Houellebecq’s novel alongside the work of French historian and anthropologist Emmanuel Todd, this article suggests that Soumission attacks all three. Furthermore, Houellebecq’s depiction of France being ‘Islamized’ does not represent a break from his earlier insistence tha

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Pletneva, Olga Dmitrievna. "Modern Political Discourse from the Viewpoint of Argumentation Theory: By the Material of V. V. Putin’s and Emmanuel Macron’s Speeches." Filologičeskie nauki. Voprosy teorii i praktiki, no. 7 (July 2020): 296–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.30853/filnauki.2020.7.59.

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Davis, Colin. "Levinas at 100." Paragraph 29, no. 3 (2006): 95–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/prg.2007.0004.

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A century after his birth, Emmanuel Levinas is now widely read and established as one of the major thinkers of recent times. The Cambridge Companion to Levinas, edited by Simon Critchley and Robert Bernasconi, gives an informed introduction to the current state of research into his thought. However, despite the widespread acceptance of Levinas's views, some controversial aspects of his work are simplified or avoided. Moreover, telling criticisms have been levelled against him from political and philosophical perspectives. The article suggests that the best way to remain true to his legacy may

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Slabodsky, Santiago. "Emmanuel Levinas’s Geopolitics: Overlooked Conversations between Rabbinical and Third World Decolonialisms." Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 18, no. 2 (2010): 147–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/147728510x529027.

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AbstractIn this article, I re-evaluate critiques of Levinas’s Eurocentrism by exploring his openness to decolonial theory. First, I survey Levinas’s conceptual confrontation with imperialism, showing that his early Eurocentric work (1930s‐1960s) is revised in his later writing (1970s‐1980s). Second, I explore the contextual reasons that led him to take that path, such as his previously overlooked conversations with the liberationist South American intellectual Enrique Dussel. Finally, I present the case for a revisitation of the current theoretical frameworks of Jewish thought. I explain how L

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Goldoni, Marco. "Il costituzionalismo razionale di Sieyčs. Nota a partire da alcune recenti pubblicazioni sul pensiero dell'abate." TEORIA POLITICA, no. 1 (May 2009): 109–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.3280/tp2009-001005.

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- This paper deals with the growing number of recent publications devoted to Emmanuel Sieyčs political philosophy. By engaging with the new interpretations proposed in these works, this paper intends to shed a light on the deep unity one can detect between Sieyčs philosophical approach and his constitutional theory. It is argued, in particular, that Sieyčs' constitutionalism is rooted in his philosophical rationalism. This means, first, that Sieyčs constitutional theory is not fully shaped by historical events. Second, the aim of constitutionalism is to build a lawmaking process which is able

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Barrientos, S. "The political economy of unequal exchange : A critique of the theory of Arghiri Emmanuel." Thesis, University of Kent, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.382868.

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Wilshere, Andrew Thomas Hugh. "The rights of the other : Emmanuel Levinas' meta-phenomenology as a critique of Hillel Steiner's 'An Essay on Rights'." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2013. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-rights-of-the-other-emmanuel-levinas-metaphenomenology-as-a-critique-of-hillel-steiners-an-essay-on-rights(a85fdbcc-e135-4e29-8229-1899c80182cc).html.

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In contemporary philosophy about justice, a contrast between empirical and transcendental approaches can be identified. Hillel Steiner represents an empirical approach: he argues for building an account of justice-as-rights out of the minimal inductive material of psychological linguistic and moral intuitions. From this opening, he ultimately concludes that persons have original rights to self-ownership and to an initially equal share of natural resources. Emmanuel Levinas represents a transcendental approach: he argues that justice arises from a transcendent ethical relation of responsibility

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SACKEY, DONALD E. "Esthétique et éthique du témoignage dans le nouveau roman africain d'expression française: Emmanuel Dongala, Tierno Monénembo et Ahmadou Kourouma." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/7026.

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Cette thèse étudie l’esthétique et l’éthique du témoignage dans le nouveau africain d’expression française voire le roman de la guerre. Au centre est l’enfant comme une catégorie sociale menacée et menaçante. L’enfant africain reste « l’arme » et le « soldat » de choix dans la littérature postcoloniale tout comme il était à l’époque coloniale. Cependant, sa mission est devenue encore plus meurtrière car il est maintenant recruté pour mener des combats militaires soutenus par des idéologies dépourvues de logique. Nous examinons donc les enjeux esthétiques et éthiques du choix de donner la par

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Books on the topic "Emmanuel political theory"

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Graff Zivin, Erin. Anarchaeologies. Fordham University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823286829.001.0001.

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How do we read after the so-called death of literature? If we are to attend to the proclamations that the representational apparatuses of literature and politics are dead, what aesthetic, ethical, and political possibilities remain for us today? This book brings together works of continental philosophy and critical theory (Emmanuel Levinas, Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Rancière) and works of art from Argentina (J. L. Borges, Juán José Saer, Ricardo Piglia, César Aira, Albertina Carri, the Internacional Errorista) in order to practice what Graff Zivin calls anarchaeological reading: re

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Lamberti, Edward. Performing Ethics Through Film Style. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474444002.001.0001.

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Emmanuel Levinas’s ethical philosophy has had a significant influence on film theory in recent years. This book proposes a relationship between Levinasian ethics and film style. It argues that films can convey Levinasian ethics not just through their subject matter but also through their use of style. The book brings this relationship between ethics and style into a productive dialogue with theories of performativity, such as J. L. Austin’s speech-act theory, Jacques Derrida’s notion of originary performativity and Judith Butler’s reconfiguration of performativity within the socio-political sp

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Hammerschlag, Sarah. Broken Tablets. Columbia University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/columbia/9780231170598.001.0001.

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Over a span of thirty years, twentieth-century French philosophers Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida held a conversation across texts. Sharing a Jewish heritage and a background in phenomenology, both came to situate their work at the margins of philosophy, articulating this placement through religion and literature. Chronicling the interactions between these thinkers, Sarah Hammerschlag argues that the stakes in their respective positions were more than philosophical. They were also political. Levinas’s investments were born out in his writings on Judaism and ultimately in an evolving conv

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Crépon, Marc. Murderous Consent. Translated by Michael Loriaux and Jacob Levi. Fordham University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823283750.001.0001.

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This book details our implication in violence we do not directly inflict but in which we are structurally complicit: famines, civil wars, political repression in far-away places, and war, as it's classically understood. It insists on a bond between ethics and politics and attributes violence to our treatment of the two as separate spheres. We repeatedly resist the call to responsibility, as expressed by the appeal—by peoples across the world—for the care and attention that their vulnerability enjoins. But the book argues that this resistance is not ineluctable, and it searches for ways that en

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Benhabib, Seyla. Exile, Statelessness, and Migration. Princeton University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691167251.001.0001.

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This book explores the intertwined lives, careers, and writings of a group of prominent Jewish intellectuals during the mid-twentieth century—in particular, Theodor Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Isaiah Berlin, Albert Hirschman, and Judith Shklar, as well as Hans Kelsen, Emmanuel Levinas, Gershom Scholem, and Leo Strauss. Informed by their Jewish identity and experiences of being outsiders, these thinkers produced one of the most brilliant and effervescent intellectual movements of modernity. The book's starting point is that these thinkers faced migration, statelessness, and exile be

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Book chapters on the topic "Emmanuel political theory"

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"Introduction to Sieyès’s Political Theory." In Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès: The Essential Political Writings. BRILL, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004273993_002.

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Mérand, Frédéric. "A socialist, French commissioner." In The Political Commissioner. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192893970.003.0005.

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Before he became a European commissioner, Pierre Moscovici was a French Minister of Finance, close to President François Hollande, and an influential member of the Socialist Party. Even after he moved to Brussels, Moscovici never neglected French politics. Members of his cabinet worked hard to make sure he remained politically relevant in France, and kept his options open there. Meanwhile, the commissioner also tried to position himself as a leader of the European left. This chapter shows how, after Emmanuel Macron’s victory, the prominent socialist politician gradually lost his political base in his home country, which led to tense relations with both the Socialist Party and the Elysée Palace—a key European player.

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Lamberti, Edward. "Introduction: Textual Performances in Levinas and Film." In Performing Ethics Through Film Style. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474444002.003.0001.

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The introduction begins by exploring how Emmanuel Levinas’s ethical philosophy has been taken up by film theorists to date. Much of this scholarship centres on Levinas’s theories of the Other as found in Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority (1961), particularly the ‘face’ of the Other, which theorists have discussed in relation to visualre presentation. Levinas developed his ethics, in Otherwise than Being or Beyond Essence (1974), into a performative account of what it feels like to be responsible for the Other. Accordingly, Performing Ethics through Film Style takes a similar approach with film, linking the performativity of Levinas’s writing style with the capacity of films to perform a Levinasian ethics of responsibility for the Other through their styles. The introduction brings in performativity theory – including J. L. Austin’s speech acts, Jacques Derrida’s originary performativity and Judith Butler’s theories of language in the socio-political sphere – to enhance this study of performativity in Levinas and film. And it sets up the subjects of the chapters to follow: the films of the Dardenne brothers, Barbet Schroeder and Paul Schrader. Studying these directors in relation to Levinas shows how films can perform ethics through a wide variety of styles.

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Wolkenstein, Fabio. "Introduction." In Rethinking Party Reform. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198849940.003.0001.

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In addition to summarizing the book’s main themes as described, this Introduction places special emphasis on connecting the problem animating the book—the apparent incapacity of contemporary parties to mediate between citizens and the state—to current political developments in established Western democracies, showing that the issues the book addresses are not only of academic interest but also directly relevant to ongoing public debates about the state and health of representative democracy. Chief amongst the themes foregrounded here is the rise of so-called ‘populist’ parties on the left and right of the political spectrum, as well as the re-branding of established political actors as ‘movements’ (think, e.g. of Emmanuel Macron’s La République en Marche). These phenomena are interpreted as part of a larger ‘revolt against intermediary bodies’—meaning first and foremost a rebellion against political parties. The Introduction suggests that this ‘revolt’ brings with it only a temporary shift in how representative politics looks, without actually reversing the disconnect between parties and voters or compelling established political parties to give up their privileges and de-colonize the institutions of the state. This argument sets the stage for the book’s core contention that more thought has to be put into finding ways to reconnect political parties with society.

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"FEMINISM 111 Levinas, Emmanuel. Basic Philosophical Writings, eds Adriaan T. Pe-perzak, Simon Critchley, and Robert Bernasconi. Bloomington, IN, 1996. Miller, J. Hillis. The Ethics of Reading: Kant, de Man, Eliot, Trollope, James, and Benjamin. New York, 1987. Newton, Adam Zachary. Narrative Ethics. Cambridge, MA, 1995. Norris, Christopher. Truth and the Ethics of Criticism. New York, 1994. Nussbaum, Martha C. Love's Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature. New York, 1990. Nussbaum, Martha C. Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life. Boston, 1995. Nussbaum, Martha C. The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy. Cambridge, 1986. Parker , David. Ethics, Theory, and the Novel. Cambridge, 1994. Parr, Susan Resneck. The Moral of the Story: Literature, Values, and American Education. New York, 1982. Phelan, James (ed). Reading Narrative: Form, Ethics, Ideology. Colum-bus, 1988. Robbins, Jill. Altered Reading: Levinas and Literature. Chicago, 1999. Rosenblatt, Louise M. The Reader, the Text, the Poem: The Transac-tional Theory of the Literary Work. Carbondale, IL, 1978. Siebers, Tobin. The Ethics of Criticism. Ithaca, NY, 1988. Williams, Bernard. Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy. Cambridge, 1985. Worthington, Kim L. Self as Narrative: Subjectivity and Community in Contemporary Fiction. Oxford, 1996. Feminism Though not a unified, single critical 'voice', feminist literary criticisms are in broad agreement on their shared role as political and politicised criticisms directed at matters of gender, sexuality and identity. Developing critical languages from the political discourses of the women's movement of the 1950s and 1960s, feminist criticism addresses the representation of women in literature and culture, in the work of both female and male authors. Critical feminisms have also concerned themselves with the role of the reader from a gendered perspective and with the study of women's writing. Feminist criticism has also addressed the relation of gender to matters of class and race, and has,." In Key Concepts in Literary Theory. Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315063799-21.

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Church, Clive, and David Phinnemore. "3. From the Constitutional Treaty to the Treaty of Lisbon and Beyond." In European Union Politics. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780198806530.003.0003.

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This chapter explores the emergence and implementation of the Treaty of Lisbon. Its origins lie in the Constitutional Treaty of 2004 and its rejection in the French and Dutch referendums of 2005, which led to a period of so-called reflection. Then, mainly under the German Council presidency of early 2007, there was an emphatic drive to produce not a constitution, but an orthodox amending treaty to carry forward the basic reforms of the Constitutional Treaty. A deal was reached in October 2007. However, while parliamentary ratification went successfully, an initial referendum rejection in Ireland in June 2008 cast doubt on the new Treaty’s future. In part, this symbolized a rejection of some elements of the Treaty, but it also owed much to a deeper unease about the EU. Once Irish concerns had been assuaged, a second referendum produced the necessary ‘yes’ to ratification and, following some last-minute concessions to the Czech Republic, the Treaty of Lisbon entered into force on 1 December 2009. Its implementation proceeded relatively smoothly but was complicated by the eurozone crisis, which in turn pushed the EU to pursue some further treaty reform. In the face of increasing Euroscepticism, and persistent question marks over the popular legitimacy of the EU, the appetite for treaty reform all but evaporated for much of the 2010s, even if for integrationists the eurozone crisis demanded further reform. Towards the end of the decade, with Emmanuel Macron as French President calling for a ‘re-founding’ of the EU and the UK negotiating its withdrawal from the EU, opportunities for and some interest in a new round of treaty reform appeared to be emerging.

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Lane, Jeremy F. "Sans Papiers." In Republican Citizens, Precarious Subjects. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789622140.003.0007.

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If the issue of work has acquired a high political profile in France over recent decades, the question of the sans papiers, of undocumented migrants and their potential place within the Republic, has become equally highly politicised. However, these two issues are rarely seen as being intrinsically connected, protests in favour of the rights of the sans papiers typically being couched in humanitarian terms, with little reference to questions of political economy. This is equally true of many filmic representations of the sans papiers, which reinforce this notion of sans papiers as victims deserving of humanitarian aid, rather than as active agents. This chapter draws on Emmanuel Terray’s notion of ‘délocalisation sur place’ or ‘on-shore off-shoring’ to argue for a better understanding of the role the sans papiers play within the contemporary French jobs market, epitomising the logics of flexibility, modulation, and precarity that now characterise its functioning. Armed with this interpretative framework, it re-reads a number of films and novels featuring undocumented migrants, uncovering the insights concealed behind their overt humanitarianism, insights into the interrelationships between undocumented migration and the shifts in employment analysed in earlier chapters.

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Ladyga, Zuzanna. "Laziness as Concept-Metaphor." In The Labour of Laziness in Twentieth-Century American Literature. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474442923.003.0002.

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The chapter explores what laziness has meant for philosophers, especially those few who chose to address it directly, and provides a conceptual frame for the laziness metaphor. Philosophical inquiries into unproductive idling are rare, but in each instance they center around the issues of the body and resistance. That is the case with Martin Heidegger’s notion of Lässigkeit as the basic existential sensibility, Emmanuel Levinas’s paresse as a position of refusal towards life, and Giorgio Agamben’s inoperativity. But it is also the case when Roland Barthes and Theodor Adorno define idleness in terms of insubordination to pedagogical rituals or as a position of ethical neutrality, when Sandor Ferenczi discovers the principle of neocatharsis in relaxation, or when Donald Winnicott dwells on the benefits of laziness as a psychosomatic symptom. When those ideas are juxtaposed against the political models of passive dissent (such as the parrhēsia model of Diogenes the Cynic, or the strike model proposed by Paul Lafargue), laziness emerges as a valuable signifier for the complex haptic-affective mechanism of counter-normativity. The discourse of laziness lays bare and unmasks the hidden conflation of the biological, the symbolic, and the political.

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Williams, Bruce. "Charles Frederick Carter, 1919–2002." In Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 124. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows, III. British Academy, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197263204.003.0003.

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Charles Carter was appointed Lecturer in Statistics at Cambridge in 1945, and in 1947 became a Fellow of Emmanuel College. He wrote many papers in his six years at Cambridge on a range of post-war economic problems. In 1959 He became Stanley Jevons Professor of Political Economy and Cobden Lecturer at the Victoria University of Manchester. In 1962 the University Grants Committee had appointed a Planning Board to establish the University of Lancaster, with Sir Noel Hall, Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford, as Chairman. The Board made its plans for the nature of the University and its buildings on a greenfields site, and then sought a Vice-Chancellor. Charles Carter was the Board's choice. He soon proved himself to be a superb administrator. When grants for residential buildings were less than expected he borrowed the necessary funds, and had buildings designed suitable for letting to visitors during student vacations. He attracted academic and research staff of high quality, and he was influential in providing for more students choice in the nature of their degree studies.

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Lamberti, Edward. "The Kid with a Bike and the Reframing of Ethics." In Performing Ethics Through Film Style. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474444002.003.0005.

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This third chapter shows, primarily through The Kid with a Bike (2011), how the Dardennes have evolved their film style in recent years and how we can read this in terms of an evolving approach to Emmanuel Levinas’s ethics and film. Whereas in earlier films such as La Promesse and Le Fils the style was relentlessly focused on a protagonist’s struggle to be ethical and involved abundant use of close-ups and fast movement so as to convey the character’s struggles largely through physical action, more recent Dardenne films have exhibited a somewhat less frantic style, deploying a number of more ‘conventional’ cinematic tropes, such as establishing shots, soundtrack music and a focus on a larger number of characters. The result is a change in focus, but not a reduction in ethical concerns. I relate this more conventionally classical use of film style to Judith Butler’s notion of ‘reinscription’, the reusing of linguistic terms for new socio-political ends. In doing so, I highlight the ways in which the Dardennes use this more classical film style to explore their Levinasian concerns in new ways, deploying classical cinematic tools so as to ‘reinscribe’ them as ethical with in their films’ fictional worlds.

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