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Gunkel, David J. "Better Living Through Technology." Foundations of Science 22, no. 2 (2015): 349–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10699-015-9437-8.

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Abstract In this brief response to Mark Coeckelbergh’s contribution, I demonstrate how the author introduces an important shift in the way we approach technology. Instead of focusing on the new and often-times dramatic existential vulnerabilities supposedly introduced by technological innovation, Coeckelbergh targets the way technology already transforms our existential vulnerabilities. And I show how this shift in focus has three very important consequences: (1) a different way to ask about and investigate the question concerning technology, (2) the importance of hacking as a mode of respondi
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Kathrani, Paresh. "An ‘existential’ shift? Technology and some questions for the legal profession." Legal Ethics 20, no. 1 (2017): 144–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1460728x.2017.1298324.

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Baeva, Liudmila. "Existential risks and problem of escapism under conditions of e-culture." Przegląd Wschodnioeuropejski 11, no. 1 (2020): 299–313. http://dx.doi.org/10.31648/pw.5991.

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The article is devoted to the study of new existential problems of man in the conditions of electronic culture, forms of alienation from reality, virtual escapism, “being to death” in network communities of suicidal orientation, new forms of transcendence in electronic culture. The human existence under the e-culture conditions causes a shift in its main spheres (communication, creativity, education, leisure, art), forms a range of new problems both in value, ethical and ontological-existential relations. On the basis of the existential-axiological approach, it is shown how the values of the r
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Høgsnes, Linda, Karl-Gustaf Norbergh, Ella Danielson, and Christina Melin-Johansson. "The Shift in Existential Life Situations of Adult Children to Parents with Dementia Relocated to Nursing Homes." Open Nursing Journal 10, no. 1 (2016): 122–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874434601610010122.

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Background: Previous research describes spouses and adult children of people with dementia as a homogeneous group using one term: family caregivers. Recent research shows that the needs and experiences of spouses and adult children differ, therefore they cannot be studied as a homogeneous group. Aims: The aim of the study was to describe the shift in existential life situations of adult children of a parent with dementia relocated to nursing homes. Design: This is a qualitative study with an interpretive approach. Methods: Face-to-face interviews were held with 11 adult children aged 48-65 yea
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McDonnell, John. "The potential for a progressive paradigm shift." Theory & Struggle 122, no. 1 (2021): 170–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/ts.2021.17.

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The banking crisis and the pandemic have both demonstrated the potential for a progressive paradigm shift that could break with the hegemony of neoliberalism over Britain’s political economy. The Covid pandemic has demonstrated how many of the ideas and policies that formed the basis of the Labour Party manifestos of 2017 and 2019 are essential to tackling the current crisis of the pandemic and also for tackling the next crisis, which is the existential threat of climate change. For those on the left and progressives, the task is to discuss and plan the economy and society that will translate
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Wood. "Climate Delusion: Hurricane Sandy, Sea Level Rise, and 1840s Catastrophism." Humanities 8, no. 3 (2019): 131. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h8030131.

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The existential global threat of inundation of the world’s low-lying port cities necessitates a radical shift in the dominant climate framework of sustainability and resilience to include catastrophism. Scientists and social scientists of the industrial crisis decade of the 1840s, arguably the Anthropocene’s historical origin, offer a model for theorizing twenty-first century catastrophe in both geophysical and social terms, as in the case study of Hurricane Sandy presented here.
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Prokopyeva, Marina Yuryevna, and Viktor Olegovich Blynsky. "Man and His Existential Fears in Pictures of the World." Общество: философия, история, культура, no. 9 (September 25, 2020): 54–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.24158/fik.2020.9.8.

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The paper attempts a philosophical and anthropo-logical interpretation of fear. Fear is viewed from a historical perspective, i. e. in changing world pic-tures (mythological, religious, philosophical, scien-tific), existential fears are highlighted accordingly, which are represented as fear of time, fear of space, fear of the loss of Self, fear of the incomprehensibil-ity of life. In each of the forms of existential fear, the emphasis is on its rational and irrational aspects. In the mythological tradition, this is primarily a fear of returning to Chaos or a fear of time. The philosophi-cal pi
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Blomme, Robert J., and Kirsten Bornebroek‐Te Lintelo. "Existentialism and organizational behaviour." Journal of Organizational Change Management 25, no. 3 (2012): 405–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09534811211228120.

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PurposeThis article aims to develop a conception consisting of insights from complexity theory and additional notions from Weick's sense‐making theory and existentialism for examining organization behaviour.Design/methodology/approachThis paper carries out a literature review of Karl Weick's theory of sense‐making and some notions from existentialism to discuss the possible contributions to complexity theory and with this a further comprehension of organizational behaviour.FindingsFour existential conditions, namely death, freedom, existentialism and meaninglessness, give a further comprehensi
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Bates, Matthew W. "The External-Relational Shift in Faith (Pistis) in New Testament Research: Romans 1 as Gospel-Allegiance Test Case." Currents in Biblical Research 18, no. 2 (2020): 176–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1476993x19889213.

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Evidence is marshalled for a recent ‘external-relational shift’ in scholarly understandings of pistis (traditionally translated ‘faith’) among New Testament scholars and historians of early Christianity and its social world. There is a movement away from predominantly personal existential accounts of pistis toward those that are relational and outwardly manifest. ‘Faith’ ( pistis) is predominantly a way of life characterized by fidelity or loyalty which is outwardly expressed in relationships. Beyond the New Perspective on Paul, which is an obvious factor, four streams are feeding this shift:
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Holtmeier, Matthew. "The Modern Political Cinema: From Third Cinema to Contemporary Networked Biopolitics." Film-Philosophy 20, no. 2-3 (2016): 303–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/film.2016.0017.

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Political cinema, particularly third cinema of the 1960s and subsequently inspired films, often relies upon the formation and transformation of subjectivity. Such films depict a becoming-political of their characters, such as Ali LaPointe's transformation from bricklayer and boxer to revolutionary in Battle of Algiers (La battaglia di Algeri, Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966 ). As subjects are politicized, they reveal social, moral, existential, or ethical exigencies that drive the politics of the film. In this respect, most narrative-driven political cinema is biopolitical cinema, although its expressi
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Existential shift"

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Gorsedene, Christa. "A heuristic and HSSI exploration of experiencing interplay between spiritual guidance and synchronicity within person-centred encounters." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2018. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/a-heuristic-and-hssi-exploration-of-experiencing-interplay-between-spiritual-guidance-and-synchronicity-within-personcentred-encounters(3a4e4301-d034-4d71-8b40-5f4b8b5779c8).html.

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This research has been a study in amazement. Initially an agnostic physics graduate, the researcher undertook training in the person-centred approach (pca) to self-development and counselling, during which she came to experience strange personal experiences which she could neither gainsay nor fit into her then worldview. Sketching these briefly, exceptional human experiences (EHEs) and synchronicities increasingly happened until (shockingly) they declared a seeming spirit guide (Mungo) to her, also juxtaposed in time with her first-ever chance encounter with dowsing. Thereafter these phenomena
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Simonyi, André. "Waiting for the Cows to Come Home: A Political Ethnography of Security in a Complex World. Explorations in the Magyar Borderlands of Contemporary Ukraine." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26126.

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This dissertation explores the ways in which the everyday (in)securities of people in southwestern Ukraine can illuminate our understanding of contemporary political life. Rather than using traditional units of analysis or given categories—the state, the individual, identity—the dissertation focuses on relations between people in and connected to a single village to develop a novel framework for analyzing politics and the political. The dissertation opens with an interrogation of the practical and theoretical challenges associated with current conceptualizations of security; our understanding
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Books on the topic "Existential shift"

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Zaccheo, Vincenzo, and Zachary Simmons. Quality of life in ALS: What is it and how do we measure it? Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198757726.003.0002.

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Because of the limited range of treatments available for ALS, care is centred on maximizing quality of life (QoL). There is no universal definition of QoL, and no single instrument of choice with which to measure it. Health-related QoL (HRQOL) refers to physical and mental health status, whereas global QoL incorporates socioeconomic and existential factors outside the medical realm. Instruments for measuring may be generic or disease-specific. With the exception of bulbar function, QoL in patients with ALS is largely independent of physical strength and function, but is related to psychologica
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Ritzinger, Justin R. Disorienting Frameworks. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190491161.003.0003.

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This chapter offers a close reading of Taixu’s anarchist essays. Published in the journals of the Chinese Socialist Party and the Socialist Party, these pieces were not included in the posthumously edited Complete Works and thus have been largely lost to scholars. The chapter argues that we find in these essays a series of shifting articulations of the moral frameworks that would animate Taixu’s Maitreyan theology: revolutionary utopia and Buddhahood. These articulations shift among three different approaches: economic-materialist, sociocultural, and existential-metaphysical. Yet they display
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Yaden, David, Jonathan Iwry, Emily Esfahani Smith, and James O. Pawelski. Secularism and the Science of Well-Being. Edited by Phil Zuckerman and John R. Shook. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199988457.013.34.

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This chapter draws from emerging research areas in positive psychology, the study of well-being, to consider evidence-based recommendations helping to fill some of the psychological and existential gaps in secular society. It discusses the development of positive psychology and its shift toward a meaning-oriented conception of human well-being, as well as scientific findings about meaning and its role in a flourishing life. Further, it argues for the importance of the humanities, alongside the methods of science, in exploring subjective and personal aspects of meaning. The chapter also discuss
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Gordon, Lewis. Phenomenology and Race. Edited by Naomi Zack. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190236953.013.53.

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There are several misunderstandings regarding phenomenological approaches to the study of race—particularly the view that such research is a form of “applied” European or Euro-continental philosophy. Building on earlier work on racism as a form of bad faith and the philosophical anthropology of such a critique, an Africana existential phenomenological exploration of the study of race, racism, and the power dynamics behind their manifestations helps shift the Euro-centrism of contemporary phenomenology. An objection to the Afro-pessimistic assertion of blackness as social death can thus be rais
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Rosen, David H., and Uyen B. Hoang. Medicine as a Human Experience. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190628871.003.0001.

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Chapter 1, “Medicine as a Human Experience,” examines the foundational principles of patient-centered care, a shift from the historical paradigm in favor of the illness and doctor-centered approach. The four essential principles that underlie all of medicine as a human experience are acceptance, empathy, conceptualization, and competence. Acceptance and empathy are essential to developing a healing partnership with one’s patients. Both stem from self-awareness, for it is difficult to accept another human being if you have not first accepted yourself. Conceptualization, using the biopsychosocia
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Abraham, William J. Scripture. Edited by Joel D. S. Rasmussen, Judith Wolfe, and Johannes Zachhuber. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198718406.013.1.

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This chapter discusses the epochal shift in scriptural interpretation in the nineteenth century. Applying historical investigation to accounts of divine inspiration and revelation resulted in a call for a radical reconstruction of Christian theology, especially as developed in liberal Protestantism. There were a number of responses to such reconstruction of Christian faith. One option was to resist the logic of liberal Protestantism’s normative apologetic while retaining an existential appropriation of biblical heroes and narratives. A second option was to develop a whole new apologetic for th
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Bronowski, Ada. The Stoics on Lekta. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198842880.001.0001.

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After Plato’s Forms, and Aristotle’s substances, the Stoics posit the fundamental reality of lekta, the meanings of sentences, distinct from the sentences themselves. It is the first time in the tradition of Western philosophy that what is signified is properly distinguished from signs and signifiers. This book explores the many implications of this distinction which gives an existential autonomy to lekta. Language can only ever express meanings, but what happens to meanings which are there, ready to be said but which are never actually expressed? The book analyses the deep shift in ontologica
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Huddleston, Andrew. Nietzsche on the Decadence and Flourishing of Culture. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198823674.001.0001.

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In Nietzsche’s first book The Birth of Tragedy (1872), cultural renewal is paramount among his concerns. The standard story about Nietzsche’s philosophical development is that he soon becomes disillusioned with this project, and his mature philosophy undergoes a radical shift. Instead of reposing his hopes in a broader culture, he comes to occupy himself instead with the fate of a few great individuals, or, at the extreme, perhaps mainly with his own quasi-artistic self-cultivation. The book questions this individualist reading that has become prevalent, and develops an alternative reading of
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Harrison, Graham. Developmentalism. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198785798.001.0001.

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When we talk about development, we are talking about capitalist development. Taking a historical-comparativ e approach, Harrison understands development as a transformation which involves a deep and integrated political economy of change: a shift from a state of ‘capital-ascendance’ to ‘capital-dominance’. It is only through a transformation towards capital dominance that mass poverty reduction and the construction of a commonwealth are possible. However, capitalist development is extremely difficult and requires a highly exacting political endeavour. The politics of development is conceptuali
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Shields, James Mark. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190664008.003.0009.

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The Conclusion examines the various theoretical and practical problems of the accommodation between Buddhism and Marxism, in particular the convergence of Japanese Buddhist ethics with philosophical and historical materialism, through an analysis of some the theoretical writings of figures discussed in the preceding chapters. This convergence is situated within the context of notable political shifts and events—namely, World War II and the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945—which weakened and muted much progressive Buddhism. Instead, a type of nonsectarian, “existential” Budd
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Book chapters on the topic "Existential shift"

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Huntjens, Patrick. "Conclusion." In Towards a Natural Social Contract. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67130-3_8.

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AbstractIn this book, I argue that the societal fault lines of our times are deeply intertwined and that they confront us with challenges affecting the security, fairness, and sustainability of our societies. Overcoming these existential challenges will require a fundamental shift from our current anthropocentric and economic growth-oriented approach to a more ecocentric and regenerative approach. The outline of a Natural Social Contract presented in this book serves as a counter-proposal to existing social contracts. A Natural Social Contract implies an existential change in the way humankind lives in and interacts with its social and natural environment, and emphasizes long-term sustainability and the general welfare of both humankind and planet Earth. Achieving this crucial balance calls for an end to unlimited economic growth, overconsumption, and overindividualization for the benefit of ourselves, our planet, and future generations. To this end, sustainability, health, and justice in all social-ecological systems will require systemic innovation and prioritizing a collective effort. The Transformative Social-Ecological Innovation (TSEI) framework presented in this book serves that cause. It helps to diagnose and advance innovation and spur change across sectors, disciplines, and at different levels of governance. Altogether, TSEI identifies intervention points and formulates jointly developed and shared solutions to inform policy- and lawmakers, administrators, concerned citizens, and professionals dedicated towards a more sustainable, healthy, and just society.
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Haugdahl, Hege Selnes, Ingeborg Alexandersen, and Gørill Haugan. "Health Promotion Among Long-Term ICU Patients and Their Families." In Health Promotion in Health Care – Vital Theories and Research. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63135-2_18.

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AbstractFew patients are as helpless and totally dependent on nursing as long-term intensive care (ICU) patients. How the ICU nurse relates to the patient is crucial, both concerning the patients’ mental and physical health and well-being. Even if nurses provide evidence-based care in the form of minimum sedation, early mobilization, and attempts at spontaneous breathing during weaning, the patient may not have the strength, courage, and willpower to comply. Interestingly, several elements of human connectedness have shown a positive influence on patient outcomes. Thus, a shift from technical nursing toward an increased focus on patient understanding and greater patient and family involvement in ICU treatment and care is suggested. Accordingly, a holistic view including the lived experiences of ICU care from the perspectives of patients, family members, and ICU nurses is required in ICU care as well as research.Considerable research has been devoted to long-term ICU patients’ experiences from their ICU stays. However, less attention has been paid to salutogenic resources which are essential in supporting long-term ICU patients’ inner strength and existential will to keep on living. A theory of salutogenic ICU nursing is highly welcome. Therefore, this chapter draws on empirical data from three large qualitative studies in the development of a tentative theory of salutogenic ICU nursing care. From the perspective of former long-term ICU patients, their family members, and ICU nurses, this chapter provides insights into how salutogenic ICU nursing care can support and facilitate ICU patients’ existential will to keep on living, and thus promoting their health, survival, and well-being. In a salutogenic perspective on health, the ICU patient pathway along the ease/dis-ease continuum reveals three stages; (1) The breaking point, (2) In between, and (3) Never in my mind to give up. The tentative theory of salutogenic long-term ICU nursing care includes five main concepts: (1) the long-term ICU patient pathway (along the salutogenic health continuum), (2) the patient’s inner strength and willpower, (3) salutogenic ICU nursing care (4), family care, and (5) pull and push. The salutogenic concepts of inner strength, meaning, connectedness, hope, willpower, and coping are of vital importance and form the essence of salutogenic long-term ICU nursing care.
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Matesan, Ioana Emy. "Why Islamist Opposition Groups Change Their Tactical Outlooks." In The Violence Pendulum. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197510087.003.0002.

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This chapter develops a theory of principled and pragmatic adjustment to explain tactical shifts in Islamist organizations. It argues that Islamist groups shift between nonviolent and violent tactics depending on the perceived need for activism, the cost of violent resistance or nonviolent resistance, and the internal and external pressures they face. Groups legitimize violence when their grievances are escalating and violent norms of resistance are prevalent. External pressures from the state or internal pressures arising from competition for authority trigger the shift from violent rhetoric to violent behavior. Once groups engage in violence, their decisions on tactical shifts are no longer about relative grievances, but about organizational imperatives and the cost of violence. Organizational weakness and public opposition to violence raise the cost of aggressive tactics and drive groups to put armed campaigns on hold, or to focus on rebuilding capacity. However, for a group to permanently move away from violence, the organization must be faced with an existential crisis and with public condemnation.
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Baeva, Liudmila Vladimirovna. "Internet “Death Groups” in the Online Culture." In Encyclopedia of Criminal Activities and the Deep Web. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9715-5.ch045.

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The conditions of online culture cause a shift in the following crucial spheres of human life: communication, creativity, leisure, and art. This creates a complex of life-threatening and human safety problems, including the existential. The object of the study is “death groups” (“Blue whale,” “Wake me up at 4.20,” and others) that have become popular in social networks in recent years calling on young people to commit suicide. Within the Eastern European countries, such communities became numerous after 2015, took many lives, and caused a number of lawsuits. This article presents the characteristics of new existential problems in the conditions of e-culture, including those related to virtual escapism and adolescent suicide, through participation in “death groups,” and analyzes the mechanism of how the youth shifts the values of reality and game, life, and death. Hence, the greatest risks leading to escapism, asocial life, suicidal moods, and actions have been allocated.
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Duvernoy, Russell J. "Individuation and Attunement: Identities in Process." In Affect and Attention After Deleuze and Whitehead. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474466912.003.0003.

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Picking up the thread of an asubjective realism introduced in the first chapter, this chapter focuses on the question of individuation. Because pure experience lacks a transcendental subject as the source of identity, it intensifies questions of how to stabilise and identify either objects or enduring subjects. This metaphysical problem of individuation operates at the intersection between the abstract and the existential. The chapter argues that both Deleuze and Whitehead shift the nature of this problem from one of identifying discrete individuals to understanding processes of individuation that are perspectival, scale-relative, and by degree. The chapter develops three theses that emerge as consequences of this shift.
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Narang, Vipin. "Pakistan." In Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691159829.003.0003.

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This chapter describes and tests the sources of Pakistan's nuclear postures. It shows that the country's choices, and the timing of its shift from a catalytic to an asymmetric escalation posture, are best captured by optimization theory, illustrating how exogenous changes to a state's security environment and alliance options can trigger a shift in nuclear postures. Born into and out of war, Pakistan has always perceived an existential threat from its larger neighbor India. Since 1971, Pakistan has been on a desperate quest to acquire and operationalize a nuclear weapons capability to deter Indian conventional power. As its uranium enrichment program was reaching critical thresholds to enable the weaponization of the program, Pakistan relied on a catalytic nuclear posture which used the credible threat of nuclear escalation to compel its then-patron, the United States, to intercede on its behalf in crises with India.
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Inglehart, Ronald F. "Evolutionary Modernization Theory and Secularization." In Religion's Sudden Decline. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197547045.003.0004.

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The degree to which people experience threats to their survival shapes their basic values. Throughout history, most people lived just above the starvation level, but in the years after World War II, unprecedented prosperity and social welfare safety nets launched an intergenerational shift from survival to self-expression values. When the first postwar birth cohort reached adulthood in the 1960s, student protests erupted, inaugurating pervasive cultural changes. Historically, a coherent set of pro-fertility norms evolved that limits women to producing as many children as possible and that stigmatizes any other form of sexual behavior not linked with reproduction. Because pro-fertility norms require people to repress strong drives, there is a built-in tension between them and their polar opposite, individual-choice norms. Throughout history, societies that lacked pro-fertility norms tended to die out, but in recent decades, a growing number of societies have attained high existential security, long life expectancy, and low infant mortality, opening the way for a shift from pro-fertility norms to individual-choice norms.
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Danbolt, Lars Johan, and Hans Stifoss-Hanssen. "Health care chaplaincy in the Nordic countries. Transformations and perspectives." In Clinique du sens. Editions des archives contemporaines, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.17184/eac.3272.

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In this article we present some developmental patterns in the 100 years long history of of health care chaplaincy in the Nordic countries, particularely in Norway. We argue that a shift is gradually taking place from what can be regardes as a religious service model to an existential care model. This can be seen within the context of specialization and professionalization both in health care and chaplaincy, as well on the background of pluralization in society. We point at some challenges for chaplaincy regarding delimitation and the relationships between religious and secular anchoring of chaplaincy, the routines for referrals to chaplains, implementation of chaplaincy and inter-disciplinary work in hospitals, and the need for continuous work on knowledge development and research
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Végső, Roland. "The Metaphysics of Worldlessness." In Worldlessness After Heidegger. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474457613.003.0002.

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The first chapter provides an overview of Martin Heidegger’s works by tracing the way he defines the world and worldlessness at various stages of his career. The first half of the chapter examines the role the concept of worldlessness plays in Being and Time and the existential analytic of Dasein. The second half of the chapter examines Heidegger’s later works and his critique of modernity. The chapter argues that Heidegger starts with the assumption that the stone is worldless but ends up concluding that Being is worldless. Thus, the objective of Chapter 1 is to trace the trajectory of this shift from the lifeless object to Being itself as the site of worldlessness. The chapter concludes by examining the political stakes of the Heideggerian definition of worldlessness.
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Allen, Douglas. "Introduction." In Gandhi after 9/11. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199491490.003.0001.

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This chapter provides an introduction to the book. The first section analyzes how the title, Gandhi After 9/11: Creative Nonviolence and Sustainability, reveals the purpose and structure of the book and examines whether Gandhi is irrelevant today. It talks about the prominence of those that Gandhi classifies as “modern Indians,” who identify with the worldview and values of Western “Modern Civilization”. The chapter outlines the author’s own approach to Gandhi as a major inspiration who provided him with many, but not all, of the answers when addressing personal, existential, psychological, economic, political, environmental, and other contemporary issues. This is followed by a delineation of seven major topics revealing Gandhi’s extreme contemporary relevance: morality, nonviolence, truth, egalitarianism, democracy, the need for transformative action, and the need for a radical paradigm shift.
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