Suchergebnisse

"Western society is trapped by three assumptions: 1) That the point of life is to maximize your self-interest and wealth, 2) That we're individuals trapped in an adversarial world, and 3) That this is natural and inevitable. These ideas separate us, keep us powerless, and limit our imagination for the future. We see them as truth. They're not. They're a point of view that previous generations accepted. It's time we replace them with something new. This Could Be Our Future is about how we got here, and how we change course. While the pursuit of wealth has produced innovation and prosperity, it also established an implicit belief that the right choice in every decision is whichever option makes the most money. This belief in financial maximization has produced dire consequences: environmental collapse, corruption, inequality, and a growing dissatisfaction around the world. The answer isn't to get rid of money; it's to expand our concept of value. By assigning rational value to other values besides money--things like community, purpose, and sustainability--we can refocus our energies to build a society that's generous, fair, and ready for the future. By recalibrating our definition of value, a world of scarcity can become a world of abundance. Hopeful but firmly grounded, full of concrete solutions and bursting with creativity, This Could Be Our Future brilliantly dissects the world we live in and shows us a road map to the world we are capable of making"--

The subject of this book is the discourse of persecution used by Christians in Late Antiquity (c. 300–700 CE). Through a series of detailed case studies covering the full chronological and geographical span of the period, this book investigates how the conversion of the Roman Empire to Christianity changed the way that Christians and para- Christians perceived the hostile treatments they received, either by fellow Christians or by people of other religions. A closely related second goal of this volume is to encourage scholars to think more precisely about the terminological difficulties related to the study of persecution. Indeed, despite sustained interest in the subject, few scholars have sought to distinguish between such closely related concepts as punishment, coercion, physical violence, and persecution. Often, these terms are used interchangeably. Although there are no easy answers, an emphatic conclusion of the studies assembled in this volume is that "persecution" was a malleable rhetorical label in late antique discourse, whose meaning shifted depending on the viewpoint of the authors who used it. This leads to our third objective: to analyze the role and function played by rhetoric and polemic in late antique claims to be persecuted. Late antique Christian writers who cast their present as a repetition of past persecutions often aimed to attack the legitimacy of the dominant Christian faction through a process of othering. This discourse also expressed a polarizing worldview in order to strengthen the group identity of the writers' community in the midst of ideological conflicts and to encourage steadfastness against the temptation to collaborate with the other side.

As of late, political theory, research, and practice have taken a deliberative turn, extolling the benefits of idealized public discourse. This paper explores how mass polarization impacts the preconditions for such discourse. Drawing from social identity theory, partisanship is conceptualized as having distinct, yet interrelated social and ideological dimensions. Through both online and telephone-based survey experiments, the paper then examines how these two dimensions affect attitudes toward discussion that theorists prioritize. Strong social attachments to one's party consistently drive antideliberative attitudes toward disagreement; ideological partisan attachment, however, does not have this effect. The results suggest that the rise of social identity polarization has driven the public away from discursive norms that would support a deliberative democratic system.

ObjectiveGeographic political polarization is an increasingly salient topic of academic and popular discourse. Using Bill Bishop's bestseller The Big Sort as a foil, this article tests the claim that America has split into "ideologically inbred" "red" and "blue" communities.MethodDrawing on Bishop's concept of "landslide" Democratic and Republican counties, the article uses survey data to measure the overlap in opinion between respondents from opposing "landslide" counties. This is done both graphically and with a quantitative measure developed by Levendusky and Pope (2011).ResultsAcross economic, social, and cultural value dimensions, there is vastly more common ground than difference between respondents from "landslide" Democratic and Republican counties.ConclusionHyperbolic claims of a "sorted" country aside, geographic polarization in the United States is limited at best. Partisan polarization could be a real and consequential phenomenon in the electorate, but it has little geographic, "red versus blue" manifestation.

période de préparation de la thèse : de septembre 1989 au jour de la soutenance, en octobre 1993. ; The "juge des référés" (the presiding judge of the competent jurisdiction or the first presiding judge of the court of appeal), has a fundamental role in the judicial activity. In spite of the fact that he does not pronounce judgment on the merits, this judge has the power to order immediately all necessary measures (section 484 of "new rules of civil procedures"). Having for object a rapid solutions to a case at issue, the summary order injunction, temporary as a principle, has sometimes more than interim effects : either the measure ordered disposes of the action or the litigants endorse the solution adopted by the "juge des référés". The analysis of the notion of "temporary", shows that it influences not only the conditions of intervention of the "juge des référés" (roled by flexible terms) but also the order delivered by this judge (scope and effects of the decision). In reality, when we say that the summary order injunction is temporary, it does not mean that it can never dispose of the action. The legislator did not go wrong : when he creates a new case of "référé en la forme", only the formal aspects of the injunction order are concerned. ; Le juge des référés (président de la juridiction compétente ou premier président de la Cour d'appel) tient une place considérable dans la vie judiciaire. Bien qu'il ne soit pas saisi du principal, ce magistrat a le pouvoir d'ordonner immédiatement les mesures nécessaires (article 484 du nouveau code de procédure civile). Permettant d'obtenir une solution rapide à un litige, l'ordonnance de référé, par principe provisoire, acquiert pourtant parfois une autorité définitive dans les faits : soit que la mesure prescrite s'inscrive définitivement dans le temps, soit que les plaideurs souscrivent à la solution adoptée en référé. Il faut alors se demander si le qualificatif de "juge du provisoire" correspond réellement au juge des référés. L'analyse de la notion de provisoire ...

An underlying theme that emerged in therapeutic interviews with middle-aged men is the desire to be adolescent again in order to start life anew