By Mark Bahnisch on January 7, 2009
On the first thread here about the Israeli attacks on Gaza, I was struck by this comment in an article linked by Rob: Even when development and enlightenment stare them in the face, their instinct is to destroy them pretending [...]
Posted in Blogging, Crime, Disasters, Ethics, History, Imperialism, International, Law, Middle East, Nuclear, Palestine, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology, Terrorism, War | Tagged Arabs, attacks, categorical imperative, Cold War, conflict resolution, Ethics, Farid Ghatry, Gaza, global sociology, Hamas, Hizbollah, humanism, humanitarian war, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, peace, peace movement, political imaginary, political philosophy, political sociology, responsibility to protect, RTP, Sociology, UN, universalism, universals and particulars, War |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 7, 2008
In the spheres and circles in which Planet Janet moves, it’s “defend the Enlightenment” week. At first, I thought this was just the latest volley in the denialist wars, but now that we know that Ayaan Hirsi Ali is in [...]
Posted in Education, Ethics, Media, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Ayaan Hirsi Ali, cultural studies, Culture Wars, education wars, ethical relativism, gavin kitching, higher education, humanism, jacques derrida, john frow, laughing at the disabled, ludwig wittgenstein, michael noonan, michel foucault, paralysed by postmodernism, political science, postmodernism, scholarly standards, The Enlightenment, The West |
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