Presupposition

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was an author, playwright, teacher, political activist and brilliant twentieth century philosopher. His ideas first became wide spread in the 1960’s, when he became one of the first philosophers to official adopt the official title of existentialism. His philosophy still carries merit today and humanity as a whole can benefit from his wisdom on human existence. To understand Sartre we must first know a little about his biography. Sartre was born June 21, 1905 in…

INTRODUCTION “The term 'Dalit' is derived from the Hebrew root 'Dal' meaning 'broken' or 'crushed'. In Sanskrit it means 'downtrodden', certain Hindi versions explain the term as 'oppressed' or exploited.” The meaning of the term Dalit can be explained through the example of flower petals. While the broken petals are symbolic of Dalits, the petals which are joined to the calyx signify the rest of the society. The term is used to signify a broken down and downtrodden section of the society.…

Weber’s distinction between zweckrational (instrumentally rational social action determined by purpose and expectations about a behaviour taken under a condition of scarcity) and wertrational (value-rational social action determined by belief in the unconditional intrinsic value of some acts of choice) is also fundamental to understand the pluralism on which individual and social social dynamics are grounded (Weber [1921] 1978). Pareto’s distinction as well as Weber’s different types of…

SOC 1620 - Globalization and Social Conflict Final Paper T.A. – Diana Graizbord Anant Ambani September 1, 2014 3) Globalization has created new opportunities and new challenges, including significant conflicts around issues such as labor, the environment, various rights and identities. Habermas develops a set of ideas about how dynamics associated with democracy and civil society might address these issues. Pick an instance of social, environmental or economic conflict and then apply…

The conflict between the Christians and the Jesus Seminar has been an ongoing struggle since 1985. The Jesus Seminar, founded by Robert Funk, originated in 1985 as around 70 biblical scholars set out to determine the legitimacy of Jesus’ sayings (Dart). The Seminar focused on the historicity of Jesus using the best methods of science and literary criticism as it pertains to the Bible. Funk believed that the gospel writers had made Jesus into a “larger than life” figure in order to satisfy their…

Gender Performativity: Reading Mahasweta Devi?s Draupadi and Luisa Valenzuela?s Other Weapons In this paper I propose to read and discuss two short stories, Luisa Valenzuela?s Other Weapons and Mahasweta Devi?s Draupadi under a comparative spectrum. This apparent unlikely comparison from two distinct social, political, linguistic and cultural paradigms, as diverse as Latin America (Cuba?) and Bengal, is the result of my curious attempt to decipher Laura and Dopdi on the lines of Judith…

By engaging with the historical knowledge of such disempowered women, Spivak expands the original definition of the subaltern given by Guha and others to include the struggles and experiences of women also. According to her, “Both as object of colonialist historiography and as subject of insurgency, the ideological construction of gender keeps the male dominant. If in the context of colonial production, the subaltern has no history and cannot speak, the subaltern as female is even more deeply in…

SUMMARY Introduction Chapters: - Introducing “The bear came over the mountain” - The main theme: identity - Alice Munro’s identity - Canadian identity - Importance of identity in contemporary literature Conclusion 1. Introduction “Cogito, ergo sum” said Descartes as his conclusion in his Meditations about his methodical doubt in 1641; however, John Locke was the first to related the self to the memory, the empiricist philosopher found the identity and the self as…

INRODUCTION The spirit of patriotism is necessary for regeneration of any nation. India attained its cultural and political independence after a series of political history, such as Anticolonial movements, Nationalist consolidation, choice of political system after independence, economic strategy etc. India had to face a big problem in order to attain Purna Swaraj. In 1911, the capital of British India moved from Calcutta to Delhi. A city came up on what was previously farmland and shrub…

FREUD'S SELF-ANALYSIS Freud's self-analysis started in the mid 1890's and reached its climaxes between 1895 and 1910. In certain authors’ opinions, it was continued up to his death in 1939. Nevertheless, we have to set a clear boundary between the time of his productive, creative stage and his profession as a psychoanalyst. The first phase was full of unexpected aspects and inventiveness. It included: 1) his routine self- analysis where he performed checks of his complexes—those emotional ideas…