欧洲哲学史上的马克思

马克思是欧洲哲学由近代哲学转向现代哲学的开创性人物之一。他认为强调人的受动性与能动性是唯物主义和唯心主义的基本特征,劳动实践把二者结合在一起,实现了对唯物主义和唯心主义对立的超越。马克思的劳动实践辩证法合理地解释了人的生存状态,并且指出了人类走出异化获得解放的现实道路。这些是其他现代哲学家无法企及的重大成就。由于苏联马克思主义哲学对马克思的误解,他在欧洲哲学史上的伟大贡献和历史地位长期得不到公正的评价。     

Entre la autonomía y la heteronomía. Socialización universitaria y prácticas profesionales de los sociólogos en la Argentina

This article studies the relation between university socialization and professional practices of sociologists in Argentina since democracy’s restoration in the mid-eighties. On the one hand, it examines orientations and ways of understanding the discipline transmitted by the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) curriculum contents and, on the other, it reconstructs the main labor market changes. Through the examination of the notion of autonomy (and its opposite, heteronomy), it aims to show that the professional practices of sociologists are strongly conditioned by the set of perception and classificatory schemes incorporated during university socialization. Those schemes, operating through a group of oppositions, contribute to the production of a set of “crafts” or modes of practicing sociology clearly differentiated according to the area or sphere of insertion.     

革命地方实践与妇女解放问题:兼评丛小平《革命中国的婚姻、法律与性别,1940-1960》

1939年《陕甘宁边区婚姻条例》颁布后,边区法院做出了系列司法修改和调整。丛小平的近期研究《革命中国的婚姻、法律与性别,1940-1960》详细考察了这一过程及其背景和影响。她指出,边区政府在施行婚姻法改革的过程中积极考量、吸纳了地方风俗和司法实践经验,出现了从婚姻自由到自主的核心法制理念的变化。这一立法司法建制过程体现了中共革命从群众中来、到群众中去的根本路线,激发并肯定了农村妇女的自主能动性,并没有背弃其妇女解放的承诺。这一研究回应和修正了20世纪80年代英文学界关于社会主义革命和妇女解放的主流观点,体现了新世纪以来中外学界关于社会主义革命和妇女解放问题研究的新趋势,具有鲜明的方法论意义。     

法律与社会惯习互动下的妇女与财产--读白凯的《中国的妇女与财产:960-1949年》

妇女与财产的关系是很值得学界重新思考的一个话题。美国学者白凯的新著《中国的妇女与财产:960-1949年》以档案和判词集为资料,从法律与社会惯习两个层面,对宋至民国期间的妇女与财产关系进行了再解读。实证性的研究路子,加上新意迭出的理论诠释,使得这本书对学术界具有很大的启发意义。     

最密切联系原则的地位思辨

对于最密切联系原则的地位,将其作为国际私法的基本原则或法律选择的基本原则或法律适用的补充原则都是值得商榷的。最密切联系原则作为一个系统,是有层次的,既是法律选择的指导原则又是法律选择的方法。最密切联系原则的客体应表述为既包括“法域”也包括“法律”,二者不可割裂,它是在立法和司法层面的综合表征,诠释了在不同阶段立法选择权与司法选择权的相互结合、相互补充。最密切联系原则指向国际条约或国际惯例容易为当事人所接受,也为法院提供了便利,且可以满足国际商业活动追求便利和效率的需要,因此有一定的可行性。     

‘Women in Church,Men at the Public House’: religious experience in Romanian society, 1700–1830

This study analyzes religious practices in the Romanian lands in the long eighteenth century. Research for it was based on a series of largely unpublished archival documents which illustrate ordinary people's attitudes to faith, magic, superstition and the church. In periods of instability and insecurity, quite understandably, as daily worries become more acute, faith and religion step in to offer spiritual comfort. This study looks at spiritual practices in the Romanian old regime and explores the ways in which women and men used them as focal points for building sociability and solidarity networks.     

Parental Self-Efficacy and Social Support as Predictors of Parenting Practices and Children's Socioemotional Adjustment in Mexican Immigrant Families

SUMMARY

The current study examined the hypotheses that (1) parental self-efficacy partially mediates the relationships between social support and both parental warmth and control, and (2) these parenting variables relate positively to children's socioemotional adjustment. First-generation, Mexican immigrant mothers were interviewed regarding social support, parental self-efficacy, parenting practices, and their child's socioemotional adjustment. Overall, results from path analyses suggest that, for Mexican immigrant families, social support relates to parenting practices partly because those with greater social support feel more efficacious as parents. Findings also showed that parenting characterized by warmth or control is associated with greater socioemotional adjustment among children. This research supports the idea that, for programs designed to influence parenting practices, simply providing social support may be less important than taking steps to enhance parental self-efficacy.     

The theory of value and the value of theory — a reply to Cutler et al.

Abstract

Serving as a pledge against a future promise, collateral has traditionally been understood as a ‘back office’ technicality that reduces the risk of default. Yet in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and the erosion of faith among market participants in the credit quality of large banks, collateral is playing an increasingly important epistemic role within finance, as an anchor that underpins the valuation of a growing number of financial instruments. This paper explores the increasing importance of collateral to the modelling practices used by ‘quants’ to value ‘over-the-counter’ interest rate derivatives since the 2008 financial crisis, and how the inclusion of collateral expertise into quants’ own modelling practices has affected these markets. This historical episode suggests that while the inclusion of collateral expertise into banks’ front office modelling practices has made banks’ pricing models less abstract and more aligned to the traditionally overlooked legal practices that underpin derivatives trading, it has also led to an explosion of complexity in the valuation of these instruments that now threatens the future existence of these markets.