What is the matter of feminist criticism?

This paper is situated in the context of feminist debates around nature, culture, the body and essentialism, and focuses specifically on matter and materiality. In part, it is a response to recent developments in the natural sciences which suggest that strictly social constructionist and/or epistemological approaches to matter may be inadequate to the task of analysis and critique. It begins by considering some of the specific conditions under which the sex/gender model emerged, and its implications, before addressing the work of three contemporary theorists who are engaged with differing conceptions of matter, ontology and substance. I suggest that, while not necessarily providing ‘solutions’, these projects raise the kinds of questions that promise torevivify the flesh and blood of feminist critique.     

The limits to participatory planning: a reply to Adaman and Devine

This paper considers the relation between Bataille and Mauss in the light of the evidence that whilst the two authors are often linked, the relation between the two was characterized by a lack of reciprocity. It argues that it is not surprising that Mauss never mentions the work of Bataille, as Bataille’s sociology, and his theory of sacrifice, searches for meaning of acts in relation to certain vital needs of human nature – an approach which offends against the implacable rationalism of Mauss, and his belief, in the 1930s, in the triumph of reason and progress.     

Green citizenship and the political critique of injustice

Over recent decades, normative theories of green citizenship have drawn upon observations that a long-prevalent dualistic understanding of society, as completely subjecting nature, is being displaced by growing political and cultural support for a holistic view of society, as participating in nature. Differences between avowedly liberal and civic-republican interpretations of green citizenship notwithstanding, the normative theories share five key social critiques: (1) the need to challenge nature/culture dualism; (2) to dissolve the division between the public and private spheres; (3) to undermine state-territorialism; (4) to eschew social contractualism and (5) to ground justice in awareness of the finiteness and maldistribution of ecological space (ES). This article offers a sympathetic provocation to normative theories of green citizenship. Adopting a critical realist perspective, it describes the partial and problematic realisation of these critiques in the contemporary types of social and political participation, contents of the rights and duties and institutional arrangements of the ‘stakeholder’ citizenship that has become established within the neoliberal or weak eco-modernising, global competition state. This perspective is important because it offers new insights into the discursive framework that encompasses contemporary debates over justice and injustice. In particular, injustice from within the post-industrial ecostate appears to be a diffuse whole-of-society problem, the by-product of unsustainable development that lacks an identifiable class of perpetrators. This makes the progressive task of enunciating claims that injustice is present in some senses difficult, while conservative ideological positions are simplified.     

“鸦片论”与坚持发展马克思主义宗教观

鸦片论不是无明显褒贬之意的对宗教具有镇定精神功能的形象化比喻,而是马克思对资本主义条件下宗教性质和社会功能的深刻揭示;马克思主义宗教观的与时俱进,其本质就是运用马克思主义的立场、观点和方法研究解决新形势下我国宗教工作的新情况和新问题。正确处理社会主义与宗教的关系,并不代表必然要否定或抛弃鸦片论;对鸦片论的态度,关键是要坚持辩证唯物主义和历史唯物主义的基本观点,不能用现在否定过去,而应在扬弃中创新发展。     

马克思的虚空与人的本质实在

根据哲学研究问题的基本环节,对马克思主义进行考察试着理解马克思主义整体性的基本方法。通过考察马克思与人的本质是什么的问题的初始关系、问题演进以及研究问题的方法的确定直至问题解决等三个基本环节的分析,发现马克思主义的整体理论过程是以马克思与传统世界的观念决裂开始直至马克思的死亡为结束的以通过人并且为了人而对人的本质的真正占有为主旨的人的解放和发展的人类哲学。     

"天人合一"与唐前文学

"天人合一"是中国一个古老的哲学命题,它在我们民族性中根深蒂固地沉淀着,对中国古代文学的影响巨大,最显要处莫过于唐代以前的历史时期,影响主要有三方面:逆天不祥、指天而呼、天(神)人合体.     

法律信仰的内在悖论

法律信仰目前在中国面临着特殊的遭遇和困境。中国法制在逐步确立法律信仰的过程中面临着几组悖论性问题,主要从法律信仰对于人与对于法的内在性、法律信仰的理性世俗化与神圣性、合理性与非理性、功利性与超功利性、守法的无知性与批判反思的自觉性等关系中,展示出法律信仰问题的复杂性和内在矛盾运动。     

试析政治文明的属性

政治文明作为人类社会文明的重要组成部分具有自己独特的性质。探讨政治文明的属性,有利于正确地理解政治文明的内涵,加深对政治文明的认识,更好地为我国社会主义政治文明建设服务。     

浅析容留他人吸食、注射毒品罪

在司法实践中容留他人吸食、注射毒品罪很少被适用。由于现行刑法与禁毒法对该罪的规定产生了较大的立法歧义,作为毒品犯罪中的终端犯罪,其仅对该罪的具体行为人构成危害,使其成为毒品犯罪中为数不多的轻罪之一。现结合新颁布的《立案标准(三)》,①对其渊源、犯罪构成等方面分析,以期能清晰的认识该罪,促使司法实践者在今后的具体司法实践中加大对该罪的打击和处罚力度。     

查处涉外治安案件应注意的问题

与查处普通治安案件不同,涉外治安案件查处除了涉及保障公民合法权益外,还涉及外国人国籍国的外交保护与监督,涉及我国与他国的外交关系,涉及我国遵守国际条约和尊重国际惯例的守信度。在查处涉外治安案件时,应注意以下问题一是确认外国公民的国籍与身份,二是遵守涉外治安案件管辖规定,三是执行涉外案件内部协调程序,四是履行涉外案件外部通知义务,五是信守外交特权与管辖豁免权。