How to construct your sexuality according to French magazines

Gendered magazines are a major contemporary form of mediation, (re)production and organization of (hetero)sexuality. They illustrate how sexual activity and performance become the concern and responsibility of individuals who are able to invest time and resources in the construction of a sexually-skilled self. Drawing on contemporary research, the article seeks to promote a dialogue between media and communications research, analysing French media narratives on sexuality through the reading of a selection of articles from the best-selling summer magazines aimed at 18- to 25-year-old readers. The article uses a semiodiscursive analysis to understand how didactic models are made to (re)produce specific knowledge on sexuality and to ascertain that this knowledge is coded in an expertise discourse. Through the hypothesis of a didactic ambition, three didactic models are identified, and attention is here focused on the short-coming/reparative model, that simultaneously creates a dysfunction and a fix. The analysis eventually reveals that didactic models are made to organize social life by strictly dividing sexual and therefore social roles between “men” and “women”. The moral criteria called upon regulate the ideal treatment of those didactic modalities and the discourse in magazines ends up shaping sexuality as a contemporary moral economy, a problem that should be pragmatically treated through the use of a certain type of knowledge.     

Walter Benjamin’s Variations of Imagelessness

Abstract

Strongly positive uses of terms that designate an absence, a cognitive or ontological impossibility or a sensory privation are among the persistent conceptual figures of Benjamin’s thought. This article analyses the moves by which Benjamin gave his concept of ‘the expressionless’ (das Ausdruckslose) its intriguing semantic meaning and moral value. Drawing on the poetics and philosophy of the sublime from Greek antiquity through modern times, the article reveals key historical reference points of Benjamin’s concept and, furthermore, his strategy of advocating a novel theory of the sublime as an antithesis to, or an interruption of, the beautiful by selectively integrating older traditions (such as the topos of god’s “imagelessness”) with theorems previously unrelated to these traditions (such as phenomenological reflections on body perception and colour and the twentieth-century discourse on “decision”).     

社会公正与以德化民

道德教化与社会公正相辅相成,社会公正是社会主义公民道德教化的本质体现,也是建构高尚的公民道德的基本保障;以德化民有利于促进社会公正的实现。因此,实现社会公正是党和政府的重要任务。我们应该着重从党、国家、政府和社会等多个层面加强营造社会公正的氛围,从而为实现以德化民打下坚实的基础。     

作为科学发展道义保障的社会主义核心价值体系

科学发展观和社会主义核心价值体系,对这两者关系的认识具有理论探索和实践导引的重要意义。从具体运作的合目的性和有效性来讲,社会主义核心价值体系是总体以及各领域工作科学发展的道义保障。本文的分析指出,这种道义保障主要包括三个方面的内容,即由哲学提供的信仰根据、由价值提供的发展导向以及由理想提供的自由状态。     

公安院校英语教学中的德育教育

公安机关的性质和任务决定了德育教育对公安院校学生的重要性.在公安院校英语教学中,对学生进行德育教育要注意引导学生学习西方文化,培养学生跨文化素质;增强学生责任意识,做学习的主人,对自己和社会负责,增强学生的责任感;运用多种教学法,培养学生团结合作的精神;根据英语教材,挖掘文章的思想内涵,加强德育渗透,结合所学内容全面提升学生的人文素养与道德品质,实现教书与育人的统一,从而达到提高学生德育素质之目的.     

A Mark for Peter

Abstract

This paper objects to certain forms of punishments, such as supermax confinement, on grounds that they are inappropriately contemptuous. Building on discussions in Kant and elsewhere, I flesh out what I take to be salient features of contempt, features that make contempt especially troubling as a form of moral regard and treatment. As problematic as contempt may be in the interpersonal context, I contend that it is especially troubling when a person is treated contemptuously by her political community's institutions—such as by certain forms of punishment. Punishment is contemptuous if it fails to respect offenders as moral persons, who as such are always capable of moral reform. Respect for offenders therefore requires, at least, that punishment not tend to undermine the prospect of offenders’ reform. I flesh out this constraint by considering various ways in which punishments may tend to undermine offenders’ reform. In particular, I discuss ways in which supermax confinement tends to violate the reform-based constraint. Finally, I address several potential objections to my account.     

论清官人格中的儒家伦理政治文化因素

中国古代清官大都具有公正廉明、勤政爱民的高尚人格,并能毕其一生持之以恒。清官人格的形成有着深厚的儒家伦理政治文化根基,哲学基础上的天人之辨、治国模式上的德治传统、权力来源上的民本思想和价值取向上的义利观共同构筑了中国古代清官人格塑造的理论渊源。深入理解传统文化因素在清官人格塑造中的作用对当前的官员品德培养及廉洁文化建设有着重要的现实意义。     

“独狼”恐怖主义伦理根源分析

个体化,随意化是"独狼"恐怖主义的典型特征,"边缘人群"的价值迷失是"独狼"恐怖主义滋生土壤,基于工具理性的美式反恐战略失去了道德的正当性,平等、包容、宽容、共生是恐怖主义的解毒剂。     

Preventive War and Permissive Normative Order

Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, U.S. president George W. Bush articulated a new national security strategy based on striking terrorist organizations and the states that harbor them before they could endanger the United States. Though expressed in the language of preemption, the Bush strategy embodied a far more problematic doctrine of preventive warfare. Whereas the grounds for preemption lie in evidence of a credible, imminent threat, the basis for prevention rests on the suspicion of an incipient, contingent threat. We argue that an American national security strategy that embraces preventive war will set an inauspicious precedent, undermining normative restraints on when and how states may use military force.     

论社会主义思想道德建设的目标与途径

思想道德建设要与社会主义市场经济相适应,为市场经济的健康发展提供正确的价值导向和道义支持。思想道德建设要与社会主义法制建设相协调,把依法治国和以德治国紧密结合起来。思想道德建设要与中华民族传统美德相承接,为社会主义思想道德体系提供重要的思想来源。