“用文字来表现一种造型感”——论罗杰·弗莱设计美学对伍尔夫小说实验的影响

弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的现代主义小说实验深受英国艺术批评大师罗杰·弗莱视觉艺术观念的影响。弗莱高度重视形式与设计,认为画家要运用线条、色彩、块面等手段赋予画面的整体结构以稳固、和谐和富于秩序的效果,而他惊喜地在法国后印象派画家塞尚的画作中找到了自己艺术追求的现实范本。在他的影响下,伍尔夫的小说也着力追求绘画的结构设计与空间造型特征,体现出塞尚画风的明显影响。     

The Faux Debate in North American Suffrage History

The history of the US women’s suffrage campaign in the twentieth century has often devolved into a debate about whether mainstream politics or militant agitation won the day. This article argues that this division—between those who credit Carrie Chapman Catt and her pragmatic approach and those who trumpet Alice Paul for her campaign of White House protests—is a faux debate. A reading of American history suggests that any political movement for social change—from civil rights to LGBTQ rights—requires a one-two punch. The inside politico engages the powers that be, courting sympathy, while the outside agitator throws rocks at the establishment’s gates, stirring fear about the risks of inaction. The coming centennial of the nineteenth amendment’s ratification offers an opportunity to assess whether this scholarly battle over credit is anything more than a historical distraction, and to lament the missing veins of scholarship lost in its gaze.     

The Unlying God: Law Inspired and Inspiring in Plato's Ion and St. Paul's Letter to Titus

Law requires more than belief; law requires trust. The words of justice, or rather, just words are no less soif we believe in them or not. But the words of justiceare indeed dead, or rather, lead to death, if we trustthe exigencies of our selves and our times more than thelaw, if we fail to find ever-unfolding inspirationtogether in the language of law. St. Paul, therefore,does not attempt to solve the liar paradox that everyhuman being confronts in any attempt to speak truthfully,i.e., with meaning as an individual; rather, he willingly accepts the absurdity of the knowledge oftruth by looking, as Plato also did, toward ``the unlyingGod', not in the stasis of belief, but in the movementof trust, a communal covenant of those who are chosen,that is, those who chose each other.     

公平视野下的德国简化税法改革方案——基于保罗·基尔希霍夫教授税收正义理论的公法学思考

保罗·基尔希霍夫教授提出的税制改革方案主要借助取消不必要的类型化区分、确立中立法律形式下的课税表达、对婚姻和家庭的特别保护、减少例外规则以及简化税收程序等来实现税收正义。税收不仅仅是政治上的现实,其改革思路的起点恰在于税收背后的宪法理念:宪政体制下的租税国家、人格图像并函摄了基本权利主客观面向的理论基础,即对国家共同体及任务有着共同价值观的自由而有个性的人必然要求处于国家所保障的自由经济体制下的税收法律予以相匹配的规制,它具体表现为以减少纳税人税收形成可能性为目标,保障国家对个人经济成果最温和分享以及减少例外的原则。