The impact of associational life on trust in local institutions: a comparison of 57 Swiss municipalities

In this paper, we evaluate the impact of associational life on individual political trust in 57 Swiss municipalities. Our hierarchical regression models show that individual political trust is not only affected by individual associational membership but also by the exchange between associations and local political authorities in a community. In other words, if political authorities and associations are linked at the community level, citizens will place more trust in their local institutions. Furthermore, we find clear evidence for the rainmaker hypothesis: our results show that the positive effect of a vibrant connection between associational life and local politics on political trust is not solely confined to the associational members themselves, but rather indicate that the structure of the local civic culture fosters political trust among members and non-members at the same time. However, the internal democratic processes of associations have no effect on individuals’ trust in local political institutions.     

Immigrant Social Workers and Transnational Practices: The Example of Latin Americans in Switzerland

This article explores how Latin American social workers living in Switzerland develop transnational practices in their professional and civic life. It focuses more particularly on the forms of support that these migrants provide to their societies of origin or to their immigrant compatriots through the activities they carry out either through their job, through their extra-professional commitments, or by combining these two dimensions of their existence. From interviews with 17 Latin American social workers, a typology of four forms of transnational commitment is suggested: local social work and transnational civic activity, professional transnationalism, transnational alternative professional exchanges, and “glocal” social work.     

Aesthetic self-medication: Bob Flanagan and Sheree Rose's structures of breathing

This essay tracks adaptations to corporeal transformations in breathing in the performance art and life writing of Bob Flanagan (1952–1996) and Sheree Rose (b. 1941). It chronicles how breathing as an aesthetic strategy gets entangled with breathing as an exceptional or ordinary effect of disability over the course—and, in Rose's case, in the aftermath—of Flanagan's cystic fibrosis. The term “aesthetic self-medication” describes the process through which breathing is induced as an aesthetic form, and its patterns and rhythms transcribed and dramatized, in order to stage minimally coherent self-encounters amidst crisis. As Flanagan's chronic illness worsens and the couple's sadomasochistic dynamic no longer manages chronic pain, aesthetic self-medication structures laboured breathing into new genres of, or affective and libidinal relations to, pain, including boredom and musical humour.     

The Sense of a Life: Re-assessing Simone de Beauvoir

Violently differing views on Simone de Beauvoir clash—how not? Our own obsessional reading of and about her is all the more enhanced by her look and manner(s) of dressing, and her affairs, but, above all, by her towering intelligence and pioneering spirit. This piece tries to deal with as many aspects of her being and seeming and appearance to others, as critics and as readers, as behoves such a vital spirit.     

日常生活向度的家庭意识形态考量

本文着眼日常生活向度的家庭意识形态,把马克思主义哲学在家庭教化中的担当从学理和现实层面进行剖析。作为当下中国建设的指导性思想,作为一种意识形态话语样态,马克思主义哲学观照日常生活,关照普通大众的日常生活,因此,立足马克思哲学经典文本及其精神实质,科学揭示当下马克思主义哲学在日常生活中、家庭中的传播、指导功效机能,凸显马克思主义哲学实践精神、主体精神、人文精神,推进马克思主义哲学大众化、生活化。     

论被害人的承诺权限

被害人承诺问题是刑法中正当化行为的一个重要的部分。从被害人承诺的前提性条件出发,综合运用法学、哲学、伦理学的知识对被害人承诺权限,尤其是生命权和身体健康权进行论述,对行为主体是否能同意对生命的侵害、健康权承诺的限度以及安乐死的正当性问题进行深入探讨,有助于解决与被害人承诺相关的社会现实问题。     

青年农民工城市融入问题研究——以分布于广州、上海、青岛的三个个案为例

青年农民工的城市融入困境主要体现在工作、生活、交往和心理四个方面。为加快我国城市化和现代化进程,国家应制定相应的对策,积极引导青年农民工朝着正确的方向发展,同时,要妥善解决青年农民工面临的各种困难,满足他们在工作和生活方面提出的各种合理要求。     

论生活伦理的伦理价值

生活伦理是以自然伦理实体—家庭为主体的＂神的规律＂的产物,但它却孕育了＂人的规律＂的伦理可能。生活伦理的合法性不仅是来自于非课题的伦常生活有效积习的自明性,还表现为生活伦理对家庭及一般社群的伦理奠基性。生活伦理维系了家庭秩序化,构成一般社群伦理的先决价值。     

论公共视阈下的思想政治工作

文章从“公共视阈”这一新的视角来考察思想政治工作,提出思想政治工作本质上是一种公共行为;生活世界是思想政治工作的唯一源泉;互为主体是思想政治工作的核心特征;对话是实现思想政治工作的重要途径。     

婚姻、同居、生活伴侣辨析

当代社会婚姻的主流主体是一男一女的结合,但不是唯一主体。婚姻当事人是生活伴侣,必然同居,这是婚姻内在的本质要求。异性婚姻仍然是一种与人类社会共存亡的身份形态,值得倍加遵从与推崇。生活伴侣是一种有别于婚姻及单纯意义上的同居,而为法律认可的身份关系,同居也是其内在的本质要求。为法律认可的生活伴侣或同性婚姻,我们只能以待异性婚姻一样的视角“平等”待之。与受法律认可的婚姻或生活伴侣无关的同居:一是违法同居,不予以法律保护;二是理论上认可的合法同居,依据契约身份关系及现代民法的基本原则予以保护。