Between Speech and Silence: The Postcolonial Critic and the Idea of Emancipation

Abstract

The concept of emancipation has an increasingly ambivalent status in postcolonial criticism. Under the influence of poststructuralism, the idea that the subaltern subject might overcome colonial relations of cultural domination through acts of self-representation has been thrown into disrepute. If there is to be emancipation, according to this view, it will not come through the recovery of an authentic speaking subject, but through strategies of ‘strategic essentialism’. Here it is argued that this postructuralist approach leaves the subaltern in a politically pre carious position and should be exchanged for the kind of hermeneutic approach that makes possible a genuine politics of recognition.     

Proto-norms and global media ethics

Abstract

Normativity is a problem of modernity. Relativism has emerged with the negation of moral universals. Clifford Christians consistently argues for the concept of proto-norms as a workable basis for normative ethics applied to media practices that operate on a global scale. Christians declares philosopher Charles Taylor to lie in the background of his theorising, but seldom gives a hint as to how Taylor’s thought influences his own. There appears to be sufficient congruence between Christians’ thinking about proto-norms and the articulation of hypergoods, strong evaluation and persons in Taylor’s philosophical anthropology to consider this to be the influence, among other sources Christians draws on. Of particular interest is Taylor’s insistence that persons always exist in normative moral space as an inescapable horizon of existence. The article explores some aspects of Taylor’s thought that may shed light on what proto-norms are and how they may be applied in the quest for a viable global media ethics in an age when moral relativism seems to be the media's only ethical principle.     

简述与时俱进的马克思主义哲学历程

马克思主义哲学的发展历程,是不断受到挑战和回应挑战的历程。19世纪欧洲资本主义社会的实践和东方社会的蜕变,催生和推进了马克思主义哲学。20世纪各国革命和建设的实践和世界范围内的剧变,发展了马克思主义哲学并使之具有民族特色。马克思主义哲学永葆活力的关键,就是不懈地“与时俱进”。     

莱布尼茨的科学、技术中的哲学思想

莱布尼茨在哲学、科学、技术等很多方面都取得了诸多的成就。本文力图从他的科学、技术方面的成绩入手，试析一下其中所蕴含的他的独特的思想及其伟大的目的。     

毛泽东对建设和发展社会主义的哲学思考

毛泽东对建设和发展社会主义的哲学思考,是在中国大地上把社会主义的理想初步转变成现实的过程,是马克思主义和中国社会主义实践相结合的过程。这一探索所遗留给我们的,既有独创成功的奠基,也有风雨交加的洗礼。重新学习和研究毛泽东建设和发展社会主义的精神遗产,对于我们清醒地反思昨天,客观地正视今天,理性地展望明天,具有难以替代的理论指导和历史借鉴意义。     

分析学还是解释学——法律论证之知识属性辨析

论证理论主要源于分析学,这一点一般为大多数学者所接受。鉴于解释学与分析哲学在哲学上大体分属两种不同的思维传统,因此,解释学与论证理论之关系便值得探讨。法律论证理论固然来源于分析学的传统,但如果没有解释学知识的支持,它也是不可能的。可以说,没有解释的论证是空洞的,没有论证的解释是盲目的。二者均致力于型构具有实践理性品格的法学知识。     

罗尔斯和诺齐克正义理论导读——兼谈现代哲学研究的理论困境与思维转型

两人的正义理论都是对个人基本权利的强调,只是论证手段不同。他们共同面临的哲学困惑主要有以下原因1.思想上,固守传统思维,坚持单一、公式化的主体价值内涵;2.制度设计上,主体价值的安置错位;3.心理上,信任观念的缺乏;4.伦理上,忽视人之内在价值或者内在价值跟主体制度的脱离。文章提出能够保证人们参与制度创设和形成公共价值理念的程序更重要,社会与个人会在人们的共同参与中实现自然的内在契合。     

宪法价值与功能的法理学分析

宪法的价值是人们对宪法产生的预期需求 ,民主、平等、保障人权等是宪法价值实现的积极结果 ,而不是价值本身。宪法的功能包括分配政治权力、规范国家权力、预防社会混乱和调节利益关系     

The clash of ideologies: Notions of multiparty (liberal) democracy versus African systems

In South Africa traditional leaders, aka (also known as) chiefs or collaborators, had hoped that the new liberation political environment would retain and safeguard their deeply embedded cultural practices and values, which had existed for centuries, but had been partly violated during the colonial era. However, the new liberation era brought with it notions of liberal democracy—characterised by concepts of meritorious selections, based on democratic “elections”, a practice that further marginalised and frustrated hereditary cultural norms and practices, upon which the pillars and identities of each ethnic group or community were based. In discussing the complex and interlocking interests, epochs of colonial and postcolonial experience, the introduction of “foreign” meritorious notions that dispensed with the craved hereditary positions, the chiefs, traditional leaders and former collaborators appear to have been forced to abandon the liberation project and take up the issue of their survival as custodians of customs and chiefdoms; even against the messaging coming from the new political classes. Inevitably, this has created new tensions in the political governance of urban and rural communities, by elected officials who have either failed or succeeded to coopt traditional leaders. This article argues for a balance between democracy and traditional leadership that can inform modern electoral processes and modernise the cultural practices and eliminate unnecessary conflict and tensions.     

坚持道路自信 理论自信 制度自信：“一国两制”的时代逻辑与哲学论域

哲学的特质决定了其对现实世界分析的深刻底蕴，即历史的客观性与规律的概括性。对一国两制道路的认识与评价，必须从国情与时代的演进中来探寻发展的逻辑，它的科学性体现在原则性与灵活性的有机统一、适应了生产力与生产关系的发展规律、丰富与拓展了马克思主义国家学说的当代论域。