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Considerations Of Economic Justics: A Movement Towards A New Definition Of Poverty, Steven Medema
Considerations Of Economic Justics: A Movement Towards A New Definition Of Poverty, Steven Medema
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Poverty, throughout the pre-modern and modern periods, has elicited a variety of attitudes and responses. Attitudes of the middle and upper classes toward poverty have alternated between thinking of it as an unavoidable natural phenomenon cast upon an unfortunate group of people, and seeing it as being caused by slothful indigents who are too lazy to work. Responses to the problem of poverty have run the gamut from moral chastisement to indoor relief (laboring in a workhouse forinordem to qualify for benefits), to the outright granting of benefits. Yet until the early twentieth century, little was done in terms of …
From The Sublime To The Political: Some Historical Notes, Gary Shapiro
From The Sublime To The Political: Some Historical Notes, Gary Shapiro
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Let me document my suggestion that modernist poetics tends to give a privileged position to what has traditionally been known as the sublime by adducing two examples from rather disparate traditions. Martin Heidegger's ontological poetics can reasonably be viewed as a renewal of the aesthetics of the sublime -- although Heidegger never uses the term sublime, so far as I know -- and is explicitly hostile to the limitations of aesthetics, conceived as an autonomous study of a certain kind of experience. Harold Bloom does recur to the Romantic terminology of sublimity in his attempt to construct a poetics which …