Author: William K. Carroll File Type: pdf Since the 1970s, economic globalization has fuelled concerns that democracy is being hollowed out. Transnational social movements have developed as advocates of a democratic globalization that enriches human relations across space by empowering communities and citizens to participate in the full range of decisions that shape and govern their lives. Alongside and in support of these movements, transnational alternative policy groups (TAPGs) have emerged-- think tanks that provide evidence-based critique of neoliberal capitalism while promoting democratic alternatives to the corporate agenda of top-down globalization. These are think tanks of a different sort from the conventional ones that advise political and corporate elites. Groups such as the Transnational Institute (Amsterdam) and Focus on the Global South (Bangkok) create knowledge that challenges existing corporate priorities and state policies, and that advocates alternative ways of organizing economic, political and cultural life. They disseminate this knowledge not only via mainstream media venues but through activist networks and alternative media, and they work collaboratively with social movements in developing and implementing alternative ideas. TAPGs thus play important roles in social contestations that transcend national borders and movement silos. Expose, Oppose, Propose explores the networks, discourses and practices through which transnational alternative policy groups exert political and cultural influence, and assesses the challenges they face as transnational change agents in an era of economic and ecological crisis. Based on in-depth interviewing with protagonists in 16 groups, eight based in the global South and eight based in the global North, it is the first comprehensive study of these groups as strategically important agencies for counter-hegemony within the global left. The book calls attention to the diverse ways in which TAPGs produce and mobilize knowledge for change, but it also highlights their common features, including - an engagement with the big issues facing humanity in the early 21st century, critiquing hegemonic frameworks and pointing toward globally just solutions - an embeddedness in global civil society that places TAPGs in key strategic and mediating locations vis-a-vis movements, North and South, alternative media, intergovernmental and other bodies - an insideroutsider approach to dominant institutions and a conscious resistance to NGOization and hegemonic integration - dialogical and movement-centred modes of cognitive praxis that build participatory capacity and solidarity, create reflective spaces and prefigure alternative futures within a dialectic of theory and practice and - the combination, in their cognitive praxis, of research and analysis, critical pedagogy, networking and outreach via a wide range of media. Among the books conclusions, in view of the fact that the global left is intercultural, is that transnational alternative policy groups need to elaborate practices of intercultural translation that preserve autonomy while creating common ground. TAPGs can serve as contact zones where the work of translation across movements and cultures can thrive, contributing to the ongoing quest for global cognitive justice, which is a co-requisite of global social justice. As collective intellectuals of counter-hegemonic globalization, transnational alternative policy groups problematize borders and enclosures while providing the cognitive resources for both local changes and a strengthened capacity for justice globalism.--

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Author: Anthony J. Steinbock File Type: pdf Recent discussions around limit-problems, namely the questions concerning what can appear in phenomenological reflection, as well as what phenomenology as philosophical reflection can handle, call for a concerted treatment of the problem of limit-phenomena. In this important new book, Anthony J. Steinbock, a leading voice in contemporary phenomenology, explores that question in the context of an interrelated series of problems in Husserls phenomenology. Representing a continued struggle with these insights and problems, the first section sketches out the problem of limit-phenomena, and addresses generally that rich estuary of liminal experience that commanded Husserls attention in his research manuscripts. The book goes on to offer a correlative reflection on the issue of method and finally explores a specific set of what have been called recently limit-problems within phenomenology, relating to the problem of individuation and on a more personal level, vocation. This rich and timely volume offers an excellent demonstration of phenomenology in practice. **Review Driven by an attempt to consider things in themselves and in the general framework of a generative phenomenology, Steinbock considers in an insightful way the emergence of limit-phenomena. This book does justice to the authors profound conviction that phenomenology has to be open to all types of given and givenness. (Mariano Crespo, Universidad de Navarra) Steinbocks Limit-Phenomena and Phenomenology in Husserl is both a fine contribution to Husserl scholarship and a rich, original exploration of important phenomenological themes. Steinbock systematically and masterfully elucidates Husserls meditations on the nature of limit phenomena (birth, death) and the verticality or transcendence that characterizes human experience. Steinbock also demonstrates that phenomenology needs new tools to articulate these phenomena in their modes of givenness, tools Steinbock develops in new and stimulating ways. A most valuable contribution to phenomenology. (Dermot Moran, Professor of Philosophy, University College Dublin) Steinbocks book is a major contribution that will help us to develop the future of phenomenology in a new key. It not only offers a lucid introduction into generative phenomenology and a careful reassessment of phenomenological key concepts, but also succeeds in unfolding the true promise of generative phenomenology, that is, its yet undiscovered normative potentials. (Michael Staudigl, Head of Research, Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna) About the Author Anthony J. Steinbock is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Phenomenology Research Center at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. His many publications include Moral Emotions (2014), Phenomenology and Mysticism (2007), Home and Beyond Generative Phenomenology After Husserl (1995) and the English translation of Husserls Analyses Concerning Passive and Active Synthesis (2001).

Author: Eric Jarosinski File Type: epub I#FrequentlyAskedQuestionsBR1. Ontology what the fuck?BR2. Causality why the fuck?BR3. Epistemology how the why the fuck?BR4. Phenomenology the fuck.IBRINein. A ManifestoI is the brainchild of Eric Jarosinski, the self-described “failed intellectual behind the hugely popular @NeinQuarterly, a “Compendium of Utopian Negation that uses the aphoristic potential of Twitter to plumb the existential abyss of modern life—and finds it bottomless.BRStridently hopeless and charmingly dour, INein. A ManifestoI is an irreverent philosophical investigation into our most urgent questions. And the least. Inspired by the aphorisms of Nietzsche, Karl Kraus, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno, Jarosinskis short-form style reinvents philosophy for a world doomed to distraction.BRINein. A ManifestoI will be packaged as an attractive small-format hardcover, with a handful of Jarosinskis aphorisms laid out on each page. Critical thinkers,...