... the language of altruism was imported, adopted, resisted, and finally accepted between its first introduction as a strange and unwelcome neologism and its successful naturalization as a ‘traditional term’ in ethical discourse around the turn of the twentieth century. altruism beneficence Comte Auguste...

... and fairer world. In human dignity discourse lawyers bring legal problems and philosophers’ reflections on what humans are and owe each other—under a secular premise. Theologians rarely reflect on the dangers for human dignity within the church and similar institutions resulting from hierarchy and control...

...The advantages of dialogue across disciplines concerning human dignity should not distract us from the reality that different intellectual disciplines have different discourses and methods. In particular, positive legal systems (which are plural, not singular) produce their own functional...

...In terms of its aesthetic ideals—for example, its lack of a gender binary and inversion of a gender hierarchy—the Neoplatonic discourse theoretically allowed women to express love as speaking subjects. However, other than a few surviving examples of early modern women poets, this prestigious...

... analysis of media, government and civil society discourses surrounding the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015. Crane Andrew discourse analysis Quirk Joel Dahan N Gittens M Caruana Robert Fairclough N Foucault Michel Hardy C Phillips Nicola child labour cocoa industry study of child slavery in texts...

... Library. This chapter discusses the means for circulating political discourse. The discussion centres on the physical design of books, the practice and material spaces of reading, the potential impact of the spoken word, and the circulation of print and manuscript. The interpenetration of these forms...

... to Oxford in March 1681. It analyses the pamphlet discourse that circulated before and after it met, and considers the powerful strategy of invoking historical precedents in polemical debate. Finally, it looks at some representations of Antony Ashley Cooper, who was the Earl of Shaftesbury...

...Ideas of the French present were challenged and reframed through colonial discourse. This posed challenging new questions about whose present was being promoted by French political culture; where that present was located; and who should be governed by it. Drawing in part on Johannes Fabian’s...

... political cleavage between communitarianism and cosmopolitanism. Moreover, the social reaction must also be understood in the light of an economic discourse that promises the local working classes an improvement of their socioeconomic conditions, conditional on the exclusion of the immigrant parts...

... of the British Library. Figure 21 . Roger L’Estrange, The Committee ( 1680 ). Courtesy of the British Library. This chapter discusses how Jesuits were represented and perceived in popular discourse. It looks at the significance of this perception throughout the Popish Plot. It considers...

... alive to the manipulations and distortions of political discourse. Roger L'Estrange is also shown to have professed moderation, but he was found to be frequently guilty of zeal and running to extremes. The representation of Catholics is revealed to have been crucial for the credit of the plot...

... under discussion suffer from a bad gait that leads to ruination, the new figure of the flâneuse manages to engage in pleasurable walking by abandoning the Enlightenment legacy of the good gait. modes of walking discursive trope Enlightenment discourse Modernism Modernity moral and epistemological...

... of public discourse. It concludes that the transitions that characterised the Empire-Commonwealth over the twentieth century were ultimately constrained within the due process of British constitutionalism. Bibliography Documentary publications Ashton, S. R. and Stockwell, S. E. (eds), British...

... of their hegemonic discourses, which the public is unable to fathom or negotiate. The Network’s motivation is not solely the aspiration to solve mankind’s problems, but the all-too-human will to the power to arbitrate between all other political actors. A crucial but ‘invisible’ causal factor was the omission...

... This chapter details the months leading up to the March 1995 Tokyo sarin subway attack and the social responses to the attack in the immediate aftermath. This chapter reconstructs the societal responses to the Aum Affair, mainly focusing on mass media and state reactions in public discourse...

... and governance frameworks for urban green spaces, concluding that there is a mismatch between these legal arrangements and experiences of belonging and ownership, in the non-legal sense. The consequent difficulty in articulating a discourse of communal property undermines efforts to secure the funding needed...

... in the micro-processes of deliberation and meaning-making practices of a group of people charged with prioritising health care in an NHS Primary Care Trust in the UK. The chapter describes how the research study brought together ideas from rhetorical theory and methods of discourse analysis to develop...

...This chapter examines the influence of Petrarch on the poetry of Amelia Rosselli. It argues that Rosselli's poetry can be seen to reaffirm the enduring value of the Petrarchan legacy at the close of the second millennium and shows how Petrarchan discourse operates within her poetry as a veritable...

... for interpretation. The author uses two main investigation procedures: a critical examination of the efficacy of the models of interpretation used in modern source-study scholarship, and an analysis of the construction of the early medieval system of intertextual discourse. intellectual systems textual systems...

...By examining the strategic dialogue process, this chapter conducts a wider evaluation across time and the issue areas of the relationship. It provides a careful textual analysis of the discourse mechanisms that Europe and China are using to develop their political language; but it also points...