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Economics cannot claim to be absolutely objective. There are several significant ways in which economic analysis is subjective, and this should be recognized by the profession to a greater degree

Violence-prone area or international transition? adding the role of outsiders in Balkan violence / Susan L. Woodward -- Violence and vision: the prosthetics and aesthetics of terror / Allen Feldman -- Circumcision, body, masculinity: the ritual wound and collective violence / Deepak Mehta -- Teach me how to be a man: an exploration of the definition of masculinity / Mamphela Ramphele -- On not becoming a "terrorist": problems of memory, agency, and community in Sri Lankan conflict / Jonathan Spencer -- The ground of all making: state violence, the family, and political activists / Pamela Reynolds -- Violence, suffering, Amman: the work of oracles in Sri Lanka's eastern war zone / Patricia Lawrence -- The act of witnessing: violence, poisonous knowledge, and subjectivity / Veena Das -- The violences of everyday life: the multiple forms and dynamics of social violence / Arthur Kleinman -- Body and space in a time of crisis: sterilization and resettlement during the emergency in Delhi / Emma Tarlo -- The quest for human organs and the violence of zeal / Margaret Lock -- Mayan multiculturalism and the violence of memories / Kay B. Warren -- Reconciliation and memory in postwar Nigeria / Murray Last -- Mood, moment, and mind / E. Valentine Daniel

This new, completely revised and re-written edition of aesthetics and subjectivity brings up to date the original book's account of the path of German philosophy from Kant, via Fichte and Holderlin, the early Romantis, Schelling, Hegel, Schleimacher, to Nietzsche, in view of recent historical research and contemporary arguments in philosophy and theory in the humanities. The original book helped make subjectivity, aesthetics, music and language a significant part of debate in the humanity. Bowie develops the approaches to these areas in relation to new theoretical advances which bridge the divide between the continental and analytical traditions of philosophy. In light of the huge growth of interest in German philosophy as a resource for re-thinking both literary and cultural theory, and contemporary philosophy, aesthetics and subjectivity will be indispensable reading for students and teachers in all humanities subjects, from literature, to philosophy, to music and beyond.

So long as there is law there can be no universal human right to peace. This is because legalized violence, whether in threat or in deed, constitutes the very antithesis of peaceful relations from the point of view of those whom law represses. Law cannot define peace as the absence of all violence—and still less as the absence of all legalized suffering—without gainsaying justice, for as Pascal says, "Justice without might is helpless; might without justice is tyrannical." Although legal outcomes, like falling boulders and pouncing lions, can always be imputed to historical causes, experience teaches that legal actors generally seek to legitimate their deeds by grounding the law in some non-causal narrative of the right or the good. According to a tenet of political liberalism that can be traced to Descartes' discovery (or invention) of the irreducible "I" that thinks, the legitimacy of law's narrative is both given and taken by free and rational politico-legal subjects. In truth, however, the Western philosophical tradition gives us two separate grammars for discussing what it takes to be two different kinds of rational subjects: the causal subject and the grounding subject. The causal subject stands in a relation to the world. Acting strategically as the cause of effects, it uses the object world and other human beings as means to its ends. But the causal subject is also itself caused: its desires and actions are effects of history in the largest sense of the word. Such a one is fated by grammar and custom to become an object and a means in its own right: an object for scientific inquiry and knowledge, for example, and, more generally, a means to the ends of other causal subjects. From the standpoint of the causal subject, there can be no human right not to use or be used as a means. Unlike the causal subject, the grounding subject is supposed to be a genuine origin rather than a mere link in an infinite chain of causes and effects. In Greek terms, this subject is an archē as opposed to an aitia. It also ...

The deficiencies of objectivity & detachment in the social sciences are identified in relation to the desirability of subjective & ethically motivated forms of knowledge & research. Drawing on the theory of Max Weber, traditional science is depicted as detached observation that seeks objectivity through the absence of cognitive, moral, or emotional judgment. This goal is deemed both impossible & misleading as social analysts can never completely distance themselves from the objects of analysis, & recognition of the emotional, moral, & subjective dimensions of research can in fact facilitate understanding. Individuals must be seen as a conglomeration of multiple & often contradictory identities & communities, a process inhibited by the traditional scientific method. It is concluded that social analysts synthesize their work with localized & context-specific conceptions of social justice, transformative action, human dignity, & equality. T. Sevier

This review essay analyzes the problem of subjectivity in Rocío Zambrana's Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico (2021) from a phenomenological perspective. The essay argues that despite the absence of an explicit formulation, Colonial Debts relies on a theory of subjectivity. This theory is articulated through a characterization of Zambrana's concept of "unbinding" as a process of desubjectivation enacted by decolonial practices in the context of material conditions of oppression. The essay also argues for the critical usefulness of phenomenological descriptions to theorize both the logics of subjection that coloniality instantiates, and the "prefiguring" of a potential interruption in their operativity. Finally, it studies the experience of waiting as a particularly revealing determination of the temporality of colonial existence that is especially recurrent in Puerto Rican intellectual production.