http://clarespark.com/2009/07/04/unfinished-revolutions-and-contested-notions-of-identity/ The Clare Spark Daily Blog Mon, 28 May 2012 14:41:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://clarespark.com/2009/07/04/unfinished-revolutions-and-contested-notions-of-identity/#comment-4477 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:25:50 +0000 http://yankeedoodlesociety.com/2009/07/04/unfinished-revolutions-and-contested-notions-of-identity/#comment-4477 [...] I don’t look to ultra-social conservatives in the Republican Party to consider trauma and any other toolbox that smells like neo-Freudianism, for they are not worldly, as Dr. Scaer and other mental health professionals are. Indeed, as fundamentalists, they are not in history at all, for this world is but the prelude to a better one, and disasters in this life are part of God’s plan. (See http://clarespark.com/2009/07/04/unfinished-revolutions-and-contested-notions-of-identity/.) [...]

]]> http://clarespark.com/2009/07/04/unfinished-revolutions-and-contested-notions-of-identity/#comment-2979 Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:44:16 +0000 http://yankeedoodlesociety.com/2009/07/04/unfinished-revolutions-and-contested-notions-of-identity/#comment-2979 [...] Given the Senate hearings preparatory to the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court that are to begin July 13, I thought it would be timely to review how leading academics and other hip intellectuals are handling or ignoring the notion of the law, liberally conceived. Also, I am interested in the claim that her appointment would be a welcome gesture of “inclusion,” long overdue. Hence, this blog, which should be read in connection with my last one on unfinished revolutions. (See http://clarespark.com/2009/07/04/unfinished-revolutions-and-contested-notions-of-identity/.) [...]

]]> http://clarespark.com/2009/07/04/unfinished-revolutions-and-contested-notions-of-identity/#comment-2244 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 18:35:12 +0000 http://yankeedoodlesociety.com/2009/07/04/unfinished-revolutions-and-contested-notions-of-identity/#comment-2244 [...] Secularism: many cultural historians characterize the modern world as primarily “secular”.  This term is hotly contested in the culture wars.  “Traditionalists” abhor “secularists” who, they believe, have opened the flood gates of diabolism, degeneracy and every type of “unrest.”  The traditionalists insist that no separation between Church and State was intended by the Founding Fathers, who believed in America’s Providential mission. It is my position that religious and intellectual pluralism were institutionalized in the First Amendment to the Constitution. The culture war positions point to the unfinished revolutions, about which I wrote here:  http://clarespark.com/2009/07/04/unfinished-revolutions-and-contested-notions-of-identity/. [...]

]]> http://clarespark.com/2009/07/04/unfinished-revolutions-and-contested-notions-of-identity/#comment-1942 Mon, 04 Apr 2011 01:18:22 +0000 http://yankeedoodlesociety.com/2009/07/04/unfinished-revolutions-and-contested-notions-of-identity/#comment-1942 [...] 1.  The standard religious view takes the position that there was a Golden Age in Eden before Eve ate of the Apple. Since that fatal bite, the world is fallen, and all hopes for amelioration are transferred to Paradise. The world we inhabit is a vale of tears and we “see through a glass, darkly.” The author Hilaire Belloc was of this view, and, like other ultra-Catholics, fixated his attention on the Crucifixion as the moment when Christ’s passion  purified humanity of its sins, promising a better place for the faithful after death. Arthur Lovejoy’s book, The Great Chain of Being, spelled out the Platonic-Christian world view very clearly. If an historian is known by the ability to distinguish between change and continuity through the accumulation of empirical evidence, then such “periodization” is irrelevant within this anti-materialist world view. See my blog on Nicholas Boyle for an example: http://clarespark.com/2009/07/04/unfinished-revolutions-and-contested-notions-of-identity/. [...]

]]> http://clarespark.com/2009/07/04/unfinished-revolutions-and-contested-notions-of-identity/#comment-1258 Fri, 05 Nov 2010 21:20:06 +0000 http://yankeedoodlesociety.com/2009/07/04/unfinished-revolutions-and-contested-notions-of-identity/#comment-1258 [...] a related blog, see http://clarespark.com/2009/07/04/unfinished-revolutions-and-contested-notions-of-identity/. ) Leave a [...]

]]> http://clarespark.com/2009/07/04/unfinished-revolutions-and-contested-notions-of-identity/#comment-746 Tue, 04 May 2010 23:16:01 +0000 http://yankeedoodlesociety.com/2009/07/04/unfinished-revolutions-and-contested-notions-of-identity/#comment-746 [...] of this blog might profit from an earlier one: http://clarespark.com/2009/07/04/unfinished-revolutions-and-contested-notions-of-identity/. What follows is the mission statement  for the NEA and NEH. I have emphasized in bold face those [...]

]]> http://clarespark.com/2009/07/04/unfinished-revolutions-and-contested-notions-of-identity/#comment-607 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:48:44 +0000 http://yankeedoodlesociety.com/2009/07/04/unfinished-revolutions-and-contested-notions-of-identity/#comment-607 [...] that specter and reality is where he has put his authorial energy. (For a related blog see http://clarespark.com/2009/07/04/unfinished-revolutions-and-contested-notions-of-identity/.) Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)Making Political Love, Not WarSwitching the [...]

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