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"Some Reflections on the Ethical-legal Parallel in Kant's Religion". The aim of this paper is to contribute to understanding the ethical-legal parallel drawn in Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason. I will analyze the similarities, differences and the analogy among the ethical state of nature, the exeundum and the community, on the one side, and the juridical state of nature, the exeundum and the community, on the other. I will argue that moral progress, understood as overcoming radical evil, requires a complement between the ethical and legalpolitical spheres, given that each area provides a different approach and a different community solution within the same public sphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we question the concept of rationality providing a possible use of it in social agrarian studies and economic anthropology. First, we theoretically clarify the path by relating and distinguishing at the same time two concepts: «modern rationality» and «economic rationality». Afterwards, we present some theoretical-methodological mediation that allows a categorical use of those concepts. Then, we elaborate some epistemological reflections on this matter. As a conclusion, we review our main contributions, emphasizing the link between general concerns, linked to the development of Modernity, with some of its historical embodiments in the agrarian order and economic anthropology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Community media have been lauded for the opportunity they provide to enhance participation and therefore democratic culture. In Kenya, a growing number of community radio stations have been founded partly under this logic since 2004. As of 2017, there were about 25 operational community radio stations. However, but exactly what participation consists of or what bottlenecks participation faces is not extensively laid out in either the country's legislation or the stations' best practices. This paper explores the daily interactions of a Kenyan 'community radio community' with the programmes of a radio station in their midst. It examines the media rituals at different times of the day by various sections of the community in relation to the content of the station, Mugambo Jwetu FM. Through this, the social norms that determine participation on one hand, and the new social formations that occur through participation on the other hand, are revealed. The data used are drawn from field research conducted in 2014 and 2015. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the idea of community through the proposals of some contemporary thinkers who have tried to rethink the concept of being in common assuming some of its paradoxes. For authors like Roberto Esposito, Jean-Luc Nancy and Giorgio Agamben, thinking "the community" implies reflecting on it from the paradoxes and contradictions it contains, both conceptually and in terms of everyday reality. The central paradox that sums such contradictions is stating that the community is feasible only to the extent that it is not. Close to Russell's paradox, such aporia allows us to recognize the difference between the community that takes care of its contradictions and inconsistencies, the community of the crisis, and the one that, conceived in absolute and unequivocal terms, is not responsible for their antinomies and contradictions, and leads to what we call the community crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the idea of community through the proposals of some contemporary thinkers who have tried to rethink the concept of being in common assuming some of its paradoxes. For authors like Roberto Esposito, Jean-Luc Nancy and Giorgio Agamben, thinking "the community" implies reflecting on it from the paradoxes and contradictions it contains, both conceptually and in terms of everyday reality. The central paradox that sums such contradictions is stating that the community is feasible only to the extent that it is not. Close to Russell's paradox, such aporia allows us to recognize the difference between the community that takes care of its contradictions and inconsistencies, the community of the crisis, and the one that, conceived in absolute and unequivocal terms, is not responsible for their antinomies and contradictions, and leads to what we call the community crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the notion of sacred in Durkheim's developments within the French sociological school and of those from Georges Bataille in the College of Sociology. Considering the peculiarity of these developments, which had influence in the early twentieth century, we show the broadening of the interpretation of the sacred to other phenomena different from religious issues, pointing the potential of this concept in the formulation of a critique of secular modernity. So, the sacred is the nodal point from which both Durkheim and Bataille, each one from his own perspective, problematizes the social effervescence, where, also, community becomes a central problem, raising questions and issues in the realm of contemporary political thought. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper studies the notion of sacred in Durkheim's developments within the French sociological school and of those from Georges Bataille in the College of Sociology. Considering the peculiarity of these developments, which had influence in the early twentieth century, we show the broadening of the interpretation of the sacred to other phenomena different from religious issues, pointing the potential of this concept in the formulation of a critique of secular modernity. So, the sacred is the nodal point from which both Durkheim and Bataille, each one from his own perspective, problematizes the social effervescence, where, also, community becomes a central problem, raising questions and issues in the realm of contemporary political thought. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]