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Vygotsky's analysis of the crisis in psychology is an important methodological milestone in the development of his cultural historical theory. Therefore, discussing his work would entail including an examination of this analysis from a methodological point of view. This study emphasises the significance of the Marxist method in Vygotsky's analysis of the crisis in psychology – in the emergence of the social character of psychological knowledge, in the critical approach to the different currents of the time, and in the search for new ways to creatively develop the science of psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay explores counter-hegemonic madness as resistance strategy against European colonialism, American imperialism, and neocolonialism in Imbolo Mbue’s ecocritical novel, How Beautiful We Were. Mbue plunges the reader in the middle of what La Marr Jurelle Bruce terms “psychosocial” madness, havoc perpetuated by an African dictator, His Excellency, who is also a stooge of an American oil company called Pexton. The plot unfolds in the village of Kosawa, located in an unnamed, fictional African country. Mbue’s characters put a timer on the West’s impunity, attacking it by any means necessary, thus inspiring an honestly brutal discussion about the difficult and often-times deadly routes to the beauty of true freedom. How Beautiful We Were begins with disruptive psychosocial madness at an individual level, an intervention eventually undercut by a transition to a collective, albeit elitist resistant movement which privileges both negotiated and violent solutions. The individualistic resistance movement toward social change, led by Konga, the “village madman,” lays the foundation for a nationwide popular struggle toward social justice led by a woman, Thula, who is predictably discounted as “fickle” and unwomanly by the patriarchal community that sabotages her important interventions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of the article is to substantiate the need for digitalization of the evidence base of war crimes of the aggressor country with its subsequent use in international judicial institutions, and also to develop a conceptual framework for generating an e-catalog of missile fragments and debris in the course of identification expert proceedings. The reliability of the results and conclusions obtained is ensured by the use of a set of general scientific and special research methods. In particular, using the dialectical method as a general method of cognition, the author examines the classification and terminological features of expert research on the identification of missiles used against Ukraine; by applying the methods of systematic and comparative analysis, the author reveals an approach to systematization of missile fragments and debris with external (species) and internal (constructive) differentiation of the evidence base material; the use of the methods of formal logic, analogy, and generalization allowed the author to formulate and present the results of forensic examination. The conceptual foundations of generating an e-catalog of missile fragments and debris in the process of identification expert proceedings are revealed. The external (species) and internal (constructive) components of the evidence base of war crimes involving missile weapons are distinguished. A generalized algorithm for missile identification is developed. It is argued that for the purposes of identification of missiles used as an instrument of a war crime and intended to reveal the link “missile – launch vehicle – person who launched a missile from a launch vehicle (perpetrator of the crime) – person(s) who ordered the launch of a missile (organizer, accomplice), the most important classification criteria are those which reveal the type and basing of the launch vehicle and the alleged perpetrator. It has been established that in general, informative fragments and debris are subject to identification by the following criteria: available markings on the body, structural unit, part, fragment, wreckage, etc.; presence of surviving missile compartments; characteristic shapes, colors, etc.; characteristic materials. Definitions are disclosed: “identification of a combat missile”; “e-catalog of missiles as a document”; “fragments of a used missile”; “fragments of a used missile”; “combat missile”. The author’s own generalized algorithm for missile identification has been developed, which is used in the process of expert research to solve the identification tasks set by the initiator [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article aims at providing some clarification on the Horkheimer-Neurath 1937 debate, so as to make three main claims: (a) around 1937 (even though perhaps neither in the early 1930s, at the time of his review of Mannheim’s Ideology and Utopia, nor after the Second World War, at the time of Adorno’s disenchanted statement, “the whole is the false”), Horkheimer belonged to the Hegelian-Marxist tradition stemming from Lukács’s History and Class Conscioussness (1923); (b) notwithstanding Neurath’s semantic and epistemological holism, his fallibilism, his rejection of Wertfreiheit in the social sciences, his commitment to socialism, there is still a gulf between his position and Horkheimer’s, for Neurath did not accept the main methodological claim made by the latter, namely, the Lukács-inspired view that what “constitutes the decisive difference between Marxism and bourgeois thought” is the Hegelian “point of view of totality”; (c) highlighting the main differences between Neurath’s and Lukács’s versions of Marxism – one concerning the very idea of dialectic, and the other concerning the epistemic privilege of the proletariat – can throw some light on and help understand better the distinctive features of Lukács’s Hegelianization of Marxism.

This Symposium explores how under‐examined relations of disposability underpin socio‐ecological transformation in the Anthropocene. The Symposium makes four inventions into ongoing debates at the intersection of discard studies and planetary change. First, it illuminates how new frontiers of accumulation work to revalue discards through shifting waste/value dialectics. Second, it encourages analysis of discards not as incidental of systems and structures but as constitutive, material, processes of maintaining power. Third, it attends closely to waste and its labours in order to illuminate how accumulation is underwritten by embodied precarity. Fourth, it constructively draws out how attention to the politics of discards suggests an ethics of care that is centred on interdependence, accountability, and kinship. Together, the articles demonstrate how an engaged, global study of waste and disposability can not only render the differentiated violences of the current conjuncture visible, but also offer insight into how socio‐material relationships may be revalued. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the socio-spatial constitution of the mall, as a basic consumption place, in the aftermath of the 2008 global economic crisis, employing a geographical approach to malls and a socio-spatial perspective on heterotopia, as a conceptual theoretical tool on the exercise of power and production of space. Introducing the concept of crisis-heterotopia, the case of the Mediterranean Cosmos shopping Centre in Thessaloniki, Greece, is employed, carrying out questionnaires and interviews with residents of Thessaloniki. The findings highlight the internal constitution of the mall as a crisis-heterotopia identified by the socio-spatial and cultural profiles and spatial representations of the consumers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nikk Effingham and Huw Price argue that in certain cases of Newcomb problems involving time travel and foreknowledge, being given information about the future makes it rational to choose as an evidential decision theorist would choose. Although the cases they consider have some intuitive pull, and so appear to aid in answering the question of what it is rational to do, we argue that their respective positions are not compelling. Newcomb problems are structured such that whichever way one chooses, one might be led by one's preferred decision theory to miss out on some riches (riches which others obtain whilst employing their preferred decision theory). According to the novel aesthetic diagnosis we shall offer of the Newcomb dialectic, missing out in this way does not render one irrational but, rather, subject to being seen as absurd. This is a different kind of cost but not one that undermines one's rationality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Whereas the therapeutic action centres on emotional participation and containment of the patient's intolerable experiences, the supervisory action centres on interpreting the reconstructed therapeutic reality. Since the emergent interpretation is subjective and contextual, it requires processing in a dialogue between the supervisor and the supervisee. However, their existential need to define and assert themselves as professionals often urges them to highlight the differences between their perceptions and beliefs and keenly convince each other. Uncontained, this dialectical tension might disrupt the supervisory process and the participants' well‐being. Despite the existential urges, when the supervisor and the supervisee recognize and validate each other as independent and autonomous professionals, they can restrain their competitiveness, maintain a productive dialectical dialogue, achieve creative and integrated understandings of the therapeutic process and consolidate their professional identities. Moreover, despite the hierarchical supervisory relationship, acknowledging their vulnerability helps supervisors recognize and validate their supervisees and facilitate the dialectical supervisory dialogue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the philosophical thoughts of Mohammad Nakhshab (1923-1970), the co-founder of the Movement of God-Worshipping Socialists (Nazhat Khoda Parastan-e Sosialist) in Iran. It argues that Nakhshab articulates an innovative reconceptualization of Islam through the critical appropriation of socialism and its political and technoscientific implications for world progress. Divided into two sections, the paper first contextualizes Nakhshab's writings and offers a close analysis of the philosophical aspects of his essays. I argue that Nakhshab's preoccupation with the tawhidi (monotheistic) worldview, though in part a critical response to the growing popularity of materialist philosophy, is based on an inventive reconstruction of the Marxist-Leninist conception of nature and society as a conflict-ridden historical process oriented toward moral salvation. Against the ontology of dialectical materialism, Nakhshab advances a vitalistic idealism based on the notion of "vitality of will" (nirou-ye eradi), realized through a collective force of movement as praxis in the world. In his conception of dialectical tawhid, Nakhshab envisages an Iranian society as a thoroughgoing socialist project grounded in the monotheistic worldview and ultimately aimed at an alternative modernity of spiritual force. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the figure of pedagogical tact in its cultural and social entanglements and transformations. Tact is reconstructed from a dialectical-relational perspective as a utopian figure which arises both within pedagogical relationships and from the relationships to the respective cultural and social conditions – more precisely: from a criticism of them. In this dialectical tension, it is argued that relationships are both transformative and, in turn, require transformations in order to enable tactful pedagogical action. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the Parmenides Plato claims that by relinquishing Forms one would entirely destroy tên tou dialegesthai dunamin. I argue that this peculiar phrase does not indicate, as often suggested, the power or possibility of all discourse or thought, but the power of dialectic, i. e. the highest science; and that its preservation is, for Plato, a decisive reason for the necessity of the Forms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Russellians, Relationists, and Fregeans disagree about the nature of propositional‐attitude content. We articulate a framework to characterize and evaluate this disagreement. The framework involves two claims: i) that we should individuate attitude content in whatever way fits best with the explanations that characteristically appeal to it, and ii) that we can understand those explanations by analogy with other ‘higher‐level’ explanations. Using the framework, we argue for an under‐appreciated form of Russellianism. Along the way we demonstrate that being more explicit about the framework in which debates about attitude content take place allows us to more precisely characterize the space of possible positions and the dialectic between them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Metaphysical experience is one of the most obscure concepts in Adorno's Negative Dialectics. The obscurity stems partly from the way in which metaphysical experience is antinomic. To describe the antinomic character of metaphysical experience, Adorno situates it in relation to Kant's first Critique. He distinguishes two conceptions of antinomy in the first Critique: first, the explicit conception of antinomy that the transcendental dialectic exposes and resolves; and second, the implicit conception of antinomy that remains insoluble and structures the first Critique and Adorno's own concept of metaphysical experience. Yet Adorno does not clarify what he means by the antinomic structure of the first Critique and how this structure underlies his own concept of metaphysical experience. Nor does the scholarship on Adorno. This article reconstructs Adorno's response to these questions, and, in so doing, demonstrates the Kantian origin of Adorno's concept of metaphysical experience in Negative Dialectics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article "Objectives of a philosophy for the 21st century" from the Philosophy Magazine focuses on establishing the objectives of a new philosophy for the 21st century. The author, Héctor Medina, argues the need to renew philosophy so that it evolves and adapts to current challenges. Topics such as dialectics, evolution, science, ethics, morality, theory of knowledge, and a new classification of arts and sciences are addressed. Medina proposes a detailed structure to address these topics and achieve an updated and relevant philosophy for the 21st century. [Extracted from the article]

The aim of this essay is to show that the dialogue Sophist displays to us the mature conception of Forms in Plato’s philosophy. Such a conception differs in several important aspects from the initial conception of Forms presented in the so-called middle dialogues, especially in the Books V-VII of the Republic. In order to do so, my argumentative and rhetorical strategy consists in making the contrast between the image of the divided line explicitly proposed by Plato in the Republic as a symbol of that initial conception with the image of the tree of Forms as the symbolic image of the mature conception. Although not directly proposed by Plato, such an image, derived from Porphyry’s Isagoge, directly stems from the division method worked out in the Sophist. Through the contrast between these two symbolic images, I present initially the differences between the conceptions of Forms inscribed in the image of the divided line and the image of the tree of Forms. Next, I present two fundamental differences between these conceptions. The first concerns two distinct images of the dialectic present in the Republic and in the Sophist. The second consists in the erasure of the fundamental difference between dianoia and nous in the Republic, giving place to the supremacy of the dianoia in the Sophist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the context of the restoration of Athenian democracy in the 4th century BCE, Isocrates and Plato established two of the most prominent philosophical schools of antiquity and certainly the two most important ones of the Classical Period. To some extent influenced by Socratic morality focused on the debate of virtues, both were radical opponents of the sophists of their time and the previous century, who, according to them, promoted an eristic education that is sometimes immoral and sometimes flattering. With the aim of offering new pedagogical alternatives for the political formation of the youth, both Isocrates and Plato propose, under the label of philosophia, models of paideia oriented towards the common good, justice, and integrity. However, there is a fundamental ideological dispute surrounding each of these philosophies. In order to oppose sophistic rhetoric, the idealism of Platonic philosophy, as we know, employs the dialectical method so that true knowledge (episteme) of moral virtues can be attained, thus promoting justice and the common good of the polis. Isocratic pragmatism, on the other hand, outlines philosophy as a paideia of civic discourse (logoi politikoi), in which only good opinions (doxai) would be capable of better guiding the city with reasonableness for the actions to be taken, to the detriment of Platonic episteme which would serve no purpose for politics. Therefore, we will discuss these and other aspects of this ideological dispute between Isocrates and Plato, seeking to verify how this quarrel occurs throughout the texts attributed to them, as well as to point out to what extent the relationship between their philosophical doctrines was determinant for the contours of Philosophy and Rhetoric in posterity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Commentators of Plato tend to assume that the philosopher changed his perception of rhetoric over time. Generally, such commentators focus on the critiques against rhetoric in the Gorgias and the claim of a philosophical rhetoric in the Phaedrus to display a fundamental discontinuity in Plato’s treatment of rhetoric. In contrast, I aim to demonstrate a fundamental continuity of Plato’s considerations on rhetoric, supplanting the textual evidence commonly analyzed in this debate with some passages from the Apology, Symposium, and Laws. Both in an early dialogue, such as the Apology, and in a much later one, such as the Laws, the same procedure is at work: a careful distinction between genuine rhetoric and its counterfeits. If rhetoric allies itself with philosophy, turns into a τέχνη, and is guided by the truth and the good, Plato embraces it. On the other hand, if rhetoric rejects this alignment, foundation, and orientation, it is condemned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents an introduction to Plato's Dialogues and the concern for their arrangement. Friedrich Schleiermacher proposed organizing the dialogues by "ranks" and considered the appropriate dialogue to start reading Plato is the Phaedrus. Schleiermacher's main concern is dialectic and philosophy. The Phaedrus dialogue has been misunderstood due to the secondary subtitles that have been given to it, diverting attention from the true content of the work. The second part of the dialogue contains observations about the state of rhetoric at that time and Plato's view on the art of rhetoric and its relationship with dialectic. Plato's work "Phaedrus" also addresses rhetoric, poetry, and politics, and shows characteristics of Plato's youth. The veracity of Ateneo's claim that Phaedrus could not have been a contemporary of Socrates is questioned, and it is suggested that the dialogue was written at a time when Plato was enthusiastic about Socrates. The dialogue has received criticism, but it is emphasized that Plato is a prudent and sensible artist. [Extracted from the article]

In this article, we offer some reflections on the concept of surprise by questioning its place and role in the practice of analytic processes. After discussing some elements related to the preconditions for surprise to occur in the analytic framework, in particular the dialectic between predictability and unpredictability, we examine the particularities of the mental state that favors states of surprise by drawing on the notions of »negative capability« and »selected fact«. We would like to propose a typology of moments of surprise that may be encountered in the analytical framework and that reveals their heterogeneous and polymorphic dimensions. Surprise can indeed vary in its temporality and intensity and can be experienced by both the analyst and the analysand separately or together. Surprise thus appears as an expression of unconscious meaning according to a reorganization of its relation to defense mechanisms such as splitting or repression. It could also maintain variable relationships with other sensory impressions such as astonishment, horror, and disconcerting strangeness. We further propose to consider surprise as an essential feature of the symbolization process to which the analyst pays particular attention. From this perspective, it appears as an expression of an encounter with the unexpected at the interface between the inside and the outside, between pleasure and displeasure, which is why it is so central to the work of psychic integration. It therefore occupies an essential place in analytic work and is catalyzed by the occurrence of transference and free association. Finally, the article concludes with some thoughts on surprise at the intersection of psychoanalysis, neuroscience, and epistemology, drawing in particular on Karl Friston’s work on the Bayesian brain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the late nineteenth century, scholars have formulated theories about the role and placement of organs in the St. Matthew Passion, using them to interpret the work's theological message and anchor broader ideas about how Bach positioned his other players and singers for performances in the Thomaskirche. The church housed two permanently fixed organs: a large one in the west gallery and the misleadingly labeled swallow's nest organ in a gallery on the east wall. The latter, smaller organ has become the central point in debates about the Passion, leading to a variety of interpretations. The current evidence, reviewed here in substantial detail, does not unequivocally prove any of the main theories. Yet not all are equally strong, By examining the history of scholarship on the St. Matthew Passion and by carefully reexamining the evidence, we can grow more aware of weaknesses stemming from the enduring influence of older scholar ship, based on questionable premises, outdated information, or seemingly unintentional misreading. The results argue strongly against one of the most common theories, which posits a small auxiliary role for the east gallery organ, along with a "third choir," for most of Bach's performances. Proponents of this theory have sometimes harnessed it to add another layer of theological symbolism to Bach's music. This too is questionable. Musical evidence may also argue against it. Bach's changing approach to scoring the chorale "O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig in the opening movement shows that the melody does not work in dialectic opposition to the two main choruses, as sometimes claimed, but emerges from within the group. In place of this theory, two alternatives stand out: either the full separation of the two choirs beTween the two galleries of the Thomaskirche or the positioning of all performers in the west gallery, with no role for the east gallery or its organ for any of Bach's Passion performances. Though neither fully accounts for every detail in the evidence nor answers all possible objections, they do offer more satisfying explanations than the alternatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rodrigo Fresán's writing had a significant impact on Southern Cone literature when his first book, Historia argentina, was published in 1991. Despite its high sales and favorable reviews, which earned Fresán the status of a celebrity writer, his works have often been criticized for possessing "an esthetics of insensitivity and/or an ethics of indifference" (Freidemberg). This essay refutes these accusations of postmodern shallowness in Fresán's writing and instead proposes an examination of the "politics of literature" (Rancière) in his 2001 work Mantra. The purpose of this essay is to challenge the aporias of the theory of "littérature engagée" derived from Jean-Paul Sartre's philosophy that were debated among Latin American intellectuals during the 1960s and 1970s. The main objective of this essay is to demonstrate that Fresán's writing is not only literary but also political in nature. In Mantra, we can observe a system of heterogeneities that disrupts the realm of experience, creating a non-dialectical paradox between the forces of unification and disintegration that elicits an emotional response and challenges the illusion of a concrete, complete identity. This, in turn, allows us to reconsider central themes such as memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Smart Phonemes" provides an account of the arguments and achievements of the several expanded roundtable essays collected here together with the posthumous essay by Geoffrey Hartman. It situates Smart's work and the attendant essays within a dialectical play of "then" and "now," a dialectic already operative in Smart's oeuvre, a body of work whose sense of immediacy is enabled partly by its distinctive language underscoring and playing with its materiality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bryson of Heraclea and Polyxenus have received little attention from scholars. Sources on these philosophers are few and difficult to interpret. However, they present interesting dialectical arguments that concern some of Plato's and Aristotle's most important theoretical elaborations: Bryson's arguments on the issue of semantic ambiguity were explicitly discussed by Aristotle, and Polyxenus is credited with a particular version of the Third Man argument. My purpose in this paper is to reconstruct the historical background of these two philosophers and to analyze the philosophical implications of the arguments that the ancient tradition ascribes to them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the development of the research project “Training scenarios mediators of the biopraxis of children in the context of poverty”, University of Magdalena, Santa Marta, Colombia, we see that there are other proposed teaching holistic and ecological, derived from new epistemologies, and from here arises the need to write and publish this article, which reflects about the object and objective, and the subject and the subjective, establishing a dialectic between objective and subjective social and human scientific activity. The current alternative social and human orientations do not exceed the theoretical plane, so that this article is an exhortation to move away for positivism and empiricism, not only from the application of qualitative techniques and methods, but from the ontological analysis of the object of study social and human and the epistemological argument of the subject of research, in correspondence with the ontic analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Cameroon Anglophone crisis which began as a protest by Teachers and Lawyers trade unions toward the end of 2016 has evolved into an intractable conflict that threatens to dismember the West African nation. Most scholarly literature on the conflict so far has been focused on the origins, causes and possible remedies. Very few have touched on its theoretical underpinnings. This paper explores the theoretical foundation one which both parties in the conflict have premised their struggle or counter-struggle. It examines the Cameroon Anglophone crisis through the lenses of a conflict between "Remedial secession" on the one hand and "Territorial sovereignty" on the other. Both of the aforementioned concepts are fundamental to understanding the context and motivation of both sides and the main bone of contention that animates this conflict. The paper argues both international law and empirical evidences in their current form lend more credence to claims of territorial sovereignty than remedial secession. It lays out conditions under which the threshold for remedial secession can be attained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent scholarship has called into question Thomas Aquinas's teaching on politics, specifically focusing on the foundations of his teaching on natural law. While some scholars have contended that natural law relies on the assumption that a god with creative agency exists, others have contended that the very method through which Aquinas argues is misguided. These latter scholars contend that dialectic rather than demonstration must be the first inroad to studying politics, since only the theologian begins the study of politics with demonstrative proofs. By reexamining the roots of Aquinas's arguments for God, this study challenges both the claims that natural law simply assumes the existence of a creative God and that the foundations of natural law are incompatible or wholly separate from a dialectic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the Sine-Saloum Delta, Senegal, development actors strive to 'develop' female mollusc gleaning. In an apparently boundless amphibious environment, domestication underlined by discursive dispossession figures as an attractive alteration of enclosure and material dispossession. It intervenes especially temporally in human and mollusc life and overlays the (material) dialectic of capitalist 'outside' and 'inside' with one of bringing humans and molluscs from an 'archaic' and 'wild' 'outside' into a 'modern' and 'cultivated' 'inside'. However, domestication projects remain entangled with the unruliness of molluscs and waters, and struggle with organisational problems and the agency of gleaners. The latter seek to foster and profit from the continuous production of 'outsides' and 'insides'. They attract, appropriate and undermine projects and integrate them as mere additions into their gleaning practice. In upholding their gleaning practice and complicating mollusc domestication in alliance with unruly molluscs and waters, I argue, gleaners can also resist their own domestication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ours is a time of accelerating social, political, economic and environmental crises. In this conjuncture, dread, despair and resignation dominate the affective terrain; hope is urgently necessary, but in short supply. This article draws upon a utopian current of Marxism, especially the work of 'philosopher of hope' Ernst Bloch, to offer a theoretical optic for the maintenance of hope in hopeless times. As Bloch draws out, the dialectical core of historical materialism offers a utopian structure of thought, attentive to the open multivalence of the world, how that that is destructive holds creative potential, how the future is in emergence in the present. Bringing the immanence of utopian possibility into view, this is an orientation capable of sustaining hope in otherwise hopeless times. Finally, I put this optic to work to offer some gestural reflections on the utopian valences of our current conjuncture, of the hopeful prospects of 'the end of the world'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Inclusive social security aims to provide fair and equitable social protection for all people, regardless of their personal characteristics and health status. This is achieved by developing educational policies and information programs that consider citizens' diverse needs and realities, ensuring their active participation in society and supporting their well-being. Recently, society has been paying much attention to the problems of this category of citizens. This interest is dictated, first, by the fact that today, in Ukraine, there is a tendency to increase the number of persons with disabilities, which is directly caused by the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into the territory of Ukraine. This research article aims to study the inclusive social security field in Ukraine, determine the role of the state and the public sector, and identify prospects for improving this area. The methodology for studying the role of the state and the public sector in inclusive social security uses various methods: dialectical, systemic, systemic structural, functional, logical, and interpretation of legal norms. These methods help to understand and improve social security for a more inclusive information society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article examines water as a nonhuman agent while discussing the relevance of hydrofiction in a literary classroom. It substantiates storied water as a signifying subject of expressive potential in building a posthuman relationship of care and empathy. This article will attempt to make four contributions: (1) it will describe the concepts of materialist ecocriticism, and new thalassology, and situate the conceptualizations within the broader fields of environmental humanities, (2) it will reinscribe the image of water as a densely plural and a tentacular living organism using Karen Barad's theory of agential realism and Stacy Alaimo's notion of transcorporeality, (3) it will briefly overview hydroficion as a critically apt genre for interrogating the disoriented dialectics between humans and nonhumans, and consider Emmi Itäranta's young adult dystopian fiction, Memory of Water (2012) as the primary entry point in de-anthropocising wet matter, and (4) it will delineate the relevance of water narratives and the inclusion of such narratives in higher education curricula. In conclusion, the article hopes to academically sacralize water as a medium of planetary commitment endowed with the agency to narrate its story of dispossession and render itself resilient to vulnerability and misuse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Purpose: Aiming to resolve cross-cultural paradoxes in combining artificial intelligence (AI) with human intelligence (HI) for international humanitarian logistics, this paper aims to adopt an unorthodox Yin–Yang dialectic approach to address how AI–HI interactions can be interpreted as a sophisticated cross-cultural knowledge creation (KC) system that enables more effective decision-making for providing humanitarian relief across borders. Design/methodology/approach: This paper is conceptual and pragmatic in nature, whereas its structure design follows the requirements of a real impact study. Findings: Based on experimental information and logical reasoning, the authors first identify three critical cross-cultural challenges in AI–HI collaboration: paradoxes of building a cross-cultural KC system, paradoxes of integrative AI and HI in moral judgement and paradoxes of processing moral-related information with emotions in AI–HI collaboration. Then applying the Yin–Yang dialectic to interpret Klir's epistemological frame (1993), the authors propose an unconventional stratified system of cross-cultural KC for understanding integrative AI–HI decision-making for humanitarian logistics across cultures. Practical implications: This paper aids not only in deeply understanding complex issues stemming from human emotions and cultural cognitions in the context of cross-border humanitarian logistics, but also equips culturally-diverse stakeholders to effectively navigate these challenges and their potential ramifications. It enhances the decision-making process and optimizes the synergy between AI and HI for cross-cultural humanitarian logistics. Originality/value: The originality lies in the use of a cognitive methodology of the Yin–Yang dialectic to metaphorize the dynamic genesis of integrative AI-HI KC for international humanitarian logistics. Based on system science and knowledge management, this paper applies game theory, multi-objective optimization and Markov decision process to operationalize the conceptual framework in the context of cross-cultural humanitarian logistics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The most important aspect in the development of dialectics is addressing the rapidly escalating ecological crisis of the Anthropocene. This depends on the restoration, development, and unification of a dialectical-ecological critique of capitalism in both theory and practice, along with revolutionary struggles to create an ecologically sustainable civilization. Rooted in classical historical materialism, the dialectics of ecology aims to solve the problem of the ecological rift in the metabolism of society and nature by reconciling the relationship between man and nature, a reconciliation that entails overcoming not only the alienation of nature, but also the self-alienation of humanity. The conflict and disagreement over the dialectics of nature between Soviet Marxism and Western Marxism once presented enormous obstacles to the further development of the historical-materialist ecological critique. Ecological materialism has played a key role in the development of critical ecology. Pushed to the foreground by the ecological crisis, the dialectics of ecology provides a foundation for unifying theory and practice in a new and revolutionary way. This implies that it is necessary to solve the internal conflicts within Marxism, restore Marx's theory of metabolic rift, and reconstruct the concept of the dialectics of nature in classical Marxism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines the cognitive-emotional dialectics of Chinese learners of English in terms of both speech and co-speech gestures in their second language development within the lens of Vygotsky’s sociocultural theory. This qualitative study focuses on Chinese learners of English in different learning contexts and analyzes data from interviews and emotional narrative tasks in the English learning experience. Overall findings showed that learners’ emotion and cognition interacted in different learning contexts, and speech and co-speech gestures worked to influence the cognition-emotion dialectics in participant’s perezhivanie. This study implies the inextricable unity of emotion and cognition in second language development, and emphasizes the role of speech and co-speech gestures in shaping second language learners’ perezhivaniya. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper undertakes a critical exposé of the nature of the notions of Nwansa and Nwanju in the conversational approach to African philosophy. Conversational thinking is a philosophical method that allows individual thinkers to engage with each other philosophically on phenomenological issues. It is a formal, intellectual exercise orchestrated by philosophical reasoning in which critical and rigorous questioning creatively unveils new concepts from old ones. I reveal the limitations of this approach as articulated by Jonathan Chimakonam in his contribution to the methodological issues in African philosophy. In doing so, I demonstrate that these limitations are present, in part, in Chimakonam's unclear distinction between conversationalism on the one hand, and Socratic-Hegelian dialectics on the other hand. I also show that Chimakonam's claim that the engagement between Nwansa and Nwanju in conversational relationship does not result in a synthesis but, rather, perpetuates the reshuffling of thesis and anti-thesis, raises questions on the conversational nature of conversationalism, and poses a challenge when applied to existential situations. I argue that conversational philosophy should be perceived as a reconstruction of Socratic-Hegelian Dialectics or a tacit improvement of it. For this reason, I conclude that despite its limitations, a conversational approach through the dynamics of Nwansa and Nwanju is still significant in the development of contemporary African philosophy and in the management of some ideological issues confronting the African philosophical project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This Special Issue questions the problem of international interventions' persistence and multidimensionality by asking what makes interventions still relevant and for whom. In this introduction, we advance a dialectical understanding of interventions to study their diverse modalities and enduring mechanisms of order-making, with specific attention to space, time, and scale. We elaborate on Laura Doyle's interimperial method to highlight interventions' relational, transformative, and durable aspects. We interpret interventions as coconstituted by diverse, overlapping, and contradictory rationales and modalities. We stress the intertwined histories and practices of interventions as integral components of colonial modernity in relation to empires, imperialism, and their contemporary rearticulations. As a method, we identify three key historical processes for a dialectical understanding of intervention: the coformation of interventions' state-building, economic development, and cultural practices; the coproduction of institutions and infrastructural systems; and the cumulative accretion of interventions' infrastructures and imaginaries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the contemporary landscape about temporal experience, debates concerning the "hard question" of the experience of the flow—as opposed to debates concerning more qualitative aspects of temporality, such as change, movement, succession and duration—are gaining more and more attention. The overall dialectics can be thought of in terms of a debate between the realists (who take the phenomenology of the flow of time seriously, and propose various account of it) and deflationists (who take our description of temporal phenomenology as "flowy" to be spurious, and propose various explanation of this spuriousness). In this paper we look inside the realist side. We distinguish primitivist realism, according to which the feeling of time flowing is an irreducible sui generis phenomenology, and various forms of reductionist realism, according to which the experience of the flow is ultimately explainable in terms of a more basic phenomenology. We present reasons to be sceptical against the various reductionist proposals. The conclusion is thus disjunctive: either primitivism or deflationism is the correct account of the purported experience of the flow of time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Exile is space running out of space, an existential draining of spatiality, or permanent elsewhereness and elsewhenness. It is a site of augmenting remoteness and a state of ontological fragmentation. The expelled body perceives itself as a spatial wound burdened with memory without memorability. Political exiling intensifies existential exile by removing the subject(s) from spaces where they could habitually world the world through inhabiting and living auratically. Exiling aims to destroy spatiality, killing the exiled politically and historically. Embodying a damaged life in front of an existential abyss, the exiled is forced to reestablish a dialectics of space and time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following work intends to reconstruct the ethical problem in the work of Jacques-Alain Miller from its beginnings in 1960, until the turn adopted at the beginning of the 80's from the phrase other Lacan. This new punctuation, of political and epistemic origins, is defined in the course of 1983 From the symptom to the fantasy from the emphasis on the real that Lacan makes in the ethics seminar and that Miller takes up for his new theoretical-clinical formulations. As an interpretive framework for said reconstruction, his passage from philosophy to psychoanalysis will be thematized, taking into account not only the academic origins of the author, but also the eminently philosophical character of ethics as a reflection oriented towards practical problems. As such, the dialectic between psychoanalysis and philosophy proves to sustain a critical tension that prevents the reduction of the problem to models of complementarity or the definition of psychoanalysis as a simple anti-philosophy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The exaggeration of Oscar Wilde's aestheticism that the work of art is purely for beauty and pleasure and has nothing to do with morality makes it very difficult for his moral philosophy to be conceived. Even his novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, which is meant to balance his exaggeration of pleasure in his aestheticism, is often misinterpreted as an aesthetic eulogy. At the same time, some see it as a pure contradiction to his former philosophic position. This paper, therefore, attempts to identify his moral philosophy through a dialectic study of his aestheticism and The Picture of Dorian Gray. As it is qualitative research, the authors source their data primarily from literary works by Oscar Wilde, while other library materials serve as secondary sources. Various philosophical tools, especially dialectics and hermeneutics, are applied in data interpretation. The finding is that contrary to the expectation and assumption of many scholars, ethical hedonism rather than aesthetic hedonism is his moral philosophy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

'Resistance' and related concepts like 'counter-conduct', 'counter-politics' and 'revolution' continue to gain an intense interest and use. At the same time, however, we observe an intensified questioning of the concept of resistance and in particular the logic of negativity that it inscribes into our understanding of difference and its politics. Engaging with contributions that have pushed the concept of resistance and its dialectic logic of negativity to its limits in order to explore what it yields for analysing different political practices, we look for new interventions into modes of thinking about critical politics. To that purpose, we introduce the concepts of 'folds' and 'folding'. They allow for understanding how differences work not through opposition to something but through enveloping in dynamic structures of multiple connections that generate a specific social field. We speak loosely of 'against resistance?' not as a claim that the concept of resistance has or should be moved to the dustbin of history but rather to argue for experimenting in International Political Sociology with conceptions of non-dialectic critical politics that work in a perspective of co-existence in heterogeneity and multiplicity and the conditions for openness and social possibility that it creates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]