Most of the people around us belong to our world not directly, as kin or comrades, but as strangers. How do we recognize them as members of our world? We are related to them as transient participants in common publics. Indeed, most of us would find it nearly impossible to imagine a social world without publics. In the eight essays in this book, Michael Warner addresses the question: What is a public?According to Warner, the idea of a public is one of the central fictions of modern life. Publics have powerful implications for how our social world takes shape, and much of modern life involves struggles over the nature of publics and their interrelations. The idea of a public contains ambiguities, even contradictions. As it is extended to new contexts, politics, and media, its meaning changes in ways that can be difficult to uncover.Combining historical analysis, theoretical reflection, and extensive case studies, Warner shows how the idea of a public can reframe our understanding of contemporary literary works and politics and of our social world in general. In particular, he applies the idea of a public to the junction of two intellectual traditions: public-sphere theory and queer theory.

Publics and Counterpublics

Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers. By Kwame Anthony Appiah. (New York: W. W. Norton, 2006. Pp. xxii + 196, preface, introduction, acknowledgments, notes, index. $24.95 cloth, $15.95 paper) Kwame Anthony Appiah's Cosmopolitanism is meant as a guide for identifying and confronting complex ethical issues in a multi-perspectival world. Its author, an Oxford-educated philosopher of Ghanaian-British parentage, bridges worlds. The term cosmopolitanism - the author prefers it over globalizations narrow association with economics and multiculturalismi observed tendency to prescribe - encompasses two core values: "the idea that we have obligations to others, obligations that stretch beyond those to whom we are related by the ties of kith and kin, or even formal ties of a shared citizenship," and the idea "that we take seriously the value not just of human life but of particular human lives, which means taking an interest in the practices and beliefs that lend them significance" (xv). Terms such as tolerance, kindness, and pluralism are central to cosmopolitan thinking. Appiah presents a wide range of issues that can serve as frames through which to examine how we as individuals and professionals make ethical decisions - essential for the humanities scholar, student, and public-sector folklorist: How real are values? What do we talk about when we talk about differences? Is any form of relativism right? When do morals and manners clash? Can culture be owned? What do we owe strangers by virtue of our shared humanity? And all this is good... and yet, and yet. Too often, the resolutions Appiah proposes for these key issues are so one-sided and misleading, so bolstered by irrelevant, erroneous, and outdated sources, that they are of little help in sorting through the paradoxical interfaces of pluralism and autonomy, diversity and democracy, and globalization and protection of what is valuable in the local. In his central chapter, "Cosmopolitan Contamination," Appiah proposes a change of priorities - away from purity, peoples, authenticity, tribalism, and cultural protection, and toward individuals, mixture, modernity, rights, and what he calls contamination (his term for healthy hybridization) . His philosophical underpinning ("The right approach, I think, starts by taking individuals - not nations, tribes or 'peoples' - as die proper object of moral concern" [Appiah 2006] ) is a hallmark of rightist thought and practice. The left emphasizes social, political, and environmental factors that can constrain the ability of individuals to choose freely. Both perspectives are needed, but only one is developed in this book. Many folklorists are familiar with issues of cultural change and preservation as discussed at UNESCO and WIPO. Appiah reveals no understanding of the complexities of diese dynamics. He wrongly assumes many anthropologists to be cultural relativists who tolerate such practices as female genital mutilation (15) and that UNESCO's Declaration of Cultural Diversity celebrates a pluralism that could embrace the likes of the KKK conveniently ignoring Article IV: "No one may invoke cultural diversity to infringe upon human right. …

Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers

(2002). Publics and counterpublics (abbreviated version) Quarterly Journal of Speech: Vol. 88, No. 4, pp. 413-425.

Publics and counterpublics (abbreviated version)

Recently, the need to contribute to the evaluation of the scientific, social, and political impact of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) research has become a demand of policy makers and society. The international scientific community has made significant advances that have transformed the impact of evaluation landscape. This article reviews the existing scientific knowledge on evaluation tools and techniques that are applied to assess the scientific impact of SSH research; the changing structure of social and political impacts of SSH research is investigated based on an overarching research question: to what extent do scholars attempt to apply methods, instruments, and approaches that take into ac-count the distinctive features of SSH? The review also includes examples of European Union (EU) pro-jects that demonstrate these impacts. This article culminates in a discussion of the development of the assessment of different impacts and identifies limitations, and areas and topics to explore in the future.

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A review of literature on evaluating the scientific, social, and political impact of social sciences and humanities research

This essay examines core contributions of a model of psychological well-being that has had widespread scientific impact. It drew on distant formulations to identify new dimensions and measures for assessing what it means to be well. Key themes among the more than 750 studies using the model are sketched, followed by reflections about why there has been so much interest in this eudaimonic approach to well-being. A final section looks to the future, proposing new directions to illuminate the forces that work against the realization of human potential as well as those that nurture human flourishing and self-realization.

Well-Being With Soul: Science in Pursuit of Human Potential:

1. Love's Madness 2. Love-Mad Women and the Rhetoric of Gentlemanly Medicine 3. Hyperbole and the Love-Mad Woman: George III, 'Rosa Matilda', and Jane Austen in 1811 4. Love-Mad Women and Political Insurrection in Regency Fiction 5. The Hyena's Laughter: Lucretia and Jane Eyre 6. The Woman in White, Great Expectations, and the Limits of Medicine Select Bibliography Index

Love's Madness: Medicine, the Novel, and Female Insanity, 1800-1865

List of Contributors. Acknowledgments. Introduction (Helen Small) 1. The Public Role of Writers and Intellectuals (Edward W. Said) 2. Pre-modern Intellectual Biography (Rita Copeland) 3. Humanism, Slavery, and the Republic of Letters (David Wallace) 4. Hamlet the Intellectual (Margreta de Grazia) 5. Deaths of the Intellectual: A Comparative Autopsy (Jeremy Jennings) 6. New Art, Old Masters, and Masked Passions (Linda S. Kauffman) 7. Apathy and Accountability: The Challenge of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission to the Intellectual in the Modern World (Jacqueline Rose) 8. The Sweatshop Sublime (Bruce Robbins) 9. "Every Fruit-Juice Drinker, Nudist, Sandal-Wearer...": Intellectuals as Other People (Stefan Collini) Index.

The public intellectual

Introduction 1. The Platonic Threshhold (Plato and Thomas Mann) 2. On Seeing the End (Aristotle and King Lear) 3. Narrative Unity of Lives (Epicureanism, the Narrative View, Saul Bellow) 4. The Power of Choosing (Prudential Life Planning, Philip Larkin, Stevie Smith) 5. Where Self-Interest Ends (Derek Parfit and Balzac) 6. The Bounded Life (Adorno's Metaphysics, Dickens, Beckett) 7. Now or Never (Bernard Williams, J. M. Coetzee, Philip Roth) 8. Evolved Senescence (Evolutionary theory, Michael Ignatieff's Scar Tissue) Conclusion

The Long Life

Introduction 1. Darwin's 'Second Sun': Alexander von Humboldt and the Genesis of The Voyage of the Beagle 2. 'And If It Be a Pretty Woman All the Better' - Darwin and Sexual Selection 3. Ordering Creation, or Maybe Not 4. Chances Are: Henry Buckle, Thomas Hardy, and the Individual at Risk 5. The Psychology of Childhood in Victorian Literature and Medicine 6. A Freudian Curiosity 7. Freud's Theory of Metaphor: Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Nineteenth-Century Science and Figurative Language 8. On Not Being Able to Sleep 9. 'Brownie' Sharpe and the Stuff of Dreams 10. On Not Knowing Why: Memorialising the Light Brigade 11. Sounds of the City: Virginia Woolf and Modern Noise 12. 'Chloe Liked Olivia': The Woman Scientist, Sex, and Suffrage 13. The Chemistry of Truth 14. Coming of Age Index

Literature, science, psychoanalysis, 1830-1970 : essays in honour of Gillian Beer

“George Eliot and the Cosmopolitan Cynic” explores the contribution made to Eliot’s thinking about cosmopolitanism by her long-standing philosophical and stylistic attraction to cynicism. Middlemarch (1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876) have to date dominated critical debate about Eliot’s engagement with the idea of a cosmopolitan ethical detachment. This essay focuses instead on two more experimental pieces of writing that came before and after the major novels: The Lifted Veil (1859) and Impressions of Theophrastus Such (1879). It argues that in these works—both “uncharacteristic,” but markedly distinct in style and ethical motivation—Eliot tested the power of cynicism to expose difficulties in the way of an ethical cosmopolitanism and operate as a reality check on all prescriptive idealisms.

George Eliot and the Cosmopolitan Cynic

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