Michael D Barber
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 341389 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michael D Barber |
| NOMBRES | Michael D |
| APELLIDO | Barber |
| FIRMA | BARBER M D |
| AFILIACIONES | Saint Louis University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6846-5996 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 53 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1986 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Unaggrandizing the Partisan Gerrymander
Observers suggest the effects of redistricting with excessive partisan bias or gerrymandering are particularly distinct and durable today. In this telling, partisan polarization, sophisticated technology, and detailed information of voter behavior permit those who draw state legislative and congressional plans to secure favorable electoral outcomes for their party throughout the decade the plan is in effect. We provide an empirical test of this b…
Gender, Party Status, and Lawmaking in the American States
Volden et al.'s study of the US House of Representatives found that congresswomen in the minority party exhibit greater legislative effectiveness than their male counterparts, while effectiveness levels are comparable in the majority party. This paper re‐examines the relationship between gender, majority party status, and legislative effectiveness within the diverse institutional contexts of US state legislatures. Using the State Legislative Effe…
Donors and Dollars
Illiberal attitudes among US state legislative candidates
We examine the prevalence of illiberal attitudes among aspiring state legislative candidates in the United States. While extensive research has questioned underlying levels of support for liberal democratic principles among the general public in the United States, we are the first to document the extent to which illiberal attitudes are present among the rising class of political leadership in the United States. We find that while the support for …
Breathe! The Experience of the Body in Passive Contemplation
Phenomenological research has focused on embodiment. This paper examines how the body is experienced in passive contemplation, understood as a finite province of meaning in Alfred Schutz's sense. The six features characteristic of any province of meaning (epoché, form of spontaneity, tension of consciousness, sense of self, temporality, and sociality) function distinctively in each province of meaning and alter one's experience of one's body. In …
Institutions, Imposed Relevances, and Creativity
Nietzsche and Levinas against Innocence
There cannot perhaps be two more polarly opposed philosophers than Friedrich Nietzsche and Emmanuel Levinas, and yet when it comes to instituting moral ideals or establishing moral principles, they both paradoxically converge in suspecting them as pretenses to a false innocence. They do, however, differ concerning why such innocence is dangerous. Nietzsche sees innocence as a disguise covering violence, power, and an attempt at domination, crippl…
Pragmatic Encroachment, Phenomenology, and Religious Experience
Aaron Rizzieri's Pragmatic Encroachment, Religious Belief, andPractice (2013) is the fullest religious appropriation of a relatively new epistemological concept: pragmatic encroachment. To achieve this goal, Rizzieri rightly sees (1) how justification takes place within an encompassing pragmatic context and (2) how justification of religious belief establishes within a wider context less than absolute knowledge. While the first point can be suppo…
Embree and Cairns on Phenomenology and Psychology
This article compares and contrasts Dorion Cairn’s treatment of the relationship between phenomenology and psychology with Embree’s handling of that same topic. Embree, who to a great degree aligns with Schutz, and Cairns converge on the treatment of behaviorism. However, fundamental differences appear in their contrasting approaches to psychology, with Cairns seeking to uphold the distinctiveness of philosophy/phenomenology over against psycholo…
On the Epoché in Phenomenological Psychology
Dan Zahavi has questioned whether the use of a transcendental phenomenological epoché is essential for phenomenological psychology. He criticizes the views of Amedeo Giorgi by asserting that Husserl did not view the transcendental reduction as needed for an entrance into phenomenological psychology and that, if one thinks so, phenomenological psychology would be in danger of being absorbed within transcendental phenomenology. Thirdly, rather than…
The Twin Crises of Covid-19 and Racism
In 2020, two crises emerged into prominence in the United States and other parts of the world: (1) the flourishing of the COVID-19 virus, in which the polarization and relativization of knowledge have hobbled efforts to prevent pandemic spread, and (2) the killing of George Floyd which has stirred worldwide protests against centuries of racial oppression and unbared an underlying racist ideology about the seemingly lesser value of Black people. I…
African-American Humor and Trust
Noetic and Noematic Dimensions of Religious Experience
Phenomenologies of religious experience have been developed by Max Scheler and via Alfred Schutz’s frameworks of “multiple realities” and “finite provinces of meaning.” For both, religious experience resists the pragmatic imperatives of the mechanistic worldview or world of working. Schutz’s paradigm begins with a distinctive noetic religious epoché opening the religious province, in contrast with Scheler’s start with spheres of being (especially…
George Psathas
Ethical Hermeneutics
The essence of Dussel's thought is presented through the concept of "ethical hermeneutics" which seeks to interpret reality from the viewpoint of what Emmanuel Levinas presents as the "other" - those who are vanquished, forgotten, or excluded from existent socio-political or cultural systems. Barber traces Dussel's development toward Levinas' philosophy through his discussion of the Hegelian dialectic and through the stages of Dussel's own ethica…
Objective, Intersubjective Mystical Relationships
Amplifying the idea of religious experience as occurring within an encompassing “religious province of meaning” and developing the personal character of the experience of God in the Abrahamic religious traditions, this paper argues that mystics in those traditions experience God “objectively.” Their experience of God is that of experiencing God as what Alfred Schutz called a “Consociate,” despite the lack of God’s bodily presence. Such a phenomen…
Motivation and phenomenological foundation
Two philosophical approaches are prominent in race studies: (1) an interpretive phenomenological method, utilized by Sartre, Fanon and Schutz, that describes how Blacks and non-blacks interpret each other and (2) Marxist methodologies, wielded by Sartre, Fanon and Stephen Ferguson, that investigate the economic structures underpinning race relations. Schutz’s theory of motivation accommodates these often antagonistic approaches. Future-oriented ‘…
Power, Discourse, and Ethics
Introduction
The Finite Province of Religious Meaning
The Finite Province of Religious Meaning
Making Interracial Humor Together
The Finite Province of Humorous Meaning
Humor
Communication as Paramount
Religion and Humor as Emancipating Provinces of Meaning
Phenomenologies of Violence
Phenomenologies of Violence presents phenomenology as an important method to investigate violence, its various forms, meanings, and consequences for human existence. On one hand, it seeks to view violence as a genuine philosophical problem, i.e., beyond the still prevalent instrumental, cultural and structural explanations. On the other hand, it provides the reader with accounts on the many faces of violence, ranging from physical, psychic, struc…
Occupational Science and the First‐Person Perspective
The individualistic tendencies in occupational science can be explained in part by its proponents’ reliance on “the interpretive tradition” originating in Weberian sociology and phenomenological philosophy, and taking account of what an actor from his or her first‐person perspective means by an action. From within this interpretive perspective, one can take account of actors’ interrelationship with their contexts but in such a way that that relat…
Power and control in education 1944–2004
This article examines the prospects for education over the next decade in the context of an analysis of the last fifty years of conflict and consensus over education policy. It begins with a look into the future and then turns back to 1944 to study the distribution of power under the Butler settlement. It then examines the pressures which broke up the Butler settlement and created the conditions for the market revolution of 1988 to 1994. It argue…
Occupational Science and Phenomenology
Phenomenology frees us from prejudices and enables us to see things, people, and human activity freshly. It supplements and enriches the natural and social sciences by clarifying the everyday world they explain and by illuminating how actors from a first‐person point of view experience their world and the meaning of their actions. As such, phenomenology assists occupational science in understanding what occupation means to one engaged in it. Furt…
Donors and Dollars
A Moment of Unconditional Validity? Schutz and the Habermas/Rorty Debate
The ethics behind the absence of ethics in Alfred Schutz's thought
African-American Humor and Trust
George Psathas
Resistance to Pragmatic Tendencies in the World of Working in the Religious Finite Province of Meaning
Somatic Apprehension and Imaginative Abstraction
Sartre, phenomenology and the subjective approach to race and ethnicity in Black Orpheus
While Appiah and Soyinka criticize racial essentializing in Sartre and the Negritude poets, Sartre in Black Orpheus interprets the Negritudinists as employing a phenomenological, anamnestic retrieval of subjective experience. This retrieval uncovers two ethical attitudes: a less exploitative approach toward nature, and a conversion of slavery’s suffering into a stimulus for universal liberation. These attitudes spring from peasant cultural tradit…
Phenomenology, Science, and Geography
Edmund Perry, the Distribution of Knowledge, and the Looking Glass of Race
The ethics behind the absence of ethics in Alfred Schutz's thought
Power and control in education 1944–2004
This article examines the prospects for education over the next decade in the context of an analysis of the last fifty years of conflict and consensus over education policy. It begins with a look into the future and then turns back to 1944 to study the distribution of power under the Butler settlement. It then examines the pressures which broke up the Butler settlement and created the conditions for the market revolution of 1988 to 1994. It argue…
Power and Control in Education 1944-2004
This article examines the prospects for education over the next decade in the context of an analysis of the last fifty years of conflict and consensus over education policy. It begins with a look into the future and then turns back to 1944 to study the distribution of power under the Butler settlement. It then examines the pressures which broke up the Butler settlement and created the conditions for the market revolution of 1988 to 1994. It argue…
The Invention of the Americas
Rudi Visker, Truth and Singularity
Sartre, phenomenology and the subjective approach to race and ethnicity in Black Orpheus
While Appiah and Soyinka criticize racial essentializing in Sartre and the Negritude poets, Sartre in Black Orpheus interprets the Negritudinists as employing a phenomenological, anamnestic retrieval of subjective experience. This retrieval uncovers two ethical attitudes: a less exploitative approach toward nature, and a conversion of slavery’s suffering into a stimulus for universal liberation. These attitudes spring from peasant cultural tradit…
Process, Praxis and Transcendence
Occupational Science and Phenomenology
Phenomenology frees us from prejudices and enables us to see things, people, and human activity freshly. It supplements and enriches the natural and social sciences by clarifying the everyday world they explain and by illuminating how actors from a first‐person point of view experience their world and the meaning of their actions. As such, phenomenology assists occupational science in understanding what occupation means to one engaged in it. Furt…
A Moment of Unconditional Validity? Schutz and the Habermas/Rorty Debate
The Participating Citizen
If only to be heard
Occupational Science and the First‐Person Perspective
The individualistic tendencies in occupational science can be explained in part by its proponents’ reliance on “the interpretive tradition” originating in Weberian sociology and phenomenological philosophy, and taking account of what an actor from his or her first‐person perspective means by an action. From within this interpretive perspective, one can take account of actors’ interrelationship with their contexts but in such a way that that relat…
Rorty's ethical de-divinization of the moralist self
This article examines Richard Rorty's approach to the self in Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity. In spite of their differing philosophical bases, Rorty and Emmanuel Levinas converge methodologically in their treatments of the self by avoiding paradigmatic notions of human nature and a philosophical project of justification. Although Rorty refuses to prioritize a moralist account of the self over its romanticist rivals, his presentation relies on…
Phenomenology and Rigid Dualisms
Philosophy and reflection
Phenomenology and Rigid Dualisms
Somatic Apprehension and Imaginative Abstraction
Fenomenologia e Verstehen
em Pessy versus
Phenomenologies of Violence
Phenomenologies of Violence presents phenomenology as an important method to investigate violence, its various forms, meanings, and consequences for human existence. On one hand, it seeks to view violence as a genuine philosophical problem, i.e., beyond the still prevalent instrumental, cultural and structural explanations. On the other hand, it provides the reader with accounts on the many faces of violence, ranging from physical, psychic, struc…
Introduction
The Finite Province of Religious Meaning
The Finite Province of Religious Meaning
Making Interracial Humor Together
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