Maureen Whitebrook
Biographic Data
| ID | 1444708 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maureen Whitebrook |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maureen |
| FAMILY NAME | Whitebrook |
| SIGNATURE | WHITEBROOK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Language, Politics and Writing
Compassion as a Political Virtue
The place of compassion in political thought and practice is debatable. This debate can be clarified by stipulating ‘compassion’ as referring to the practice of acting on the feeling of ‘pity’; in addition, compassion might best be understood politically speaking as properly exercised towards vulnerability rather than suffering. Working with these understandings, I contrast Martha Nussbaum's account of the criteria for the exercise of compassion …
Reading Don DeLillo's Mao II as a Commentary on Twentieth-century Politics
Novel and Novelty
Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory is an international refereed open access journal, which publishes contributions on the transdisciplinary study of concepts. In classical rhetoric, ‘redescription’ refers to a rhetorical move that alters the use of a concept in one respect or another. The journal draws attention to conceptual moves within political theory, conceptual history and feminist thought, and highlig…
Politics and Literature
What are the possibilities of connection between politics and literature? How have those possibilities been developed? Why should students of politics turn to literature as a source of political understanding? Connections have traditionally been made in terms of literature as illustration or example for politics or as a form of moral education. Other possibilities are a ‘political sociology of literature’ or literature as a primary source for pol…
Only Connect
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Reform or Reformation
Cet article soutient que l'incapacité—intellectuelle et pratique—à résoudre adéquatement certains problèmes institutionnels de même que la crise profonde de légitimité en Grande-Bretagne découlent de l'incapacité à considérer l'utilité et les implications théoriques du langage des institutions et des modèles dans l'analyse des systèmes politiques. Ceux-ci à leur tour dépendent du développement d'une théorie de l'Etat et, postulant une forme plus …
Compassion as a Political Virtue
The place of compassion in political thought and practice is debatable. This debate can be clarified by stipulating ‘compassion’ as referring to the practice of acting on the feeling of ‘pity’; in addition, compassion might best be understood politically speaking as properly exercised towards vulnerability rather than suffering. Working with these understandings, I contrast Martha Nussbaum's account of the criteria for the exercise of compassion …
Politics and Literature
What are the possibilities of connection between politics and literature? How have those possibilities been developed? Why should students of politics turn to literature as a source of political understanding? Connections have traditionally been made in terms of literature as illustration or example for politics or as a form of moral education. Other possibilities are a ‘political sociology of literature’ or literature as a primary source for pol…
Only Connect
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Reform or Reformation
Cet article soutient que l'incapacité—intellectuelle et pratique—à résoudre adéquatement certains problèmes institutionnels de même que la crise profonde de légitimité en Grande-Bretagne découlent de l'incapacité à considérer l'utilité et les implications théoriques du langage des institutions et des modèles dans l'analyse des systèmes politiques. Ceux-ci à leur tour dépendent du développement d'une théorie de l'Etat et, postulant une forme plus …
Reform or Reformation
Cet article soutient que l'incapacité—intellectuelle et pratique—à résoudre adéquatement certains problèmes institutionnels de même que la crise profonde de légitimité en Grande-Bretagne découlent de l'incapacité à considérer l'utilité et les implications théoriques du langage des institutions et des modèles dans l'analyse des systèmes politiques. Ceux-ci à leur tour dépendent du développement d'une théorie de l'Etat et, postulant une forme plus …
Only Connect
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Politics and Literature
What are the possibilities of connection between politics and literature? How have those possibilities been developed? Why should students of politics turn to literature as a source of political understanding? Connections have traditionally been made in terms of literature as illustration or example for politics or as a form of moral education. Other possibilities are a ‘political sociology of literature’ or literature as a primary source for pol…
Novel and Novelty
Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory is an international refereed open access journal, which publishes contributions on the transdisciplinary study of concepts. In classical rhetoric, ‘redescription’ refers to a rhetorical move that alters the use of a concept in one respect or another. The journal draws attention to conceptual moves within political theory, conceptual history and feminist thought, and highlig…
Reading Don DeLillo's Mao II as a Commentary on Twentieth-century Politics
Compassion as a Political Virtue
The place of compassion in political thought and practice is debatable. This debate can be clarified by stipulating ‘compassion’ as referring to the practice of acting on the feeling of ‘pity’; in addition, compassion might best be understood politically speaking as properly exercised towards vulnerability rather than suffering. Working with these understandings, I contrast Martha Nussbaum's account of the criteria for the exercise of compassion …
Language, Politics and Writing
Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social science (3 works)