Pauline Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3597828 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pauline Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pauline |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7914-1217 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Tragedy and Philosophy. A Parallel History
Completed shortly before her death in 2019, Tragedy and Philosophy is the sum of Agnes Heller's reflections on European history and culture, seen through the prism of Europe's two unique literary creations: tragedy and philosophy. Part 1 traces their parallel history from ancient Athens to rebirth in early modern London and Paris. Part 2 explores the interactions between post-metaphysical philosophy and post-tragic drama from the eighteenth throu…
Tragedy and philosophy: A Parallel History
This book is the sum of Agnes Heller's reflections on European history and culture, seen through the prism of Europe's two unique literary creations: tragedy and philosophy
Critique as ideology critique in a neoliberal age
Neo-liberalism is not working but carries on regardless. A society and all of its institutions modelled on market logics and imperatives has produced system crisis and has lost widespread popular support. To account for neo-liberalism’s continuing grip, we must submit this project to ideology critique. Max Horkheimer offers some relevant insights into what this requires. Ideology critique needs to come up with a competing measure of progress, it …
Learning from the Budapest School women
What can Western feminism hope to learn from women whose feminisms were originally shaped by experiences behind the 'Iron Curtain'? In the first instance, an acute sensitivity to the importance of a politics that is responsive to needs. In its social democratic heyday, Western feminism had embraced a politics of contested need interpretation. Now, though, a neoliberal version has converted feminism into an attitudinal resource for the individual …
Editors' Intro
Feminism as radical humanism
For Johnson, feminism must recognize itself as a humanism in order to avoid certain theoretical quagmires. [The argument] is extremely provocative, and even, I would say, necessary. This book is sure to be controversial and of interest to a wide audience in feminist theory. I know of no other treatment of feminism and humanism that is so clear, cogent, and systematic. Judith Grant University of Southern California Feminism is currently at an impa…
The dialectic of critique and progress: Comparing Peter Wagner and Theodor Adorno
As long as critique trails in the wake of progress, a more radical game-changing interest in its reconstruction remains blocked. This article will contrast the reforming approach adopted by Peter Wagner with Theodor Adorno's attempt to reconstruct the normative foundations of historical progress. The intention here is to use the radicalism of Adorno's critical recovery of this ideal in order to clarify and strengthen the social democratic utopian…
Feminism as Critique in a Neoliberal Age: Debating Nancy Fraser
Neoliberalism, we are told, has “seduced” feminism. What is meant is that the libertarian and democratic hopes that have scoped this radical social movement have been reconfigured and re-energised by neoliberal project that models all our freedoms upon the market. Misgivings about “seductions” and “betrayals” require that feminist theory adopts the role of the arbiter on goals and meanings and this puts strains upon its deep commitment to democra…
In search of a leftist democratic imaginary: What Can Theories of Populism Tell Us
It might seem that Herbert Marcuse was right: leftist politics can no longer avoid the challenge of devising its own positive normative grounds. The neoliberal political rationality that is now hegemonic must be taken on by a new imaginary: radical, leftist and democratic. This article explores what major theories about new populism have to offer to a radical leftist attempt to reinvent itself. The regeneration of populist movements across the gl…
Associations between Perceptions of Drinking Water Service Delivery and Measured Drinking Water Quality in Rural Alabama
Although small, rural water supplies may present elevated microbial risks to consumers in some settings, characterizing exposures through representative point-of-consumption sampling is logistically challenging. In order to evaluate the usefulness of consumer self-reported data in predicting measured water quality and risk factors for contamination, we compared matched consumer interview data with point-of-survey, household water quality and pres…
Sociology and the critique of neoliberalism: Reflections on Peter Wagner and Axel Honneth
Neoliberalism's project of making the market the model for all modern freedoms means that critique needs to be able to unmask the distortions and to weigh the costs of its cultural appropriations and resignifications. This diagnostic/evaluative task presents a seeming challenge to the sociologist who is also answerable to scientific purposes that demand objectivity and impartiality. This article investigates two very different attempts to grasp t…
Marxist Aesthetics: The Foundations Within Everyday Life for an Emancipated Consciousness
Originally published in 1984, this study deals with a number of influential figures in the European tradition of Marxist theories of aesthetics, ranging from Lukacs to Benjamin, through the Frankfurt School, to Brecht and the Althusserians. Pauline Johnson shows that, despite the great diversity in these theories about art, they all formulate a common problem, and she argues that an adequate response to this problem must be based on account of th…
Nocturnal Convenience: The Problem of Securing Universal Sanitation Access in Alabama's Black Belt
On-site sanitation (OSS) is not universal in the rural United States: access to and function of available options are limited by geological, economic, regulatory, and policy constraints. In Alabama's rural Black Belt region, widespread impermeability of soils and a lack of locally accepted, cost-effective technical solutions contribute to limited access to functional OSS. Despite the existence of federal and state financial assistance programs in…
The Embedded Market and Ideology Critique
When the Global Financial Crisis hit, major political economists were able to boast that they had long warned that "crazy times" were coming. By contrast, leading sociologists seem to have been wrong footed. Totalizing narratives of a new "risk society", "second modernity" and the like appeared to have sacrificed the grounds for weighing up the costs and damages of contemporary capitalism. Made famous by Karl Polanyi, the concept of the embedded …
Modern Privacy
Modern Privacies addresses emergent transformations of privacy in western societies from a multidisciplinary and international perspective. It examines social and cultural trends in new media, feminis
Modern Privacy: Shifting Boundaries, New Forms
Modern Privacy: Shifting Boundaries, New Forms
Normative Tensions of Contemporary Feminism
The following discussion explores dimensions of feminism's ongoing efforts to negotiate split normative claims. It attempts to push through a stalled debate within contemporary feminism by describing it as a mis-recognition of feminism's double-sided normativity. It suggests that an 'either/or' construction of what feminism is about obscures the contribution that each can make to a clarification of the limitations and concealed entailments of the…
Globalizing Democracy: Reflections on Habermas's Radicalism
According to many of his critics, Habermas is so preoccupied with 'old normative maps' that he cannot really help us chart our options in a fast globalizing world. The following article contests aspects of this familiar critique. The argument is developed in three stages. First, some misapprehensions are targeted. No unreconstructed liberal, Habermas is shown to offer a discriminating interpretation of learning processes that need to guide politi…
Habermas: Rescuing the Public Sphere
If we are to believe what many sociologists are telling us, the public sphere is in a near terminal state. Our ability to build solidarities with strangers and to agree on the general significance of needs and problems seems to be collapsing. These cultural potentials appear endangered by a newly aggressive attempt to universalize and extend the norms of the market. For four decades Habermas has been trying to bring the claims of a modern public …
Romantic and Enlightenment Legacies: Habermas and the Post-Modern Critics
Habermas: A Reasonable Utopian
Already by the mid-1980s, Habermas supposed that our utopian energies had been used up. Today, when a neoiberal ‘realism’ seems to be a virtually dominant ideology, the climate appears, if anything, yet more hostile to radical hopes. Even while he recognises the obstacles and is clear that we might never succeed in breaking through the ‘Gordian knot’, Habermas is not prepared to surrender to a proclaimed ‘end of politics’. This paper traces some …
Are Our Utopian Energies Exhausted: Habermas’s Radical Reformism
This article starts off by giving Habermas the opportunity to defend the ‘remnants of utopianism’ in his thinking that might seem to fly in the face of grim sociological realities. He wants to cut the ground from under a fashionable scepticism about our capacity to use a description of the unrealized potentials of the present as the basis for orienting ourselves to a desired future. This is to be done by persuading us that we have been looking in…
Distorted communications: Feminism’s dispute with Habermas
The paper reviews the extent to which main formulations in Habermas’s recent major work, Between Facts and Norms, make ground against feminist objections to the Habermasian project. Although the later work does not tamper with the core project of Habermas’s theory of modernity, the terms in which the procedural norms of democratic interaction are now conceived clarify the sympathetic relevance of Habermas’s project to feminism’s own vital concern…
Habermas's Search for the Public Sphere
Given powerful globalizing processes under way, the topic of how to conceptualize the modern public sphere is becoming increasingly urgent. Amidst the array of alternatives, the efforts of Jürgen Habermas to attempt to balance out the two main conceptual requirements of this idea, a universalistic construction of the principle of shared interests and a sensitivity to the fact of modern pluralism, might seem a particularly promising option. In ord…
The Traditional Crafts of Persia
Feminism and liberalism
Habermas's Search for the Public Sphere
Given powerful globalizing processes under way, the topic of how to conceptualize the modern public sphere is becoming increasingly urgent. Amidst the array of alternatives, the efforts of Jürgen Habermas to attempt to balance out the two main conceptual requirements of this idea, a universalistic construction of the principle of shared interests and a sensitivity to the fact of modern pluralism, might seem a particularly promising option. In ord…
In search of a leftist democratic imaginary: What Can Theories of Populism Tell Us
It might seem that Herbert Marcuse was right: leftist politics can no longer avoid the challenge of devising its own positive normative grounds. The neoliberal political rationality that is now hegemonic must be taken on by a new imaginary: radical, leftist and democratic. This article explores what major theories about new populism have to offer to a radical leftist attempt to reinvent itself. The regeneration of populist movements across the gl…
Are Our Utopian Energies Exhausted: Habermas’s Radical Reformism
This article starts off by giving Habermas the opportunity to defend the ‘remnants of utopianism’ in his thinking that might seem to fly in the face of grim sociological realities. He wants to cut the ground from under a fashionable scepticism about our capacity to use a description of the unrealized potentials of the present as the basis for orienting ourselves to a desired future. This is to be done by persuading us that we have been looking in…
Sociology and the critique of neoliberalism: Reflections on Peter Wagner and Axel Honneth
Neoliberalism's project of making the market the model for all modern freedoms means that critique needs to be able to unmask the distortions and to weigh the costs of its cultural appropriations and resignifications. This diagnostic/evaluative task presents a seeming challenge to the sociologist who is also answerable to scientific purposes that demand objectivity and impartiality. This article investigates two very different attempts to grasp t…
Globalizing Democracy: Reflections on Habermas's Radicalism
According to many of his critics, Habermas is so preoccupied with 'old normative maps' that he cannot really help us chart our options in a fast globalizing world. The following article contests aspects of this familiar critique. The argument is developed in three stages. First, some misapprehensions are targeted. No unreconstructed liberal, Habermas is shown to offer a discriminating interpretation of learning processes that need to guide politi…
Romantic and Enlightenment Legacies: Habermas and the Post-Modern Critics
Carl Schmitt, Jürgen Habermas, and the crisis of politics
Distorted communications: Feminism’s dispute with Habermas
The paper reviews the extent to which main formulations in Habermas’s recent major work, Between Facts and Norms, make ground against feminist objections to the Habermasian project. Although the later work does not tamper with the core project of Habermas’s theory of modernity, the terms in which the procedural norms of democratic interaction are now conceived clarify the sympathetic relevance of Habermas’s project to feminism’s own vital concern…
The dilemmas of Luce Irigaray
The Traditional Crafts of Persia
An Aesthetics of Negativity/An Aesthetics of Reception: Jauss's Dispute with Adorno
More on the socialism in socialist feminism: A response to Pringle
The dilemmas of Luce Irigaray
Feminism and liberalism
Does Postmodern feminism have a future
1995). Does Postmodern feminism have a future? Australian Feminist Studies: Vol. 10, No. 22, pp. 121-138
The Quest for the Self: Feminism's Appropriation of Romanticism
Carl Schmitt, Jürgen Habermas, and the crisis of politics
Discourse Ethics and the Normative Justification of Tolerance
The following paper considers the extent to which discourse ethics can adequately respond to Habermas' own call for normative justification for the expectation of tolerance. It concludes that discourse ethics is able to lend its services to the flagging fortunes of the idea of toleration, not by seeking to underscore this idea with rationally compelling argumentation, but by offering insights into the possibilities opened up to a life which accep…
Distorted communications: Feminism’s dispute with Habermas
The paper reviews the extent to which main formulations in Habermas’s recent major work, Between Facts and Norms, make ground against feminist objections to the Habermasian project. Although the later work does not tamper with the core project of Habermas’s theory of modernity, the terms in which the procedural norms of democratic interaction are now conceived clarify the sympathetic relevance of Habermas’s project to feminism’s own vital concern…
Habermas's Search for the Public Sphere
Given powerful globalizing processes under way, the topic of how to conceptualize the modern public sphere is becoming increasingly urgent. Amidst the array of alternatives, the efforts of Jürgen Habermas to attempt to balance out the two main conceptual requirements of this idea, a universalistic construction of the principle of shared interests and a sensitivity to the fact of modern pluralism, might seem a particularly promising option. In ord…
Are Our Utopian Energies Exhausted: Habermas’s Radical Reformism
This article starts off by giving Habermas the opportunity to defend the ‘remnants of utopianism’ in his thinking that might seem to fly in the face of grim sociological realities. He wants to cut the ground from under a fashionable scepticism about our capacity to use a description of the unrealized potentials of the present as the basis for orienting ourselves to a desired future. This is to be done by persuading us that we have been looking in…
Habermas: A Reasonable Utopian
Already by the mid-1980s, Habermas supposed that our utopian energies had been used up. Today, when a neoiberal ‘realism’ seems to be a virtually dominant ideology, the climate appears, if anything, yet more hostile to radical hopes. Even while he recognises the obstacles and is clear that we might never succeed in breaking through the ‘Gordian knot’, Habermas is not prepared to surrender to a proclaimed ‘end of politics’. This paper traces some …
Habermas: Rescuing the Public Sphere
If we are to believe what many sociologists are telling us, the public sphere is in a near terminal state. Our ability to build solidarities with strangers and to agree on the general significance of needs and problems seems to be collapsing. These cultural potentials appear endangered by a newly aggressive attempt to universalize and extend the norms of the market. For four decades Habermas has been trying to bring the claims of a modern public …
Romantic and Enlightenment Legacies: Habermas and the Post-Modern Critics
Globalizing Democracy: Reflections on Habermas's Radicalism
According to many of his critics, Habermas is so preoccupied with 'old normative maps' that he cannot really help us chart our options in a fast globalizing world. The following article contests aspects of this familiar critique. The argument is developed in three stages. First, some misapprehensions are targeted. No unreconstructed liberal, Habermas is shown to offer a discriminating interpretation of learning processes that need to guide politi…
Modern Privacy
Modern Privacies addresses emergent transformations of privacy in western societies from a multidisciplinary and international perspective. It examines social and cultural trends in new media, feminis
Modern Privacy: Shifting Boundaries, New Forms
Modern Privacy: Shifting Boundaries, New Forms
Normative Tensions of Contemporary Feminism
The following discussion explores dimensions of feminism's ongoing efforts to negotiate split normative claims. It attempts to push through a stalled debate within contemporary feminism by describing it as a mis-recognition of feminism's double-sided normativity. It suggests that an 'either/or' construction of what feminism is about obscures the contribution that each can make to a clarification of the limitations and concealed entailments of the…
The Embedded Market and Ideology Critique
When the Global Financial Crisis hit, major political economists were able to boast that they had long warned that "crazy times" were coming. By contrast, leading sociologists seem to have been wrong footed. Totalizing narratives of a new "risk society", "second modernity" and the like appeared to have sacrificed the grounds for weighing up the costs and damages of contemporary capitalism. Made famous by Karl Polanyi, the concept of the embedded …
Marxist Aesthetics: The Foundations Within Everyday Life for an Emancipated Consciousness
Originally published in 1984, this study deals with a number of influential figures in the European tradition of Marxist theories of aesthetics, ranging from Lukacs to Benjamin, through the Frankfurt School, to Brecht and the Althusserians. Pauline Johnson shows that, despite the great diversity in these theories about art, they all formulate a common problem, and she argues that an adequate response to this problem must be based on account of th…
Nocturnal Convenience: The Problem of Securing Universal Sanitation Access in Alabama's Black Belt
On-site sanitation (OSS) is not universal in the rural United States: access to and function of available options are limited by geological, economic, regulatory, and policy constraints. In Alabama's rural Black Belt region, widespread impermeability of soils and a lack of locally accepted, cost-effective technical solutions contribute to limited access to functional OSS. Despite the existence of federal and state financial assistance programs in…
Associations between Perceptions of Drinking Water Service Delivery and Measured Drinking Water Quality in Rural Alabama
Although small, rural water supplies may present elevated microbial risks to consumers in some settings, characterizing exposures through representative point-of-consumption sampling is logistically challenging. In order to evaluate the usefulness of consumer self-reported data in predicting measured water quality and risk factors for contamination, we compared matched consumer interview data with point-of-survey, household water quality and pres…
Sociology and the critique of neoliberalism: Reflections on Peter Wagner and Axel Honneth
Neoliberalism's project of making the market the model for all modern freedoms means that critique needs to be able to unmask the distortions and to weigh the costs of its cultural appropriations and resignifications. This diagnostic/evaluative task presents a seeming challenge to the sociologist who is also answerable to scientific purposes that demand objectivity and impartiality. This article investigates two very different attempts to grasp t…
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