Ira Allen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3604407 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ira Allen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ira |
| FAMILY NAME | Allen |
| SIGNATURE | ALLEN I |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University of Beirut |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-4336-1264 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1932 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
To enjoy “less” more
Chastened humanism offers philosophical grounding for an alternative hedonism that might make degrowth palatable to consumer societies.Though not identical to degrowth, alternative hedonism is attitudinally adjacent to its deflationary impulse, its "soft landing" approach to global political-economic restructuring.For degrowth to become ideologically attractive, wealthier humans need to enjoy "less" more.Chastened humanism suggests one philosophi…
Trained Capacities
Book Review| June 01 2016 Trained Capacities: John Dewey, Rhetoric, and Democratic Practice Trained Capacities: John Dewey, Rhetoric, and Democratic Practice. Edited by Brian Jackson and Gregory Clark. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2014; pp. vi + 270. $59.95 hardcover; available as eBook via Project Muse. Ira Allen Ira Allen American University of Beirut Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Publi…
God Terms and Activity Systems
Political science struggles, sometimes more than it knows, to study religion’s relationship with politics, democratic and otherwise. The difficulty is in part theoretical. This paper synthesizes diverse strains in recent scholarship on religion to propose a theoretically attuned definition well suited for empirical political science. Religions are defined as systems of shared activity organized around transcendental signifiers. Transcendental sig…
Rhetorical Humanism vs. Object-Oriented Ontology
Rhetorical Humanism vs. Object-Oriented Ontology:The Ethics of Archimedean Points and Levers Ira Allen (bio) Archimedes of Syracuse has long provided a touchstone for considering how we make and acquire knowledge. Since the early Roman chroniclers of Archimedes’ life, and especially intensively since Descartes, scholars have described, sought, or derided the Archimedean point, defining and redefining its epistemic role. “Knowledge,” at least with…
Ethan and Ira Allen
Ethan and Ira Allen
Somnambulism and Dissociation of Personality
God Terms and Activity Systems
Political science struggles, sometimes more than it knows, to study religion’s relationship with politics, democratic and otherwise. The difficulty is in part theoretical. This paper synthesizes diverse strains in recent scholarship on religion to propose a theoretically attuned definition well suited for empirical political science. Religions are defined as systems of shared activity organized around transcendental signifiers. Transcendental sig…
Somnambulism and Dissociation of Personality
Ethan and Ira Allen
Ethan and Ira Allen
Rhetorical Humanism vs. Object-Oriented Ontology
Rhetorical Humanism vs. Object-Oriented Ontology:The Ethics of Archimedean Points and Levers Ira Allen (bio) Archimedes of Syracuse has long provided a touchstone for considering how we make and acquire knowledge. Since the early Roman chroniclers of Archimedes’ life, and especially intensively since Descartes, scholars have described, sought, or derided the Archimedean point, defining and redefining its epistemic role. “Knowledge,” at least with…
Trained Capacities
Book Review| June 01 2016 Trained Capacities: John Dewey, Rhetoric, and Democratic Practice Trained Capacities: John Dewey, Rhetoric, and Democratic Practice. Edited by Brian Jackson and Gregory Clark. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2014; pp. vi + 270. $59.95 hardcover; available as eBook via Project Muse. Ira Allen Ira Allen American University of Beirut Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Publi…
God Terms and Activity Systems
Political science struggles, sometimes more than it knows, to study religion’s relationship with politics, democratic and otherwise. The difficulty is in part theoretical. This paper synthesizes diverse strains in recent scholarship on religion to propose a theoretically attuned definition well suited for empirical political science. Religions are defined as systems of shared activity organized around transcendental signifiers. Transcendental sig…
To enjoy “less” more
Chastened humanism offers philosophical grounding for an alternative hedonism that might make degrowth palatable to consumer societies.Though not identical to degrowth, alternative hedonism is attitudinally adjacent to its deflationary impulse, its "soft landing" approach to global political-economic restructuring.For degrowth to become ideologically attractive, wealthier humans need to enjoy "less" more.Chastened humanism suggests one philosophi…
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