Alice Ormiston
Biographic Data
| ID | 4373953 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alice Ormiston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alice |
| FAMILY NAME | Ormiston |
| SIGNATURE | ORMISTON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Tragic Desire
The desire for a better future, for a justice that can be realized in the world, is intrinsic to the modern democratic project. At the same time, this desire has been fraught with disappointment and, in some cases, bound up with frightening atrocities and rigid ideological impositions. Hence the desire itself is paradoxical—indeed, as I shall argue, tragic. This article is an attempt to explore the nature of this tragic desire. It does so through…
Love and Politics
Hegel on “Negotiating Transcendence”
This article examines what Hegel’s political philosophy might have to offer to contemporary thinking on transcendence. Hegel’s thinking is seen to be significant because it explores the possibility of spiritual transcendence in the context of a modern consciousness that is secular in orientation, and relatively alienated from spiritual experience. Focusing on the experience of love in childhood, and the ongoing way in which love manifests itself …
The Spirit of Christianity and Its Fate
This article examines Hegel's view of love in his ''early theological writing,'' ''The Spirit of Christianity and Its Fate,'' where he saw love as a basis of autonomy in the modern self which could overcome the divisions between reason and emotion, self and other and finite and infinite. The article also examines Hegel's attempt in the essay to come to grips with why a community of love cannot be sustained by modern individuals. Consideration of …
The Spirit of Christianity and Its Fate
This article examines Hegel's view of love in his ''early theological writing,'' ''The Spirit of Christianity and Its Fate,'' where he saw love as a basis of autonomy in the modern self which could overcome the divisions between reason and emotion, self and other and finite and infinite. The article also examines Hegel's attempt in the essay to come to grips with why a community of love cannot be sustained by modern individuals. Consideration of …
The Spirit of Christianity and Its Fate
This article examines Hegel's view of love in his ''early theological writing,'' ''The Spirit of Christianity and Its Fate,'' where he saw love as a basis of autonomy in the modern self which could overcome the divisions between reason and emotion, self and other and finite and infinite. The article also examines Hegel's attempt in the essay to come to grips with why a community of love cannot be sustained by modern individuals. Consideration of …
Hegel on “Negotiating Transcendence”
This article examines what Hegel’s political philosophy might have to offer to contemporary thinking on transcendence. Hegel’s thinking is seen to be significant because it explores the possibility of spiritual transcendence in the context of a modern consciousness that is secular in orientation, and relatively alienated from spiritual experience. Focusing on the experience of love in childhood, and the ongoing way in which love manifests itself …
Love and Politics
A Tragic Desire
The desire for a better future, for a justice that can be realized in the world, is intrinsic to the modern democratic project. At the same time, this desire has been fraught with disappointment and, in some cases, bound up with frightening atrocities and rigid ideological impositions. Hence the desire itself is paradoxical—indeed, as I shall argue, tragic. This article is an attempt to explore the nature of this tragic desire. It does so through…
Epistemology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Hegelianism (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)