Shannon Mariotti
Biographic Data
| ID | 4390084 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shannon Mariotti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shannon |
| FAMILY NAME | Mariotti |
| SIGNATURE | MARIOTTI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southwestern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9334-8983 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Contemplative Democracy: Politics, Practice, and Pedagogy
Contemplative practices are increasingly mainstream in the United States. From meditation, mindfulness, and yoga to writing, walking, and gardening, contemplative practices aim to cultivate embodied awareness, attunement, and attention. What is the political value of the attentional ecologies created by the Mindfulness Revolution? This book explores the democratic possibility contained within contemplative practices that may initially seem to be …
Toni Morrison: Imagining Freedom
Zen and the Art of Democracy: Contemplative Practice as Ordinary Political Theory
In recent years, contemplative practices of meditation have become increasingly mainstream in American culture, part of a phenomenon that scholars call “Buddhist modernism.” Connecting the embodied practice of meditation with the embodied practice of democracy in everyday life, this essay puts the radical democratic theory of Jacques Rancière into conversation with the Zen writings of Shunryu Suzuki and Thomas Merton. I show how meditation can be…
The New Progressive Federalism: Common Benefits, State Constitutional Rights, and Democratic Political Action
In 1776, a group of political outsiders in Pennsylvania seized control of the convention and drafting process to create a robustly democratic and class-conscious state constitution. These commoners believed governments upheld and extended social and political privilege, serving primarily the interests of wealthy and powerful citizens. They tried to reverse these oligarchic tendencies, particularly through a “common benefits clause”: here the soci…
Adorno and Democracy: The American Years
The highway of despair: Critical theory after Hegel
Robyn Marasco’s The highway of despair: critical theory after Hegel is an admirably lean book, but also assured, confident and masterful in its interpretations and decisions. She guides us through
Adorno on the Radio: Democratic Leadership as Democratic Pedagogy
This essay explores the political significance of two largely unexplored texts on American radio that Adorno originally composed in English after emigrating to the United States: Current of Music: Elements of a Radio Theory and The Psychological Technique of Martin Luther Thomas’ Radio Addresses. Here, productively complicating the traditional image of him, Adorno translates his theory to a broader public in ways that reflect a desire to understa…
Damaged Life as Exuberant Vitality in America: Adorno, Alienation, and the Psychic Economy
In the aphorism “The Health Unto Death,” in Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life, Adorno issues a provocation and a challenge: “If such a thing as a psycho-analysis of today's prototypical culture were possible,” it would need to “show the sickness proper to the time to consist precisely in normality.”1 Investigating this unique form of illness would require questioning the traditional markers of health: “unruffled calm,” an “unhampered …
On the Passing of the First-Born Son: Emerson's “Focal Distancing,” Du Bois' “Second Sight,” and Disruptive Particularity
Both Ralph Waldo Emerson's and W. E. B. Du Bois' firstborn sons tragically died at very young ages. Drawing from the essays where they write about their grief, I explore Du Bois' “subversion” and “revision” of Emerson's thought by contrasting their visual metaphors: Emerson's “focal distancing” and Du Bois' practice of “second sight” and seeing through “the Veil.” I show how the disruptive particular event of the deaths of their sons causes both …
Adorno on the Radio: Democratic Leadership as Democratic Pedagogy
This essay explores the political significance of two largely unexplored texts on American radio that Adorno originally composed in English after emigrating to the United States: Current of Music: Elements of a Radio Theory and The Psychological Technique of Martin Luther Thomas’ Radio Addresses. Here, productively complicating the traditional image of him, Adorno translates his theory to a broader public in ways that reflect a desire to understa…
On the Passing of the First-Born Son: Emerson's “Focal Distancing,” Du Bois' “Second Sight,” and Disruptive Particularity
Both Ralph Waldo Emerson's and W. E. B. Du Bois' firstborn sons tragically died at very young ages. Drawing from the essays where they write about their grief, I explore Du Bois' “subversion” and “revision” of Emerson's thought by contrasting their visual metaphors: Emerson's “focal distancing” and Du Bois' practice of “second sight” and seeing through “the Veil.” I show how the disruptive particular event of the deaths of their sons causes both …
The highway of despair: Critical theory after Hegel
Robyn Marasco’s The highway of despair: critical theory after Hegel is an admirably lean book, but also assured, confident and masterful in its interpretations and decisions. She guides us through
Zen and the Art of Democracy: Contemplative Practice as Ordinary Political Theory
In recent years, contemplative practices of meditation have become increasingly mainstream in American culture, part of a phenomenon that scholars call “Buddhist modernism.” Connecting the embodied practice of meditation with the embodied practice of democracy in everyday life, this essay puts the radical democratic theory of Jacques Rancière into conversation with the Zen writings of Shunryu Suzuki and Thomas Merton. I show how meditation can be…
Damaged Life as Exuberant Vitality in America: Adorno, Alienation, and the Psychic Economy
In the aphorism “The Health Unto Death,” in Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life, Adorno issues a provocation and a challenge: “If such a thing as a psycho-analysis of today's prototypical culture were possible,” it would need to “show the sickness proper to the time to consist precisely in normality.”1 Investigating this unique form of illness would require questioning the traditional markers of health: “unruffled calm,” an “unhampered …
Damaged Life as Exuberant Vitality in America: Adorno, Alienation, and the Psychic Economy
In the aphorism “The Health Unto Death,” in Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life, Adorno issues a provocation and a challenge: “If such a thing as a psycho-analysis of today's prototypical culture were possible,” it would need to “show the sickness proper to the time to consist precisely in normality.”1 Investigating this unique form of illness would require questioning the traditional markers of health: “unruffled calm,” an “unhampered …
On the Passing of the First-Born Son: Emerson's “Focal Distancing,” Du Bois' “Second Sight,” and Disruptive Particularity
Both Ralph Waldo Emerson's and W. E. B. Du Bois' firstborn sons tragically died at very young ages. Drawing from the essays where they write about their grief, I explore Du Bois' “subversion” and “revision” of Emerson's thought by contrasting their visual metaphors: Emerson's “focal distancing” and Du Bois' practice of “second sight” and seeing through “the Veil.” I show how the disruptive particular event of the deaths of their sons causes both …
Adorno on the Radio: Democratic Leadership as Democratic Pedagogy
This essay explores the political significance of two largely unexplored texts on American radio that Adorno originally composed in English after emigrating to the United States: Current of Music: Elements of a Radio Theory and The Psychological Technique of Martin Luther Thomas’ Radio Addresses. Here, productively complicating the traditional image of him, Adorno translates his theory to a broader public in ways that reflect a desire to understa…
Adorno and Democracy: The American Years
The highway of despair: Critical theory after Hegel
Robyn Marasco’s The highway of despair: critical theory after Hegel is an admirably lean book, but also assured, confident and masterful in its interpretations and decisions. She guides us through
The New Progressive Federalism: Common Benefits, State Constitutional Rights, and Democratic Political Action
In 1776, a group of political outsiders in Pennsylvania seized control of the convention and drafting process to create a robustly democratic and class-conscious state constitution. These commoners believed governments upheld and extended social and political privilege, serving primarily the interests of wealthy and powerful citizens. They tried to reverse these oligarchic tendencies, particularly through a “common benefits clause”: here the soci…
Zen and the Art of Democracy: Contemplative Practice as Ordinary Political Theory
In recent years, contemplative practices of meditation have become increasingly mainstream in American culture, part of a phenomenon that scholars call “Buddhist modernism.” Connecting the embodied practice of meditation with the embodied practice of democracy in everyday life, this essay puts the radical democratic theory of Jacques Rancière into conversation with the Zen writings of Shunryu Suzuki and Thomas Merton. I show how meditation can be…
Toni Morrison: Imagining Freedom
Contemplative Democracy: Politics, Practice, and Pedagogy
Contemplative practices are increasingly mainstream in the United States. From meditation, mindfulness, and yoga to writing, walking, and gardening, contemplative practices aim to cultivate embodied awareness, attunement, and attention. What is the political value of the attentional ecologies created by the Mindfulness Revolution? This book explores the democratic possibility contained within contemplative practices that may initially seem to be …
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