Brian Duff
Biographic Data
| ID | 658426 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Duff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Duff |
| SIGNATURE | DUFF B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New England, USA, |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Confession, sexuality and pornography as sacred language
This article explores the connection between religious and sexual sources of personal meaning. It revisits the analyses of modern sexuality offered by Michel Foucault and Catharine MacKinnon to argue that an understanding of the role of sexuality in religious confessional discourse sheds new light on the role of pornography in contemporary culture. Pornography can be understood as a popular discourse with effects analogous to the elite discourse,…
The Inertia of Sex
This article offers a reassessment of the contemporary relevance of the political thought of Henry Adams through a focus on his ideas about the relationship between family and politics. Adams’ ideas have been dismissed by contemporary thinkers, like Richard Rorty, who rely on similar ideas about the role family should play in politics. The article traces the role of ideas about family as a unifying theme in Adam’s history, fiction, and autobiogra…
The Meaning of American National Identity
National identity is one among many often co-existing and overlapping social identities, including territorial, racial, religious, linguistic, and gender identities. The psychological task for individuals is to order and integrate their different collective “selves” (Ashmore & Jussim, 1997). The political task for government is to balance the need for national unity with the competing claims of other group identities. In modern society, emphasizi…
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The Meaning of American National Identity
National identity is one among many often co-existing and overlapping social identities, including territorial, racial, religious, linguistic, and gender identities. The psychological task for individuals is to order and integrate their different collective “selves” (Ashmore & Jussim, 1997). The political task for government is to balance the need for national unity with the competing claims of other group identities. In modern society, emphasizi…
Confession, sexuality and pornography as sacred language
This article explores the connection between religious and sexual sources of personal meaning. It revisits the analyses of modern sexuality offered by Michel Foucault and Catharine MacKinnon to argue that an understanding of the role of sexuality in religious confessional discourse sheds new light on the role of pornography in contemporary culture. Pornography can be understood as a popular discourse with effects analogous to the elite discourse,…
The Inertia of Sex
This article offers a reassessment of the contemporary relevance of the political thought of Henry Adams through a focus on his ideas about the relationship between family and politics. Adams’ ideas have been dismissed by contemporary thinkers, like Richard Rorty, who rely on similar ideas about the role family should play in politics. The article traces the role of ideas about family as a unifying theme in Adam’s history, fiction, and autobiogra…
Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work) · Biography (1 work)