Catherine Frost
Biographic Data
| ID | 834718 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine Frost |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Frost |
| SIGNATURE | FROST C |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7429-8856 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Strange Figures: The Female Founders at the Margins of Hannah Arendt's Theory of Political Beginning
Without females included in the ranks of political founder, Hannah Arendt's theory of political beginning looks dangerously romanticized. Arendt's founder is someone who rises to the challenge of their times, diverting history and renewing public spirit in the process. But despite a methodology that called for recovering the “rich and strange” from the past Arendt does not address the female founders that populate the myths and traditions she cit…
In the eyes of all mankind: Interests and independence in Vattelian statehood
Emer de Vattel's argument that states should be understood as free and independent bodies operating as moral persons in the international sphere is credited with launching a doctrine of sovereignty that hardened national borders against external interference or obligation. It also helped launch one of the world's first modern states through its influence on the American founding. Vattel's theory rests upon the critical role of judgment, specifica…
The power of voice: Bots, democracy and the problem of political ventriloquism
This paper considers the problem of political ventriloquism in a digital age. Democracy relies on the authority of collective voice conceived of as constituent power or vox populi but new technologies that mimic human participation can divert public debate, posing a threat to authenticity and accountability. If ventriloquism primarily serves to manipulate the gullible, the practice should be curtailed. However, this neglects the power of ventrilo…
Birth, death and survival: Sources of political renewal in the work of Hannah Arendt and Virgil’s Aeneid
Does death provide a generative force in politics? The great theorist of political founding, Hannah Arendt, insisted that birth, not death, equipped us for the task of beginning, and pointed to Virgil’s Aeneid as a work that best understood this process. But the Aeneid is a work primarily concerned with sacrifice, suffering and death, and it highlights the losses that must be endured, the disorientation to be overcome, before renewal arrives. Rec…
Summoning Sovereignty: Constituent Power and Poetic Prophecy in Ireland's 1916 Proclamation of the Republic
The Revolution Might Be Tweeted but the Founding Will Not Be: Arendt and Innis on Time, Authority, and Appearance
This article examines political founding in an internet age.Drawing on Hannah Arendt and Harold Innis, the article considers the 2011 Egyptian revolution in light of three features of founding: the problems posed by beginning, authority, and appearance. It finds that death narratives, acceleration, and a personalized media dynamic complicated the Egyptian effort, but that new forms of visibility may prove promising
Disempathy and emotional witnessing in passport photography
Passport photography bans the display of emotion and aims at suppressing what speaks to our individual circumstances. This paper argues that the disempathy that results provides a starting point for moral imagination and a method for preserving political engagement beyond the reach of the state. The sharing of emotion concerns political theorists, however, who worry that judgment can be swamped by sentiment, making empathy an unruly or unreliable…
Omar Dahbour, Self-Determination without Nationalism: A Theory of Postnational Sovereignty
National self-determination and justice in multinational states
Multicultiphobia, Phil Ryan, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010, pp. 279
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How Canada Killed Multiculturalism
Elke Winter's latest work on pluralism and national identity has an iconoclastic quality that helps put Canadian multiculturalism in a new and more interesting light. But it also raises troubling questions about how this national tradition operates. This critique focuses on six aspects of her work: 1) the othering process that persists within the pluralist dynamic; 2) the moral questions surrounding negotiation; 3) whether normative pluralism has…
Rorty's Politics of Redescription, Gideon Calder, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007, pp. xiii, 235
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Morality and Nationalism
This book takes a unique approach to explore the moral foundations of nationalism. Drawing on nationalist writings and examining almost 200 years of nationalism in Ireland and Quebec, the author develops a theory of nationalism based on its role in representation. The study of nationalism has tended towards the construction of dichotomies – arguing, for example, that there are political and cultural, or civic and ethnic, versions of the phenomeno…
Community in the Digital Age: Philosophy and Practice
Internet Galaxy Meets Postnational Constellation: Prospects for Political Solidarity After the Internet
Might online social relations play a role in the rise of political solidarities sufficient to support a democratic postnationalist project? As things currently stand, it does not appear that the Internet supports either the commitment or cohesiveness needed to underpin a demanding new mode of social and political relations. Looking at factors such as conceptions of community and social interaction, systems of meaning, political engagement, and so…
Is Post‐nationalism or Liberal‐culturalism behind the Transformation of Irish Nationalism
This paper asks whether it is possible to associate the social and political developments in contemporary Ireland with either of two normative alternatives to traditionalist nationalism. Both post‐nationalist and liberal‐culturalist models are outlined and key expectations identified. When compared against contemporary Irish experience, some developments appear to echo the major features of the models, yet several contradictory trends are noted. …
Literature, Nationalism, and the Challenge of Representation
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How Prometheus Is Bound: Applying the Innis Method of Communications Analysis to the Internet
This article argues that Harold Innis' method of communications analysis is sufficiently modular that it can be applied to a medium not addressed in his own work - the Internet. It further argues that Innis developed this method because he believed each new medium faces us with a moral choice, and that his concern for the space/time balance represents a moral level of analysis focused on a medium's implications for freedom and humanism. Once appl…
Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
The Worth of Nations
Summoning Sovereignty: Constituent Power and Poetic Prophecy in Ireland's 1916 Proclamation of the Republic
How Canada Killed Multiculturalism
Elke Winter's latest work on pluralism and national identity has an iconoclastic quality that helps put Canadian multiculturalism in a new and more interesting light. But it also raises troubling questions about how this national tradition operates. This critique focuses on six aspects of her work: 1) the othering process that persists within the pluralist dynamic; 2) the moral questions surrounding negotiation; 3) whether normative pluralism has…
Is Post‐nationalism or Liberal‐culturalism behind the Transformation of Irish Nationalism
This paper asks whether it is possible to associate the social and political developments in contemporary Ireland with either of two normative alternatives to traditionalist nationalism. Both post‐nationalist and liberal‐culturalist models are outlined and key expectations identified. When compared against contemporary Irish experience, some developments appear to echo the major features of the models, yet several contradictory trends are noted. …
The power of voice: Bots, democracy and the problem of political ventriloquism
This paper considers the problem of political ventriloquism in a digital age. Democracy relies on the authority of collective voice conceived of as constituent power or vox populi but new technologies that mimic human participation can divert public debate, posing a threat to authenticity and accountability. If ventriloquism primarily serves to manipulate the gullible, the practice should be curtailed. However, this neglects the power of ventrilo…
The Worth of Nations
The Worth of Nations
Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
How Prometheus Is Bound: Applying the Innis Method of Communications Analysis to the Internet
This article argues that Harold Innis' method of communications analysis is sufficiently modular that it can be applied to a medium not addressed in his own work - the Internet. It further argues that Innis developed this method because he believed each new medium faces us with a moral choice, and that his concern for the space/time balance represents a moral level of analysis focused on a medium's implications for freedom and humanism. Once appl…
Literature, Nationalism, and the Challenge of Representation
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Morality and Nationalism
This book takes a unique approach to explore the moral foundations of nationalism. Drawing on nationalist writings and examining almost 200 years of nationalism in Ireland and Quebec, the author develops a theory of nationalism based on its role in representation. The study of nationalism has tended towards the construction of dichotomies – arguing, for example, that there are political and cultural, or civic and ethnic, versions of the phenomeno…
Community in the Digital Age: Philosophy and Practice
Internet Galaxy Meets Postnational Constellation: Prospects for Political Solidarity After the Internet
Might online social relations play a role in the rise of political solidarities sufficient to support a democratic postnationalist project? As things currently stand, it does not appear that the Internet supports either the commitment or cohesiveness needed to underpin a demanding new mode of social and political relations. Looking at factors such as conceptions of community and social interaction, systems of meaning, political engagement, and so…
Is Post‐nationalism or Liberal‐culturalism behind the Transformation of Irish Nationalism
This paper asks whether it is possible to associate the social and political developments in contemporary Ireland with either of two normative alternatives to traditionalist nationalism. Both post‐nationalist and liberal‐culturalist models are outlined and key expectations identified. When compared against contemporary Irish experience, some developments appear to echo the major features of the models, yet several contradictory trends are noted. …
Rorty's Politics of Redescription, Gideon Calder, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2007, pp. xiii, 235
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Multicultiphobia, Phil Ryan, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010, pp. 279
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
How Canada Killed Multiculturalism
Elke Winter's latest work on pluralism and national identity has an iconoclastic quality that helps put Canadian multiculturalism in a new and more interesting light. But it also raises troubling questions about how this national tradition operates. This critique focuses on six aspects of her work: 1) the othering process that persists within the pluralist dynamic; 2) the moral questions surrounding negotiation; 3) whether normative pluralism has…
National self-determination and justice in multinational states
Omar Dahbour, Self-Determination without Nationalism: A Theory of Postnational Sovereignty
The Revolution Might Be Tweeted but the Founding Will Not Be: Arendt and Innis on Time, Authority, and Appearance
This article examines political founding in an internet age.Drawing on Hannah Arendt and Harold Innis, the article considers the 2011 Egyptian revolution in light of three features of founding: the problems posed by beginning, authority, and appearance. It finds that death narratives, acceleration, and a personalized media dynamic complicated the Egyptian effort, but that new forms of visibility may prove promising
Disempathy and emotional witnessing in passport photography
Passport photography bans the display of emotion and aims at suppressing what speaks to our individual circumstances. This paper argues that the disempathy that results provides a starting point for moral imagination and a method for preserving political engagement beyond the reach of the state. The sharing of emotion concerns political theorists, however, who worry that judgment can be swamped by sentiment, making empathy an unruly or unreliable…
Summoning Sovereignty: Constituent Power and Poetic Prophecy in Ireland's 1916 Proclamation of the Republic
Birth, death and survival: Sources of political renewal in the work of Hannah Arendt and Virgil’s Aeneid
Does death provide a generative force in politics? The great theorist of political founding, Hannah Arendt, insisted that birth, not death, equipped us for the task of beginning, and pointed to Virgil’s Aeneid as a work that best understood this process. But the Aeneid is a work primarily concerned with sacrifice, suffering and death, and it highlights the losses that must be endured, the disorientation to be overcome, before renewal arrives. Rec…
The power of voice: Bots, democracy and the problem of political ventriloquism
This paper considers the problem of political ventriloquism in a digital age. Democracy relies on the authority of collective voice conceived of as constituent power or vox populi but new technologies that mimic human participation can divert public debate, posing a threat to authenticity and accountability. If ventriloquism primarily serves to manipulate the gullible, the practice should be curtailed. However, this neglects the power of ventrilo…
In the eyes of all mankind: Interests and independence in Vattelian statehood
Emer de Vattel's argument that states should be understood as free and independent bodies operating as moral persons in the international sphere is credited with launching a doctrine of sovereignty that hardened national borders against external interference or obligation. It also helped launch one of the world's first modern states through its influence on the American founding. Vattel's theory rests upon the critical role of judgment, specifica…
Strange Figures: The Female Founders at the Margins of Hannah Arendt's Theory of Political Beginning
Without females included in the ranks of political founder, Hannah Arendt's theory of political beginning looks dangerously romanticized. Arendt's founder is someone who rises to the challenge of their times, diverting history and renewing public spirit in the process. But despite a methodology that called for recovering the “rich and strange” from the past Arendt does not address the female founders that populate the myths and traditions she cit…
Political science (19 works) · Law (18 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Politics (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works)