Nina Witoszek
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1939030 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nina Witoszek |
| PRENOMES | Nina |
| SOBRENOME | Witoszek |
| ASSINATURA | WITOSZEK N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5354-4664 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Narodziny humanisty. Doświadczenie „teatru życia codziennego” i „instytucji totalnych” w pracach i biografii Ervinga Goffmana
The article is a pioneering attempt to show the close connections between the works of the great luminary of sociology, Erving Goffman, and his life journey – from a “rational scientist” to an “empathetic humanist.” The authors discuss Goffman’s key concepts, such as the “theatre of life”, “stigma,” and “total institutions,” and link them to his personal experiences: his status as an Other, his mastery of the art of pretending, and his response t…
Happiness Maximization Is a Weird Way of Living
Psychological science tends to treat subjective well-being and happiness synonymously. We start from the assumption that subjective well-being is more than being happy to ask the fundamental question: What is the ideal level of happiness? From a cross-cultural perspective, we propose that the idealization of attaining maximum levels of happiness may be especially characteristic of Western, educated, industrial, rich, and democratic (WEIRD) societ…
Humanism Under Siege
The article interprets the crisis of liberal democracy in the 21st century as the result of an ongoing, dual revolution of dignity. One such revolution is the work of “humanist outliers”: small groups and individuals dedicated to compassionate social emancipation. Thus anti-authoritarian revolutions like that of Solidarity in Poland (1980–81) succeed in large part thanks to cultural and political innovations springing from the work of such small …
Re-enchanting Modernity in the East and West
This symposium offers EEPS audience insights to the process of peer review to which manuscripts submitted to the journal are subjected. It is composed of the original paper (titled “Re-enchanting Modernity in the East and West: Comparative Perspectives on the Legacy of 1968”), reviews and additional comments by the three reviewers, and the author’s response. It illustrates the variety of criteria typically used by reviewers – and editors – in the…
The Ecological Ethics of Nordic Children’s Tales
For decades now, environmental philosophers from Arne Næss to Freya Mathews have dreamt of environmental ethics that “make things happen.” We contend such ethics can be found in Nordic children’s tales—those scriptures of moral guidance, and influential propellers of environmental action. In this essay we discuss the moral-imaginative worlds of fictitious in Nordic children’s tales, choosing some of the most canonical stories of the Nordics as ou…
An Introduction to Seshat
This article introduces the Seshat: Global History Databank, its potential, and its methodology. Seshat is a databank containing vast amounts of quantitative data buttressed by qualitative nuance for a large sample of historical and archaeological polities. The sample is global in scope and covers the period from the Neolithic Revolution to the Industrial Revolution. Seshat allows scholars to capture dynamic processes and to test theories about t…
The Competitive Advantage of Collaboration – Throwing New Light on The Nordic Model
In one of the most influential contributions to modern political economy, Hall and Soskice have launched a distinction between ‘liberal’ and ‘coordinated’ market economies, placing the Nordic countries firmly in the latter category. We argue that, while the H&S distinction may serve classificatory purposes, seeing the Nordic model in terms of ‘coordinated capitalism’ blurs the distinctive features of the Nordic countries’ success as productive an…
The Joys and Hazards of Synergic Research, or Taking the Sin out of Synergy
Author(s): Witoszek, Nina; Midttun, Atle | Abstract: Response to Lempert: A Response to Multipath Forecasting
Deep Ecology
This introductory chapter interrogates the intellectual robustness and mobilizing potential of Arne Naess’s deep ecology in the 21st century. Our contention is that deep ecology is not a spent force, as some influential Western philosophers argue in this volume. On the contrary, ecophilosophy has left a legacy which remains a significant part of the ongoing cultural innovation for a sustainable future . As several essays in this collection show, …
Teaching sustainability in Norway, China and Ghana
The article compares how the UN-initiated education for sustainable development (ESD) has fared in three seemingly dissimilar countries: Norway, a wealthy, ‘post-materialist’ liberal democracy, Ghana, a developing democratic country, and China, a fast catching-up, centrally- steered economy. The study – based on an analysis of national ESD programmes, schoolbooks and qualitative interviews with teachers and students – discusses some of the pivota…
Ecomodernity as a Cultural Programme
This paper conceptualizes the diverse responses and solutions to the environmental and climate crisis as a battle of modernities, where a well-entrenched and efficient ‘carbon modernity’ is increasingly challenged by alternative visions of social well-being and industrial development. This ‘battle’ shows that, although the twenty-first century’s scenarios of a sustainable future may vary, the common rallying cry is most often for the mobilization…
Leonardo da Vinci Our Contemporary
This essay polemicizes with a number of historians who claim that the European Renaissance has either “failed” or “continues to recede from us at an accelerating rate” (Burke 1998: 41; Barzun 2000; Bouswma 2002). I explore and revalue the ideas and representations of Renaissance humanism and the way they become manifest in the work of Leonardo da Vinci. I argue three main points: Firstly, that there is a fascinating, and much underestimated, ecol…
Religion and Ecomodernity
Religion has long stood at the center of debates on the environmental crisis of late modernity. Some have portrayed it as a malade imaginaire, providing divine legitimation for human domination and predatory exploitation of natural resources; others have looked up to it as an inspirational force that is the essential condition of planetary revival. There is an ongoing battle of the books on the salience of religion in the modern world. Some trend…
The World after Thor Heyerdahl
Archaeology has been traditionally looked at as a science which reconstructs human history and evolution through the study of material objects. This contribution revisits archaeology as a discipline which revives national pasts, and thus partakes in generating myths of roots and identity. In the world ‘after Thor Heyerdahl' – plunged in environmental crisis and haunted by economic collapse of many communities – the hunger for these myths is bound…
Brundtland Report Revisited
In the spirit of the Brundtland Report, the article singles out not only the profound institutional and cultural barriers to accomplishing a more sustainable development, but reflects on several of the necessary radical steps and strategies: the transformation of capitalism, the transformation of politics and regulation, the restructuring of science and education, and a revolution in culture. The article points out several untapped forms of educa…
Friendship and Revolution in Poland
Solidarity, the movement that toppled communism in Poland, was preceded and prepared by a still earlier opposition to East‐bloc oppression – The Committee for Workers’ Defense (KOR), which operated from 1976. The Polish government, busily engaged in the suppression of workers’ strikes, came up against a clutch of 14 idealist and nonviolent intellectuals who announced their commitment to taking the workers under their protection. KOR used their fr…
Globalization and Sustainability
At the core of this contribution are two questions: 1) Is the vision of sustainable development not just ethically justified and economically viable—but captivating enough to clean poisoned wells and restore the structures of the mind? 2) Is the current religious revival in non-European countries a possible ally—or adversary—of positive globalization? The argument is that among the greatest obstacles to the endeavour of sustainable development is…
The Postmodern Challenge
Preface. Bo STRATH and Nina WITOSZEK: Introduction. POSTMODERNITY EAST AND WEST. Hayden WHITE: Postmodernism and Textual Anxieties. Stjepan MESTROVIC: Will Bosnia Survive Postmodernism? Detlef BRIESEN: The Postmodern Challenge: A Constant Factor of German History in the Last Two Centuries. Wojciech SKALMOWSKI: Literary Deconstruction as a Newspeak. Peter BURKE: Civilization, Discipline, Disorder: Three Case Studies in History and Social Theory. N…
Talking to the Dead
The Desire for Transcendence and Funerary Culture
The Dream of the Biocentric Community and the Structure of Utopias1
This paper examines the ideal of community as imagined by Arne Naess and the Deep Ecology Movement. In particular the authors address such questions as: Is pluralism of lifestyles reconcilable with the main ideas of the biocentric community? Is liberal justice possible within it? And how realistic is the proposal of education towards a 'biocentric identity'? The analysis shows that, while the deep ecological vision is by no means 'fascist' as som…
Arne Naess and the Norwegian Nature Tradition
The current debate on the sources, meaning and implications of Arne Naess's Deep Ecology often refers to Spinoza, Gandhi and Socrates as the main inspirations of his vision. This essay explores the less familiar, Norwegian sources of Næss's thought and its rootedness in the Scandinavian Enlightenment. The context of the native tradition illuminates both the underlying central values of Deep Ecology - and its famous inconsistencies
The Irish Funerary Tradition
Anne O'Connor, The Irish Funerary Tradition, Béaloideas, Iml. 60/61, Finscealta Agus Litriocht: Paipeir a cuireadh I lathair ag an Siompoisiam Nordach-Ceiltech / Legends and Fiction: Papers Presented at the Nordic-Celtic Legend Symposium (1992/1993), pp. 316-317
Teaching sustainability in Norway, China and Ghana
The article compares how the UN-initiated education for sustainable development (ESD) has fared in three seemingly dissimilar countries: Norway, a wealthy, ‘post-materialist’ liberal democracy, Ghana, a developing democratic country, and China, a fast catching-up, centrally- steered economy. The study – based on an analysis of national ESD programmes, schoolbooks and qualitative interviews with teachers and students – discusses some of the pivota…
The World after Thor Heyerdahl
Archaeology has been traditionally looked at as a science which reconstructs human history and evolution through the study of material objects. This contribution revisits archaeology as a discipline which revives national pasts, and thus partakes in generating myths of roots and identity. In the world ‘after Thor Heyerdahl' – plunged in environmental crisis and haunted by economic collapse of many communities – the hunger for these myths is bound…
The Dream of the Biocentric Community and the Structure of Utopias1
This paper examines the ideal of community as imagined by Arne Naess and the Deep Ecology Movement. In particular the authors address such questions as: Is pluralism of lifestyles reconcilable with the main ideas of the biocentric community? Is liberal justice possible within it? And how realistic is the proposal of education towards a 'biocentric identity'? The analysis shows that, while the deep ecological vision is by no means 'fascist' as som…
Arne Naess and the Norwegian Nature Tradition
The current debate on the sources, meaning and implications of Arne Naess's Deep Ecology often refers to Spinoza, Gandhi and Socrates as the main inspirations of his vision. This essay explores the less familiar, Norwegian sources of Næss's thought and its rootedness in the Scandinavian Enlightenment. The context of the native tradition illuminates both the underlying central values of Deep Ecology - and its famous inconsistencies
The Competitive Advantage of Collaboration – Throwing New Light on The Nordic Model
In one of the most influential contributions to modern political economy, Hall and Soskice have launched a distinction between ‘liberal’ and ‘coordinated’ market economies, placing the Nordic countries firmly in the latter category. We argue that, while the H&S distinction may serve classificatory purposes, seeing the Nordic model in terms of ‘coordinated capitalism’ blurs the distinctive features of the Nordic countries’ success as productive an…
Deep Ecology
This introductory chapter interrogates the intellectual robustness and mobilizing potential of Arne Naess’s deep ecology in the 21st century. Our contention is that deep ecology is not a spent force, as some influential Western philosophers argue in this volume. On the contrary, ecophilosophy has left a legacy which remains a significant part of the ongoing cultural innovation for a sustainable future . As several essays in this collection show, …
Ecomodernity as a Cultural Programme
This paper conceptualizes the diverse responses and solutions to the environmental and climate crisis as a battle of modernities, where a well-entrenched and efficient ‘carbon modernity’ is increasingly challenged by alternative visions of social well-being and industrial development. This ‘battle’ shows that, although the twenty-first century’s scenarios of a sustainable future may vary, the common rallying cry is most often for the mobilization…
Brundtland Report Revisited
In the spirit of the Brundtland Report, the article singles out not only the profound institutional and cultural barriers to accomplishing a more sustainable development, but reflects on several of the necessary radical steps and strategies: the transformation of capitalism, the transformation of politics and regulation, the restructuring of science and education, and a revolution in culture. The article points out several untapped forms of educa…
Friendship and Revolution in Poland
Solidarity, the movement that toppled communism in Poland, was preceded and prepared by a still earlier opposition to East‐bloc oppression – The Committee for Workers’ Defense (KOR), which operated from 1976. The Polish government, busily engaged in the suppression of workers’ strikes, came up against a clutch of 14 idealist and nonviolent intellectuals who announced their commitment to taking the workers under their protection. KOR used their fr…
The Irish Funerary Tradition
Anne O'Connor, The Irish Funerary Tradition, Béaloideas, Iml. 60/61, Finscealta Agus Litriocht: Paipeir a cuireadh I lathair ag an Siompoisiam Nordach-Ceiltech / Legends and Fiction: Papers Presented at the Nordic-Celtic Legend Symposium (1992/1993), pp. 316-317
Arne Naess and the Norwegian Nature Tradition
The current debate on the sources, meaning and implications of Arne Naess's Deep Ecology often refers to Spinoza, Gandhi and Socrates as the main inspirations of his vision. This essay explores the less familiar, Norwegian sources of Næss's thought and its rootedness in the Scandinavian Enlightenment. The context of the native tradition illuminates both the underlying central values of Deep Ecology - and its famous inconsistencies
Talking to the Dead
The Desire for Transcendence and Funerary Culture
The Dream of the Biocentric Community and the Structure of Utopias1
This paper examines the ideal of community as imagined by Arne Naess and the Deep Ecology Movement. In particular the authors address such questions as: Is pluralism of lifestyles reconcilable with the main ideas of the biocentric community? Is liberal justice possible within it? And how realistic is the proposal of education towards a 'biocentric identity'? The analysis shows that, while the deep ecological vision is by no means 'fascist' as som…
The Postmodern Challenge
Preface. Bo STRATH and Nina WITOSZEK: Introduction. POSTMODERNITY EAST AND WEST. Hayden WHITE: Postmodernism and Textual Anxieties. Stjepan MESTROVIC: Will Bosnia Survive Postmodernism? Detlef BRIESEN: The Postmodern Challenge: A Constant Factor of German History in the Last Two Centuries. Wojciech SKALMOWSKI: Literary Deconstruction as a Newspeak. Peter BURKE: Civilization, Discipline, Disorder: Three Case Studies in History and Social Theory. N…
Globalization and Sustainability
At the core of this contribution are two questions: 1) Is the vision of sustainable development not just ethically justified and economically viable—but captivating enough to clean poisoned wells and restore the structures of the mind? 2) Is the current religious revival in non-European countries a possible ally—or adversary—of positive globalization? The argument is that among the greatest obstacles to the endeavour of sustainable development is…
Friendship and Revolution in Poland
Solidarity, the movement that toppled communism in Poland, was preceded and prepared by a still earlier opposition to East‐bloc oppression – The Committee for Workers’ Defense (KOR), which operated from 1976. The Polish government, busily engaged in the suppression of workers’ strikes, came up against a clutch of 14 idealist and nonviolent intellectuals who announced their commitment to taking the workers under their protection. KOR used their fr…
The World after Thor Heyerdahl
Archaeology has been traditionally looked at as a science which reconstructs human history and evolution through the study of material objects. This contribution revisits archaeology as a discipline which revives national pasts, and thus partakes in generating myths of roots and identity. In the world ‘after Thor Heyerdahl' – plunged in environmental crisis and haunted by economic collapse of many communities – the hunger for these myths is bound…
Brundtland Report Revisited
In the spirit of the Brundtland Report, the article singles out not only the profound institutional and cultural barriers to accomplishing a more sustainable development, but reflects on several of the necessary radical steps and strategies: the transformation of capitalism, the transformation of politics and regulation, the restructuring of science and education, and a revolution in culture. The article points out several untapped forms of educa…
Religion and Ecomodernity
Religion has long stood at the center of debates on the environmental crisis of late modernity. Some have portrayed it as a malade imaginaire, providing divine legitimation for human domination and predatory exploitation of natural resources; others have looked up to it as an inspirational force that is the essential condition of planetary revival. There is an ongoing battle of the books on the salience of religion in the modern world. Some trend…
Leonardo da Vinci Our Contemporary
This essay polemicizes with a number of historians who claim that the European Renaissance has either “failed” or “continues to recede from us at an accelerating rate” (Burke 1998: 41; Barzun 2000; Bouswma 2002). I explore and revalue the ideas and representations of Renaissance humanism and the way they become manifest in the work of Leonardo da Vinci. I argue three main points: Firstly, that there is a fascinating, and much underestimated, ecol…
Ecomodernity as a Cultural Programme
This paper conceptualizes the diverse responses and solutions to the environmental and climate crisis as a battle of modernities, where a well-entrenched and efficient ‘carbon modernity’ is increasingly challenged by alternative visions of social well-being and industrial development. This ‘battle’ shows that, although the twenty-first century’s scenarios of a sustainable future may vary, the common rallying cry is most often for the mobilization…
Deep Ecology
This introductory chapter interrogates the intellectual robustness and mobilizing potential of Arne Naess’s deep ecology in the 21st century. Our contention is that deep ecology is not a spent force, as some influential Western philosophers argue in this volume. On the contrary, ecophilosophy has left a legacy which remains a significant part of the ongoing cultural innovation for a sustainable future . As several essays in this collection show, …
Teaching sustainability in Norway, China and Ghana
The article compares how the UN-initiated education for sustainable development (ESD) has fared in three seemingly dissimilar countries: Norway, a wealthy, ‘post-materialist’ liberal democracy, Ghana, a developing democratic country, and China, a fast catching-up, centrally- steered economy. The study – based on an analysis of national ESD programmes, schoolbooks and qualitative interviews with teachers and students – discusses some of the pivota…
The Joys and Hazards of Synergic Research, or Taking the Sin out of Synergy
Author(s): Witoszek, Nina; Midttun, Atle | Abstract: Response to Lempert: A Response to Multipath Forecasting
The Competitive Advantage of Collaboration – Throwing New Light on The Nordic Model
In one of the most influential contributions to modern political economy, Hall and Soskice have launched a distinction between ‘liberal’ and ‘coordinated’ market economies, placing the Nordic countries firmly in the latter category. We argue that, while the H&S distinction may serve classificatory purposes, seeing the Nordic model in terms of ‘coordinated capitalism’ blurs the distinctive features of the Nordic countries’ success as productive an…
An Introduction to Seshat
This article introduces the Seshat: Global History Databank, its potential, and its methodology. Seshat is a databank containing vast amounts of quantitative data buttressed by qualitative nuance for a large sample of historical and archaeological polities. The sample is global in scope and covers the period from the Neolithic Revolution to the Industrial Revolution. Seshat allows scholars to capture dynamic processes and to test theories about t…
Humanism Under Siege
The article interprets the crisis of liberal democracy in the 21st century as the result of an ongoing, dual revolution of dignity. One such revolution is the work of “humanist outliers”: small groups and individuals dedicated to compassionate social emancipation. Thus anti-authoritarian revolutions like that of Solidarity in Poland (1980–81) succeed in large part thanks to cultural and political innovations springing from the work of such small …
Re-enchanting Modernity in the East and West
This symposium offers EEPS audience insights to the process of peer review to which manuscripts submitted to the journal are subjected. It is composed of the original paper (titled “Re-enchanting Modernity in the East and West: Comparative Perspectives on the Legacy of 1968”), reviews and additional comments by the three reviewers, and the author’s response. It illustrates the variety of criteria typically used by reviewers – and editors – in the…
The Ecological Ethics of Nordic Children’s Tales
For decades now, environmental philosophers from Arne Næss to Freya Mathews have dreamt of environmental ethics that “make things happen.” We contend such ethics can be found in Nordic children’s tales—those scriptures of moral guidance, and influential propellers of environmental action. In this essay we discuss the moral-imaginative worlds of fictitious in Nordic children’s tales, choosing some of the most canonical stories of the Nordics as ou…
Happiness Maximization Is a Weird Way of Living
Psychological science tends to treat subjective well-being and happiness synonymously. We start from the assumption that subjective well-being is more than being happy to ask the fundamental question: What is the ideal level of happiness? From a cross-cultural perspective, we propose that the idealization of attaining maximum levels of happiness may be especially characteristic of Western, educated, industrial, rich, and democratic (WEIRD) societ…
Narodziny humanisty. Doświadczenie „teatru życia codziennego” i „instytucji totalnych” w pracach i biografii Ervinga Goffmana
The article is a pioneering attempt to show the close connections between the works of the great luminary of sociology, Erving Goffman, and his life journey – from a “rational scientist” to an “empathetic humanist.” The authors discuss Goffman’s key concepts, such as the “theatre of life”, “stigma,” and “total institutions,” and link them to his personal experiences: his status as an Other, his mastery of the art of pretending, and his response t…
Sociology (17 obras) · Philosophy (14 obras) · Political science (14 obras) · Law (12 obras) · Environmental ethics (11 obras) · Epistemology (9 obras) · Law (9 obras) · History (8 obras) · Philosophy (8 obras) · Aesthetics (7 obras)