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No Means No
Authors: Rao Maithili
Published: August 2023

This chapter highlights some notable films that have responded with a loud ‘No’ to sexual violence that undermines women’s autonomy and dignity. Pink (2016) and Anaarkali of Aarah (2017) are significant films that establish a woman’s right to consent (or not), regardless of her profession, sartorial style, or social ease around men. They correct the decades old subtext underlying man–woman romance in popular films—‘no’ means ‘yes.’ Pink, set among young middle-class single women in Delhi, delivers an indictment of patriarchy through its male protagonist (Amitabh Bachchan, the lawyer). In Anaarkali of Aarah a small town Bhojpuri singer (Swara Bhaskar) calls out sexual violence by a powerful man in full public view and proclaims the importance of consent. These films illustrate that women across social and economic milieus share similar challenges. Two exceptional films from the past have also proclaimed their defiance. Duniya Na Mane (1937) made during the reformist wave in Maharashtra portrays the rebellion of a young girl (Shanta Apte) against her marriage to an elderly widower. Parallel cinema’s Mirch Masala (1987) set in pre-Independence India in rural Gujarat is about the collective action of women who thwart the local Subedar’s unwanted lustful advances. Today’s ‘No’ needs to be seen against the shoddy portrayal of rape in Bollywood and its regressive trope, the deified ‘victim-avenger’ (Insaaf Ka Tarazu, 1980; Angaarey, 1986) which contemporary cinema seems to have discarded. The trajectory towards fresh narratives of women’s autonomy perhaps reflects the gradual evolution of society over time.
The Nature of the Biblical Hebrew Poetic Line
Authors: Grosser Emmylou J.
Published: August 2023

Chapter 3, the heart of this book’s cognitive approach, explores the nature of the line in biblical poetry. The term “line” is defined as the basic unit of structure and rhythm in a versification system. The problem with the term “line” for biblical poetry is that the biblical poetic line is not linear, graphically or conceptually. Biblical poetic lines must be reconceptualized not as straight and parallel but as various kinds of segments that create shapes or figures, the line-groupings of biblical poetry. Biblical poetry is compared with English metrical and free-verse poetry to show how the mental realization of lines differs in these versification systems. In biblical poetry, line structure emerges in the part-whole relationship of the line to the line-grouping, through the mental process of segregating lines and integrating line-groupings.
Biblical Poetry and Prose
Authors: Grosser Emmylou J.
Published: August 2023

Chapter 8 addresses the distinction between verse-poetry and prose in the Bible, as well as aspects of their interrelatedness. The initial section discusses verse and prose as modes of structure and the relationship between verse and poetry. The following two sections address problems with how biblical poetry and prose are often approached: confusion regarding poetic structure and poetic function, related to Roman Jakobson’s approach to parallelism, and the problem of a poetic features approach for identifying biblical poetry. The final three sections consider issues specific to reading actual biblical texts: whether a passage is prose or poetry, the presence of so-called parallelism in biblical narrative, and elevated prose style and the mixing of the structural modes in the prophetic books.
Looking at Faces
Authors: Trigg Stephanie
Published: August 2023

This chapter opens up an inquiry into the changing and conflicted representations of the sensory and perceptual act of ‘looking’ in literary texts in the context of the human face. The face is often seen as signifying humanity; nevertheless, individual faces are inevitably perceived through deeply historicized and culturally specific frameworks, and literary texts involve the reader in the process of reading faces according to changing cognitive, perceptual, and rhetorical conventions. Such changes can be profitably compared and contrasted across different historical periods and cultural contexts. The chapter’s conceptual starting point is the ambiguity between acts of perception (‘looking’) and acts of appearance (‘look’). It subsequently explores the different ways faces can ‘look’ in the medieval discourse of courtly love, early modern and modern understandings of how a courtier should appear in public, and a contemporary representation of the interface between human, animal, and spirit faces in Australian Indigenous literature.
A Sanitary Sense Of Smell
Authors: Kluwick Ursula
Published: August 2023

This chapter focuses on the role of smell in sanitary reform from the 1840s to ‘the Great Stink of London’ in 1858. Sanitary reformers promoted and used smell as an indicator of environmental conditions, as a diagnostic as well as an affective tool. The chapter approaches smell from a new materialist perspective, analysing how insanitary odours functioned also as discursive phenomena. It compares and contrasts olfactory strategies in non-literary sanitary reform documents and in novels to examine what smell reveals about human self-positionings with respect to insanitary environments. Particular attention is paid to how these diverse text types differ in their engagement with the boundary violations of smell as a sense that breaches the borders of the self. This comparative analysis foregrounds the specific contribution of literature, which challenges the distance between sanitary observers and their human as well as more-than-human environment, which non-literary public-health texts strive to uphold.
Reading ‘Ful Savourly’
Authors: Flannery Mary C.
Published: August 2023

This chapter considers the relationship between the sense of taste and good taste—that is, the development and exercise of aesthetic value judgment. It explores the ways in which literary form and literary analysis might be able to shed light on the interrelated histories of the physical sense of taste and the idea of aesthetic judgment at a formative moment in the development of English language and literature: the later Middle Ages. Focusing on Geoffrey Chaucer’s portrayal of an experience of literal or physical taste (Absolon kissing Alison’s arse in The Miller’s Tale), the chapter shows how Chaucer uses narrative verse to depict a brief sensory encounter unfolding in time, and how that painstaking/painful unfolding paints a picture of knowledge being acquired via the senses and invites readers to reflect on what kind of narrative they consider to be in good taste.
Sensology and Enargeia
Authors: Newhauser Richard G.
Published: August 2023

Using sensology to examine feelings produced by the reception of intensely vivid descriptions that early rhetoricians termed the technique of enargeia allows us a degree of specificity about collective responses to the reception of literature within sensory communities, and it provides a channel from sensation to perception that no longer privileges the visual. Focusing on the multisensual in enargeia demonstrates literature’s unique ability to guide the senses in the representation of reality and to create the reader’s intensified presence within that reality. The interconnection between affects, emotions, and the senses can be illustrated in the late fourteenth-century Piers the Plowman’s Crede, which articulates the political charge of appealing to sensory formations in literature. The Lollard networks that read this text participated in the misery and wisdom of its ploughman, forming a sensory community through the presentation of sight and touch in the enargeia of his initial entrance into the poem.
Multisensory Entanglements In Edwidge Danticat’s Claire Of The Sea Light And Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus
Authors: Lobnik Mirja
Published: August 2023

In Edwidge Danticat’s Claire of the Sea Light and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus, renderings of the landscape, in particular the vegetal world, help destabilize culturally mediated understandings of the senses and foreground the biotic contours of perception. This chapter engages with the living essence of the world of vegetal being and with the possibility of a sensuous return to the earth. Informed by the writings of sound scholar Salomé Voegelin, environmental philosopher Michael Marder, and biologist Robin Wall Kimmerer, it draws on the figure of the plant for reimagining subjectivity in terms of explicit conscious agency and becoming attentive to growth—physiological, spiritual, relational. By offering a communal ethics oriented towards the growth and transformation of life and its sharing among sentient, living beings, the chapter foregrounds multisensory environments in human experience and imagination and sets the stage for alternative ways of perceiving the world.
Comparative relatives in German
Authors: Pankau Andreas
Published: August 2023

German possesses a curious type of non-interrogative subordinate clause that seems to have the function of a relative clause but not the form of a relative clause. It has a restricting function but it is introduced by the wh-word wie ‘how’, which is never used as a relative pronoun. In this chapter, I argue on the basis of ten criteria that this hitherto underdescribed type of clause belongs to the category of equative subcomparatives, that is, comparative clauses that compare quantities or qualities of distinct entities and establish identity between the compared qualities or quantities. The relevant identity that is established in this type of clause is one of kinds. The two entities, although distinct, are equated as being kind identical. This property gives this type of clause the flavour of a relative clause, and they are hence referred to as comparative relatives. I develop an analysis for comparative relatives as subcomparatives and discuss some benefits and consequences of this analysis for the movement theory of subcomparatives, left branch extraction, island effects, and antipronominal contexts.
Embedding force and attitude
Authors: Tsai Wei-Tien Dylan
Published: August 2023

This chapter examines a peculiar case of force/attitude embedding, i.e., the non-canonical wh-construals in Chinese and Vietnamese subordinate clauses, and offers a selection-truncation analysis along the line of the Cartographic Approach. This move provides a plausible account of the embeddability of disapproval/whining wh-construals in Mandarin Chinese, which in turn reveals that the root-subordinate asymmetry is not as clear-cut as previously thought, where prominent features such as causality and mirativity play an important role across-the-board. Furthermore, substantial support has been drawn from Vietnamese and Taiwan Southern Min (TSM) from the vantage point of comparative syntax. This line of research may well shed new light on the nature of syntax-pragmatics mapping and advance our understanding of how s-selection and c-selection work together to license syntactic complementation.
Thedoubt-whetherpuzzle
Authors: Uegaki Wataru
Published: August 2023

The predicate doubt exhibits a distinctive selectional restriction: it is compatible with declarative and whether-complements but is incompatible with constituent wh-complements. The interpretation of a whether-complement under doubt is also puzzling, as doubt whether p is almost—but not completely—synonymous with doubt that p. This chapter presents a semantic account of these facts, based on the mechanisms of highlighting and exhaustification. Doubt expresses an existential doxastic attitude toward the negation of the highlighted content of the complement while having presuppositions that are sensitive to the ordinary content of the complement. Since that p and whether p are equivalent in the highlighted content but non-equivalent in the ordinary content, the semantics explains fine-grained differences in interpretations between doubt whether p and doubt that p. Furthermore, due to the absence of a stronger scalemate, the interpretation of doubt that/whether p undergoes strengthening via exhaustification, akin to the behavior of scaleless modals.
Selling Ancestry
Authors: Jettot Stéphane
Published: August 2023

Often quoted but rarely studied in their own right, family directories allow a reconsideration of how ancestry and genealogy became an object of widespread commercialization across the 18th century. They replaced the expensive, locally produced early modern artefacts (tombs, windowpanes, illuminated pedigrees) and by doing so, reached a wide audience of readers in the British Isles and the colonies. From the first Peerage in 1709 to the guidebooks of Debrett’s and Burke’s in the 1830s, the book offers an insight into the cumulative process leading to the creation of hybrid products, at the intersection between court almanacs, county histories, and town directories. Employed by contemporaries as reference tools to navigate through a dynamic and changing society, they should also be used as a means to probe contemporary attitudes towards social status and political events. Published by the most prominent London booksellers who shared their copyrights among themselves, they relied on the considerable involvement of thousands of families in the counties. In their correspondence with publishers, many new and old elites desired to insert their own narrative into a general history of Britain by dispatching documents, quotations, and anecdotes. Based on a unique source-base, this book provides a systematic review of these directories, their production and sale, but also their potential role in shaping the character of social change. It demonstrates the wider ramifications of genealogy and its structural ability to reinvent itself, associate amateurs and antiquarians alike, and thrive on the wavering lines between facts and fiction.
Hundreds of Customers
Authors: Jettot Stéphane
Published: August 2023

The third chapter deals with the ‘Baconian’ knowledge-gathering correspondence networks which publishers established with their customers. It appears that while the social elite gravitated to a more ‘national’ society, many families were far from estranged from their historical localities. Three letter samples are treated separately, as they relate to very different editorial projects and political contexts. Hence, the first Baronetage (1727–41) by Thomas Wotton left two volumes of letters, mostly sent by the northern landed families who had risen to prominence during the Restoration. In 1800–5, William Betham launched a luxury Baronetage that attracted the interest of recent baronets, who owed their elevation to Pitt the Younger. A much larger corpus of 400 correspondents relates to the preparation of the first volumes of John Burke’s History of the Commoners in 1828–9. They belonged to a landed ‘aristocratic class’ whose homogeneity should not be overstated. In their letters, genteel values did not always easily coexist with commercial, colonial, and industrial interests.
Family Ties and Publishers’ Enquiries
Authors: Jettot Stéphane
Published: August 2023

In the early modern period, most families were more likely to refute any involvement in the crafting of their pedigree, while in the eighteenth century, publishers were more likely to stress the participation of the ‘public’. They celebrated the generosity of the household heads who agreed to furnish documents and anecdotes. However, both demographic challenges and individual fallibilities ensured that family memory was not simply provided by the masters of the household alone. More often than not, they failed to answer or decided to redirect enquiries to their uncles, younger brothers, and nephews. Although their contributions were rarely acknowledged, many women were at the centre stage of the publication process, either as the main correspondents or as providers of data to their husbands or sons. Family members would often collaborate in a constructive and affectionate manner as they were linked by mutual obligation and a sense of shared identity. Their letters also betray various degrees of resentments and conflicts in the kinship.
Conclusion
Authors: Jettot Stéphane
Published: August 2023

Genealogies resisted their reduction to mere social-status-signalling documents and generated a growing field of micro-studies in which the diverse motives of individuals, families, and communities should be explored in a more nuanced manner. Differences regarding the content and format of genealogies could be accounted for by divergent rationales, such as specific family expectations and religious and various political agendas. Family directories merit reinstatement into a general narrative from which they were retrospectively ousted. Employed by contemporaries as reference tools to navigate through a dynamic and changing society, they should not be interpreted as signs of a surviving ‘Ancien Régime’. The impulse to recover a sense of place or to claim roots was part and parcel of the commercial and imperial growth. Nor should they be considered an ‘abased’ product from a dying lineage society, since the notion of abasement would imply the pre-existence of an ‘authentic’ genealogical culture.
Laboratory
Authors: Ohlmeyer Jane
Published: August 2023

This chapter examines Ireland as laboratory of and for empire, a place of testing, where some experiments worked and others failed, where some were directed by the Crown or imperial agents and others emerged organically. Section I examines concepts of empire and how Ireland served as a test bed where ethnocentric ideas were worked out and iterated over time in accordance with changing imperial priorities. Building on the discussion of anglicisation in Chapter 2, Section II explores the imprint of Ireland across the governance, policies, and physical landscape of the English empire. Section III looks at how ‘tools of empire’ were trialled in Ireland and then adopted, albeit having been adapted to suit local circumstances, throughout the early modern Anglophone world. In the final two sections arguments developed in early modernity are extended into the modern period using Ireland and India as a case study. Thus the focus of Section IV is on the structural and human links between Ireland and India that continued into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Moving from discussions of being servants of empire, Section V looks briefly at the Irish as subversives within it—how Ireland served as an exemplar for resistance to imperial rule and how a colonised people helped to bring down the British empire.
Kant's Reason
Authors: Schafer Karl
Published: August 2023

Kant’s Reason develops a novel interpretation of Kant’s conception of reason and its philosophical significance, focusing on two claims. First, it argues that Kant presents a powerful model for understanding the unity of theoretical and practical reason as two manifestations of a unified capacity for theoretical and practical understanding (or “comprehension”). This model allows us to do justice to the deep commonalities between theoretical and practical rationality, without reducing either to the other. In particular, through it we see why the activities of both theoretical and practical reason are governed by a version of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and why reason is essentially autonomous. At the same time, Kant’s Reason reads Kant as presenting us with a compelling picture of the role that reason (as a capacity or power) should play in a systematic approach to foundational philosophical questions. In doing so, it argues for an account of the fundamental norms that apply to rational beings that treats as fundamental neither substantive reasons or values nor merely structural rationality, but instead a robust conception of reason as a power or capacity for theoretical and practical understanding. The result is a form of “rational constitutivism,” which contrasts both with the forms of “reasons fundamentalism” that are currently fashionable and the forms of “agency-first constitutivism” that have dominated Kantian metaethics. In this sense, the book’s aim is to vindicate Kant’s insistence that his philosophy represents nothing more or less than reason’s implicit self-understanding coming to explicit and systematic self-consciousness.
Conative Transcendental Arguments and the Question Whether There Can Be External Reasons
Authors: Moore A. W.
Published: August 2023

A characterization of transcendental arguments is proffered whereby they yield conclusions about how things are via intermediate conclusions about how we must think that they are. A variant kind of argument is then introduced. Arguments of this variant kind are dubbed ‘conative’ transcendental arguments: these yield conclusions about how it is desirable for things to be via intermediate conclusions about how we must desire that they are. The prospects for conative transcendental arguments are considered. It is argued that, although they can never be of practical use, they may nevertheless be of use in dissolving certain applications of the debate—initiated by Bernard Williams—about whether anyone can have an ‘external’ reason to do anything, that is to say a reason that is not grounded in some desire of the person’s, in a suitably broad sense of ‘desire’. The relevance of conative transcendental arguments to this debate is that they highlight desires that we cannot help having and with respect to which the debate lacks any suitable focus. In the final section of the essay five conative transcendental arguments deriving from the work of five moral philosophers are briefly considered.
Quasi-Realism and Relativism
Authors: Moore A. W.
Published: August 2023

This essay first appeared as a contribution to a symposium on Simon Blackburn’s book Ruling Passions. In this book Blackburn argues that the quasi-realism that he defends, whereby an ethic reflects the conative states of different people, does not entail that our own ethic is in any interesting sense ‘just’ ours, and so does not, in any interesting sense, involve any relativism. This essay is an attempt to rebut Blackburn’s arguments, while conceding their role in indicating both how carefully the relativism in question needs to be formulated and how important it is not to conflate metaphysical issues with ethical issues. Some comparisons and contrasts are drawn between the ethical quasi-realism under discussion and a modal quasi-realism concerning necessity and possibility. One lesson that emerges is that the relativism in question is partly a matter of the different ethical concepts by which people can live.
Wittgenstein and Infinity
Authors: Moore A. W.
Published: August 2023

The aim of this essay is to give an overview of Wittgenstein’s conception of the infinite. One focus of the essay is Wittgenstein’s rejection of what is dubbed a ‘realist’ model of our idea of the infinite. On this model our idea is the source of beliefs that we have about an independent reality. Another focus is the way in which Wittgenstein’s rejection of this model leads him to reject the idea of the infinite itself as it appears in certain mathematical contexts. It is argued that these two rejections can be uncoupled: abandonment of the realist model of our idea of the infinite is consonant with full endorsement of the use to which mathematicians put the idea. There remains scope for Wittgenstein to take issue, if not with the use to which mathematicians put the idea, then with their choice of language in doing so, something that he has reason to do precisely because this choice encourages adoption of the realist model.
Wittgenstein’s Later Philosophy of Mathematics
Authors: Moore A. W.
Published: August 2023

The aim of this essay is to consider some aspects of Wittgenstein’s (later) philosophy of mathematics. The main focus of the essay is an apparent tension between his philosophy of philosophy, according to which it is not the business of philosophers to criticize actual mathematical practice, and his philosophy of mathematics, whereby he frequently seems to do precisely that. A defence of Wittgenstein is considered that exploits a distinction that he himself draws, within mathematical practice, between the ‘calculus’ and the surrounding ‘prose’: the defence is that the former is all that is strictly immune to criticism, while the latter, which harbours various philosophical confusions, is all that he ever criticizes. But concerns about this distinction are raised, partly in connection with how mathematics is applied. At the end of the essay it is suggested that, if there really is the tension between Wittgenstein’s philosophy of philosophy and his philosophy of mathematics that there appears to be, then the fault may lie with his philosophy of philosophy.
Victimhood, Memory, and Consumerism
Authors: Franko Katja , Goyes David R.
Published: August 2023

Victimhood, Memory, and Consumerism: Profiting from Pablo documents the story of violence that took place in Medellín in the 1980s and 1990s, and critically examines the position of its victims. Drawing on unique empirical material, the book addresses the consequences, for the victims of mass drug violence and for the present nature of the city, of the commercial exploitation of the city’s violent past. The book describes how the city’s suffering has been appropriated by commercial forces to provide entertainment for global audiences. The profiting referred to in the title includes profits made by the global entertainment industry from the immense popularity of narco-series, as well as those made by Medellín’s tourism industry, which offers Escobar-themed tours, souvenirs, and collectibles, as well as less visible profits made by political and social actors who engage in the global mythmaking surrounding Escobar. The book offers a critique of how the global market economy allows unequal narrative power to those engaged in the processes of collective memory construction. Through interviews with those directly affected by drug violence, we show that these cultural forces have immediate symbolic and material consequences. Powerful commercial actors, such as Netflix, have turned one of the main perpetrators of the violence into a global icon. Victims of drug violence, on the other hand, not only face the possibility of their losses being consigned to oblivion, but are also excluded from cosmopolitan notions of justice and struggle against impunity.
A city at war
Authors: Franko Katja , Goyes David R.
Published: August 2023

This chapter’s primary focus is the context of violence in Medellín. We begin with a summary of the violence that has devastated Colombia since the colonial times. We cover the (failed) attempts to build a unified nation-state, the status of Colombia as a neo-colony of the United States, the relationship between state and society, and the forms of inequality and crime experienced by the country’s inhabitants. The goal of this broad contextualization is to explain how the highly unequal structure of Colombian society became a fertile ground for the rise of drug cartels. The chapter then zooms in on the violence perpetrated by the Medellín cartel between 1980 and 2001. Ranging from assassinations to a plane bombing, to daily murders, the acts of violence outlined in this chapter paint a portrait of the reign of terror that turned Medellín into the most violent city in the world. Drawing on a database of news reports of violent events connected to drug cartels in the city along with an archival study of the events, we map the damage wreaked by narco-violence on the city’s daily life, the social interactions of its inhabitants, and the country’s legal and democratic institutions. Using the voices of Medellín’s inhabitants, most of whom were victims of narco-violence, the chapter provides a sensorial account of what it was like to live in a city at war.
Introduction
Authors: Davis Ronald , Madaus Stephan , Marcucci Monica , Mevorach Irit , Mokal Riz , Romaine Barbara , Sarra Janis , Tirado Ignacio
Published: August 2023

Financial institutions provide key services for any economy; however, they do encounter financial distress, and when their activities and assets cross borders, there is need for an effective set of mechanisms to preserve value where possible and to devise a strategy for resolution, including recovery and liquidation. This chapter sketches the way that finance, financial intermediation, and financial distress have travelled across political borders. The chapter also introduces the gap in cross-border cooperation amongst resolution authorities. A resolution strategy concerning a distressed institution with stakeholders, activities, and/or assets in different jurisdictions is likely to be credible and viable—not least in the context of a financial sector crisis—if the effects of measures taken are sufficiently certain, abroad as much as home. The chapter argues that the efficacy of the cross-border resolution framework depends on authorities who trust and cooperate with each other, and who understand key resolution measures and why some such measures may appropriately be deployed in relation to a particular distressed institution. The approach proposed is likely to encourage the adoption of tools and protocols by incentivizing resolution authorities to communicate and cooperate. This chapter sets the stage for the rest of the book.
The Application of the Regulatory Landscape (II)—Emerging Models
Authors: Davis Ronald , Madaus Stephan , Marcucci Monica , Mevorach Irit , Mokal Riz , Romaine Barbara , Sarra Janis , Tirado Ignacio
Published: August 2023

This chapter covers the banking systems of the world’s most important emerging jurisdictions, either because they have the largest banking sector (China), because of the large population and growth potential of the economy (India), or because they represent regions of the world where economic development is likely to accelerate in the near future (Africa and Latin America). The chapter provides a high-level overview of the factual and legal situation of representative banking sectors. Our country examples are representative of frameworks in these regions and are sufficiently descriptive to be able to appreciate the challenges for cross-border resolution. The chapter provides overviews of the different regions and pays particular attention to the regional cross-border activity and the cooperation agreements existing at present.
The Demon Inside
Authors: Soon Isaac T.
Published: August 2023

This chapter argues that Paul’s angel of Satan would have been understood to be a demonic force that inhabitates his body with the holy spirit in order to perfect God’s power in him. It argues that although transmundane spirits have different names like spirit, demon, or angel, for Paul’s hearers the expression ‘an angel of Satan’ describing his thorn in the flesh would be indistinguishable from a demonic force. The chapter analyses whether Paul thinks demons can inhabit believer’s bodies, especially given the presence of God’s holy spirit. It proposes that despite Paul’s prohibitions against fellowshipping with demonic forces, the angel of Satan in Paul is a divinely granted exception.
A Bestial Glans
Authors: Soon Isaac T.
Published: August 2023

This chapter argues that Paul’s circumcision departed from the established male genital ideal widely held in the ancient Greek and Roman world, the ideal of having foreskin. Non-Jews viewed the mutilation of the foreskin as a barbarian act that altered the ‘natural’ features of the male genitalia. The exposure of the penile glans was a powerful act used to ward off the evil eye, and was synonymous with hypersexuality. In ancient visual culture, the placement of circumcision on barbarian bodies (e.g. Egyptians) as well as hybrid human creatures like centaurs suggests that ancient Romans viewed circumcision as a physical impairment worthy only of the uncivilized.
Conclusion
Authors: DeFalco Amelia
Published: August 2023

Curious Kin concludes by testing the limits of posthuman care’s conceptual capacity, scrutinizing its implied biocentric parameters and the ethical and political implications of theorizing care beyond life. Examining Louise Erdrich’s “The Stone,” which imagines care beyond (biocentric) life, the conclusion considers the degree to which a posthuman theory of care demands a critical re-evaluation of “life” that moves beyond anthropocentric humanist definitions to register the relational import of posthumous posthuman being. Considering nonhuman, nonliving, inanimate care in light of Indigenous knowledges and critical life scholarship that contest the Anglo-European scientific and philosophical contours of life and being, the conclusion offers posthumous model of posthuman care uninhibited by the conventions of normative filial affiliations and biocentric limitations to ethical consideration.
Natural Law
Authors: Coyle Sean
Published: August 2023

Chapter II offers a definition of natural law; it discusses the basis of natural law in reason and in nature; it further identifies the starting-points of natural law and its theory in the work of Aquinas; it provides some criticism of Finnis’s account, and sets out the purposes of natural law theory as aside from those of ethics; finally it provides some discussion of Suarez’s work.
Morality and Human Good
Authors: Coyle Sean
Published: August 2023

Chapter III discusses the nature of goodness for human beings, and how this is linked to perfectibility, rejecting the idea that moral duty is grounded in reciprocity. The chapter sets out a theory of core morality and distinguishes this from the general morality of a community and reasserts goodness as the basis of moral action. It considers a response to Plato’s Callicles along the lines suggested by Aristotle.
The Common Good
Authors: Coyle Sean
Published: August 2023

Chapter V distinguishes the common good from any thought of ‘greater’ good i.e. accumulative theories; it further discusses the relationship of individual good to common good, and considers the state’s role in fostering the common good. It questions the theory of private property and considers the international dimension to the common good.
What Is Neopragmatism?
Authors: Gert Joshua
Published: August 2023

This chapter provides a general overview of neopragmatism, which is a general view of way language functions. Beginning with some remarks about its historical roots, the chapter presents and explains a number of neopragmatism’s distinctive features. Chief among these is that it replaces an emphasis on identifying the referents of words in language with an emphasis on the fact that language is a naturalistic phenomenon: a rule-governed practice of producing and responding to sounds and marks for primarily social purposes. Other features discussed include certain restrictions on the sorts of theoretical starting points that it allows itself. The chapter also stresses the neopragmatist’s overarching goal of demystifying the areas that have traditionally captivated metaphysicians, its deflationary views of truth and reference, and its distinctive metaphysical quietism.
A Neopragmatist Treatment of Causation and Laws of Nature
Authors: Roberts John T.
Published: August 2023

This chapter presents a new neopragmatist account of laws of nature and causation (both singular and general). The central concept in this account is that of an effective method, which is (roughly) a way of promoting some practical end. Laws of nature are true regularities to which there is no effective method for producing counterinstances; causal relations reflect the means-end relations found in effective methods. Effectiveness of methods itself is to be understood in terms of what someone does when they attribute effectiveness to a method—in particular, in terms of how they thereby modify the social practice of assigning responsibility for outcomes to agents.
What Is Linguistic Interpretation?
Authors: Zalabardo José L.
Published: August 2023

This chapter presents an account of what makes meaning ascriptions have the meaning they have (their meaning grounds) in terms of the procedures that regulate their acceptance. The characterization of the procedures that play this role takes as its starting point the notion of Radical Interpretation, or Translation, as developed by W. V. O. Quine and Donald Davidson. On this basic proposal, meaning ascriptions have the meaning they have by virtue of the fact that their acceptance is regulated by the method of Radical Interpretation. This starting point is modified in important ways. The meaning-grounding procedure that’s put forward in the end combines a projection criterion (favouring interpretations that ascribe to speakers the beliefs that we would have in their epistemic situation), a familiarity criterion (favouring interpretations that use as referents properties corresponding to concepts that can be easily constructed in terms of our atomic concepts), and non-verbal evidence for belief ascriptions.
Pragmatism in Practice
Authors: Blackburn Simon
Published: August 2023

How might our very general theoretical views—neopragmatism, as it might be, or metaphysical realism—affect our behavior or our political views? One avenue of such influence runs from the insuperable epistemological obstacles that an exaltedly metaphysical theory raises, and lead to a skepticism that leave us without any guardrails. But pragmatic views, with their dismissal of the cold marble of metaphysical truth, can sometimes lead to a similar sense of unshackling. This chapter describes one such sad case: that of Bruno de Finetti, whose pragmatism obstructed the formation of good principles of politics and ethics. It then turns to the more positive case of Ramsey where it aided the methodology of empirical judgements of chance. The chapter ends by considering whether there is as close a relationship between democracy and pragmatism as some recent writers have maintained.
Pragmatism and the Prudential Good
Authors: Heney Diana
Published: August 2023

The question of what makes a life go well for the person living it is a perennial philosophical concern. It is also, as pragmatist C. I. Lewis suggests, an existential predicament: “How to cook up a good life, out of whatever ingredients, or of the ingredients found in the cupboard, is indeed the practical problem of every man. But it would be an utterly hopeless problem if he did not know what manner of thing he was wishing to achieve” (1970 [1950]). In this chapter, I demonstrate that methodological pragmatism offers a productive approach for questions about well-being—that thing we are wishing to achieve—and offers us preliminary answers through its vindication of a form of objectivism.
Metempsychosis, Sappho, and Adultery Laws
Authors: Thorsen Thea S.
Published: August 2023

This chapter argues that several moments in the prolific literary career of Constance de Salm (1767–1845), who was also known by the surnames Théis and Pipelet, can be identified as ‘Ovidian’. Salm was very well educated and knew and referred to Ovid in her writings. In this chapter, different works by Salm are called upon to frame relevant moments in her career, which strikingly evoke a range of typically Ovidian themes. As argued in this chapter, these themes include metempsychosis (the Metamorphoses and Le Bouton de rose), Sappho (Heroides 15 and the play Sapho), and adultery laws (Ars amatoria and Épître adressée à L’empereur Napoléon). The chapter concludes that that the two, as poets, share a strikingly similar courage, which might translate as feminism, even in the case of Ovid, especially when his legacy is regarded from the vantage point of Constance de Salm’s literary career.
Playful Metamorphoses
Authors: Illingworth James
Published: August 2023

This essay traces the influence of Ovid on the works of George Sand (1804–76). It begins with an analysis of her autobiography Histoire de ma vie (1854–5), arguing that the mythic being that Sand describes inventing in her youth, Corambé, demonstrates a strong Ovidian influence. Assuming many forms and appearing varyingly as both male and female, Corambé is a metamorphic being that exists beyond gender, representing a rejection of binary modes of thinking. It is therefore simultaneously playful and political. Moreover, Sand’s autobiography explicitly connects Corambé with her emergence as a writer. Placing this being at the heart of Sand’s poetics, this essay then takes Sand’s fairy tale Histoire du véritable Gribouille (1850) as a case study, one that reflects the playful Corambé through its metamorphosing characters and its political message rejecting bourgeois, paternalist materialism. Attending to Sand’s Ovidian affinities reveals a different, more experimental side to Sand’s writing than is usually acknowledged, gesturing towards a mode of writing that is both aesthetically playful and politically engaged.
Cahun
Authors: Burke Catherine
Published: August 2023

This chapter recuperates Claude Cahun as important in the French conception of Ovid. Largely overlooked in her own era, Cahun is enjoying somewhat of a renaissance, with her Wikipedia page identifying her as a ‘queer pioneer’. The work of Cahun, at turns a visual artist or a literary one, has rarely been studied as a cohesive œuvre. I (re)turn to her writings in a balanced approach that sees the text as a visual companion to the image and vice-versa, and within this analysis it is her text Héroïnes, and not the critically favoured Aveux non avenus, which acts as the pivotal literary complement to her photographic archive. Drawing on both Ovid’s Heroides and Metamorphoses, Cahun exploits the traditional literary form as well as the emerging medium of photography to add her own unique voice to Ovidian reception. Under this perspective, Cahun becomes a modern-day Tiresias, whose work encapsulates voices of the past and prefigures those of the future. Under her pivotal Tiresian gaze, Cahun advocates for the voice of the creative individual, freeing both herself and others from the binary restrictions of gender categorization.
Kristeva’s Ovidian World
Authors: Hamel Kathleen
Published: August 2023

Julia Kristeva considers that writing fiction can be a form of psychoanalysis. This is evident in Le Vieil Homme et les loups (1991), an autofictional retelling of the events surrounding the death of her father in communist Bulgaria. In this detective novel, Kristeva’s traumatic experiences are interwoven with a tale of an old man whose world is threatened by hordes of wolves. Infused with a sense of displacement, uncertainty, and instability, Le Vieil Homme draws on Ovid’s Metamorphoses to highlight the dangers to society posed by increasing indifference and banalization. By offering a close reading of the novel, this chapter responds to Kristeva’s request that the reader delve deeply rather than giving it a superficial reading. Her wide use of intertextual references and practices is in part self-referential, a reminder of her role in developing intertextuality. This intertextuality allows Kristeva to be inspired by old forms to tell of something new, thereby amplifying and enriching the novel’s meaning and import. An allegorical social commentary, the implications of which still resonate today, Le Vieil Homme reflects Kristeva’s fears for Western civilization, coloured by her formative experiences in Eastern Europe, and exemplified by the dangers threatening the continued existence of the Latin language and its poets. However, by employing Ovid’s enduring words and myths, Kristeva provides a chink of optimism. Adopting the great poet’s mantle, she offers a potent demonstration of his lasting staying-power, giving witness to the final word of the Metamorphoses, ‘Vivam’.
‘Il faut raconter mon long parcours’
Authors: Cox Fiona
Published: August 2023

This chapter explores the presence of Ovid within writing that examines France’s postcolonial legacy, since it analyses the works of the French writer, Marie NDiaye, who writes of the connections between France and Senegal, and those of the French writer of Vietnamese origin, Linda Lê, who came to France at the age of fourteen. Inevitably exile is a dominant theme within these texts, though both writers are also preoccupied by the potential for metamorphosis and the power of language. Nevertheless, the emphasis laid upon homelessness, a lack of belonging, and exile establishes powerful connections to today’s refugee crisis in Europe, so that it is instructive to consider how Marie Cosnay employs Ovid to give voice to the ongoing horrors.
Epilogue
Authors: Cosnay Marie
Published: August 2023

In this creative-critical hybrid piece, Marie Cosnay, translator of Ovid’s Metamorphoses and author of the novel, Des métamorphoses, uses her experience of the Covid-19 pandemic—the temporal dislocation of lockdown, the visceral confrontation of human and animal, the inescapability of bodies and of contact and contagion—as a way into thinking about how the lines that separate man, animal, and nature in Ovid’s Metamorphoses are blurred. Zooming in on the story of Lycaon in particular, and reflecting on her experiences of translating and teaching Ovid, Cosnay shows how his poem ‘lives’ in a pandemic-inflicted time of ecological crisis, not in the sense of the immortality conferred to this masterpiece, but in its pertinent scrutiny of the relationships between life forms (and particularly the question ‘what can we eat’?). In Cosnay’s writing, Ovid’s poem reminds us of the ethical imperatives entailed by the shared destiny of man and planet.
Immigration Act 1971
Authors: Allen Frances , Gasparro Julia , Swaney Jo , Phelan Margaret , Gillespie James
Published: August 2023

This chapter introduces provisions within the Immigration Act 1971. It starts with the regulation of entry into and stay in the United Kingdom, citing that people with the right of abode in the United Kingdom shall be free to live in and to come and go into and from. However, the Secretary of State has the power to remove the right to abode of a specified person. The chapter then details electronic travel authorisations and the provisions surrounding asylum seekers trying to enter the United Kingdom. It also details the general provisions for regulation and control, citing how the Secretary of State can enact changes required in the circumstances.
British Overseas Territories Act 2002
Authors: Allen Frances , Gasparro Julia , Swaney Jo , Phelan Margaret , Gillespie James
Published: August 2023

This chapter details the provisions of the British Overseas Territories Act 2002. It elaborates on the provision concerning the name ‘British overseas territories’ and British citizenship so far as relating to the British overseas territories. A person with British Dependent Territories citizenship has been renamed as a British overseas territories citizen. Additionally, a person shall become a British citizen on the commencement of this section if they were born on or after 26 April 1969 and before 1 January 1983 or if they were born to a woman who at the time was a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by virtue of her birth in British Indian Ocean Territory. The chapter cites the enactment of repeals to the Act.
Practice Directions
Authors: Allen Frances , Gasparro Julia , Swaney Jo , Phelan Margaret , Gillespie James
Published: August 2023

This chapter covers the immigration judicial review in the Immigration and Asylum Chamber of the Upper Tribunal. In the case of proceedings transferred to the Tribunal by a court, the Tribunal will expect the applicant to have complied with all relevant Practice Directions. In the event of non-compliance, the Tribunal will make directions under rule 27(1)(b) as necessary and which may involve applying provisions of these Practice Directions. The chapter discusses the general provisions of the application to bring judicial review proceedings, such as the form of application. It also explains the request for urgent consideration for permission to bring judicial review proceedings.