Book Symposium Research Articles

From the Editor

This issue of Projections features an impressive diversity of research questions and research methods. In our first article, Timothy Justus investigates the question of how film music represents meaning from three distinct methodological perspectives—music theory, cognitive psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. Following a model of naturalized aesthetics proposed by Murray Smith in Film, Art, and the Third Culture (see the book symposium in Projections 12.2), Justus argues for the importance of “triangulating” the methods and approaches of each field—more generally, of the humanities, the behavioral sciences, and the natural sciences. Our second article, by Gal Raz, Giancarlo Valente, Michele Svanera, Sergio Benini, and András Bálint Kovács, also explores the effects fostered by a specific formal device of cinema—in this case, shot-scale. And again, distinct research methods are put to complementary use. Raz and colleagues’ starting point is a desire to empirically test a hypothesis advanced by art historians Alois Riegl and Heinrich Wölfflin. To do this, they apply a machine-learning model to neurological data supplied by a set of fMRI scans. Methodology is the explicit topic of our third article, by Jose Cañas-Bajo, Teresa Cañas-Bajo, Juri-Petri Valtanen, and Pertti Saariluoma, who outline a new mixed (qualitative and quantitative) method approach to the study of how feature films elicit viewer interest.

Material deceptions and the qualities of time

Material deceptions and the qualities of time

Making sense of moral education: guest editor’s preface to a book symposium on A Theory of Moral Education by Michael Hand

Any theory, so the conventional understanding in academia testifies, is usually solidified (to a large extent) by the secondary literature it generates. The feedback from the scholarly community on...

Replies

Philosophy and Phenomenological ResearchVolume 99, Issue 2 p. 514-524 Book Symposium Replies Philip J. Ivanhoe, Philip J. Ivanhoe Sungkyunkwan UniversitySearch for more papers by this author Philip J. Ivanhoe, Philip J. Ivanhoe Sungkyunkwan UniversitySearch for more papers by this author First published: 16 September 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12633Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume99, Issue2September 2019Pages 514-524 RelatedInformation

ETHICS, COLLECTIVES, AND DRUGS

ETHICS, COLLECTIVES, AND DRUGS

Book Symposium onNested Security: Author’s Response

Book Symposium on<i>Nested Security</i>: Author’s Response

Evaluating Bruce Ackerman’s “Pathways to Constitutionalism” and India as an exemplar of “revolutionary constitutionalism on a human scale”

In this invited contribution to a book symposium organised by I.CON on Bruce Ackerman's new book project, I seek to provide an overview of his book project series while situating it within his broader contributions to constitutional law and politics. My appraisal of the book series is broadly positive, as I find the scale, ambition, and methodological approach that he deploys to be impressive. In a later section, I examine his analysis of the Indian constitutional experience which is one of the main planks for his broader argument relating to “revolutionary constitutionalism.” Here, I offer three critical points, which contest some of Ackerman’s views and advance a different perspective on some of his claims about the Indian constitutional experience.

Nonalienation among peoples: Symposium on Catherine Lu’s Justice and Reconciliation in World Politics

ABSTRACT This contribution gives an appreciation of Catherine Lu’s book Justice and Reconciliation in World Politics and introduces some concepts and motifs, themes and arguments that play a role in the discussion by the three commentators Reinhard Wolf, Alasia Nuti, and Kimberly Hutchings in this book symposium. The discussion adds to the development of the categories of structural injustice, alienation, and reconciliation, and especially of the systematic relations among them. I conclude that the notion of nonalienation as reconciliation in world order will be worth investigating even independently of questions of historical injustice.

Just Because It’s a Phobia Doesn’t Mean You Shouldn’t Be Afraid

This is a book symposium contribution, on David Estlund’s forthcoming Utopophobia: On the Limits (If Any) of Political Philosophy, tentatively forthcoming in Philosophical Studies. I argue – in some parts, following my “Against Utopianism: Noncompliance and Multiple Agents”, in others going beyond that paper – that despite being right about some central issues (most centrally, that a judgment that society ought to act in some way is not refuted by the fact that the society won’t), still Estlund fails to exonerate his utopianism: I argue that Estund’s arguments purportedly showing the priority of aspirational theory over concessive theory fail; I argue against Estlund’s attempts to establish the practical value of ideal theory (conceding, of course, that it may have intellectual value, and that this may be value enough); and I argue that Estlund misdiagnoses some central anti-utopian sentiments, and that those, when properly diagnosed, are well-taken. I conclude with a diagnostic hypothesis of my own – that what motivates Eslund, despite protests to the contrary, is an unsupportable optimism about humanity.

SCIENTISM, ONLINE SPIRITUALITY, AND (MIS)READING EVOLUTION

SCIENTISM, ONLINE SPIRITUALITY, AND (MIS)READING EVOLUTION

Editor's Note

This issue includes our First Book Symposium, a new feature for Social Analysis that replaces the book reviews section we have had for a number of years. In each regular issue of the journal, we shall be devoting this feature to a single book written by a first-time author, which in one way or another develops new potentials for anthropological analysis (this being the core intellectual mission of our journal). The book will be subjected to sustained critique by relevant scholars, to which the author will then respond. We hope that this more focused approach will allow for a deeper engagement with emerging currents of analysis than what the shorter book review format allows, providing also a platform for books by scholars who are not already established and well known.

First Book Symposium

This issue inaugurates the First Book Symposium as a feature in the pages of Social Analysis. Instead of including ourselves among the journals that devote a section to book reviews in their regular issues, as we have done for many years, we feel that a more focused approach is better suited to our goal of exploring the potentials of anthropological analysis. Adopting from other journals the format of the book symposium, in which a single book is subjected to sustained critical engagement by relevant scholars, we devote it in particular to discussion of books by first-time authors. Our aim is, on the one hand, to give a platform to scholars who are not already widely known and established and, on the other, to acquaint our readers with ideas and analytical approaches that are fresh.Knut Christian Myhre, Returning Life: Language, Life Force and History in Kilimanjaro (New York: Berghahn Books, 2018), 336 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index. eBook. eISBN 9781785336669.

Intimacy in Bordered Globalisation: Theory and Method

This essay is part of a book symposium in the International Journal of Law in Context on Daphna Hacker's Law and Society Association award-winning book Legalized Families in the Era of Bordered Globalization (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017).

How Propaganda Works: An Introduction

Abstract This is the editor’s introduction to the book symposium on Jason Stanley’s influential book How Propaganda Words (Oxford University Press, 2015). After a few brief remarks situating the book in the landscape of current analytic philosophy, I offer a detailed presentation of each chapter of the book, in order to familiarize the reader with its main tenets and with the author’s argumentative strategy. I flag the issues that the contributors to the symposium discuss, and describe their main points. I end with expressing hope that the symposium will help continue the conversation around ideology and propaganda within analytic philosophy.

How to Do Things with Philosophy

European Journal of PhilosophyVolume 26, Issue 4 p. 1410-1416 BOOK SYMPOSIUM: NANCY BAUER'S HOW TO DO THINGS WITH PORNOGRAPHY How to Do Things with Philosophy Amia Srinivasan, Corresponding Author amia.srinivasan@gmail.com St John's College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Correspondence Amia Srinivasan, St John's College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Email: amia.srinivasan@gmail.comSearch for more papers by this author Amia Srinivasan, Corresponding Author amia.srinivasan@gmail.com St John's College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Correspondence Amia Srinivasan, St John's College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Email: amia.srinivasan@gmail.comSearch for more papers by this author First published: 19 December 2018 https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12409 Nancy Bauer was invited to submit a reply and offered several extensions to the deadline for doing so. After considerable delay to publication, and by mutual agreement among the editors, critics, and author, it was decided that these three symposium pieces would be published on their own. –the Editors Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume26, Issue4December 2018Pages 1410-1416 RelatedInformation

Replies to Cepollaro and Torrengo, Táíwò, and Amoretti

Abstract In this short piece belonging to a book symposium on my book How Propaganda Works (Oxford University Press, 2015), I reply to the objections, comments and suggestions provided by the contributors: Bianca Cepollaro and Giuliano Torrengo, Olúfémi O. Táíwò, and Maria Cristina Amoretti. I show how some of the objections can be accommodated by the framework adopted in the book, but also how various comments and suggestions have contributed to the development, in future work, of several threads pertaining to the general view put forward in How Propaganda Works.

Constitutional Unamendability – Four Observations

Abstract This is a response to the contributions of Professors Lech Garlicki and Zofia A Garlicka-Sowers, Vicki C Jackson, Sabrina Ragone and Adrienne Stone, in a book symposium on Yaniv Roznai, Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments: The Limits of Amendment Powers (OUP 2017).

Real predicates and existential judgements

European Journal of PhilosophyVolume 26, Issue 3 p. 1153-1158 BOOK SYMPOSIUM: NICHOLAS STANG'S KANT'S MODAL METAPHYSICS Real predicates and existential judgements† Ralf M. Bader, Ralf M. Bader ralf.bader@gmail.com Merton College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UKSearch for more papers by this author Ralf M. Bader, Ralf M. Bader ralf.bader@gmail.com Merton College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UKSearch for more papers by this author First published: 24 September 2018 https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12355Citations: 1 †Thanks to Ian Proops for helpful discussions. Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume26, Issue3September 2018Pages 1153-1158 RelatedInformation

Tragedy and Liberalism

Modern TheologyVolume 34, Issue 2 p. 252-257 Book Symposium: Rowan Williams, The Tragic Imagination Tragedy and Liberalism Terry Eagleton, Terry Eagleton olliee.eagleton@gmail.com The Old Rectory, Bellarena, Co. Derry BT49 OJD, N. Ireland, UKSearch for more papers by this author Terry Eagleton, Terry Eagleton olliee.eagleton@gmail.com The Old Rectory, Bellarena, Co. Derry BT49 OJD, N. Ireland, UKSearch for more papers by this author First published: 08 March 2018 https://doi.org/10.1111/moth.12402Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume34, Issue2April 2018Pages 252-257 RelatedInformation

Introduction

Margaret Moore’s A Political Theory of Territory offers an original, masterful and comprehensive treatment of its subject that is bound to have a lasting impact on this field of political theory. This book symposium presents a constructive and engaging exchange between Moore and her critics, which moves the debate on territorial rights forward by advancing rival perspectives on central concepts and principles, such as self-determination, peoplehood, occupancy and right of return.