Liberal Language Research Articles

Liberty, retrenchment and reform: popular liberalism in the Age of Gladstone, 1860-1880

List of illustrations Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Note on the text Introduction Part I. Liberty and Retrenchment: 1. The language of popular liberalism 2. The social contract 3. The social question 4. Anti-clericalism Part II. Reform: 5. The franchise question 6. Parliament and community 7. The charismatic leader Bibliography Index.

Languages of Liberation: The Social Text in Contemporary American Poetry. Walter Kalaidjian

<i>Languages of Liberation: The Social Text in Contemporary American Poetry</i>. Walter Kalaidjian

Languages of Liberation: The Social Text in Contemporary American Poetry.

Languages of Liberation: The Social Text in Contemporary American Poetry.

Languages of liberation: the social text in contemporary American poetry

Languages of liberation: the social text in contemporary American poetry

Languages of Liberation: The Social Text in Contemporary American Poetry

Languages of Liberation: The Social Text in Contemporary American Poetry

Le Mozambique: Une Nation africaine de langue officielle portugaise?

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image sizeAbstractThe African countries where Portuguese is the official language have refused to be identified as countries expressing themselves in Portuguese. Indeed, the language may be Portuguese, but the expression remains African. Nevertheless, Portuguese continues to be called the language of unity and national liberation even though only 1.23 percent of all Mozambicans have Portuguese as their mother tongue. This tendency is part of an effort to foster a European-style nation-state by using projects of development and social reconstruction to get rid of the peasants from the mode of domestic production within a few years. The will to remain ignorant, characterizing the ethnic groups and the original social relations which are specific to them, has been a constant in the politics of the leaders of FRELIMO, responsible for the civil war which ravages the country. The turning point came in 1984–1988 when the nationalist movement was liberalized to allow for greater cultural flexibility and an expansion of literary creativity. (Please note that this article was written in April 1989 before the changes took place in Eastern Europe).

Political Discourse: Explorations in Indian and Western Political Thought. Edited by Bhikhu Parekh and Thomas Pantham. Newbury Park: Sage, 1987. 314p. $27.50.

Introduction - Bhikhu Parekh and Thomas Pantham PART ONE: POLITICAL THEORY AFTER THE LINGUISTIC TURN In the Shadow of Babel - Terence Ball The 'Scientific' Reconstruction of Political Discourse The Power of Language and the Technology of Communication - Hwa Yol Jung A Phenomenological Genealogy Loquocentricity and Democracy - Kenneth Minogue The Communicative Theory of Modern Civil Unity The Liberal Language of Rights - Ronald J Terchek From Locke to Rawls Are Moral Beliefs Ideological Deceptions? - Kai Nielsen 'Objective Significance' in Critical Social Theory - Rajeev Bhargava What is Wrong with Sycophancy? A Caveat on Overrationalised Notions of Political Communication - Upendra Baxi PART TWO: CRITICAL DISCOURSE AND POLITICAL PRAXIS IN THE WEST Conceptions of Security - Christian Bay Individual, National and Global Life-World and Communicative Action - Fred R Dallmayr Power and Communication in Habermas and Luhmann - Michael Greven A Critique of Communicative Reductionism Associational versus Communicative Rationality of Politics - Ernst Vollrath Political Theory and Political Communication - Richard Ashcraft Marxism and Ideology - Sobhanlal Datta Gupta Some Problems of Scientific Communication PART THREE: EMANCIPATORY DISCOURSE AND SATYAGRAHA IN INDIA Traditional Wisdom and Modern Science as Paradigms of Political Discourse - Raghuveer Singh Cultural Frames for Transformative Politics - Ashis Nandy A Credo The Constitution of Indian Nationalist Discourse - Partha Chatterjee Communication Against Communication - K Raghavendra Rao The Gandhian Critique of Modern Civilization in Hind Swaraj Gandhi and the Logic of Reformist Discourse - Bhikhu Parekh Habermas' Practical Discourse and Gandhi's Satyagraha - Thomas Pantham

Solitude: A Central Motif in Thomas Merton's Life and Writings

ilence and solitude have important roles in the history of religions. From the solitaries of Upanishadic Hinduism and early Taoism to the initiates of Pythagorean wisdom and early Christian asceticism, seekers have attempted to reach ultimate goals by cultivating quiet and living in seclusion. This quest is frequently associated with those who follow the ways of the monk and the mystic. The life of the monk, with varying degrees of withdrawal from the world, and the path of the mystic, with silent meditation and ineffable experiences, characteristically require some physical isolation and reduction in speech. But monasticism and mysticism in their most profound forms manifest something far more interesting than the literal practice of silence and solitude: monks and mystics often understand solitude as the climate and silence as the language of liberation, enlightenment, or union with God. Silence and solitude then become sacred metaphors, often more than metaphors, to express the experience of ultimate transformation. The intimate relationship between silence and solitude in Thomas Merton's writings is one of the most striking themes in his work. My only task is to be what I am, he wrote near the end of his life, man seeking God in silence and solitude, with deep respect for the demands and realities of his own vocation, and fully aware that others too are seeking the truth in their own way (1973b:245). Silence and solitude, so central to Christian monasticism, had attracted Merton before he joined the Trappists in 1941, and his search for increasingly deeper silence and solitude remained a powerful force throughout his life; the explicit connection of these themes,

Liberal Arts Language Requirement: Theory and Practice

Liberal Arts Language Requirement: Theory and Practice