Czech Sociological Review Winter 2008, 44(6), Reviews Section, Vanhuysse Pieter (Ed), 12 Reviews by Herbert Gintis, Zygmunt Bauman, and Others, on Books by Claus Offe (2005), Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler (2008), George Loewenstein (2007), Joseph Henrich Et Al. (2004), Herbert Gintis et al. (2005), Frances Rosenbluth (2007), Jenny Billings and Kai Leichsenring (2005), Tarki (2008), Nina Bandelj (2007), and Others

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pieter Vanhuysse
Keyword(s):  
Zygmunt Bauman ◽  
Cass Sunstein

Capacità simbolica e modernità liquida

2020 ◽  
pp. 78-96
Author(s):  
Ferruccio Cabibbe
Keyword(s):  
Zygmunt Bauman

Si fa l'ipotesi che la capacità simbolica, la relazione che l'essere umano ha con i simboli, sia profondamente influenzata dalla componente sociale. Si ritiene che questo aspetto non sia stato sufficientemente considerato in campo psicologico, in particolare junghiano. Il processo individuativo è descritto da Jung in termini quasi esclusivamente "verticali". Si discute la separazione operata da Jung tra segni e simboli veri: tale separazione mantiene la sua validità, ma deve essere vista in modo più elastico per non rischiare di creare una frattura in quella che è considerata una scala della densità di significato. La capacità simbolica in realtà è oggi compromessa su entrambi i versanti. Le conseguenze della postmodernità in generale (nella descrizione di Zygmunt Bauman) e il fenomeno internet in particolare sono visti sia in relazione agli effetti più strettamente neurobiologici che a quelli di tipo più propriamente psicologico. Tra le conseguenze più importanti dell'uso costante di internet si notano in particolare la difficoltà nella lettura approfondita di testi e nella riflessione e la compromissione della memoria a lungo termine.

Zygmunt Bauman, La cultura en el mundo de la modernidad líquida

2016 ◽  
Vol 59 (73) ◽  
pp. 177 ◽  
Author(s):  
[Fernando Sancén Contreras]
Keyword(s):  
Zygmunt Bauman

Libertarian Paternalism, Manipulation, and the Shaping of Preferences

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Hanna
Keyword(s):  
Libertarian Paternalism ◽  
Cass Sunstein ◽  
Influence Behavior

This chapter considers libertarian paternalism, or “nudging,” as championed by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein. It focuses especially on the objection that such intervention is wrongly manipulative. The chapter begins by arguing that the charge of manipulation is most likely to be made against preference-shaping paternalism, which aims to influence behavior by operating on a person’s desires from the inside. It then argues that manipulation typically involves one person’s affecting another person’s deliberation for the worse: the victim of manipulation is typically led to act on bad reasons or ignore or downplay relevant considerations. This rough account of manipulation, it is argued, vindicates most of the preference-shaping strategies favored by Thaler and Sunstein. The chapter concludes by examining more problematic means of influence, such as subliminal messaging, and argues that they do not pose any distinctive threat to a pro-paternalist view.

Boundaries of the Stranger

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 335-354
Author(s):  
Søren Blak Hjortshøj
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Julia Kristeva ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Jewish Question ◽  
Zygmunt Bauman ◽  
Global Age ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Societal Changes ◽  
European Jewish ◽  
The Stranger

AbstractIn recent cosmopolitan work, scholars such as Julia Kristeva, Zygmunt Bauman, Jacques Derrida, and Ulrich Beck have represented the stranger as a universal ideal for our global age and Georg Simmel’s stranger in the Exkurs über den Fremden has been emphasized as a model for this ideal. While these uses can be justified by generalized passages in Simmel’s essay, they still omit the problem of European Jewish historical exemplarity. Thus, in the decades before Simmel’s essay, this stranger type was already a well-developed figure related to the so-called Jewish question. Georg Brandes and Henrik Pontoppidan used the Jewish stranger to evaluate the societal changes of the fin-de-siècle period and questions of progress vs. decay. Yet, their work limited the stranger to a specific type of Jewishness not including other marginal existences. Hence, reading Simmel with Brandes and Pontoppidan outlines the boundaries of this stranger type as it raises questions regarding recent cosmopolitan uses of Simmel’s stranger.

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