Maria Pia Lara – författare & böcker

Narrating Evil

A Postmetaphysical Theory of Reflective Judgment

E-bok

Engelska, 2007

856 kr

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Conceptions of evil have changed dramatically over time, and though humans continue to commit acts of cruelty against one another, today we possess a clearer, more moral way of analyzing them. In Narrating Evil, María Pía Lara explores what has changed in our understanding of evil, why the transformation matters, and how we can learn from this specific historical development.Drawing on Immanuel Kant''s and Hannah Arendt''s ideas about reflective judgment, Lara argues that narrative plays a key role in helping societies acknowledge their pasts. Particular stories haunt our consciousness and lead to a kind of examination and dialogue that shape notions of morality. A powerful description of a crime can act as a filter, helping us to draw conclusions about what constitutes a moral wrong, and public debates over these narratives allow us to construct a more accurate picture of historical truth, leading to a better understanding of why such actions are possible.In building her argument, Lara considers Greek tragedies, Shakespeare''s depictions of evil, Joseph Conrad''s literary metaphors, and movies that portray human cruelty. Turning to such philosophers and writers as Jürgen Habermas, Walter Benjamin, Primo Levi, Giorgio Agamben, and Ariel Dorfman, Lara defines a reflexive relationship between an event, the narrative of the event, and the public reception of the narrative, and she proves that the stories of perpetrators and sufferers are always intertwined.The process of disclosure, debate, and the public fashioning of collective judgment are vital methods through which we make sense not only of new forms of cruelty but of past crimes as well. Narrating Evil describes the steps of this process and why they are a crucial part of our attempt to build a different, more just world.

Rethinking Evil

Contemporary Perspectives

AvMaría Pía Lara

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

272 kr

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This innovative volume will be welcomed by moral and political philosophers, social scientists, and anyone who reflects seriously on the twentieth century's heavy burden of war, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other evidence of people's desire to harm one another. Maria Pia Lara brings together a provocative set of essays that reexamine evil in the context of a 'postmetaphysical' world, a world that no longer equates natural and human evil and no longer believes in an omnipotent God. The question of how and why God permits evil events to occur is replaced by the question of how and why humans perform radically evil acts.

Moral Textures

Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere

AvMaria Pia Lara

Inbunden, Engelska, 1998

761 kr

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In this original work, the Mexican political philosopher, Maria Pia Lara, develops a new approach to public sphere theory and a novel understanding of the history of the feminist struggle. When dominated groups create publicly-oriented social movements, she argues, they seek to frame their demands in compelling narrative forms. Through these new tales, they can become, for the first time, active subjects in their own stories. Developing this theoretical model, Lara offers new interpretations of Habermas and Arendt as well as of feminist debates about their work. Critically relating Wellmer's and Ricoeur's aesthetic ideas to public sphere theory, she also confronts the limitations of the Foucaultian tradition that informs so much post-structuralist feminism today. In making her argument, Lara examines a very wide range of women's narratives, from autobiographies of eighteenth-century salonnieres and of contemporary women activists to the novels of Jane Austen and the portrayal of women in television and film. Taking stock of contemporary feminist writings in social science, history, literature, jurisprudence and philosophy, she suggests that they can be viewed not only as empirical accounts of injustices but as cultural narratives that have transformed women's particular identities even as they have expanded universal moral claims in a revolutionary way.

Moral Textures

Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere

AvMaria Pia Lara

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

299 kr

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In this original work, the Mexican political philosopher, Maria Pia Lara, develops a new approach to public sphere theory and a novel understanding of the history of the feminist struggle. When dominated groups create publicly-oriented social movements, she argues, they seek to frame their demands in compelling narrative forms. Through these new tales, they can become, for the first time, active subjects in their own stories. Developing this theoretical model, Lara offers new interpretations of Habermas and Arendt as well as of feminist debates about their work. Critically relating Wellmer's and Ricoeur's aesthetic ideas to public sphere theory, she also confronts the limitations of the Foucaultian tradition that informs so much post-structuralist feminism today. In making her argument, Lara examines a very wide range of women's narratives, from autobiographies of eighteenth-century salonnieres and of contemporary women activists to the novels of Jane Austen and the portrayal of women in television and film. Taking stock of contemporary feminist writings in social science, history, literature, jurisprudence and philosophy, she suggests that they can be viewed not only as empirical accounts of injustices but as cultural narratives that have transformed women's particular identities even as they have expanded universal moral claims in a revolutionary way.

Beyond the Public Sphere

Film and the Feminist Imaginary

AvMaría Pía Lara

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

405 kr

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In Beyond the Public Sphere: Film and the Feminist Imaginary, the renowned philosopher and critical theorist María Pía Lara challenges the notion that the bourgeois public sphere is the most important informal institution between social and political actors and the state.Drawing on a wide range of films-including The Milk of Sorrow, Ixcanul, Wadja, The Stone of Patience, Marnie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Talk to Her-Lara dissects cinematic images of women's struggles and their oppression. She builds on this analysis, developing a concept of the feminist social imaginary as a broader and more complex space that provides a way of thinking through the possibilities for emancipatory social transformation in response to forms of domination perpetuated by patriarchal capitalism.

Una estética para espectadores

El laboratorio del arte en la conciencia temporal moderna

AvMaria Pia Lara

E-bok

Spanska, 2024

223 kr

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Podemos afirmarlo: el fenómeno estético es tan antiguo como la humanidad. Ya en el mundo clásico encontramos, en los trabajos de Platón y Longino, meditaciones en torno al concepto de lo bello. No obstante, la estética como campo de estudio no nace hasta el siglo XVIII. ¿Por qué?Partiendo de un examen de los trabajos de Kant y Hegel, que instituyeron la estética como una disciplina autónoma y fundaron una nueva filosofía del arte, Una estética para espectadores traza un recorrido histórico y crítico a lo largo de los debates que esta materia ha suscitado. Pía Lara lee con inteligencia a autores como Baudelaire, Heidegger, Benjamin, Adorno, Koselleck y Danto para acercarnos a su pensamiento y familiarizarnos con las nociones de subjetividad, placer, gusto, lo sublime e historicidad, centrales en la reflexión estética.Pero este libro quiere ir más allá de la simple enumeración de teorías. Ante todo, busca ofrecer herramientas al lector para que piense sobre cómo el arte y sus efectos han configurado, desde siempre, el pensamiento humano.

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Beyond the Public Sphere

Una estética para espectadores

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