Fred Evans's Article (17.2)
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Fred Evans's Article (17.2)
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Title
The Clamour of Voices: Neda, Barack, and Social Philosophy
Abstract
Taking up the significance of Neda Agha-Soltan’s death in an Iranian street protest and novelist Zadie Smith’s analysis of President Obama, I offer an account of society as a “multivoiced body.” This body consists of “voices” that at once separate and bind themselves together through their continuous and creative interplay. Viewing society in this manner implies the simultaneous valorization of solidarity, diversity, and the creation of new voices as well as the kind of “hearing others” that makes these three political virtues possible. It also encourages resistance to the always present countertendency of raising a particular voice to the level of the “one true God,” “pure race,” “Capital,” or any other “oracle” that eliminates the dynamism of contesting voices.
Volume
Volume 17, Issue 2, Fall 2013
Pages
158-177
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“Fred Evans's Article (17.2),” Symposium, accessed April 27, 2024, http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/symposium/items/show/359.