To Play the Fool: Can Environmental Conservation and Democracy Survive Social Capital?

Two community-based conservation processes in the United States provide comparative case studies to examine how social capital relates to democracy. Following a summary of social capital research, we describe the cases: one designed to preserve an endangered species and the other to restore water quality. We discuss how social capital dampened democratic practice in one case, while invigorating it in the other. We conclude that, by relying indiscriminately on social capital in the absence of complementary state structures, conservationists risk losing the very nature they seek to defend, and all citizens risk losing the energy and space essential to democracy.     

The boundary-spanning role of a cooperative support organization: managing the paradox of stability and change in non-traditional organizations

This project provides an interpretation of how one cooperative support organization, the Nebraska Cooperative Council, discursively functions to help its constituent cooperatives consolidate resources in order to better intersect with organizations in a larger bureaucratic system. In analyzing qualitative data collected through in-depth interviews, surveys, and organizational documents, we found the paradox of stability and change a revealing prism through which to make sense of participants' experiences. We work toward locating and describing how the Council, through its boundary-spanning activities, helps cooperatives manage the paradox of stability and change while protecting their core participatory ideologies. By providing networks of learning, promoting the legitimacy of cooperative forms of organizing, and protecting cooperatives' interests, the Council is an entity helping cooperatives to reconcile their internal requirements for democracy with the external demands of the marketplace.     

基于“诺斯悖论”的中国足球职业化改革研究

运用文献资料和逻辑分析法,以足球职业化改革为分析视角,以足球职业化改革＂诺斯悖论＂现象为切入点,对中国足球职业化改革的＂诺斯悖论＂产生的前提、表征、原因以及化解方式进行理性的阐释和论证,以期为中国的足球职业化改革提供理论向导。     

Cleansing the Superdome: The Paradox of Purity and Post-Katrina Guilt

The reopening of the New Orleans Superdome after Hurricane Katrina on Monday Night Football dramatized problematic rhetorical, visual, and spatial norms of purification rituals bound up in what Burke calls the paradox of purity. Hurricane Katrina was significant as a visually traumatic event in large part because it signified the ghetto as a rarely discussed remainder of American structural racism and pressed the filthiest visual and territorial residues of marginalized poverty into the national consciousness. In this essay, we argue that a visual paradox of purification—that purifying discourses must “be of the same symbolic substance” as the polluted images that goad them—complicated ritual attempts to both purge and commemorate Katrina evacuees. It is within the paradox of purity that visually grounded purification rituals like the Superdome reopening should be considered for their potential to invite or foreclose public engagement with race and class problems firmly entrenched in Americans’ perceptions of pollution and public territory.     

人类科学中的新极限论(Ⅰ)

从新构建的基础理论学的角度,在无穷观及与之密切相关的数量体系的理论框架中讨论人类科学中长期被忽视的现有极限论的基础问题,得到"经典无穷理论体系基础理论中的本质性缺陷决定了人类不可能在经典无穷理论体系的框架中构建科学的极限论,而新无穷观和与之密切相关的新数谱的产生为极限论的体系性和基础理论奠定了新的、牢固的基础,决定了新极限论的产生"的明确结论.     

庄子的道德:在悖论中寻求解脱

庄子以"自然无为"为理念建立了自己的道德理想.但是庄子的道德观充满了内在的悖论.这样的道德观是由其道德的二维对立的结构模式所决定的.在这种思维模式的作用下,过度抬高个体道德的价值和意义,贬抑甚至摒弃社会道德,企图寻求最自由、最完美的道德生活.但是,由于个体道德失去了生长的基础和环境.所以,解脱的结果,只能是虚无.     

芝诺悖论的结构新探

关于芝诺悖论的结构历来众说纷纭,而只有在正确地理解了其原初本真结构的基础上才能对其进行恰当分析。本文通过考察历史上对于芝诺悖论的认识,阐明了其严整结构,在此基础上就当前国内学界对芝诺悖论的一些误解加以澄清,并且表明了正确认识芝诺悖论的立脚点之所在。     

混合熵和Gibbs佯谬

本文讨论了热力学统计物理中一个重要的状态函数熵，叙述了Ｇｉｂｂｓ佯谬，以及如何用量子统计力学的方法消除Ｇｉｂｂｓ佯谬。从而表明了统计物理热力学之间的进一步联系。     

诺斯悖论与清代经济变迁——解读步德茂《过失杀人、市场和道德经济》

步德茂的《过失杀人、市场和道德经济》一书摈弃西方史学界以西方发展的模式绳准中国历史研究和诠释东西方社会发展路径的理论模式,以诺斯悖论为理论框架对清代的经济变迁进行实证分析,从而为学术界长期悬而未决的清代社会变迁的学术论争提供一种新的解释路径。