Political Playwriting: The Art of Thinking in Public

The article reflects on the nature of the political in theatre, assessing the notion that theatre is the last free public space and evaluating the claims to be political of rival, problematic modes of writing??the theatre of fact or verbatim theatre and the allegorical late plays of Bond, Pinter and Churchill, turning to consider the problematic legacy of Brecht, the avatar of the political. The discussion turns to writers often excluded from the political nomenclature, developing the notion of the centrality of critique and offering an argument for the Naturalist writers as propagators of true ??thinking aloud??, thereby suggesting they provide a model for theatre as such. The piece concludes with a discussion of the author??s own contribution to the genre in the light of these analyses.     

《孙子兵法》的思维特征

《孙子兵法》的思维方式代表着我国先秦时期思维发展的正确方向,对构建现代科学思维方式具有重要的借鉴意义,学者们对此多有论述。本文从综合的角度,对《孙子兵法》七个方面的思维特征进行整理与探讨,以求教于方家。     

Thinking Through Hall and Ames: On the Art of Comparative Philosophy

With the publication of their first collaborative book Thinking Through Confucius, David Hall and Roger Ames launched a comparative philosophical project juxtaposing American pragmatism and Chinese Confucianism (Hall and Ames 1987). This essay focuses on the role pragmatic assumptions play in Hall’s and Ames’s announced goal of opening a “new route” into Chinese intellectual history. Hall and Ames aim to teach scholars whose scholarly sensibilities have been formed in the West what they must acknowledge about their own traditions before they can engage Chinese thinkers constructively. After happily acknowledging my own debt to Hall and Ames and defending as hugely helpful the broad arc of their work, this essay raises questions about the way they deploy pragmatic assumptions as tools for “removing the useless lumber” that they claim “block” Western thinkers’ access to Chinese intellectual history. Specifically it argues that the “useless lumber” metaphor is misplaced.     

Doing It Differently: Unleashing Student Creativity

Student assignments and assessment – is there life beyond the ten‐page essay? Drawing on the theory of multiple intelligences and experience with an assignment in which students were asked to address course content in anything but an essay, the author considers the challenges and virtues of a creative format that does not rely exclusively on linguistic intelligence. The process, presentations, and evaluative approach employed in an assignment that called upon student creativity in a “Women and the Bible” course are described, and pedagogical and practical considerations explored. The analysis of a particularly memorable student submission reveals layers of complexity seldom achieved in a conventional essay format.     

Dissolving objects: Museums,atmosphere and the creation of presence

This article takes its point of departure in the current attention to the materiality of objects in museum display. Recent literature (Classen and Howes, 2006; Dudley, 2010, 2012; Pye, 2007) has stressed the need for museums to focus more explicitly on objects and their capacity to create experiences. While appreciating this approach the article argues that in order to understand the perspectives opened by such experiences, we need to go beyond a focus on objects as such. On basis of analyses of two ethnographic exhibitions it is argued that rather than the objects per se, what is at the root of museum experience is atmosphere – the in-betweenness of objects and subjects. Rather than making the absent (past or distant) present, atmosphere creates a presence as such, an affective space which disturbs our everyday concepts of the world. This perspective makes it possible to consider the museum not as a storehouse of the past, but as a bridgehead (Runia, 2006) to the future, allowing us for a short while to imagine futures that go beyond our present conception of the world.     

Reviews: Books, Art

POLITICS ON THE COUCH: CITIZENSHIP AND THE INTERNAL LIFE. By Andrew Samuels, 235 pp. New York: Karnac (Other Press). $16.00. MARTHA, MARTHA: HOW CHRISTIANS WORRY. By Elaine Leong Eng, M.D. Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, Inc., 2000. $14.95. SPILT MILK: PERINATAL LOSS AND BREAKDOWN. Edited by Joan Raphael-Leff. 100 pp. London: Institute of Psychoanalysis, 2000. MOTHERHOOD AND SEXUALITY. By Marie Langer, 305 pp. New York: Other Press, 2000. $30.00. BRANCHING STREAMS FLOW IN THE DARKNESS: ZEN TALKS ON THE SANDOKAI. By S. Suzuki. Eds: M. Weitsman and M. Wegner. 193 pp. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. $22.50. RESTORED HARMONY: AN EVIDENCE BASED APPROACH FOR INTEGRATING TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE INTO COMPLEMENTARY CANCER CARE. By Stephen Sagar, MD. xviii + 134 pp. Hamilton, Ontario, Canada: Dreaming Dragonfly Communications, 2001. $19.95 (US); $29.95 (Can.), paperback. (ISBN: 0-9689488-0-4). CHIYO-NI, WOMAN HAIKU MASTER. By Patricia Donegan and Yoshie Ishibashi, 184 pp. Boston: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1998. $16.95. THE METAPHYSICAL CLUB: A STORY OF IDEAS IN AMERICA. By Louis Menand, 442 pp. New York: Farrrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2001. $27.00. BUDDHISM WITHOUT BELIEFS: A CONTEMPORARY GUIDE TO AWAKENING. By Stephen Bachelor, 127 pp. Riverhead Books, 1997. $21.95. Video Art is Dead, Long Live Video Art     

Bilateral Art: Integrating Art Therapy,Family Therapy,and Neuroscience

This paper describes the systemic use of a neurologically-based art therapy modality—bilateral art—that engages both dominant and non-dominant hands in the process of creating images in response to opposing cognitions or feelings. It describes both neuroscience and family therapy perspectives that argue for the use of bilateral art. A specific protocol for bilateral art therapy is provided along with a case study demonstrating integration of the protocol into the systemic treatment of a young family. Carole M. McNamee, PhD, is Research Professor and Clinical Associate, Director of the Arts in Healthcare Project, The Family Therapy Center, Department of Human Development, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061 (cmcnamee@vt.edu).     

Creative Thinking Strategies for Life: A Course for Professional Adults Using Art

To thrive in today's economy and the workforce of the future, individuals need creativity and problem-solving skills. Emotion skills have been increasingly discussed as well, with companies listing emotional intelligence as one of the top skills needed for professional success. The present paper describes a course designed to teach professional adults two sets of creativity skills (problem finding and idea generation) and two sets of emotional intelligence skills (using emotions to facilitate thinking and understanding emotions) using visual art as a medium. The course consisted of eight, 60-min sessions in which professional adults participated in art observation and art engagement activities. Fifty-six professional adults completed measures of creative abilities and emotional intelligence skills in a pretest, posttest, and 2-month follow-up design. Participants who engaged in the course showed significant gains in the originality of their ideas on divergent thinking and problem construction tasks, as well as their self-reported creative behavior compared with controls. No significant changes in emotion understanding were detected. We discuss the course's distinct value to creativity and emotion skills training research.     

Reviews: Books, Art

YOGA AND PSYCHOLOGY. By Howard Coward. 115 pp. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. $16.95. CASE STUDIES IN INFANT MENTAL HEALTH: RISK, RESILIENCY AND RELATIONSHIPS. Edited by Joan J. Shirilla and Deborah J. Weatherston. 203 pp. Washington, D.C.: Zero to Three, 2002. $32.95. JACOB'S SHADOW: CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVES ON MASCULINITY. By Herbert Anderson. 173 pp. Louisville, KY: Bridge Resources, 2002. $18.95. LEONARDO DA VINCI. By Sherwin B. Nuland. 170 pp. New York: Viking, 2002. $19.95. FAITH AND THE PLACEBO EFFECT: AN ARGUMENT FOR SELF-HEALING. By Lolette Kuby. 323 pp. Novato, CA: Origin Press, 2001. $23.00. NOTHING PERSONAL, JUST BUSINESS: A GUIDED JOURNEY INTO ORGANIZATIONAL DARKNESS. By Howard F. Stein. Westport, CT: Quorum/Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001. FAITH BEYOND FAITH HEALING: FINDING HOPE AFTER SHATTERED DREAMS. By Kimberly Winston. 115 pp. Brewster, MA: Praraclete Press, 2002. A SHADOW OF GLORY: READING THE NEW TESTAMENT AFTER THE HOLOCAUST. Edited by Tod Linafelt. New York and London: Routledge, 2002. LOVE IS STRONGER THAN DEATH: THE MYSTICAL UNION OF TWO SOULS. By Cynthia Bourgeault. 222 pp. Great Barrington, MA: Lindisfarne Books, 2001. $14.95. Moving Pictures     

Reviews: Books, Art

THREE MOTHERS THREE DAUGHTERS: PALESTINIAN WOMEN'S STORIES. By Michael Gorkin and Rafiqa Othman. New York: Other Press, 2000, $20 (softcover printing of 1996 University of California Press book). BREATHING SPACE: A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY IN THE SOUTH BRONX. By Heidi B. Neumark. 286 pp. Boston: Beacon Press, 2003. $25. KNOCKING ON HEAVEN'S DOOR: AMERICAN RELIGION IN THE AGE OF COUNTERCULTURE. By Mark Oppenheimer. 285 pp. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. $30. PROFILES OF PLAY: ASSESSING AND OBSRVING STRUCTURE AND PROCESS IN PLAY THERAPY. By Saralea Chazan. 224 pp. London and Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2002. $24.95. THE HAPPINESS PARADOX. By Ziyad Marar. 209 pp. London: Reakition Books, 2003. $19.95. GOD AT THE EDGE: SEARCHING FOR THE DIVINE IN UNCOMFORTABLE AND UNEXPECTED PLACES. By Niles Elliot Goldstein. 197 pp. New York: Random House, 2003. $22. THE RURAL LIFE. By Verlyn Klinkenborg. 213 pp. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2003. $20. OAXACA JOURNAL. By Oliver Sacks. 159 pp. Washington, DC: National Geographic Directions, 2002. $20. THE MAYS OF VENTADORA. By W.S. Merwin. 159 pp. Washington, DC: National Geographic Directions, 2002, $20.     

Reviews: Books, Art

FINDING SPACE: WINNICOTT, GOD, AND PSYCHIC REALITY. By Ann Belford Ulanov. 232 pp. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press. $24.95. ON RELIGION. By John D. Caputo. New York: Routledge Press, 2001. $12.95. ORDINARY MIND: EXPLORING THE COMMON GROUND OF ZEN AND PSYCHOTHERAPY. By Barry Magid. 190 pp. Boston: Wisdom Pub, 2001. $22.95. SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND PSYCHOANALYSIS: SEXUAL SCIENCE AND CLINICAL PRACTICE. By Richard C. Friedman and Jennifer I. Downey. 352 pp. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. $35.00. EROTIC INNOCENCE: THE CULTURE OF CHILD MOLESTING. By James R. Kincaid. 352 pp. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998. $24.95. PRACTICING PRESENCE: THE SPIRITUALITY OF CARING IN EVERYDAY LIFE. By Kerry Walters. 122 pp. Franklin, WI: Sheed & Ward, Inc., 2001. $14.95. TERRIFYING TRANSFERENCES: AFTERSHOCKS OF CHILDHOOD TRAUMA. By Lawrence E. Hedges. 497 pp. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, Inc., 2000. $65.00. THE ORIFICE AS SACRIFICIAL SITE: CULTURE, ORGANIZATION, AND THE BODY. By James Aho. 153 pp. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 2002. $45.95. The Paintings of Joan Mitchell     

Reviews: Books, Art

LOCATING THE ROMANTIC SUBJECT: NOVALIS WITH WINNICOTT. By Gail M. Newman. 258 pp. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. 1997. $39.95. MENTORING: THE MINISTRY OF SPIRITUAL KINSHIP. By Edward C. Sellner. 198 pp. Cambridge, MA: Cowley Publications, 2002. $12.95. CREATING SCHOOLS THAT HEAL: REAL LIFE SOLUTIONS. By Lesley Koplow. 232 pp. New York: Teachers College Press, 2002. $19.95. MORAL MEMORANDA FROM JOHN HOWARD YODER: CONVERSATIONS ON LAW, ETHICS, AND THE CHURCH BETWEEN A MENNONITE THEOLOGIAN AND A HOOSIER LAWYER. By Thomas L. Shaffer. 121 pp. Eugene, OR: WIPF and Stock Publishers, 2002. $16.00. TALK IS NOT ENOUGH: HOW PSYCHOTHERAPY REALLY WORKS. By Willard Gaylin, M.D. 323 pp. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2000. $24.95. MICHAL ROVNER: THE SPACE BETWEEN