Double Bind (double + bind)

Distribution by Scientific Domains


Selected Abstracts


OPENING PHILOSOPHY TO THE WORLD: DERRIDA AND EDUCATION IN PHILOSOPHY

EDUCATIONAL THEORY, Issue 3 2009
Steven Burik
In this essay, Steven Burik discusses Jacques Derrida's position with regard to the place of education in philosophy within the university system, and then relates these thoughts to comparative philosophy. Philosophers find themselves constantly having to defend philosophy and the importance of teaching philosophy against pressure from the powers that be. Burik contends that the argument Derrida set forth to "protect" philosophy entails a double bind: Derrida emphasized the value and importance of philosophical thinking while at the same time criticizing the limits of philosophy, both self-mandated and externally imposed. Derrida's defense of philosophy was anything but a protection of the status quo, according to Burik. Derrida ultimately argued that the teaching of philosophy and philosophy itself should be inherently open to new developments. Burik relates Derrida's defense of philosophy and attack on mainstream philosophy to comparative philosophy, demonstrating that both argue for an expansion of thinking beyond the narrow Western confines of philosophy as "pure" reason or rationality by showing how alterity always inserts itself, and that both seek to give this alterity a valid place in educational systems. [source]


Gregory Bateson on deutero-learning and double bind: A brief conceptual history

JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, Issue 3 2003
Max Visser Ph.D. assistant professor
The concepts of deutero-learning and double bind have acquired an increasingly important status in various fields of social and behavioral science, particularly in psychiatry, psychotherapy, organization, and policy science. With this proliferation, however, their original meaning and significance has become increasingly muted. In this article it is argued that both concepts are important ingredients of a behavioral theory of (organizational) learning. To support this argument, the development of both concepts is traced to the work of Gregory Bateson. In Bateson's thinking, the two concepts have a firm base in dyadic behavior and interaction. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source]


Globalization and Pension Reform in Latin America

LATIN AMERICAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY, Issue 4 2007
Sarah M. Brooks
ABSTRACT While financial globalization has created powerful incentives for Latin American governments to privatize old age pension systems, reliance on short-term capital flows has also constrained the ability of cash-strapped governments to enact that reform. Analysis of the technocratic process of pension reform in Argentina and Brazil provides evidence. Instead of simply generating unidirectional pressures for structural pension reform, financial globalization has created a double bind for Latin America's capital-scarce governments, fostering long-term incentives to privatize pension systems while heightening the risk of punishment in the short term. [source]


Lesbians: Identifying, facing, and navigating the double bind of sexual orientation and gender in organizational settings

NEW DIRECTIONS FOR ADULT & CONTINUING EDUCATION, Issue 112 2006
Julie Gedro
This chapter explores the challenges and the opportunities that lesbians experience in organizational America. [source]