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  1. The "Agential Spiral": Reading Public Memory Through Paul Ricoeur.Sara C. VanderHaagen - 2013 - Philosophy and Rhetoric 46 (2):182-206.
    In an essay examining Hannah Arendt's approach to public memory, rhetorical scholar Stephen H. Browne notes that "to remember is thus not simply to turn backward; it is itself a type of action that steadies us in the face of an unknown and unpredictable future" (2004, 60). The act of remembering connects the rememberer to both the past and the future. As scholars such as Benedict Anderson, John Bodnar, and John Gillis have pointed out, remembering also connects human beings to (...)
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  • Contradiction as Agency: Self-Determination, Transcendence, and Counter-Imagination in Third Wave Feminism.Valerie R. Renegar & Stacey K. Sowards - 2009 - Hypatia 24 (2):1 - 20.
    This essay examines the contradictions often found in third wave feminist texts that function as strategic choices that may shape, foster, and enhance an individual's sense of agency. Many third wave feminists utilize contradiction as a way to understand emergent identities, to develop new ways of thinking, and to imagine new forms of social action. Agency, then, stems from the use of contradiction as a means of self-determination and identity, of transcendence of seemingly forced or dichotomous choices, and counter-imaginations of (...)
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