Nihilism and the Sublime Postmodern

Slocombe, Will

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“…This phenomenon, syntactic priming (also sometimes called structural priming or syntactic persistence), has been an important topic of study in psycholinguistics since . Syntactic priming has been used to test theories of event structure (Bunger, Papafragou, & Trueswell, 2013), social interaction (Branigan, Pickering, McLean, & Cleland, 2007), bilingualism (Bernolet, Hartsuiker, & Pickering, 2007Schoonbaert, Hartsuiker, & Pickering, 2007), syntactic surprisal (Jaeger & Snider, 2013), childhood linguistic representations (Messenger, 2010), amnesia (Ferreira, Bock, Wilson, & Cohen, 2008), autism (Slocombe et al, 2013), aphasia , implicit learning (Kaschak, Kutta, & Jones, 2011), and human mating behavior (Coyle & Kaschak, 2012). Perhaps most critically, syntactic priming has been used as evidence for the abstractness of syntactic operations .…”

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A meta-analysis of syntactic priming in language production

Mahowald

James

Futrell

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Journal of Memory and Language

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We performed an exhaustive meta-analysis of 73 peer-reviewed journal articles from the seminal Bock (1986) paper through 2013. Extracting the effect size for each experiment and condition, where the effect size is the log odds ratio of the frequency of the primed structure X to the frequency of the unprimed structure Y, we found a robust effect of syntactic priming with an average weighted odds ratio of 1.67 when there is no lexical overlap and 3.26 when there is. That is, a construction X which occurs 50% of the time in the absence of priming would occur 63% if primed without lexical repetition and 77% of the time if primed with lexical repetition. The syntactic priming effect is robust across several different construction types and languages, and we found strong effects of lexical overlap on the size of the priming effect as well as interactions between lexical repetition and temporal lag and between lexical repetition and whether the priming occurred within or across languages. We also analyzed the distribution of p-values across experiments in order to estimate the average statistical power of experiments in our sample and to assess publication bias. Analyzing a subset of experiments in which the primary result of interest is whether a particular structure showed a priming effect, we did not find evidence of major p-hacking and the studies appear to have acceptable statistical power: 82%. However, analyzing a subset of experiments that focus not just on whether syntactic priming exists but on how syntactic priming is moderated by other variables (such as repetition of words in prime and target, the location of the testing room, the memory of the speaker, etc.), we found that such studies are, on average, underpowered with estimated average power of 53%. Using a subset of 45 papers from our sample for which we received raw data, we estimated subject and item variation and give recommendations for appropriate sample size for future syntactic priming studies.

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A meta-analysis of syntactic priming in language production

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James

Futrell

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Journal of Memory and Language

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“…Following from this lack of consensus in interpretation, not much can be agreed upon when it comes to the issue of responding to and acting under conditions of nihilism. Nihilism has been described as a modern phenomenon, as post-modern, as something inherently human, as a consequence of secularization and the scientific world-view, and as the essential feature of monotheism, especially Christianity – to name just a few diagnoses 1 …”

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The ‘Theological Nihilism’ of Friedrich Gogarten. On a Context in Karl Löwith’s Critique of Carl Schmitt

Falk¹

2014

European Review

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This essay discusses the philosopher Karl Löwith’s critique of the jurist Carl Schmitt and the theologian Friedrich Gogarten. My aim is twofold: first, I want to reconstruct Löwith’s thesis in his 1935 article on Schmitt’s ‘occasional decisionism’ (updated to include a critique of Gogarten in 1960), together with a reading of some central texts by Schmitt and Gogarten; second, I want to raise some critical points regarding Löwith’s claims through these readings. While I agree with Löwith that aspects of Schmitt’s and Gogarten’s thought helped hastening the nihilistic tendencies they themselves claimed to counter, I believe that his diagnosis of their decisionism as nihilism misses important nuances in their work, nuances crucial to the problematization, historicization and philosophical analysis of nihilism. Ultimately, I find that the main point of contestation between Löwith and Schmitt/Gogarten is not whether the latter two affirm modern meaninglessness, but rather whether history can and should be invested with meaning in the first place.

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“…As a polemical concept, nihilism can be used to denounce individual thinkers, or perceived currents of thoughts; accusations of nihilism have been directed at philosophers as far apart in space, time and style of thinking as Baruch Spinoza and John Dewey; 1 its roots have been identified in the very origins of the Judeo-Christian heritage, as well as in the writings of René Descartes, 2 some have stressed that, ‘the critique of European culture at the end of the nineteenth century directly or indirectly became a radical political critique that … eventually contributed to its overthrow and the rise of totalitarian forces.’ 3 Others have accused postmodernism and/or poststructuralism of nihilistic tendencies 4 . The architecture of the twentieth-century metropolis, too, has been tied to nihilism, 5 as have a number of other modern and contemporary developments.…”

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The Critique of European Nihilism. Interpretation, Responsibility, and Action

Wittrock¹,

Andrén

2014

European Review

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The concept of ‘nihilism’ is ambiguous and has had and continues to be attached to several different usages. This special Focus primarily looks at the ways in which ‘nihilism’, in and following the works of Friedrich Nietzsche, has been understood as specifically tied to a crisis of European culture or civilisation, and has come to be politicised in conjunction with the National Socialist and Fascist movements in Germany and Italy during the twentieth century. Specifically, the individual articles deal with the connection between an understanding of nihilism and what it entails for the question concerning political responsibility. This introductory article presents this thematic, introduces the other contributions, and attempts to situate these debates on nihilism in the context of processes of secularisation. The article retrieves three major themes in relation to the critiques surveyed in this special Focus: nihilism as a crisis of beliefs and values, as an appropriation of religious elements into ideological grand narratives, and as the unshackling of an instrumental approach towards reality, and argues that all of them remain relevant to contemporary debates.

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Nihilism and the Sublime Postmodern

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A meta-analysis of syntactic priming in language production

A meta-analysis of syntactic priming in language production

The ‘Theological Nihilism’ of Friedrich Gogarten. On a Context in Karl Löwith’s Critique of Carl Schmitt

The Critique of European Nihilism. Interpretation, Responsibility, and Action

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