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The conflict between animal costs and human benefits has dominated public as well as academic debates about animal research. However, surveys of public perceptions of animal research rarely focus on this part of attitude formation. This paper traces the prevalence of different attitudes to animal research in the public when people are asked to take benefit and cost considerations into account concurrently. Results from the examination of two representative samples of the Danish public identify three reproducible attitude stances. Approximately 30–35% of people questioned approved of animal research quite strongly, and 15–20% opposed animal research. The remaining 50% were reserved in their views. Further studies will ideally use the measure developed here to make possible relatively fine-grained comparisons and understandings of differences between populations and changes in attitudes over time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What explanation can be given for the relevance of literature to Bourdieu's theoretical work? In order to explain this choice of object, in the first part of this article I consider the national and international context within which Bourdieu's theory has been built. In the French intellectual space literature was a central theoretical object. In the international context, the attention paid to literature was justified by the importance given to the symbolic phenomena in the main contemporary theoretical traditions. In order to appreciate the singularity and difficulty of Bourdieu's theoretical acquisition, I try to reconstruct the problems that he attempted to resolve, the theoretical possibilities with regard to which his hypotheses were defined, and the position that he held in his field of production at the time in which they were formulated. In Bourdieu's thought, this conjunctural dimension does not imply that a theory is particularized or relativized. So he presented his theoretical frameworks on literature as a model applying to any kind of cultural products. In the second part of my paper I intend to test these claims by examining under what conditions and to what extent his ‘Principles of a science of works’ have been considered transposable to other national contexts and/or to new objects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses martial corporeality in the digital age. Following of Michel Foucault's account of power; Identification of intelligence as the principle of differentiation and formation; Intimate link between intelligence and the sign.

Discusses the concepts of goodness and reason. Role of intelligence in discovering what is good; Assumption that goodwill can be achieved through the exercise of reason; Roots of reason and goodwill; Illustration of reason and goodwill in real-life situations; Debate on morality; Role of religious communities; Belief that a more compelling form of public moral discourse can be recovered within higher education; More.