Andrew Talle
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780252040849
- eISBN:
- 9780252099342
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252040849.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
This book investigates the musical life of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Germany from the perspectives of those who lived in it. The men, women, and children of the era are treated here not as extras in ...
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This book investigates the musical life of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Germany from the perspectives of those who lived in it. The men, women, and children of the era are treated here not as extras in the life of a famous composer but rather as protagonists in their own right. The primary focus is on keyboard music, from those who built organs, harpsichords, and clavichords, to those who played keyboards recreationally and professionally, and those who supported their construction through patronage. Examples include: Barthold Fritz, a clavichord maker who published a list of his customers; Christiane Sibÿlla Bose, an amateur keyboardist and close friend of Bach’s wife; the Countesses zu Epstein, whose surviving library documents the musical interests of teenage girls of the era; Luise Gottsched, who found Bach’s music less appealing than that of Handel; Johann Christoph Müller, a keyboard instructor who fell in love with one of his aristocratic pupils; and Carl August Hartung, a professional organist and fanatical collector of Bach’s keyboard music. The book draws on published novels, poems, and visual art as well as manuscript account books, sheet music, letters, and diaries. For most music lovers of the era, J. S. Bach himself was an impressive figure whose music was too challenging to hold a prominent place in their musical lives.Less
This book investigates the musical life of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Germany from the perspectives of those who lived in it. The men, women, and children of the era are treated here not as extras in the life of a famous composer but rather as protagonists in their own right. The primary focus is on keyboard music, from those who built organs, harpsichords, and clavichords, to those who played keyboards recreationally and professionally, and those who supported their construction through patronage. Examples include: Barthold Fritz, a clavichord maker who published a list of his customers; Christiane Sibÿlla Bose, an amateur keyboardist and close friend of Bach’s wife; the Countesses zu Epstein, whose surviving library documents the musical interests of teenage girls of the era; Luise Gottsched, who found Bach’s music less appealing than that of Handel; Johann Christoph Müller, a keyboard instructor who fell in love with one of his aristocratic pupils; and Carl August Hartung, a professional organist and fanatical collector of Bach’s keyboard music. The book draws on published novels, poems, and visual art as well as manuscript account books, sheet music, letters, and diaries. For most music lovers of the era, J. S. Bach himself was an impressive figure whose music was too challenging to hold a prominent place in their musical lives.
Thomas S. Davis
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780231169424
- eISBN:
- 9780231537889
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231169424.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
In these closing pages I look at W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz and consider the possible afterlife of the outward turn, of the prolonged existence of a technique after its period of emergence and ...
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In these closing pages I look at W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz and consider the possible afterlife of the outward turn, of the prolonged existence of a technique after its period of emergence and relevance would seem to have closed.Less
In these closing pages I look at W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz and consider the possible afterlife of the outward turn, of the prolonged existence of a technique after its period of emergence and relevance would seem to have closed.
John D. Caputo
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780823239924
- eISBN:
- 9780823239962
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823239924.003.0010
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
The chapter begins with Lucian's second-century account of a slip of the tongue, which understood a mistake to be an occurrence through which individuals could discover something as yet unknown about ...
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The chapter begins with Lucian's second-century account of a slip of the tongue, which understood a mistake to be an occurrence through which individuals could discover something as yet unknown about the interaction they were involved in, and take responsibility for it by making it meaningful. Freud's approach to blunders is also to make them meaningful, but the comparison with Lucian highlights the degree to which he tends to make mistakes private rather than situate them in a wider cultural context. Nevertheless, the slips Freud collects can be placed in the context of conversations about culture by educated Viennese circa 1900. They can then be understood as ways of negotiating togetherness. Freud's Psychopathology is shown to contain, alongside the arguments which serve primarily to vindicate Freud's theory, a different model of the unconscious: namely that of a longing to be aligned with the situation we are involved in. Situated as it is in a context of everyday encounters, this model offers a fruitful starting place for the acknowledgement of, and alignment with, the shared unfolding process in which we are always already involved. In the fourteenth century, this striving for alignment went by the name of “becoming God”.Less
The chapter begins with Lucian's second-century account of a slip of the tongue, which understood a mistake to be an occurrence through which individuals could discover something as yet unknown about the interaction they were involved in, and take responsibility for it by making it meaningful. Freud's approach to blunders is also to make them meaningful, but the comparison with Lucian highlights the degree to which he tends to make mistakes private rather than situate them in a wider cultural context. Nevertheless, the slips Freud collects can be placed in the context of conversations about culture by educated Viennese circa 1900. They can then be understood as ways of negotiating togetherness. Freud's Psychopathology is shown to contain, alongside the arguments which serve primarily to vindicate Freud's theory, a different model of the unconscious: namely that of a longing to be aligned with the situation we are involved in. Situated as it is in a context of everyday encounters, this model offers a fruitful starting place for the acknowledgement of, and alignment with, the shared unfolding process in which we are always already involved. In the fourteenth century, this striving for alignment went by the name of “becoming God”.
Tyler Roberts
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231147521
- eISBN:
- 9780231535496
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231147521.003.0006
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
This chapter discusses Eric Santner's On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life, which contains a reading of Franz Rosenzweig's theology that characterizes religion as a disruption that withdraws ...
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This chapter discusses Eric Santner's On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life, which contains a reading of Franz Rosenzweig's theology that characterizes religion as a disruption that withdraws mankind from the ordering of the world. Santner elaborates this idea in a way that speaks directly not only to questions of order and incongruity, but also to issues of responsibility, singularity, and secularism. As the term “psychotheology” suggests, Santner examines a region where conceptual maps clearly opposing the secular to the religious are considered insufficient and demand some form of what Rosenzweig describes as “new thinking.” This new thinking is a manner of attentiveness that guides mankind to the “midst of life.” The chapter argues that this attentiveness—which Santner develops into an “ethics of singularity” that leads to the “blessings of more life”—allows for a critical thinking about the existential thematics of responsibility found in Hent de Vries' work.Less
This chapter discusses Eric Santner's On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life, which contains a reading of Franz Rosenzweig's theology that characterizes religion as a disruption that withdraws mankind from the ordering of the world. Santner elaborates this idea in a way that speaks directly not only to questions of order and incongruity, but also to issues of responsibility, singularity, and secularism. As the term “psychotheology” suggests, Santner examines a region where conceptual maps clearly opposing the secular to the religious are considered insufficient and demand some form of what Rosenzweig describes as “new thinking.” This new thinking is a manner of attentiveness that guides mankind to the “midst of life.” The chapter argues that this attentiveness—which Santner develops into an “ethics of singularity” that leads to the “blessings of more life”—allows for a critical thinking about the existential thematics of responsibility found in Hent de Vries' work.
Susan Fraiman
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780231166348
- eISBN:
- 9780231543750
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231166348.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Stages my argument over against left critiques of domesticity, which tend to privilege domestic ideology while overlooking non-conforming versions of “home.” Introduces the idea of “extreme” ...
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Stages my argument over against left critiques of domesticity, which tend to privilege domestic ideology while overlooking non-conforming versions of “home.” Introduces the idea of “extreme” domesticities: the non-normative households of gender rebels; the marginal households of those dealing with dislocation and economic insecurity. Offers an extensive analysis of Luce Giard’s neglected study, “Doing-Cooking,” a model for appreciating the devalued, everyday domestic lives of women. Argues for Giard’s importance as a pioneer of everyday life studies alongside her more celebrated collaborator, Michel de Certeau.Less
Stages my argument over against left critiques of domesticity, which tend to privilege domestic ideology while overlooking non-conforming versions of “home.” Introduces the idea of “extreme” domesticities: the non-normative households of gender rebels; the marginal households of those dealing with dislocation and economic insecurity. Offers an extensive analysis of Luce Giard’s neglected study, “Doing-Cooking,” a model for appreciating the devalued, everyday domestic lives of women. Argues for Giard’s importance as a pioneer of everyday life studies alongside her more celebrated collaborator, Michel de Certeau.
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846317545
- eISBN:
- 9781846317217
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846317217.003
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter describes Michel de Certeau's anthropology of mixed and indeterminate space. Certeau writes a cultural anthropology that discerns the unconscious religious tenor of everyday life. His ...
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This chapter describes Michel de Certeau's anthropology of mixed and indeterminate space. Certeau writes a cultural anthropology that discerns the unconscious religious tenor of everyday life. His The Practice of Everyday Life develops a different concept of the body, closer to language and psychoanalysis. He believes that Azouz Begag's immigrant experience can be strongly associated to the experience of space and time. For Certeau and Begag, space is less produced than developed through dynamic movement and practice among ordinary people who reinvent the everyday to ‘make’ the city from heteroclite ways of living and from the encounter between immigrants and natives.Less
This chapter describes Michel de Certeau's anthropology of mixed and indeterminate space. Certeau writes a cultural anthropology that discerns the unconscious religious tenor of everyday life. His The Practice of Everyday Life develops a different concept of the body, closer to language and psychoanalysis. He believes that Azouz Begag's immigrant experience can be strongly associated to the experience of space and time. For Certeau and Begag, space is less produced than developed through dynamic movement and practice among ordinary people who reinvent the everyday to ‘make’ the city from heteroclite ways of living and from the encounter between immigrants and natives.
Michael F. Leruth
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780262036498
- eISBN:
- 9780262339926
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262036498.003.0002
- Subject:
- Art, Visual Culture
Chapter 1 traces the early development of Forest’s artistic vocation beginning with his production as a self-taught painter while still working for the French postal service in Algeria and focuses on ...
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Chapter 1 traces the early development of Forest’s artistic vocation beginning with his production as a self-taught painter while still working for the French postal service in Algeria and focuses on his work in the 1970s. It places particular emphasis on projects undertaken in the name of Sociological Art (defined as “sociological praxis in the guise of art”) using video, the press, and different modes of public intervention. Works discussed in Chapter 1 include Family Portrait (1967), Senior Citizen Video (1973), Electronic Investigation of Rue Guénégaud (1974), Video Portrait of a Collector in Real Time (1974), Biennial of the Year 2000 (1975), and The Video Family (1976). Chapter 1 also examines different categories of Forest’s diverse work in video and discusses the aesthetic and epistemological ramifications of Sociological Art as theorized by Forest and Vilém Flusser.Less
Chapter 1 traces the early development of Forest’s artistic vocation beginning with his production as a self-taught painter while still working for the French postal service in Algeria and focuses on his work in the 1970s. It places particular emphasis on projects undertaken in the name of Sociological Art (defined as “sociological praxis in the guise of art”) using video, the press, and different modes of public intervention. Works discussed in Chapter 1 include Family Portrait (1967), Senior Citizen Video (1973), Electronic Investigation of Rue Guénégaud (1974), Video Portrait of a Collector in Real Time (1974), Biennial of the Year 2000 (1975), and The Video Family (1976). Chapter 1 also examines different categories of Forest’s diverse work in video and discusses the aesthetic and epistemological ramifications of Sociological Art as theorized by Forest and Vilém Flusser.
James Heinzen
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780300175257
- eISBN:
- 9780300224764
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300175257.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Russian and Former Soviet Union History
Traditions of official corruption inherited from the Soviet and late Imperial eras have continued to touch Russian life since the collapse of the USSR. This study is the first archive-based, ...
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Traditions of official corruption inherited from the Soviet and late Imperial eras have continued to touch Russian life since the collapse of the USSR. This study is the first archive-based, historical study of bribery and corruption in the Soviet Union for this period. A study of the solicitation and offering of bribes forms the heart of this research. Bribery (vziatochnichestvo)—typically defined in law as gifts in cash or in kind intended to influence public officials to the benefit of the giver—represents the paradigmatic variety of corruption. This study takes a novel approach to the phenomenon of the bribe, examining it as an integral part of an unofficial yet essential series of relationships upon which much of Soviet society and state administration relied in order to function, as it gradually became part of the fabric of everyday life. The book examines three major, related themes. The book’s first theme, “The Landscape of Bribery,” concerns the nature and varieties of bribery, while painting a sociological portrait of the people involved. Whom did prosecutors accuse of such crimes? The second major topic addresses the regime’s attempts to understand the causes of bribery, and then to wipe it out through centrally directed anti-corruption “campaigns.” “The view from below,” which examines popular perceptions and understandings of bribery, constitutes the third dimension of the study. Focusing on bribery among police, court, and other law enforcement employees, this phase explores the imprecise and shifting line that separated “acceptable” from “unacceptable” behavior.Less
Traditions of official corruption inherited from the Soviet and late Imperial eras have continued to touch Russian life since the collapse of the USSR. This study is the first archive-based, historical study of bribery and corruption in the Soviet Union for this period. A study of the solicitation and offering of bribes forms the heart of this research. Bribery (vziatochnichestvo)—typically defined in law as gifts in cash or in kind intended to influence public officials to the benefit of the giver—represents the paradigmatic variety of corruption. This study takes a novel approach to the phenomenon of the bribe, examining it as an integral part of an unofficial yet essential series of relationships upon which much of Soviet society and state administration relied in order to function, as it gradually became part of the fabric of everyday life. The book examines three major, related themes. The book’s first theme, “The Landscape of Bribery,” concerns the nature and varieties of bribery, while painting a sociological portrait of the people involved. Whom did prosecutors accuse of such crimes? The second major topic addresses the regime’s attempts to understand the causes of bribery, and then to wipe it out through centrally directed anti-corruption “campaigns.” “The view from below,” which examines popular perceptions and understandings of bribery, constitutes the third dimension of the study. Focusing on bribery among police, court, and other law enforcement employees, this phase explores the imprecise and shifting line that separated “acceptable” from “unacceptable” behavior.
Andrew Talle
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780252040849
- eISBN:
- 9780252099342
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252040849.003.0012
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
Chapter eleven presents a case study of a professional organist named Carl August Hartung whose everyday life is unusually well documented by an account book he kept for thirteen years, from the age ...
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Chapter eleven presents a case study of a professional organist named Carl August Hartung whose everyday life is unusually well documented by an account book he kept for thirteen years, from the age of twenty-nine to the age of forty-two. Analysis of his financial transactions reveals the minutiæ of his everyday life. It documents not only the food, clothing, furniture, books, and music that he purchased but also the subtlety of his social network of students, colleagues, patrons, family members, and friends. Hartung’s account book illuminates how professional musicians of Bach’s time achieved financial stability by performing, composing, copying music, selling instruments, and teaching both musical and non-musical subjects.Less
Chapter eleven presents a case study of a professional organist named Carl August Hartung whose everyday life is unusually well documented by an account book he kept for thirteen years, from the age of twenty-nine to the age of forty-two. Analysis of his financial transactions reveals the minutiæ of his everyday life. It documents not only the food, clothing, furniture, books, and music that he purchased but also the subtlety of his social network of students, colleagues, patrons, family members, and friends. Hartung’s account book illuminates how professional musicians of Bach’s time achieved financial stability by performing, composing, copying music, selling instruments, and teaching both musical and non-musical subjects.
Ann D’Orazio
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781496802217
- eISBN:
- 9781496802262
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496802217.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, Comics Studies
Using Bill Brown’s “thing theory” and Jane Bennett’s materialist theory, Ann D’Orazio analyzes how objects such as tea, tomatoes, trees, and the hijab function as nonhuman agents in Sacco’s ...
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Using Bill Brown’s “thing theory” and Jane Bennett’s materialist theory, Ann D’Orazio analyzes how objects such as tea, tomatoes, trees, and the hijab function as nonhuman agents in Sacco’s Palestine, endowing the text with a powerful depth and resonance.Less
Using Bill Brown’s “thing theory” and Jane Bennett’s materialist theory, Ann D’Orazio analyzes how objects such as tea, tomatoes, trees, and the hijab function as nonhuman agents in Sacco’s Palestine, endowing the text with a powerful depth and resonance.
Michael Innis-Jiménez
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780252041211
- eISBN:
- 9780252099809
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252041211.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
By recognizing and not underestimating the significance of everyday forms of resistance and the politics of culture, as well as institutions and organizations not normally seen as vehicles for ...
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By recognizing and not underestimating the significance of everyday forms of resistance and the politics of culture, as well as institutions and organizations not normally seen as vehicles for everyday and working class change, we can delve into the strategies that helped Mexicans in interwar South Chicago cope with the oppressive environment that surrounded them. Individual Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans in interwar South Chicago, including steel workers, shop owners, union organizers, and social workers, formed a community that was able to change its physical and cultural environment to help its members and create a degree of resistance that helped Mexicans persevere against intimidation and prejudice. These individual and community histories—the stories of people, organizations, and their physical surroundings—shed light on Mexicano life in a place far from the border and at the industrial heart of the United States.Less
By recognizing and not underestimating the significance of everyday forms of resistance and the politics of culture, as well as institutions and organizations not normally seen as vehicles for everyday and working class change, we can delve into the strategies that helped Mexicans in interwar South Chicago cope with the oppressive environment that surrounded them. Individual Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans in interwar South Chicago, including steel workers, shop owners, union organizers, and social workers, formed a community that was able to change its physical and cultural environment to help its members and create a degree of resistance that helped Mexicans persevere against intimidation and prejudice. These individual and community histories—the stories of people, organizations, and their physical surroundings—shed light on Mexicano life in a place far from the border and at the industrial heart of the United States.
Deborah L. Wheeler
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474422550
- eISBN:
- 9781474435048
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474422550.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, Middle Eastern Politics
Ch. 3 seeks explanations to Jillian Schwedler’s observation that in Jordan, “There are no more red lines” (Schwedler, 2012). Why did King Abdullah and his wife Queen Rania in 2012 become sources of ...
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Ch. 3 seeks explanations to Jillian Schwedler’s observation that in Jordan, “There are no more red lines” (Schwedler, 2012). Why did King Abdullah and his wife Queen Rania in 2012 become sources of increasingly public critiques by members of Jordanian society. Specifically, what role did Internet use play in promoting new levels of social and political awareness, and collective demands for change. These questions are considered in light of ethnographic insights and Internet user testimonials, which reveal subtle forms of empowerment and enhanced voice among citizens in the practice of everyday life.Less
Ch. 3 seeks explanations to Jillian Schwedler’s observation that in Jordan, “There are no more red lines” (Schwedler, 2012). Why did King Abdullah and his wife Queen Rania in 2012 become sources of increasingly public critiques by members of Jordanian society. Specifically, what role did Internet use play in promoting new levels of social and political awareness, and collective demands for change. These questions are considered in light of ethnographic insights and Internet user testimonials, which reveal subtle forms of empowerment and enhanced voice among citizens in the practice of everyday life.
Deborah L. Wheeler
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474422550
- eISBN:
- 9781474435048
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474422550.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, Middle Eastern Politics
Chapter 5 illustrates the core argument of this book, that ordinary people can create change in small ways by networking around the state. In the service of this argument, the chapter highlights ...
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Chapter 5 illustrates the core argument of this book, that ordinary people can create change in small ways by networking around the state. In the service of this argument, the chapter highlights everyday forms of digital resistance in authoritarian political contexts in the Middle East. The three forms of new media empowerment analysed in the chapter include: 1. Digital disclosure to confront bad governance. 2. People to people diplomacy. 3. Social media for social change. These examples of “digital resistance” are based upon public media campaigns against the Egyptian, Turkish, Israeli, Iranian and Saudi states.Less
Chapter 5 illustrates the core argument of this book, that ordinary people can create change in small ways by networking around the state. In the service of this argument, the chapter highlights everyday forms of digital resistance in authoritarian political contexts in the Middle East. The three forms of new media empowerment analysed in the chapter include: 1. Digital disclosure to confront bad governance. 2. People to people diplomacy. 3. Social media for social change. These examples of “digital resistance” are based upon public media campaigns against the Egyptian, Turkish, Israeli, Iranian and Saudi states.
Ben Morgan
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780823239924
- eISBN:
- 9780823239962
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823239924.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
The book takes as its starting point the declaration by a woman religious in a fourteenth-century text that she has “become God”. Part I sets out the methodological tools necessary for a critical ...
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The book takes as its starting point the declaration by a woman religious in a fourteenth-century text that she has “become God”. Part I sets out the methodological tools necessary for a critical understanding of this claim, arguing that practices of a gendered identity be seen as tools through which people together manage a sense of connectedness to the world and others, a sense of irrefragable involvement that in the fourteenth century is given the name “God”. Writing the history of identity then means writing the history of these changing practices. An example of what this entails is set out in Part II, which traces changes evident in mystical texts written in the Rhineland in the wake of the condemnation of Meister Eckhart's teaching for heresy in 1329. A new identification with the practices by which individuals monitor their spiritual longings introduces, in the texts of Heinrich Seuse, habits which prefigure those of modern identity. Identity appears as a set of practices by which men and women together regulate the distance from what in the medieval period was called “God”. Part III, in search of a vocabulary for acknowledging the sense of connectedness that was previously managed with religious habits, offers a critical reading of early psychoanalysis. The idea of the unconscious is shown to be a tool for keeping at bay the sense of connection. But Freud's early texts also show the possibility of attending to the shared project of coming to terms with togetherness and of “becoming God” as much as we can bear.Less
The book takes as its starting point the declaration by a woman religious in a fourteenth-century text that she has “become God”. Part I sets out the methodological tools necessary for a critical understanding of this claim, arguing that practices of a gendered identity be seen as tools through which people together manage a sense of connectedness to the world and others, a sense of irrefragable involvement that in the fourteenth century is given the name “God”. Writing the history of identity then means writing the history of these changing practices. An example of what this entails is set out in Part II, which traces changes evident in mystical texts written in the Rhineland in the wake of the condemnation of Meister Eckhart's teaching for heresy in 1329. A new identification with the practices by which individuals monitor their spiritual longings introduces, in the texts of Heinrich Seuse, habits which prefigure those of modern identity. Identity appears as a set of practices by which men and women together regulate the distance from what in the medieval period was called “God”. Part III, in search of a vocabulary for acknowledging the sense of connectedness that was previously managed with religious habits, offers a critical reading of early psychoanalysis. The idea of the unconscious is shown to be a tool for keeping at bay the sense of connection. But Freud's early texts also show the possibility of attending to the shared project of coming to terms with togetherness and of “becoming God” as much as we can bear.
Lee Jarvis and Michael Lister
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780719091599
- eISBN:
- 9781781708316
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719091599.003.0003
- Subject:
- Political Science, Conflict Politics and Policy
This chapter explores contemporary debate around security and citizenship, situating our understanding of each within these. It argues that both are, fundamentally, experiences rooted in everyday ...
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This chapter explores contemporary debate around security and citizenship, situating our understanding of each within these. It argues that both are, fundamentally, experiences rooted in everyday life, rather than abstract or formal statuses or conditions. The chapter concludes by discussing the methodology underpinning the book’s empirical research.Less
This chapter explores contemporary debate around security and citizenship, situating our understanding of each within these. It argues that both are, fundamentally, experiences rooted in everyday life, rather than abstract or formal statuses or conditions. The chapter concludes by discussing the methodology underpinning the book’s empirical research.
