Bonnie Mann
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780195187458
- eISBN:
- 9780199786565
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195187458.003.0002
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy
The turn of the century was marked by a preoccupation with relationships of Otherness, both internal and external to Europe. In establishing his difference from these Others, the Euro-masculine ...
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The turn of the century was marked by a preoccupation with relationships of Otherness, both internal and external to Europe. In establishing his difference from these Others, the Euro-masculine subject also established himself. The very possibility of erecting a convincing edifice of freedom, autonomy, and sovereignty rested on what he did with these Others. Kant wrote his Observations and, more than two decades later, his “Analytic of the Sublime” in the midst of these debates. He attempted to sort through the confusions that characterized the Euro-masculine relation to Others, both as a philosopher and as one of the founders of the new field of anthropology. This chapter discusses these confusions based on two general sets of paradoxes: the paradox of space and the paradox of time. The first paradox considers these sorts of questions: where are the Others of the Euro-masculine subject in relation to him — inside or outside? What kind of space or place does this subject inhabit? Is a woman a part of a man? If so then how is it that a man is not partly a woman? How is this subject's spatial self-constitution built around a man's spatial relations to nature and women? The second paradox considers questions of time and sequence: what kind of time does this subject inhabit? What kind of time inhabits him? Where are others in this subject's time? Are racialized others that I encounter encountered in my time? How is temporal self-constitution built around temporal relations to racialized others?Less
The turn of the century was marked by a preoccupation with relationships of Otherness, both internal and external to Europe. In establishing his difference from these Others, the Euro-masculine subject also established himself. The very possibility of erecting a convincing edifice of freedom, autonomy, and sovereignty rested on what he did with these Others. Kant wrote his Observations and, more than two decades later, his “Analytic of the Sublime” in the midst of these debates. He attempted to sort through the confusions that characterized the Euro-masculine relation to Others, both as a philosopher and as one of the founders of the new field of anthropology. This chapter discusses these confusions based on two general sets of paradoxes: the paradox of space and the paradox of time. The first paradox considers these sorts of questions: where are the Others of the Euro-masculine subject in relation to him — inside or outside? What kind of space or place does this subject inhabit? Is a woman a part of a man? If so then how is it that a man is not partly a woman? How is this subject's spatial self-constitution built around a man's spatial relations to nature and women? The second paradox considers questions of time and sequence: what kind of time does this subject inhabit? What kind of time inhabits him? Where are others in this subject's time? Are racialized others that I encounter encountered in my time? How is temporal self-constitution built around temporal relations to racialized others?
Robert C. Solomon
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780195181579
- eISBN:
- 9780199786602
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195181573.003.0005
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
Camus’ novel, The Plague, breaks from the focus on individual experience to talk about solidarity and the experience of being with other people. The titular plague has been interpreted as a metaphor ...
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Camus’ novel, The Plague, breaks from the focus on individual experience to talk about solidarity and the experience of being with other people. The titular plague has been interpreted as a metaphor for the Nazi occupation, but it is interpreted here much more generally and more philosophically as the nature of human mortality and “the Absurd”. The novel also gives us Camus’ clearest statement about the significance of what Sartre calls “Being-for-Others”.Less
Camus’ novel, The Plague, breaks from the focus on individual experience to talk about solidarity and the experience of being with other people. The titular plague has been interpreted as a metaphor for the Nazi occupation, but it is interpreted here much more generally and more philosophically as the nature of human mortality and “the Absurd”. The novel also gives us Camus’ clearest statement about the significance of what Sartre calls “Being-for-Others”.
Robert C. Solomon
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780195181579
- eISBN:
- 9780199786602
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195181573.003.0007
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
Sartre’s No Exit is a conscientiously trite play that explores some profound truths about what Sartre (in Being and Nothingness) calls Being-for-Others. No Exit presents us with three perverse ...
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Sartre’s No Exit is a conscientiously trite play that explores some profound truths about what Sartre (in Being and Nothingness) calls Being-for-Others. No Exit presents us with three perverse characters in Hell who are forced to spend eternity together. The play explores the nature of human relationships, how people deceive one another and deceive themselves. Sartre’s conclusion is “Hell is other people”.Less
Sartre’s No Exit is a conscientiously trite play that explores some profound truths about what Sartre (in Being and Nothingness) calls Being-for-Others. No Exit presents us with three perverse characters in Hell who are forced to spend eternity together. The play explores the nature of human relationships, how people deceive one another and deceive themselves. Sartre’s conclusion is “Hell is other people”.
John Timberman Newcomb
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252036798
- eISBN:
- 9780252093906
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252036798.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
This book traces the emergence of modern American poetry at the turn of the nineteenth century. With a particular focus on four “little magazines”—Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, The Masses, Others, and ...
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This book traces the emergence of modern American poetry at the turn of the nineteenth century. With a particular focus on four “little magazines”—Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, The Masses, Others, and Seven Arts—the book shows how each advanced ambitious agendas combining urban subjects, stylistic experimentation, and progressive social ideals. All four were profoundly affected by World War I, and the poetry on their pages responded to the war and its causes with clarity and strength. While subsequent literary history has favored the poets whose work made them distinct—individuals singled out usually on the basis of a novel technique—the book provides a denser, richer view of the history that hundreds of poets made.Less
This book traces the emergence of modern American poetry at the turn of the nineteenth century. With a particular focus on four “little magazines”—Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, The Masses, Others, and Seven Arts—the book shows how each advanced ambitious agendas combining urban subjects, stylistic experimentation, and progressive social ideals. All four were profoundly affected by World War I, and the poetry on their pages responded to the war and its causes with clarity and strength. While subsequent literary history has favored the poets whose work made them distinct—individuals singled out usually on the basis of a novel technique—the book provides a denser, richer view of the history that hundreds of poets made.
Matthew Lange
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781501704871
- eISBN:
- 9781501707773
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501704871.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Politics, Social Movements and Social Change
This book explores why humans ruthlessly attack and kill people from other ethnic communities. Drawing on an array of cases from around the world and insight from a variety of disciplines, the book ...
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This book explores why humans ruthlessly attack and kill people from other ethnic communities. Drawing on an array of cases from around the world and insight from a variety of disciplines, the book provides a simple yet powerful explanation that pinpoints the influential role of modernity in the growing global prevalence of ethnic violence over the past 200 years. It offers evidence that a modern ethnic mind-set is the ultimate and most influential cause of ethnic violence. Throughout most of human history, people perceived and valued small sets of known acquaintances and did not identify with ethnicities. Through education, state policy, and other means, modernity ultimately created broad ethnic consciousnesses that led to emotional prejudice, whereby people focus negative emotions on entire ethnic categories, and ethnic obligation, which pushes people to attack Others for the sake of their ethnicity. Modern social transformations also provided a variety of organizational resources that put these motives into action, thereby allowing ethnic violence to emerge as a modern menace. Yet modernity takes many forms and is not constant, and past trends in ethnic violence are presently transforming. Over the past seventy years, the earliest modernizers have transformed from champions of ethnic violence into leaders of intercommunal peace, and this book offers evidence that the emergence of robust rights-based democracy—in combination with effective states and economic development—weakened the motives and resources that commonly promote ethnic violence.Less
This book explores why humans ruthlessly attack and kill people from other ethnic communities. Drawing on an array of cases from around the world and insight from a variety of disciplines, the book provides a simple yet powerful explanation that pinpoints the influential role of modernity in the growing global prevalence of ethnic violence over the past 200 years. It offers evidence that a modern ethnic mind-set is the ultimate and most influential cause of ethnic violence. Throughout most of human history, people perceived and valued small sets of known acquaintances and did not identify with ethnicities. Through education, state policy, and other means, modernity ultimately created broad ethnic consciousnesses that led to emotional prejudice, whereby people focus negative emotions on entire ethnic categories, and ethnic obligation, which pushes people to attack Others for the sake of their ethnicity. Modern social transformations also provided a variety of organizational resources that put these motives into action, thereby allowing ethnic violence to emerge as a modern menace. Yet modernity takes many forms and is not constant, and past trends in ethnic violence are presently transforming. Over the past seventy years, the earliest modernizers have transformed from champions of ethnic violence into leaders of intercommunal peace, and this book offers evidence that the emergence of robust rights-based democracy—in combination with effective states and economic development—weakened the motives and resources that commonly promote ethnic violence.
George Anastaplo
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813125336
- eISBN:
- 9780813135243
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813125336.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
This chapter examines the Yukio Mishima short story “Patriotism,” which describes what we would call a suicide pact between a Japanese Army lieutenant and his wife. It notes that a traditional ...
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This chapter examines the Yukio Mishima short story “Patriotism,” which describes what we would call a suicide pact between a Japanese Army lieutenant and his wife. It notes that a traditional Japanese mode of suicide is drawn upon by the young officer. It emphasizes that the main interest in this story is reinforced by what is known about how the author of the story orchestrated (in 1970) his own suicide at age forty-five. It further examines the status and modes of suicide elsewhere, ancient and modern. It emphasizes thereby of how difficult it can be truly to see Others. It notes that particularly to be noticed are varying insights and assumptions about the nature of the human soul and about the status of what we often call the Self.Less
This chapter examines the Yukio Mishima short story “Patriotism,” which describes what we would call a suicide pact between a Japanese Army lieutenant and his wife. It notes that a traditional Japanese mode of suicide is drawn upon by the young officer. It emphasizes that the main interest in this story is reinforced by what is known about how the author of the story orchestrated (in 1970) his own suicide at age forty-five. It further examines the status and modes of suicide elsewhere, ancient and modern. It emphasizes thereby of how difficult it can be truly to see Others. It notes that particularly to be noticed are varying insights and assumptions about the nature of the human soul and about the status of what we often call the Self.
Paul G. Hiebert
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195310566
- eISBN:
- 9780199851072
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195310566.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter draws on McGrane (1989), and looks at some of the historical forces that have shaped how Europeans and North Americans have viewed Others over the past few centuries and how these ...
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This chapter draws on McGrane (1989), and looks at some of the historical forces that have shaped how Europeans and North Americans have viewed Others over the past few centuries and how these perceptions have led to the racism that now plagues the societies. Then, it examines the ways to change the perceptions of Others to build bridges of understanding and love between them. The focus is placed on the common humanity, the oneness found in Christ, and the mandate to welcome Others, to serve, to seek reconciliation, and to tear down walls that divide.Less
This chapter draws on McGrane (1989), and looks at some of the historical forces that have shaped how Europeans and North Americans have viewed Others over the past few centuries and how these perceptions have led to the racism that now plagues the societies. Then, it examines the ways to change the perceptions of Others to build bridges of understanding and love between them. The focus is placed on the common humanity, the oneness found in Christ, and the mandate to welcome Others, to serve, to seek reconciliation, and to tear down walls that divide.
Samantha A. Shave
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780719089633
- eISBN:
- 9781526124142
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719089633.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
Pauper Policies examines how policies under both old and New Poor Laws were conceived, adopted, implemented, developed or abandoned. The author engages with recent literature on the experience and ...
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Pauper Policies examines how policies under both old and New Poor Laws were conceived, adopted, implemented, developed or abandoned. The author engages with recent literature on the experience and agency of poor relief recipients, and offers a fresh perspective on poor law administration. Through a ‘policy process’ approach, the author exposes several significant topics in poor law history which are currently unknown or poorly understood, each of which are explored in a series of thematic chapters. It contains important new research on the adoption and implementation of enabling acts at the end of the old poor laws, Gilbert’s Act of 1782 and Sturges Bourne’s Acts of 1818 and 1819; the exchange of knowledge about how best to provide poor relief in the final decades of the old poor law and formative decades of the New; and the impact of national scandals on policy-making in the new Victorian system. The volume points towards a new direction in the study of poor law administration, one which examines how people, both those in positions of power and the poor, could shape pauper policies. It is essential reading for anyone with an interest in welfare, poverty and society in eighteenth and nineteenth-century England, as well as those who want to understand the early workings of the welfare system.Less
Pauper Policies examines how policies under both old and New Poor Laws were conceived, adopted, implemented, developed or abandoned. The author engages with recent literature on the experience and agency of poor relief recipients, and offers a fresh perspective on poor law administration. Through a ‘policy process’ approach, the author exposes several significant topics in poor law history which are currently unknown or poorly understood, each of which are explored in a series of thematic chapters. It contains important new research on the adoption and implementation of enabling acts at the end of the old poor laws, Gilbert’s Act of 1782 and Sturges Bourne’s Acts of 1818 and 1819; the exchange of knowledge about how best to provide poor relief in the final decades of the old poor law and formative decades of the New; and the impact of national scandals on policy-making in the new Victorian system. The volume points towards a new direction in the study of poor law administration, one which examines how people, both those in positions of power and the poor, could shape pauper policies. It is essential reading for anyone with an interest in welfare, poverty and society in eighteenth and nineteenth-century England, as well as those who want to understand the early workings of the welfare system.
A.G. Noorani
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195678291
- eISBN:
- 9780199080588
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195678291.003.0084
- Subject:
- Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law
A bench of the Supreme Court, on 25 September 1996, quashed allotments of 15 petrol pumps by Mr Satish Sharma, the minister of state for petroleum and natural gas. The Court ordered the minister to ...
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A bench of the Supreme Court, on 25 September 1996, quashed allotments of 15 petrol pumps by Mr Satish Sharma, the minister of state for petroleum and natural gas. The Court ordered the minister to pay Rs 50 lakh as damages to the Government Exchequer and directed the CBI to register a case against him. Another bench, hearing the review petition of Mr Sharma, however held that the previous judgment was erroneous as the petitioner was Common Cause, which itself was not wronged. In this the Bench overlooked a relevant ruling delivered by the Court itself in Shivsagar Tiwari v. Union of India and Others in October 1996. The doctrine of injury to a third party was explicitly rejected.Less
A bench of the Supreme Court, on 25 September 1996, quashed allotments of 15 petrol pumps by Mr Satish Sharma, the minister of state for petroleum and natural gas. The Court ordered the minister to pay Rs 50 lakh as damages to the Government Exchequer and directed the CBI to register a case against him. Another bench, hearing the review petition of Mr Sharma, however held that the previous judgment was erroneous as the petitioner was Common Cause, which itself was not wronged. In this the Bench overlooked a relevant ruling delivered by the Court itself in Shivsagar Tiwari v. Union of India and Others in October 1996. The doctrine of injury to a third party was explicitly rejected.
Robert W. Jenson
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195145984
- eISBN:
- 9780199848980
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195145984.003.0011
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
The chapter explains the doctrine of God's saving action in the Crucifixion that bring Jesus's life to its end and that it is God who ordains the particular end. That the Man for Others died rather ...
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The chapter explains the doctrine of God's saving action in the Crucifixion that bring Jesus's life to its end and that it is God who ordains the particular end. That the Man for Others died rather than seek his own kingdom settles that he is the Man for others and so determines the salvific import of the message that he lives as Lord.Less
The chapter explains the doctrine of God's saving action in the Crucifixion that bring Jesus's life to its end and that it is God who ordains the particular end. That the Man for Others died rather than seek his own kingdom settles that he is the Man for others and so determines the salvific import of the message that he lives as Lord.
Jonathan Betts
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780198568025
- eISBN:
- 9780191718144
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198568025.003.16
- Subject:
- Physics, History of Physics
This chapter details Rupert's investigation of the Loch Ness monster. In the Spring of 1933 rumours had begun of sightings of a large creature, apparently of unknown species, living in Loch Ness. ...
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This chapter details Rupert's investigation of the Loch Ness monster. In the Spring of 1933 rumours had begun of sightings of a large creature, apparently of unknown species, living in Loch Ness. Having published The Case for the Sea Serpent just over 2 years before, Gould soon got to hear of this and needless to say was intrigued by the descriptions, sounding, as they did, remarkably ‘Serpentine’. Rupert personally went to Scotland to investigate Loch Ness. The results of his research were summarized in the book entitled, The Loch Ness Monster and Others, released in June 1934.Less
This chapter details Rupert's investigation of the Loch Ness monster. In the Spring of 1933 rumours had begun of sightings of a large creature, apparently of unknown species, living in Loch Ness. Having published The Case for the Sea Serpent just over 2 years before, Gould soon got to hear of this and needless to say was intrigued by the descriptions, sounding, as they did, remarkably ‘Serpentine’. Rupert personally went to Scotland to investigate Loch Ness. The results of his research were summarized in the book entitled, The Loch Ness Monster and Others, released in June 1934.
Natsu Taylor Saito
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780814723944
- eISBN:
- 9780814708170
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814723944.003.0009
- Subject:
- Law, Comparative Law
This chapter considers how the “dynamic of difference” is constructed and maintained with respect to migrant Others. It addresses their racialization, particularly as “foreign,” as well as ways in ...
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This chapter considers how the “dynamic of difference” is constructed and maintained with respect to migrant Others. It addresses their racialization, particularly as “foreign,” as well as ways in which they are racially conflated and manipulated. Assimilationism is critiqued as both a form of conceptual disappearance and an illusion intended to maintain settler hegemony. The social and legal control of land, population, and opportunity are viewed in terms of the functions they serve within the American settler colonial state.Less
This chapter considers how the “dynamic of difference” is constructed and maintained with respect to migrant Others. It addresses their racialization, particularly as “foreign,” as well as ways in which they are racially conflated and manipulated. Assimilationism is critiqued as both a form of conceptual disappearance and an illusion intended to maintain settler hegemony. The social and legal control of land, population, and opportunity are viewed in terms of the functions they serve within the American settler colonial state.
Marcel Hénaff
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780823286478
- eISBN:
- 9780823288922
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823286478.003.0004
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This chapter focuses on Emmanuel Levinas's conception of reciprocity, which allows one to understand what is at the core of his conception of the gift. For him, the gift is always—or rather cannot be ...
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This chapter focuses on Emmanuel Levinas's conception of reciprocity, which allows one to understand what is at the core of his conception of the gift. For him, the gift is always—or rather cannot be anything else than—unconditional oblation, boundless largesse toward Others. This conception precludes any idea of exchange—be it generous and festive—and probably explains why Levinas never discusses the ritual gift Mauss discusses, defined by the triple obligation to give, accept, and reciprocate. Only the first obligation could make sense to Levinas, whereas the third can only turn the gesture of giving toward what he calls the economy, the Same, and happiness. The chapter then determines if it is possible to free reciprocity from the malediction Levinas seems to cast on it, and if the theoretical difficulties he raises might not fall away once a different perspective opens up on the relationship between the Self and Others, without in any way erasing the ethical responsibility of the Self.Less
This chapter focuses on Emmanuel Levinas's conception of reciprocity, which allows one to understand what is at the core of his conception of the gift. For him, the gift is always—or rather cannot be anything else than—unconditional oblation, boundless largesse toward Others. This conception precludes any idea of exchange—be it generous and festive—and probably explains why Levinas never discusses the ritual gift Mauss discusses, defined by the triple obligation to give, accept, and reciprocate. Only the first obligation could make sense to Levinas, whereas the third can only turn the gesture of giving toward what he calls the economy, the Same, and happiness. The chapter then determines if it is possible to free reciprocity from the malediction Levinas seems to cast on it, and if the theoretical difficulties he raises might not fall away once a different perspective opens up on the relationship between the Self and Others, without in any way erasing the ethical responsibility of the Self.
Sabina Donati (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804784511
- eISBN:
- 9780804787338
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804784511.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
“Becoming Visible”: Italian Women and Their Male Co-Citizens in the Liberal State
“Becoming Visible”: Italian Women and Their Male Co-Citizens in the Liberal State
Martin Sohn-Rethel
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780993071768
- eISBN:
- 9781800341944
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9780993071768.003.0004
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter evaluates social realism in Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives Of Others, 2006). It is a near-universally praised film which claims to expose the murky ...
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This chapter evaluates social realism in Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives Of Others, 2006). It is a near-universally praised film which claims to expose the murky dealings of the East German (GDR) secret police and its thick blanket of informers before the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall and of the Iron Curtain itself. In doing so, it tells the redemptive tale of a Stasi agent, Captain Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Mühe), who 'turns', finds a redemptive truth, and works against the corrupt ideology that employs him in order to save East German playwright Georg Dreymann (Sebastian Koch) from Stasi persecution. How realistic is the film to the social-political background it claims to depict? And if it departs from that background, what difference does it make? A film successfully engaging the code of social realism needs to build a very convincing picture of its chosen historical environment. The Lives of Others does this to the satisfaction of an overwhelming majority of its audience.Less
This chapter evaluates social realism in Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives Of Others, 2006). It is a near-universally praised film which claims to expose the murky dealings of the East German (GDR) secret police and its thick blanket of informers before the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall and of the Iron Curtain itself. In doing so, it tells the redemptive tale of a Stasi agent, Captain Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Mühe), who 'turns', finds a redemptive truth, and works against the corrupt ideology that employs him in order to save East German playwright Georg Dreymann (Sebastian Koch) from Stasi persecution. How realistic is the film to the social-political background it claims to depict? And if it departs from that background, what difference does it make? A film successfully engaging the code of social realism needs to build a very convincing picture of its chosen historical environment. The Lives of Others does this to the satisfaction of an overwhelming majority of its audience.
Anna Powell
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748617470
- eISBN:
- 9780748651061
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748617470.003.0005
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter explores duration and the time-image of the horror film. The cinematic image moves across time in a complex trajectory. The apparatus of cinema manipulates and melds past, present and ...
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This chapter explores duration and the time-image of the horror film. The cinematic image moves across time in a complex trajectory. The apparatus of cinema manipulates and melds past, present and future, shaping our awareness of the properties of time and modulating our experience of it. The influence of Henri Bergson on Gilles Deleuze's film philosophy is crucial here. For Deleuze, time is pivotal to cinema's philosophical resonance. The temporal movements of horror films are fractured and nonlinear. The past threatens to dominate the present and also to shape the future in its own replicated image, which brings stasis. Time loops back and refuses to progress as earlier periods insist on their equal, or superior, validity to the present era. This is made overt in neo-Gothic films such as Robert Wise's The Haunting. In Alejandro Amenábar's The Others, ghosts are plausible characters unaware of their own spectral status. Jacob's Ladder presents a version of duration accessed at the point of death.Less
This chapter explores duration and the time-image of the horror film. The cinematic image moves across time in a complex trajectory. The apparatus of cinema manipulates and melds past, present and future, shaping our awareness of the properties of time and modulating our experience of it. The influence of Henri Bergson on Gilles Deleuze's film philosophy is crucial here. For Deleuze, time is pivotal to cinema's philosophical resonance. The temporal movements of horror films are fractured and nonlinear. The past threatens to dominate the present and also to shape the future in its own replicated image, which brings stasis. Time loops back and refuses to progress as earlier periods insist on their equal, or superior, validity to the present era. This is made overt in neo-Gothic films such as Robert Wise's The Haunting. In Alejandro Amenábar's The Others, ghosts are plausible characters unaware of their own spectral status. Jacob's Ladder presents a version of duration accessed at the point of death.
Rita Kaur Dhamoon
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719079238
- eISBN:
- 9781781702123
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719079238.003.0011
- Subject:
- Political Science, Democratization
This chapter considers the unending work of democracy in producing ‘subjects’. It outlines how the crisis facing democracy has been misdiagnosed in various strands of recent liberal thought as one ...
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This chapter considers the unending work of democracy in producing ‘subjects’. It outlines how the crisis facing democracy has been misdiagnosed in various strands of recent liberal thought as one about the accommodation of diverse Others and how a more precise diagnosis may be found by examining the work of democracy rather than theorizing its ideal version. This chapter proposes that the work of democracy in constituting subjects can be radicalized by taking accounts of meaning-making by opening up and being responsive to the possibility of making new and different kinds of subjects.Less
This chapter considers the unending work of democracy in producing ‘subjects’. It outlines how the crisis facing democracy has been misdiagnosed in various strands of recent liberal thought as one about the accommodation of diverse Others and how a more precise diagnosis may be found by examining the work of democracy rather than theorizing its ideal version. This chapter proposes that the work of democracy in constituting subjects can be radicalized by taking accounts of meaning-making by opening up and being responsive to the possibility of making new and different kinds of subjects.
Alex Marlow-Mann
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748640669
- eISBN:
- 9780748651214
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748640669.003.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
In the early 1990s, three Neapolitans made their directorial debut in quick succession. Antonio Capuano's Vito e gli altri (Vito and the Others, 1991), Mario Martone's Morte di un matematico ...
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In the early 1990s, three Neapolitans made their directorial debut in quick succession. Antonio Capuano's Vito e gli altri (Vito and the Others, 1991), Mario Martone's Morte di un matematico napoletano (Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician, 1992), and Pappi Corsicato's Libera (1993). All three films were independently produced, were set in Naples and differed greatly in both subject matter and style from the Neapolitan films of previous decades. The proliferation of Neapolitan films since 1990 has meant that the idea of a ‘New Neapolitan Cinema’ has become an increasingly widely used concept in writings on Italian cinema. This book explores whether or not a ‘new Neapolitan cinema’ exists in Italy. It addresses the following questions: Is there a local film industry in Naples? Do the Neapolitan films produced in recent years have thematic and stylistic commonalities? Are these films distinct from traditional Neapolitan cinema? The principle subject of this book is the construction of a ‘Neapolitan cinema’ and the ways in which the characteristics of this construction have changed since 1990.Less
In the early 1990s, three Neapolitans made their directorial debut in quick succession. Antonio Capuano's Vito e gli altri (Vito and the Others, 1991), Mario Martone's Morte di un matematico napoletano (Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician, 1992), and Pappi Corsicato's Libera (1993). All three films were independently produced, were set in Naples and differed greatly in both subject matter and style from the Neapolitan films of previous decades. The proliferation of Neapolitan films since 1990 has meant that the idea of a ‘New Neapolitan Cinema’ has become an increasingly widely used concept in writings on Italian cinema. This book explores whether or not a ‘new Neapolitan cinema’ exists in Italy. It addresses the following questions: Is there a local film industry in Naples? Do the Neapolitan films produced in recent years have thematic and stylistic commonalities? Are these films distinct from traditional Neapolitan cinema? The principle subject of this book is the construction of a ‘Neapolitan cinema’ and the ways in which the characteristics of this construction have changed since 1990.
Richard I. Cohen (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- August 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190912628
- eISBN:
- 9780190912659
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190912628.003.0052
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism, Religion and Society
This chapter reviews the book In the Company of Others: The Development of Anthropology in Israel (2015), by Orit Abuhav. In the Company of Others examines twists and turns in the development of ...
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This chapter reviews the book In the Company of Others: The Development of Anthropology in Israel (2015), by Orit Abuhav. In the Company of Others examines twists and turns in the development of anthropology as a discipline in Israel. Many of anthropology’s outstanding practitioners were born and educated abroad and, for reasons that were both intellectual and personal, were drawn to Israel. According to Abuhav, there are about 130 anthropologists in Israel, thirty of whom hold university positions and ten who are employed in colleges. Four decades ago, women made up about twenty-five percent of Israeli anthropologists, but by the 1990s the disproportion had been largely corrected, at least at the junior level. With regard to Mizrahim and Palestinians, however, the imbalance remains. An unusual feature of Israeli anthropology is that its “field” is largely confined within the borders of the state.Less
This chapter reviews the book In the Company of Others: The Development of Anthropology in Israel (2015), by Orit Abuhav. In the Company of Others examines twists and turns in the development of anthropology as a discipline in Israel. Many of anthropology’s outstanding practitioners were born and educated abroad and, for reasons that were both intellectual and personal, were drawn to Israel. According to Abuhav, there are about 130 anthropologists in Israel, thirty of whom hold university positions and ten who are employed in colleges. Four decades ago, women made up about twenty-five percent of Israeli anthropologists, but by the 1990s the disproportion had been largely corrected, at least at the junior level. With regard to Mizrahim and Palestinians, however, the imbalance remains. An unusual feature of Israeli anthropology is that its “field” is largely confined within the borders of the state.
Garrett Stewart
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780226201214
- eISBN:
- 9780226201351
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226201351.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
Whereas voyeurism and surveillance are often reversible in the psychological thrillers discussed in chapter 4, the ethical allegories treated in this chapter invite the conversion of surveillance to ...
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Whereas voyeurism and surveillance are often reversible in the psychological thrillers discussed in chapter 4, the ethical allegories treated in this chapter invite the conversion of surveillance to impersonal empathy: a process staged to succeed in the case of the 2006 film about Stasi surveillance in East Berlin, The Lives of Others, and arranged to fail in the darker ironies of Michael Haneke’s 2005 Caché (translated “Hidden,” referring both to a sequestered camera and a cloaked guilt). In the former film, a suspiciously liberal theatre director wiretapped by the Communist regime ends up unwittingly performing his own life under inspection, even while gradually moving the eavesdropping spy to identification, clemency, and even complicity in the process. By contrast, in Haneke’s narrative a mysterious and unsourced sequence of surveillance videos, apparently intended to turn the protagonist’s gaze inward on his own prejudices and repressions, has this potential impact deflected by the further suppression of all such ethical recognition.Less
Whereas voyeurism and surveillance are often reversible in the psychological thrillers discussed in chapter 4, the ethical allegories treated in this chapter invite the conversion of surveillance to impersonal empathy: a process staged to succeed in the case of the 2006 film about Stasi surveillance in East Berlin, The Lives of Others, and arranged to fail in the darker ironies of Michael Haneke’s 2005 Caché (translated “Hidden,” referring both to a sequestered camera and a cloaked guilt). In the former film, a suspiciously liberal theatre director wiretapped by the Communist regime ends up unwittingly performing his own life under inspection, even while gradually moving the eavesdropping spy to identification, clemency, and even complicity in the process. By contrast, in Haneke’s narrative a mysterious and unsourced sequence of surveillance videos, apparently intended to turn the protagonist’s gaze inward on his own prejudices and repressions, has this potential impact deflected by the further suppression of all such ethical recognition.
