James Steven Rogers
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199856220
- eISBN:
- 9780199919574
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199856220.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Company and Commercial Law
When we make purchases [better word than ‘things?’], we need to use some system for making payment. Today we use checks, credit cards, debit cards, and various other electronic or semi-electronic ...
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When we make purchases [better word than ‘things?’], we need to use some system for making payment. Today we use checks, credit cards, debit cards, and various other electronic or semi-electronic payment systems. One would assume that the legal system has developed a sensible, coherent body of law to deal with payment system problems. One would be wrong. Modern American law of payment systems is, to be honest, a confused muddle. The basic problem is anachronism. The law of payment systems has not come to grips with the realities of the modern world. Rather, much of the law is still based on “negotiable instruments law”, a body of law that developed centuries ago when instruments issued by private parties circulated as a form of money. A great deal of the current law of checks and notes is the product of nothing more than an historical fluke, such as the odd details of the eighteenth century Stamp Acts. The law could be much simpler if it were written in light of the way that checks and notes are actually used today, rather than being based on concepts derived from the past. This book shows that there is no need for a statute governing promissory notes and that the law of checks would be far simpler if it treated checks simply as instructions to the financial system, akin to debit or credit cards. The book provides an indispensible guide for lawyers, judges, professors, and students who must find ways of dealing sensibly with this profoundly anachronistic body of law.Less
When we make purchases [better word than ‘things?’], we need to use some system for making payment. Today we use checks, credit cards, debit cards, and various other electronic or semi-electronic payment systems. One would assume that the legal system has developed a sensible, coherent body of law to deal with payment system problems. One would be wrong. Modern American law of payment systems is, to be honest, a confused muddle. The basic problem is anachronism. The law of payment systems has not come to grips with the realities of the modern world. Rather, much of the law is still based on “negotiable instruments law”, a body of law that developed centuries ago when instruments issued by private parties circulated as a form of money. A great deal of the current law of checks and notes is the product of nothing more than an historical fluke, such as the odd details of the eighteenth century Stamp Acts. The law could be much simpler if it were written in light of the way that checks and notes are actually used today, rather than being based on concepts derived from the past. This book shows that there is no need for a statute governing promissory notes and that the law of checks would be far simpler if it treated checks simply as instructions to the financial system, akin to debit or credit cards. The book provides an indispensible guide for lawyers, judges, professors, and students who must find ways of dealing sensibly with this profoundly anachronistic body of law.
Grant Hardy
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199731701
- eISBN:
- 9780199777167
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199731701.003.0009
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Literature, World Religions
Of the three major narrators, Moroni is the most likely to use phrases previously employed by other Book of Mormon writers. Actually, as he brings the book to an end, Moroni provides three separate ...
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Of the three major narrators, Moroni is the most likely to use phrases previously employed by other Book of Mormon writers. Actually, as he brings the book to an end, Moroni provides three separate conclusions. In the first he alludes to the words of Joseph of Egypt (as reported in the Nephite record), and then to Nephi's paraphrase of Joseph's words, and then to the writings of his father Mormon. The second conclusion, at Ether 12, offers a Nephite adaptation of Hebrews 11, somewhat anachronistically. And Moroni's final conclusion, the last chapter of the Book of Mormon, is a virtual curtain call which alludes to the farewell addresses of several of the earlier record keepers.Less
Of the three major narrators, Moroni is the most likely to use phrases previously employed by other Book of Mormon writers. Actually, as he brings the book to an end, Moroni provides three separate conclusions. In the first he alludes to the words of Joseph of Egypt (as reported in the Nephite record), and then to Nephi's paraphrase of Joseph's words, and then to the writings of his father Mormon. The second conclusion, at Ether 12, offers a Nephite adaptation of Hebrews 11, somewhat anachronistically. And Moroni's final conclusion, the last chapter of the Book of Mormon, is a virtual curtain call which alludes to the farewell addresses of several of the earlier record keepers.
BERNARD S. JACKSON
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197264010
- eISBN:
- 9780191734946
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197264010.003.0018
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
The Chronicler attributes to Jehoshaphat of Judah (874–850 BCE) the appointment of royal judges in all the fortified cities of his kingdom, and the establishment of a central court in Jerusalem (2 ...
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The Chronicler attributes to Jehoshaphat of Judah (874–850 BCE) the appointment of royal judges in all the fortified cities of his kingdom, and the establishment of a central court in Jerusalem (2 Chron. 19.5–11). This chapter examines the issue of anachronism from the standpoint of the history of biblical law, and asks whether the Chronicler paints a picture coherent with law as it is likely to have functioned in the ninth century. The problem, however, does not commence in the ninth century. Almost universally, 2 Chron. 19.4–11 is taken to be a ‘judicial reform’, which assumes the existence of a preceding judicial system. Unlike some parts of the ancient Near East, ancient Israel was weakly institutionalized. Regular law courts and applying written rules (and thus assuming the presence of literate personnel) backed by state enforcement was a matter for the future.Less
The Chronicler attributes to Jehoshaphat of Judah (874–850 BCE) the appointment of royal judges in all the fortified cities of his kingdom, and the establishment of a central court in Jerusalem (2 Chron. 19.5–11). This chapter examines the issue of anachronism from the standpoint of the history of biblical law, and asks whether the Chronicler paints a picture coherent with law as it is likely to have functioned in the ninth century. The problem, however, does not commence in the ninth century. Almost universally, 2 Chron. 19.4–11 is taken to be a ‘judicial reform’, which assumes the existence of a preceding judicial system. Unlike some parts of the ancient Near East, ancient Israel was weakly institutionalized. Regular law courts and applying written rules (and thus assuming the presence of literate personnel) backed by state enforcement was a matter for the future.
Jeremy Tambling
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719082443
- eISBN:
- 9781781703168
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719082443.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This book joins together Shakespeare and Proust as the great writers of love to show that love is always anachronistic, and never more so when it is homosexual. Drawing on Nietzsche, Freud, ...
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This book joins together Shakespeare and Proust as the great writers of love to show that love is always anachronistic, and never more so when it is homosexual. Drawing on Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, Derrida, Blanchot and Levinas and Deleuze, difficult but essential theorists of the subject of ‘being and time’ and ‘time and the other’, it examines why speculation on time has become so crucial within modernity. Through the related term ‘anachronism’, the book considers how discussion of time always turns into discussion of space, and how this, too, can never be quite defined. It speculates on chance and thinks of ways in which a quality of difference within time—heterogeneity, anachronicity—is essential to think of what is meant by ‘the other’. The book examines how contemporary theory considers the future and its relation to the past as that which is inescapable in the form of trauma. It considers what is meant by ‘the event’, that which is the theme of all post-Nietzschean theory and which breaks in two conceptions of time as chronological.Less
This book joins together Shakespeare and Proust as the great writers of love to show that love is always anachronistic, and never more so when it is homosexual. Drawing on Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, Derrida, Blanchot and Levinas and Deleuze, difficult but essential theorists of the subject of ‘being and time’ and ‘time and the other’, it examines why speculation on time has become so crucial within modernity. Through the related term ‘anachronism’, the book considers how discussion of time always turns into discussion of space, and how this, too, can never be quite defined. It speculates on chance and thinks of ways in which a quality of difference within time—heterogeneity, anachronicity—is essential to think of what is meant by ‘the other’. The book examines how contemporary theory considers the future and its relation to the past as that which is inescapable in the form of trauma. It considers what is meant by ‘the event’, that which is the theme of all post-Nietzschean theory and which breaks in two conceptions of time as chronological.
Neville Morley
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199288076
- eISBN:
- 9780191713439
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199288076.003.0007
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter considers ideas of translation and untranslatability, and the way that they are put into practice in ancient historiography. Historians' resistance to the perceived threat of ...
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This chapter considers ideas of translation and untranslatability, and the way that they are put into practice in ancient historiography. Historians' resistance to the perceived threat of anachronism, which leads them to seek to allow the past to speak ‘in its own terms’ through the transliteration rather than translation of certain key concepts, derives in part from the belief that language both shapes and reveals culture. However, transliteration also serves as an alibi for the historian's work of interpretation by creating the impression of a past ‘as it really was’ emerging spontaneously from the ancient evidence. Finally, it reflects a conviction of the untranslatability of ancient culture as a whole, and works as a technique of rhetoric to represent antiquity as unique, wholly unlike modernity — in a word, classic.Less
This chapter considers ideas of translation and untranslatability, and the way that they are put into practice in ancient historiography. Historians' resistance to the perceived threat of anachronism, which leads them to seek to allow the past to speak ‘in its own terms’ through the transliteration rather than translation of certain key concepts, derives in part from the belief that language both shapes and reveals culture. However, transliteration also serves as an alibi for the historian's work of interpretation by creating the impression of a past ‘as it really was’ emerging spontaneously from the ancient evidence. Finally, it reflects a conviction of the untranslatability of ancient culture as a whole, and works as a technique of rhetoric to represent antiquity as unique, wholly unlike modernity — in a word, classic.
Ned Schantz
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195335910
- eISBN:
- 9780199868902
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195335910.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies, Women's Literature
This thought experiment attempts to liberate Middlemarch from a predictable place in the novelistic culture of gossip, mobilizing the question of anachronism to locate the novel on the threshold of ...
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This thought experiment attempts to liberate Middlemarch from a predictable place in the novelistic culture of gossip, mobilizing the question of anachronism to locate the novel on the threshold of modern sound technology. Indeed, listening to Middlemarch with an ear for this coming future reveals an astonishing discourse of necrophilia, black magic, and resilient, time-traveling female networks. Installing the figure of radio as a bridge to our own moment, the epilogue thereby moves to reclaim the lost futures of the Victorian past as a resource for feminism.Less
This thought experiment attempts to liberate Middlemarch from a predictable place in the novelistic culture of gossip, mobilizing the question of anachronism to locate the novel on the threshold of modern sound technology. Indeed, listening to Middlemarch with an ear for this coming future reveals an astonishing discourse of necrophilia, black magic, and resilient, time-traveling female networks. Installing the figure of radio as a bridge to our own moment, the epilogue thereby moves to reclaim the lost futures of the Victorian past as a resource for feminism.
Paul Waldau
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780195145717
- eISBN:
- 9780199834792
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195145712.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Buddhism
Because religious traditions are both complex and cumulative, this chapter analyzes what it means to claim generally that an entire religious tradition is, across time and place, characterized by a ...
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Because religious traditions are both complex and cumulative, this chapter analyzes what it means to claim generally that an entire religious tradition is, across time and place, characterized by a “view of” or “claims about” nonhuman animals. The issue of anachronism, i.e. imposition of modern constructs on ancient strata of these traditions, is addressed. The occurrence within religious traditions of some aspects of natural history (views of other animals that describe the features of their bodies and lives for identification purposes) is also evaluated.Less
Because religious traditions are both complex and cumulative, this chapter analyzes what it means to claim generally that an entire religious tradition is, across time and place, characterized by a “view of” or “claims about” nonhuman animals. The issue of anachronism, i.e. imposition of modern constructs on ancient strata of these traditions, is addressed. The occurrence within religious traditions of some aspects of natural history (views of other animals that describe the features of their bodies and lives for identification purposes) is also evaluated.
Terryl L. Givens
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780195138184
- eISBN:
- 9780199834211
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/019513818X.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Mormon Scholar Hugh Nibley ushered in a new era of Book of Mormon studies that emphasized congruencies between the record and the world of the Middle East. Focus shifted to textual, linguistic, and ...
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Mormon Scholar Hugh Nibley ushered in a new era of Book of Mormon studies that emphasized congruencies between the record and the world of the Middle East. Focus shifted to textual, linguistic, and cultural evidences for its authenticity. John Sorenson argued for geography and anthropology‐based approaches. In escalating debates, topics of dispute would include biblical plagiarism, the Isaiah problem, population numbers, Book of Mormon language and names, and anachronisms. In spite of a growing and impressive body of Book of Mormon apologetics, evangelicals and scholars remain largely dismissive, though with significant exceptions.Less
Mormon Scholar Hugh Nibley ushered in a new era of Book of Mormon studies that emphasized congruencies between the record and the world of the Middle East. Focus shifted to textual, linguistic, and cultural evidences for its authenticity. John Sorenson argued for geography and anthropology‐based approaches. In escalating debates, topics of dispute would include biblical plagiarism, the Isaiah problem, population numbers, Book of Mormon language and names, and anachronisms. In spite of a growing and impressive body of Book of Mormon apologetics, evangelicals and scholars remain largely dismissive, though with significant exceptions.
Mary L. Mullen
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781474453240
- eISBN:
- 9781474477116
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474453240.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Novel Institutions rethinks the politics of institutions by reinterpreting the most institutional of literary forms: nineteenth-century British realism. Although realist novels, like institutions, ...
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Novel Institutions rethinks the politics of institutions by reinterpreting the most institutional of literary forms: nineteenth-century British realism. Although realist novels, like institutions, mediate social life through a set of formal conventions and informal expectations, they also offer strategies for more capacious political imagining through their prevalent anachronisms. These anachronisms—untimely chronologies, obsolete practices, and out-of-date characters—unsettle the shared time of institutions and the consensus it fosters. Paying unprecedented attention to Irish novels, this book argues that the movement between shared institutional time and anachronisms is more pronounced in realist novels from Ireland, where Britain relied on a dual logic of institutional assimilation and exclusion. But such movement does not mean Irish novels are anomalous: these novels make the tension between the shared time of institutions and the unruly politics of anachronism visible in English realist novels. The book concludes that we cannot escape institutions, but we can refuse the narrow political future that they work to secure.Less
Novel Institutions rethinks the politics of institutions by reinterpreting the most institutional of literary forms: nineteenth-century British realism. Although realist novels, like institutions, mediate social life through a set of formal conventions and informal expectations, they also offer strategies for more capacious political imagining through their prevalent anachronisms. These anachronisms—untimely chronologies, obsolete practices, and out-of-date characters—unsettle the shared time of institutions and the consensus it fosters. Paying unprecedented attention to Irish novels, this book argues that the movement between shared institutional time and anachronisms is more pronounced in realist novels from Ireland, where Britain relied on a dual logic of institutional assimilation and exclusion. But such movement does not mean Irish novels are anomalous: these novels make the tension between the shared time of institutions and the unruly politics of anachronism visible in English realist novels. The book concludes that we cannot escape institutions, but we can refuse the narrow political future that they work to secure.
Anthony Ossa-Richardson
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691157115
- eISBN:
- 9781400846597
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691157115.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, Ancient History / Archaeology
This chapter examines the exchange between Fontenelle and Baltus. Fontenelle's celebrated Histoire des oracles (1686) was an adaptation of an earlier work, the Dissertationes duae de oraculis ...
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This chapter examines the exchange between Fontenelle and Baltus. Fontenelle's celebrated Histoire des oracles (1686) was an adaptation of an earlier work, the Dissertationes duae de oraculis ethnicorum (1683) by the Mennonite preacher and physician, Antonie van Dale. Both argued that the oracles had been pure frauds. The chapter focuses on Fontenelle because it was the Histoire, not the Dissertationes, that Baltus attacked at length in 1707. These two, therefore, must be paired as direct interlocutors. The analytical, nonhistorical approach of this chapter suits its goal: to examine the conflict between two mentalités, and the way in which their respective assumptions about history and humanity underpinned their disagreement on the oracles. In taking Fontenelle and Baltus seriously, both in their own right and as figures in history, the chapter aims to overcome the old dichotomy between “rational” and “historical” reconstructions of past thought, that is, between anachronism and antiquarianism.Less
This chapter examines the exchange between Fontenelle and Baltus. Fontenelle's celebrated Histoire des oracles (1686) was an adaptation of an earlier work, the Dissertationes duae de oraculis ethnicorum (1683) by the Mennonite preacher and physician, Antonie van Dale. Both argued that the oracles had been pure frauds. The chapter focuses on Fontenelle because it was the Histoire, not the Dissertationes, that Baltus attacked at length in 1707. These two, therefore, must be paired as direct interlocutors. The analytical, nonhistorical approach of this chapter suits its goal: to examine the conflict between two mentalités, and the way in which their respective assumptions about history and humanity underpinned their disagreement on the oracles. In taking Fontenelle and Baltus seriously, both in their own right and as figures in history, the chapter aims to overcome the old dichotomy between “rational” and “historical” reconstructions of past thought, that is, between anachronism and antiquarianism.
David Clark
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199558155
- eISBN:
- 9780191721342
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199558155.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature, Anglo-Saxon / Old English Literature
The first chapter analyses three poems most often considered to be about heterosexual romantic love as a means of destabilizing at the outset assumptions often made about Old English texts. It argues ...
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The first chapter analyses three poems most often considered to be about heterosexual romantic love as a means of destabilizing at the outset assumptions often made about Old English texts. It argues that such interpretations often rest upon heterosexist and anachronistic preconceptions which are invisible because they lay implicit claim to be normative. It also reviews the arguments which claim male narrators for Wulf and Eadwacer and The Wife's Lament and the reception of these critical manoeuvres. It concludes with a call to examine more rigorously our cultural assumptions about the Anglo‐Saxon period and its literature, and by acknowledging the primacy of homosocial desire.Less
The first chapter analyses three poems most often considered to be about heterosexual romantic love as a means of destabilizing at the outset assumptions often made about Old English texts. It argues that such interpretations often rest upon heterosexist and anachronistic preconceptions which are invisible because they lay implicit claim to be normative. It also reviews the arguments which claim male narrators for Wulf and Eadwacer and The Wife's Lament and the reception of these critical manoeuvres. It concludes with a call to examine more rigorously our cultural assumptions about the Anglo‐Saxon period and its literature, and by acknowledging the primacy of homosocial desire.
Peter Biller
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199265596
- eISBN:
- 9780191699085
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199265596.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Medieval History, History of Ideas
This introductory chapter begins with a discussion of the origins of the idea for this book. It then discusses the scope and definition of medieval demographic thought; ideas about births and deaths, ...
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This introductory chapter begins with a discussion of the origins of the idea for this book. It then discusses the scope and definition of medieval demographic thought; ideas about births and deaths, and contemporary realities; and the anachronism of individual words and the intellectual discipline of demographic thought.Less
This introductory chapter begins with a discussion of the origins of the idea for this book. It then discusses the scope and definition of medieval demographic thought; ideas about births and deaths, and contemporary realities; and the anachronism of individual words and the intellectual discipline of demographic thought.
David Duff
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199572748
- eISBN:
- 9780191721960
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199572748.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
This chapter explores the relationship between genre and time, taking the neoclassical ‘Ancients and Moderns’ dispute as a starting point, and tracing the emergence of an historical and genealogical ...
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This chapter explores the relationship between genre and time, taking the neoclassical ‘Ancients and Moderns’ dispute as a starting point, and tracing the emergence of an historical and genealogical understanding of genre. It shows how a new perception of the mutability and relativism of cultural forms revealed itself not only in literary criticism and editorial practice, but also in the way literary genres were actually deployed. Using Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765) as a touchstone of the ambivalent attitudes of the antiquarian movement, the chapter analyses the tension between a desire to modernize genres and to convey (sometimes fraudulently) a sense of their antiquity. High Romanticism, with its politically inflected cult of innovation, represents a sharpening of this ambivalence, as the antiquarian desire to ‘make it old’ competes with a fresh aesthetic imperative to ‘make it new’. The last section discusses some of the strategies by which Romantic writers sought to meet these conflicting demands—through deliberate anachronism, fragmentation, and internalization—and examines the dialectic of archaism and innovation that marks Romanticism's distinctive brand of generic revivalism.Less
This chapter explores the relationship between genre and time, taking the neoclassical ‘Ancients and Moderns’ dispute as a starting point, and tracing the emergence of an historical and genealogical understanding of genre. It shows how a new perception of the mutability and relativism of cultural forms revealed itself not only in literary criticism and editorial practice, but also in the way literary genres were actually deployed. Using Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765) as a touchstone of the ambivalent attitudes of the antiquarian movement, the chapter analyses the tension between a desire to modernize genres and to convey (sometimes fraudulently) a sense of their antiquity. High Romanticism, with its politically inflected cult of innovation, represents a sharpening of this ambivalence, as the antiquarian desire to ‘make it old’ competes with a fresh aesthetic imperative to ‘make it new’. The last section discusses some of the strategies by which Romantic writers sought to meet these conflicting demands—through deliberate anachronism, fragmentation, and internalization—and examines the dialectic of archaism and innovation that marks Romanticism's distinctive brand of generic revivalism.
Dray William H.
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198238812
- eISBN:
- 9780191679780
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198238812.003.0008
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Metaphysics/Epistemology
This chapter examines some other things which R. G. Collingwood had to say which have at times been interpreted as denying the objectivity of history. These include his claim that historians' ...
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This chapter examines some other things which R. G. Collingwood had to say which have at times been interpreted as denying the objectivity of history. These include his claim that historians' conclusions are necessarily expressions of their own points of view, that what history offers is thus a view of the past from a present perspective, and that it can therefore be expected to be continually rewritten. His views on the nature of narrative in history are also considered. It is argued that nothing which Collingwood says about history being relative to a point of view justifies describing him as a sceptic. However, taking historical relativism to mean that the knowledge claimed by historians is conditioned by their points of view, Collingwood appeared to be an historical relativist. Collingwood's perspectivism often takes the more specific form of maintaining that what historians offer is accounts of the past from a present point of view. This chapter also discusses retrospective historical understanding, as well as presentism, retrospectivity, reality, and anachronism in Collingwood's theory of re-enactment.Less
This chapter examines some other things which R. G. Collingwood had to say which have at times been interpreted as denying the objectivity of history. These include his claim that historians' conclusions are necessarily expressions of their own points of view, that what history offers is thus a view of the past from a present perspective, and that it can therefore be expected to be continually rewritten. His views on the nature of narrative in history are also considered. It is argued that nothing which Collingwood says about history being relative to a point of view justifies describing him as a sceptic. However, taking historical relativism to mean that the knowledge claimed by historians is conditioned by their points of view, Collingwood appeared to be an historical relativist. Collingwood's perspectivism often takes the more specific form of maintaining that what historians offer is accounts of the past from a present point of view. This chapter also discusses retrospective historical understanding, as well as presentism, retrospectivity, reality, and anachronism in Collingwood's theory of re-enactment.
Jeremy Tambling
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719082443
- eISBN:
- 9781781703168
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719082443.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter discusses the references to anachronism in the seven books of Proust's À la recherche dn temps perdu. It identifies the seven occurrences of anachronism in this work, and discusses each ...
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This chapter discusses the references to anachronism in the seven books of Proust's À la recherche dn temps perdu. It identifies the seven occurrences of anachronism in this work, and discusses each one in detail. The first use of anachronism shows the Renaissance world to support itself on anachronistic foundations, while the second places anachronism within life and prevents people from living one single chronology. The third occurrence of anachronism shows that everything has the power of return, the fourth suggests homosexuality, and the fifth implies an anachrony where facts and feelings split from one another. Finally, the last two occurrences are jealousy and matters of chronology.Less
This chapter discusses the references to anachronism in the seven books of Proust's À la recherche dn temps perdu. It identifies the seven occurrences of anachronism in this work, and discusses each one in detail. The first use of anachronism shows the Renaissance world to support itself on anachronistic foundations, while the second places anachronism within life and prevents people from living one single chronology. The third occurrence of anachronism shows that everything has the power of return, the fourth suggests homosexuality, and the fifth implies an anachrony where facts and feelings split from one another. Finally, the last two occurrences are jealousy and matters of chronology.
Jeremy Tambling
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719082443
- eISBN:
- 9781781703168
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719082443.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter introduces the concept of anachronism, which means considering what is out of time and what resists chronology. It first takes a look at deliberate anachronism, a technique that can be ...
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This chapter introduces the concept of anachronism, which means considering what is out of time and what resists chronology. It first takes a look at deliberate anachronism, a technique that can be found in Don Quixote, and then examines anachronism within the context of historical writing. The next section studies ‘Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote’, where it explains that to work on any text of the past is anachronistic. The concepts of aphorism and contretemps are also discussed.Less
This chapter introduces the concept of anachronism, which means considering what is out of time and what resists chronology. It first takes a look at deliberate anachronism, a technique that can be found in Don Quixote, and then examines anachronism within the context of historical writing. The next section studies ‘Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote’, where it explains that to work on any text of the past is anachronistic. The concepts of aphorism and contretemps are also discussed.
Geoffrey Lloyd
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- April 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780199270163
- eISBN:
- 9780191602276
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199270163.003.3-chapter-1
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy
How far is it possible to arrive at an adequate understanding of ancient societies? In contrast to those who have invoked the notion of 'incommensurability' in order to cast doubt on whether proper ...
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How far is it possible to arrive at an adequate understanding of ancient societies? In contrast to those who have invoked the notion of 'incommensurability' in order to cast doubt on whether proper understanding is possible, this study argues that the problems do not differ in any radical way from those presented by attempts to understand our own contemporaries although we must allow for the bias and lacunae in our sources and be particularly careful to avoid anachronism and teleology. However, to invoke an unqualified principle of charity in interpretation (such as is proposed by Quine and Davidson) runs into difficulties in doing justice to the possibility of deliberate deception and does not pay enough attention to how we may adapt our own conceptual framework as we learn about others' viewpoints.Less
How far is it possible to arrive at an adequate understanding of ancient societies? In contrast to those who have invoked the notion of 'incommensurability' in order to cast doubt on whether proper understanding is possible, this study argues that the problems do not differ in any radical way from those presented by attempts to understand our own contemporaries although we must allow for the bias and lacunae in our sources and be particularly careful to avoid anachronism and teleology. However, to invoke an unqualified principle of charity in interpretation (such as is proposed by Quine and Davidson) runs into difficulties in doing justice to the possibility of deliberate deception and does not pay enough attention to how we may adapt our own conceptual framework as we learn about others' viewpoints.
Bruce Haynes
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195189872
- eISBN:
- 9780199864218
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195189872.003.08
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
The Renaissance principle of imitation was two separate concepts. One was the imitation of Nature (Mimesis), the other involved imitating earlier works. The second type is generally known nowadays as ...
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The Renaissance principle of imitation was two separate concepts. One was the imitation of Nature (Mimesis), the other involved imitating earlier works. The second type is generally known nowadays as “the imitation of art.” When a Renaissance artist or writer copied an already-existing work, they might do it in different ways. The most common were: translatio, absolute copying or replication; imitatio, or eclectic borrowing; and emulatio or emulation, copying with improvement or enhancement. This chapter discusses emulation and replication, imitation in the canonic system, style-copying and work-copying, the shelf life of historical evidence regarding music of the past, and anachronisms.Less
The Renaissance principle of imitation was two separate concepts. One was the imitation of Nature (Mimesis), the other involved imitating earlier works. The second type is generally known nowadays as “the imitation of art.” When a Renaissance artist or writer copied an already-existing work, they might do it in different ways. The most common were: translatio, absolute copying or replication; imitatio, or eclectic borrowing; and emulatio or emulation, copying with improvement or enhancement. This chapter discusses emulation and replication, imitation in the canonic system, style-copying and work-copying, the shelf life of historical evidence regarding music of the past, and anachronisms.
James Steven Rogers
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199856220
- eISBN:
- 9780199919574
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199856220.003.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Company and Commercial Law
In the mid-twentieth century, payments law meant the law of checks and promissory notes, as set out in Article 3 of the Uniform Commercial Code. Long ago, a “negotiable instrument” was a privately ...
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In the mid-twentieth century, payments law meant the law of checks and promissory notes, as set out in Article 3 of the Uniform Commercial Code. Long ago, a “negotiable instrument” was a privately issued instrument that circulated from hand to hand as a substitute for currency. Although that no longer happens, twentieth century law was still based on concepts of negotiability, including the “holder in due course” doctrine. The worst effects of that doctrine were eliminated by developments in Federal law in the late twentieth century. The law, however, has not considered whether there is anything useful left in the law of negotiable instruments once the holder in due course doctrine has been eliminated.Less
In the mid-twentieth century, payments law meant the law of checks and promissory notes, as set out in Article 3 of the Uniform Commercial Code. Long ago, a “negotiable instrument” was a privately issued instrument that circulated from hand to hand as a substitute for currency. Although that no longer happens, twentieth century law was still based on concepts of negotiability, including the “holder in due course” doctrine. The worst effects of that doctrine were eliminated by developments in Federal law in the late twentieth century. The law, however, has not considered whether there is anything useful left in the law of negotiable instruments once the holder in due course doctrine has been eliminated.
James Steven Rogers
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199856220
- eISBN:
- 9780199919574
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199856220.003.0004
- Subject:
- Law, Company and Commercial Law
Under the holder in due course doctrine, a person who bought goods on credit might have to pay, even though the goods were defective, if the note had been transferred from the seller to a financer ...
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Under the holder in due course doctrine, a person who bought goods on credit might have to pay, even though the goods were defective, if the note had been transferred from the seller to a financer who qualified as a holder in due course. By the late twentieth century, disputes over that doctrine had been largely resolved in favor of consumer buyers. Yet the holder in due course doctrine continues to apply in some settings, such as mortgage finance and business cases. In fact, the problem is that the entire holder in due course doctrine is an anachronism. This chapter discusses the bizarre interpretive approaches that courts still use to avoid applying the statutory rules. The chapter concludes that the current statute on promissory actually compels courts to consider seriously whether, in a particular, case, application of the holder in due course doctrine is justified.Less
Under the holder in due course doctrine, a person who bought goods on credit might have to pay, even though the goods were defective, if the note had been transferred from the seller to a financer who qualified as a holder in due course. By the late twentieth century, disputes over that doctrine had been largely resolved in favor of consumer buyers. Yet the holder in due course doctrine continues to apply in some settings, such as mortgage finance and business cases. In fact, the problem is that the entire holder in due course doctrine is an anachronism. This chapter discusses the bizarre interpretive approaches that courts still use to avoid applying the statutory rules. The chapter concludes that the current statute on promissory actually compels courts to consider seriously whether, in a particular, case, application of the holder in due course doctrine is justified.
