C. Stephen Evans
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198263975
- eISBN:
- 9780191600579
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/019826397X.003.0008
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
A variation on the epistemological objection to special acts of God (miracles) investigated in the previous chapter is the claim that such acts cannot be recognized by anyone who is committed to ...
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A variation on the epistemological objection to special acts of God (miracles) investigated in the previous chapter is the claim that such acts cannot be recognized by anyone who is committed to critical, historical investigation. This kind of argument, which rests on the nature of historical knowledge and critical historical method, is considered in this chapter. If the incarnational narrative necessarily includes such divine actions, then the argument claims that we cannot have historical knowledge of it. The different sections of the chapter are: rationalism about religious knowledge; can the rationalist conception of religious knowledge be defended?; Hans Frei and the character of the biblical narrative; the assumptions of the ‘critical historian’; Troeltsch’s principles of correlation and analogy; and the sociology of knowledge and appeals to authority.Less
A variation on the epistemological objection to special acts of God (miracles) investigated in the previous chapter is the claim that such acts cannot be recognized by anyone who is committed to critical, historical investigation. This kind of argument, which rests on the nature of historical knowledge and critical historical method, is considered in this chapter. If the incarnational narrative necessarily includes such divine actions, then the argument claims that we cannot have historical knowledge of it. The different sections of the chapter are: rationalism about religious knowledge; can the rationalist conception of religious knowledge be defended?; Hans Frei and the character of the biblical narrative; the assumptions of the ‘critical historian’; Troeltsch’s principles of correlation and analogy; and the sociology of knowledge and appeals to authority.
Frederick C. Beiser
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199691555
- eISBN:
- 9780191731839
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199691555.003.0008
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Metaphysics/Epistemology
This chapter is an analysis of the historics of Johann Gustav Droysen. It considers several issues arising from his historics: the concept of historical explanation, the question of objectivity, the ...
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This chapter is an analysis of the historics of Johann Gustav Droysen. It considers several issues arising from his historics: the concept of historical explanation, the question of objectivity, the critique of the critical school of history. Droysen's position regarding naturalism and positivism is also examined in detail. It is argued that Droysen, not Dilthey, is the true father of the method of historical understanding or Verstehen.Less
This chapter is an analysis of the historics of Johann Gustav Droysen. It considers several issues arising from his historics: the concept of historical explanation, the question of objectivity, the critique of the critical school of history. Droysen's position regarding naturalism and positivism is also examined in detail. It is argued that Droysen, not Dilthey, is the true father of the method of historical understanding or Verstehen.
Andrew Cole
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780226135397
- eISBN:
- 9780226135564
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226135564.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This concluding chapter rewrites the history of Anglo-American criticism in its sweeping account of dialectical literary historicism—from Hegel and his contemporaries to the ...
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This concluding chapter rewrites the history of Anglo-American criticism in its sweeping account of dialectical literary historicism—from Hegel and his contemporaries to the mid-to-late-nineteenth-century Hegelians in the UK and US, to Lukács, Macherey, and Jameson. It identifies where, over the years, dialectical criticism has preferred to think exclusively with concepts rather than figures, and shows how the inclusion of premodern dialectical models within the dialectical paradigm can not only reintroduce conceptual figuration as a viable contemplative and utopian mode (after Plotinus), but can also offer a way of conjoining dialectics and Deleuzianism, which have long been at odds with one another.Less
This concluding chapter rewrites the history of Anglo-American criticism in its sweeping account of dialectical literary historicism—from Hegel and his contemporaries to the mid-to-late-nineteenth-century Hegelians in the UK and US, to Lukács, Macherey, and Jameson. It identifies where, over the years, dialectical criticism has preferred to think exclusively with concepts rather than figures, and shows how the inclusion of premodern dialectical models within the dialectical paradigm can not only reintroduce conceptual figuration as a viable contemplative and utopian mode (after Plotinus), but can also offer a way of conjoining dialectics and Deleuzianism, which have long been at odds with one another.
Laura Doan
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226001586
- eISBN:
- 9780226001753
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226001753.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Social History
For decades, the history of sexuality has been a multidisciplinary project serving competing agendas. Lesbian, gay, and queer scholars have produced powerful narratives by tracing the homosexual or ...
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For decades, the history of sexuality has been a multidisciplinary project serving competing agendas. Lesbian, gay, and queer scholars have produced powerful narratives by tracing the homosexual or queer subject as continuous or discontinuous. Yet organizing historical work around categories of identity as normal or abnormal often obscures how sexual matters were known or talked about in the past. Set against the backdrop of women’s work experiences, friendships, and communities during World War I, this book draws on a substantial body of new archival material to expose the roadblocks still present in current practices and imagine new alternatives. It clarifies the ethical value and political purpose of identity history—and indeed its very capacity to give rise to innovative practices borne of sustained exchange between queer studies and critical history. The book insists on taking seriously the imperative to step outside the logic of identity to address questions as yet unasked about the modern sexual past.Less
For decades, the history of sexuality has been a multidisciplinary project serving competing agendas. Lesbian, gay, and queer scholars have produced powerful narratives by tracing the homosexual or queer subject as continuous or discontinuous. Yet organizing historical work around categories of identity as normal or abnormal often obscures how sexual matters were known or talked about in the past. Set against the backdrop of women’s work experiences, friendships, and communities during World War I, this book draws on a substantial body of new archival material to expose the roadblocks still present in current practices and imagine new alternatives. It clarifies the ethical value and political purpose of identity history—and indeed its very capacity to give rise to innovative practices borne of sustained exchange between queer studies and critical history. The book insists on taking seriously the imperative to step outside the logic of identity to address questions as yet unasked about the modern sexual past.
Jeffrey A. Bell and Claire Colebrook (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748636082
- eISBN:
- 9780748671748
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748636082.003.0010
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
This chapter explores the expression of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche's untimely within a Deleuzian philosophy of history. Gilles Deleuze's use of the untimely appeared to be not only a departure but a ...
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This chapter explores the expression of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche's untimely within a Deleuzian philosophy of history. Gilles Deleuze's use of the untimely appeared to be not only a departure but a productive misappropriation of Nietzsche, and as such a creation that might itself suggest a new time to come. It then investigates how Nietzsche diagnosed European degradation in the advent of ‘modern historical cultivation’ and ‘history as an objective science’. Nietzsche reports three types of history that form relations either in the service or disservice of life: monumental history, antiquarian history and critical history. Deleuze's interaction with Nietzsche's analysis of history and the untimely is explained. A philosophy of history should emerge in Deleuze that is not only more than a critique of facile historicism, but also a crucial part of his general philosophy of time.Less
This chapter explores the expression of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche's untimely within a Deleuzian philosophy of history. Gilles Deleuze's use of the untimely appeared to be not only a departure but a productive misappropriation of Nietzsche, and as such a creation that might itself suggest a new time to come. It then investigates how Nietzsche diagnosed European degradation in the advent of ‘modern historical cultivation’ and ‘history as an objective science’. Nietzsche reports three types of history that form relations either in the service or disservice of life: monumental history, antiquarian history and critical history. Deleuze's interaction with Nietzsche's analysis of history and the untimely is explained. A philosophy of history should emerge in Deleuze that is not only more than a critique of facile historicism, but also a crucial part of his general philosophy of time.
Patricia Lengermann and Gillian Niebrugge
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226090948
- eISBN:
- 9780226090962
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226090962.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Comparative and Historical Sociology
There are three narratives of the relation of sociology to social work: a natural history, a social history, and a critical history. These stories are told by sociologists, historians of social ...
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There are three narratives of the relation of sociology to social work: a natural history, a social history, and a critical history. These stories are told by sociologists, historians of social science, and social workers, but the division among them is not by discipline but by interpretation. This chapter concerns both the content of these narratives and the fact of their coexistence. It suggests that an interpretation of these three stories can be used to link the first decades of sociology in the United States to the form of the profession in America today. The existence of these multiple narratives shows much about sociology's still contested and divided identity and purpose.Less
There are three narratives of the relation of sociology to social work: a natural history, a social history, and a critical history. These stories are told by sociologists, historians of social science, and social workers, but the division among them is not by discipline but by interpretation. This chapter concerns both the content of these narratives and the fact of their coexistence. It suggests that an interpretation of these three stories can be used to link the first decades of sociology in the United States to the form of the profession in America today. The existence of these multiple narratives shows much about sociology's still contested and divided identity and purpose.
Rocío Zambrana
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780226280110
- eISBN:
- 9780226280257
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226280257.003.0009
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Metaphysics/Epistemology
The book ends with a discussion of the three syllogisms of philosophy with which the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences comes to a close. The Conclusion argues that the syllogisms of ...
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The book ends with a discussion of the three syllogisms of philosophy with which the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences comes to a close. The Conclusion argues that the syllogisms of philosophy are three distinct combinations of logic, nature, and Geist. The combinations represent three distinct philosophical perspectives from which to understand the relation between logic, nature, and Geist. The syllogisms, however, also represent philosophical perspectives that allow a critical history of the development of a practice or institution, since they make possible different perspectives from which a normative commitment is assessed. The syllogisms make possible an assessment of the history of a normative commitment along with the awareness of the irreducible precariousness and ambivalence of any given commitment.Less
The book ends with a discussion of the three syllogisms of philosophy with which the Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences comes to a close. The Conclusion argues that the syllogisms of philosophy are three distinct combinations of logic, nature, and Geist. The combinations represent three distinct philosophical perspectives from which to understand the relation between logic, nature, and Geist. The syllogisms, however, also represent philosophical perspectives that allow a critical history of the development of a practice or institution, since they make possible different perspectives from which a normative commitment is assessed. The syllogisms make possible an assessment of the history of a normative commitment along with the awareness of the irreducible precariousness and ambivalence of any given commitment.
Jack Martin and Ann-Marie McLellan
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199913671
- eISBN:
- 9780199315949
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199913671.003.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
This chapter sets the stage for the ways in which disciplinary psychology transformed students during the last half of the twentieth century. The traditional approach to psychological science is ...
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This chapter sets the stage for the ways in which disciplinary psychology transformed students during the last half of the twentieth century. The traditional approach to psychological science is briefly discussed. A critical history of psychology then is presented. The “psy” hypothesis, suggested initially by Foucault but elaborated within psychology and education by others (e.g. Rose, Popkewitz) is the assertion that the psy disciplines (disciplinary psychology in particular) are powerful practices or technologies of the self that, in Western societies, have shaped our experience of ourselves as free, self-governing, self-powering, and self-realized individuals. It is argued that psychological conceptions, categories, and practices of selfhood have contributed to the development of students as radically autonomous individuals more attuned to their own self-interest than to responsible community participation.Less
This chapter sets the stage for the ways in which disciplinary psychology transformed students during the last half of the twentieth century. The traditional approach to psychological science is briefly discussed. A critical history of psychology then is presented. The “psy” hypothesis, suggested initially by Foucault but elaborated within psychology and education by others (e.g. Rose, Popkewitz) is the assertion that the psy disciplines (disciplinary psychology in particular) are powerful practices or technologies of the self that, in Western societies, have shaped our experience of ourselves as free, self-governing, self-powering, and self-realized individuals. It is argued that psychological conceptions, categories, and practices of selfhood have contributed to the development of students as radically autonomous individuals more attuned to their own self-interest than to responsible community participation.
David Bevington
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199599103
- eISBN:
- 9780191731501
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199599103.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Shakespeare Studies, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
This chapter provides an introduction to Hamlet's history — its critical history, performance history, in film, in television, publishing, and history.
This chapter provides an introduction to Hamlet's history — its critical history, performance history, in film, in television, publishing, and history.
Will D. Desmond
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- August 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780198839064
- eISBN:
- 9780191874925
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198839064.003.0006
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
Hegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of History explore the legacies of ancient history and historiography, at the levels of both theory and empirical detail. Their threefold typology of histories into ...
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Hegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of History explore the legacies of ancient history and historiography, at the levels of both theory and empirical detail. Their threefold typology of histories into ‘original’, ‘reflective’, and ‘philosophical’ constitutes a concise argument that history has and must, in the course of its development, become theoretical, and that therefore history and philosophy have essentially converged in the modern era—not least in Hegel’s own deeply historical style of thinking. With their vision of a Spirit that develops through four essential stages of the ‘Oriental’, Greek, Roman and ‘Germanic’ worlds, these lectures reveal that, for Hegel, the middle (Greek and Roman) stages are pivotal to the story of progressive human freedom and self-knowledge. The Mediterranean as the ‘middle sea’ (Mittelmeer) is a central historical fact and metaphor for Hegel (long before Braudel), and it was as peoples of the Mediterranean that his Greeks and Romans proved so historically significant—the Greeks with their humanistic art, anthropomorphic religion, philosophical depth, and ‘invention’ of history as a genre; the Romans with their law, inclusive citizenship, universal histories, inclusive empire and pantheon, and ultimately Christianity. This narrative is, in many respects, simply Hegel’s systematization of a long-held consensus. It also looks forward to the even grander narratives of global and ‘big history’, which temporalize the notion of ‘evolution’ and extend it from (human) ‘Spirit’ to all of nature. If so, this serves as a reminder that many facets of Hegel’s antiquity have been revived in new, unexpected forms.Less
Hegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of History explore the legacies of ancient history and historiography, at the levels of both theory and empirical detail. Their threefold typology of histories into ‘original’, ‘reflective’, and ‘philosophical’ constitutes a concise argument that history has and must, in the course of its development, become theoretical, and that therefore history and philosophy have essentially converged in the modern era—not least in Hegel’s own deeply historical style of thinking. With their vision of a Spirit that develops through four essential stages of the ‘Oriental’, Greek, Roman and ‘Germanic’ worlds, these lectures reveal that, for Hegel, the middle (Greek and Roman) stages are pivotal to the story of progressive human freedom and self-knowledge. The Mediterranean as the ‘middle sea’ (Mittelmeer) is a central historical fact and metaphor for Hegel (long before Braudel), and it was as peoples of the Mediterranean that his Greeks and Romans proved so historically significant—the Greeks with their humanistic art, anthropomorphic religion, philosophical depth, and ‘invention’ of history as a genre; the Romans with their law, inclusive citizenship, universal histories, inclusive empire and pantheon, and ultimately Christianity. This narrative is, in many respects, simply Hegel’s systematization of a long-held consensus. It also looks forward to the even grander narratives of global and ‘big history’, which temporalize the notion of ‘evolution’ and extend it from (human) ‘Spirit’ to all of nature. If so, this serves as a reminder that many facets of Hegel’s antiquity have been revived in new, unexpected forms.
Joan Wallach Scott
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226036564
- eISBN:
- 9780226036595
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226036595.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Historiography
This chapter presents historian Joan Wallach Scott's memoirs, which trace how she became interested in critical history. Scott was not very much interested as a young student, but it was inevitable ...
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This chapter presents historian Joan Wallach Scott's memoirs, which trace how she became interested in critical history. Scott was not very much interested as a young student, but it was inevitable for her to become a historian because her parents were high school history teachers; their love and passion for history nurtured hers. Scott's latest project is a book on academic freedom; a history of the concept in the United States and an analysis of its applications.Less
This chapter presents historian Joan Wallach Scott's memoirs, which trace how she became interested in critical history. Scott was not very much interested as a young student, but it was inevitable for her to become a historian because her parents were high school history teachers; their love and passion for history nurtured hers. Scott's latest project is a book on academic freedom; a history of the concept in the United States and an analysis of its applications.
Angelika Neuwirth
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- March 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780199928958
- eISBN:
- 9780190921316
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780199928958.003.0002
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Ancient Religions, Asian and Middle Eastern History: BCE to 500CE
A sketch of the previous research on the Qur’an is provided in detail. The overview of approaches and results in Western research goes back to the nineteenth century, following the story of Qur’an ...
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A sketch of the previous research on the Qur’an is provided in detail. The overview of approaches and results in Western research goes back to the nineteenth century, following the story of Qur’an research first up to the Wissenschaft des Judentums (science of Judaism) school of the early twentieth century. Following this, more recent trends in Qur’an research, including the more source-critical and skeptical methods of recent decades, are described. Finally, a sketch of the diversity of current approaches is given, situating the approach of this volume within its relevant scholarly context.Less
A sketch of the previous research on the Qur’an is provided in detail. The overview of approaches and results in Western research goes back to the nineteenth century, following the story of Qur’an research first up to the Wissenschaft des Judentums (science of Judaism) school of the early twentieth century. Following this, more recent trends in Qur’an research, including the more source-critical and skeptical methods of recent decades, are described. Finally, a sketch of the diversity of current approaches is given, situating the approach of this volume within its relevant scholarly context.
David Wood
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780823281367
- eISBN:
- 9780823286010
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823281367.003.0004
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
Being geologically human is the name of a question: what could it mean to understand ourselves as the products of historical, evolutionary, and geological processes? A lot hangs on how we take up the ...
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Being geologically human is the name of a question: what could it mean to understand ourselves as the products of historical, evolutionary, and geological processes? A lot hangs on how we take up the past, who “we” take ourselves to be, and how expansive a view we have of the past. The geological takes this question to the limit. Nietzsche’s essay The Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life was provoked by his sense that a surfeit of historical knowledge could crush the human spirit. Its failures would weigh upon us like coffins returned from the war zone. If things looked bad then, how much worse they are now! Continued enthusiasm for life depends on a certain capacity for active forgetting. We can and must learn from history in various ways—monumental (drawing inspiration), antiquarian (preserving continuity), and critical history (reflective engagement). Each relation to the past is essential, but taken separately can get out of control. Faced with apocalypse, this chapter argues for privileging critical history, and for extending beyond the human the purview of Nietzsche’s reference to Life.Less
Being geologically human is the name of a question: what could it mean to understand ourselves as the products of historical, evolutionary, and geological processes? A lot hangs on how we take up the past, who “we” take ourselves to be, and how expansive a view we have of the past. The geological takes this question to the limit. Nietzsche’s essay The Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life was provoked by his sense that a surfeit of historical knowledge could crush the human spirit. Its failures would weigh upon us like coffins returned from the war zone. If things looked bad then, how much worse they are now! Continued enthusiasm for life depends on a certain capacity for active forgetting. We can and must learn from history in various ways—monumental (drawing inspiration), antiquarian (preserving continuity), and critical history (reflective engagement). Each relation to the past is essential, but taken separately can get out of control. Faced with apocalypse, this chapter argues for privileging critical history, and for extending beyond the human the purview of Nietzsche’s reference to Life.
Pablo Kalmanovitz
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- October 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780198790259
- eISBN:
- 9780191831577
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198790259.003.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Legal History
The Introduction situates the book within current debates in the historiography of international law. While the book’s sources are examined in their historical context, contextualist approaches to ...
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The Introduction situates the book within current debates in the historiography of international law. While the book’s sources are examined in their historical context, contextualist approaches to intellectual history can emphasize to different degrees theoretical or historical dimensions. This book largely emphasizes the former. Relatedly, contextualist legal history can be purely historical or used as an instrument of critique of the present. By helping to reveal the various interests that go into the making of legal norms and vocabularies, and by showing from the outside the legitimizing function of legal norms, legal history can unsettle contemporary understandings of the law. However, when instrumentalized as critique, intellectual history risks focusing excessively on the present and become anachronistic.Less
The Introduction situates the book within current debates in the historiography of international law. While the book’s sources are examined in their historical context, contextualist approaches to intellectual history can emphasize to different degrees theoretical or historical dimensions. This book largely emphasizes the former. Relatedly, contextualist legal history can be purely historical or used as an instrument of critique of the present. By helping to reveal the various interests that go into the making of legal norms and vocabularies, and by showing from the outside the legitimizing function of legal norms, legal history can unsettle contemporary understandings of the law. However, when instrumentalized as critique, intellectual history risks focusing excessively on the present and become anachronistic.
Jozef Keulartz
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780190240318
- eISBN:
- 9780190240349
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190240318.003.0003
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
In order to highlight the role and significance of human history in restoring layered landscapes where natural and human histories are closely intertwined this chapter makes use of Friedrich ...
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In order to highlight the role and significance of human history in restoring layered landscapes where natural and human histories are closely intertwined this chapter makes use of Friedrich Nietzsche’s essay, “On the Use and Abuse of History for Life,” in which he distinguishes three different forms of history: antiquarian, monumental, and critical history. The chapter provides an overview of this triad of forms of history and applies them to different forms of design and management of postindustrial landscapes, using examples from England, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States.Less
In order to highlight the role and significance of human history in restoring layered landscapes where natural and human histories are closely intertwined this chapter makes use of Friedrich Nietzsche’s essay, “On the Use and Abuse of History for Life,” in which he distinguishes three different forms of history: antiquarian, monumental, and critical history. The chapter provides an overview of this triad of forms of history and applies them to different forms of design and management of postindustrial landscapes, using examples from England, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States.
Elsa Högberg and Amy Bromley
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474414609
- eISBN:
- 9781474444989
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474414609.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
The introduction advocates for a focus on individual sentences as a fruitful way to read Woolf. It contextualises this approach by outlining the critical history of Orlando, and discusses Woolf’s ...
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The introduction advocates for a focus on individual sentences as a fruitful way to read Woolf. It contextualises this approach by outlining the critical history of Orlando, and discusses Woolf’s theorising of the literary sentence in A Room of One’s Own, where Woolf’s emphasis on shape and form converges with her discussion of a gender and genre politics of the sentence. The introduction makes claims for Orlando as enacting this politics aesthetically, and therefore as especially suited for a study of the form and structure (morphology) of its sentences in the wider context of modernist aesthetics. It attends to the legal and discursive meanings of the word sentence, as a way into Orlando’s subversive treatment of reading practices, censorship, sexuality, gender and race – all of which are examined in this volume. The introduction also considers the stakes involved in reading Woolf alongside the new aestheticist critical practices currently shaping the field of modernist studies, delineating thereby the volume’s aim to open up further avenues for exploring a morphology of the modernist sentence.Less
The introduction advocates for a focus on individual sentences as a fruitful way to read Woolf. It contextualises this approach by outlining the critical history of Orlando, and discusses Woolf’s theorising of the literary sentence in A Room of One’s Own, where Woolf’s emphasis on shape and form converges with her discussion of a gender and genre politics of the sentence. The introduction makes claims for Orlando as enacting this politics aesthetically, and therefore as especially suited for a study of the form and structure (morphology) of its sentences in the wider context of modernist aesthetics. It attends to the legal and discursive meanings of the word sentence, as a way into Orlando’s subversive treatment of reading practices, censorship, sexuality, gender and race – all of which are examined in this volume. The introduction also considers the stakes involved in reading Woolf alongside the new aestheticist critical practices currently shaping the field of modernist studies, delineating thereby the volume’s aim to open up further avenues for exploring a morphology of the modernist sentence.
Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801449017
- eISBN:
- 9780801460647
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801449017.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter discusses the influences of war on the French Republic. It argues that the Republic originated in war, which then shaped the representations and practices of the res publica. In ...
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This chapter discusses the influences of war on the French Republic. It argues that the Republic originated in war, which then shaped the representations and practices of the res publica. In particular, World War I had revived the century-old tradition of the embattled Republic, while casting an immense shadow on the nascent century. The chapter argues that the pacifism of the 1920s and 1930s and the Resistance of the 1940s were thus consequences of World War I and its memory, which was as much republican as it was national. The “Great War” is therefore particularly deserving of a place in a critical history of the Republic and of France.Less
This chapter discusses the influences of war on the French Republic. It argues that the Republic originated in war, which then shaped the representations and practices of the res publica. In particular, World War I had revived the century-old tradition of the embattled Republic, while casting an immense shadow on the nascent century. The chapter argues that the pacifism of the 1920s and 1930s and the Resistance of the 1940s were thus consequences of World War I and its memory, which was as much republican as it was national. The “Great War” is therefore particularly deserving of a place in a critical history of the Republic and of France.
Derek J. Thiess
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781786942227
- eISBN:
- 9781789623789
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Discontinued
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781786942227.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
The introduction presents the central thesis of the text that there is an important connection between the study of science fiction and that of sport. No unlike the marginalization of science fiction ...
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The introduction presents the central thesis of the text that there is an important connection between the study of science fiction and that of sport. No unlike the marginalization of science fiction itself, sport and athleticism have historically been viewed with suspicion and derision and the athlete (and their body) afforded a fear akin to that which we reserve for the most frightening monsters. Science fiction is a genre well suited to studying the monster and, while criticism on the topic is lacking, has a long history of highlighting the embodied exclusion of the athlete. These connections are mapped here, a methodology for the book laid out, and chapter synopses provided.Less
The introduction presents the central thesis of the text that there is an important connection between the study of science fiction and that of sport. No unlike the marginalization of science fiction itself, sport and athleticism have historically been viewed with suspicion and derision and the athlete (and their body) afforded a fear akin to that which we reserve for the most frightening monsters. Science fiction is a genre well suited to studying the monster and, while criticism on the topic is lacking, has a long history of highlighting the embodied exclusion of the athlete. These connections are mapped here, a methodology for the book laid out, and chapter synopses provided.