Katherine Clarke
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199291083
- eISBN:
- 9780191710582
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199291083.003.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, European History: BCE to 500CE
This chapter discusses different forms of temporal calibration and articulation, as well as the complementary nature of natural time and culturally-determined time. After introducing some ...
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This chapter discusses different forms of temporal calibration and articulation, as well as the complementary nature of natural time and culturally-determined time. After introducing some philosophical problems concerning the nature of time, it examines evidence for the proposition that time as a malleable and constructed concept was familiar within the everyday life of the Greek polis, through the plays of Aristophanes and publicly displayed inscriptions. The connections between time as mapped out on a recurring annual cycle through the calendar and historical time which spans the past of a place are also considered.Less
This chapter discusses different forms of temporal calibration and articulation, as well as the complementary nature of natural time and culturally-determined time. After introducing some philosophical problems concerning the nature of time, it examines evidence for the proposition that time as a malleable and constructed concept was familiar within the everyday life of the Greek polis, through the plays of Aristophanes and publicly displayed inscriptions. The connections between time as mapped out on a recurring annual cycle through the calendar and historical time which spans the past of a place are also considered.
Tilo Schabert
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780226038056
- eISBN:
- 9780226185156
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226185156.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
The very fact that human beings share a space, in which their bodies, as physical masses, cannot occupy the same place, raises the need for political existence. This is because bodily existence is ...
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The very fact that human beings share a space, in which their bodies, as physical masses, cannot occupy the same place, raises the need for political existence. This is because bodily existence is directly tied to the emergence of relations of power. Bodily existence makes human beings not only subjects of power, but also objects of power. This fact necessitates a civilization, i.e., a second birth of human beings. These connections are best seen when we compare the human situation to that of angels. It is because human beings, unlike angels, have an (empirical) body, that they require a political order. Such a political order is thus to be contrasted both with a-historical paradisiacal conditions, as well as with the para-empirical notion of a “natural man,” as Ibn Khaldûn has shown through his distinction between a “hypothetically” and an “empirically” proceeding political science.Less
The very fact that human beings share a space, in which their bodies, as physical masses, cannot occupy the same place, raises the need for political existence. This is because bodily existence is directly tied to the emergence of relations of power. Bodily existence makes human beings not only subjects of power, but also objects of power. This fact necessitates a civilization, i.e., a second birth of human beings. These connections are best seen when we compare the human situation to that of angels. It is because human beings, unlike angels, have an (empirical) body, that they require a political order. Such a political order is thus to be contrasted both with a-historical paradisiacal conditions, as well as with the para-empirical notion of a “natural man,” as Ibn Khaldûn has shown through his distinction between a “hypothetically” and an “empirically” proceeding political science.
Sarah Clift
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780823254200
- eISBN:
- 9780823261161
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823254200.003.0005
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This chapter addresses issues related to the future and to necessity and contingency in Hegel’s speculative philosophy. It focuses on the Philosophy of History but also engages relevant sections of ...
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This chapter addresses issues related to the future and to necessity and contingency in Hegel’s speculative philosophy. It focuses on the Philosophy of History but also engages relevant sections of Hegel’s Logic and the Phenomenology of Spirit. Working from the contention made famous by Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger, namely, that Hegel had no time for the future, the chapter generates a close reading of Hegel’s articulation of time as historical succession (Heidegger’s so-called “vulgar time”) and registers a multiplicity of times in history. This multiplicity is dictated by the jostling of different epochs in relation to each other-each of which is available to the present as philosophical knowledge-but it is also not reducible to historical succession. In order to provide an account for this temporality in excess of temporal succession, the chapter considers the relation between necessity and contingency. By complicating interpretations that subject contingency to necessity’s sublation (Charles Taylor, for instance, or Stanley Rosen), and seeking recourse to seminal commentaries by John Burbidge and Catherine Malabou, the chapter captures the sense in which necessity and contingency are not in a relation of precedence, anteriority, or hierarchy but that the two are inseparably linked.Less
This chapter addresses issues related to the future and to necessity and contingency in Hegel’s speculative philosophy. It focuses on the Philosophy of History but also engages relevant sections of Hegel’s Logic and the Phenomenology of Spirit. Working from the contention made famous by Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger, namely, that Hegel had no time for the future, the chapter generates a close reading of Hegel’s articulation of time as historical succession (Heidegger’s so-called “vulgar time”) and registers a multiplicity of times in history. This multiplicity is dictated by the jostling of different epochs in relation to each other-each of which is available to the present as philosophical knowledge-but it is also not reducible to historical succession. In order to provide an account for this temporality in excess of temporal succession, the chapter considers the relation between necessity and contingency. By complicating interpretations that subject contingency to necessity’s sublation (Charles Taylor, for instance, or Stanley Rosen), and seeking recourse to seminal commentaries by John Burbidge and Catherine Malabou, the chapter captures the sense in which necessity and contingency are not in a relation of precedence, anteriority, or hierarchy but that the two are inseparably linked.
Penelope J. Corfield
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300115581
- eISBN:
- 9780300137941
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300115581.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, History of Ideas
This chapter examines stage theories, which divide historical time into tidy stages as a way of looking back at the past and sometimes forecasting the future. It discusses the characteristic problem ...
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This chapter examines stage theories, which divide historical time into tidy stages as a way of looking back at the past and sometimes forecasting the future. It discusses the characteristic problem of stage theories with the obverse of excess fragmentation and offers criticism on Marxist stages. It analyzes some of the most popular numbering schemes which provide convenient stepping stones to travel mentally up and down the centuries and argues that such divisions are suggestive about long-term changes but can lead to crude categories that then become stretched too thin.Less
This chapter examines stage theories, which divide historical time into tidy stages as a way of looking back at the past and sometimes forecasting the future. It discusses the characteristic problem of stage theories with the obverse of excess fragmentation and offers criticism on Marxist stages. It analyzes some of the most popular numbering schemes which provide convenient stepping stones to travel mentally up and down the centuries and argues that such divisions are suggestive about long-term changes but can lead to crude categories that then become stretched too thin.
Jeffrey Andrew Barash
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226399157
- eISBN:
- 9780226399294
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226399294.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
If collective remembrance is as old as human communal existence and the age-old practices that forge its cohesion, theoretical preoccupation with the phenomenon of collective memory is relatively ...
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If collective remembrance is as old as human communal existence and the age-old practices that forge its cohesion, theoretical preoccupation with the phenomenon of collective memory is relatively recent. The present book accounts for this paradox through interpretation of the novel function accorded to collective memory which, in a modern context of discontinuity and dislocation, reoccupies the space that has been left vacant by the decline of traditional assumptions concerning human socio-political identity. In this situation, where memory is widely called upon as a source of collective cohesion, this book aims to elaborate a philosophical basis for the concept of collective memory and to delimit its scope in relation to the historical past. Extensive analysis is devoted to the complex modes of symbolic configuration of collective memory in the public sphere. These modes of symbolic configuration have undergone radical transformation over the past century that is both reflected and engendered by the new technologies of mass communication by virtue of their capacity to simulate direct experience and remembrance through the image. Such transformations make increasingly palpable the limited scope of collective memory, rooted in a rapidly changing context, in the face of an historical past beyond its pale. The growing awareness of these limits, however, and of the opacity of the historical past, need not fuel historical skepticism: as the novels of Walter Scott, Marcel Proust and W. J. Sebald serve to illustrate, it may place in evidence subtle nuances of temporal context that are emblematic of historical reality.Less
If collective remembrance is as old as human communal existence and the age-old practices that forge its cohesion, theoretical preoccupation with the phenomenon of collective memory is relatively recent. The present book accounts for this paradox through interpretation of the novel function accorded to collective memory which, in a modern context of discontinuity and dislocation, reoccupies the space that has been left vacant by the decline of traditional assumptions concerning human socio-political identity. In this situation, where memory is widely called upon as a source of collective cohesion, this book aims to elaborate a philosophical basis for the concept of collective memory and to delimit its scope in relation to the historical past. Extensive analysis is devoted to the complex modes of symbolic configuration of collective memory in the public sphere. These modes of symbolic configuration have undergone radical transformation over the past century that is both reflected and engendered by the new technologies of mass communication by virtue of their capacity to simulate direct experience and remembrance through the image. Such transformations make increasingly palpable the limited scope of collective memory, rooted in a rapidly changing context, in the face of an historical past beyond its pale. The growing awareness of these limits, however, and of the opacity of the historical past, need not fuel historical skepticism: as the novels of Walter Scott, Marcel Proust and W. J. Sebald serve to illustrate, it may place in evidence subtle nuances of temporal context that are emblematic of historical reality.
Jeffrey C. Kinkley
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231167680
- eISBN:
- 9780231532297
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231167680.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter critiques the ambiguity of chronology in some Chinese historical literature. China's new historical works often deny the reader or viewer clear chronological bearings. They display four ...
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This chapter critiques the ambiguity of chronology in some Chinese historical literature. China's new historical works often deny the reader or viewer clear chronological bearings. They display four potentially unsettling treatments of historical time: protracted ambiguity about the temporal setting of the era being recollected, or the era from which it is being recalled; defamiliarization of a temporal setting that is specified, making the context and meaning of history appear altered, unknowable, or allegorical; conscious elevation of the historical narrative to the level of myth or legend; and defamiliarization of past and present through visions of life as a repetition of past events.Less
This chapter critiques the ambiguity of chronology in some Chinese historical literature. China's new historical works often deny the reader or viewer clear chronological bearings. They display four potentially unsettling treatments of historical time: protracted ambiguity about the temporal setting of the era being recollected, or the era from which it is being recalled; defamiliarization of a temporal setting that is specified, making the context and meaning of history appear altered, unknowable, or allegorical; conscious elevation of the historical narrative to the level of myth or legend; and defamiliarization of past and present through visions of life as a repetition of past events.
Benedict Taylor
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780190206055
- eISBN:
- 9780190206079
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190206055.003.0003
- Subject:
- Music, Theory, Analysis, Composition, Philosophy of Music
This extended chapter, consisting of three interrelated parts, forms the philosophical heart of the book. The first section completes the exposition of the historical state of musical temporality ...
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This extended chapter, consisting of three interrelated parts, forms the philosophical heart of the book. The first section completes the exposition of the historical state of musical temporality initiated in the first chapter, outlining how music, by the early nineteenth century, came to be heard as the most temporal of the arts. This is followed by a philosophical explication of just why music was considered uniquely capable of uncovering the aporias of temporality, setting up the philosophical basis for the remaining four chapters. A key contention is the idea that music may have been as useful for philosophers as a means to illustrate conceptions of time as much as philosophy may be useful for understanding music. This thesis is developed in the final section, which argues that music may provide, if not a conclusive philosophical solution, at least the most powerful aesthetic reconciliation of intractable problems in the philosophy of time.Less
This extended chapter, consisting of three interrelated parts, forms the philosophical heart of the book. The first section completes the exposition of the historical state of musical temporality initiated in the first chapter, outlining how music, by the early nineteenth century, came to be heard as the most temporal of the arts. This is followed by a philosophical explication of just why music was considered uniquely capable of uncovering the aporias of temporality, setting up the philosophical basis for the remaining four chapters. A key contention is the idea that music may have been as useful for philosophers as a means to illustrate conceptions of time as much as philosophy may be useful for understanding music. This thesis is developed in the final section, which argues that music may provide, if not a conclusive philosophical solution, at least the most powerful aesthetic reconciliation of intractable problems in the philosophy of time.
Nurith Gertz and George Khleifi
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748634071
- eISBN:
- 9780748671069
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748634071.003.0007
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
The 1990s were marked by the effects of the First Intifada and the economic recession that succeeded it, the wake of the Gulf War, and the continuing closure that was enforced on Palestinian ...
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The 1990s were marked by the effects of the First Intifada and the economic recession that succeeded it, the wake of the Gulf War, and the continuing closure that was enforced on Palestinian residents, as also by the Second Intifada and the Israeli invasion of West Bank cities. From that decade on, the more the social, political, and economic situation deteriorated, and the chaos and destruction increased, the more Palestinian cinema was recruited in favour of the national struggle that called for unity. As a result, Palestinian filmmakers found it complicated to maintain the heterogeneous “third” space and the complex historical time that both expresses the trauma and copes with it. The chapter describes the difficulties facing these filmmakers, among them: Subhi a-Zubeidi, Azza al-Hassan, Tawfik Abu Wa'el, Muhammad Bakri, Hani Abu-Assad, Liana Badr, Azza alHassan, Ahmad Habash.Less
The 1990s were marked by the effects of the First Intifada and the economic recession that succeeded it, the wake of the Gulf War, and the continuing closure that was enforced on Palestinian residents, as also by the Second Intifada and the Israeli invasion of West Bank cities. From that decade on, the more the social, political, and economic situation deteriorated, and the chaos and destruction increased, the more Palestinian cinema was recruited in favour of the national struggle that called for unity. As a result, Palestinian filmmakers found it complicated to maintain the heterogeneous “third” space and the complex historical time that both expresses the trauma and copes with it. The chapter describes the difficulties facing these filmmakers, among them: Subhi a-Zubeidi, Azza al-Hassan, Tawfik Abu Wa'el, Muhammad Bakri, Hani Abu-Assad, Liana Badr, Azza alHassan, Ahmad Habash.
Jonathan Skolnik
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780804786072
- eISBN:
- 9780804790598
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804786072.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Jewish Studies
This chapter argues that Jewish historical fiction arose in direct response to the secularization of Jewish history, a process that can never be total in relation to Jewish culture. It is hardly a ...
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This chapter argues that Jewish historical fiction arose in direct response to the secularization of Jewish history, a process that can never be total in relation to Jewish culture. It is hardly a coincidence that the first major German-Jewish historical novel, by Berthold Auerbach (1837), takes Baruch Spinoza as its subject. Auerbach, a major popularizer of Spinoza, deftly uses dissimilation to establish a space for Jewish identity as part of an ethos of universal humanism and German cultural nationalism. Auerbach's novel weaves chapters from the Sephardic-Jewish past into a narrative familiar to readers of the German classics, and can only be understood as a response to texts by Goethe and Gutzkow.Less
This chapter argues that Jewish historical fiction arose in direct response to the secularization of Jewish history, a process that can never be total in relation to Jewish culture. It is hardly a coincidence that the first major German-Jewish historical novel, by Berthold Auerbach (1837), takes Baruch Spinoza as its subject. Auerbach, a major popularizer of Spinoza, deftly uses dissimilation to establish a space for Jewish identity as part of an ethos of universal humanism and German cultural nationalism. Auerbach's novel weaves chapters from the Sephardic-Jewish past into a narrative familiar to readers of the German classics, and can only be understood as a response to texts by Goethe and Gutzkow.
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804758390
- eISBN:
- 9780804787482
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804758390.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter charts the convergence of geography and history, an inextricable intertwinement of geographic space and historical time during the period that has usually been seen as characterized by ...
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This chapter charts the convergence of geography and history, an inextricable intertwinement of geographic space and historical time during the period that has usually been seen as characterized by the absolute dominance of the historical paradigm. It argues for the emergence of geohistory at around 1800. Taking into account the philosophy of history, geographic science, and poetry, this chapter holds that it was precisely the theoretical precursors of historism from Herder to Friedrich Schlegel and Wilhelm von Humboldt who laid the foundation of geohistorical thinking. It describes a radically new picture of modern historical thought, contending that historism and geohistorical thinking represented its two complementary strands.Less
This chapter charts the convergence of geography and history, an inextricable intertwinement of geographic space and historical time during the period that has usually been seen as characterized by the absolute dominance of the historical paradigm. It argues for the emergence of geohistory at around 1800. Taking into account the philosophy of history, geographic science, and poetry, this chapter holds that it was precisely the theoretical precursors of historism from Herder to Friedrich Schlegel and Wilhelm von Humboldt who laid the foundation of geohistorical thinking. It describes a radically new picture of modern historical thought, contending that historism and geohistorical thinking represented its two complementary strands.
Larry F. Norman
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226591483
- eISBN:
- 9780226591506
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226591506.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
From the mid-seventeenth to the early eighteenth centuries—at the heart of what is called the French neoclassical age—poets, critics, and philosophers radically rethought how history shapes ...
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From the mid-seventeenth to the early eighteenth centuries—at the heart of what is called the French neoclassical age—poets, critics, and philosophers radically rethought how history shapes literature. Key to this rethinking was a new, and often disturbing, understanding of the cultures of antiquity that had been considered the foundation for later modern achievements. It is one of history's ironies that the modern period characterized as “classical” (or “neoclassical”) came to adopt a sharply critical distance in regard to the very Greco-Roman past that it apparently so admired. To understand the “shock of the ancient” is to wrestle with this basic paradox: the fracturing of historical time that fundamentally defamiliarizes classical antiquity was the work of an age that also often wished to coexist with that increasingly remote era.Less
From the mid-seventeenth to the early eighteenth centuries—at the heart of what is called the French neoclassical age—poets, critics, and philosophers radically rethought how history shapes literature. Key to this rethinking was a new, and often disturbing, understanding of the cultures of antiquity that had been considered the foundation for later modern achievements. It is one of history's ironies that the modern period characterized as “classical” (or “neoclassical”) came to adopt a sharply critical distance in regard to the very Greco-Roman past that it apparently so admired. To understand the “shock of the ancient” is to wrestle with this basic paradox: the fracturing of historical time that fundamentally defamiliarizes classical antiquity was the work of an age that also often wished to coexist with that increasingly remote era.
Duncan Bell
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780691138787
- eISBN:
- 9781400881024
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691138787.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
This chapter examines how historical time was conceptualized in imperial debate. It explores two broad variations that were articulated across the human sciences and in public debate, focusing in ...
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This chapter examines how historical time was conceptualized in imperial debate. It explores two broad variations that were articulated across the human sciences and in public debate, focusing in particular on the writings of historians. In the first, the modern British empire was figured as uniquely progressive, as capable—either in actuality or in potentia—of avoiding the social, economic, and political dynamics that had annihilated all previous specimens. This argument was most frequently employed in relation to India. The other strategy was to insist that the empire (or a part of it) was not really an empire at all, but rather a new form of political order that could circumvent the entropic degeneration of traditional imperial forms. To think otherwise was to make a category mistake. This argument was often applied to Britain and its settler colonies from the 1870s onwards. “Greater Britain,” as the settler colonial assemblage was often termed, could attain permanence, a kind of historical grace.Less
This chapter examines how historical time was conceptualized in imperial debate. It explores two broad variations that were articulated across the human sciences and in public debate, focusing in particular on the writings of historians. In the first, the modern British empire was figured as uniquely progressive, as capable—either in actuality or in potentia—of avoiding the social, economic, and political dynamics that had annihilated all previous specimens. This argument was most frequently employed in relation to India. The other strategy was to insist that the empire (or a part of it) was not really an empire at all, but rather a new form of political order that could circumvent the entropic degeneration of traditional imperial forms. To think otherwise was to make a category mistake. This argument was often applied to Britain and its settler colonies from the 1870s onwards. “Greater Britain,” as the settler colonial assemblage was often termed, could attain permanence, a kind of historical grace.
Jeffrey Andrew Barash
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226399157
- eISBN:
- 9780226399294
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226399294.003.0006
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
Collective memory is the matrix of cohesion of social groups, however vast they may be, through which group continuity in time is at once attested and reaffirmed. If it is also in time that mutation ...
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Collective memory is the matrix of cohesion of social groups, however vast they may be, through which group continuity in time is at once attested and reaffirmed. If it is also in time that mutation and discontinuity with the past occur and are later grasped, group perception of discontinuity nonetheless presupposes an underlying continuity or sameness in the remembering collectivity in relation to which discontinuity may be placed in relief. The present chapter focuses on the temporal conditions of this cohesion which are analyzed in terms of the reiterative time of habitual, socially instituted forms of interaction, the commemorative time of unique, socially significant events, and the time of the êthos or habitus in which long-term continuities are forged and reelaborated. If all three of these temporal articulations structure socially meaningful action, each of them also comports a passive dimension which this chapter aims to place in relief. The patterning of social activity according to these articulations establishes lines of continuity between past and present in view of a common future. As numerous examples cited in this chapter illustrate, interpretation of the continuity of collective memory has become a source of illusions of social homogeneity and of contemporary political mythologies.Less
Collective memory is the matrix of cohesion of social groups, however vast they may be, through which group continuity in time is at once attested and reaffirmed. If it is also in time that mutation and discontinuity with the past occur and are later grasped, group perception of discontinuity nonetheless presupposes an underlying continuity or sameness in the remembering collectivity in relation to which discontinuity may be placed in relief. The present chapter focuses on the temporal conditions of this cohesion which are analyzed in terms of the reiterative time of habitual, socially instituted forms of interaction, the commemorative time of unique, socially significant events, and the time of the êthos or habitus in which long-term continuities are forged and reelaborated. If all three of these temporal articulations structure socially meaningful action, each of them also comports a passive dimension which this chapter aims to place in relief. The patterning of social activity according to these articulations establishes lines of continuity between past and present in view of a common future. As numerous examples cited in this chapter illustrate, interpretation of the continuity of collective memory has become a source of illusions of social homogeneity and of contemporary political mythologies.
Rosemary Mitchell
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199687084
- eISBN:
- 9780191766992
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199687084.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
This chapter considers Richard Parkes Bonington’s use of ‘time-tropes’ or layers of time as a way of showing depth and movement in what was often considered a static art form: historical painting. ...
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This chapter considers Richard Parkes Bonington’s use of ‘time-tropes’ or layers of time as a way of showing depth and movement in what was often considered a static art form: historical painting. Arguing that Bonington’s watercolours evince a fascination with both the passing and the representation of time, the chapter demonstrates that his works tend to resist generic classification and formal boundaries by being both historically specific and transcendental or timeless. The chapter subverts tidy expectations of Romantic historiography by contending that representations of history in the period are not confined to sentimental moments of ‘affective proximity’, but rather use such moments to offer complex reflections on the nature of history itself. By focusing on ‘optic dispersal’ or, in other words, on the provisional and speculative in Bonington’s work, the chapter demonstrates the extent to which he engages with the complex paradoxes of historical experience and representation.Less
This chapter considers Richard Parkes Bonington’s use of ‘time-tropes’ or layers of time as a way of showing depth and movement in what was often considered a static art form: historical painting. Arguing that Bonington’s watercolours evince a fascination with both the passing and the representation of time, the chapter demonstrates that his works tend to resist generic classification and formal boundaries by being both historically specific and transcendental or timeless. The chapter subverts tidy expectations of Romantic historiography by contending that representations of history in the period are not confined to sentimental moments of ‘affective proximity’, but rather use such moments to offer complex reflections on the nature of history itself. By focusing on ‘optic dispersal’ or, in other words, on the provisional and speculative in Bonington’s work, the chapter demonstrates the extent to which he engages with the complex paradoxes of historical experience and representation.
Kristine Stiles
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226774510
- eISBN:
- 9780226304403
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226304403.003.0020
- Subject:
- Art, Art Theory and Criticism
This chapter examines Maurice Benayoun's futurological imaging of trauma in virtual reality by focusing on his 1992 interactive installation So.So.So Somebody Somewhere Sometime. So.So.So. takes ...
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This chapter examines Maurice Benayoun's futurological imaging of trauma in virtual reality by focusing on his 1992 interactive installation So.So.So Somebody Somewhere Sometime. So.So.So. takes place at 7:47 a.m., the precise moment when, according to Benayoun, “everything starts to go awry...in a crisis-ridden world seeping into our daily lives.” The time 7:47 a.m. is “Time,” which functions as a verb in the title. It ignites simultaneous but different experiences in three locales: Paris, Rungis, and Praslin. The accumulation of historical time pervades So.So.So. as adverbial and adjectival emphasis for how Benayoun uses the English word “so” to facilitate the work's repetitions and interruptions. The flashback and the palindrome are central to the traumatic visual and psychical operations of So.So.So.. The chapter considers the psychological processing of the fragmentary dynamics of traumatic memory in So.So.So..Less
This chapter examines Maurice Benayoun's futurological imaging of trauma in virtual reality by focusing on his 1992 interactive installation So.So.So Somebody Somewhere Sometime. So.So.So. takes place at 7:47 a.m., the precise moment when, according to Benayoun, “everything starts to go awry...in a crisis-ridden world seeping into our daily lives.” The time 7:47 a.m. is “Time,” which functions as a verb in the title. It ignites simultaneous but different experiences in three locales: Paris, Rungis, and Praslin. The accumulation of historical time pervades So.So.So. as adverbial and adjectival emphasis for how Benayoun uses the English word “so” to facilitate the work's repetitions and interruptions. The flashback and the palindrome are central to the traumatic visual and psychical operations of So.So.So.. The chapter considers the psychological processing of the fragmentary dynamics of traumatic memory in So.So.So..
Jeffrey Andrew Barash
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226399157
- eISBN:
- 9780226399294
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226399294.003.0009
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
The different chapters of this book traverse an extensive territory encompassing a number of areas of investigation. Each of them aims to contribute to the elaboration of a philosophical basis for ...
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The different chapters of this book traverse an extensive territory encompassing a number of areas of investigation. Each of them aims to contribute to the elaboration of a philosophical basis for the concept of collective memory and to delimit the scope of this concept in relation to the historical past. The concluding section of this work presents an overview of the concept of collective memory in view of the broader aim that a theory of collective memory entails. This theory depends on the fundamental distinction elaborated between the temporal horizons of collective memory and the historical past. Where skepticism in the reality of this distinction is entertained and the hope of finding meaning in a real past is abandoned, this concluding section argues that the only remaining criterion is that of the timely standard of the present. Where the past in its essential alterity no longer provides a backdrop for critical evaluation of the present and current attitudes provide the sole measure for reality, it is above all the present that risks growing opaque to itself.Less
The different chapters of this book traverse an extensive territory encompassing a number of areas of investigation. Each of them aims to contribute to the elaboration of a philosophical basis for the concept of collective memory and to delimit the scope of this concept in relation to the historical past. The concluding section of this work presents an overview of the concept of collective memory in view of the broader aim that a theory of collective memory entails. This theory depends on the fundamental distinction elaborated between the temporal horizons of collective memory and the historical past. Where skepticism in the reality of this distinction is entertained and the hope of finding meaning in a real past is abandoned, this concluding section argues that the only remaining criterion is that of the timely standard of the present. Where the past in its essential alterity no longer provides a backdrop for critical evaluation of the present and current attitudes provide the sole measure for reality, it is above all the present that risks growing opaque to itself.
Anna Whitaker and Jeppsson Grassman
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781447305224
- eISBN:
- 9781447310907
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447305224.003.0008
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gerontology and Ageing
This chapter provides a summary and concluding remarks on some salient themes that have been examined in the previous chapters. For example the chapter discusses the relevance of the lifecourse ...
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This chapter provides a summary and concluding remarks on some salient themes that have been examined in the previous chapters. For example the chapter discusses the relevance of the lifecourse approach and – at the same time – the challenges that this approach entails, not least when it comes to capturing the interplay between biographical and historical time. It also highlights the intersection between age and disability and brings to the fore the difficulties connected with separating the experience of ageing from the experience of a long life with disability. It is argued that concepts such as third age, fourth age and successful ageing fail to fully capture the experience of ageing. At the same time, it is argued that the lifecourse approach adopted in the book challenges the social model as the sole framework to understanding disability. Furthermore, the chapter discusses the multifaceted meaning of care in the context of disability and ageing.Less
This chapter provides a summary and concluding remarks on some salient themes that have been examined in the previous chapters. For example the chapter discusses the relevance of the lifecourse approach and – at the same time – the challenges that this approach entails, not least when it comes to capturing the interplay between biographical and historical time. It also highlights the intersection between age and disability and brings to the fore the difficulties connected with separating the experience of ageing from the experience of a long life with disability. It is argued that concepts such as third age, fourth age and successful ageing fail to fully capture the experience of ageing. At the same time, it is argued that the lifecourse approach adopted in the book challenges the social model as the sole framework to understanding disability. Furthermore, the chapter discusses the multifaceted meaning of care in the context of disability and ageing.
Lawrence Goldman
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780195379112
- eISBN:
- 9780190254643
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780195379112.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History
This chapter examines the British misinterpretation of Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War. It analyzes why the British misinterpreted the Civil War and why they failed to understand the ...
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This chapter examines the British misinterpretation of Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War. It analyzes why the British misinterpreted the Civil War and why they failed to understand the essence of Lincoln's character and strategy. It suggests that the British responses to the Civil War were influenced largely by social position and class consciousness. This chapter also discusses the view of Lincoln as a pragmatist and “an experimentalist” who found different ways to advance chosen objectives and the importance of the long pamphlet published by the young Leslie Stephen at the beginning of 1865 titled The “Times” on the American War: A Historical Study.Less
This chapter examines the British misinterpretation of Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War. It analyzes why the British misinterpreted the Civil War and why they failed to understand the essence of Lincoln's character and strategy. It suggests that the British responses to the Civil War were influenced largely by social position and class consciousness. This chapter also discusses the view of Lincoln as a pragmatist and “an experimentalist” who found different ways to advance chosen objectives and the importance of the long pamphlet published by the young Leslie Stephen at the beginning of 1865 titled The “Times” on the American War: A Historical Study.
