Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan
- Published in print:
- 1991
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198117858
- eISBN:
- 9780191671081
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198117858.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism, European Literature
A study which relates Conrad’s work to the crisis of modernity in the late 19th century, this book discusses ‘faultlines’ — ambiguities and apparent aesthetic ruptures — in nine of the major novels ...
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A study which relates Conrad’s work to the crisis of modernity in the late 19th century, this book discusses ‘faultlines’ — ambiguities and apparent aesthetic ruptures — in nine of the major novels and novellas. These faultlines are diagnosed as the symptoms of an unresolved tension between Conrad’s temperamental affinity with the Nietzschean outlook and his fierce ideological rejection of its ultimate implications. Presenting Conrad as ‘a modernist at war with modernity’, the book studies the perpetual tug-of-war between the artistic will to meaning and the writer’s susceptibility to the modern temper, both as a theme and as a structuring principle in his work. The modes of this struggle are defined as the ‘failure of myth’, the ‘failure of metaphysics’, and the ‘failure of textuality’. The inquiry draws on the work of Nietzsche, Vaihinger, Bakhtin, Heller, and MacIntyre, amongst others, to present the ethical and epistemological issues which are interwoven with Conrad’s aesthetics.Less
A study which relates Conrad’s work to the crisis of modernity in the late 19th century, this book discusses ‘faultlines’ — ambiguities and apparent aesthetic ruptures — in nine of the major novels and novellas. These faultlines are diagnosed as the symptoms of an unresolved tension between Conrad’s temperamental affinity with the Nietzschean outlook and his fierce ideological rejection of its ultimate implications. Presenting Conrad as ‘a modernist at war with modernity’, the book studies the perpetual tug-of-war between the artistic will to meaning and the writer’s susceptibility to the modern temper, both as a theme and as a structuring principle in his work. The modes of this struggle are defined as the ‘failure of myth’, the ‘failure of metaphysics’, and the ‘failure of textuality’. The inquiry draws on the work of Nietzsche, Vaihinger, Bakhtin, Heller, and MacIntyre, amongst others, to present the ethical and epistemological issues which are interwoven with Conrad’s aesthetics.
Charles S. Maier
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199552030
- eISBN:
- 9780191720291
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199552030.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics, European Union
This chapter reminds us that we are still discussing an unfinished period. While one can make the argument for a disrupted relationship between the United States and Europe, “the rupture has been ...
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This chapter reminds us that we are still discussing an unfinished period. While one can make the argument for a disrupted relationship between the United States and Europe, “the rupture has been relatively brief; the [Bush] administration appears to wish to repair it; the imperial intoxication that was one cause of the strains has perhaps worn off.” Deeper continuities may well keep the United States and Europe together: their basic status quo orientation in a world of increasing turmoil, their shared politics of productivity, the basic role of the political center on both sides of the Atlantic, etc. “A shared community of interests, domestic as well as international, make it logical for the United States and Europe to continue cooperation.” The Bush years could then be seen simply as an “imperial interlude.”Less
This chapter reminds us that we are still discussing an unfinished period. While one can make the argument for a disrupted relationship between the United States and Europe, “the rupture has been relatively brief; the [Bush] administration appears to wish to repair it; the imperial intoxication that was one cause of the strains has perhaps worn off.” Deeper continuities may well keep the United States and Europe together: their basic status quo orientation in a world of increasing turmoil, their shared politics of productivity, the basic role of the political center on both sides of the Atlantic, etc. “A shared community of interests, domestic as well as international, make it logical for the United States and Europe to continue cooperation.” The Bush years could then be seen simply as an “imperial interlude.”
Steven Kull
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199552030
- eISBN:
- 9780191720291
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199552030.003.0012
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics, European Union
This chapter argues that the prognosis for repairing the Atlantic relationship ought to be good. There may well be a large split between the policies of the Bush administration and the attitudes of ...
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This chapter argues that the prognosis for repairing the Atlantic relationship ought to be good. There may well be a large split between the policies of the Bush administration and the attitudes of the European public, but “the changes in US foreign policy that the Europeans have found objectionable have also made the American public uncomfortable.” Although American opinion may have acquiesced to these changes, particularly in the wake of September 11, public resistance soon increased and the Bush administration is now on its way out. In broad terms, therefore, despite recent policy tensions, American and European public opinion reveal “substantial common ground on numerous policy issues and the preferred character of the relationship between the United States and Europe.” The rumors of the death of the Atlantic alliance may indeed be highly exaggerated.Less
This chapter argues that the prognosis for repairing the Atlantic relationship ought to be good. There may well be a large split between the policies of the Bush administration and the attitudes of the European public, but “the changes in US foreign policy that the Europeans have found objectionable have also made the American public uncomfortable.” Although American opinion may have acquiesced to these changes, particularly in the wake of September 11, public resistance soon increased and the Bush administration is now on its way out. In broad terms, therefore, despite recent policy tensions, American and European public opinion reveal “substantial common ground on numerous policy issues and the preferred character of the relationship between the United States and Europe.” The rumors of the death of the Atlantic alliance may indeed be highly exaggerated.
Donald J. Morse
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780823234707
- eISBN:
- 9780823240760
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823234707.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, American Philosophy
This book considers John Dewey's early philosophy on its own terms and aims to explicate its key ideas. It does so through the fullest treatment to date of his youthful masterwork, the Psychology. ...
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This book considers John Dewey's early philosophy on its own terms and aims to explicate its key ideas. It does so through the fullest treatment to date of his youthful masterwork, the Psychology. This fuller treatment reveals that the received view, which sees Dewey's early philosophy as unimportant in its own right, is deeply mistaken. In fact, Dewey's early philosophy amounts to an important new form of idealism. More specifically, Dewey's idealism contains a new logic of rupture, which allows us to achieve four things: a focus on discontinuity that challenges all naturalistic views, including Dewey's own later view; a space of critical resistance to events that is at the same time the source of ideals; a faith in the development of ideals that challenges pessimists like Schopenhauer and Nietzsche; and a non-traditional reading of Hegel that invites comparison with cutting-edge Continental philosophers, such as Adorno, Derrida, and Zizek, and even goes beyond them in its systematic approach. In making these discoveries, the book forges a new link between American and European philosophy, showing how they share similar insights and concerns. It also provides an original assessment of Dewey's relationship to his teacher, George Sylvester Morris, and to other important thinkers of the day, giving us a fresh picture of John Dewey, the man and the philosopher, in the early years of his career. This book discusses a wide range of topics, from Dewey's early reflections on Kant and Hegel to the nature of beauty, courage, sympathy, hatred, love, and even death and despair.Less
This book considers John Dewey's early philosophy on its own terms and aims to explicate its key ideas. It does so through the fullest treatment to date of his youthful masterwork, the Psychology. This fuller treatment reveals that the received view, which sees Dewey's early philosophy as unimportant in its own right, is deeply mistaken. In fact, Dewey's early philosophy amounts to an important new form of idealism. More specifically, Dewey's idealism contains a new logic of rupture, which allows us to achieve four things: a focus on discontinuity that challenges all naturalistic views, including Dewey's own later view; a space of critical resistance to events that is at the same time the source of ideals; a faith in the development of ideals that challenges pessimists like Schopenhauer and Nietzsche; and a non-traditional reading of Hegel that invites comparison with cutting-edge Continental philosophers, such as Adorno, Derrida, and Zizek, and even goes beyond them in its systematic approach. In making these discoveries, the book forges a new link between American and European philosophy, showing how they share similar insights and concerns. It also provides an original assessment of Dewey's relationship to his teacher, George Sylvester Morris, and to other important thinkers of the day, giving us a fresh picture of John Dewey, the man and the philosopher, in the early years of his career. This book discusses a wide range of topics, from Dewey's early reflections on Kant and Hegel to the nature of beauty, courage, sympathy, hatred, love, and even death and despair.
Angela Harutyunyan
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780719089534
- eISBN:
- 9781526124074
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719089534.001.0001
- Subject:
- Art, Art History
The book addresses late-Soviet and post-Soviet art in Armenia in the context of turbulent social, political and cultural transformations in the late 1980s, throughout the 1990s and in early 2000s ...
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The book addresses late-Soviet and post-Soviet art in Armenia in the context of turbulent social, political and cultural transformations in the late 1980s, throughout the 1990s and in early 2000s through the aesthetic figure of the ‘painterly real’ and its conceptual transformations. It explores the emergence of ‘contemporary art’ in Armenia from within and in opposition to the practices, aesthetics and institutions of Socialist Realism and National Modernism. The book presents the argument that avant-garde art best captures the historical and social contradictions of the period of the so-called ‘transition,’ especially if one considers ‘transition’ from the perspective of the former Soviet republics that have been consistently marginalized in Russian- and East European-dominated post-Socialist studies. Throughout the two decades that encompass the chronological scope of this work, contemporary art has encapsulated the difficult dilemmas of autonomy and social participation, innovation and tradition, progressive political ethos and national identification, the problematic of communication with the world outside of Armenia’s borders, dreams of subjective freedom and the imperative to find an identity in the new circumstances after the collapse of the Soviet Union. This historical study outlines the politics (liberal democracy), aesthetics (autonomous art secured by the gesture of the individual artist), and ethics (ideals of absolute freedom and radical individualism) of contemporary art in Armenia. Through the historical investigation, a theory of post-Soviet art historiography is developed, one that is based on a dialectic of rupture and continuity in relation to the Soviet past. As the first English-language study on contemporary art in Armenia, the book is of prime interest for artists, scholars, curators and critics interested in post-Soviet art and culture and in global art historiography.Less
The book addresses late-Soviet and post-Soviet art in Armenia in the context of turbulent social, political and cultural transformations in the late 1980s, throughout the 1990s and in early 2000s through the aesthetic figure of the ‘painterly real’ and its conceptual transformations. It explores the emergence of ‘contemporary art’ in Armenia from within and in opposition to the practices, aesthetics and institutions of Socialist Realism and National Modernism. The book presents the argument that avant-garde art best captures the historical and social contradictions of the period of the so-called ‘transition,’ especially if one considers ‘transition’ from the perspective of the former Soviet republics that have been consistently marginalized in Russian- and East European-dominated post-Socialist studies. Throughout the two decades that encompass the chronological scope of this work, contemporary art has encapsulated the difficult dilemmas of autonomy and social participation, innovation and tradition, progressive political ethos and national identification, the problematic of communication with the world outside of Armenia’s borders, dreams of subjective freedom and the imperative to find an identity in the new circumstances after the collapse of the Soviet Union. This historical study outlines the politics (liberal democracy), aesthetics (autonomous art secured by the gesture of the individual artist), and ethics (ideals of absolute freedom and radical individualism) of contemporary art in Armenia. Through the historical investigation, a theory of post-Soviet art historiography is developed, one that is based on a dialectic of rupture and continuity in relation to the Soviet past. As the first English-language study on contemporary art in Armenia, the book is of prime interest for artists, scholars, curators and critics interested in post-Soviet art and culture and in global art historiography.
Robin Wagner-Pacifici
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780226439648
- eISBN:
- 9780226439815
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226439815.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Culture
What is an Event? describes the complex lived experiences of events-in-the making. It analyzes how events erupt and take off from the ground of ongoing, everyday life and how they then restlessly ...
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What is an Event? describes the complex lived experiences of events-in-the making. It analyzes how events erupt and take off from the ground of ongoing, everyday life and how they then restlessly move across time and space. Events are central to the way that individuals and societies experience life, as ‘breaking news’ constantly interrupts everyday routines. The book charts fundamental experiences of the events of life that are both inevitable and also, paradoxically, always a surprise: birth, death, love, war. What is an Event? systematically analyzes how events emerge, take shape, gain momentum, flow, and even get bogged down. As an exploration of how events are constructed out of ruptures, it provides a mechanism, termed political semiosis, for understanding eventful forms and flows. This mechanism distinguishes three critical aspects of event-making: representation, demonstration, and the performative. The analyses move from the micro-level of individual life events to the macro-level of historical revolutions, contemporary terrorist attacks and financial crises. What is an Event? develops its analysis through a close reading of a number of cases, both real and imagined, through the reports, personal narratives, paintings, iconic images, political posters, sculptures, and novels they generate and through which they live. The book aims to highlight what is ultimately at stake for individuals and societies in events: identities, loyalties, social relationships, and the very experiences of time and space. The book provides a multi-disciplinary mechanism for identifying and assessing what is at stake in the formations and flows of events.Less
What is an Event? describes the complex lived experiences of events-in-the making. It analyzes how events erupt and take off from the ground of ongoing, everyday life and how they then restlessly move across time and space. Events are central to the way that individuals and societies experience life, as ‘breaking news’ constantly interrupts everyday routines. The book charts fundamental experiences of the events of life that are both inevitable and also, paradoxically, always a surprise: birth, death, love, war. What is an Event? systematically analyzes how events emerge, take shape, gain momentum, flow, and even get bogged down. As an exploration of how events are constructed out of ruptures, it provides a mechanism, termed political semiosis, for understanding eventful forms and flows. This mechanism distinguishes three critical aspects of event-making: representation, demonstration, and the performative. The analyses move from the micro-level of individual life events to the macro-level of historical revolutions, contemporary terrorist attacks and financial crises. What is an Event? develops its analysis through a close reading of a number of cases, both real and imagined, through the reports, personal narratives, paintings, iconic images, political posters, sculptures, and novels they generate and through which they live. The book aims to highlight what is ultimately at stake for individuals and societies in events: identities, loyalties, social relationships, and the very experiences of time and space. The book provides a multi-disciplinary mechanism for identifying and assessing what is at stake in the formations and flows of events.
Mona Abaza
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781526145116
- eISBN:
- 9781526152114
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7765/9781526145123.00012
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Middle Eastern Cultural Anthropology
The conclusion summarises the main lines of the collage and raises the question as to whether the work has succeeded in drawing the connection between the large-scale political and social changes in ...
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The conclusion summarises the main lines of the collage and raises the question as to whether the work has succeeded in drawing the connection between the large-scale political and social changes in Egypt brought on by the 2011 revolution and the smaller story narrating the everyday interactions of a middle-class building.
The collages of four tales provided a myriad of divided snapshots: scenes of Tahrir Square and its protesters; of violence and the reinvention of public spaces in a moment of insurrection; of phantasmagorias in mimicking mini-Dubai(s) and Singapore; of mushrooming mega shopping malls; of the transforming neighbourhood of Doqi pushing away its middle classes, transmuting the ‘popular’ street into a site of lucrative commercial activities; of moving to New Cairo and compound life at the far end of an exhausting commute; of evictions in popular neighbourhoods; and finally of the militarisation of urban life. In view of this overt military rule, one main recurring question raised is how to trace the elements of continuity on a micro level, when the urban transmutations in post-January Cairo are so pervasive. Here, referring time and again to the groundbreaking work of Stephen Graham (2010), to what extent is the ‘new military urbanism’ actually new, when all but one of Egypt’s presidents since 1952 have been military men?Less
The conclusion summarises the main lines of the collage and raises the question as to whether the work has succeeded in drawing the connection between the large-scale political and social changes in Egypt brought on by the 2011 revolution and the smaller story narrating the everyday interactions of a middle-class building.
The collages of four tales provided a myriad of divided snapshots: scenes of Tahrir Square and its protesters; of violence and the reinvention of public spaces in a moment of insurrection; of phantasmagorias in mimicking mini-Dubai(s) and Singapore; of mushrooming mega shopping malls; of the transforming neighbourhood of Doqi pushing away its middle classes, transmuting the ‘popular’ street into a site of lucrative commercial activities; of moving to New Cairo and compound life at the far end of an exhausting commute; of evictions in popular neighbourhoods; and finally of the militarisation of urban life. In view of this overt military rule, one main recurring question raised is how to trace the elements of continuity on a micro level, when the urban transmutations in post-January Cairo are so pervasive. Here, referring time and again to the groundbreaking work of Stephen Graham (2010), to what extent is the ‘new military urbanism’ actually new, when all but one of Egypt’s presidents since 1952 have been military men?
John A. Goldsmith and Bernard Laks
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780226550800
- eISBN:
- 9780226550947
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226550947.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, History of Ideas
This book is a study of linguistics and its neighboring disciplines--psychology, logic, and philosophy--from ca. 1840 up until 1940 and the outbreak of World War II, that aims to give the reader an ...
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This book is a study of linguistics and its neighboring disciplines--psychology, logic, and philosophy--from ca. 1840 up until 1940 and the outbreak of World War II, that aims to give the reader an entirely new sense of where these disciplines came from and what their impact has been on the way we think about language and thought today. The central questions studied concern the nature of continuity and rupture, both in the world of ideas and in the political, social, and historical world in which we live. The over-arching vision that informs the book assumes that we are all part of an ongoing conversation on the nature of mind and thought that was carried out in many geographical and disciplinary venues throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries--and how the vast majority of researchers in these mind sciences are oblivious as to where the ideas that they use came from. The field of linguistics lies at the center of this account because the study of language has been at the crossroads of psychology, philosophy, and logic throughout the 100-year period covered by the book. Linguistics has emerged in a radically changed form, with little memory of its earlier concern for philology and for principles of proper grammar, and a pride in being the most scientific of the social sciences. It is the history of those who have shaped the field of linguistics, and how the larger social and intellectual forces have led the discipline to the form that it takes today.Less
This book is a study of linguistics and its neighboring disciplines--psychology, logic, and philosophy--from ca. 1840 up until 1940 and the outbreak of World War II, that aims to give the reader an entirely new sense of where these disciplines came from and what their impact has been on the way we think about language and thought today. The central questions studied concern the nature of continuity and rupture, both in the world of ideas and in the political, social, and historical world in which we live. The over-arching vision that informs the book assumes that we are all part of an ongoing conversation on the nature of mind and thought that was carried out in many geographical and disciplinary venues throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries--and how the vast majority of researchers in these mind sciences are oblivious as to where the ideas that they use came from. The field of linguistics lies at the center of this account because the study of language has been at the crossroads of psychology, philosophy, and logic throughout the 100-year period covered by the book. Linguistics has emerged in a radically changed form, with little memory of its earlier concern for philology and for principles of proper grammar, and a pride in being the most scientific of the social sciences. It is the history of those who have shaped the field of linguistics, and how the larger social and intellectual forces have led the discipline to the form that it takes today.
Jeremy D. Safran, J. Christopher Muran, and Catherine Eubanks-Carter
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199737208
- eISBN:
- 9780199894635
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199737208.003.0011
- Subject:
- Psychology, Clinical Psychology
This chapter reviews the existing empirical research on the topic of therapeutic alliance ruptures in psychotherapy. Ruptures in the therapeutic alliance are defined as episodes of tension or ...
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This chapter reviews the existing empirical research on the topic of therapeutic alliance ruptures in psychotherapy. Ruptures in the therapeutic alliance are defined as episodes of tension or breakdown in the collaborative relationship between patient and therapist. Two meta-analyses were conducted. The first reviewed studies examining the relation between rupture repair episodes and treatment outcome. The second reviewed the research examining the impact on treatment outcome of training therapists in the use of alliance rupture intervention principles. Both meta-analyses provided promising evidence regarding the relevance of alliance rupture repair processes to therapeutic outcome. The limitations of the research reviewed are discussed, as well as practice implications for repairing the inevitable alliance ruptures in psychotherapy.Less
This chapter reviews the existing empirical research on the topic of therapeutic alliance ruptures in psychotherapy. Ruptures in the therapeutic alliance are defined as episodes of tension or breakdown in the collaborative relationship between patient and therapist. Two meta-analyses were conducted. The first reviewed studies examining the relation between rupture repair episodes and treatment outcome. The second reviewed the research examining the impact on treatment outcome of training therapists in the use of alliance rupture intervention principles. Both meta-analyses provided promising evidence regarding the relevance of alliance rupture repair processes to therapeutic outcome. The limitations of the research reviewed are discussed, as well as practice implications for repairing the inevitable alliance ruptures in psychotherapy.
Jun Zhang and David A. Savitz
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195387902
- eISBN:
- 9780199895328
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195387902.003.0041
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Epidemiology
This chapter starts with a review of methods for estimating the duration of pregnancy, considering the assumptions and accuracy in dating by the last normal menstrual period, ultrasound assessment, ...
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This chapter starts with a review of methods for estimating the duration of pregnancy, considering the assumptions and accuracy in dating by the last normal menstrual period, ultrasound assessment, and neonatal examination. The epidemiology of preterm birth is addressed in detail, considering the methods for classification based on clinical presentation, biological mechanisms thought to be the underlying basis for early parturition, descriptive epidemiology, known and suspected risk factors, and strategies that have been attempted to prevent preterm birth. The immediate and long-term consequences of preterm birth for the health of infants and children are described as well. Finally, the determinants and consequences of postterm birth are noted.Less
This chapter starts with a review of methods for estimating the duration of pregnancy, considering the assumptions and accuracy in dating by the last normal menstrual period, ultrasound assessment, and neonatal examination. The epidemiology of preterm birth is addressed in detail, considering the methods for classification based on clinical presentation, biological mechanisms thought to be the underlying basis for early parturition, descriptive epidemiology, known and suspected risk factors, and strategies that have been attempted to prevent preterm birth. The immediate and long-term consequences of preterm birth for the health of infants and children are described as well. Finally, the determinants and consequences of postterm birth are noted.
Patrick Murray and Jeanne Schuler
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780823239825
- eISBN:
- 9780823239863
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823239825.003.0010
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
In this chapter, Murray and Schuler reflect autobiographically on their involvement in the peace movement in the 1960s and 1970s. This practical involvement led them, however, into professional ...
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In this chapter, Murray and Schuler reflect autobiographically on their involvement in the peace movement in the 1960s and 1970s. This practical involvement led them, however, into professional philosophy done radically as their chosen way to work for peace and justice. They perceive three seminal themes in Berrigan’s thought: a theology of time and history relevant to our contemporary era and pious towards experience, the present age as a “historical rupture” from the past, and a sense in which human thinking has gone awry and become overly instrumentalized. In their view, however, the best way to hold these seminal themes together lies in using the works of Hegel and Marx in understanding and criticizing capitalism, imperialism, and militarism. “We cannot understand the modern world without Marx’s concept of ‘capital.’ “In light of the Hegelian-Marxist perspective, they raise the question about whether Berrigan’s work is too purist and sect-like and insufficiently pragmatic and concerned with results and history.Less
In this chapter, Murray and Schuler reflect autobiographically on their involvement in the peace movement in the 1960s and 1970s. This practical involvement led them, however, into professional philosophy done radically as their chosen way to work for peace and justice. They perceive three seminal themes in Berrigan’s thought: a theology of time and history relevant to our contemporary era and pious towards experience, the present age as a “historical rupture” from the past, and a sense in which human thinking has gone awry and become overly instrumentalized. In their view, however, the best way to hold these seminal themes together lies in using the works of Hegel and Marx in understanding and criticizing capitalism, imperialism, and militarism. “We cannot understand the modern world without Marx’s concept of ‘capital.’ “In light of the Hegelian-Marxist perspective, they raise the question about whether Berrigan’s work is too purist and sect-like and insufficiently pragmatic and concerned with results and history.
Andreas Killen
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520243620
- eISBN:
- 9780520931633
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520243620.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter begins by looking at Berlin's late nineteenth-century transformation into “world city,” site and object of a discourse about the “hidden costs” of over civilization. It ties the ...
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This chapter begins by looking at Berlin's late nineteenth-century transformation into “world city,” site and object of a discourse about the “hidden costs” of over civilization. It ties the capital's development to the emergence of a new consciousness of accelerated change that crystallized in the discourse about neurasthenia. In this disease construct, doctors fused central tenets of nineteenth-century German science (including electrophysiology and thermodynamics) into a medical construct anchored in the body and susceptible to scientific treatment. A new generation of practitioners examined, treated, and experimented on the body with technologies that became integral parts of the material culture of this age. They also tied neurasthenia to contemporary consciousness of social rupture. In their writings and interactions with patients, doctors tirelessly affirmed the view that the age of electricity and the age of nervousness were one and the same. The possibility of speaking of the body as electrical dynamo in the first place was inseparable from the paradigm shift linked with the advent of the electrotechnical age—a shift experienced more dramatically in Berlin than anywhere else.Less
This chapter begins by looking at Berlin's late nineteenth-century transformation into “world city,” site and object of a discourse about the “hidden costs” of over civilization. It ties the capital's development to the emergence of a new consciousness of accelerated change that crystallized in the discourse about neurasthenia. In this disease construct, doctors fused central tenets of nineteenth-century German science (including electrophysiology and thermodynamics) into a medical construct anchored in the body and susceptible to scientific treatment. A new generation of practitioners examined, treated, and experimented on the body with technologies that became integral parts of the material culture of this age. They also tied neurasthenia to contemporary consciousness of social rupture. In their writings and interactions with patients, doctors tirelessly affirmed the view that the age of electricity and the age of nervousness were one and the same. The possibility of speaking of the body as electrical dynamo in the first place was inseparable from the paradigm shift linked with the advent of the electrotechnical age—a shift experienced more dramatically in Berlin than anywhere else.
Saul Newman
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748634958
- eISBN:
- 9780748652846
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748634958.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
This chapter takes up this notion of politics outside the state, showing the relevance of this idea to continental radical thought today and situating anarchism within debates among continental ...
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This chapter takes up this notion of politics outside the state, showing the relevance of this idea to continental radical thought today and situating anarchism within debates among continental thinkers such as Alain Badiou, Jacques Ranciére, Michael Hardt, and Antonio Negri. It shows that many of the themes and preoccupations of these thinkers reflect an unacknowledged anarchism. The chapter also shows that anarchism can make important interventions around these questions, and argues that radical politics today should be conceived of in terms of rupture with the existing order, rather than emerging as an immanent dimension within it. However, the politics of the ‘event’, which this notion of rupture implies, should be conceived of in ways that avoid the violent, terroristic, and potentially authoritarian revolutionary forms of the past.Less
This chapter takes up this notion of politics outside the state, showing the relevance of this idea to continental radical thought today and situating anarchism within debates among continental thinkers such as Alain Badiou, Jacques Ranciére, Michael Hardt, and Antonio Negri. It shows that many of the themes and preoccupations of these thinkers reflect an unacknowledged anarchism. The chapter also shows that anarchism can make important interventions around these questions, and argues that radical politics today should be conceived of in terms of rupture with the existing order, rather than emerging as an immanent dimension within it. However, the politics of the ‘event’, which this notion of rupture implies, should be conceived of in ways that avoid the violent, terroristic, and potentially authoritarian revolutionary forms of the past.
Harper Cossar
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813126517
- eISBN:
- 9780813135618
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813126517.003.0005
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter is an analysis of non-normative filmic uses of the wide frame. These examples focus on ruptures foregrounded as subject. Ruptures occur in wide films when the unique attributes of the ...
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This chapter is an analysis of non-normative filmic uses of the wide frame. These examples focus on ruptures foregrounded as subject. Ruptures occur in wide films when the unique attributes of the wide frame are exploited, and such ruptures may be physical, stylistic, or both. For example, The Boston Strangler, The Thomas Crown Affair, and Timecode (2000) all use a multiple-screen aesthetic to distribute different narrative lines and to present a variety of vantage points for the spectator. In this way, the classical Hollywood cinema technique of coverage functions not to give the editor a choice in postproduction but to give the viewer a choice of which visual narrative to follow. This technique of multiframing is used as a rupture in both The Boston Strangler and The Thomas Crown Affair.Less
This chapter is an analysis of non-normative filmic uses of the wide frame. These examples focus on ruptures foregrounded as subject. Ruptures occur in wide films when the unique attributes of the wide frame are exploited, and such ruptures may be physical, stylistic, or both. For example, The Boston Strangler, The Thomas Crown Affair, and Timecode (2000) all use a multiple-screen aesthetic to distribute different narrative lines and to present a variety of vantage points for the spectator. In this way, the classical Hollywood cinema technique of coverage functions not to give the editor a choice in postproduction but to give the viewer a choice of which visual narrative to follow. This technique of multiframing is used as a rupture in both The Boston Strangler and The Thomas Crown Affair.
Harper Cossar
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813126517
- eISBN:
- 9780813135618
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813126517.003.0007
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
The goal of this project was twofold: to expand the widescreen literature in useful ways, and to address and enumerate specific aesthetic differences between widescreen and Academy ratio texts. By ...
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The goal of this project was twofold: to expand the widescreen literature in useful ways, and to address and enumerate specific aesthetic differences between widescreen and Academy ratio texts. By focusing on the intersection of aesthetics, auteur, and genre, this project broadens the widescreen literature beyond lens characteristics, film gauge issues, exhibition strategies, and other such foci. Issues of technological development are useful and important, but with widescreen in particular, scholars sometimes overlook the screen image in pursuit of industrial and economic aspects of this innovation. By squarely focusing on the aesthetic attributes of closeups, landscapes, camera angles, and movement in specific films throughout widescreen's various histories, this project details how widescreen differs from Academy ratio strategies.Less
The goal of this project was twofold: to expand the widescreen literature in useful ways, and to address and enumerate specific aesthetic differences between widescreen and Academy ratio texts. By focusing on the intersection of aesthetics, auteur, and genre, this project broadens the widescreen literature beyond lens characteristics, film gauge issues, exhibition strategies, and other such foci. Issues of technological development are useful and important, but with widescreen in particular, scholars sometimes overlook the screen image in pursuit of industrial and economic aspects of this innovation. By squarely focusing on the aesthetic attributes of closeups, landscapes, camera angles, and movement in specific films throughout widescreen's various histories, this project details how widescreen differs from Academy ratio strategies.
Barbara M. Kennedy
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748611348
- eISBN:
- 9780748652310
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748611348.003.0011
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Aesthetics
This book discusses the relevance of Gilles Deleuze's philosophy for the study of cinema. It provides synthesis of Deleuzian and post-structuralist feminist philosophy and a reconceiving of the ...
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This book discusses the relevance of Gilles Deleuze's philosophy for the study of cinema. It provides synthesis of Deleuzian and post-structuralist feminist philosophy and a reconceiving of the aesthetic to explain the cinematic as a material rupture. The chapter shows how contemporary film theory has made some inroads into alternatives to cinepsychoanalysis, and explores Deleuze's ideas on desire and sensation and how they might be substantively relevant to a new mind-set of film theory. It analyses several films through Deluzian deterritorialisations.Less
This book discusses the relevance of Gilles Deleuze's philosophy for the study of cinema. It provides synthesis of Deleuzian and post-structuralist feminist philosophy and a reconceiving of the aesthetic to explain the cinematic as a material rupture. The chapter shows how contemporary film theory has made some inroads into alternatives to cinepsychoanalysis, and explores Deleuze's ideas on desire and sensation and how they might be substantively relevant to a new mind-set of film theory. It analyses several films through Deluzian deterritorialisations.
M. Elise Marubbio
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813124148
- eISBN:
- 9780813134710
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813124148.003.0007
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter discusses the arrival of the Celluloid Maiden in the 1990s, after a hiatus of seventeen years. The figure emerges in a diversity of roles, which include an avenging ghost, a political ...
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This chapter discusses the arrival of the Celluloid Maiden in the 1990s, after a hiatus of seventeen years. The figure emerges in a diversity of roles, which include an avenging ghost, a political activist, and a mixed-blood Princess who crosses genres and national film boundaries, and consequentially reveals the complexity of the figure. It shows that the 1990s films used the Celluloid Maiden to promote a racially diverse narrative to a greater extent. The character is also able to reproduce the social ruptures of an era when past national mythic identities and the ideologies of the western become antithetical to the nation's racial and cultural diversity.Less
This chapter discusses the arrival of the Celluloid Maiden in the 1990s, after a hiatus of seventeen years. The figure emerges in a diversity of roles, which include an avenging ghost, a political activist, and a mixed-blood Princess who crosses genres and national film boundaries, and consequentially reveals the complexity of the figure. It shows that the 1990s films used the Celluloid Maiden to promote a racially diverse narrative to a greater extent. The character is also able to reproduce the social ruptures of an era when past national mythic identities and the ideologies of the western become antithetical to the nation's racial and cultural diversity.
Aleida Assmann
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781501742439
- eISBN:
- 9781501742446
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501742439.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter reconstructs and critically examines the history of the modern time regime. The worldview associated with modernity's time regime rests on various presuppositions, five of which are ...
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This chapter reconstructs and critically examines the history of the modern time regime. The worldview associated with modernity's time regime rests on various presuppositions, five of which are examined in this chapter. These issues are closely related and directly build on one another: temporal rupture, the fiction of beginning, creative destruction, the invention of the historical, and finally, acceleration. In doing so, the chapter attempts to find out how the modern time regime came into being and the values associated with it that started Western civilization on its particular trajectory. It also considers how that regime has been translated into action and collective self-awareness, historically and politically. Where the values of Western culture come from, how they inform its sense of the rest of the world, and which of these values are worth safeguarding or are considered problematic are also explored.Less
This chapter reconstructs and critically examines the history of the modern time regime. The worldview associated with modernity's time regime rests on various presuppositions, five of which are examined in this chapter. These issues are closely related and directly build on one another: temporal rupture, the fiction of beginning, creative destruction, the invention of the historical, and finally, acceleration. In doing so, the chapter attempts to find out how the modern time regime came into being and the values associated with it that started Western civilization on its particular trajectory. It also considers how that regime has been translated into action and collective self-awareness, historically and politically. Where the values of Western culture come from, how they inform its sense of the rest of the world, and which of these values are worth safeguarding or are considered problematic are also explored.
Andrew R. Hom
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- July 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780198850014
- eISBN:
- 9780191884474
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198850014.003.0009
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
Chapter eight tackles the vanguard of IR time studies, where critical scholars have successfully placed time and temporality at the front of the agenda but done less to elaborate and interrelate ...
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Chapter eight tackles the vanguard of IR time studies, where critical scholars have successfully placed time and temporality at the front of the agenda but done less to elaborate and interrelate their diverse conceptual innovations. Covering four critical discourses of time—“savage” and neoclassical times, accelerating time, and temporalities of rupture—this chapter uses timing theory to assess pivotal assumptions at the heart of critical IR. While they propose to problematize time, critical scholars still reify various concepts and selectively deploy the problem of Time against hegemonic political logics. In each case, timing theory offers a more thoroughgoing and coherent account of critical temporalities. In particular, it shows that past times signal long-running timing successes bound up with power, that fast times need not lead to alienation, and that ruptures can never be ends in themselves unless underwritten by the sorts of politics that many critical scholars refute. Instead, ruptures must be understood as moments requiring fraught new forms of timing, unless we rely on silently shared assumptions and a form of liberal-idealism that depoliticizes critical times just when we should be pushing the politics of time and timing further, a task better met by the open timing standards of reflexive realism.Less
Chapter eight tackles the vanguard of IR time studies, where critical scholars have successfully placed time and temporality at the front of the agenda but done less to elaborate and interrelate their diverse conceptual innovations. Covering four critical discourses of time—“savage” and neoclassical times, accelerating time, and temporalities of rupture—this chapter uses timing theory to assess pivotal assumptions at the heart of critical IR. While they propose to problematize time, critical scholars still reify various concepts and selectively deploy the problem of Time against hegemonic political logics. In each case, timing theory offers a more thoroughgoing and coherent account of critical temporalities. In particular, it shows that past times signal long-running timing successes bound up with power, that fast times need not lead to alienation, and that ruptures can never be ends in themselves unless underwritten by the sorts of politics that many critical scholars refute. Instead, ruptures must be understood as moments requiring fraught new forms of timing, unless we rely on silently shared assumptions and a form of liberal-idealism that depoliticizes critical times just when we should be pushing the politics of time and timing further, a task better met by the open timing standards of reflexive realism.
Emily T. Hudson
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199860760
- eISBN:
- 9780199979936
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199860760.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Hinduism
Chapter 2 examines how the epic’s aesthetics of suffering builds its threefold argument concerning the pervasive presence of suffering through examining the depiction of four characters and one ...
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Chapter 2 examines how the epic’s aesthetics of suffering builds its threefold argument concerning the pervasive presence of suffering through examining the depiction of four characters and one conceptual category in the epic’s most pivotal scene, the episode of the dice game. First this chapter examines how the actions of three characters (Duryodhana, Dhṛtarāṣṭra, and Yudhiṣṭhira) lead to the game of dice and Draupadī’s subsequent abuse. Next the chapter explores the description of Draupadī’s violation in the assembly hall. Finally, this chapter focuses on Draupadī’s question to Yudhiṣṭhira concerning the validity of his stake, examining what this question communicates about the relationship between dharma and suffering.Less
Chapter 2 examines how the epic’s aesthetics of suffering builds its threefold argument concerning the pervasive presence of suffering through examining the depiction of four characters and one conceptual category in the epic’s most pivotal scene, the episode of the dice game. First this chapter examines how the actions of three characters (Duryodhana, Dhṛtarāṣṭra, and Yudhiṣṭhira) lead to the game of dice and Draupadī’s subsequent abuse. Next the chapter explores the description of Draupadī’s violation in the assembly hall. Finally, this chapter focuses on Draupadī’s question to Yudhiṣṭhira concerning the validity of his stake, examining what this question communicates about the relationship between dharma and suffering.
