Michael Ward
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195313871
- eISBN:
- 9780199871964
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195313871.003.0009
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Literature
For the Augustans, Saturn was god of the Golden Age, and in that form he appears in certain of Lewis's early works. Soon, however, Lewis adopted the later Infortuna Major version of Saturn, treating ...
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For the Augustans, Saturn was god of the Golden Age, and in that form he appears in certain of Lewis's early works. Soon, however, Lewis adopted the later Infortuna Major version of Saturn, treating him in scholarship (where he is particularly associated with Donne), poetry, and That Hideous Strength. This grim and sour Saturn, also known as Father Time, provides the donegality of The Last Battle, a story of sorrow, disaster, treachery, coldness, ugliness, and death. But Lewis's cosmos turns out not to be Saturnocentric. For those who become patient of Saturnine constellation, who endure the cry of dereliction and become true contemplatives, there was a road to tread ‘beyond the tower of Kronos’.Less
For the Augustans, Saturn was god of the Golden Age, and in that form he appears in certain of Lewis's early works. Soon, however, Lewis adopted the later Infortuna Major version of Saturn, treating him in scholarship (where he is particularly associated with Donne), poetry, and That Hideous Strength. This grim and sour Saturn, also known as Father Time, provides the donegality of The Last Battle, a story of sorrow, disaster, treachery, coldness, ugliness, and death. But Lewis's cosmos turns out not to be Saturnocentric. For those who become patient of Saturnine constellation, who endure the cry of dereliction and become true contemplatives, there was a road to tread ‘beyond the tower of Kronos’.
Simon Gikandi
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691140667
- eISBN:
- 9781400840113
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691140667.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter argues that the condition of possibility of being black in the new world could not be realized until slavery, a sorrowful state of shame and negation, was transformed into a narrative of ...
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This chapter argues that the condition of possibility of being black in the new world could not be realized until slavery, a sorrowful state of shame and negation, was transformed into a narrative of identity. It is probably this transformation that W. E. B. Du Bois had in mind when, in the concluding chapter of the Souls of Black Folk, he described Negro spirituals—the sorrow songs—as the medium of what was tantamount to a black logos. Through these songs, Du Bois asserted, “the soul of the black slave spoke to men”; they were “the most beautiful expression of human experience born of this side of the seas.” For Du Bois, the sorrow songs functioned as allegorical expressions of the repressed self and its yearning for a language of freedom out of the ruins of enslavement.Less
This chapter argues that the condition of possibility of being black in the new world could not be realized until slavery, a sorrowful state of shame and negation, was transformed into a narrative of identity. It is probably this transformation that W. E. B. Du Bois had in mind when, in the concluding chapter of the Souls of Black Folk, he described Negro spirituals—the sorrow songs—as the medium of what was tantamount to a black logos. Through these songs, Du Bois asserted, “the soul of the black slave spoke to men”; they were “the most beautiful expression of human experience born of this side of the seas.” For Du Bois, the sorrow songs functioned as allegorical expressions of the repressed self and its yearning for a language of freedom out of the ruins of enslavement.
Jonathon S. Kahn
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195307894
- eISBN:
- 9780199867516
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195307894.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
This chapter is devoted to showing how Du Bois's greatest text, The Souls of Black Folk, represents an exemplary text of pragmatic religious naturalism. Du Bois uses the modalities of African ...
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This chapter is devoted to showing how Du Bois's greatest text, The Souls of Black Folk, represents an exemplary text of pragmatic religious naturalism. Du Bois uses the modalities of African American religion—its language, songs, concepts, and narratives—along with his explicit discursive writings about religion, to create, stitch, and bind Souls as a single, cohesive text on African American history and politics. The vocabulary of religion produces a Nietzschean genealogy that reinterprets the nature of America. To do this, he employs African American religious sources as a pragmatic religious naturalist. Du Bois understands religion as a naturalistic practice, as an historical product of human interpretation, as the efforts of historically situated actors. The chapter concludes by distinguishing the pragmatic religious naturalism of Souls from that of James, Dewey, and Santayana.Less
This chapter is devoted to showing how Du Bois's greatest text, The Souls of Black Folk, represents an exemplary text of pragmatic religious naturalism. Du Bois uses the modalities of African American religion—its language, songs, concepts, and narratives—along with his explicit discursive writings about religion, to create, stitch, and bind Souls as a single, cohesive text on African American history and politics. The vocabulary of religion produces a Nietzschean genealogy that reinterprets the nature of America. To do this, he employs African American religious sources as a pragmatic religious naturalist. Du Bois understands religion as a naturalistic practice, as an historical product of human interpretation, as the efforts of historically situated actors. The chapter concludes by distinguishing the pragmatic religious naturalism of Souls from that of James, Dewey, and Santayana.
Mark S. Cladis
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780195125542
- eISBN:
- 9780199834082
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195125541.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Philosophy of Religion
Discusses how the precarious joy and liberty of the Second Garden (as discussed in the previous chapter) collapsed and paved the road to the pain and slavery of the corrupt City. From the division of ...
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Discusses how the precarious joy and liberty of the Second Garden (as discussed in the previous chapter) collapsed and paved the road to the pain and slavery of the corrupt City. From the division of labor came the multiplication of commodities and complex systems of exchange; from these came a heightened sense of private property and public justice; and from rules of justice came conventions of inequality and the attending humiliation. This genealogy of sorrow is driven by both psychological and sociological developments, chiefly the progression of amour‐propre (anxious self‐love) and the division of labor.Less
Discusses how the precarious joy and liberty of the Second Garden (as discussed in the previous chapter) collapsed and paved the road to the pain and slavery of the corrupt City. From the division of labor came the multiplication of commodities and complex systems of exchange; from these came a heightened sense of private property and public justice; and from rules of justice came conventions of inequality and the attending humiliation. This genealogy of sorrow is driven by both psychological and sociological developments, chiefly the progression of amour‐propre (anxious self‐love) and the division of labor.
MICHAEL FISHBANE
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780198267331
- eISBN:
- 9780191602078
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198267339.003.0013
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
The themes of destruction, sorrow and exile recurring throughout midrashic literature are also found in Zoharic literature. Their reuse is distinguished by the drama and crisis in the supernal realms ...
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The themes of destruction, sorrow and exile recurring throughout midrashic literature are also found in Zoharic literature. Their reuse is distinguished by the drama and crisis in the supernal realms caused by the loss of the Temple in Jerusalem, and banishment of the nation from its homeland. In the new myth, the effect extends beyond the divine personality. Three expressions of this myth are examined: the first two provide terse teachings of two dimensions of the myth of divine rupture; the third provides an account of divine loss and longing.Less
The themes of destruction, sorrow and exile recurring throughout midrashic literature are also found in Zoharic literature. Their reuse is distinguished by the drama and crisis in the supernal realms caused by the loss of the Temple in Jerusalem, and banishment of the nation from its homeland. In the new myth, the effect extends beyond the divine personality. Three expressions of this myth are examined: the first two provide terse teachings of two dimensions of the myth of divine rupture; the third provides an account of divine loss and longing.
MICHAEL FISHBANE
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780198267331
- eISBN:
- 9780191602078
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198267339.003.0009
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
This chapter examines ancient texts on God’s expressions of sorrow or anguish, whether in response to Israel’s suffering or as a matter of personal loss or distress. It is shown that rabbinic midrash ...
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This chapter examines ancient texts on God’s expressions of sorrow or anguish, whether in response to Israel’s suffering or as a matter of personal loss or distress. It is shown that rabbinic midrash has overcome all biblical restraint and silence on this theme, and repeatedly evokes the mythic image of a lamenting and tearful God. This subject is approached under three headings, expressing three modes of divine response to the destruction of the Temple and suffering of the people: memory and mourning, sympathy and sorrow, and desolation and despair. Rabbinic interfusion of myth and history is realized differently in each type.Less
This chapter examines ancient texts on God’s expressions of sorrow or anguish, whether in response to Israel’s suffering or as a matter of personal loss or distress. It is shown that rabbinic midrash has overcome all biblical restraint and silence on this theme, and repeatedly evokes the mythic image of a lamenting and tearful God. This subject is approached under three headings, expressing three modes of divine response to the destruction of the Temple and suffering of the people: memory and mourning, sympathy and sorrow, and desolation and despair. Rabbinic interfusion of myth and history is realized differently in each type.
Rushmir Mahmutćehajić
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823227518
- eISBN:
- 9780823237029
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823227518.003.0017
- Subject:
- Religion, Islam
Opposed to the certainty that everything may be received from God, and that, consequently, it is necessary to turn and abandon oneself to Him, is the denial of everything else, since human openness ...
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Opposed to the certainty that everything may be received from God, and that, consequently, it is necessary to turn and abandon oneself to Him, is the denial of everything else, since human openness cannot be satisfied by anyone or anything other than God. The required turning toward God and away from everything that He is not means flight from everything and a search for refuge in God. The will is a necessary, but not also a sufficient condition for that turning. Serenity and the embracing of the spacious view of reality in the human consciousness do not exclude the contingent self and its insecurity. From this state of relaxation and from the level it has attained, the self endeavors to step out into what is embraced by its serenity. Duality is manifested as melancholy, sorrow, and pain in the self. Love is the aspiration that unity should be attained out of divergence.Less
Opposed to the certainty that everything may be received from God, and that, consequently, it is necessary to turn and abandon oneself to Him, is the denial of everything else, since human openness cannot be satisfied by anyone or anything other than God. The required turning toward God and away from everything that He is not means flight from everything and a search for refuge in God. The will is a necessary, but not also a sufficient condition for that turning. Serenity and the embracing of the spacious view of reality in the human consciousness do not exclude the contingent self and its insecurity. From this state of relaxation and from the level it has attained, the self endeavors to step out into what is embraced by its serenity. Duality is manifested as melancholy, sorrow, and pain in the self. Love is the aspiration that unity should be attained out of divergence.
Ishtiyaque Haji
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199899203
- eISBN:
- 9780199949885
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199899203.003.0005
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
It is argued in this chapter that various moral sentiments, such as forgiveness, guilt, and indignation are essentially associated with objective reasons. It is also proposed that the truth of ...
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It is argued in this chapter that various moral sentiments, such as forgiveness, guilt, and indignation are essentially associated with objective reasons. It is also proposed that the truth of certain judgments concerning happiness as well as the truth of a number of virtue judgments is also essentially linked to our having objective reasons, and, thus, to our having alternatives.Less
It is argued in this chapter that various moral sentiments, such as forgiveness, guilt, and indignation are essentially associated with objective reasons. It is also proposed that the truth of certain judgments concerning happiness as well as the truth of a number of virtue judgments is also essentially linked to our having objective reasons, and, thus, to our having alternatives.
Robert C. Solomon
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- November 2004
- ISBN:
- 9780195145502
- eISBN:
- 9780199834969
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/019514550X.003.0004
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
Is grief a “negative” emotion? Is it an emotion at all? We often tend to conflate what causes an emotion (in this case, a serious loss) with the value of the emotion itself. I argue that grief plays ...
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Is grief a “negative” emotion? Is it an emotion at all? We often tend to conflate what causes an emotion (in this case, a serious loss) with the value of the emotion itself. I argue that grief plays an unappreciated positive role in our experience. I also suggest that we too often tend to think of emotions as distinctive feelings and not as processes, but grief is a clear case of an emotional process (that includes several other emotions). I similarly suggest that gratitude is an unappreciated emotion in ethics. But, on a cosmic level, there is some question who the grateful person (especially a grateful humanist) is grateful to.Less
Is grief a “negative” emotion? Is it an emotion at all? We often tend to conflate what causes an emotion (in this case, a serious loss) with the value of the emotion itself. I argue that grief plays an unappreciated positive role in our experience. I also suggest that we too often tend to think of emotions as distinctive feelings and not as processes, but grief is a clear case of an emotional process (that includes several other emotions). I similarly suggest that gratitude is an unappreciated emotion in ethics. But, on a cosmic level, there is some question who the grateful person (especially a grateful humanist) is grateful to.
Jennifer Radden
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195151657
- eISBN:
- 9780199849253
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195151657.003.0016
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This chapter presents an excerpt from Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe's novel about melancholy. Goethe was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1749 and died in 1832. He was one of the greatest geniuses of ...
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This chapter presents an excerpt from Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe's novel about melancholy. Goethe was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1749 and died in 1832. He was one of the greatest geniuses of modern times, a lyric poet, dramatist, novelist, and scientist whose literary and artistic output was remarkable. His most popular work, The Sorrows of Young Werther, was published in 1774. Goethe wrote this novel out of despair over a broken heart. It tells the tragic tale of an unrequited attachment that ends in a graphically described suicide. The book brought Goethe enormous fame and was much translated. Its effect on the public was intense: it inspired a condition of exaggerated sensibility that came to be known as Wertherism. Werther's frustration, grief, and despair, elaborated in this work, captured and celebrated the Romantic notion of melancholy.Less
This chapter presents an excerpt from Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe's novel about melancholy. Goethe was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1749 and died in 1832. He was one of the greatest geniuses of modern times, a lyric poet, dramatist, novelist, and scientist whose literary and artistic output was remarkable. His most popular work, The Sorrows of Young Werther, was published in 1774. Goethe wrote this novel out of despair over a broken heart. It tells the tragic tale of an unrequited attachment that ends in a graphically described suicide. The book brought Goethe enormous fame and was much translated. Its effect on the public was intense: it inspired a condition of exaggerated sensibility that came to be known as Wertherism. Werther's frustration, grief, and despair, elaborated in this work, captured and celebrated the Romantic notion of melancholy.
Jonathan Lamb
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198182641
- eISBN:
- 9780191673849
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198182641.003.0013
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature
This chapter sets Job inside a short history of the epitaph. It considers the practice of redemptive reading as constantly engaged in a struggle to preserve susceptibility towards private ...
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This chapter sets Job inside a short history of the epitaph. It considers the practice of redemptive reading as constantly engaged in a struggle to preserve susceptibility towards private intensities, in opposition to the tendency of interpretative redemption to supplant them with communitarian or universal expectations that reduce the probability of personal complaints. In this struggle, practical reading defends a particularity so various and disjointed that it risks disorientation, and even terror, so extreme that they threaten even the limited, serial redemption of one-to-one mimesis. It risks short-circuiting the link between writer and reader, causing a build-up of energy that blocks the transfer of intensity from one to the other, and prevents the paralleling of the unparalleled upon which the series depends. In this respect, the epitaph describes the same rim of fundamental disorder as the sublime, and its reader is as prone to succumb to it. The chapter proposes two images and an instance of this sublime rupture from the later 18th century: The Dead Soldier (1789) by Joseph Wright of Derby; Job Reproved by his Friends (1777) by James Barry; and the tomb that is partly the subject of a collection of poems entitled Sorrows sacred to the Memory of Penelope (1796) by Sir Brooke Boothby. Each arrives at a limit to the possibilities of complaint, which even incorporated readings of the book of Job (attempted by Boothby and Barry) are unable to extend.Less
This chapter sets Job inside a short history of the epitaph. It considers the practice of redemptive reading as constantly engaged in a struggle to preserve susceptibility towards private intensities, in opposition to the tendency of interpretative redemption to supplant them with communitarian or universal expectations that reduce the probability of personal complaints. In this struggle, practical reading defends a particularity so various and disjointed that it risks disorientation, and even terror, so extreme that they threaten even the limited, serial redemption of one-to-one mimesis. It risks short-circuiting the link between writer and reader, causing a build-up of energy that blocks the transfer of intensity from one to the other, and prevents the paralleling of the unparalleled upon which the series depends. In this respect, the epitaph describes the same rim of fundamental disorder as the sublime, and its reader is as prone to succumb to it. The chapter proposes two images and an instance of this sublime rupture from the later 18th century: The Dead Soldier (1789) by Joseph Wright of Derby; Job Reproved by his Friends (1777) by James Barry; and the tomb that is partly the subject of a collection of poems entitled Sorrows sacred to the Memory of Penelope (1796) by Sir Brooke Boothby. Each arrives at a limit to the possibilities of complaint, which even incorporated readings of the book of Job (attempted by Boothby and Barry) are unable to extend.
Terrence L. Johnson
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195383980
- eISBN:
- 9780199897469
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195383980.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Literature, Philosophy of Religion
Chapter Two defines tragic soul-life in detail and place it within a tradition within Negro spirituals that Du Bois called the sorrow songs. Tragic soul-life sheds light on the moral vision behind Du ...
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Chapter Two defines tragic soul-life in detail and place it within a tradition within Negro spirituals that Du Bois called the sorrow songs. Tragic soul-life sheds light on the moral vision behind Du Bois’s political activism.Less
Chapter Two defines tragic soul-life in detail and place it within a tradition within Negro spirituals that Du Bois called the sorrow songs. Tragic soul-life sheds light on the moral vision behind Du Bois’s political activism.
Pat Jalland
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198201885
- eISBN:
- 9780191675058
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198201885.003.0016
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter discusses the different rituals of sorrow practiced during the Victorian age. The focus on this chapter is on the role of the mourning dress observed in the 19th century. Mourning dress ...
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This chapter discusses the different rituals of sorrow practiced during the Victorian age. The focus on this chapter is on the role of the mourning dress observed in the 19th century. Mourning dress during the Victorian period were seen as a means to identify the mourner, show respect for the dead, elicit community sympathy and match the mourner's sober mood. Discussion as well focuses on the role of the mourning dress in the lives of the bereaved as a means for social isolation particularly on the part of the widowed women. Also, the chapter discusses the extravagance and the impracticality of the mourning dress as well as the emerging criticisms on the mourning dress which lead to the reformation of the worst excesses of the mourning dress. The chapter also focuses on role of the condolence letters in alleviating grief and rallying the support of friends, family, and community.Less
This chapter discusses the different rituals of sorrow practiced during the Victorian age. The focus on this chapter is on the role of the mourning dress observed in the 19th century. Mourning dress during the Victorian period were seen as a means to identify the mourner, show respect for the dead, elicit community sympathy and match the mourner's sober mood. Discussion as well focuses on the role of the mourning dress in the lives of the bereaved as a means for social isolation particularly on the part of the widowed women. Also, the chapter discusses the extravagance and the impracticality of the mourning dress as well as the emerging criticisms on the mourning dress which lead to the reformation of the worst excesses of the mourning dress. The chapter also focuses on role of the condolence letters in alleviating grief and rallying the support of friends, family, and community.
Schaeffer Kurtis R.
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195152999
- eISBN:
- 9780199849932
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195152999.003.0008
- Subject:
- Religion, Buddhism
This chapter begins with the ancestral background of Orgyan Chokyi's father, Drangsong Puntsok, and mother Kunga Zangmo and the anticipation of the birth of their child, hoping for a boy. But when a ...
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This chapter begins with the ancestral background of Orgyan Chokyi's father, Drangsong Puntsok, and mother Kunga Zangmo and the anticipation of the birth of their child, hoping for a boy. But when a girl came Chokyi's mother succumbed to depression. The chapter also mentions her father's leprosy, suffering in songs and the sufferings of youth. Chokyi describes feeling both joy and sorrow at the time. Her father struggled badly with leprosy for about five years. The chapter recounts a few tales of the suffering that arose in her youth.Less
This chapter begins with the ancestral background of Orgyan Chokyi's father, Drangsong Puntsok, and mother Kunga Zangmo and the anticipation of the birth of their child, hoping for a boy. But when a girl came Chokyi's mother succumbed to depression. The chapter also mentions her father's leprosy, suffering in songs and the sufferings of youth. Chokyi describes feeling both joy and sorrow at the time. Her father struggled badly with leprosy for about five years. The chapter recounts a few tales of the suffering that arose in her youth.
Jeffrey Wainwright
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719067549
- eISBN:
- 9781781703359
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719067549.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
Geoffrey Hill has said that some great poetry ‘recognises that words fail us’. This book explores his struggle over fifty years with the recalcitrance of language. It seeks to show how all Hill's ...
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Geoffrey Hill has said that some great poetry ‘recognises that words fail us’. This book explores his struggle over fifty years with the recalcitrance of language. It seeks to show how all Hill's work is marked by the quest for the right pitch of utterance whether it is sorrowing, angry, satiric or erotic. The book shows how Hill's words are never lightly ‘acceptable’ but an ethical act, how he seeks out words he can stand by—words that are ‘getting it right’. It is a comprehensive critical work on Geoffrey Hill, covering all his work up to Scenes from Comus (2005), as well as some poems yet to appear in book form.Less
Geoffrey Hill has said that some great poetry ‘recognises that words fail us’. This book explores his struggle over fifty years with the recalcitrance of language. It seeks to show how all Hill's work is marked by the quest for the right pitch of utterance whether it is sorrowing, angry, satiric or erotic. The book shows how Hill's words are never lightly ‘acceptable’ but an ethical act, how he seeks out words he can stand by—words that are ‘getting it right’. It is a comprehensive critical work on Geoffrey Hill, covering all his work up to Scenes from Comus (2005), as well as some poems yet to appear in book form.
Pietro Pucci
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781501700613
- eISBN:
- 9781501704055
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501700613.003.0003
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Plays and Playwrights: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter examines how Euripides's plays stage ideological horizons in which the self (that is, the human mind or consciousness) appears to be the autonomous source of its decisions and actions. ...
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This chapter examines how Euripides's plays stage ideological horizons in which the self (that is, the human mind or consciousness) appears to be the autonomous source of its decisions and actions. In particular, it considers sophia, whose healing function is emphasized by many characters and choruses in Euripides's plays. Euripides seems to argue that the healing function of sophia protects the self from instantiations of otherness and alterity. This chapter discusses three themes: the medical image of “healing,” an adaptation in modern ideology of the traditional view that poetry induces “forgetfulness of evils and rest from cares”; the notion of “gain,” which is so central in Medea's perception of her revenge; and the fundamental idea of the sorrows that human beings must endure.Less
This chapter examines how Euripides's plays stage ideological horizons in which the self (that is, the human mind or consciousness) appears to be the autonomous source of its decisions and actions. In particular, it considers sophia, whose healing function is emphasized by many characters and choruses in Euripides's plays. Euripides seems to argue that the healing function of sophia protects the self from instantiations of otherness and alterity. This chapter discusses three themes: the medical image of “healing,” an adaptation in modern ideology of the traditional view that poetry induces “forgetfulness of evils and rest from cares”; the notion of “gain,” which is so central in Medea's perception of her revenge; and the fundamental idea of the sorrows that human beings must endure.
John J. McDermott (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780823224845
- eISBN:
- 9780823284894
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823224845.003.0011
- Subject:
- Philosophy, American Philosophy
This chapter examines sorrow and the whole burden of human tribulation as a source of religious insight. The insight of which sorrow is the source is an insight that tends to awaken within a new view ...
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This chapter examines sorrow and the whole burden of human tribulation as a source of religious insight. The insight of which sorrow is the source is an insight that tends to awaken within a new view of what the spiritual realm is. This view is not in the least what some recent writers have blindly proclaimed it to be—a philosopher's artificial abstraction—a cruel effort to substitute a “soft” doctrine of the study for a moral and humane facing of the “hard” facts of human life. This view is the soul of the teaching of all the world's noblest and most practical guides to the most concrete living. This view faces hardness, it endures and overcomes. The chapter then considers why the existence of tragedy in human existence appears to many moods, and to many people, destructive of faith in any religious truth and a barrier against rational assurance regarding the ultimate triumph of anything good.Less
This chapter examines sorrow and the whole burden of human tribulation as a source of religious insight. The insight of which sorrow is the source is an insight that tends to awaken within a new view of what the spiritual realm is. This view is not in the least what some recent writers have blindly proclaimed it to be—a philosopher's artificial abstraction—a cruel effort to substitute a “soft” doctrine of the study for a moral and humane facing of the “hard” facts of human life. This view is the soul of the teaching of all the world's noblest and most practical guides to the most concrete living. This view faces hardness, it endures and overcomes. The chapter then considers why the existence of tragedy in human existence appears to many moods, and to many people, destructive of faith in any religious truth and a barrier against rational assurance regarding the ultimate triumph of anything good.
Richard Kearney
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823223176
- eISBN:
- 9780823235155
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823223176.003.0003
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
If sorrow is neither absent nor resolved in one's journey through personal narratives, it goes no differently in national narratives: those ...
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If sorrow is neither absent nor resolved in one's journey through personal narratives, it goes no differently in national narratives: those founding Roman myths, those humiliating representations of the Irish by the British until recently, those relating to the distorted relationships of the Americans with others, the border crossings that prove to be the source of an alienation that makes neighbors into strangers. As an addition to this ensemble that stories generated in some way or other by the innumerable figures of sorrow, Paul Ricoeur proposes a reflection on the capacity “to bear”—to endure—that is generated by narrative. The basic argument is that life itself is in search of narrative “because it strives to discover a pattern to cope with the experience of chaos and confusion”.Less
If sorrow is neither absent nor resolved in one's journey through personal narratives, it goes no differently in national narratives: those founding Roman myths, those humiliating representations of the Irish by the British until recently, those relating to the distorted relationships of the Americans with others, the border crossings that prove to be the source of an alienation that makes neighbors into strangers. As an addition to this ensemble that stories generated in some way or other by the innumerable figures of sorrow, Paul Ricoeur proposes a reflection on the capacity “to bear”—to endure—that is generated by narrative. The basic argument is that life itself is in search of narrative “because it strives to discover a pattern to cope with the experience of chaos and confusion”.
Meenakshi Thapan
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195679649
- eISBN:
- 9780199081837
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195679649.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Education
An ideology applies moral and value prescriptions to social institutions and processes, and its relationship with these is always one of interaction leading to possible change. One such social ...
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An ideology applies moral and value prescriptions to social institutions and processes, and its relationship with these is always one of interaction leading to possible change. One such social process is education, which is permeated with ideology, both explicitly and implicitly. In this chapter, Jiddu Krishnamurti's philosophy as contained in his writings, lectures and conversations are discussed. This author explores the link between ideology and education, focusing on some essential elements of Krishnamurti's world-view. In particular, it examines Krishnamurti's views on self-discovery, the individual and society, social order, social transformation, awareness, sorrow and suffering, freedom and the religious mind, education, the role of parents as well as teachers and pupils in education, and co-operation and living together in the school. It also discusses the intention of the Krishnamurti Foundation.Less
An ideology applies moral and value prescriptions to social institutions and processes, and its relationship with these is always one of interaction leading to possible change. One such social process is education, which is permeated with ideology, both explicitly and implicitly. In this chapter, Jiddu Krishnamurti's philosophy as contained in his writings, lectures and conversations are discussed. This author explores the link between ideology and education, focusing on some essential elements of Krishnamurti's world-view. In particular, it examines Krishnamurti's views on self-discovery, the individual and society, social order, social transformation, awareness, sorrow and suffering, freedom and the religious mind, education, the role of parents as well as teachers and pupils in education, and co-operation and living together in the school. It also discusses the intention of the Krishnamurti Foundation.
Tricia Lootens
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780691170312
- eISBN:
- 9781400883721
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691170312.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter examines mid- to late-Victorian attempts at self-distancing from triumphalist (and literalist) early antislavery promises, focusing in particular on how the themes of haunting, ...
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This chapter examines mid- to late-Victorian attempts at self-distancing from triumphalist (and literalist) early antislavery promises, focusing in particular on how the themes of haunting, displacement, and denial threaded through many later Victorians' patriotic invocations of liberating empire. Drawing on emerging pedagogical and scholarly revolutions in studies of nineteenth-century British relations to slavery, the chapter considers histories of disciplinary reticence dating back in part to the Victorians themselves. It also discusses the increasingly iconic histories of the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention and J.M.W. Turner's painting Slave Ship as well as Elizabeth V. Spelman's Fruits of Sorrow and her notion of “changing the subject.” Finally, it explores the discipline termed “ethical refocalization” by turning to three parallel scenes of interrupted Poetess performance, in Germaine de Staël's Corinne, or Italy; Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh, and George Eliot's Spanish Gypsy.Less
This chapter examines mid- to late-Victorian attempts at self-distancing from triumphalist (and literalist) early antislavery promises, focusing in particular on how the themes of haunting, displacement, and denial threaded through many later Victorians' patriotic invocations of liberating empire. Drawing on emerging pedagogical and scholarly revolutions in studies of nineteenth-century British relations to slavery, the chapter considers histories of disciplinary reticence dating back in part to the Victorians themselves. It also discusses the increasingly iconic histories of the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention and J.M.W. Turner's painting Slave Ship as well as Elizabeth V. Spelman's Fruits of Sorrow and her notion of “changing the subject.” Finally, it explores the discipline termed “ethical refocalization” by turning to three parallel scenes of interrupted Poetess performance, in Germaine de Staël's Corinne, or Italy; Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh, and George Eliot's Spanish Gypsy.
