Christopher Hood and Martin Lodge
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780199269679
- eISBN:
- 9780191604096
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/019926967X.003.0010
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
This chapter first shows what contribution a Public Service Bargain (PSB) perspective can make to the understanding of executive government. It claims that such a perspective can aid comparison, can ...
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This chapter first shows what contribution a Public Service Bargain (PSB) perspective can make to the understanding of executive government. It claims that such a perspective can aid comparison, can be applied at various levels of aggregation, and can sharpen understanding of cheating and strategic behaviour. It then shows how the PSB perspective can add to existing analytical and comparative work on executive government. The future of PSBs is discussed and it is argued that rather than stasis, convergence, or divergence, the most likely future is one of further multiplication and, therefore, complication.Less
This chapter first shows what contribution a Public Service Bargain (PSB) perspective can make to the understanding of executive government. It claims that such a perspective can aid comparison, can be applied at various levels of aggregation, and can sharpen understanding of cheating and strategic behaviour. It then shows how the PSB perspective can add to existing analytical and comparative work on executive government. The future of PSBs is discussed and it is argued that rather than stasis, convergence, or divergence, the most likely future is one of further multiplication and, therefore, complication.
Demetrios S. Katos
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199696963
- eISBN:
- 9780191731969
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199696963.003.0008
- Subject:
- Religion, Early Christian Studies, Church History
The conclusion briefly reviews the book's central claims: that Palladius was an influential personality among Origenist ascetics at the turn of the fifth century; that the Dialogue is best understood ...
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The conclusion briefly reviews the book's central claims: that Palladius was an influential personality among Origenist ascetics at the turn of the fifth century; that the Dialogue is best understood through the lens of late antique judicial rhetoric and stasis theory; and that Palladius was deeply influenced in his theology by both Origen and his mentor Evagrius, particularly in his understanding of spiritual progress and human freedom. The conclusion suggests that judicial rhetoric may prove useful for the analysis of other works of Christian literature considering the widespread training among Christian bishops in this area. The author briefly considers several aspects of Palladius' thought that could appeal to an audience broader than that of specialists in late antique Christianity, and concludes by noting that Palladius' death marked the twilight of an era in which there was open admiration for Origen and his remarkable contributions.Less
The conclusion briefly reviews the book's central claims: that Palladius was an influential personality among Origenist ascetics at the turn of the fifth century; that the Dialogue is best understood through the lens of late antique judicial rhetoric and stasis theory; and that Palladius was deeply influenced in his theology by both Origen and his mentor Evagrius, particularly in his understanding of spiritual progress and human freedom. The conclusion suggests that judicial rhetoric may prove useful for the analysis of other works of Christian literature considering the widespread training among Christian bishops in this area. The author briefly considers several aspects of Palladius' thought that could appeal to an audience broader than that of specialists in late antique Christianity, and concludes by noting that Palladius' death marked the twilight of an era in which there was open admiration for Origen and his remarkable contributions.
Gretchen Horlacher
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195370867
- eISBN:
- 9780199893492
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195370867.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Theory, Analysis, Composition, History, Western
A pioneer of musical modernism, Igor Stravinsky marked a significant turn in compositional method. He broke free from traditional styles and contemporary trends in the early part of the 20th century ...
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A pioneer of musical modernism, Igor Stravinsky marked a significant turn in compositional method. He broke free from traditional styles and contemporary trends in the early part of the 20th century to achieve an entirely new and truly modern aesthetic. Striking a remarkable concurrence of stasis and discontinuity, Stravinsky crafted large-scale compositions out of short repeating melodies, juxtaposed these primary motives with contrasting and varying fragments, and layered on fixed ostinati which repeated at their own rates throughout the piece. Previous scholarship on Stravinsky focuses on the disparate and independent nature of such textures, conceiving them as separated and deadlocked, unable to escape their repetitions, and having no goal. This connects Stravinsky's procedures with the more radical music of subsequent composers for whom disconnection has served as a primary aesthetic. Yet, from the perspective of his later works, the static and discontinuous depictions of Stravinsky's music seem incomplete and perhaps even simplistic. The “building blocks” of his novel textures often consist of tunes with identifiable intervallic shapes, goal pitches, and defining durational patterns—organizations that engender continuity and connection. This book provides a fuller perspective, and offers a fresh approach to this music and the theoretical constructs behind it. The book portrays the whole of Stravinsky's repertoire as radical or modern not because it eschews continuity and connection, but because it places them in relation to their opposites: the music holds our interest because undeniable references toward continuity are dynamically coordinated (rather than subsumed) with stasis and discontinuity. From this vantage point, Stravinsky's music becomes a commentary on the nature of time: the music draws into relation the tension between time as it is punctuated by fixed reference and as it flows from one event to another. It is quintessentially modern because of its inherent emphasis on multiple vantage points.Less
A pioneer of musical modernism, Igor Stravinsky marked a significant turn in compositional method. He broke free from traditional styles and contemporary trends in the early part of the 20th century to achieve an entirely new and truly modern aesthetic. Striking a remarkable concurrence of stasis and discontinuity, Stravinsky crafted large-scale compositions out of short repeating melodies, juxtaposed these primary motives with contrasting and varying fragments, and layered on fixed ostinati which repeated at their own rates throughout the piece. Previous scholarship on Stravinsky focuses on the disparate and independent nature of such textures, conceiving them as separated and deadlocked, unable to escape their repetitions, and having no goal. This connects Stravinsky's procedures with the more radical music of subsequent composers for whom disconnection has served as a primary aesthetic. Yet, from the perspective of his later works, the static and discontinuous depictions of Stravinsky's music seem incomplete and perhaps even simplistic. The “building blocks” of his novel textures often consist of tunes with identifiable intervallic shapes, goal pitches, and defining durational patterns—organizations that engender continuity and connection. This book provides a fuller perspective, and offers a fresh approach to this music and the theoretical constructs behind it. The book portrays the whole of Stravinsky's repertoire as radical or modern not because it eschews continuity and connection, but because it places them in relation to their opposites: the music holds our interest because undeniable references toward continuity are dynamically coordinated (rather than subsumed) with stasis and discontinuity. From this vantage point, Stravinsky's music becomes a commentary on the nature of time: the music draws into relation the tension between time as it is punctuated by fixed reference and as it flows from one event to another. It is quintessentially modern because of its inherent emphasis on multiple vantage points.
Sten Jönsson
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199546350
- eISBN:
- 9780191720048
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199546350.003.0011
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Organization Studies, Finance, Accounting, and Banking
This chapter considers the complexity of judgement a controller has to exercise when acting to maintain or re-design accountability structures. It argues that such controller work (as opposed to ...
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This chapter considers the complexity of judgement a controller has to exercise when acting to maintain or re-design accountability structures. It argues that such controller work (as opposed to regular production labour) needs to be done when the situation arises, when the rules of the game are exposed to scrutiny, as it were, and commitments can be mobilized. Three situations to be related to morpho-genesis, morpho-stasis, and a prospect of possible strategic change (where the controller should not intervene) are discussed and methodological conclusions drawn.Less
This chapter considers the complexity of judgement a controller has to exercise when acting to maintain or re-design accountability structures. It argues that such controller work (as opposed to regular production labour) needs to be done when the situation arises, when the rules of the game are exposed to scrutiny, as it were, and commitments can be mobilized. Three situations to be related to morpho-genesis, morpho-stasis, and a prospect of possible strategic change (where the controller should not intervene) are discussed and methodological conclusions drawn.
Malcolm Heath
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199259205
- eISBN:
- 9780191717932
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199259205.003.0002
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter examines the innovations in rhetorical theory that occurred in the 2nd and early 3rd centuries AD, with reference to types of style (idea-theory) and to techniques of argument (stasis or ...
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This chapter examines the innovations in rhetorical theory that occurred in the 2nd and early 3rd centuries AD, with reference to types of style (idea-theory) and to techniques of argument (stasis or issue-theory). The changing significance of issue-theory from Hermagoras of Temnos (2nd century BC) onwards is explained and illustrated. The evidence for the early stages of the transformation of the theory in the second century AD is reviewed, and the contributions of Zeno and Minucianus — the immediate predecessors of Hermogenes of Tarsus whose treatise On Issues was to become the standard textbook on the subject — are assesed. The subsequent formation of a rhetorical corpus, including other works falsely attributed to Hermogenes, is traced.Less
This chapter examines the innovations in rhetorical theory that occurred in the 2nd and early 3rd centuries AD, with reference to types of style (idea-theory) and to techniques of argument (stasis or issue-theory). The changing significance of issue-theory from Hermagoras of Temnos (2nd century BC) onwards is explained and illustrated. The evidence for the early stages of the transformation of the theory in the second century AD is reviewed, and the contributions of Zeno and Minucianus — the immediate predecessors of Hermogenes of Tarsus whose treatise On Issues was to become the standard textbook on the subject — are assesed. The subsequent formation of a rhetorical corpus, including other works falsely attributed to Hermogenes, is traced.
Eric Post
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780691182353
- eISBN:
- 9780691185491
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691182353.003.0010
- Subject:
- Biology, Ecology
This concluding chapter argues that time is a central element in ecology, a resource in and of itself. This conceptualization of time attempts to explain phenological patterns and dynamics across the ...
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This concluding chapter argues that time is a central element in ecology, a resource in and of itself. This conceptualization of time attempts to explain phenological patterns and dynamics across the population, species, and community levels as consequences of the use of time, as a resource, by individual organisms. It is an attempt to make sense, in ecological and evolutionary contexts, of widely varied patterns of phenological dynamics among individuals within species, among species within communities, and among communities within and across biomes. In essence, these patterns comprise phenological advance, phenological stasis, and phenological delay, and examples of each are evident at all of these levels of biological organization and in all systems and biomes studied to date. If there is a unifying explanation for such apparently inconsistent patterns, it may well lie in the singular strategy employed by all living organisms: the conversion of time into biomass and progeny.Less
This concluding chapter argues that time is a central element in ecology, a resource in and of itself. This conceptualization of time attempts to explain phenological patterns and dynamics across the population, species, and community levels as consequences of the use of time, as a resource, by individual organisms. It is an attempt to make sense, in ecological and evolutionary contexts, of widely varied patterns of phenological dynamics among individuals within species, among species within communities, and among communities within and across biomes. In essence, these patterns comprise phenological advance, phenological stasis, and phenological delay, and examples of each are evident at all of these levels of biological organization and in all systems and biomes studied to date. If there is a unifying explanation for such apparently inconsistent patterns, it may well lie in the singular strategy employed by all living organisms: the conversion of time into biomass and progeny.
Robert Garland
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691161051
- eISBN:
- 9781400850259
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691161051.003.0011
- Subject:
- History, Ancient History / Archaeology
This chapter discusses repatriation. L'esprit de retour certainly consumed the Greeks, as numerous passages in their literature indicate, even though relatively few migrants would have returned to ...
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This chapter discusses repatriation. L'esprit de retour certainly consumed the Greeks, as numerous passages in their literature indicate, even though relatively few migrants would have returned to their place of birth, compared with the large number who return eventually today. In many cases, however, returnees represented a serious threat to their city-state, since it was likely that their return would reignite the stasis that had initially provoked their expulsion. No less problematically, the return of exiles also created legal battles, notably when their property had been acquired by new owners. Though the circumstances under which exiles returned to their former polis are rarely recounted, the state probably authorized a general distribution of all the land that was vacant.Less
This chapter discusses repatriation. L'esprit de retour certainly consumed the Greeks, as numerous passages in their literature indicate, even though relatively few migrants would have returned to their place of birth, compared with the large number who return eventually today. In many cases, however, returnees represented a serious threat to their city-state, since it was likely that their return would reignite the stasis that had initially provoked their expulsion. No less problematically, the return of exiles also created legal battles, notably when their property had been acquired by new owners. Though the circumstances under which exiles returned to their former polis are rarely recounted, the state probably authorized a general distribution of all the land that was vacant.
Maria Cizmic
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199734603
- eISBN:
- 9780199918546
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199734603.003.0005
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
Music engages trauma, loss, and suffering through its formal features, through performed experience, and through reception. In each case, music can participate in a cultural conversation regarding ...
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Music engages trauma, loss, and suffering through its formal features, through performed experience, and through reception. In each case, music can participate in a cultural conversation regarding the meanings of suffering. This chapter compares the previous chapters regarding the book’s central themes: musical features, such as quotation, fragmentation, stasis; postmodernism; representing trauma; truth and realism; spirituality and religion; and historical memory.Less
Music engages trauma, loss, and suffering through its formal features, through performed experience, and through reception. In each case, music can participate in a cultural conversation regarding the meanings of suffering. This chapter compares the previous chapters regarding the book’s central themes: musical features, such as quotation, fragmentation, stasis; postmodernism; representing trauma; truth and realism; spirituality and religion; and historical memory.
Dimitris Vardoulakis
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780823277391
- eISBN:
- 9780823280636
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823277391.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
How is political change possible when even the most radical revolutions only reproduce sovereign power? Via the analysis of the contradictory meanings of stasis, Vardoulakis argues that the ...
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How is political change possible when even the most radical revolutions only reproduce sovereign power? Via the analysis of the contradictory meanings of stasis, Vardoulakis argues that the opportunity for political change is located in the agonistic relation between sovereignty and democracy and thus demands a radical rethinking.Less
How is political change possible when even the most radical revolutions only reproduce sovereign power? Via the analysis of the contradictory meanings of stasis, Vardoulakis argues that the opportunity for political change is located in the agonistic relation between sovereignty and democracy and thus demands a radical rethinking.
Demetrios S. Katos
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199696963
- eISBN:
- 9780191731969
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199696963.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Early Christian Studies, Church History
This book examines the life, work, and thought of Palladius of Helenopolis (ca. 362–420), an important witness of late antique Christianity and author of the Dialogue on the Life of St. John ...
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This book examines the life, work, and thought of Palladius of Helenopolis (ca. 362–420), an important witness of late antique Christianity and author of the Dialogue on the Life of St. John Chrysostom and the Lausiac History. These compositions provide rich information concerning the downfall of John Chrysostom, the Origenist controversy, and many notable personalities such as John Chrysostom, Theophilus of Alexandria, Jerome, Evagrius of Pontus, and Melania the Elder. The book examines Palladius' role as an advocate on behalf of John Chrysostom, and it employs late antique theories of judicial rhetoric and argumentation (issue or stasis theory), the significance of which is only now becoming apparent to late antique scholars, and elicits new insights from the Dialogue regarding the controversy that resulted in the death of John Chrysostom. The book also demonstrates that the Lausiac History promoted to the imperial court of Pulcheria the ascetic practices of his ascetic colleagues, whom Jerome had recently decried as Origenists. The book delineates Palladius' understanding of asceticism, Scripture, contemplation, prayer, human freedom, and theodicy to demonstrate a dependence upon the spirituality of his mentor Evagrius of Pontus, and upon the broader theological legacy of Origen. What emerges from these pages is the self‐portrait, rather than a polemicist's caricature, of an Origenist at the turn of the fifth‐century, who has profoundly influenced Christian history, hagiography, and piety for nearly 1,600 years.Less
This book examines the life, work, and thought of Palladius of Helenopolis (ca. 362–420), an important witness of late antique Christianity and author of the Dialogue on the Life of St. John Chrysostom and the Lausiac History. These compositions provide rich information concerning the downfall of John Chrysostom, the Origenist controversy, and many notable personalities such as John Chrysostom, Theophilus of Alexandria, Jerome, Evagrius of Pontus, and Melania the Elder. The book examines Palladius' role as an advocate on behalf of John Chrysostom, and it employs late antique theories of judicial rhetoric and argumentation (issue or stasis theory), the significance of which is only now becoming apparent to late antique scholars, and elicits new insights from the Dialogue regarding the controversy that resulted in the death of John Chrysostom. The book also demonstrates that the Lausiac History promoted to the imperial court of Pulcheria the ascetic practices of his ascetic colleagues, whom Jerome had recently decried as Origenists. The book delineates Palladius' understanding of asceticism, Scripture, contemplation, prayer, human freedom, and theodicy to demonstrate a dependence upon the spirituality of his mentor Evagrius of Pontus, and upon the broader theological legacy of Origen. What emerges from these pages is the self‐portrait, rather than a polemicist's caricature, of an Origenist at the turn of the fifth‐century, who has profoundly influenced Christian history, hagiography, and piety for nearly 1,600 years.
Martin Camper
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- November 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190677121
- eISBN:
- 9780190677152
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190677121.001.0001
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Psycholinguistics / Neurolinguistics / Cognitive Linguistics
Arguing over Texts presents a rhetorical method for analyzing how people disagree over the meaning of texts and how they attempt to reconcile those disagreements through argument. The book recovers ...
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Arguing over Texts presents a rhetorical method for analyzing how people disagree over the meaning of texts and how they attempt to reconcile those disagreements through argument. The book recovers and adapts a classification of recurring types of disagreement over textual meaning, invented by ancient Greek and Roman teachers of rhetoric: the interpretive stases. Drawing on the rhetorical works of Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian, and Hermogenes, the book devotes a chapter to each of the six interpretive stases, which classify issues concerning ambiguous words and phrases, definitions of terms, clashes between the text’s letter and its spirit, internal contradictions, applications of the text to novel cases, and the authority of the interpreter or the text itself. From the dispute over Phillis Wheatley’s allegedly self-racist poetry to the controversy over whether some of Abraham Lincoln’s letters provide evidence he was gay, the book offers examples from religion, politics, history, literary criticism, and law to illustrate that the interpretive stases can be employed to analyze debates over texts in virtually any sphere. In addition to its classical rhetorical foundation, the book draws on research from modern rhetorical theory and language science to elucidate the rhetorical, linguistic, and cognitive grounds for the argumentative construction of textual meaning. The method presented in this book thus advances scholars’ ability to examine the rhetorical dynamics of textual interpretation, to trace the evolution of textual meaning, and to explore how communities ground their beliefs and behaviors in texts.Less
Arguing over Texts presents a rhetorical method for analyzing how people disagree over the meaning of texts and how they attempt to reconcile those disagreements through argument. The book recovers and adapts a classification of recurring types of disagreement over textual meaning, invented by ancient Greek and Roman teachers of rhetoric: the interpretive stases. Drawing on the rhetorical works of Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian, and Hermogenes, the book devotes a chapter to each of the six interpretive stases, which classify issues concerning ambiguous words and phrases, definitions of terms, clashes between the text’s letter and its spirit, internal contradictions, applications of the text to novel cases, and the authority of the interpreter or the text itself. From the dispute over Phillis Wheatley’s allegedly self-racist poetry to the controversy over whether some of Abraham Lincoln’s letters provide evidence he was gay, the book offers examples from religion, politics, history, literary criticism, and law to illustrate that the interpretive stases can be employed to analyze debates over texts in virtually any sphere. In addition to its classical rhetorical foundation, the book draws on research from modern rhetorical theory and language science to elucidate the rhetorical, linguistic, and cognitive grounds for the argumentative construction of textual meaning. The method presented in this book thus advances scholars’ ability to examine the rhetorical dynamics of textual interpretation, to trace the evolution of textual meaning, and to explore how communities ground their beliefs and behaviors in texts.
Demetrios S. Katos
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199696963
- eISBN:
- 9780191731969
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199696963.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Early Christian Studies, Church History
This chapter continues the analysis of the Dialogue in accordance with principles of judicial rhetoric. This chapter analyzes the rhetoric of the arguments used by Palladius to defend John by ...
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This chapter continues the analysis of the Dialogue in accordance with principles of judicial rhetoric. This chapter analyzes the rhetoric of the arguments used by Palladius to defend John by applying the principles of late antique stasis, or issue, theory as developed by Hermogenes of Tarsus. Stasis theory comprises tactics and strategies of argumentation, and it was a keystone of late antique rhetorical training. Palladius addressed four major issues: John's “eating alone,” the deposition of the bishops in Asia, the reception of the fugitive Origenist monks, and John's character, using respectively the arguments of definition (horos), conjecture (stochasmos), counterplea (antilepsis), and legal arguments (nomikas staseis),This chapter reveals that Palladius fully recognized the gravity of John's numerous violations of episcopal protocol, and that he even admitted some of John's character flaws, but that finally the reason for his removal was not grounded in any of these.Less
This chapter continues the analysis of the Dialogue in accordance with principles of judicial rhetoric. This chapter analyzes the rhetoric of the arguments used by Palladius to defend John by applying the principles of late antique stasis, or issue, theory as developed by Hermogenes of Tarsus. Stasis theory comprises tactics and strategies of argumentation, and it was a keystone of late antique rhetorical training. Palladius addressed four major issues: John's “eating alone,” the deposition of the bishops in Asia, the reception of the fugitive Origenist monks, and John's character, using respectively the arguments of definition (horos), conjecture (stochasmos), counterplea (antilepsis), and legal arguments (nomikas staseis),This chapter reveals that Palladius fully recognized the gravity of John's numerous violations of episcopal protocol, and that he even admitted some of John's character flaws, but that finally the reason for his removal was not grounded in any of these.
Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199798322
- eISBN:
- 9780199950393
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199798322.003.0002
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
Starting with James Joyce’s discussion of aesthetic pleasure as a distinct type of pleasure associated with an attitude he names “luminous silent stasis” (a phrase that picks up on and transforms ...
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Starting with James Joyce’s discussion of aesthetic pleasure as a distinct type of pleasure associated with an attitude he names “luminous silent stasis” (a phrase that picks up on and transforms Thomas Aquinas’s approaches to beauty), the chapter discusses various ways in which Greek thought represented, evaluated, and visualized modes of aesthetic experience akin to restful contemplation and tranquility. Xenophon, Plato, Greek vase paintings, and, finally, Homer exemplify diverse instantiations of aesthetic tranquility, some of which may in fact straddle the border between external motionlessness and internal agitation.Less
Starting with James Joyce’s discussion of aesthetic pleasure as a distinct type of pleasure associated with an attitude he names “luminous silent stasis” (a phrase that picks up on and transforms Thomas Aquinas’s approaches to beauty), the chapter discusses various ways in which Greek thought represented, evaluated, and visualized modes of aesthetic experience akin to restful contemplation and tranquility. Xenophon, Plato, Greek vase paintings, and, finally, Homer exemplify diverse instantiations of aesthetic tranquility, some of which may in fact straddle the border between external motionlessness and internal agitation.
Dimitris Vardoulakis
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780823277391
- eISBN:
- 9780823280636
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823277391.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
If the justification of violence is the main characteristic of sovereignty, then how can sovereignty be analyzed? I argue that judgments about the justification of violence are characteristic of ...
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If the justification of violence is the main characteristic of sovereignty, then how can sovereignty be analyzed? I argue that judgments about the justification of violence are characteristic of democratic practice.Less
If the justification of violence is the main characteristic of sovereignty, then how can sovereignty be analyzed? I argue that judgments about the justification of violence are characteristic of democratic practice.
Andrew Epstein
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195181005
- eISBN:
- 9780199851010
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195181005.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
This chapter suggests that John Ashbery's work offers a memorable response to inveterate, distinctly American questions surrounding individualism, ceaseless movement, and democratic fellowship. In ...
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This chapter suggests that John Ashbery's work offers a memorable response to inveterate, distinctly American questions surrounding individualism, ceaseless movement, and democratic fellowship. In his most famous poem, nominally a “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,” Ashbery acknowledges that the influence of other people is so powerful that it is impossible to locate an autonomous self apart from those with whom one interacts. Despite much commentary to the contrary, the self in Ashbery does not exist alone in the universe. The chapter also states that Ashbery is obsessed with kinetic motion and its paradoxical dance with stasis. Such half-thwarted interpersonal encounters drive Ashbery's poetry forward: the engine behind his poems runs on the dialectical movement back and forth between the insularity of the self and its interconnections with others.Less
This chapter suggests that John Ashbery's work offers a memorable response to inveterate, distinctly American questions surrounding individualism, ceaseless movement, and democratic fellowship. In his most famous poem, nominally a “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,” Ashbery acknowledges that the influence of other people is so powerful that it is impossible to locate an autonomous self apart from those with whom one interacts. Despite much commentary to the contrary, the self in Ashbery does not exist alone in the universe. The chapter also states that Ashbery is obsessed with kinetic motion and its paradoxical dance with stasis. Such half-thwarted interpersonal encounters drive Ashbery's poetry forward: the engine behind his poems runs on the dialectical movement back and forth between the insularity of the self and its interconnections with others.
Athena Athanasiou
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781474420143
- eISBN:
- 9781474434904
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474420143.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy
Drawing on a wide range of contemporary social and political thought, the book engages with a feminist dissident movement: namely, former Yugoslavia’s “Women in Black” (Žene u Crnom orŽuC) and its ...
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Drawing on a wide range of contemporary social and political thought, the book engages with a feminist dissident movement: namely, former Yugoslavia’s “Women in Black” (Žene u Crnom orŽuC) and its practices of performative mourning for the abjected other. This agonistic mourning involves standing still in public, wearing black, and holding vigils to acknowledge the victims of the “other side.” In performatively occupying the position of the internal enemy, these political actors respond to those estranged as external enemies. By re-positioning their political bodies at the centre of the polis as a means of embodying their own and others’ ambivalent and precarious belonging vis-à-vis its demarcation lines, the activists bring intolerable memories into public view. Hence, they actualize the multilayered modalities of stasis as standing still but also taking the stand as embodied traces of those who had been stripped of their capacity to testify within the nationalist and militarist banality that led to ethno-nationalist violence in what has become the former Yugoslavia. In commemorating those socially instituted as impossible to commemorate, and in upsetting the grounds of mourning as a founding scene of maternal properness in nationalism, these dissident political subjects contest the idealized mourning inscribed in the genealogies of biopolitical normalization and ethno-national militarism. The book addresses agonistic mourning as a critical practice of contesting the power assemblage of sovereignty, biopolitics and nationalism.Less
Drawing on a wide range of contemporary social and political thought, the book engages with a feminist dissident movement: namely, former Yugoslavia’s “Women in Black” (Žene u Crnom orŽuC) and its practices of performative mourning for the abjected other. This agonistic mourning involves standing still in public, wearing black, and holding vigils to acknowledge the victims of the “other side.” In performatively occupying the position of the internal enemy, these political actors respond to those estranged as external enemies. By re-positioning their political bodies at the centre of the polis as a means of embodying their own and others’ ambivalent and precarious belonging vis-à-vis its demarcation lines, the activists bring intolerable memories into public view. Hence, they actualize the multilayered modalities of stasis as standing still but also taking the stand as embodied traces of those who had been stripped of their capacity to testify within the nationalist and militarist banality that led to ethno-nationalist violence in what has become the former Yugoslavia. In commemorating those socially instituted as impossible to commemorate, and in upsetting the grounds of mourning as a founding scene of maternal properness in nationalism, these dissident political subjects contest the idealized mourning inscribed in the genealogies of biopolitical normalization and ethno-national militarism. The book addresses agonistic mourning as a critical practice of contesting the power assemblage of sovereignty, biopolitics and nationalism.
Michael Tenzer
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195384581
- eISBN:
- 9780199918331
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195384581.003.0012
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This essay marshals the twenty disparate musical selections comprising the core repertoire analyzed in the current volume plus its predecessor Analytical Studies in World Music (M. Tenzer, ed., ...
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This essay marshals the twenty disparate musical selections comprising the core repertoire analyzed in the current volume plus its predecessor Analytical Studies in World Music (M. Tenzer, ed., Oxford Press 2006). It orders them along a hermetic continuum of musical structure (a “topology”) formulated by integrated consideration of each item’s structures of time organization, sound configuration (or grouping), and formal continuity (aspects of stasis, transformation, or rupture). Subsequent description of each selection’s place on the continuum reveals unsuspected similarities and discontinuities between the musics’ features, and places each among the family of human musical structures in a fully global perspective.Less
This essay marshals the twenty disparate musical selections comprising the core repertoire analyzed in the current volume plus its predecessor Analytical Studies in World Music (M. Tenzer, ed., Oxford Press 2006). It orders them along a hermetic continuum of musical structure (a “topology”) formulated by integrated consideration of each item’s structures of time organization, sound configuration (or grouping), and formal continuity (aspects of stasis, transformation, or rupture). Subsequent description of each selection’s place on the continuum reveals unsuspected similarities and discontinuities between the musics’ features, and places each among the family of human musical structures in a fully global perspective.
PAUL WOODRUFF
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199646043
- eISBN:
- 9780191743368
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199646043.003.0006
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
Platonic justice in the Republic is essentially a pragmatic notion: justice is whatever virtue is most important to the success of the city, where success is understood in terms of the growth of ...
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Platonic justice in the Republic is essentially a pragmatic notion: justice is whatever virtue is most important to the success of the city, where success is understood in terms of the growth of other virtues and the prevention of civil war. This pragmatic assumption about justice puts no direct constraints on what counts as justice in principles, in procedures, in behaviors, or in the distribution of goods. Plato instead calls attention to a matter in ethics or to the psychological character that citizens must have in a city that is successful on his terms. Plato is right about this: an adequate pragmatic account of justice must privilege ethical character over elements of justice such as principles or procedures.Less
Platonic justice in the Republic is essentially a pragmatic notion: justice is whatever virtue is most important to the success of the city, where success is understood in terms of the growth of other virtues and the prevention of civil war. This pragmatic assumption about justice puts no direct constraints on what counts as justice in principles, in procedures, in behaviors, or in the distribution of goods. Plato instead calls attention to a matter in ethics or to the psychological character that citizens must have in a city that is successful on his terms. Plato is right about this: an adequate pragmatic account of justice must privilege ethical character over elements of justice such as principles or procedures.
MARION TURNER
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199207893
- eISBN:
- 9780191709142
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199207893.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Early and Medieval Literature
This chapter compares some letters written in 1382 accusing London aldermen of betraying the city to the rebels in 1381, with Geoffrey Chaucer's poem about urban betrayal, Troilus and Criseyde. The ...
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This chapter compares some letters written in 1382 accusing London aldermen of betraying the city to the rebels in 1381, with Geoffrey Chaucer's poem about urban betrayal, Troilus and Criseyde. The deployment of the language of truth and treason is a particular focus. Both the accusations of the aldermen (namely John Horn, Walter Sibyl, and Adam Carlisle) and Troilus and Criseyde serve to illustrate the changing allegiances and betrayals that dominated London politics in the 1380s. By reading these texts side by side, Troilus and Criseyde can be situated within contemporary discourses of treason and urban fragmentation, discourses that were under particular pressure in the closing decades of the 14th century. The chapter also explores the differing ways in which both texts deal with ideas of social antagonism, betrayal, and stasis. Ultimately, the chapter offers a reading of Troilus and Criseyde as a poem about the inevitability and omnipresence of social fragmentation and betrayal.Less
This chapter compares some letters written in 1382 accusing London aldermen of betraying the city to the rebels in 1381, with Geoffrey Chaucer's poem about urban betrayal, Troilus and Criseyde. The deployment of the language of truth and treason is a particular focus. Both the accusations of the aldermen (namely John Horn, Walter Sibyl, and Adam Carlisle) and Troilus and Criseyde serve to illustrate the changing allegiances and betrayals that dominated London politics in the 1380s. By reading these texts side by side, Troilus and Criseyde can be situated within contemporary discourses of treason and urban fragmentation, discourses that were under particular pressure in the closing decades of the 14th century. The chapter also explores the differing ways in which both texts deal with ideas of social antagonism, betrayal, and stasis. Ultimately, the chapter offers a reading of Troilus and Criseyde as a poem about the inevitability and omnipresence of social fragmentation and betrayal.
S. Scott Graham
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780226264059
- eISBN:
- 9780226264196
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226264196.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This chapter explores the discursive efforts of the Midwest Pain Group to integrate different regimes of practice in the establishment of a new pain ontology. In so doing, the chapter offers a novel ...
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This chapter explores the discursive efforts of the Midwest Pain Group to integrate different regimes of practice in the establishment of a new pain ontology. In so doing, the chapter offers a novel approach to rhetorical inquiry grounded in “functional stasis analysis.” Functional stasis analysis offers an approach to explore the progression of debates through disruptive stopping points and onto final agreements. The functional approach differs noticeably from the more typical taxonomic approach to stasis analysis which relies more on identifying the types of stasis questions in isolation. Chapter 3 demonstrates how members of the Midwest Pain Group were able to develop an approach to static debate that helped them to establish a new pain ontology in spite of myriad practical and disciplinary differences.Less
This chapter explores the discursive efforts of the Midwest Pain Group to integrate different regimes of practice in the establishment of a new pain ontology. In so doing, the chapter offers a novel approach to rhetorical inquiry grounded in “functional stasis analysis.” Functional stasis analysis offers an approach to explore the progression of debates through disruptive stopping points and onto final agreements. The functional approach differs noticeably from the more typical taxonomic approach to stasis analysis which relies more on identifying the types of stasis questions in isolation. Chapter 3 demonstrates how members of the Midwest Pain Group were able to develop an approach to static debate that helped them to establish a new pain ontology in spite of myriad practical and disciplinary differences.
