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.
N. H. Keeble
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197264706
- eISBN:
- 9780191734557
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197264706.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, Milton Studies
This chapter discusses Milton's Christian temper. It is believed Milton did not belong to any worshipping Christian community. No existing records ecist to attest that he attended Christian service, ...
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This chapter discusses Milton's Christian temper. It is believed Milton did not belong to any worshipping Christian community. No existing records ecist to attest that he attended Christian service, or associated with a specific parish, or joined congregations. In an age of great divines, pastors, and preachers, Milton acknowledged no indebtedness to any man's ministerial support or guidance. The practice of his Christianity was non-congregational, domestic, and private. Milton's external Christian observance and inner spiritual life were both invisible. He never offered anything approaching a conversion narrative. When Milton approached matters of personal belief, it is intellectually and not experientially. In his Miltonic equivalent of a spiritual biography, the De Doctrina Christiana, he asserted that his search for truth was from his own original systematic exposition of the Christina doctrine. In his The Reason of Church-Government, Milton illustrates his own religious life by illustrating the coercive authority of the Episcopal Church and his conscientious refusal to submit to it. His anticlerical stance and his firm belief in the free debate and liberty to religion encouraged him to write prose and poems of unwavering intolerance of Roman Catholicism. Milton's Christian vision is neither congregation nor a remnant but that of just one man, who is reliant on his own intellectual and spiritual resource, and who, regardless of popular opinion, walked with integrity. Among Milton's critical and anticlerical works are Paradise Lost, The Reason of Church-Government, and Samson Agonistes.Less
This chapter discusses Milton's Christian temper. It is believed Milton did not belong to any worshipping Christian community. No existing records ecist to attest that he attended Christian service, or associated with a specific parish, or joined congregations. In an age of great divines, pastors, and preachers, Milton acknowledged no indebtedness to any man's ministerial support or guidance. The practice of his Christianity was non-congregational, domestic, and private. Milton's external Christian observance and inner spiritual life were both invisible. He never offered anything approaching a conversion narrative. When Milton approached matters of personal belief, it is intellectually and not experientially. In his Miltonic equivalent of a spiritual biography, the De Doctrina Christiana, he asserted that his search for truth was from his own original systematic exposition of the Christina doctrine. In his The Reason of Church-Government, Milton illustrates his own religious life by illustrating the coercive authority of the Episcopal Church and his conscientious refusal to submit to it. His anticlerical stance and his firm belief in the free debate and liberty to religion encouraged him to write prose and poems of unwavering intolerance of Roman Catholicism. Milton's Christian vision is neither congregation nor a remnant but that of just one man, who is reliant on his own intellectual and spiritual resource, and who, regardless of popular opinion, walked with integrity. Among Milton's critical and anticlerical works are Paradise Lost, The Reason of Church-Government, and Samson Agonistes.
Voula Tsouna
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199292172
- eISBN:
- 9780191711770
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199292172.003.0010
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy
This chapter examines Philodemus' diatribe On Anger, a principal piece of On the Passions and an important contribution to the philosophical literature on that subject. The first section supplies ...
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This chapter examines Philodemus' diatribe On Anger, a principal piece of On the Passions and an important contribution to the philosophical literature on that subject. The first section supplies some semantic and historical context for Philodemus' discussion. The next section presents the methodological objections raised by Timasagoras, one of Philodemus' professional rivals, and shows how Philodemus responds to them. The chapter then discusses how Philodemus accounts for the nature and symptoms of anger, the beliefs, and feelings that it involves, and its consequences. The next section after that is devoted to Philodemus' refutation of certain Peripatetics whom, rightly or wrongly, he takes to encourage one to lose one's temper. In addition, this section discusses the case of people who give the appearance of irascibility without really being irascible. The chpater then deals with the issue of whether anger is a good or a bad thing. Finally it examines whether the sage experiences no less anger than the common man. It discusses three arguments in the form of έπιλογισμός (translit. epilogismos, pl. epilogismoi) to the effect that the sage feels as much anger as the common man, and then another three arguments whereby Philodemus rebuts the epilogismoi of his opponents.Less
This chapter examines Philodemus' diatribe On Anger, a principal piece of On the Passions and an important contribution to the philosophical literature on that subject. The first section supplies some semantic and historical context for Philodemus' discussion. The next section presents the methodological objections raised by Timasagoras, one of Philodemus' professional rivals, and shows how Philodemus responds to them. The chapter then discusses how Philodemus accounts for the nature and symptoms of anger, the beliefs, and feelings that it involves, and its consequences. The next section after that is devoted to Philodemus' refutation of certain Peripatetics whom, rightly or wrongly, he takes to encourage one to lose one's temper. In addition, this section discusses the case of people who give the appearance of irascibility without really being irascible. The chpater then deals with the issue of whether anger is a good or a bad thing. Finally it examines whether the sage experiences no less anger than the common man. It discusses three arguments in the form of έπιλογισμός (translit. epilogismos, pl. epilogismoi) to the effect that the sage feels as much anger as the common man, and then another three arguments whereby Philodemus rebuts the epilogismoi of his opponents.
Howard J. Curzer
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199693726
- eISBN:
- 9780191738890
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199693726.003.0007
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
According to Aristotle’s doctrine of the mean, each virtue is bracketed by two vices. A competing theory considers each virtue to be opposed by only one vice. The farther one gets from that vice, the ...
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According to Aristotle’s doctrine of the mean, each virtue is bracketed by two vices. A competing theory considers each virtue to be opposed by only one vice. The farther one gets from that vice, the better. In particular, Aristotelian good temper demands medial anger and retaliation for injuries and insults, while the competing theory urges wronged people to eschew anger and retaliation even for unapologetic wrongdoers. This chapter strikes a blow for the doctrine of the mean by arguing that good temper, rather than unconditional forgiveness, is the virtue governing situations of injury and insult. Aristotle provides a “right rule” for general justice, and general justice consists of all of the virtues insofar as they apply to interpersonal issues. Thus, Aristotle actually provides rules for almost all of his virtues. In particular, good temper’s rule is Aristotle’s principle of rectificatory justice applied to honor.Less
According to Aristotle’s doctrine of the mean, each virtue is bracketed by two vices. A competing theory considers each virtue to be opposed by only one vice. The farther one gets from that vice, the better. In particular, Aristotelian good temper demands medial anger and retaliation for injuries and insults, while the competing theory urges wronged people to eschew anger and retaliation even for unapologetic wrongdoers. This chapter strikes a blow for the doctrine of the mean by arguing that good temper, rather than unconditional forgiveness, is the virtue governing situations of injury and insult. Aristotle provides a “right rule” for general justice, and general justice consists of all of the virtues insofar as they apply to interpersonal issues. Thus, Aristotle actually provides rules for almost all of his virtues. In particular, good temper’s rule is Aristotle’s principle of rectificatory justice applied to honor.
Thomas Docherty
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198183570
- eISBN:
- 9780191674075
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198183570.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter analyses Medbh McGuckian's poems: The Flower Master (1982), Venus and the Rain (1984), and On Ballycastle Beach (1988). First, it charts some ‘initiations’, to demonstrate McGuckian's ...
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This chapter analyses Medbh McGuckian's poems: The Flower Master (1982), Venus and the Rain (1984), and On Ballycastle Beach (1988). First, it charts some ‘initiations’, to demonstrate McGuckian's concern for ritual and artifice and to probe the resulting idealism in writing. It then takes the temper of the verse, exploring the ethos of McGuckian's blank phenomenology or her idealist subjectivity. Finally, it links her writing to the forms of seduction, surrealism, and superrealist movements to describe a politics of her postmodernism questioning of the real.Less
This chapter analyses Medbh McGuckian's poems: The Flower Master (1982), Venus and the Rain (1984), and On Ballycastle Beach (1988). First, it charts some ‘initiations’, to demonstrate McGuckian's concern for ritual and artifice and to probe the resulting idealism in writing. It then takes the temper of the verse, exploring the ethos of McGuckian's blank phenomenology or her idealist subjectivity. Finally, it links her writing to the forms of seduction, surrealism, and superrealist movements to describe a politics of her postmodernism questioning of the real.
Steven Rings
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195384277
- eISBN:
- 9780199897001
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195384277.003.0005
- Subject:
- Music, Theory, Analysis, Composition, History, Western
Chapter 4 is an analysis of Bach's Fugue in E major from book II of the Well-Tempered Clavier. The analysis employs the sd/pc GIS introduced in Chapter 1 to explore the ways in which the fugue ...
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Chapter 4 is an analysis of Bach's Fugue in E major from book II of the Well-Tempered Clavier. The analysis employs the sd/pc GIS introduced in Chapter 1 to explore the ways in which the fugue subject takes on the hues of its shifting tonal surroundings. The chapter considers the possible the relevance of such modes of hearing to eighteenth-century listeners and employs certain ideas from Fuxian fugal pedagogy.Less
Chapter 4 is an analysis of Bach's Fugue in E major from book II of the Well-Tempered Clavier. The analysis employs the sd/pc GIS introduced in Chapter 1 to explore the ways in which the fugue subject takes on the hues of its shifting tonal surroundings. The chapter considers the possible the relevance of such modes of hearing to eighteenth-century listeners and employs certain ideas from Fuxian fugal pedagogy.
Johannes Quack
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199812608
- eISBN:
- 9780199919406
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199812608.003.0011
- Subject:
- Religion, Hinduism
This chapter gives an ethnographic account of how ANiS activists use their science-vans to “disenchant India”, i.e. they conduct programmes at schools, colleges and villages with the aim of ...
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This chapter gives an ethnographic account of how ANiS activists use their science-vans to “disenchant India”, i.e. they conduct programmes at schools, colleges and villages with the aim of “spreading scientific temper” and “eradicating superstition”. After a description of the science-van, the general structure of an ANiS programme is provided, with a special focus on the way in which ANiS activists expose and explain alleged miracles performed by godmen. It also discusses why the rationalists aim to inculcate doubt and a “spirit of inquiry” amongst their fellow Indians. Finally, the chapter analyses the specific perspective taken by ANiS activists on issues such as the existence of ghosts, the reasons for spirit possession, and also addresses the issue of a gendered rationalistic discourse.Less
This chapter gives an ethnographic account of how ANiS activists use their science-vans to “disenchant India”, i.e. they conduct programmes at schools, colleges and villages with the aim of “spreading scientific temper” and “eradicating superstition”. After a description of the science-van, the general structure of an ANiS programme is provided, with a special focus on the way in which ANiS activists expose and explain alleged miracles performed by godmen. It also discusses why the rationalists aim to inculcate doubt and a “spirit of inquiry” amongst their fellow Indians. Finally, the chapter analyses the specific perspective taken by ANiS activists on issues such as the existence of ghosts, the reasons for spirit possession, and also addresses the issue of a gendered rationalistic discourse.
Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan
- Published in print:
- 1991
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198117858
- eISBN:
- 9780191671081
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198117858.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism, European Literature
As Conrad distinguishes the poetic/Ptolemaic view with the scientific/Copernican approach of looking at the universe, it can be observed that this comparison may be associated with a broader and more ...
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As Conrad distinguishes the poetic/Ptolemaic view with the scientific/Copernican approach of looking at the universe, it can be observed that this comparison may be associated with a broader and more familiar idea — the difference between pre-modernity and modernity or observing the universe in a manner that can be measurable by man or merely perceiving the universe with indifference. About six years after Conrad’s death, Joseph Wood Krutch was able to publish The Modern Temper, which articulated a point of view of the cultural crisis that is associated with Conrad’s works. This essay directed its focus to what Krutch referred to as the ‘perpetual maladjustment’ of humanity wherein man becomes miserable as he becomes capable of transcending nature. As Conrad feels that he remained an exile in this world where one can no longer dwell in a Ptolemaic realm in the Copernican age, this book attempts to explore Conrad’s ‘homesickness’ and its various aspects.Less
As Conrad distinguishes the poetic/Ptolemaic view with the scientific/Copernican approach of looking at the universe, it can be observed that this comparison may be associated with a broader and more familiar idea — the difference between pre-modernity and modernity or observing the universe in a manner that can be measurable by man or merely perceiving the universe with indifference. About six years after Conrad’s death, Joseph Wood Krutch was able to publish The Modern Temper, which articulated a point of view of the cultural crisis that is associated with Conrad’s works. This essay directed its focus to what Krutch referred to as the ‘perpetual maladjustment’ of humanity wherein man becomes miserable as he becomes capable of transcending nature. As Conrad feels that he remained an exile in this world where one can no longer dwell in a Ptolemaic realm in the Copernican age, this book attempts to explore Conrad’s ‘homesickness’ and its various aspects.
Pat O’Connor
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780719083587
- eISBN:
- 9781781706800
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719083587.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Education
My own background was one where what you know (i.e. knowledge: favoured by my mother) and who you know (i.e. power: favoured by my father) were competing narratives. As a young woman, graduating at ...
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My own background was one where what you know (i.e. knowledge: favoured by my mother) and who you know (i.e. power: favoured by my father) were competing narratives. As a young woman, graduating at 19 years with a first class honours degree, I favoured my mother’s view and (unconsciously) avoided researching issues related to public power. It was not until I was in my 40s that I began to appreciate my father’s perspective and developed a research interest in public power. My own experience as the first woman to be appointed at professorial level in the University of Limerick in 1997, and the first woman to be appointed Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences there in 2000 (being re-appointed by three Presidents to that position over a ten year period) provided an interesting context for an outsider/insider, who is a ‘tempered radical’ (Myerson and Scully, 2011). This research on senior management is thus informed by my own experiential knowledge of university management as well as by the academic research itself.Less
My own background was one where what you know (i.e. knowledge: favoured by my mother) and who you know (i.e. power: favoured by my father) were competing narratives. As a young woman, graduating at 19 years with a first class honours degree, I favoured my mother’s view and (unconsciously) avoided researching issues related to public power. It was not until I was in my 40s that I began to appreciate my father’s perspective and developed a research interest in public power. My own experience as the first woman to be appointed at professorial level in the University of Limerick in 1997, and the first woman to be appointed Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences there in 2000 (being re-appointed by three Presidents to that position over a ten year period) provided an interesting context for an outsider/insider, who is a ‘tempered radical’ (Myerson and Scully, 2011). This research on senior management is thus informed by my own experiential knowledge of university management as well as by the academic research itself.
Joel Lester
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195120974
- eISBN:
- 9780199865406
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195120974.003.02
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
The slow movement that begins each solo sonata is a prelude to the fugue that follows, akin to the prelude-fugue pairs in Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. Many of these preludes are built upon a ...
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The slow movement that begins each solo sonata is a prelude to the fugue that follows, akin to the prelude-fugue pairs in Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. Many of these preludes are built upon a thoroughbass with an opening key-defining harmonic progression, a descending bass scale, a dominant pedal, and a cadence. This thoroughbass supports the melodic elaborations of the G-minor Adagio, all held together by motives, with continually heightening levels of activity creating the rhetoric of the movement. Performance suggestions arise from these considerations. The G-minor Adagio shares many features with other opening movements in the solo-violin works.Less
The slow movement that begins each solo sonata is a prelude to the fugue that follows, akin to the prelude-fugue pairs in Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier. Many of these preludes are built upon a thoroughbass with an opening key-defining harmonic progression, a descending bass scale, a dominant pedal, and a cadence. This thoroughbass supports the melodic elaborations of the G-minor Adagio, all held together by motives, with continually heightening levels of activity creating the rhetoric of the movement. Performance suggestions arise from these considerations. The G-minor Adagio shares many features with other opening movements in the solo-violin works.
Nina Levine and David Lee Miller
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823230303
- eISBN:
- 9780823241071
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823230303.003.0021
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
When Harry Berger was writing The Allegorical Temper in the early 1950s, he meant the pun in the title to refer both to the “temper” or attitude attributed to Edmund Spenser at the time and to the ...
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When Harry Berger was writing The Allegorical Temper in the early 1950s, he meant the pun in the title to refer both to the “temper” or attitude attributed to Edmund Spenser at the time and to the way The Faerie Queene tempered or critiqued that temper. Readers encounter turmoil by letting themselves fall through the rabbit hole from the sign/referent surface of discourse into the textual underground, where semiosis is physis and where, within the sign, signifiers and signifieds continuously uncouple, recouple, and proliferate. Once there, the reader shrinks into a tiny figure and the textual underbrush expands to an intemperate tangle of rhizomes. The new organization of life into cyber communities made everything faster and more accessible. It is no substitute for talking and touching face-to-face.Less
When Harry Berger was writing The Allegorical Temper in the early 1950s, he meant the pun in the title to refer both to the “temper” or attitude attributed to Edmund Spenser at the time and to the way The Faerie Queene tempered or critiqued that temper. Readers encounter turmoil by letting themselves fall through the rabbit hole from the sign/referent surface of discourse into the textual underground, where semiosis is physis and where, within the sign, signifiers and signifieds continuously uncouple, recouple, and proliferate. Once there, the reader shrinks into a tiny figure and the textual underbrush expands to an intemperate tangle of rhizomes. The new organization of life into cyber communities made everything faster and more accessible. It is no substitute for talking and touching face-to-face.
Meera Nanda
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- February 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780195117257
- eISBN:
- 9780199785995
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195117255.003.0019
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
Recent claims that all science is parochial and that ethnosciences are more appropriate for developing countries have been eagerly taken up intellectuals in these countries to repudiate the heritage ...
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Recent claims that all science is parochial and that ethnosciences are more appropriate for developing countries have been eagerly taken up intellectuals in these countries to repudiate the heritage of colonialism. This essay uses case studies from India, Pakistan, and China to argue that an appreciation of the scientific attitude is the only way to ensure political progress.Less
Recent claims that all science is parochial and that ethnosciences are more appropriate for developing countries have been eagerly taken up intellectuals in these countries to repudiate the heritage of colonialism. This essay uses case studies from India, Pakistan, and China to argue that an appreciation of the scientific attitude is the only way to ensure political progress.
AnnJanette Rosga and Margaret L. Satterthwaite
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199658244
- eISBN:
- 9780199949915
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199658244.003.0012
- Subject:
- Law, Public International Law
This chapter discusses several efforts to use indicators within the law of international human rights. It identifies the criticisms made to these efforts, and states that there is an increasing ...
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This chapter discusses several efforts to use indicators within the law of international human rights. It identifies the criticisms made to these efforts, and states that there is an increasing potential for suitable tempered indicators to play valuable roles. It then takes a look at the project of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, which is aimed to create internationally-prescribed indicators for a number of primary UN human rights treaties. It determines that these indicators may help in addressing the concerns of the perceived legitimacy of the supervisory committees under these treaties. This chapter also suggests that indicators may play a role in assisting peoples and publics to use the kinds of pressures and constraints on governments that human rights advocates have long sought after.Less
This chapter discusses several efforts to use indicators within the law of international human rights. It identifies the criticisms made to these efforts, and states that there is an increasing potential for suitable tempered indicators to play valuable roles. It then takes a look at the project of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, which is aimed to create internationally-prescribed indicators for a number of primary UN human rights treaties. It determines that these indicators may help in addressing the concerns of the perceived legitimacy of the supervisory committees under these treaties. This chapter also suggests that indicators may play a role in assisting peoples and publics to use the kinds of pressures and constraints on governments that human rights advocates have long sought after.
Misha Klein
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780813040141
- eISBN:
- 9780813043821
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813040141.003.0010
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology
This chapter presents Fort Walton in the Apalachicola-lower Chattahoochee Valley. The authors describe mounds, evidence for maize farming (but continuing foraging lifeways on the coast), and Fort ...
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This chapter presents Fort Walton in the Apalachicola-lower Chattahoochee Valley. The authors describe mounds, evidence for maize farming (but continuing foraging lifeways on the coast), and Fort Walton emergence from local Woodland foundations. New investigations at the Yon, Pierce, and Curlee sites provide details of ceramic chronology. The distinctive six-pointed open bowl, near-absence of shell temper, and unusual lack of chipped stone in Apalachicola Fort Walton may all mean maintenance of a specific identity within the greater Mississippian world. A few protohistoric dates suggest that Fort Walton peoples of unknown ethnicity retained their culture as something else moved in. No Spanish were in the region until the late Mission period, but their germs and a very few of their artifacts did arrive. Rapid depopulation in the sixteenth century apparently left much of the valley empty until ca. 1700 with the arrival of Proto-Creeks from the north.Less
This chapter presents Fort Walton in the Apalachicola-lower Chattahoochee Valley. The authors describe mounds, evidence for maize farming (but continuing foraging lifeways on the coast), and Fort Walton emergence from local Woodland foundations. New investigations at the Yon, Pierce, and Curlee sites provide details of ceramic chronology. The distinctive six-pointed open bowl, near-absence of shell temper, and unusual lack of chipped stone in Apalachicola Fort Walton may all mean maintenance of a specific identity within the greater Mississippian world. A few protohistoric dates suggest that Fort Walton peoples of unknown ethnicity retained their culture as something else moved in. No Spanish were in the region until the late Mission period, but their germs and a very few of their artifacts did arrive. Rapid depopulation in the sixteenth century apparently left much of the valley empty until ca. 1700 with the arrival of Proto-Creeks from the north.
Misha Klein
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780813040141
- eISBN:
- 9780813043821
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813040141.003.0011
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology
This chapter describes the Pensacola region and addresses the mixture of Fort Walton and Pensacola ceramics from the Apalachicola River westward. Located in the far western panhandle, Pensacola is ...
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This chapter describes the Pensacola region and addresses the mixture of Fort Walton and Pensacola ceramics from the Apalachicola River westward. Located in the far western panhandle, Pensacola is the only Mississippi-period culture in Florida with traditional shell-tempered pottery. The author reviews sites in the major estuaries: St. Andrew, Choctawhatchee, and Pensacola bays. Much of the interior appears to have been abandoned during the Mississippi period, possibly because of infertile soils and increased communication along coastal waterways. There is some evidence for maize, but most may date to the protohistoric period; the major adaptation was to coastal aquatic resources. A few mounds and many rich habitation and cemetery sites on the coast have high-profile goods such as copper, shell beads, and pottery with Mississippian iconography; some have European items.Less
This chapter describes the Pensacola region and addresses the mixture of Fort Walton and Pensacola ceramics from the Apalachicola River westward. Located in the far western panhandle, Pensacola is the only Mississippi-period culture in Florida with traditional shell-tempered pottery. The author reviews sites in the major estuaries: St. Andrew, Choctawhatchee, and Pensacola bays. Much of the interior appears to have been abandoned during the Mississippi period, possibly because of infertile soils and increased communication along coastal waterways. There is some evidence for maize, but most may date to the protohistoric period; the major adaptation was to coastal aquatic resources. A few mounds and many rich habitation and cemetery sites on the coast have high-profile goods such as copper, shell beads, and pottery with Mississippian iconography; some have European items.
Paul E. Walker
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789774163289
- eISBN:
- 9781617970207
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
- DOI:
- 10.5743/cairo/9789774163289.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
Al-Hakim's era is obviously quite a contrast to that of his father; it was bloody and violent, most particularly for the stream of executions and other killings carried out by his orders. A list of ...
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Al-Hakim's era is obviously quite a contrast to that of his father; it was bloody and violent, most particularly for the stream of executions and other killings carried out by his orders. A list of names in and of itself reveals little about why the caliph did what he did. One answer, propagated and possibly embellished by enemies of the state, was that al-Hakim was himself unstable and prone to fits of pique, sudden outbursts of ill-temper and deadly anger. It is useful to examine closely individual cases, first some that involve the execution of men quite close to al-Hakim, then second several where the rebellion against him is clearest, and finally treatises by members of his da'wa that display the quite ardent defense of his God-given right to absolute rule that is typical of those who maintained their unqualified devotion to him through to the end.Less
Al-Hakim's era is obviously quite a contrast to that of his father; it was bloody and violent, most particularly for the stream of executions and other killings carried out by his orders. A list of names in and of itself reveals little about why the caliph did what he did. One answer, propagated and possibly embellished by enemies of the state, was that al-Hakim was himself unstable and prone to fits of pique, sudden outbursts of ill-temper and deadly anger. It is useful to examine closely individual cases, first some that involve the execution of men quite close to al-Hakim, then second several where the rebellion against him is clearest, and finally treatises by members of his da'wa that display the quite ardent defense of his God-given right to absolute rule that is typical of those who maintained their unqualified devotion to him through to the end.
Andrew Dell'Antonio
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520237575
- eISBN:
- 9780520937024
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520237575.003.0007
- Subject:
- Music, Theory, Analysis, Composition
In a notion of inclusive musical structure, it is not clear that any particular kind of listening experience can usefully be picked out as the hearing of structure. Anything that one hears might be ...
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In a notion of inclusive musical structure, it is not clear that any particular kind of listening experience can usefully be picked out as the hearing of structure. Anything that one hears might be the result of structure in the inclusive sense. This chapter presents several musical analyses where the structural fact was learned through means other than hearing. The gathered facts were then used to find out what it might mean to hear them. In all these analyses it was finally found that the musical structure was neither conventionally structural in character nor necessarily similar in character or in density of information to the structural descriptions with which they are associated. The C-sharp minor Prelude in Book I of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier is also discussed where the perception is of an unrealized modulation to E major suggested by the beginning of a thematic statement in that key early in the piece.Less
In a notion of inclusive musical structure, it is not clear that any particular kind of listening experience can usefully be picked out as the hearing of structure. Anything that one hears might be the result of structure in the inclusive sense. This chapter presents several musical analyses where the structural fact was learned through means other than hearing. The gathered facts were then used to find out what it might mean to hear them. In all these analyses it was finally found that the musical structure was neither conventionally structural in character nor necessarily similar in character or in density of information to the structural descriptions with which they are associated. The C-sharp minor Prelude in Book I of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier is also discussed where the perception is of an unrealized modulation to E major suggested by the beginning of a thematic statement in that key early in the piece.
Karol Berger
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520250918
- eISBN:
- 9780520933699
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520250918.003.0004
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
This chapter offers a close reading of an instrumental composition: the first fugue from the first volume of the Well-Tempered Keyboard. It shows that what is of interest in a piece of this sort is ...
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This chapter offers a close reading of an instrumental composition: the first fugue from the first volume of the Well-Tempered Keyboard. It shows that what is of interest in a piece of this sort is the invention of subjects capable of many interesting and varied contrapuntal treatments, rather than a specific temporal order in which such treatments occur. To be sure, a fugue combines the atemporal and the temporal, but it is the atemporal dimension that really matters. Given that music is a quintessentially temporal art, there is something peculiar in Bach's evident desire to neutralize time—to make it relatively unimportant or abolish it altogether. What matters to Bach in most of his music, whether vocal or instrumental, is not the linear flow of time from past to future, beginning to end. Rather, time is made to follow a circular route or neutralized altogether.Less
This chapter offers a close reading of an instrumental composition: the first fugue from the first volume of the Well-Tempered Keyboard. It shows that what is of interest in a piece of this sort is the invention of subjects capable of many interesting and varied contrapuntal treatments, rather than a specific temporal order in which such treatments occur. To be sure, a fugue combines the atemporal and the temporal, but it is the atemporal dimension that really matters. Given that music is a quintessentially temporal art, there is something peculiar in Bach's evident desire to neutralize time—to make it relatively unimportant or abolish it altogether. What matters to Bach in most of his music, whether vocal or instrumental, is not the linear flow of time from past to future, beginning to end. Rather, time is made to follow a circular route or neutralized altogether.
Robert J. O'Connell
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780823217274
- eISBN:
- 9780823284962
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823217274.003.0008
- Subject:
- Philosophy, American Philosophy
This chapter explores what William James has written about the various strata of the passional, and suggests ways in which his central thesis can be salvaged from the shipwreck of epistemological ...
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This chapter explores what William James has written about the various strata of the passional, and suggests ways in which his central thesis can be salvaged from the shipwreck of epistemological irresponsibility. James points out that, between one person and another, there are varieties of the passional nature: there are different temperaments, mental tempers, emotional constitutions, and they guide the “whole man” to “insist upon being spoken to by the universe” in some particular key. These differences in people's individual passional natures, in other words, prod them toward different attributions of interest and importance, and therefore toward different over-beliefs.Less
This chapter explores what William James has written about the various strata of the passional, and suggests ways in which his central thesis can be salvaged from the shipwreck of epistemological irresponsibility. James points out that, between one person and another, there are varieties of the passional nature: there are different temperaments, mental tempers, emotional constitutions, and they guide the “whole man” to “insist upon being spoken to by the universe” in some particular key. These differences in people's individual passional natures, in other words, prod them toward different attributions of interest and importance, and therefore toward different over-beliefs.
Joseph Kerman
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520243583
- eISBN:
- 9780520941397
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520243583.003.0001
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
The Well-Tempered Clavier is an exemplary collection of twice twenty-four preludes and fugues for keyboard, which exhibits unsurpassed contrapuntal virtuosity and also the seemingly infinite types, ...
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The Well-Tempered Clavier is an exemplary collection of twice twenty-four preludes and fugues for keyboard, which exhibits unsurpassed contrapuntal virtuosity and also the seemingly infinite types, forms, and characters that may emerge from the art of fugue. The fugue in C Major displays maximum learning: a stretto fugue fitting two dozen entries of a one-and-a-half-bar subject into little more than two dozen bars of music. It uses an array of strettos to build intensity, to unsettle a fundamental rhythmic pattern, to generate modulations, and to prepare a registral climax. The fugue in C Major, a four-voiced fugue, brings the subject successively in the alto, soprano, tenor, and bass and then goes on at once to a fifth entry in the soprano with a close stretto entry on its heels.Less
The Well-Tempered Clavier is an exemplary collection of twice twenty-four preludes and fugues for keyboard, which exhibits unsurpassed contrapuntal virtuosity and also the seemingly infinite types, forms, and characters that may emerge from the art of fugue. The fugue in C Major displays maximum learning: a stretto fugue fitting two dozen entries of a one-and-a-half-bar subject into little more than two dozen bars of music. It uses an array of strettos to build intensity, to unsettle a fundamental rhythmic pattern, to generate modulations, and to prepare a registral climax. The fugue in C Major, a four-voiced fugue, brings the subject successively in the alto, soprano, tenor, and bass and then goes on at once to a fifth entry in the soprano with a close stretto entry on its heels.
