(B) Liberating the Past from the Future

2009 ◽  
pp. 95-102
Author(s):  
Andrew Targowski
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
The Past ◽  
Intrinsic Values ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
The Future

The purpose of this chapter is to define intrinsic values of information-communication processes in human development. The development of civilization depends upon the accumulation of wisdom, knowledge and cultural and infrastructural gain. Man is prouder of his heritage than of that which he can eventually achieve in the future. The future is often the threat of the imminent unknown, something that can destroy our stability, qualifications and position within society. On the other hand, the “future” is also the hope of the desperate for a better life.

‘Newness which never perishes’? Schoenberg’s ambivalent reception of Haydn

2010 ◽  
Vol 51 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 215-224
Author(s):  
Alexander Carpenter
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
Musical Style ◽  
The Past ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Future ◽  
Music Tradition

This paper explores Arnold Schoenberg’s curious ambivalence towards Haydn. Schoenberg recognized Haydn as an important figure in the German serious music tradition, but never closely examined or clearly articulated Haydn’s influence and import on his own musical style and ethos, as he did with many other major composers. This paper argues that Schoenberg failed to explicitly recognize Haydn as a major influence because he saw Haydn as he saw himself, namely as a somewhat ungainly, paradoxical figure, with one foot in the past and one in the future. In his voluminous writings on music, Haydn is mentioned by Schoenberg far less frequently than Bach, Mozart, or Beethoven, and his music appears rarely as examples in Schoenberg’s theoretical texts. When Schoenberg does talk about Haydn’s music, he invokes — with tacit negativity — its accessibility, counterpoising it with more recondite music, such as Beethoven’s, or his own. On the other hand, Schoenberg also praises Haydn for his complex, irregular phrasing and harmonic exploration. Haydn thus appears in Schoenberg’s writings as a figure invested with ambivalence: a key member of the First Viennese triumvirate, but at the same time he is curiously phantasmal, and is accorded a peripheral place in Schoenberg’s version of the canon and his own musical genealogy.

The Role of the Learned Man in Government

1958 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul H. Nitze
Keyword(s):  
Western Culture ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Past ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Future ◽  
The One

In the context of government, what do we mean by the phrase “a learned man”?* I take it we can mean a variety of things. On the one hand, we can have in mind the specialist, the expert, the man with an intensive and specialized background in a particular field of knowledge. On the other hand, we can have in mind the man with general wisdom, with that feeling for the past and the future which enriches a sense for the present, and with that appreciation for wider loyalties which deepens patriotism to one's country and finds bonds between it and Western culture and links with the universal aspirations of mankind.

scholarly journals Temps et psychanalyse chez Ricoeur. Confrontation de deux perspectives sur le passé

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 148-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rudolf Boutet
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Philosophy Of Time ◽  
The Past ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Future ◽  
The One ◽  
A Charge

This paper confronts two conceptions of the past that one can find alternately in Ricœur’s thought. The first, encountered in Time and Narrative and elsewhere, apprehends the past as a soil of possibilities able to guide expectations directed towards the future; the second, taken back from Freud’s psychoanalysis, defines it as a charge that haunts the present as a compulsive repetition. There are two issues to this confrontation between a past that opens up a future and one that closes it. On the one hand, we want to show what effects Ricœur’s lectures of Freud have had on his own philosophy of time; on the other hand we want to reveal, in the light of the problem that rises from a haunting past, the practical scope of the idea of an indeterminate past

On Prophecy and Politics: Some Pragmatic Reflections

1990 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 281-296
Author(s):  
Keith Robbins
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Good Measure ◽  
Grand Theory ◽  
The Past ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Future ◽  
Grand Vision

Prophecy is inescapably controversial; tension is always in the air. Prophetic utterance, no doubt properly, is apt to make many historians irritable and uncomfortable. Preoccupied with the past, the last thing they want to be saddled with is any responsibility for discerning the future or even seeking to make sense of the present. When Hugh Trevor-Roper, as he then was, attacked the writings of Arnold Toynbee in a savage article in Encounter in 1957, the gravamen of his charge was that Toynbee was not a historian at all, but a prophet, and, for good measure, a false one at that. Decent historians should not bother with the ten volumes of A Study of History because they were not history. The charges, in detail, may well have been justified, but the asperity went deeper. The caste of mind of historians, if they were truly professional, should make ‘prophetic history’ an impossibility. Prophets were indifferent to ‘facts’, or cavalier in their treatment of them, in pursuit of a grand vision. Historians, on the other hand, were obsessively fussy about details and were relatively unconcerned about grand theory. Indeed, historiography had ‘come of age’ precisely to the extent that it emancipated itself from prophecy.

Conclusion

Facing West ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 295-305
Author(s):  
David R. Swartz
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Church Attendance ◽  
Global South ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Past ◽  
Majority World ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Future

This conclusion evaluates the prospects of the global reflex going forward. On one hand, some global voices have bolstered Christian Americanism. Westerners have used Christians from the Global South to maintain established views and practices, and populists have resisted cosmopolitan trends. On the other hand, declining Western church attendance, rapid growth in the Majority World, immigration patterns, and flourishing theological work from the East and South suggest persistent influence on a range of issues such as race, missiology, social justice, sexuality, and spirituality. If moderate wings—such as Christians of color, Majority World immigrants, and younger churchgoers—choose to identify as evangelical, they represent the future more than practitioners of Christian Americanism who wax nostalgic for the past. Whatever the case, this book calls for global narrations of evangelicalism that include nonwhite voices engaged in both mutuality and resistance.

The Global Religious Configuration. Realities and Forecasts

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-178
Author(s):  
Gabriel-Viorel Gârdan
Keyword(s):  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Past ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Future ◽  
Religious Image ◽  
The Church ◽  
Global Population

"Based on recent research, we aim to present the current global religious configu-ration, the religious demographic evolution during the twentieth century, and the main trends for the first half of the twenty-first century. From a methodological point of view, we chose to present only those religions that register a share of 1% of the global population, among which we paid increased attention only to Christiani-ty and Islam. The only exception to this rule is Judaism, the reason for advancing this exception being the desire to compare the evolution of the three religions of the Book: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The purpose of this presentation is to provide a more nuanced picture of the geographical distribution of each religion and, on the other hand, to illustrate the global religious diversity. From a chronological point of view, the landmarks are the years 1910, 1970, 2000, 2010, 2014, 2030, and 2050. The data collected for the years 1910–2014 is the basis of the forecasts for the years 2030 and 2050. The former ones describe the religious realities, while the latter two open up perspectives on the trends in religious demography. We would like to draw attention to the potential of religious demography in deciphering the religious image of the world in which we live. On the other hand, we consider that exploring the global religious profile and the way it evolves, as well as the factors that bring forth change, is not only an opportunity generated by the organic development of religious demography research but also a necessity for rethinking the pastoral and missionary strategies of the church. Religious demographics provide valuable data about the past together with nuanced knowledge of the present, helping us anticipate and even influence the future. The church, at any time, assumes the past, manages the present, and prepares the future. From this perspective, we believe that a strategic pastoral thinking, regardless of religion or denomination, can be organically outlined, starting from the data provided through the means available to religious demography. While religious demography provides specific data, it does not explain the phenomena behind this data; it notes and invites questions, debates, and explanations about religious affiliation, religiosity, and religious behaviour. Keywords: religious, demography, agnostics, atheists, Christians, Muslims."

The promise of the unforgiven

2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Keller Hirsch
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Past ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Future ◽  
The One

Hannah Arendt’s work on violence is bedeviled by a series of paradoxes. On the one hand, Arendt is clear in arguing that violence is utterly powerless and yet, on the other hand, she is equally clear in her portrayal of beginnings as necessarily violent. These two positions conflict insofar as Arendt holds beginnings to be the source of all power. Thus power and violence are at once opposed and yet alloyed. This tension is deepened by yet another. For Arendt, action, of which power is composed, would not be possible without the twofold human faculties of promising and forgiveness. Promising undoes the hold of the future on the present by pacifying its unpredictability, while forgiveness loosens the grip of the past by alleviating its irreversibility. The trouble, however, is that Arendt argues that the power of forgiveness stems from its unpredictability, and unpredictability is precisely that which promising is meant to thwart. Taking these two paradoxes together one might say that Arendt, however unwittingly, leaves us promising never to forgive. This article works to flesh these paradoxes out. It also contextualizes Arendt’s paradoxes in terms of the literature that claims democratic political life is beset by tragedy. In the end, I argue that, following Arendt, democracy is ultimately about learning to live with the vivid disquiet of the miracle of paradox.

scholarly journals Part(y) of Speech: Partisan Divides in Stylistic Framing

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan McMahon
Keyword(s):  
Social Identities ◽  
External Factors ◽  
The Other ◽  
Press Releases ◽  
Text Annotation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Future

Research investigating the use of framing in political texts shows that politicians frame issues and themselves differentially based on social identities and other, external, factors. However, this literature focuses almost exclusively on what words are said (i.e., the content), with minimal attention being paid to how they are said (i.e., the style). This pre-registered study uses text annotation methods and an original collection of senate press releases to demonstrate that politicians also engage in stylistic framing. Like content frames, the use of style frames differs by partisanship in a manner consistent with party principles. Republican press releases are more likely to focus on the past and draw attention to individuals. Releases from Democratic senators, on the other hand, are more likely to discuss the future and focus on groups.

scholarly journals La communication responsable : une approche dialogique constitutive des organisations

2018 ◽  
pp. 55-77
Author(s):  
Jo M. Katambwe
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Dialogic Communication ◽  
The Past ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Future ◽  
Communication In Organizations ◽  
Ethical Communication

L’article opère une distinction entre trois types de responsabilités que sont la responsabilité rétrospective, prospective et active. La responsabilité active compense le manque de réflexion éthique dans l’espace entre la rétrospection et la prospection ; elle fait référence à cette communication qui se passe entre le passé et le futur, c’est-à-dire à ce qui se trame dans le présent, avant l’émission formelle du message. Cet article propose de distinguer également la communication de la responsabilité de la communication responsable. La communication de la responsabilité s’appuie sur la communication conçue comme transmission pour argumenter et justifier le bien-fondé d’une position au détriment des autres. La communication responsable embraye sur la communication dialogique, constitutive des organisations. Vue sous l’angle de la communication constitutive de l’organisation, la communication responsable est une communication dialogique qui rend possible l’inclusion des acteurs et des parties prenantes là où la responsabilité rétrospective et prospective avaient tendance à exclure et à stigmatiser ces exclus. Cet article conclut en proposant une procédure de communication éthique à l’usage des organisations.   This contribution operates a distinction between three types of responsibilities, namely retrospective, prospective and active responsibility. The active responsibility tackles the ethical vacuum between the prospective and the retrospective ; it refers to the communication happening between the past and the future, that is to say the communication happening in the present, before the formal issuance of the message. This article proposes to distinguish the communication of responsibility from the notion of responsible communication. The communication of the responsibility based on communication conceived as transmission allows actors to argue and justify the merits of a position to the detriment of others. Responsible Communication on the other hand engages the dialogic communication, constitutive of organizations. Viewed from the constitutive communication perspective, responsible communication is a dialogic communication that makes possible the inclusion of actors and stakeholders that retrospective and prospective responsibilities tended to exclude and to stigmatize. This article concludes with by proposing a procedure able to sustain ethical communication in organizations.

scholarly journals Politics as Morality: A Study of Keats' Poetry

2020 ◽  
Vol V (I) ◽  
pp. 361-369
Author(s):  
Ayaz Ahmad Aryan ◽  
Rafiq Nawab ◽  
Liaqat Iqbal
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Social Reforms ◽  
The Past ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Future

The purpose of the present research is to explore the works of Keats from the uncommon and untraditional perspective, the perspective of Keats as a revolutionary poet fighting for the cause of politics and morality. For this purpose, his selected poems were taken for analysis. His works reveal not only the aspects of Romanticism but also of revolution. Most of his poems plead for political and social reforms in a constructive irony of the upheavals through intentionality. Swept up with the current of revolution and sanguinity, on one hand, he deplores the contemporary restlessness and stagnation, but, on the other hand, he is optimistic about the future, where change and reconciliation were for sure. In this way, the works of the poet present the present and the past in a relationship, where the past is allured, the present is struggled for politics and the future is hoped for imaginatively.

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