scholarly journals Spectres of Euripides: Time, Translation and Modernism in H.D.’s Euripides

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Strawson
Keyword(s):  
Albert Einstein ◽  
Henri Bergson ◽  
Literary Modernism ◽  
Time Translation ◽  
Verse Forms ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Radical Ideas ◽  
Iphigenia At Aulis

AbstractThe modernist period was one of intense engagement with antiquity. It was also a period concerned with radical ideas about time put forward by Henri Bergson and Albert Einstein that questioned traditional understandings of the relationship between past and present. This article considers these two aspects of the modernist period through H.D.’s translations of Euripides: it argues that H.D.’s equivocal position in literary modernism and the imagist movement (as demonstrated by her translations from Hippolytus), her prosodic experimentation with Greek verse forms in her translations from Hecuba and Iphigenia at Aulis and finally her emphasis on temporal themes in her Freud-inspired translation of Ion can be all read in such a way to cast new light on the complex temporalities of the translation of classical texts and the modernist reception of the classics.

scholarly journals John Stuart Mill's Philosophy of Persuasion

2014 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Helen Ruth McCabe
Keyword(s):  
John Stuart Mill ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Radical Ideas

In his youth, John Stuart Mill followed his father’s philosophy of persuasion but, in 1830, Mill adopted a new philosophy of persuasion, trying to lead people incrementally towards the truth from their original stand-points rather than engage them antagonistically. Understanding this change helps us understand apparent contradictions in Mill’s cannon, as he disguises some of his more radical ideas in order to bring his audience to re-assess and authentically change their opinions. It also suggests a way of re-assessing the relationship between Mill’s public and private works, to which we should look if we are attempting to understand his thought.

The Role of Metacogntion and Knowledge Transfer in Self-Directed Learning

2018 ◽  
pp. 141-159
Author(s):  
Gina J. Mariano ◽  
Kirsten Batchelor
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Albert Einstein ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
Directed Learning ◽  
Metacognitive Learning ◽  
The Relationship

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. This quote by Albert Einstein embodies the essence of the relationship between metacognition and self-directed learning. It is important for students to remember what they learn in school, but many forget the information because they have not been taught metacognitive learning strategies. The learning strategies we teach students supports them in their effort to become good learners. In this chapter, we discuss the relationships between metacognition and knowledge transfer, critical thinking and self-directed learning. It brings together multiple perspectives on metacognition and knowledge transfer and discusses instructor strategies to engage students in metacognitive learning strategies.

Modernism, Internationalism and the Russian Revolution

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Ayers
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
Russian Revolution ◽  
Transnational Politics ◽  
Literary Modernism ◽  
Modernist Literature ◽  
Dominant Feature ◽  
Leonard Woolf ◽  
The Relationship

Modernism, Internationalism and the Russian Revolution examines responses to the Russian Revolution and the formation of the League of Nations in literature and journalism in the years following 1917. It examines early attempts to assess the Revolution, how the Bolsheviks intervened in the British public sphere, how visitors to Moscow responded to meeting Lenin and Trotsky, and the manner in which the League and Revolution occupied the work of such figures as T.S. Eliot, Leonard Woolf, Maynard Keynes, Clare Sheridan and H.G. Wells. This study reveals the extent and complexity of the debate about revolution and nationalities which was a dominant feature of public discourse. Drawing on the responses of journalists and literary authors, including some figures rarely considered in the context of literary modernism, such as Tomáš Masaryk and Henry Noel Brailsford, it gives new insights into the relationship between modernist literature and the geopolitical shifts which governed the period, and demonstrates how a new age of transnational politics began.

4. Post-Revolutionary philosophy

2020 ◽  
pp. 41-57
Author(s):  
Stephen Gaukroger ◽  
Knox Peden
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Third Republic ◽  
Henri Bergson ◽  
Rapid Rise ◽  
French Philosophy ◽  
The Third ◽  
Old Order ◽  
Auguste Comte ◽  
The Relationship

After the French Revolution, philosophy and the rapid rise of individualism were blamed for the bloodshed. ‘Post-Revolutionary philosophy: the nineteenth century and the Third Republic’ introduces thinkers like Auguste Comte, who ushered in socialism by arguing that Enlightenment ideas had toppled the old order of monarchy and religion, but that their individualism potentially hampered progress. Progress, epitomized by science, was the goal in nineteenth-century French philosophy. Rationalism and the ‘critical idealism’ of Léon Brunschvicg were not the only schools of thought. The Romantic philosopher Henri Bergson tackled the relationship between mind, body, and spirit by defining knowledge as a process.

scholarly journals Remarks on the Theory of Relativity (1922)

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-172
Author(s):  
Henri Bergson ◽  
Heath Massey
Keyword(s):  
Albert Einstein ◽  
Henri Bergson ◽  
Theory Of Relativity

On April 22, 1922, the Societé française de Philosophie hosted Albert Einstein for a discussion of the theory of relativity.  In the course of this discussion, Henri Bergson, who was at that time writing Duration and Simultaneity, which explored some of the philosophical implications of Einstein's theory, was asked to share his thoughts.  The resulting remarks offer a glimpse into Bergson's analysis of the concept of simultaneity, and Einstein's brief reply reveals his insistence that time itself, not just "the physicist's time," is relative.

scholarly journals Winning Back the Intellectuals: Inside Canada’s “First War on Terror,” 1968-1970

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Gauvreau
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
English Canada ◽  
Security Services ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Liberal Ideology ◽  
New Type ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Radical Ideas

Abstract Historical treatments of the October Crisis have tended to focus on a simple dichotomy between the aims of the Canadian government and the Front de Libération du Québec, have suggested the tensions in the relationship between federal and provincial levels of government during the crisis, or have sought to situate the FLQ within the emergence of a new strain of radical ideas in Québec during the 1960s. This paper takes as its starting-point the irony of the reluctance of the Trudeau government to brand the FLQ as “terrorists,” and examines the federal government’s response within a larger strategy to force the intellectual communities in both English Canada and Québec away from a sympathy for student radicalism and international decolonization struggles. It situates the Trudeau government’s “war on terror” as less an episodic response to the kidnappings of James Cross and Pierre Laporte, but within a growing strand of conservatism in the encounter of the authorities with elements of the cultural revolution of the 1960s. It poses the question of whether the nature of the federal government’s response may have been due to the desire, among members of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s inner circle, to promote a new type of liberal ideology that sought to dispense with older versions that legitimated civic participation through non-elected, “representative” bodies by defining the latter as conscious or unwitting accomplices of terrorist violence. The paper is based on a range of newly-declassified documents from both the federal cabinet and the security services deposited in Pierre Trudeau’s prime ministerial archive, as well as a new reading of newspaper and media sources in Québec.

scholarly journals Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Intertwining and Objectification

PhaenEx ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorothea Olkowski
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Body ◽  
Henri Bergson ◽  
Knowing How ◽  
Phenomenology Of Perception ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Invisible

In chapter four of The Visible and the Invisible, titled “The Intertwining -- The Chiasm,” Merleau-Ponty considers the relation between the body as sensible, which is to say “objective,” and the body as sentient, that is, as “phenomenal” body. He makes this inquiry in the context of interrogating the access of such a sensible-sentient or objective-phenomenal body to Being. “Objectivity” and the objective body, as Merleau-Ponty defines it in the Phenomenology of Perception, are to be determined in relation to experience. Objectivity requires knowing how it is possible for determinate shapes to be available for experience at all. But the possibility of determinate shapes is also called into question by Merleau-Ponty insofar as the body is experienced as a point of view on things; thus every body would experience a different point of view, even though things are given as abstract elements of one total world. Since the two elements form a system, an intertwining, in which each moment (that of a body with a particular point of view and that of things in the totality of their world) is immediately expressive of each other, objectivity would seem to be hard to achieve. The relationship between body and things, point of view and world, if the relata continually express one another, would appear to be anything but determinate and the question of how objectivity is possible remains unanswered. This essay will explore this question in the light of Merleau-Ponty’s (mis-) reading of Henri Bergson and from the point of view of Sartre’s original expression of the relation of intertwining.

Theory of Relativity, The

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam James Bradley
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
General Relativity ◽  
Special Relativity ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
Albert Einstein ◽  
Newtonian Mechanics ◽  
Theory Of Relativity ◽  
Speed Of Light ◽  
Nuclear Age ◽  
The Relationship

The Theory of Relativity is the name given to two separate theories put forth by Albert Einstein (1879–1955): ‘Special Relativity’ and ‘General Relativity’. When first published in 1905, Einstein’s ‘Theory of Special Relativity’ upended Newtonian Mechanics and was in agreement with James Clerk Maxwell’s equations of electromagnetism. The theory opened up new avenues for particle physics and is thought to have ushered in the nuclear age. Relativity was also used to predict the existence of black holes and other cosmological phenomena. Special Relativity, Einstein’s theory of small particles, includes possibly the world’s most famous physics equation: E=mc², which predicts the relationship between mass and energy where energy is equal to the mass of an object multiplied by the speed of light squared.

Autism and the Imaginative Mind

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
ILONA MIELKE
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Biases ◽  
Albert Einstein ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
The Other ◽  
Creative Imagination ◽  
Research Profile ◽  
Psychological Models ◽  
Repetitive Activities ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Autism is diagnosed through a symptom of clusters known as the diagnostic triad. One of these is the rigid adherence to routines, repetitive activities, and narrowly focused interests which represent behavioural and cognitive biases due to a lack of imaginative cognition. The other two clusters include impairment in communication and social interaction because of impairments of imagination. These symptoms gave rise to the assumption that autism impairs imagination. Symptoms consistent with this view are prominent throughout the clinical and research profile of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). However, some individuals diagnosed with autism exhibit excellent gifts in the field of creative imagination such as in arts, music, and poetry. Some of these personages who suffered from autism include Samuel Beckett, Albert Einstein, Andy Warhol, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. This claim purports that autism is not only compatible with creative imagination but in some sense promotes it. This chapter discusses the evidence for the impairment of the imagination in ASD and shows how these problems align with the key psychological models of autism. It evaluates the evidence for elements of preserved imagination by considering autistic visual arts and autistic spectrum poetry. It also highlights the implications of the relationship of autism and imagination.

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