scholarly journals THE UYGHURS FROM MODULAR COMMUNITY TO PARTISAN NATION

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 353-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher P. Atwood
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Goal Oriented Behavior ◽  
Group Interests

The study of ethnicity has long been shaped by a conflict between two broad positions, one of which may be called the circumstantialist or instrumentalist position, and the other the primordialist or affectivist position. The primordialists view ethnic sentiments as something existing prior to and not dependent on goal-oriented behavior and hence not subject to calculation. The circumstantialists, however, view ethnicity as a product of particular circumstances in which contingent groups, usually at the behest of elites within those groups, broaden and reconceptualize their particular group interests as being derived from a common primordial substance, thus generating ethnicity. These circumstantialist or instrumentalist arguments as a rule assume that the particular circumstances where such group redefinitions and extensions prove useful are either unique to, or at least much more common in, the modern age. Thus the circumstantialist approach usually implies a modernist one.

Problems of Marriage and Self Surrender in The Novels of Shashi Deshpande

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Dr. Indu Goyal
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
The Other ◽  
Important Thing ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
Central Concern ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
The Family ◽  
Traditional Marriage ◽  
Shashi Deshpande ◽  
Middle Class People

Marriage is an important thing in the life of a woman. The importance that our society attaches to marriage is reflected in our literature and it is the central concern of Shashi Deshpade’s novels. In our society where girl learns early that she is ‘Paraya Dhan’, and she is her parents’ responsibility till the day she is handed over to her rightful owners. What a girl makes of her life, how she shapes herself as an individual, what profession she takes up is not as important as whom she marries. Marriage is the ultimate goal of a woman’s life. This paper attempts to probe into the problems of marriage through the protagonists of her novels where one enjoys the freedom of marriage and the other accepts the traditional marriage. Shashi Deshpade highlights the problems of marriage faced by middle-class people in finding suitable grooms for their daughters. This problem is well-illustrated through the characters of her novels. Since the girl’s mind over her childhood is tuned that she is another’s property, she tries to attach a lot of importance to it. it is indeed a tragedy that even in the modern age, Indian females echo the same sentiment where it was marriage which mattered most of them but not to the men. It is a beginning of females sacrifices in life that marriage brings to her. Shashi Deshpande encourages her female protagonists to rise in rebellion against the males in the family matters, instead she wants to build a harmonious relationship between man and woman in a mood of compromise and reconciliation.  

scholarly journals M. Heidegger: Metaphysical character of technical scientific civilisation

2009 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-140
Author(s):  
Mico Savic
Keyword(s):  
Science And Technology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Western Philosophy ◽  
Will To Power ◽  
World Picture ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
The World ◽  
The Will ◽  
Paper Author

In this paper, author deals with Heidegger's account of the modern age as the epoch based on Western metaphysics. In the first part of the paper, he shows that, according to Heidegger, modern interpretation of the reality as the world picture, is essentially determined by Descartes' philosophy. Then, author exposes Heidegger's interpretation of the turn which already took place in Plato's metaphysics and which made possible Descartes' metaphysics and modern epoch. In the second part of the paper, author explores Heidegger's interpretation of science and technology as shoots of very metaphysics. Heidegger emphasizes that the essence of technology corresponds to the essence of subjectivity and shows how the metaphysics of subjectivity subsequently finds its end in Nietzsche's metaphysics of the will to power, as the last word of Western philosophy. In the concluding part, author argues that the contemporary processes of globalization can be just understood as processes of completion of metaphysics. They can be identified as a global rule of the essence of technology. On the basis of Heidegger's vision of overcoming metaphysics, author concludes that it opens the possibility of a philosophy of finitude which points to dialogue with the Other as a way of resolving the key practical issues of the contemporary world.

scholarly journals Comunicación visual mediante técnicas GIS en el litoral del Campo de Dalías: la defensa costera de los pueblos del interior.

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 93
Author(s):  
Enrique Villanueva Ojeda ◽  
Andrés Miguel García Lorca
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Significant Part ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Gis Techniques ◽  
Modern Age

<p>Monitoring of the coast for the protection of the in-land populations has been one of the main problems in the province of Almería during a significant part of Modern Age. Due to this was planned and developed an entire infrastructure defensive and observational in view of the arrival of pirates and corsairs to the coast of Almería. With the present work it is tried firstly to give importance to these structures from a landscape point of view, tourism and culture through GIS techniques to create view sheds. On the other, from overlapping each different view shed, their presence or absence, can give useful conclusions for the archaeology science, as a part of a research project on the visual connection between the coastal defenses and in-land populations.</p>

A Political Theory of Foreign Aid

1962 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Morgenthau
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Many ◽  
The One

Of the seeming and real innovations which the modern age has introduced into the practice of foreign policy, none has proven more baffling to both understanding and action than foreign aid. The very assumption that foreign aid is an instrument of foreign policy is a subject of controversy. For, on the one hand, the opinion is widely held that foreign aid is an end in itself, carrying its own justification, both transcending, and independent of, foreign policy. In this view, foreign aid is the fulfillment of an obligation of the few rich nations toward the many poor ones. On the other hand, many see no justification for a policy of foreign aid at all. They look at it as a gigantic boon-doggle, a wasteful and indefensible operation which serves neither the interests of the United States nor those of the recipient nations.

scholarly journals Ensalades en clausura: Una primera aproximació als cançoners del convent de les carmelites descalces de Santa Teresa de Vic

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 187
Author(s):  
Aurèlia Pessarrodona
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Creation ◽  
Music Theater ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Early 18Th Century

Resum: La recent troballa de dos cançoners al convent de Santa Teresa de Vic, datables al segle XVII, ve a ampliar i enriquir de manera considerable el que ja se sabia sobre la creació literària conventual i la presència de música, cants i altres manifestacions performatives dins de la clausura del Carmel descalç femení durant l’Edat Moderna. En aquest article es fa una primera aproximació a aquests cançoners, que posa de manifest les diferències entre ambdós: un recull repertori forà més antic, del segle XVI i inici del XVII, entre el que hi destaca la curiosa presència de moltes de les ensalades editades per Mateu Fletxa el Jove a Praga l’any 1581; i l’altre és un excel·lent exemple de la creació literària de les pròpies monges, amb obres que abarcarien tot el segle XVII i inicis del XVIII. A més de descriure els manuscrits i apropar-se al seu contingut situant-lo en el seu context, en el present article es reflexiona sobre la possible praxi performativa del repertori, especialment sobre les ensalades.   Paraules clau: carmelites descalces, clausura, cançoners, ensalades, Mateu Fletxa   Abstract: The recent finding of two songbooks in the convent of Saint Therese in Vic (Barcelona), dated to the 17th century, broadens and enriches strikingly what was already known about the literary creation in monasteries and performative manifestations —music, theater, dance— in the enclosed life of female discalced Carmel during the Modern Age. This article provides a first approach to these songbooks, that shows significant differences between them. The first one collects a foreign and older repertory, from 16th and early 17th centuries, that includes the unusual presence of ensaladas edited by Mateu Fletxa the Youger in 1581. The other one is an excellent example of literary creation of the nuns, with works dated from 17th to early 18th century. As well as a description of the manuscripts, an approximation to their content and placing them in their context, the article includes some reflections concerning the performative practice of this repertory, above all of the ensaladas.   Keywords: discalced carmelites, cloister, songbooks, ensaladas, Mateu Fletxa

scholarly journals LIBRARIES, SCHOOLS AND MODERN AGE

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-108
Author(s):  
Borjanka Trajković ◽  
◽  
Dragana Litričin Dunić ◽  
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The Other ◽  
New Era ◽  
Modern Education ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The One

For centuries the role of the library was defined as a warehouse of books. Now, in the 21st century, the library is facing perhaps the biggest challenge – its physical survival. The role of librarians is re-branded to reflect their expertise as curators of content and reliable navigators in an evergrowing ocean of information - in any format they might exist. The future libraries shall be open to all the new ideas on how to work better and accept the new technologies. On the one hand, they must recognize the need to change their methods, but on the other hand - to preserve the continuity of their objectives and mission. The new era requires modern models of learning and the attractiveness of the curricula, that is, a modern education system that shall adapt the curricula to the needs of modern society and reconcile centuries of man's need for knowledge, reading books and education in general with the new technologies.

scholarly journals Cinc edicions del Venturós Pelegrí a la Bibliothèque Mazarine de París

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 122
Author(s):  
Joan Mahiques Climent
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
French Translation ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
The Way

Resum: El ms. 4504 de Bibliothèque Mazarine de París aplega, per una banda, cinc exemplars impresos de la “Peregrinació del Venturós Pelegrí” ab les “Cobles de la Mort” i, per altra banda, una còpia manuscrita parcial del Venturós Pelegrí amb una traducció francesa incompleta a cura de Josep Tastu (1787-1849), que s’encarregà de compilar tots els materials del volum. A banda de presentar el contingut general del ms. 4504, descrivim amb detall cada una de les cinc edicions, posant especial èmfasi en la més antiga, probablement datada de mitjan segle XVI o poc després. Pel fet d’ésser el testimoni més antic que coneixem del Venturós Pelegrí, aquest exemplar acèfal i àpode, estampat a línia seguida amb tres gravats encara visibles, aporta dades rellevants per al coneixement de les vies de difusió d’aquesta obra als segles XVI-XVII. Paraules clau: Edad Moderna, Poesia catalana, Impremta, Xilografia, Josep Tastu.  Abstract: The Ms. 4504 of the Bibliothèque Mazarine in Paris contains, on the one hand, five printed copies of the “Peregrinació del Venturós Pelegrí” ab les “Cobles de la Mort” and, on the other hand, a partial hand-written copy of the Venturós Pelegrí with an incomplete French translation by Josep Tastu (1787-1849), who compiled all the materials of this volume. Apart from presenting the general content of the ms. 4504, we describe in detail the five editions with particular emphasis on the oldest one, probably dating from the mid-sixteenth century or shortly thereafter. This printed book, now acephalous and apodous, in which the lines go all the way across the page, still preserves three woodcuts. As the earliest witness we know of the Venturós Pelegrí, this printed copy provides some evidences to understand the dissemination of this work during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.Keywords: Modern Age, Catalan poetry, Printing, Woodcut, Josep Tastu.

Understanding Modernity on One’s Own Terms

1998 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-61
Author(s):  
Abdel-Qader Yassine
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
The Other ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
The West ◽  
Scientific Revolutions ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Modem World ◽  
American Historian

How can the movements fighting for an Islamic state in which Shari’ah(the Islamic Law) rules supreme best be understood-as part of a worldwidereaction against modernist thought or as a broad and diverseattempt to understand and tackle the problems of modemity throughreconnecting with an indigenous system of references for producingmeaning? This is the main question discussed in this paper.Revolt Against the Modern Age?In his book Defenders of God: The Fundamentalist Revolt Against theModern Age,’ the American historian of religion Bruce B. Lawrence surveyswhat he identifies as “fundamentalist” movements within the threemajor religions of Semitic origin: Judaism, Christianity (AmericanProtestantism), and Islam. In seeking to understand how fundamentalistsrelate to the d i t i e s of the modem world, Lawrence makes a distinctionbetween modernity and modernism. Modernity is seen as the concretefacts of modem lie: the revolutions in production and communicationstechnalogy hu@ an by indusbialkm and the cowmnt changes inmaterial life and, to a certain extent, in social organization. Lawrence’sfundamentalists are not opposed to modernity, with the possible exception of the Natluei Karta group in Israel. They also are adept at utilizingthe most modem means of communications in their campaign or organizingactivities.Modernism, on the other hand, is what characterizes the new way ofthinking that has o c c d in the West as a result of, or at least alongside,the industrial and scientific revolutions. It is marked by a strong belief inthe powers of science and reason and by a basic skepticism toward anysubstantial, absolute truth. To the modernist mind no “truth” is immune ...

The Place of the Other in Temple Art

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurizio Peleggi
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Illuminated Manuscripts ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sources Of Knowledge ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Temple Art ◽  
Middle Easterners

Chapter 3 examines the “Othering” of Europeans (farang) and Indian/Middle Easterners (khaek) in temple murals and illuminated manuscripts as a reflection of two divergent sources of knowledge: the premodern geography rooted in Indo-Buddhist cosmogony, and the commercial and diplomatic exchanges of the early modern age. The chapter examines several specific depictions of foreigners in pictorial illustrations of the Buddhist cosmology of the Three World and in mural cycles of the Buddha’s legendary previous lives (jatakas).

MODERN EUROPE AND THE CREATION OF THE “ISLAMIC WORLD”

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masashi Haneda
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
The Other ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Actual Reality ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One ◽  
European Colonialism ◽  
European Thought ◽  
North Western

AbstractThis article attempts to demonstrate that the notion of “Islamic world” was a creation of the modern age, emanating from north-western Europe in the nineteenth century. The term incorporates two opposing ideological meanings: on the one hand, Europe representing modern, positive values is set against the Islamic world, representing pre-modern, minus values, while on the other hand, the Islamic world was the common bond among all Muslims for their solidarity and unification against European colonialism. The article goes on to investigate why, how and when precisely the two concepts of “Islamic world” were created under the influence of modern European thought. It is stressed that in much of today's discourse too we can still perceive the two different meanings of the term, and this has often led to confusion and misunderstanding in discussion. Modern historians have played a role in substantiating the ideology of the “Islamic world”, because modern historiography has often described political objectives as actual reality.

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