In pursuit of non-Western deep secularities: selfhood and the “Westphalia moment” in Turkish literary milieux

2017 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 3-32
Author(s):  
Barış Büyükokutan
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Religious Conflict ◽  
The West ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
Longue Durée ◽  
Secular Age ◽  
Cross Fertilization

AbstractThis article traces Charles Taylor’s “secularity three” outside the West, finding that it was present among poets but not among novelists in twentieth-century Turkey. It explains this contrast between these two very similar groups by using network analysis, highlighting the greater availability, in poetry networks, of nonpious gatekeepers to aspiring pious actors, following an initial long period of religious conflict. In order to benefit from association with these gatekeepers, pious actors learned to split their selves into two, committing themselves simultaneously to their absolutist faith and to its practical impossibility in a secular age. If and when the prospect of cross-fertilization waned, however, they would effortlessly switch back to their earlier subjectivity. Pious novelists, by contrast, underwent no such learning process. Based on these findings, I argue, first, that the study of the secular must pay greater attention to religious conflict and the ways in which it is resolved, and second, that it must consider balancing itslongue-duréeapproach with an eventful focus.

Heroic Aesthetics and Modernist Critique: Extrapolations from Bakhtin's Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity

Slavic Review ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 551-566 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilya Kliger
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Modernist Literature ◽  
The Status ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Longue Durée ◽  
Modernist Discourse

Ilya Kliger addresses the question of Mikhail Bakhtin's intervention in modernist discourse by taking a step back from Bakhtin's views on modernist literature and outlining instead a more general Bakhtinian conception of the modernist condition as characterized by what Kliger calls “a crisis of authorship.” The article focuses on Bakhtin's early work in narratological aesthetics and situates it within the longue durée context of debates about the status of the subject of aesthetic experience and, more generally, of knowledge, debates that can provisionally be seen as originating at the end of the eighteenth century and coming to a head within the intellectual and creative milieu of twentieth-century modernism. Early Bakhtin helps us formulate a specifically modernist—by contrast with what will be called “transcendental” and “realist“—critique, a critique not limited to the field of literary analysis alone but applying to all forms of thinking that either presuppose abstract subject-object division or rely on modes of synthetic reconciliation.

Staging and Embodiment of the Tragic in Pina Bausch's Orpheus and Eurydice (1975)

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 191-197
Author(s):  
Nicole Haitzinger
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Structure And Function ◽  
Dance Studies ◽  
Central European ◽  
Orpheus And Eurydice ◽  
Mise En Scene ◽  
History Of ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
Longue Durée ◽  
And Function

This paper is concerned with resonances of the tragic in twentieth-century central-European dance theatet, to be discussed with particular reference to Pina Bausch's 1975 Orpheus and Eurydice. In my study Resonances of the Tragic: Between Event and Affect (2015), I have argued that in terms of a history of the “longue durée,” the evocation of the tragic occurs in a field of tension between technique, the mise-en-scène, and conceptions, as well as procedures and moments of interruption, of suspension, of disruption and of the indeterminable resulting from ecstatic corporeality. Its structure and function can generate an event in the emphatic sense of the term; consequently, it provides a paradigm for recognizing structures of form and of an aesthetic of reception, structures emerging from individual constellations of the fictional and choric, absence and presence. From the perspective of dance studies, the tragic emanates from the representation of horrendous monstrosity testing the limits of what can be imagined by means of the moved body in all senses of the word; but how exactly does Bausch produce the qualities of the ambivalent, ambiguous, and paradoxical—and, consequently, the tragic?

scholarly journals How Did the West Usurp the Rest? Origins of the Great Divergence over theLongue Durée

2017 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Anievas ◽  
Kerem Nişancioğlu
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
Mughal Empire ◽  
Developmental Factors ◽  
Uneven And Combined Development ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
European Development ◽  
Great Divergence ◽  
Longue Durée ◽  
Do So

AbstractTraditional explanations of the “rise of the West” have located the sources of Western supremacy in structural or long-term developmental factors internal to Europe. By contrast, revisionist accounts have emphasized the conjunctural and contingent aspects of Europe's ascendancy, while highlighting intersocietal conditions that shaped this trajectory to global dominance. While sharing the revisionist focus on the non-Western sources of European development, we challenge their conjunctural explanation, which denies differences between “West” and “East” and within Europe. We do so by deploying the idea of uneven and combined development (UCD), which redresses the shortcomings found on both sides of the debate: the traditional Eurocentric focus on the structural and immanent characteristics of European development and the revisionists’ emphasis on contingency and the homogeneity of Eurasian societies. UCD resolves these problems by integrating structural and contingent factors into a unified explanation: unevenness makes sense of the sociological differences that revisionists miss, while combination captures the aleatory processes of interactive and multilinear development overlooked by Eurocentric approaches. From this perspective, the article examines the sociologically generative interactions between European and Asian societies’ development over thelongue duréeand traces how the breakdown of feudalism and the rise of capitalism in Europe were fundamentally rooted in and conditioned by extra-European structures and agents. This then sets up our conjunctural analysis of a central yet underappreciated factor explaining Europe rise to global dominance: the disintegration of the Mughal Empire and Britain's colonization of India.

scholarly journals Greece as a frontline state in the historical longue durée

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioannis E. Kotoulas
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Eastern Bloc ◽  
Long Period ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Strategic Value ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
South Eastern Europe ◽  
Longue Durée ◽  
The Mediterranean

Abstract Greece as a state in South-eastern Europe and the Mediterranean has perceived itself as a frontline state, especially after it became a NATO member in 1952 along with Turkey. The two states formed the south-eastern flank of NATO and along with Iran constituted the Greece, Turkey, Iran (GTI) Corridor, part of Rimland. Greece’s strategic value stemmed from its frontline position in relation to the Eastern Bloc. After the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc, Greece has reinvented itself as a frontline state, this time in the Mediterranean Sea. We use the historical notion of longue durée and loci of Classical Geopolitics, such as Heartland and Rimland, to assess Greece’s strategic value in the long period. We also propose an additional spatial unity, the New Rimland.

Shoreline Thinking

2021 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-165
Author(s):  
Laura Winkiel
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Art And Literature ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
Longue Durée

Abstract This article explores the relation between the dockside denizens of Claude McKay’s Marseille and the violent history of slavery and racism. It takes a longue durée approach to modernism by arguing that the previous five hundred years of colonization and conquest of Black and Indigenous life continue to constrain the possibilities of freedom imagined in the art and literature of the early twentieth century. Using Édouard Glissant’s poetics of relation, it considers how the shoreline in Romance in Marseille provides a fecund location for sifting through the residues of slavery to salvage possibilities for living otherwise than the racist state demands. In so doing, Romance in Marseille goes further than McKay’s other novels in asserting that Black femininity must be central to a Black reinvention of the human.

scholarly journals The priest and the parson of Hartlepool: Protestant-Catholic conflict in a nineteenth-century industrial town

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-134
Author(s):  
Jonathan Bush
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Religious Conflict ◽  
Important Case ◽  
Structural Forces ◽  
Industrial Town ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
Longue Durée

This article examines the role of Protestant-Catholic conflict in the English town of Hartlepool, a hitherto unknown centre of religious conflict during the nineteenth century. It will demonstrate how a combination of unique structural forces and the conduct of religious ministers created a culture which, in terms of ferocity and longevity, rivalled other sectarian centres in Britain. It also provides an important case study for examining the role of Catholics themselves in generating anti-Catholicism. It therefore has important implications for understanding the nature of religious conflict, how it develops, and how it is sustained over thelongue durée.

scholarly journals The longue durée of Spengler’s thesis of the decline of the West

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-434
Author(s):  
Chris Rojek
Keyword(s):  
Good Deal ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
Belle Epoque ◽  
The West ◽  
Weimar Germany ◽  
Treaty Of Versailles ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
Longue Durée ◽  
Belle Époque

Spengler’s The Decline of the West was a major publishing success in Weimar Germany. The study presents the end of Western civilization as an inevitable process of birth, maturity and death. Civilization is conceived as an inflexible ‘morphology’. Spengler’s thinking was influenced by a profound distaste with the optimism of the Belle Epoque, which he found to be complacent. The argument had a good deal of attraction to readers, especially German readers, who were suffering under the ‘Carthaginian Peace’ of the Treaty of Versailles of 1919. Adorno and others were critical of Spengler’s thesis. The article examines Spengler’s thesis and its implications for the West today.

scholarly journals Viking Age - Comments on the Development of Archaeology in Sweden from 1986 to 1990 based on "Nordic Archaeological Abstracts"

1995 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-83
Author(s):  
Ola Kyhlberg
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Statistical Study ◽  
Viking Age ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
Longue Durée

The development of Viking Age archaeology in Sweden is briefly discussed on the basis of a bibliographical and statistical study of the period from 1986 to 1990, The study reveals that Swedish archaeology has undergone two separate and now concluded "waves of evolution” during the twentieth century. The current tradition can be traced back to the 1970s. The developement can be described as that of a longue durée including some very swift changes (events), especially around 1987/88. This hermeneutic spiral seems to move from the artefacts to the contexts.

In Search of a New Ideology

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Balázs Trencsényi ◽  
Michal Kopeček ◽  
Luka Lisjak Gabrijelčič ◽  
Maria Falina ◽  
Mónika Baár ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Domestic Politics ◽  
New Left ◽  
Culture Wars ◽  
The West ◽  
Regional Pattern ◽  
Catching Up ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
Longue Durée ◽  
Left Feminism

The chapter shows that despite the adoption of Western norms in the official sphere, the populist criticism of this pro-European trajectory with its concomitant economic and administrative policies became increasingly central to domestic politics. The “culture wars” erupting in the late 1990s and early 2000s were rooted in the radicalization of conservativism, questioning the legitimacy of post-transition regimes. In turn, the left also underwent a profound reconfiguration, with the mainstream post-communists becoming fervent advocates of liberalization and the emerging new left, feminism, and environmentalism becoming increasingly anti-liberal. The book closes with an overview of the symbolic geographical debates on Europeanness, and also registers the growth of Euroskepticism after 2000. Critically engaging with the application of postcolonial theory in discussions on the region’s relationship to the West it also points to the cyclical occurrences of discourses on “catching up” and alienation which seem to indicate a longue durée regional pattern.

Apprehension of Colonial Modernity: Radwa Ashour’sGranada Trilogyand the Retrieval of Past Hope

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-405
Author(s):  
Adam Spanos
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Spanish Inquisition ◽  
Colonial Modernity ◽  
Longue Duree ◽  
Longue Durée ◽  
Chronological Time

This essay studies theGranada Trilogyby Egyptian writer Radwa Ashour, a novel that tells of the growing constraints on and eventual expulsion of the Arabs during the Spanish Inquisition across five generations of an Andalusian family. In linking this story to that of the Palestinians in the twentieth century and beyond, Ashour ascertains a logic of modernity in which thelongue duréegoverns the experience of time’s passage, and peoples disconnected by long intervals of chronological time bear an intimate affinity by virtue of their common subjugation. Far from being merely a reflection of her despondency over the inability to change this historical dynamic, theGranada Trilogysuggests that the hopefulness animating these refugees is a revolutionary resource with which to apprise present actors of the multiple possible futures that remain alive in the present.

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