Was Herder a Nationalist?

2007 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominic Eggel ◽  
Andre Liebich ◽  
Deborah Mancini-Griffoli
Keyword(s):  
Recent Literature ◽  
National Character ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Explicit Statement ◽  
The Creation

This article re-examines Herder's status as one of the founders of nationalism in the light of both older and more recent literature. The article focuses specifically on Herder's position with regard to the classical nationalist thesis that state and nationality should be coterminous. It argues that a close reading of Herder's oft cited and most explicit statement apparently lending support to this thesis has been misunderstood. The existing literature underestimates Herder's concern regarding the question of governance. For Herder there can be no case for statehood without just governance. As earlier drafts of his work confirm, Herder was deeply critical of the states he knew and denounced their overly bureaucratic and despotic character. He thought that nations could and should exist without being states. Depending on the circumstances, however, states might fulfil temporary functions to strengthen and preserve the national character, that most essential attribute of every nation. For Herder the diversity of nations is an insurance against despotism. It is not a licence for the creation of states.

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1904 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 198-218
Author(s):  
Eri B. Hulbert ◽  
Franklin Johnson ◽  
John W. Moncrief ◽  
Charles L. Biggs
Keyword(s):  
Recent Literature ◽  
National Character ◽  
John Wesley ◽  
Short History ◽  
Baptist History ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
History Of

A Vertiginous Experience: Historical Ethics and Practice in the Age of Trump

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 894-901
Author(s):  
Simon Middleton
Keyword(s):  
Close Reading ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Methodology ◽  
The Creation ◽  
History Of Race

AbstractThis essay considers Christopher Tomlins’ thoughts—as expressed in his In the Matter of Nat Turner: A Speculative History—on historical ethics and practice in the context of recent and ongoing controversies concerning the history of race and slavery in the American past. Tomlins endeavors to recover as much as he can relating to Nat Turner and his mentalité at the time of the infamous 1831 rebellion. He also promises a self-conscious engagement with the creation of history as an intellectual practice, and invites readers to reflect on their standpoint in the histories they create. For Tomlins this practice means a close reading of Turner’s “confession” through the work of social theorists, an approach that will likely prove controversial for some readers. For those who stay with him, however, Tomlins provides a bravura demonstration of historical methodology with implications for current debates and divisions within the wider field.

A Prototypical Participatory Design-Process

2018 ◽  
pp. 36-60
Author(s):  
Matthias Teine
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
User Experience ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
The Creation ◽  
New Generation

Our economies and societies are changing, with significant effects on each individual, as they have to cope with increasingly complex and unpredictable working lives. Therefore, innovative digital learning applications that respond to their end user's needs and desires become inevitable. Whilst relying on user-centered design structures, the participatory design methodology provides a promising approach towards the creation of such a new generation of digital learning applications. After thoroughly outlining the research undertaking's rationale and following to a theoretical discussion, the author gives insights into the results of problem-centered interviews with digital learning and user experience experts that build the basis for the creation for a prototypical participatory design process. These findings primarily confirm the recent literature and provide, complemented by the created process, a sound basis for further theory-oriented, scientific discussions but application in practice as well.

The Beginning of the End of the World

2019 ◽  
pp. 10-39
Author(s):  
Owen Stanwood
Keyword(s):  
Close Reading ◽  
Global Expansion ◽  
Protestant Church ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The World ◽  
Eventual Return ◽  
The Creation ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
Cosmic History

This chapter focuses on Europe itself, in order to chronicle the creation of the Huguenot diaspora. Starting with the example of the theologian Pierre Jurieu, it shows how the coming of persecution led Huguenots to define themselves as a godly remnant of the once great French Protestant church. Thousands of refugees scattered around Europe, where they sought aid from Protestant rulers even as they promoted themselves as people with a particular role in cosmic history. Jurieu was the leading promoter of this specialness, which he took from a close reading of Revelation, but which had political implications. Jurieu and other Huguenot leaders especially sought to create “colonies,” self-contained Huguenot communities around Europe that could preserve the refugees’ faith for an eventual return to France. Over the course of the 1680s and 1690s these colonies appeared around Europe, from Germany to Ireland, and set the stage for the Huguenots’ global expansion.

Issues in Training Therapists to Deal with Clients' Sexual Performance Problems

1989 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Thigpen Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Recent Literature ◽  
Sexual Problems ◽  
Specialized Training ◽  
Sexual Performance ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Performance Problems

Many professionals agree that therapists need specialized training to help clients with sexual problems. However, recent literature on teaching this subject in minimal. This article describes the creation of a class designed to train students in the skills required for dealing with clients who have sexual performance problems. Issues important to the development of such a class are discussed.

How to Start a Cosmogony: On the Poetics of Beginnings in Greece and the Near East

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-48
Author(s):  
Carolina López-Ruiz
Keyword(s):  
Near East ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Near Eastern ◽  
Genesis 1 ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Written Word ◽  
Enuma Elish ◽  
The Universe

AbstractIn this essay I explore the beginning lines of the most relevant cosmogonies from the eastern Mediterranean, focusing on theEnuma Elish, Genesis 1 and Hesiod’sTheogony. These opening lines reveal some of the challenges faced by the authors of these texts when committing to the written word their version of the beginning of the universe. Hesiod’sTheogonywill be treated in more length as it presents an expanded introduction to the creation account. This close reading is followed by a few reflections on the question of authorship of these and other Greek and Near Eastern cosmogonies.

Majimaji and the Millennium: Abrahamic Sources and the Creation of a Tanzanian Resistance Tradition

1999 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 365-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thaddeus Sunseri
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Power Structure ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Colonial Power ◽  
German Colonialism ◽  
Historical Tradition ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Resistance Movement

Writing thirty years ago the historian of the Majimaji rebellion, Gilbert Gwassa, emphasized the purely Tanzanian nature of the uprising, as seen in the ideology which he believed was the inspiration for the widespread war against German colonialism. To Gwassa, southern Tanzanians created an innovative, secular ideology after the turn of the twentieth century which enabled Africans to resist German colonialism supra-ethnically rather than locally. Gwassa was adamant that the Majimaji ideology owed nothing to outside influences.Gwassa's contention has been largely unchallenged despite obvious paradoxes. Majimaji emerged in a region widely permeated with Islamic influences by 1905, the time of the rebellion. Moreover, the Christian colonial power structure had been present in the outbreak region for some twenty years by 1905, while Christian missionaries had been active in Tanzania for almost forty years. By the time the Majimaji historical tradition was being written in Tanzania in the 1960s, the nation included many Muslims and Christians, including many of Gwassa's research informants, who helped shape his interpretation of Majimaji. Aside from these circumstantial suggestions of the possibility of an externally-influenced Majimaji tradition, a close reading of archival sources from the German period, including several documents which have not been considered in the historiographical tradition, suggest that Christian and Islamic influences helped to shape the writing of Majimaji, if not the resistance movement itself. This paper will examine some of these “Abrahamic” sources of the Majimaji tradition, and consider how they might have been used to formulate a Majimaji epic which has become a standard icon of early African colonial history.

Evolution Versus Creationism in Education

2008 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 327-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael W. Apple
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Intelligent Design ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
The United States ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Evolutionary Perspectives ◽  
Populist Movements

As part of the continuing series of the Reviewing Policy section, this article examines some of the recent literature on the creation-evolution controversy. These controversies are placed within a larger analysis of the growth of authoritarian populist movements in the United States. The article then focuses attention on debates both over a number of arguments surrounding the ways in which intelligent design had been justified and surrounding some of the dangers of possible arrogance that have been associated with the history of the popularization of evolutionary perspectives. The author then offers some strategic suggestions for going forward.

scholarly journals Islamic revivalism and Kurdish nationalism in Sheikh Ubeydullah’s poetic oeuvre

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamal Soleimani
Keyword(s):  
Close Reading ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Poetic Work ◽  
Islamic Revivalism

This article investigates Sheikh Ubeydullah of Nehri’s Kurdish-Islamic revivalist project based on a close reading of his Mesnewi. This article primarily focuses on the fusion of the Sheikh’s Islamic revivalism with his Kurdish nationalism in his poetic work. A close reading of the Mesnewi leaves no doubt that in the mind of his author both the future of Kurds and that of his revivalist project depended on the creation of an independent state.ABSTRACT IN KURMANJIVejîna dînî û neteweyî ya kurdî di dîwana şi’rên Şêx ‘Ubeydullahê Nehrî deEv nivîsar lêkolînek e li ser bîr û bernameya Şêx ‘Ubeydullahê Nehrî ya vejîna dînî û kurdî bi rêya tehlîlkirina berhema wî ya bi navê Mesnewî. Nivîsar bi taybetî dikeve dû têgihiştina têkilbûna hizrên vejîna îslamî û netewegeriya kurdî di şi’rên Şêx ‘Ubeydullahî de. Xwendineke hûrbînane ya Mesnewîyê çu şikekê tê de nahêle ku li gor nivîskarê wê berhemê, hem paşeroja kurdan û hem jî bernameya wî ya vejîna îslamî bi damezrandina dewleteke serbixwe ya kurdî ve girêdayî bûn.     ABSTRACT IN SORANI  

The role of the Qachaq movement in the development of national consciousness in Azerbaijan

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (9) ◽  
pp. 4-11
Author(s):  
Rafail Ayvaz Ahmadli ◽  
◽  
Lala Yashar Ahmadova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Key Words ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
National Character ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
The North ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The 19Th Century

The article discusses the role of the "gachag movement (a form of rebel movement of fugitives)" in the formation of national self-consciousness in the north of Azerbaijan, the reasons for its occurrence, an appreciation of their struggle against the russian imperial regime and against the dishonesty of local oppressors by this regime, explores the causes of popular love, praise, protection and the creation of heroic epics about them. The article reveals the special activities of such famous fugitives who gained respect among ordinary people for their courage in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries, us Gachag Nyabi from Gubadli (in the former Zangezur district), Dely Alu and Gambar from Ganja, Suleiman, Murtuza and Mamed-Bek Cavalier from Karabakh, Yusif from Zagatala, Karim Efendi oglu Gutgashenli from Nukha, Gachag Karim from Gazakh and the woman Gachag Gulsum from Shamkir popularly known as “Gachag Suleiman”. The article emphasizes not only the national character of the "gachag movement" in Azerbaijan, but also their contribution to the formation of national self-consciousness to a greater extent than the role of thinkers of that time. Key words: North Azerbaijan, national identity, the Russian imperial regime, the "gachag movement", the occupation of Russian imperia, the 19th century, the struggle, local beks (nobles), gentlemen (little nobles)

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