Ethics and Economies of Art in Renaissance Spain: Felipe de Guevara’s Comentario de la pintura y pintores antiguos*

2014 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-112
Author(s):  
Alejandra Giménez-Berger
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Spanish Economy ◽  
Critical Studies ◽  
Alternative Framework ◽  
Intrinsic Values ◽  
Ancient Texts

AbstractThe Comentario de la pintura y pintores antiguos (Commentary on Painting and Antique Painters) by the humanist Felipe de Guevara stands as the first art treatise of its type produced in Renaissance Spain. Critical studies underscore the reliance on ancient texts in spite of significant divergences from the sources. Philological studies of near-contemporary texts and a close reading of the author’s extant writings provide an alternative framework for understanding these transformations. Through the appropriation of ancient texts, Guevara calls for the practical overhauling of the Spanish artistic system. The text addresses the art of painting as having both transcendental and intrinsic values, focusing on its formative capabilities and virtue ethics as the most important for the former, and its role in the larger Spanish economy for the latter.

scholarly journals Emotions vocabulary and the reconceptualisation of emotions in Ann Radcliffe’s “The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents”

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-58
Author(s):  
Elena D. Andonova-Kalapsazova
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
David Hume ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Critical Studies ◽  
Francis Hutcheson ◽  
History Of

The article undertakes the analysis of Ann Radcliffe’s novel The Italian, or the Confessional of the Black Penitents (1797) from a history of literary emotions perspective which, I argue, yields insights into the attitudes towards emotions embedded in Radcliffe’s works. A reading of the novel from such a perspective also complements the critical studies of the artist’s engaging with the eighteenth-century cult of sensibility. The novel is read as a text that registered but also participated in the dissemination of an epistemology of emotional experience articulated in the idiom of eighteenth-century moral philosophers – Francis Hutcheson, David Hume and Adam Smith - at the same time as it retained some of the older, theology-based conceptions of passions and affections. The dynamic in which the two frameworks for understanding the emotions exist in the novel is explored through a close reading of the vocabulary in which Radcliffe rendered the emotional experiences of her fictional characters. In this reading it is the passions which are found to have been invested with a variety of meanings and attributed a range of moral valences that most noticeably foreground the movement from a generally negative towards a more complex appreciation of powerful emotions.

scholarly journals Critical Readings of Franz Kafka’s The Trial

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Ayila Orkusa
Keyword(s):  
Literary Text ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
General View ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Modernist Literature ◽  
Conceptual Frameworks ◽  
Critical Studies ◽  
Scholarly Attention ◽  
Literary Circles

Abstract The Trial (1925) yields to interpretations within and outside the literary circles and the general view has been that the text is obscured. This popular submission has affected scholarly attention on the text, but this does not dissuade critical studies on the text. This study engages critical readings of The Trial, paying attention to the theoretical and conceptual frameworks that have formed the grounds of being for such readings, as well as topical and thematic issues in the text. Thus, this paper answers the question on the techniques of studying The Trial. The recent and less recent works on The Trial respectively give attention to both material and nonmaterial worlds as captured in the text. This study explores the historical, philosophical, and formalistic views on The Trial as captured in various studies. The conclusion is that the knowledge of The Trial as a literary text possible through a close reading, even though several readings have treated it as the author’s commentary on his own society. Such readings take a position that the text offers an interpretation of a certain human society somewhere. Yet some of the critical readings treat the text as art and generate literary discourses from it. Keywords: readings, critical, modernist, literature, Kafka

scholarly journals Stiegler, Foucault, and Epictetus

Symposium ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-77
Author(s):  
Kurt Lampe ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
History Of Technology ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Reading And Writing ◽  
History Of ◽  
Frame Work ◽  
Interpretive Frame ◽  
Premiere Partie ◽  
Ancient Texts

Why does Bernard Stiegler speak of “this culture, which I have named, after Epictetus, my melete?” In the first part of this article, I elucidate Stiegler’s claims about both Stoic exercises of reading and writing and their significance for the interpretive questions he has adapted from Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida. In particular, I address the relations among care for oneself and others, the use of material technologies, and resistance to subjection or “freedom.” In the second part, I consider the merits and limitations of Stiegler’s comments about reading and writing in Stoicism, with particular attention to Epictetus. We will see that Stiegler’s interpretive frame-work casts considerable light on ancient texts and contexts, on the condition that it be combined with close reading of ancient texts and engagement with specialist scholarship. Finally, in the conclusion, I will suggest that the history of technology in Epictetus’s time contributes to a debate about Stiegler’s theories.Bernard Stiegler signale à plusieurs reprises l’importance des exercices stoïciens de lecture et d’écriture. Dans la première partie de cet article, j’essaye de clarifier ces assertions et d’expliquer leur lien aux oeuvres de Michel Foucault et de Jacques Derrida. Il s’agit en particulier des rapports entre le souci de soi et d’autrui, l’usage des techniques et des matériaux et la résistante à la soumission ou à la « liberté ». Dans la deuxième partie, je considère les mérites ainsi que les limites des remarques de Stiegler sur la lecture et l’écriture au sein du stoïcisme, en portant une attention particulière à Épictète. Le point du vue stieglerien donnera de nouvelles significations à quelques passages des oeuvres d’Épictète, à condition qu’il soit conjugué à une lecture attentive d’études spécialisées et de textes anciens. Je conclurai, dans la troisième partie, en proposant que l’histoire des techniques à l’époque d’Épictète pourrait alimenter un débat à l’égard des théories de Stiegler.

scholarly journals Writing for the Family Audience

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-77
Author(s):  
Zsuzsanna Varga
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Women's Employment ◽  
Women’S Employment ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Critical Studies ◽  
European Literature ◽  
The Family

Abstract Családi Kör (1860–1880) was the leading Hungarian domestic magazine of the mid-19th period, which, under the editorship of the first Hungarian woman of letters Emília Kánya, played a major role in introducing the domestic readership to contemporary European literature and in discussing the struggle of women’s employment opportunities before a wider public. Critical studies have also suggested that it was edited and published under the influence of the German Gartenlaube (1853–1944), the journal credited with embedding the journal of domestic magazine in the broader regime of 19th century print culture. Based on a close reading of the two magazines’ coverage in its European cultural historical context, this chapter offers an account of the possible connections and affinities between the two periodicals, and argues that the Hungarian magazine was significantly more daring in its politics and more systematic in its pursuit of introducing the local audience to European literary trends and works.

Deliver Us from Certainty: Training for Narrative Ethics

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Irvine ◽  
Rita Charon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Narrative Medicine ◽  
The United States ◽  
Narrative Ethics ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
Rule Based ◽  
Ethics Of Reading

This chapter summarizes the application of philosophical thought in healthcare with the rise of bioethics in the United States. The dominant approach, a rule-based principlism, is described, with a summary of challenges to principlism including casuistry, virtue ethics, and narrative ethics. Narratologists examine the ethical relationships between readers and texts, while clinicians and bioethicists practice narrative ethics through a “ground-up” attention to each patient’s particular needs and desires. Revealing the commonalities between the ethics of reading and the ethics of clinical practice, the chapter proposes the fruitfulness of putting them side by side. Training in narrative medicine may be the optimal training for those who practice narrative ethics in clinical settings, for the major tools of narrative ethics are those fortified by close reading, use of the imagination, radical humility, and the capacity to represent situations so as to fully perceive them.

Mediating Humanism and Scholasticism in Longobardo's “Resposta breve” and Ricci's Reading of Confucianism

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 498-527
Author(s):  
Daniel Canaris
Keyword(s):  
Close Reading ◽  
Original Meaning ◽  
Matteo Ricci ◽  
Ancient Texts

The “Resposta breve” (Brief response, 1623–24) by Niccolò Longobardo was one of the most controversial documents ever penned in the Jesuit China mission. Longobardo criticized the use of indigenous Chinese vocabulary by Matteo Ricci to express Christian concepts as a perilous accommodation to diabolical monism. This article proposes a close reading of how Longobardo employed Scholastic, humanist, and Chinese sources to critique Ricci's disregard for the neo-Confucian interpreters in his reading of ancient Confucianism. It argues that Longobardo's polemic with Ricci was not theological in nature but reflected his distrust of philology in reconstructing the original meaning of ancient texts.

Kinderen krijgen in apocalyptische tijden : Enkele ethische overwegingen

2019 ◽  
Vol 111 (4) ◽  
pp. 621-641
Author(s):  
Kristien Hens ◽  
Katrien Schaubroeck
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Private Sphere ◽  
Intergenerational Justice ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Alternative Framework ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
The Face

Abstract Procreation in the face of an apocalypse: Some ethical considerationsIn the field of procreation ethics both Kantian and consequentialist arguments have been developed purporting to show the moral impermissibility of having (more than two) children. A survey of the most important arguments leaves us wondering whether one could derive general obligations or prohibitions from abstract principles and apply them to deeply personal decisions about whether or not to have children (and how many). At the same time it is undeniably true that having children, however private the decision to procreate may feel, has an impact far beyond the private sphere. While we argue that the answer to the question whether or not to have a child cannot be derived from moral principles, we recognize that moral considerations about global and intergenerational justice do pertain to the question. We therefore develop an alternative framework for traditional Kantian and consequentialist approaches in procreation ethics, which we call holistic virtue ethics.

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