The British Intellectual Engagement with Africa in the Twentieth Century, edited by Douglas Rimmer and Anthony Kirk‐Greene. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 2000. xii + 267 pp. £45.00 hardback. ISBN 0‐333‐69593.

2001 ◽  
Vol 100 (400) ◽  
pp. 493-494
Author(s):  
Richard Rathbone
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Intellectual Engagement

Scottish Missionaries, ‘Protestant Hinduism’ and the Scottish Sense of Empire in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-century India

2007 ◽  
Vol 86 (2) ◽  
pp. 278-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Constable
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Western India ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Church Of Scotland ◽  
Free Church ◽  
Intellectual Engagement ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Church

This article examines the Scottish missionary contribution to a Scottish sense of empire in India in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Initially, the article reviews general historiographical interpretations which have in recent years been developed to explain the Scottish relationship with British imperial development in India. Subsequently the article analyses in detail the religious contributions of Scottish Presbyterian missionaries of the Church of Scotland and the Free Church Missions to a Scottish sense of empire with a focus on their interaction with Hindu socioreligious thought in nineteenth-century western India. Previous missionary historiography has tended to focus substantially on the emergence of Scottish evangelical missionary activity in India in the early nineteenth century and most notably on Alexander Duff (1806–78). Relatively little has been written on Scottish Presbyterian missions in India in the later nineteenth century, and even less on the significance of their missionary thought to a Scottish sense of Indian empire. Through an analysis of Scottish Presbyterian missionary critiques in both vernacular Marathi and English, this article outlines the orientalist engagement of Scottish Presbyterian missionary thought with late nineteenth-century popular Hinduism. In conclusion this article demonstrates how this intellectual engagement contributed to and helped define a Scottish missionary sense of empire in India.

A MUSICAL AND PERSONAL COLLABORATION: DANIEL BARENBOIM TALKS ABOUT EDWARD SAID

2004 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 91-97 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Symphony Orchestra ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Intellectual Engagement ◽  
Chicago Symphony Orchestra ◽  
Close Friendship ◽  
Concert Pianist

Although we learn from his memoirs that Edward Said renounced his thoughts of a career as a concert pianist in his late teens, music remained a lifelong passion. For many years opera critic for The Nation and author of numerous articles on musical theory as well as a book, Musical Elaborations, he gave informal concerts until the last decade of his life and played until the very end. Said's intense intellectual engagement with music, and his particular interest in ““performance,”” laid the ground for his close friendship over more than a decade with Daniel Barenboim. Born in Argentina and raised in Israel, Barenboim is one of the leading concert pianists and conductors of the second half of the twentieth century. He is currently music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (since 1991) and of the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin (since 1992).

Irish Literary Revival

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Hu
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Irish Literature ◽  
Irish Nationalism ◽  
Irish Language ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Literary Movement ◽  
Intellectual Engagement ◽  
Literary Revival ◽  
Irish Literary Revival ◽  
Literary Renaissance

The Irish Literary Revival — also known as the ‘Irish Literary Renaissance’ or ‘The Celtic Twilight’ — describes a movement of increased literary and intellectual engagement in Ireland starting in the 1890s and occurring into the early twentieth century. As a literary movement, the Irish Literary Revival was deeply engaged in a renewed interest in Ireland’s Gaelic heritage as well as the growth of Irish nationalism during the nineteenth century. Indeed, the Irish Literary Revival was only a part — though a significant one — of a more general national movement called the ‘Gaelic Revival’, which engaged in Irish heritage on the intellectual, athletic, linguistic, and political levels. For instance, the Literary Revival coincided with the formation of the Gaelic League in 1893, which sought to revive interest in Irish language and culture more broadly. The Irish Literary Revival is also sometimes referred to as the Anglo-Irish Literary Revival because it revitalized Irish literature not through the Irish language, but in English. In addition, many of its leading members were part of the Anglo-Irish Protestant class. As a movement, the Irish Literary Revival is difficult to encapsulate, partly because of the range and reach of its various members, and also because the work that emerged from it was often experimental and widely diverse in focus, style, and genre.

Getting it from Noise and Other Myths: AIDS and Intellectuals in France

Paragraph ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murray Pratt
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Human Suffering ◽  
Use Value ◽  
Jean Baudrillard ◽  
Communicative Acts ◽  
Intellectual Engagement ◽  
Intellectual Production ◽  
Forms Of Knowledge

The aim of this article is to offer a contrast between two competing styles of intellectual engagement around AIDS in France during the final decades of the twentieth century, and to attempt to understand the reasons why such apparently divergent approaches to the epidemic appear. Focusing on two very different exemplar sets of texts, by Jean Baudrillard and Rommel Mendès-Leite, it attempts to evaluate the forms of knowledge produced by each of these writers in terms of communicative acts with use value, in order to determine the implications of each kind of intellectual production. Equally importantly, the paper recontextualizes and reassesses what a concept such as intellectual engagement means, when undertaken in an area of human suffering such as that of AIDS.

The British Intellectual Engagement with Africa in the Twentieth Century

2001 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 708
Author(s):  
Christopher P. Youe ◽  
Douglas Rimmer ◽  
Anthony Kirk-Greene
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Intellectual Engagement

The British Intellectual Engagement with Africa in the Twentieth Century

2002 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 144
Author(s):  
Atieno Odhiambo ◽  
Douglas Rimmer ◽  
Anthony Kirk-Greene
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Intellectual Engagement

The forgotten Spinozist: Romain Rolland, Gilles Deleuze, and the figure of Christ

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 329-343
Author(s):  
Ashok Collins
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Nobel Prize ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
First Century ◽  
Intellectual Engagement ◽  
Religious Question ◽  
Twenty First Century

To this day, the thinking of Spinoza serves as a powerful tool for those seeking to negotiate the nexus between theological transcendence and the immanence of worldly existence. This paper explores the thought of one of the most important – and yet least remembered – Spinozists within twentieth-century French intellectual history: the Nobel Prize-winning French novelist, Romain Rolland (1866–1944). Past scholarship has repeatedly identified a divergence between the Catholic orthodoxy against which a youthful Rolland rebelled and the Spinozist non-conformism that shaped his thinking throughout life. By re-reading Rolland’s intellectual engagement with religion through the thinking of Gilles Deleuze, this study counters such critical interpretations and argues that the tension between Catholic orthodoxy and Spinozism cannot purely be seen in terms of a polemical conflict, but rather as the opportunity for a fruitful dialogue that has much to offer our own treatment of the religious question in the twenty-first century.

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