scholarly journals The Eolian Harp: Coleridge’s Middle Voice?

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-119
Author(s):  
Blake Allen
Keyword(s):  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
The Self ◽  
Middle Voice ◽  
Divine Inspiration ◽  
The Senses

Abstract Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s conversation poem, The Eolian Harp, configures a complex and highly significant relationship between activity and passivity. A merely passive poet, under the influence of natural or divine inspiration, would in Coleridge’s view be reduced to a mere automaton. Yet the poem is often thought to represent just such a poet. Similarly, it is thought to represent Sara, the speaker’s interlocutor, as a surrogate self. I shall argue, instead, that the poem presents the self in a ‘middle voice’, at once active and passive, such that inspiration does not efface human agency. I shall also consider the senses in which Sara evinces a middle voice and thus a distinct and substantial subjectivity. The implications of this argument for Coleridge’s broader corpus, and for some recent critiques of his aesthetics, will be suggested.

The Crisis of Becoming-Nature in Howard Barker’s Recent Dramas

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-114
Author(s):  
Karoline Gritzner
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Elderly Women ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
The Self ◽  
Love Relationships ◽  
Late Style ◽  
Life Force ◽  
The Individual

AbstractThis article discusses how in Howard Barker’s recent work the idea of the subject’s crisis hinges on the introduction of an impersonal or transpersonal life force that persists beyond human agency. The article considers Barker’s metaphorical treatment of the images of land and stone and their interrelationship with the human body, where the notion of subjective crisis results from an awareness of objective forces that transcend the self. In “Immense Kiss” (2018) and “Critique of Pure Feeling” (2018), the idea of crisis, whilst still dominant, seems to lose its intermittent character of singular rupture and reveals itself as a permanent force of dissolution and reification. In these plays, the evocation of nonhuman nature in the love relationships between young men and elderly women affirms the existence of something that goes beyond the individual, which Barker approaches with a late-style poetic sensibility.

scholarly journals Examining Faculty Workload as a Single Antecedent of Job Satisfaction among Higher Public Education Staff in Kelantan, Malaysia

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noraani Mustapha ◽  
Wee Yu Ghee
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
The Self ◽  
Faculty Workload ◽  
Pearson Product Moment Correlation ◽  
Systematic Procedure

The objective of this study is to determine the influence of faculty workload on job satisfaction among lecturers in four public universities in Kelantan. Sample was randomly selected through systematic procedure. There were 320 samples responded the self-administered questionnaires. The data was analysed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation and the result indicated that there was negative significant relationship between daily faculty workload and job satisfaction. Organization should consider this variable in promoting satisfaction among employees in order to enhance organizational citizenship.

scholarly journals Prevalence and Factors Related to Self-Medication for COVID-19 Prevention in the Elderly

Salmand ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-127
Author(s):  
Narjes Heshmatifar ◽  
◽  
Arezoo Davarinia Motlagh Quchan ◽  
Zohreh Mohammadzadeh Tabrizi ◽  
Leila Moayed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Insurance Coverage ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Medication ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Major Factors

Objectives: The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis and health outcomes are among the major human social events of the 21st century. The unknown nature of the disease and the fear of contagion have caused emotional reactions, including the self-consumption of drugs in the elderly. Therefore, this study investigated factors affecting the self-consumption of drugs for COVID-19 prevention in the elderly. Methods & Materials: This descriptive and cross-sectional study was performed on 342 elderly in Sabzevar City, Iran, in 2020. The research units were selected as clusters from 16 health centers. The necessary data were collected by an online self-medication questionnaire. Data analysis was performed in SPSS. Results: The Mean±SD age of the study participants was 66.2±5.67 years. The frequency of self-medication to prevent COVID-19 was 190(55.5%); analgesics, vitamins, anti-cold, and antibiotics were the most common drugs used. The major factors associated with self-medication in the COVID-19 pandemic were disease prevention, home quarantine, financial problems, experiencing previous self-medication, and others’ advice. There was a significant relationship between self-medication and education and insurance coverage. No significant relationship was observed between gender, occupation, and marital status, and self-medication. Conclusion: Self-Medication in the COVID-19 epidemic is notable as a crisis threatening the elderly’s health. Controlling and monitoring how the drug is used is among the requirements for protection and health promotion in the elderly.

Job Involvement and its Relationship with the self-confidence by Educational Counselors

2018 ◽  
Vol 217 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-190
Author(s):  
Dr. Lecturer Aseel Mohammed Sabbar
Keyword(s):  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Job Involvement ◽  
The Self ◽  
Level Of Involvement ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Educational Staff ◽  
Academic Year

      The aim of current research to identify the level of involvement function and the trust in self by education counselors, the sample of research has reached ( 300 ) and guide .about (150 ) and an educational guide (150 ) educational staff of the General Directorate for Educational Baghdad to guide the academic year ( 2014-2015 )     The researcher has two tools to prepare the study, and the results yielded enjoy by involvement and trust, as well as the availability of significant relationship between involvement and self-trust

Symphonic pastorals redux

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron S. Allen
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Critical History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Senses

Our experience of the environment relies on all the senses. In this chapter, Aaron Allen introduces non-musicologists to the relatively new field of ecomusicology. He argues that for musicology, the genre/idea of the symphony is laden with prestige; for ecocriticism, the pastoral has similar stature and is a genre/mode central to the discipline. In the concise juxtaposition of these two terms, Allen illustrates ecomusicology, which connects ecocritical and musicological scholarship, and further outlines a brief critical history of selected symphonies in relation to the pastoral. He makes the case that symphonies – ostensibly a textless genre of music conceived as abstract – can relate ideas about nature. Such connections between disciplines, approaches, and materials contribute to the larger effort in the environmental (post)humanities to break down humans’ problematic and the self-destructive nature-culture binary.

The Passions

2019 ◽  
pp. 49-70
Author(s):  
Jay L. Garfield
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Senses

This chapter begins the exploration of Book II of the Treatise. It explores and explains the distinctions between calm and violent passions and between direct and indirect passions, as they are drawn in Book II, and connects Hume’s accounts to those of Hutcheson and Shaftesbury, demonstrating both the senses in which he follows their respective accounts, and those in which he differs. It also discusses the nature of the self as the object of the passions, and explains how Hume takes the passions to be involved in the social construction of the person, showing that Hume does believe that persons are real, and are constructed socially.

Whitehead's Theory of Human Agency

Dialogue ◽  
1964 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 424-441
Author(s):  
Douglas Browning
Keyword(s):  
Microscopic Theory ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Macroscopic Theory ◽  
Actual Entity ◽  
Adequate Theory ◽  
The Universe

An adequate theory of the self must provide for the fact of human agency. I would like to show that (1) we can put together a theory of human agency from Whitehead's later writings, but that (2) this theory is not satisfactory. This discussion will be, first, expository and then critical of Whitehead's position. An elaboration of Whitehead's theory has two moments. For Whitehead, all factors of the universe are finally derivative from the ultimately actual things, which he calls actual entities. The fact of agency is no exception. The establishment of such agency is the job of what I shall call Whitehead's microscopic theory. We are interested here, however, in the human being as agent. A person, according to Whitehead, is not an actual entity, but a society of actual entities. Whitehead's theory of human agency may be called the macroscopic theory. After an examination of these theories, I shall conclude by briefly criticizing them in two ways. First, for Whitehead there are no acts but only processes. Second, an adequate theory requires a doctrine of the persistence of the agent which Whitehead is unable to provide.

Freedom and Culture

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuchen Xiang ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Subject ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
The Self ◽  
Chinese Tradition ◽  
Symbolic Forms ◽  
The World ◽  
Book Of Changes ◽  
Philosophy Of Symbolic Forms ◽  
Symbolic Formation

Through a key passage (Xici 2.2) from the Book of Changes, this paper shows that Ernst Cassirer’s philosophy of symbolic forms shares similarities with the canonical account of symbolic formation in the Chinese tradition: the genesis of xiang (象), often translated as image or symbol. xiang became identified with the origins of culture/civilisation itself. In both cases, the world is understood as primordially (phenomenologically) meaningful; the expressiveness of the world requires a human subject to consummate it in a symbol, whilst the symbol in turn gives us access to higher orders of meaning. It is the self-conscious creation of the symbol that then allows for the higher forms of culture. For both the Xici and Cassirer, symbols and the symbolic consciousness that comes with it is the pre-condition for the freedom, ethics and the cultivation of agency. As for both the Xici and Cassirer, it is human agency that creates these symbols, it will be argued that the Xici is making a Cassirerian argument about the (ethical) relationship between human agency, symbols and ethics/freedom.

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