Staging a Public Response

2020 ◽  
pp. 132-170
Author(s):  
Valeria De Lucca
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Public Response ◽  
Patriarchal Society

In this chapter I consider Maria Mancini’s patronage of music and musicians and her organization and participation in carnival entertainments such as allegorical floats and parades. Maria Mancini had spent several years in France before moving to Rome and her patronage in Rome shows on one hand her taste for public entertainment and on the other her desire, through patronage, to rebel against the oppressive patriarchal society of Rome and respond to the critics who thought she enjoyed too much freedom. This chapter also marks the end of Maria’s stay in Rome. In 1672, after many months of declining health and fears for her life, Maria Mancini decided to escape from Rome, an oppressive relationship with her husband, and a society that never seemed to have accepted her.

Efficiency, Sufficiency, and Optimality

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amos Golan
Keyword(s):  
Limit Theorem ◽  
Computational Efficiency ◽  
The Other ◽  
Information Compression ◽  
Information Theoretic ◽  
Conditional Limit Theorem ◽  
Concept Of Information ◽  
Conditional Limit

In this chapter I provide additional rationalization for using the info-metrics framework. This time the justifications are in terms of the statistical, mathematical, and information-theoretic properties of the formalism. Specifically, in this chapter I discuss optimality, statistical and computational efficiency, sufficiency, the concentration theorem, the conditional limit theorem, and the concept of information compression. These properties, together with the other properties and measures developed in earlier chapters, provide logical, mathematical, and statistical justifications for employing the info-metrics framework.

Hedley Bull, states systems and international societies

1987 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Watson
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
International Society ◽  
The Other ◽  
Common Values ◽  
System A ◽  
Common Interests ◽  
Hedley Bull ◽  
Regular Contact

Hedley Bull's contribution to the theory of international relations is considerable; and nowhere more acute than in the distinction which he made between the concept of a system of states and that of an international society. His definitive formulation is set out in Chapter I of The Anarchical Society. ‘Where states are in regular contact with one another, and where in addition there is interaction between them sufficient to make the behaviour of each a necessary element in the calculations of the other, then we may speak of their forming a system.’ ‘A society of states (or international society) exists when a group of states, conscious of certain common interests and common values, form a society in the sense that they conceive themselves to be bound by a common set of rules in their relations with one another, and share in the working of common institutions.’

The Economic Situation: Chapter I. The Home Economy

1970 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 4-20
Keyword(s):  
Export Growth ◽  
Fourth Quarter ◽  
Economic Situation ◽  
The Other ◽  
National Accounts ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Exact Amount

The national accounts now published for the fourth quarter of 1969 confirm the estimate given in February's Review that output then was moving ahead a little faster, accelerating the recovery which had followed the first quarter's temporary drop in activity. Each of the three available GDP measures agrees in indicating this movement, although as usual, there is some difference as to the exact amount. As expected, the momentum of export growth slackened, but not by as much as anticipated; on the other hand imports proved to have risen quite strongly against our assumption of some fall and the level of investment proved rather lower than expected. However, perhaps the most important unexpected development indicated by the accounts for the fourth quarter of last year was the strong recovery of stockbuilding.

The Case for Ideal Theory

2018 ◽  
pp. 663-676
Author(s):  
Laura Valentini
Keyword(s):  
Global Justice ◽  
Just War ◽  
Ideal Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Global Democracy ◽  
Political Morality ◽  
Feasibility Constraints

Theories of international political morality are often criticized for being too ideal. In this chapter, I unpack and examine this “excessive idealism critique.” I distinguish between two versions of it: one targets the use of idealizations in international political theorizing, the other focuses on insensitivity to feasibility constraints. I argue that, in both cases, the excessive idealism critique is only partially successful. While the use of idealizations and lack of attention to feasibility constraints may be contingently problematic, often they are not. I reach this conclusion by discussing the excessive idealism critique in relation to theories of global justice, of global democracy, and of the just war.

scholarly journals Justification of multiple ecofeminist perspectives: Diversity really matters

2019 ◽  
pp. 77-93
Author(s):  
Danica Milosevic
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Sources Of Knowledge ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
Take All

Ecofeminism has grown, developed and transformed itself as a theory and made progress to encompass many different philosophical stances today. Cultural, social and radical ecofeminism are just some of the forms that ecofeminism can currently take. All of these sources of knowledge have contributed immensely to ecofeminist thought in general, although they have often been confronted by and supportive of different epistemologies. For instance, cultural ecofeminists have been accused of being essentialist. On the other hand, social ecofeminists relying on constructionism, as opposed to essentialism, have fiercely attacked capitalism as well as other isms (like classism, racism, sexism) aiming at the pillars of power upon which patriarchal society is constructed. This paper will try to reconcile the said opposing ecofeminist theories and highlight their importance in the development of ecofeminist perspectives. It will give an overview of ecofeminist viewpoints and show how they can be complementary.

Celebrity

2017 ◽  
pp. 71-104
Author(s):  
Gian Maria Annovi
Keyword(s):  
Culture Industry ◽  
The Other ◽  
Short Film ◽  
Symbolic Form ◽  
Orson Welles ◽  
Celebrity Culture ◽  
The Media ◽  
Marilyn Monroe

Chapter Three discusses the conditions for the strategic branding of Pasolini’s authorship in the Italian media during the 60s, and his attitude to celebrity culture. In this chapter, I consider the idea of performing authorship in the terms of self-fictionalization and masquerade. In particular, in his short film La ricotta (The Ricotta, 1964), which represents the first example of the spectacularization of Pasolini’s authorship, he projects his authorial self onto the figure of American star director Orson Welles. An outsider of the studio system, Welles furnishes Pasolini a model for an auteur who persistently seeks out a performative mode, putting himself in play as the author alongside the other characters. At the same time, through the figure of this star director, Pasolini also expresses his uncompromising attitude toward celebrity culture and culture industry. In La rabbia (The Rage, 1963)—created through montages of unused film footage from a film archive—Pasolini uses another international star, Marilyn Monroe, to stage his ambivalence towards the role of his own representation in the media. For Pasolini, Monroe’s death becomes a tragic, symbolic form of subjective resistance and a protest against the conformist system of celebrity that they both confronted.

Chapter I

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Fielding
Keyword(s):  
The Other

The Coach and Six, in which Lady Booby rode, overtook the other Travellers as they entered the Parish. She no sooner saw Joseph, than her Cheeks glow’d with red, and immediately after became as totally pale. She had in her...

The Role of Education

2020 ◽  
pp. 63-80
Author(s):  
Dominic Scott
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Rational Argument ◽  
Negative Side ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Poetry And Music

This chapter discusses the effects that education can have on a person’s receptiveness to argument. The main focus is upon two passages in the Republic about poetry and music. In book III, Socrates claims that exposure to beauty in the arts can prepare one to engage in rational argument. On the negative side, book X analyses the damage allegedly done by tragedy and comedy to the minds of the audience. Overall, I conclude that, although music and poetry have a significant effect on our susceptibility to argument, exposure to good art is not actually necessary for enabling one to follow the shorter route, and exposure to bad art does not necessarily disqualify one. At the end of the chapter I consider two further passages about the effects of education and upbringing, one about gymnastics in book III, the other about the use of dialectic on the young in book VII.

French Impressions: The Transnational Afterlives of Verlaine’s ‘La lune blanche’ in Song

2021 ◽  
pp. 150-152
Author(s):  
David Evans
Keyword(s):  
Art Song ◽  
National Identities ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mode I ◽  
Source Text ◽  
The Real ◽  
Art Form ◽  
The One

In this chapter I compare settings of Verlaine’s ‘La Lune blanche’ (‘The White Moon’) by composers of different nationalities (Delius, Webern, Sorabji, Loomis, Nevin, Loeffler, Hennessy, Poldowski, McEwen, Szulc, Stravinsky) in order to show how different ideas of French song – and of art song itself – emerge through the multiple dialogues of its transnational crossings. Two opposing approaches become clear: on the one hand, songs which maintain a reverence towards the source text as a symbol of the cultural cachet which French mélodie has enjoyed since its 1880-1930 heyday; and on the other, songs which offer a curiously unplaceable musical material, staking a claim for music as an mode of articulation which functions independently from language and, indeed, from national identities which are always in danger of falling into repetition, cliché, and pastiche. This latter mode, I suggest, comes closest to the real heart of mélodie as understood by its foremost French purveyors, Fauré and Debussy, and which composers like Stravinsky draw out of Verlaine’s text: a conception of song as an art form uniquely placed to offer a critique of fixed national paradigms and stable interpretative systems, by constantly calling into question, through their formal complexities, the very processes by which meaning itself is produced.

Trade and Financial Relations between India and Pakistan

2020 ◽  
pp. 161-182
Author(s):  
Pallavi Raghavan
Keyword(s):  
Terms Of Trade ◽  
The Other ◽  
Boundary Line ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The Face ◽  
To Come ◽  
The One ◽  
The Way

In this chapter, I chart out how partition shifted the terms of trade between two points now divided by the boundary line. While, on the one hand, both governments made lofty declarations of carrying out trade with one another as independent nation states—taxable, and liable to regulations by both states—on the other, they were also forced to come to a series of arrangements to accommodate commercial transactions to continue in the way that they had always existed before the making of the boundary. In many instances, in fact, it was actually impossible to physically stop the process of commercial transactions between both sides of the border, and the boundary line. Therefore, the question this chapter is concerned with is the extent to which both governments’ positions were amenable to the necessities of contingency, demand, and genuine emergency, in the face of a great deal of rhetoric about how the Indian and Pakistani economies had to be bolstered on their own merits.

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