Narrative Ethics of Implication

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanna Meretoja
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Ethics ◽  
Nazi Germany ◽  
Historical Imagination ◽  
Autobiographical Narratives ◽  
The Past ◽  
Conditions Of Possibility ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way ◽  
Historical World

Chapter 5 problematizes the prevalent way of conceptualizing the relationship between fiction and history in terms of the actual and the possible. It argues that both fictional and autobiographical narratives have potential to cultivate one’s sense of history as a sense of the possible, and it examines four different aspects of their contribution to historical imagination. The chapter analyzes how Günter Grass’s Hundejahre (1963, Dog Years) and his autobiography Beim Häuten der Zwiebel (2006, Peeling the Onion) explore the historical world of Nazi Germany as a space of possibilities, how they self-reflexively examine—against idealist and determinist conceptions—the way history consists in concrete actions and inactions, how they unearth the ways narrative interpretations of the past shape one’s orientation to the present, and how they address the duty to remember—and to engage with the conditions of possibility of atrocity—through a future-oriented narrative ethics of implication.

scholarly journals Law and aesthetics: critical note

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 631-640 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Satie
Keyword(s):  
Legal Philosophy ◽  
Philosophy Of Law ◽  
Legal Form ◽  
Critical Note ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Conservative Approximation ◽  
Conditions Of Possibility ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

It is thought in the theory and philosophy of law, aimed at discussing the conditions of possibility of rapprochement between the art form and legal form. The text investigates, dialectically, the implications for the legal philosophy of the impossibility of such approximation, and the problems in a conservative approximation. It follows that: 1) would be a loss for a reason and therefore to legal philosophy, not to communicate between art and law; 2) the relationship between legal and aesthetic standards should be guided by the critical, especially in terms of Adorno's thought. It is by overcoming the dichotomy between possibility and impossibility, opening on the idea of constellation of methodological categorical fields of law and aesthetics in their current forms, paving the way for understanding the legal form as a tragic way.

scholarly journals Archiving Metaxourgio

2021 ◽  
pp. 167-184
Author(s):  
Thomais Kordonouri
Keyword(s):  
Urban Area ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Ground Level ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
The Way

‘Archive’ is a totality of records, layers and memories that are collected. A city is the archive that consists of the conscious selection of these layers and traces of the past and the present, looking towards the future. Metaxourgio is an area in the wider historic urban area of Keramikos in Athens that includes traces of various eras, beginning in the Antiquity and continuing all the way into the 21st century. Its archaeological space ‘Demosion Sema’ is mostly concealed under the ground level, waiting to be revealed. In this proposal, Metaxourgio is redesigned in light of archiving. Significant traces of the Antiquity, other ruins and buildings are studied, selected and incorporated in the new interventions. The area becomes the ‘open archive’ that leads towards its lost identity. The proposal aims not only to intensify the relationship of architecture with archaeology, but also to imbue the area’s identity with meanings that refer to the past, present and future.

I. The Augustan Historian

1974 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 5-7
Keyword(s):  
Nazi Germany ◽  
The Political ◽  
New Order ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ab Urbe Condita ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Relationship

During the past forty years the dominant preoccupation of scholars writing on Livy has been the relationship between the historian and the emperor Augustus, and its effects on the Ab Urbe Condita. Tacitus’ testimony that the two were on friendly terms, and Suetonius’ revelation that Livy found time to encourage the historical studies of the future emperor Claudius, appeared to have ominous overtones to scholars writing against the political backcloth of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Though the subject had not been wholly ignored previously, the success of the German cultural propaganda-machine stimulated a spate of approving or critical treatments. While some were hailing Livy as the historian whose work signalled and glorified the new order, others following a similar interpretation were markedly scathing.

scholarly journals Institutions for getting out of the way

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
RICHARD N. LANGLOIS
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Commercial Activity ◽  
Proximate Cause ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way ◽  
Deirdre Mccloskey

AbstractIn ‘Max U versus Humanomics: a Critique of Neoinstitutionalism’, Deirdre McCloskey tells us that culture matters – maybe more than do institutions – in explaining the Great Enrichment that some parts of the world have enjoyed over the past 200 years. But it is entrepreneurship, not culture or institutions, that is the proximate cause of economic growth. Entrepreneurship is not a hothouse flower that blooms only in a culture supportive of commercial activity; it is more like kudzu, which grows invasively unless it is cut back by culture and institutions. McCloskey needs to tell us more about the structure of the relationship among culture, institutions, and entrepreneurship, and thus to continue the grand project begun by Schumpeter.

scholarly journals Storytelling, a model of and a model for planning

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merlijn van Hulst
Keyword(s):  
Planning Practice ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

Interest in storytelling in planning has grown over the last two decades. In this article two strands of research are identified: research that looks at storytelling as a model of the way planning is done and research that looks at storytelling as a model for the way planning could or should be done. Recently, the second strand has received the most attention. This article builds on theories of storytelling as an important aspect of everyday planning practice. It draws on an ethnographic case in which a range of actors struggled with the meaning of what was going on, (re)framing the past, present and future with the help of stories. The case illustrates how new stories are built on top of older ones and new understandings emerge along the way. The article also looks into the relationship between storytelling and other planning activities. The article ends with a plea for ethnographic fieldwork to further develop ideas on storytelling in planning practice.

scholarly journals Masterton Playscapes - Connecting children with landscapes through interventions and design processes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Emma Erasmus
Keyword(s):  
Future Generations ◽  
Design Processes ◽  
Research Context ◽  
The Past ◽  
Physical Problems ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

<p>This thesis investigates the importance of connecting children to the landscape through creating child led designs. It explores the process undertaken when designing with children and shows how unconventional spaces called playscapes can benefit a child further than a standard playground. This thesis is taking place as research shows that too many children are spending time indoors, away from their outside environment. The disconnect has led to obvious developmental deficiencies within younger children which have, in turn, led to educational, social and physical problems as the child grows. The problem not only affects the household but the whole community as these children grow.  For this thesis, the research context situated in Masterton, Wairarapa, two hours from Wellington City, due to the increasing growth within the Wairarapa region. Masterton has already recognised the issues surrounding under-developed children however there has been no move in creating a playscape specifically for them.  The main theory is to show a process where children are directly involved in the design and how their input can pave the way for a beneficial playscape, giving another dimension to the designed space as adult’s imagination becomes warped with the constructs of reality and the sense of play diminishes. This process will use several workshops to understand how a child works and invite them to create spaces and interventions that reflect their idea of play. Combined with design, these spaces became a collaboration of the children’s outcomes as well as a space that can create connections between the past, present and future generations.  Throughout this thesis, a link to children will establish itself with the aim to create a landscape that children can relate to and grow through advancing their development. Through the environmental connection, the design will bring the children back to their ancestry and understand the relationship to the landscape that their ancestors had whether Maori or European.</p>

scholarly journals Poetic Frameworks and Narrative Procedures of Bosnia and Herzegovina Novels about Kulin Ban

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4(17)) ◽  
pp. 57-72
Author(s):  
Melida Travančić
Keyword(s):  
Past History ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Narrative Texts ◽  
The Past ◽  
Historical Figures ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

This paperwork presents the literary constructions of Kulin Ban's personality in contemporary Bosnian literature on the example of three novels: Zlatko Topčić Kulin (1994), Mirsad Sinanović Kulin (2007), and Irfan Hrozović Sokolarov sonnet (2016). The themes of these novels are real historical events and historical figures, and we try to present the way(s) of narration and shape the image of the past and the way the past-history-literature triangle works. Documentary discourse is often involved in the relationship between faction and fiction in the novel. Yet, as can be seen from all three novels, it is a subjective discourse on the perception of Kulin Ban today and the period of his reign, a period that could be characterized as a mimetic time in which great, sudden, and radical changes take place. If the poetic extremes of postmodernist prose are on the one hand flirting with trivia, and on the other sophisticated meta- and intertextual prose, then the Bosnian-Herzegovinian romance of the personality of Kulina Ban fully confirms just such a range of stylistic-narrative tendencies of narrative texts of today's era.

scholarly journals Las memorias ficcionalizadas de J. M. Coetzee: Boyhood, Youth y Summertime

2013 ◽  
pp. 337
Author(s):  
Luisa Antón-Pacheco Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Life Writing ◽  
Autobiographical Narratives ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

El artículo analiza Boyhood, Youth y Summertime, las memorias ficcionalizadas de Coetzee, recogidas en un solo volumen con el título Scenes from Provincial Life. Se estudian las características formales, preocupaciones temáticas y rasgos más significativos de cada obra, así como la manera en que se presentan retratos del artista en distintas etapas y contextos. Se estudia la relación de la trilogía con el conjunto de la obra de Coetzee. También se analiza la forma en que Coetzee diluye las fronteras entre géneros y nos hace reflexionar sobre las convenciones de los géneros autobiográficos y las distintas técnicas para narrar la vida.The article analyses Boyhood, Youth and Summertime, Coetzee´s fictionalized memoirs, later published in one volume entitled Scenes from Provincial Life. The article focusses on the formal characteristics, thematic concerns and significant features of each work and analyses the portraits of the artist which emerge. It traces the way the artist is presented in different contexts at different times. The article also examines the relationship between certain aspects of the trilogy and other works by Coetzee. It analyses the way Coetzee blurs the boundaries between genres and makes us reflect on the conventions of autobiographical narratives and on the different techniques that can be used in life-writing.

Introduction

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johann Chapoutot
Keyword(s):  
National Socialism ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Nazi Germany ◽  
The Political ◽  
Sacred Place ◽  
The Past ◽  
Place Of Origin ◽  
Totalitarian Regimes ◽  
The Relationship

This introductory chapter examines the scope of the relationship between National Socialism and antiquity, a topic that historians appear to neglect despite the fact that there have been precedents as to the political use of history—appealing to the past to justify political power in the present—which is a frequent phenomenon, all the more so in totalitarian regimes that seek to anchor their revolutionary political intentions in the depths of historical precedent. The possibilities afforded by the past appear, moreover, to have held great significance for National Socialism. Nazi Germany had coveted and revered the past as a sacred place of origin.

Making the Past the Present

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Tarulevicz
Keyword(s):  
Nationalist Discourse ◽  
The Past ◽  
National Symbols ◽  
Island State ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

This chapter studies the ways in which ideas about Singapore's food heritage are used to help Singaporeans negotiate the multiracial nature of the island-state. Rojak—a Singaporean salad or condiment—highlights how various foods have become potent national symbols that simultaneously speak to diversity and unity, and in the process help define the boundaries of what is considered national food. Though globalization has provided new foodways, old foodways remain potent determinants of Singaporean society. Exploring the relationship between the global and the local to explain how cosmopolitanism emerged as a powerful nationalist discourse, the chapter posits the port as the key mechanism for this process. It considers the movement of people as a force for shaping the food of the nation and the way the rhetoric concerning a migrant past is strategically deployed.

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