Classical Art

2019 ◽  
pp. 78-98
Author(s):  
Lydia L. Moland
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Human Culture ◽  
Human Subjectivity ◽  
Physical Form

Hegel claims that the human body is the only physical form that can fully embody the divine. Classical Greek artists perfectly depicted this embodiment in their mythology and statues. Hegel traces the emergence of the human out of earlier evocations of nature as the divine and argues that the perfect repose of Phidian sculpture represents the complete interpenetration of spirit and nature. But once human subjectivity begins to develop, it ruptures this unity and precipitates classical art’s decline. Aristophanes, Hegel claims, achieved a late example of classical perfection in his comedies. But soon afterward, classical art dissolves into incomplete forms such as satire, domestic comedy, and merely pleasant sculpture. After this decline, art will never again achieve the highest level of beauty or regain its prominence in human culture.

scholarly journals Other Ethics: Decentering the Human in Weird Horror

2017 ◽  
pp. 12-24
Author(s):  
Marianne Gunderson
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Transformative Power ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Human Culture ◽  
Human Subjectivity ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Weird Fiction ◽  
The Absolute

Margrit Shildrick has argued that the monster’s ability to disturb and unsettle arises from its position as simultaneously same and different, both self and other at the same time. Through an analysis of Algernon Blackwood’s novella The Willows, this article discusses the challenge posed by the nonhuman Absolute other, the nebulous creatures whose whose difference is total, as they appear in weird fiction. Drawing on posthuman theory, it explores the ethical implications of imagining the crumbling horizons of human subjectivity in the meeting with the absolute and unknowable other. This article argues that by bringing concepts such as the horror of scale, ecophobia, the transformative power of awe, and the strangeness of matter into the monstrous figure, the weird undermines the structures that constructs human, culture, and mind as separate and different from the non-human, nature, and matter. By making us imagine a perspective from which humans are not just insignificant, but irrelevant, weird fiction not only challenges the anthropocentric worldview, but also makes us aware of the limitations and situatedness of human experience.

Introduction: Anxious Flesh

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-54
Author(s):  
Hedwig Fraunhofer
Keyword(s):  
New Materialism ◽  
Inorganic P ◽  
Human Culture ◽  
Human Subjectivity ◽  
Key Concepts

Laying the intellectual groundwork for the book, this chapter gives an in-depth introduction to new materialist philosophy and its relationship to other 20th and 21st century theoretical movements and discussions, as well as to key concepts used in the study: affect, old and new materialism, dramatic and postdramatic theatre, biopolitics, sovereignty and economics, fascist immunitarianism, and others. This Introduction also announces the book’s focus on modern theatre: The plays explored map the universality of the “flesh” in (politically democratic, post-Darwinian) modernity, an ontological anxiety located at the threshold between materiality and human sovereignty, in other words the danger -- or, depending on the writer, the promise -- posed in post-transcendental modernity by the inability of keeping human subjectivity separate from nonhuman vitality. Rather than considering them in isolation, the book explores the entanglement of human culture with diverse forms of agentive materiality – economic, embodied, and inorganic.

scholarly journals The Influence of Brush Cutters Vibrations on Human Body

2013 ◽  
Vol 8-9 ◽  
pp. 445-452
Author(s):  
Aurica Truţa ◽  
Felicia Aurora Cristea ◽  
Mariana Arghir
Keyword(s):  
Exposure Time ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Whole Body Vibration ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Body Vibration ◽  
Human Subjectivity ◽  
Human Operators ◽  
High Level ◽  
Landscape Gardening

In recent years there have been many cases of HAVS being reported for people who work in agriculture, horticulture, landscape gardening and forestry. The work described in this paper assesses the transmitted vibration to the human body from a hand guided power tool, means a brushcutter. As it is known the brushcutters induce a high level of vibrations on human operators. Depending by brushcutters type, exposure time and human subjectivity, we can discuss about the vibration influence on human body. Long exposure to hand-arm vibration, whole body vibration and mechanical overloading is considered a potential cause of professional diseases.

scholarly journals Some Important Secrets of Language Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (32) ◽  
pp. 79-89
Author(s):  
Muhammad Gurbaz ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Culture ◽  
Human Community ◽  
Language Functions ◽  
The People ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Community Language

Language is a jewel in the human body. If it is not available, no phenomenon can compensate for its absence. Every human with a language is known as a skillful person. If language is downfallen, almost all human beings’ relations are damaged. Language, like all other phenomena of human culture, is closely linked to a human community, an event that occurs in a community, taking its own steps towards perfection in that community. Language is the only source of communication among the people. In fact, it is a source of reflection of the aspirations and desires of the people and a great tool for finding ways to meet their needs. In the process of research, I have clarified what language means, what it is called. As a result of the research, it has also become clear what is its value in social life, what is its importance. Language functions were also highlighted during the research. Some important factors and characteristics that lead to the development of a language are highlighted in details. If the speakers of any language take advantage of the mentioned ways to develop their language, to contrive for it to conclude all the mentioned possibilities and factors in their language, I am sure that their language will be taken place among the advanced languages.

scholarly journals How big? How fast? Transcendental Reflections on Space, Time and World Models

Philosophy ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-339
Author(s):  
Truls Wyller
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Unit Size ◽  
Local Models ◽  
Global Measure ◽  
Global Models ◽  
Human Subjectivity ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many ◽  
Descriptive Knowledge

AbstractOf what does the size of spatially and temporally extended phenomena consist? The particular, non-conceptual magnitude of a spatial thing is a determinate, world-defining unit size. Correspondingly, natural objects have a definite size in relation to embodied human subjectivity as a global ‘measure of worlds’. As displayed by the occurrence of global models in human life, this relation has an irreducibly indexical character. The particular temporal extension of events is intrinsic to human experience as well – albeit in a different way. As displayed in local models only, it is a conceivable object of practical but not of propositional knowledge. In its role as a global spatial measure, somehow the human body is more than one among the many possible objects of descriptive knowledge. This role is supplied by rational agency – which is then a condition of the world.

Individuality Embodied

2019 ◽  
pp. 177-196
Author(s):  
Lydia L. Moland
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Physical Form

While architecture simply houses the spiritual, sculpture shows spirit embodied in physical form. Hegel claims that the human body can uniquely express this perfect interpenetration and that it does so most effectively in the still, reposed sculptures of fifth-century BCE Greece. He argues that marble best captures skin tones and so is sculpture’s most appropriate material. Once statues begin to depict action, however, sculpture’s perfect interpenetration is disrupted. Sculpture then disintegrates into less perfect forms, including figures that attempt to depict emotion and sculpture that is simply decorative. This chapter also considers how Hegel’s theory can be applied to non-representational sculpture and contemporary evocations of imperfect bodies.

Microstructural comparison of synthetic bioceramics with natural bioceramics

1991 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 38-39
Author(s):  
Shulin Wen ◽  
Jingwei Feng ◽  
A. Krajewski ◽  
A. Ravaglioli
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Human Tissues ◽  
Main Constituent ◽  
Laboratory Furnace ◽  
Chinese Adult ◽  
Human Enamel ◽  
Biological Compatibility ◽  
Synthetic Hydroxyapatite ◽  
Synthetic Work

Hydroxyapatite bioceramics has attracted many material scientists as it is the main constituent of the bone and the teeth in human body. The synthesis of the bioceramics has been performed for years. Nowadays, the synthetic work is not only focused on the hydroapatite but also on the fluorapatite and chlorapatite bioceramics since later materials have also biological compatibility with human tissues; and they may also be very promising for clinic purpose. However, in comparison of the synthetic bioceramics with natural one on microstructure, a great differences were observed according to our previous results. We have investigated these differences further in this work since they are very important to appraise the synthetic bioceramics for their clinic application.The synthetic hydroxyapatite and chlorapatite were prepared according to A. Krajewski and A. Ravaglioli and their recent work. The briquettes from different hydroxyapatite or chlorapatite powders were fired in a laboratory furnace at the temperature of 900-1300°C. The samples of human enamel selected for the comparison with synthetic bioceramics were from Chinese adult teeth.

Study on erythrocytes by SEM photogrammetry (SEMP) technique

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 724-725
Author(s):  
Tong Wensheng ◽  
Lu Lianhuang ◽  
Zhang Zhijun
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Cell Membrane ◽  
Clinical Diagnosis ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Blood Cells ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Normal Person ◽  
Blood Disease ◽  
Computation Technique ◽  
Important Basis

This is a combined study of two diffirent branches, photogrammetry and morphology of blood cells. The three dimensional quantitative analysis of erythrocytes using SEMP technique, electron computation technique and photogrammetry theory has made it possible to push the study of mophology of blood cells from LM, TEM, SEM to a higher stage, that of SEM P. A new path has been broken for deeply study of morphology of blood cells.In medical view, the abnormality of the quality and quantity of erythrocytes is one of the important changes of blood disease. It shows the abnormal blood—making function of the human body. Therefore, the study of the change of shape on erythrocytes is the indispensable and important basis of reference in the clinical diagnosis and research of blood disease.The erythrocytes of one normal person, three PNH Patients and one AA patient were used in this experiment. This research determines the following items: Height;Length of two axes (long and short), ratio; Crevice in depth and width of cell membrane; Circumference of erythrocytes; Isoline map of erythrocytes; Section map of erythrocytes.

Partial characterization and post-feeding activity of midgut aminopeptidase in the human body louse,Pediculus humanus humanus

1998 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 382-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
James O. Ochanda ◽  
Eva A. C. Oduor ◽  
Rachel Galun ◽  
Mabel O. Imbuga ◽  
Kosta Y. Mumcuoglu
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Feeding Activity ◽  
Partial Characterization ◽  
Body Louse ◽  
Pediculus Humanus ◽  
Post Feeding ◽  
Human Body Louse
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