Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Hans Joas
Keyword(s):  
Religious History ◽  
The Future ◽  
False Sense ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way

This book is an attempt to divest of its enduring enchantment one of the concepts central to the way in which modernity understands itself, namely that of disenchantment. As we will see, this concept is profoundly ambiguous, as are contrasting terms such as “enchantment” and “re-enchantment,” which also began to circulate after it was coined. Such ambiguity may lead to confusion and has, in fact, often done so in this case. Conveyed covertly along with the term itself, this ambiguity may also serve to establish a false sense of certainty. This undoubtedly applies to the narrative of a progressive process of disenchantment extending across millennia. If my argument is correct, we cannot simply project this narrative forward into the future. What we need, then, is an alternative to it, or perhaps several such alternatives—new narratives of religious history as it is intertwined with the history of power, narratives that might supersede that of disenchantment....

Paleontology's Greatest Hits

2008 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 17-40
Author(s):  
Richard K. Bambach
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Analysis ◽  
Fossil Record ◽  
Evolutionary Biology ◽  
Analytical Study ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Paleontological Society ◽  
Link Pattern ◽  
The Way

Although this paper mentions many specific discoveries and advances it is not intended as a catalog of the “biggest hits” in the sense of public notice, but rather it is an effort to chart how the diversity of paleontological work in the last century fits into the context of the biggest hit of all, the emergence of a “new paleontology” in which conceptual advances have revolutionized every aspect of our profession. When the Paleontological Society was founded no unambiguous fossils were known from the immense stretch of Precambrian time and no hominine fossils were known from Africa. Rigorous phylogenetic analysis and a seat for paleontology at the “high table” of evolutionary biology were in the future. Where once we learned a series of guide fossils and thought we had studied paleontology, now students explore taphonomy, paleoeocology, geobiology and macroevolution in our general courses on paleontology. This paper attempts to take notice of some of the highlights of our evolution from a field focused on cataloging and describing the contents of the fossil record into a complex, multidisciplinary endeavor focused on analytical study of general questions. Some of those hits have been discoveries that document the course of evolution, some have been new conceptual approaches that give us insights that link pattern to process, some are new ways of compiling, analyzing or communicating our knowledge. But with all that the study of the history of life remains at the heart of our profession. The change has been the shift in goal from description to understanding of that history, from “what” to “how.” The greatest hits have been the steps that have opened the way to understanding, that have made following the path possible.

scholarly journals Valaam Monastery School of Painting

Secreta Artis ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 41-72
Author(s):  
Svetlana Evgenievna Bolshakova
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
Human Anatomy ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
The Future ◽  
Religious Paintings ◽  
History Of ◽  
Imperial Academy ◽  
The Way

The article is dedicated to the formation of Valaam’s own school of painting for monks and novices of the monastery. This process consisted of several stages connected to both the historical development of the monastery itself, as well as the expanding influence of the Russian Imperial Academy of Arts. The official establishment of the painting school, which trained artists according to academic methods, dates back to the late 19th – early 20th centuries. The entire preceding history of the monastery paved the way for the inauguration of the school. In particular, the monastery gathered a carefully selected collection of engravings and reproductions of famous religious paintings, art manuals, human anatomy atlases and picturesque copies of popular works of art. Construction of the new Transfiguration Cathedral, to be supposedly painted by monastery artists, provided the main impetus for the eventual opening of the school. Gifted Valaam monks Alipiy (Konstantinov) and Luka (Bogdanov), as well as a student of the Russian Academy of Arts, V. A. Bondarenko, taught at the monastery’s school. Among some of the most diligent students of the school were hegumen Gavrill (Gavrilov), the main proponent of its establishment and its trustee, along with monk Fotiy (Yablokov), the future head of the icon painting workshop. The school continued to operate until the monks of the Valaam Monastery were forced to flee to Finland as a result of hostilities that broke out in the archipelago during the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939–1940.

scholarly journals O-bi, o-ba: Koniec cywilizacji – postpiśmienny świat Piotra Szulkina

1970 ◽  
pp. 273-284
Author(s):  
Maciej Pietrzak
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Written Word ◽  
The Way ◽  
Adam Mickiewicz

Pietrzak Maciej, O-bi, o-ba: Koniec cywilizacji – postpiśmienny świat Piotra Szulkina [O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization – The Postliterate World of Piotr Szulkin]. „Przestrzenie Teorii” nr 32. Poznań 2019, Adam Mickiewicz University Press, pp. 273–284. ISSN 1644-6763. DOI 10.14746/pt.2019.32.14. Piotr Szulkin made his mark in the history of cinema primarily as the author of disturbing visions of the future. His four films made between 1979 and 1985 comprised the science-fiction tetralogy, which is still one of the greatest artistic achievements of this genre in Polish cinema. The subject of the article is the third production of Szulkin’s series – the post-apocalyptic film O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization from 1984. In the film, the director creates a suggestive vision of a world destroyed as a result of nuclear conflict, in which the original functions of literature and the written word are forgotten. The author article analyzes the way in which forsaken literary artifacts are used in the post-literary reality of the film. An important element of his considerations is also the post-apocalyptic reception of the biblical text, on whose elements the mythology of the film’s world is based.

“The Way You Enter a Church”: The Dialectics of Ken Burns’s Baseball

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 499-514
Author(s):  
David Jenemann
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
American Democracy ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Philosophical Beliefs ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way

Taken as a whole, Ken Burns’s 1994 documentary Baseball and its 2010 follow-up The Tenth Inning stand as some of the most influential documentaries on the history of American sports. Baseball develops the link between the “fun” of the game and philosophical beliefs about American democracy through a “dialectical aesthetic” that operates through Baseball’s choice of subjects and historical events as well as through its formal documentary strategies. While many critics dismiss Baseball as overly nostalgic, this essay argues that Baseball engages the reader with the dialectic to encourage self-reflection about the future of the game and its role in civil society.

Responsible for Destiny

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 198-226
Author(s):  
Katherine Ward ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Being And Time ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Way

Historizing is the way Dasein takes up possibilities and roles to project itself into the future. It is why we experience continuity throughout our lives, and it is the basis for historicality – our sense of a more general continuity of “history.” In Being and Time, Heidegger identifies both inauthentic and authentic modes of historizing that give rise, respectively, to inauthentic and authentic modes of histori­cality. He focuses on historizing at the individual level but gestures at a communal form of historizing. In this paper, I develop the concept of co-historizing in both its authentic and inauthentic modes. I argue that Heidegger’s unarticulated concept of inauthentic co-historizing is what necessitated the planned (but unfinished) second half of Being and Time – the “phenomenological destruction of the history of ontology.” I consider what it means to take responsibility for our destiny as a people and specifically as a community of philosophers.

Philosophical histories can be contextual without being sociological: Comment on Araujo’s historiography

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Trevelyan Burman
Keyword(s):  
History Of Psychology ◽  
Recent Contribution ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way

The future of the History of Psychology is bright, and the recent historiographical debates in this journal play an important role in that. Yet Araujo’s recent contribution could be misunderstood: ignoring context is not the way to do a philosophical history. Instead, philosophical assumptions can be presented as part of the context that informed an historical subject. Hence the necessity, here, of a response: the History of Psychology is becoming disciplined, but slowly. There are still plenty of non-specialists who will misunderstand Araujo’s contribution as a step forward in its rhetoric (many of whom teach the history course in their department). And because even specialists also sometimes dismiss methods-talk as a false step toward methodolatry, there is a danger in leaving such misunderstandings unaddressed. Simply put, then, ideas are never only lights in the attic: as the historian looks in, we must always remember that—at the time—someone was looking out.

scholarly journals Bharathi’s Concept of Women Liberation: Legacy and novelty

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kalpana B ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Future Generation ◽  
Language Politics ◽  
Tamil Literature ◽  
The Past ◽  
Feminist Ideology ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way

Subramania Bharathi is probably the greatest poet in the History of Tamil literature. Many books and articles have been written both in English and Tamil praising his works and criticizing him for the past hundred years. His works have been taken up for research, to analyze Nationalism, language, politics, literature, translation, philosophy, feminism and religion. This book entitled “Bharathi’s concept of women liberation: Legacy and novelty” analyzes his feminist thoughts and the lives of women during his period. The author of this book Dr. B. Kalpana carefully analyzes about Bharathi’s works, his period, tradition, his innovative and modern thoughts that paved the way to the future generation. In this book, Dr. B. Kalpana points out, how Bharathi overcame tradition, and became a revolutionary poet of the twentieth century. Bharathi’s feminist ideology is carefully analyzed in this book from the historical perspective.

scholarly journals ARRISCANDO A PALAVRA: VIEIRA, DOS SERMÕES À HISTÓRIA DO FUTURO

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (130) ◽  
pp. 455
Author(s):  
Maria A. R. Abrão
Keyword(s):  
Human Response ◽  
Entire Life ◽  
God's Word ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Way

Arriscar a palavra no púlpito, na própria vida, na obra de uma vida. Em Vieira, dos Sermões à História do Futuro, a palavra faz um caminho. Para além de artifícios da retórica, para além de conveniências político-religiosas, ele coloca as bases da ação como resposta à palavra de Deus e em fidelidade a ela adotando como paradigma a história de Israel. História reveladora da iniciativa de Deus, sempre primeira. Reveladora também dos caminhos e descaminhos da livre resposta humana, da responsabilidade histórica que tal resposta comporta. Ao propor uma leitura do modo de agir de Deus, da sua aliança com a humanidade, Vieira alinha-se perigosamente na fileira dos que incomodam. Lembra a impossibilidade de proteger-se sob o conceito de eleição. A purificação desse conceito, bem como o de ‘ser cristão’ é inadiável. No entanto, a postura de Vieira não é isenta de problemas teológicos. O risco de sua palavra, que abre a esse debate, indica igualmente ao homem os motivos para esperar, para crer na promessa, chave da leitura do futuro.ABSTRACT: Risking the word in the pulpit, in one’s life, in the work of an entire life. According to Vieira, from the Sermons to the History of the Future, the word makes a way for itself. Besides of the rhetoric artifices and the politico-religious conveniences, Vieira establishes the action bases as response to the God’s word, and in fidelity to the same by adopting as paradigm the History of Israel, a revealing, and always the first one, History of the God’s initiative. A History that also reveals the right paths and the wrong paths of the human response, of the historic responsibility that such a response holds. When Vieira proposes the reading of the way God works, of the alliance of God with the humankind, Vieira dangerously aligns himself with the row of those who make trouble. Vieira reminds the impossibility of sheltering oneself under the concept of election. The purification of this concept, as well as the concept of ‘being Christian’ is unpostponable. Nevertheless, the Vieira’s position is not free from theological issues. The risk of his word that opens this debate equally indicates to the man the reasons for hoping and believing in the promise, the key for reading the future.

Jeremiah in Lamentations

2021 ◽  
pp. 482-503
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Boase
Keyword(s):  
New Methods ◽  
History Of Interpretation ◽  
Critical Scholarship ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Theological Understanding ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

The prophetic figure of Jeremiah has long been associated with the book of Lamentations. The earliest known attribution of Lamentations to Jeremiah dates to the time of the Septuagint, an attribution that is repeated in other early translations and rabbinic commentary. Since the rise of critical scholarship, however, the authenticity of Jeremiah as author has been questioned, with few contemporary scholars continuing to argue that the prophet was the actual author of the Lamentations. Despite this, the prophet figure/persona continues to be identified within Lamentations, albeit in ways far removed from the direct attribution expressed in earlier periods. This chapter traces the rise and fall of Jeremiah as author of Lamentations, exploring possible reasons why the prophetic figure has been so important in the history of interpretation within Lamentations studies, with a particular focus on the way that Jeremianic authorship has contributed to the theological understanding of the book. The ever-changing understanding of the relationship of Jeremiah with Lamentations has been influenced by the interpretive lenses and needs of successive communities, a trend which will continue into the future as new methods and approaches emerge.

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