The Ascetic Ideal

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Mulhall
Keyword(s):  
Religious Belief ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Stanley Cavell ◽  
Ascetic Ideal ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Western European ◽  
Modes Of Thought ◽  
Film And Literature ◽  
Philosophical Understanding

This book develops a reading of Nietzsche’s concept of ‘the ascetic ideal’, through which he tracks the evolution, mutation, and expansion of the system of slave moral values that he associates primarily with Judaeo-Christian religious belief through diverse fields of Western European culture—not just religion and morality, but aesthetics, science, and philosophy. The work of Stanley Cavell and Michael Fried, and its impact in the philosophy of film and literature, is central here, as is J. M.Coetzee’s on the philosophy of autobiography; Martin Heidegger’s critique of science and technology is also addressed. In so doing it also offers an interpretation of his genealogical method that aims to rebut standard criticisms of its nature, and to emphasize its potential for enhancing philosophical understanding more generally. The focus throughout is on developments in those fields which occurred after the end of Nietzsche’s intellectual career, and in particular on influential modes of thought and practice that have a contemporary significance. However, the goal is not simply to argue that Nietzsche’s diagnosis and critique retain considerable merit. It is also to show that Nietzsche is himself significantly indebted to the ideals he criticizes; and that this opens up a possibility of synthesizing elements of his approach with those drawn from its target. Hence, the book also tracks various ways in which the object of Nietzsche’s criticism has further mutated (just as his genealogical method would suggest), and in doing so has generated ways of pursuing the values central to asceticism that avoid Nietzsche’s criticisms.

Remarques sur la clôture du temps dans le monachisme médiéval et dans le mouvement écologique contemporain

Res Publica ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-146
Author(s):  
Ivo Rens
Keyword(s):  
Historical Research ◽  
Technical Development ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Western European ◽  
Industrial Revolutions

These remarks are parts of a historical research on the ideological functions of Catastrophism. It is suggested that in mediaeval monasticism the closing of time might have contributed to the unprecedented technical development of Western European culture between the Xth and the XVth centuries. The opening of time and space conveyed by the scientific and industrial revolutions have led to the ideologies of illimited progressand indefinite growth today officially prevailing in the whole world. It is questionned whether the closing of time inherent to the contemporary ecological movement, as illustrated by Economist Georgescu-Roegen, will contribute to the psycho-sociological mutation indispensable if mankind is to survive.

Improvisation: Music for an Occasion

1985 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eddie Prévost
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
World Music ◽  
General Survey ◽  
European Culture ◽  
The Status ◽  
Western European ◽  
Communicative Power ◽  
The Impact

The case is put for improvisation as the basis for world music, with special reference to flexibility of the blues and the gamelan. An overview of the impact of society on music leads to a general survey of the status of improvisation in pre-industrial Western European culture. Improvisation is contrasted with composition and consideration is given to the problems of providing education in improvisation without destroying its vitality and communicative power.

A German Island in Israel: Lea Goldberg and Tuvia Rübner’s Republic of Letters

Naharaim ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Giddon Ticotsky
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
German Culture ◽  
Cultural Center ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Republic Of Letters ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
European Culture ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
Western European ◽  
Formative Years

AbstractThis article focuses on the intellectual relationship between two leading Hebrew-European poets as revealed in their recently discovered extensive correspondence. Beyond the significant biographical revelations offered by their letters – among which is Tuvia Rübner’s transition from writing in German to Hebrew – their correspondence (mainly during the years 1949–1969) sheds light on the complexities of the two poets’ position as European artists in nascent Israeli culture. It raises questions of cultural homeland and exile, of the idealization of pre-war Central-Western European culture, and of the agency of the periphery in preserving the values of a declining cultural center. Lea Goldberg and Tuvia Rübner were migrants from the relatively close periphery of German culture who sought to reconstruct something of its intellectual center in the temporally and spatially distant periphery of postwar Israel. In their literary works, the two built bridges between the two cultures at a time when contacts between them were largely considered taboo. Among other aspects, Goldberg and Rübner’s correspondence reveals their nuanced attitudes toward German culture amid the complex multicultural milieu of the State of Israel’s formative years.

scholarly journals Of Masters, Men, Machines and (M)others: Revisiting the Virgin and the Dynamo in a Post/Trans-Human Context

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-100
Author(s):  
Sorina Chiper
Keyword(s):  
Religious Belief ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Henry Adams ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Ethical Stance

Abstract The Education of Henry Adams owes its cultural cachet, in part, to Adams’ elaboration of a dichotomy that has pitted religion against science and technology. Though Western ideologies of modernity have viewed religion in rather negative terms, the current revival of religiosity in the postist context (post-modern, post-communist, post-colonial, post-human) invites a reconsideration of the role of religious belief, practice and objects/symbols in the current society. This article discusses Henry Adams’s dichotomy of the Virgin and the Dynamo, and recontextualizes it from a post-human perspective. It argues that the return of religiosity or spirituality, in its multiple forms, is an ethical stance that signals a cultural need for the feminine values of care, solidarity, affection and affiliation.

scholarly journals University Mission in Western-European Culture (Ethical and Sociological Aspects) P. ІІ

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-130
Author(s):  
Sergiy Volodymirovych Kurbatov ◽  
Mariya Mikhaylivna Rohozha
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
English Language ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
University Rankings ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Western European ◽  
Pass Through ◽  
The University

The paper by Sergiy Kurbatov and Mariya Rohozha “The Mission of University in the Western European Culture”(Part II) is devoted to the analyses of transformation of the university as social institution and cultural phenomenon in our time, which we started at the first part of this paper, that was published in “Philosophy of Education”, 2017, № 2 (21)). If the previous paper of these authors included a long chronological period from the origin of the university in late Medieval time up to the 20th century, the current paper is concentrated on analyses of radical challenges, that university faced at the end of the 20th century and at the beginning of the 21st century. For example, such popular in contemporary English language literature concept as the end (or the death) of university is observed. The authors tried to analyze sociological attempts to measure the main university activities in the form of international university rankings and the possibilities to develop in Ukraine the ideal models of university, which any system of university rankings have. The special stress was made on the influence of COVID 19 pandemic on transformative processes and institutional development of universities in the nearest future. The main challenges of the 21st century are crucial for the university, because this institution lost monopoly of producing and distribution of advanced knowledge for the first time in history. From the tactic viewpoint, university is less competitive than the different training programs and online courses, it is too conservative and bureaucratic one. But the authors think that in strategic perspective university has a chance for renovation, proving the old maxima that the values and spiritual dimensions of being and the relevant environment are crucial for human being. Almost the millennium of university history proves its ability to pass through the dramatic historical transformation and to continue to maintain its essence.

scholarly journals Japonism as a Pan-European Cultural Phenomenon at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries

2015 ◽  
pp. 130-136
Author(s):  
Mikhail V. Grishin
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Japanese Art ◽  
Visual Influence ◽  
Western European ◽  
First Time

Explores this phenomenon of European culture. The author believe that it was a result of a strong visual influence produced by Japanese art on Western European culture. It was for the first time that the West perceived an alien culture as equal and Japonism may be regarded as an aesthetic reception of Japanese arts related to the European dream about a Kingdom of Beauty.

scholarly journals CHARACTERISTIC ASPECTS OF GERMAN PHILOSOPHICAL LYRICS OF ХХI CENTURY

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 1330-1342
Author(s):  
D.A. Datsko
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
European Society ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Western European ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Linguistic Means

This article examines the features of explication of modern German philosophical lyrics represented by the transnational genres of haiku and tanka. The author focuses on the problem of definition of the term “philosophical lyrics”, observes the process of formation and representation of haiku and tanka as syncretic genres in German poetry, conducts a comparative analysis of these genres. The universal features of haiku as well as features peculiar to European culture are summarized and described. The article also analyzes the concept of the connection between haiku and painting and describes the haiga genre as a symbiosis of poetry, calligraphy and painting. The research is based on the haiku and tanka of modern German authors: I Kunshke, H. Tum, M. Bagdan, M. Berner, S. Kempen, F. Ditrich. The applied methods of linguistic-stylistic and literary analysis are aimed at identifying the linguistic means of German haiku and tanka poetry, giving insight into formation of the philosophical worldview of the Western European society.

Large Festivals – Great Struggles

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
János Zoltán Szabó
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Contemporary Music ◽  
Cultural Impact ◽  
Music Festivals ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Western European ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Audience Development ◽  
Late Modern

Contemporary music festivals in late modern European culture have different histories, focuses, missions and geographical conditions. This chapter calls for deeper analysis of the development of festivals that is rooted in cultural anthropology, sociology and the sciences – a multidisciplinary approach. Without this, festivals will simply be known as recurring celebrations, thematic ritual events reflecting the basic values and the worldview shared by the participants that are the basis of their social identity. However, nowadays, the economic importance of festivals has become even more rigorously evaluated, whilst complicated ways to measure cultural impact are often left out, even from detailed reports. Most studies emphasise the difference between Eastern and Western European festivals (Newbold et al. 2015), however, the life cycle of a festival is influenced by factors that are similar wherever they take place: marketing, promotions, sales, audience development and quality, improvement challenges etc. As the size of the festival market has grown, new questions are being asked about economic efficiency. In this study I will search for similarities in the development of five major Eastern and Western European festivals, namely Glastonbury Festival (United Kingdom), Roskilde Festival (Denmark), Sziget Festival (Hungary), Exit Festival (Serbia), and Woodstock Festival Poland (Poland). I will also analyse the Sziget Festival’s life cycle in detail in order to go deeper into the issues and discuss ways to further research music festivals.

The two faces of American religious exceptionalism: Religiosity and dogmatism in the USA and Europe in 2007

2013 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heiner Meulemann
Keyword(s):  
Religious Belief ◽  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Western European ◽  
Religious Worldviews

American religious exceptionalism is investigated by comparing the US sample with the seven western European samples from the Bertelsmann Religionsmonitor 2007. Three customary aspects of religiosity, namely religious worldviews, church practices, and non-church practices, and one new aspect, dogmatism, are investigated. Two questions are examined. First, does American religious exceptionalism have two faces – i.e. is it not only American levels of religious belief and practice that surpass those of Europe, but also those of religious dogmatism? Second, does dogmatism correlate positively with religiosity in the USA and negatively in Europe? Both questions are examined with and without controls for religious affiliation and religious need dispositions. In short, the answer to both questions is ‘yes’ – America does exhibit exceptional traits when compared with western European religiosity and dogmatism.

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