A Historical Perspective

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce A. Kimball
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Liberal Education ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Human Endeavor ◽  
Twenty First Century

While envisioning liberal education for the twenty-first century, we must not forget that our visions are shaped and conditioned by historical context, or tradition. Indeed, the very fact that we discuss something called "liberal education" demonstrates the influence of tradition. The general precept is well known, but the nature of this particular tradition is often misconstrued, due not only to neglect but also to genuine intentions to rescue or correct the tradition. To be sure, this particular tradition is long and complex, and it is doubtful that anyone can claim to understand fully the current situation of liberal education in light of its tradition, particularly in this era of postmodern interpretivism and deconstruction. This brief essay will therefore make two, more modest claims. First, I hope to demonstrate that, contrary to the conventional perception, the tradition of liberal education is not uniform and continuous but full of variety, discontinuity, and innovation. It has been and is a conflicted tradition. Second, I wish to argue conversely that innovative proposals made for liberal education at the end of the twentieth century often belong to the tradition, although this heritage is generally not recognized by either the proponents or their opponents. These two points, I suggest, indicate the richness and complexity of the tradition and its value, as well as its influence, for those seeking to envision what the next century of liberal education may and should hold. This is not to say that the tradition is boundless, that liberal education is all things for all situations, or that it is without blemishes or addictions, even cancerous growths. But liberal education is what we have and what we are, after centuries of trying to get it right, and we can no more wipe the slate clean and start entirely afresh here than we can in any other human endeavor. We can certainly try to change and improve in the coming century, but change and improvement imply understanding of and comparison with the past.

Pentecostals and Charismatics in America

2019 ◽  
pp. 241-260
Author(s):  
Cecil M. Robeck
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
First Century ◽  
1 Corinthians ◽  
The Past ◽  
Family Tradition ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Christian Family ◽  
The Church

This chapter traces Pentecostal and related congregations, churches, denominations, and organizations that stem from the beginning of the twentieth century. They identify with activities at Pentecost described in Acts 2 and in the exercise of charisms in 1 Corinthians 12–14. Each of them highlights is the significance of a personal encounter with the Holy Spirit leading to a transformed life. These often interrelated organizations and movements have brought great vitality to the Church worldwide for over one hundred years, and together, they constitute as much as 25 per cent of the world’s Christians. This form of spirituality is unique over the past 500 years, since it may be found in virtually every historic Christian family/tradition, and in most churches of the twenty-first century.

scholarly journals The Memory of the Avant-Garde and the New Wave in the Contemporary Serbian Novel

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marko Avramović
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Past ◽  
Twenty First Century

This article is dealing with the topic of two past twentieth-century epochs in a few representative Serbian novels at the turn from the twentieth to the twenty-first century. These are the 1980s and the New Wave era in Yugoslavia, an epoch close to the past that can still be written about from the perspective of an immediate witness, and the avant-garde era, that is, the period between the two world wars marked in art by different movements of the historical avant-garde. The novels Milenijum u Beogradu (Millennium in Belgrade, 2000) by Vladimir Pištalo, Vrt u Veneciji (The Garden in Venice, 2002) by Mileta Prodanović, and Kiša i hartija (Rain and Paper, 2004) by Vladimir Tasić are being interpreted. In these novels, it is particularly noteworthy that the two aforementioned epochs are most commonly linked as part of the same creative and intellectual currents in the twentieth century.

Past Non-Dependency in the Twenty-first Century

2019 ◽  
pp. 107-119
Author(s):  
Anastassia V. Obydenkova ◽  
Alexander Libman
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Governance Structure ◽  
Political Islam ◽  
First Century ◽  
World War ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Twenty First Century

This chapter aims to provide a different approach to the development of regional IOs since World War II, by singling out non-democratic tendencies in regionalism from a historical perspective. It explores differences between the functioning of DROs and NDROs over the last 70 years—from coerced organizations such as COMECON to modern alliances of autocrats. The chapter argues that the twenty-first-century NDROs (e.g. SCO) are different from those of the last half of the twentieth century (e.g. COMECON) in terms of membership composition, governance structure, and the characteristics discussed in earlier chapters. While historical NDROs were driven by ideologies such as Communism, in the main modern NDROs lack an ideological foundation (with the exception of ALBA and the Islamic world). The ideological foundation of Islamic ROs has changed—from pan-Arabism in the 1940s and 1950s to the dominance of various forms of political Islam and a focus on specific political institutions (e.g. the conservative rule of Gulf monarchies in the GCC).

scholarly journals Portuguese Pronouns and Other Forms of Address, from the Past into the Future— Structural, Semantic and Pragmatic Reflections

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuela Cook
Keyword(s):  
Current Situation ◽  
First Century ◽  
Second Person ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Twenty First Century

 This paper examines the Portuguese second-person system and forms of address as they stand today, at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It considers both their roots and significant stages of evolution and how both are shaping the current situation. It also cogitates about possible further changes. These reflections will use the N-V-T framework of analysis (Cook, “Uma Teoria”), deemed to be better suited than the V/T duality (Brown and Gilman). 

Contemporary Art and Archaeology in the Arab World

2020 ◽  
pp. 325-328
Author(s):  
Salwa Mikdadi
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Arab World ◽  
First Century ◽  
National Narratives ◽  
The Past ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Iconic Images ◽  
Twenty First Century

Contemporary Arab artists are increasingly engaging with the past to make sense of present-day issues. Mining historical regional archives for inspiration, they are placing ancient art and archaeology at the center of their research for art projects and exhibitions. This engagement continues a trend that started in the early decades of the twentieth century, when Egyptian and Iraqi artists employed archaeology in the construction of national narratives, re-appropriating ancient art from its colonial construct—its iconic images of the exotic Orient—to serve the emerging nation states. Twenty-first-century artists are now reflecting upon the discipline of Archaeology and examining the politics of excavations and the display and interpretation of historical artifacts. This chapter presents examples of diverse approaches and techniques in contemporary art that explore archaeological and museological practices in the context of current sociopolitical and economic concerns.

To Cut or Not to Cut

The Long Take ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lutz Koepnick
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Art Cinema ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
The Past ◽  
Expanded Cinema ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
History And Theory

Chapter 1: traces the history and theory of the long take in twentieth-century art cinema to make a case who and why twenty-first century moving image practice differs from the past and its concepts; shows how contemporary long take practice absorbs the recalibrates the dual legacies of expanded cinema and art cinema of the 1960s, and how it asks to rethink our concept of art cinema today, and why its study neither belongs to film scholars nor art critics alone today

Planning and Anarchy

2020 ◽  
Vol 119 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-73
Author(s):  
Jasper Bernes
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Central Planning ◽  
First Century ◽  
Socialist Calculation Debate ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Right ◽  
Blind Spots

Debates about planning on both the left and the right tend to misconstrue as problems of calculation what are, in fact, problems of control. The new powers of computing and communication developed in the twenty-first century do not, therefore, render the central planning of the twentieth century newly feasible. Rather, they merely make it possible to see as properly political problems that were once thought to be entirely technical. Restoring missing historical context to the socialist calculation debate, “Planning and Anarchy” discloses the blind spots in contemporary discussions of planning and offers an alternate vision of emancipation and planning, no longer dependent upon the tools of coercion inherited from capitalism.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex J. Bellamy
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
East Asia ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Cold War

Until recently, East Asia was a boiling pot of massacre and blood-letting. Yet, almost unnoticed by the wider world, it has achieved relative peace over the past three decades.1 At the height of the Cold War, East Asia accounted for around 80 percent of the world’s mass atrocities. By the second decade of the twenty-first century, it accounted for less than 5 percent....

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