To Savor the Meaning

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
James D. Reich
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Religious Philosophy ◽  
Religious Influence ◽  
History Of ◽  
Language Literature

Medieval Kashmir in its golden age saw the development of some of the most sophisticated theories of language, literature, and emotion articulated in the pre-modern world. These theories, enormously influential on the later intellectual history of South Asia, were written at a time when religious education was ubiquitous among intellectuals, and when religious philosophies were hotly and publicly debated. It was also a time of deep inter-religious influence and borrowing, when traditions intermixed and intellectuals pushed the boundaries of their own inheritance by borrowing ideas from many different places—even from their rivals. To Savor the Meaning examines the overlap of literary theory and religious philosophy in this period by looking at debates about how poetry communicates emotions to its readers, what it is readers do when they savor these emotions, and why this might be valuable. Focusing on the work of three influential figures—Ānandavardhana (ca. 850 CE), Abhinavagupta (ca. 1000 CE), and the somewhat lesser known theorist Mahimabhaṭṭa (ca. 1050 CE)—this book gives a broad introduction to their ideas and reveals new, important, and previously overlooked aspects of their work and their debates, placing them within the wider context of the religious philosophies current in Kashmir at the time, and showing that their ideas cannot be fully understood in isolation from this broader context.

scholarly journals Perkembangan Teori Sastra (Suatu Pengantar)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felta Lafamane
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Literary Reading ◽  
Philosophical Thinking ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
History Of ◽  
Practical Nature

AbstractNormatively, literary studies are divided into several fields, namely literary theory, literary history, literary criticism, comparative literature and literary studies. Literary theory studies people's views of literature. Literary history seeks to compile and study literary works as part of the process of intellectual history in one society. The history of literary theory can be seen as part of philosophical thinking because the history of literary theory itself is the same as the history of human thought towards art or literary objects which emphasize the more practical nature of the translation of concepts. Literary theory itself can essentially be equated with the science of beauty or aesthetics. Science and theory are certainly one different thing. With such an assumption, writing the history of literary theory is the same as writing aesthetic history in the field of literary arts. However, the history of the theory needs to be known and understood so that there are no mistakes in thinking about these two things. Literary theory itself has various meanings along with the paradigm it carries. Literary theory is defined as a set of ideas and methods used to practice literary reading. Literary theory is also interpreted as a way or step to understand literature. The views in literary theory also experience changes along with the development of human thinking.Keyword: development, literary theory, history, literature

scholarly journals Against the Modern World

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-110
Author(s):  
Ali Hassan Zaidi
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
North America ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Modern World ◽  
World Religions ◽  
Perennial Philosophy ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Muslims In Europe ◽  
Muslim Scholars

One effect of 9/11 has been that Muslim voices, which until then had beenmostly ignored, are increasingly reaching a wider audience of other Muslimsand non-Muslims. In Europe and North America, this has meant that selfidentified“progressive” Muslim scholars who emphasize social justice, aswell as “traditional” Muslims who emphasize Islam’s spiritual or esotericdimension, have been contributing in a much more vocal manner to the contemporaryinterpretation of what it means to be Muslim. Since most of theleading figures presented herein are Sufi Muslims of a particular strand ofesoteric Islam, this book helps fill an important lacuna concerning the developmentof the traditionalist position – a position that has been voiced bysuch Muslim scholars as Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Martin Lings.Sedgwick promotes the book as a biography of René Guénon (1886-1951) and an intellectual history of the traditionalist movement that heinaugurated in the early twentieth century. Guénon’s movement combineselements of perennial philosophy, which holds that certain perennial problemsrecur in humanity’s philosophical concerns, and that this perennialwisdom is now only found in the traditional forms of the world religions ...

The University and the Unhinging of Society

Worldview ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 13-17
Author(s):  
James V. Schall
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Western World ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Communications Media ◽  
Technological Control ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Race War

The attention of the Western world has been concentrated very forcibly in recent years on the meaning and the place of the university in contemporary society. Student unrest and political “activisim” have gained widespread publicity in all communications media and in every legislature. In France, Mexico, Czechoslovakia, Japan, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the United States, the university confrontation has occasioned grave civil crises that have shaken the very stability of government itself. The origin and nature of this phenomenon is rooted in the intellectual history of the modern world which has sought to effect a humanism totally subject to man's intellectual and technological control. What we are now seeing is how this control is passing from thought and technique to political and messianic action, to movements which profess to “re-create” man in the midst of his most pressing crises of poverty, race, war, and equality.

Jesuit Accommodation, Dissimulation, Mental Reservation

2017 ◽  
pp. 215-240
Author(s):  
Stefania Tutino
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Global Dimension ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Society Of Jesus ◽  
The Political ◽  
Religious Orders ◽  
Intellectual Identity ◽  
Culturally Different ◽  
History Of

This chapter analyzes the role that accommodation, dissimulation, equivocation, and mental reservation played in Jesuit spirituality, theology, and culture. These doctrines came to represent a fundamental component of the religious, theological, and intellectual identity of the Society of Jesus. Indeed, Ignatius Loyola himself made discreción one of the principles differentiating the Society from all other Catholic religious orders. The chapter demonstrates the centrality that these forms of accommodation and dissimulation acquired in the political, religious, and intellectual history of the early modern world, becoming useful tools to articulate one’s political and religious allegiance and thus becoming an integral part of post-Reformation culture. As post-Reformation Catholicism assumed an increasingly global dimension, these doctrines became politically, spiritually, theologically, and hermeneutically necessary for the Catholic missionaries to approach, come to terms with, and adapt to geographically and culturally different contexts, places, and people.

Current Methodological Problems of the Research of N. Berdyaev’s Heritage

2021 ◽  
pp. 123-129
Author(s):  
Ilia I. Pavlov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Religious Philosophy ◽  
History Of Thought ◽  
Philosophical School ◽  
Complex Approach ◽  
History Of ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
Institutional Church ◽  
Methodological Considerations ◽  
Relationship Of

The article works out the methodology of intellectual history applicable to the complex approach to the philosophy of N. Berdyaev. The current discussions on Berdyaev’s heritage consider Berdyaev’s work in the context of the world history of thought. Nevertheless, there is no consensus not only on the question of which philosophical school Berdyaev belongs to, but even on the problem of attributing Berdyaev’s figure to certain discipline. Thus, a comprehensive methodology of intellectual history, based on the ideas of the Cambridge school (Q. Skinner) and secularization theories, is relevant to tackle this task. The ap­proach developed by the author aims to consider the texts of the philosopher as real actions carried out in a particular social and political context to make a valuable impact on it. In contrast to the political texts traditionally considered in Cambridge approach, in the case of studying religious philosophy this metho­dology should also consider the relationship of philosophical discursive practices with religious discourse, religious practices and institutional church relations regulating them. The application of these methodological considerations to the research of Berdyaev’s philosophy demonstrates prospects of study the influ­ence of political and religious discussions at the beginning of the 20th century on the formation of the late doctrine of the philosopher

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