Locke as a Steadfast Relationist about Time and Space

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Thomas
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Human Understanding ◽  
Essay Concerning Human Understanding ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Alternative Reading

In the literature on John Locke’s metaphysics of space and time, there is a near-consensus that his views undergo a radical evolution. In the 1670s, Locke holds relationism, but, by the first, 1690 edition of Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Locke has adopted Newtonian absolutism. This chapter argues for an alternative reading, on which Locke’s Essay is explicitly neutral or non-committal with regard to the ontology of space and time, and yet there is reason to believe that the Essay implicitly preserves Locke’s earlier relationism. As well as challenging the existing scholarship, this chapter excavates another form of pre-Leibnizian relationism, and which may be of interest to twenty-first-century relationists; and provides ammunition to anti-Newtonian readings of Locke more generally.

LOCKE AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

Think ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (24) ◽  
pp. 67-71
Author(s):  
Terence Moore
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
John Locke ◽  
First Century ◽  
Pursuit Of Happiness ◽  
Human Understanding ◽  
Essay Concerning Human Understanding ◽  
Twenty First Century

The seventeenth-century philosopher John Locke, transported to the twenty-first century, has been discussing with Terence Moore, a twenty-first century student of language, questions concerning words, meanings and understanding. In this conversation Moore tackles Locke on the role he assigns to happiness in his An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
First Century ◽  
Philosophical Theology ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Modern Thought ◽  
Metaphysics Of Time ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Impact

This Conclusion draws the study to a close, and recounts its developmental theses. The first thesis is that the complexity of positions on time (and space) defended in early modern thought is hugely under-appreciated. An enormous variety of positions were defended during this period, going far beyond the well-known absolutism–relationism debate. The second thesis is that during this period three distinct kinds of absolutism can be found in British philosophy: Morean, Gassendist, and Newtonian. The chapter concludes with a few notes on the impact of absolutism within and beyond philosophy: on twenty-first-century metaphysics of time; and on art, geology, and philosophical theology.

in your ear: hearing art in the twenty-first century

2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
laura heon
Keyword(s):  
Visual Art ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Sound Art ◽  
First Century ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Sister Arts

over the past century, an art form has emerged between the realms of visual art and music. created by composers and sculptors, ‘sound art’ challenges fundamental divisions between these two sister arts and may be found in museums, festivals or public sites. works of sound art play on the fringes of our often-unconscious aural experience of a world dominated by the visual. this work addresses our ears in surprising ways: it is not strictly music, or noise, or speech, or any sound found in nature, but often includes, combines and transforms elements of all of these. sound art sculpts sound in space and time, reacts to environments and reshapes them, and frames ambient ‘found sound’, altering our concepts of space, time, music and noise.

The Promise of Caribbean Intellectual History

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-60
Author(s):  
Aaron Kamugisha
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
First Century ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Intellectual Production ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Conscious Control

This essay provides a meditation on the field of Caribbean intellectual history. Commencing with a reflection on the second edition of the Caribbean Festival of Arts (Carifesta 1976), the essay proceeds to outline the contours of the field through a consideration of eight relatively discrete though overlapping categories. It argues that the study of Caribbean intellectual history gives us more conscious control over the articulation and reproduction of critical ideas about the region over time and space, alerts us to transformations in the conditions of Caribbean intellectual production, and reminds us of the existential crises the region faces in the third decade of the twenty-first century.

scholarly journals New speakers of Irish: shifting boundaries across time and space

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 (231) ◽  
pp. 63-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernadette O'Rourke ◽  
John Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
First Century ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Linguistic Group ◽  
Second Language Speakers ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Speakers ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Shifting Boundaries

Abstract While traditional Irish-speaking communities continue to decline, the number of second-language speakers outside of the Gaeltacht has increased. Of the more than one and half million speakers of Irish just over 66,000 now live in one of the officially designated Gaeltacht areas. While “new speakers” can be seen to play an important role in the future of the language, this role is sometimes undermined by discourses which idealise the notion of the traditional Gaeltacht speaker. Such discourses can be used to deny them “authenticity” as “real” or “legitimate” speakers, sometimes leading to struggles over language ownership. Concerns about linguistic purity are often voiced in both academic and public discourse, with the more hybridized forms of Irish developed amongst “new speakers” often criticised. This article looks at the extent to which such discourses are being internalised by new speakers of Irish and whether or not they are constructing an identity as a distinct social and linguistic group based on what it means to be an Irish speaker in the twenty first century.

Consumer Culture

2021 ◽  
pp. 471-486
Author(s):  
Elizabeth M. Sheehan
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Culture ◽  
First Century ◽  
Experimental Techniques ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Empire Building ◽  
Methods Of Analysis ◽  
Twenty First Century

This chapter shows how consumer culture shapes the content, form, and reception of Virginia Woolf’s feminist modernism, including the methods of analysis used by scholars. As critics note, Woolf’s life coincided with key developments in consumer culture, which are examined and reproduced in her work. Woolf’s experimental techniques in such novels as Mrs Dalloway and Orlando, for example, reflect the particular conceptions and experiences of time and space generated by consumer culture. Orlando depicts history as a series of fashions and suggests that fashion’s repetitions accompany cycles of war and empire-building. In doing so, Orlando anticipates its reappearance as an inspiration for twenty-first century fashion. It also prompts scholars to consider how methods of literary periodization and historicism reproduce the logic of consumer culture. Reading Woolf in relation to consumer culture, then, involves addressing how and why her work continues to be consumed.

Conclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 193-202
Author(s):  
Imogen Peck
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
First Century ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
War Memory ◽  
Civil War Memory ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Post War

This conclusion offers an account of the main similarities between the experiences of early modern England and those of modern post-civil war states. It argues that many of the challenges that the republican governments faced have continued to confront states into the twenty-first century, and that, though the shape of a particular post-war settlement is historically contingent, the central issues with which its instigators must wrestle are not as temporally or geographically specific as we might expect. Further, it suggests that this is also true of many of the responses, from the use of amnesties and pardons to martyr narratives and the ‘othering’ of opponents. It provides one of the first transtemporal and transnational comparisons of Civil War memory and, in so doing, attempts to initiate further conversation between scholars of civil war memory across time and space.

The Posthuman and Transboundary Imagination in Contemporary Korean Literature: Considering the Works of Pae Myŏnghun and Yun Ihyŏng

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-345
Author(s):  
Namkyung Yeon
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Political Rhetoric ◽  
First Century ◽  
Future Time ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Korean Literature ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Cast Doubt ◽  
Twenty First Century

Abstract Literature limited to the eyes of “humanity” as created by humanism is insufficient to explore the conditions faced in the twenty-first century. The posthuman forms prevalent in contemporary South Korean literature, such as cyborgs, humanoids, and artificial intelligence, go beyond reflecting scientific developments; they operate as critical, political rhetoric with regard to discourses of modernity. This article focuses on the posthuman forms and also future time and space in Pae Myŏnghun’s and Yun Ihyŏng’s short stories in relation to critical posthumanism. Although Pae’s allegorical approach may seem somewhat simplistic, the posthuman forms that are brought to life in his works are highly innovative and effectively criticize modern systems. In contrast to Pae, Yun uses the futuristic subject to concentrate on humans, through narratives of coexistence where nonsynchronism is in operation. Yun’s narratives focus on a performative posthuman discourse that traverses gender, age, and class-based dualisms. With hybrid, multilayered, and performative identities and the transgression of boundaries, the two writers undermine the modern notion of linear, progressing time and cast doubt on notions of objectivity or totalized knowledge, urging a rethinking of the “here and now.”

Folkloristic Practices in a Converging Hyper Era

2019 ◽  
pp. 272-296
Author(s):  
Simon J. Bronner
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
First Century ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Social Praxis ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Intellectual Movements ◽  
American Contribution

This chapter suggests a paradigm shift in folklore and folklife studies in the twenty-first century following the "era of communication" and "professionalization of time and space" in the twentieth century. Characterized as a "hyper era" represented by keywords of convergence, practice, and frame informed by digital culture rather than the previous period's analog signification of performance, symbol, and structure, the new epoch signals a turn toward an understanding of social praxis anticipated by intellectual movements in Europe and Asia. The American contribution is theorizing of individualism and organization in everyday life.

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