Young Milton’s Pauline Temper

Making Milton ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 65-75
Author(s):  
Noam Reisner
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
Pauline Theology ◽  
Classical Humanism ◽  
Mature Work ◽  
The Erotic

This chapter attempts to look at young Milton’s formative negotiation of Pauline theology, idiom, and authorial self-representation in his early poetry and anti-prelatical political writings. Specifically, the chapter argues that the classical-Christian tension so often commented on in Milton’s early poetry and prose is not an abstract productive tension between classical humanism and Protestant theology but instead a specific authorial tension between Milton’s competing admiration above all for his two favourite writers—Ovid and Paul. In channelling and synthesizing the erotic creativity of the former with the spiritual teachings on sin and redemption of the latter, Milton slowly developed a unique poetic-spiritual stance that in time formed the basis of his future mature work, as an exploration of ‘peculiar grace’ always struggling in the world for poetically creative inward liberty.

George

2020 ◽  
pp. 167-205
Author(s):  
Daniel Layman
Keyword(s):  
Market Economy ◽  
First Century ◽  
Competitive Market ◽  
Labor Theory Of Value ◽  
Arbitrary Power ◽  
Labor Theory ◽  
Collective Control ◽  
The World ◽  
Theory Of Value ◽  
Mature Work

Henry George’s Progress and Poverty, published in 1879, did for left-Lockeanism what Spooner’s contemporaneous mature work did for right-Lockeanism: It took up and developed a line of thought that an earlier author pioneered and, in the process, established a conceptual framework that would survive into the twentieth century. Like Bray, George attempts to solve Locke’s property problem by arguing that people are required to form and maintain political arrangements that protect our common positive right to share the world as equals. But unlike Bray, he does not lean heavily on a labor theory of value. He argues instead that traditional landownership subjects the landless to landowners’ arbitrary power, even when labor exchanges between the two parties leave everyone richer than they were before. In order to respect our common right to the world and the freedom from domination it mandates, governments need not, as Bray argues, seize the means of production and subject them to direct collective control. Rather, they need only require landholders to rent their land from the community at competitive market rates. Once governments pool these rents into a public fund, citizens can enjoy their natural common right within an otherwise competitive market economy. This blueprint would inspire the left-libertarian property theory that has recently emerged to challenge right-libertarianism around turn of the twenty-first century.

The Sense and Reference of Sound; or, Walter Pater’s Kinky Literalism

2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 487-514
Author(s):  
David Sweeney Coombs
Keyword(s):  
Mental Effort ◽  
Human Form ◽  
Hermann Von Helmholtz ◽  
Musical Harmony ◽  
German Physicist ◽  
The World ◽  
Bodily Sensations ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Sense And Reference ◽  
The Erotic

David Sweeney Coombs, “The Sense and Reference of Sound; or, Walter Pater’s Kinky Literalism” (pp. 487–514) This essay explores the erotic possibilities of literal reading by strategically fetishizing the recurring figure of harmony in Walter Pater’s essay “The School of Giorgione” (1877) and his other post-Renaissance writings. I read Pater’s invocations of harmony literally with help from the scientific acoustics of the German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz, which achieved immense popularity in Britain at just the moment that Pater made his famous declaration that all art aspires to the conditions of music. Both Pater and Helmholtz understood perception as an act of reading bodily sensations in which reference—our attention to the objects we infer to be present in the world around us—constantly threatens to overwhelm our awareness of the sensations themselves. In his work on acoustics, however, Helmholtz singled out musical harmony as an experience uniquely susceptible to the mental effort to distinguish discrete sensations during the act of perception. Oscillating between sense and reference, harmony exemplifies the rhetorical logic of what Pater calls literal metaphors—figures whose figurative significance can be fully accessed only by taking them literally. The most emblematic of Pater’s literal metaphors is the Paterian figure itself, at once human form and trope. To take Paterian figures literally, this essay suggests, is to reimagine literal reading as a form of kink—a fetishizing of the sensory forces through which a figure affects and dominates us.

scholarly journals Marx' forfatterskab - En politisk praksis

2018 ◽  
pp. 77-92
Author(s):  
Andreas Beck Holm
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Political Practice ◽  
The World ◽  
Mature Work

In his 11th Thesis on Feuerbach, Marx famously demands of philosophy that it should transform rather than simply interpret the world. This article attempts to answer the question what Marx may have meant by that, and it approaches the question through a criticism of Althusser’s distinction between theoretical and political practice. The conclusion is that the political practice is embedded in Marx’s mature work and that this explains the character of this work.

Refining the Erotic Body in the World

2020 ◽  
pp. 179-183
Author(s):  
Melissa Walker
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
The Erotic

scholarly journals Le risque d’être soi-même. Le consentement et l’affectivité comme fondements de l’éthique ricoeurienne

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-28
Author(s):  
Beatriz Contreras Tasso ◽  
Patricio Mena Malet
Keyword(s):  
Human Being ◽  
Hermeneutical Phenomenology ◽  
The World ◽  
Ethical Subject ◽  
Philosophical Project ◽  
Mature Work ◽  
Shed Light

The purpose of this article is to show that the ethics presented in Ricœur’s Oneself as Another can and must be thought in relation to the anthropology and ontology that the philosopher has gradually developed from the time of his first great phenomenological philosophical project through to his mature work. In order to outline this approach of relating the onto-anthropological foundations to Ricœur’s ethics, we start with Ricœur’s early texts where he develops a long meditation on the risk implied by the act of freedom: the risk of being oneself, of deciding and acting in the world with and for others. Then, our analysis focuses on the Ricœurian conception of consent and affectivity to see the extent to which it is able to shed light on the development of ethics and the notion of the ethical subject in the context of the hermeneutical phenomenology of Ricœur. The article thus takes us from an analysis of the question of “I can” and “I want” in Freedom and Nature: the Voluntary and the Involuntary, through Fallible Man to finally end with an examination of the “acting and suffering” human being found in Oneself as Another.

scholarly journals The Dialectic of Formalization

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Germek
Keyword(s):  
Alain Badiou ◽  
Main Thesis ◽  
The World ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Mature Work

This article discusses the philosophy of Alain Badiou from the perspective of a formulation that we believe represents it succinctly: the dialectic of formalization. The main thesis of the article is that Badiou’s doctrine of the four truth procedures (politics, science, love, and art) can be understood as a doctrine of a dialectical realization of new and universal forms in the world. The dialectic of formalization announces a double procedure – an autonomous and creative procedure for the production of a new true form in the world and a process of the formation of continuity in discontinuity. Moreover, the dialectic of formalization represents a connection between Badiou’s mature work and his early writings from the late 1960s. Even though in the 1960s and 1970s Badiou had not yet introduced the concepts of subject and truth in the sense that he understands them today, it is possible to support the thesis that there is an indisputable connection between Badiou’s early concept of formalization and his later concept of generic truth procedure. We will try to show that the dialectic of formalization (Badiou’s own formulation) designates the continuity between Badiou’s early and mature work.

John of Salisbury and the world of the Old Testament

1994 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 343-363
Author(s):  
Avrom Saltman
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
John Of Salisbury ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The World ◽  
Classical Humanism

It is likely that during the years of his exile (1163/4-70) John of Salisbury’s attachment to the bible was strengthened at the expense of his ‘classical humanism’. A glance at the index to Brooke’s volume of the later letters of John of Salisbury does much to confirm this hypothesis. As Smalley pointed out in this context, ‘the holy page reasserted her rule over the artes’. The ancient pagan sources which bulked large in his earlier writings are submerged under a flood of biblical quotations, allusions and exempla. The main topics of these later letters arc the Becket controversy, the papal schism and the empire-papacy conflict. The very nature of these themes must have influenced John’s mental processes. He was no hypocrite, and would not have recommended his exiled archbishop to study the psalms and Gregory’s Moralia had he himself not done likewise.

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