(Anamnesis) Revolting Bodies: “Le Forgeron” and the Poetry of the Past

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert St. Clair
Keyword(s):  
Victor Hugo ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
Louis Xvi

weChapter 4 takes up the question of poetry and engagement at its most explicit and complex in Rimbaud, focusing on a long, historical epic entitled “Le Forgeron.” We read this poem, which recreates and re-imagines a confrontation between the People in revolt and Louis XVI in the summer of 1792, as Rimbaud’s attempt to add a revolutionary supplement to the counter-epics modeled by Victor Hugo in Châtiments. Chapter 4 shows how Rimbaud’s “Forgeron” challenges us to examine the ways in which a poem might seek “to enjamb” the caesura between poiesis and praxis by including and complicating revolutionary (counter)history into its folds in order to implicate itself in the political struggles of its time.

scholarly journals STRATEGI DAKWAH SIASYAH PARTAI PERSATUAN PEMBANGUNAN DI JAWABARAT

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-36
Author(s):  
Ridwan - Mubarok
Keyword(s):  
World Politics ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Sphere ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
Missionary Movement ◽  
Or Organization

For every Muslim, the role of civilization is identical to authentic mission as a leader as a leader in this earth, whose role is greater than leading a province or country. The participation of ulama, dai or da'wah movements in the political sphere is his right, but the missionary movement or organization must also be aware of and be aware of people or persons who want to manipulate da'wah as a vehicle for world politics. Da'wah movements or dai must be able to use various life instruments that exist today for the sake of da'wah. Ulama and the da'i who join in the organization movement or da'wah movement, must realize that they are part of the chain of struggle of the people. Now is the time for da'i or ulama to proclaim themselves from the past fetters that castrated the political life of the scholars.Bagi setiap muslim, peran peradaban identik dengan misi otentik sebagai pemimpin sebagai pemimpin dimuka bumi ini, yang perannya lebih besar dibandingkan memimpin sebuah provinsi atau negara. Keikutsertaan para ulama, dai atau gerakan dakwah dalam ranah politik merupakan haknya, akan tetapi gerakan atau organisasi dakwah juga harus menyadari serta mewaspadai terhadap orang atau oknum yang hendak memperalat dakwah sebagai kendaraan politik dunia. Gerakan dakwah ataupun para dai harus dapat menggunakan berbagai instrument kehidupan yang ada saat ini untuk kepentingan dakwah. Ulama maupun para da’i yang bergabung dalam gerakan organisasi atau gerakan dakwah, harus menyadari bahwasanya dirinya merupakan bagian dari mata rantai perjuangan umat. Kini sudah saatnya para da’i ataupun ulama dapat memproklamirkan diri dari belenggu masa lalu yang mengebiri kehidupan politik para ulama, PPP menjadi salah satu alternatif.

scholarly journals Presenting unwieldy pasts

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-252
Author(s):  
Katherine Hite ◽  
Daniela Jara
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Late Phase ◽  
The Political ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
Intellectual Traditions ◽  
The Rich

In the rich and varied work of memory studies, scholars have turned to exploring the meanings that different communities assign to the past, the social mediations of memories, as well as how the memories of subaltern subjects re-signify the relationship between history and memory. This special issue explores the ever present dynamics of unwieldy pasts through what have been termed “the spectral turn” and “the forensic turn.” We argue that specters (which appear in the literature as ghosts, or as haunting) and exhumations defy notions of temporality or resolution. Both trace the social dynamics that redefine the meanings of the past and that voice suffering, expose institutions’ limits, reveal disputes, explore affect and privilege political resistance. They draw from significant intellectual traditions across disciplinary and thematic boundaries in the natural and social sciences, the humanities, art and fiction. Their intellectual subjects range from work that explores the political struggles of confronting slavery and the possibility of reparations in the Americas long after it was formally abolished, to sensitive treatments of graves of Franco’s Spain. We suggest that both the spectral turn and the forensic turn have provided lenses to conceptualize the social life of unwieldy pasts, by exploring its dynamics, practices, and the cultural transmissions. They have also offered a language to communities that mobilize the political strength of resentment, deepened by the late phase of global capitalism and its consequent, deepening inequalities.

The French Revolution Revisited

1989 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 264-282
Author(s):  
François Furet
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
The Political ◽  
Historical Interpretation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
The One ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
The French Revolution

I SHOULD LIKE TO START WITH AN EXTREMELY SIMPLE STATEment about the French Revolution. This is that there are many historical arguments among historians on many subjects, but that none of these arguments is so intense and so heated as the one which takes place in every generation about the French Revolution. It is as though the historical interpretation of this particular subject and the arguments of specialists directly reflect the political struggles and the gamble for power. It is true that we are all aware today that there are no unbiased historical interpretations: the selection of facts which provide the raw material for the historian's work is already the result of a choice, even although that choice is not an explicit one. To some extent, history is always the result of a relationship between the present and the past and more specifically between the characteristics of an individual and the vast realm of his possible roots in the past. But, nevertheless, even within this relative framework, not all the themes of history are equally relevant to the present interests of the historian and to the passions of his public.

scholarly journals O papel da imprensa na política no final do Primeiro Reinado: uma análise do jornal Tribuno do Povo * The role of the press in politics in the late First Empire: an analysis of the paper Tribuno do Povo

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 325 ◽  
Author(s):  
FERNANDA CLÁUDIA PANDOLFI
Keyword(s):  
The Past ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The People ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
The Press ◽  
Pedro I ◽  
First Empire ◽  
The Government ◽  
Opposition Movement

<p></p><p class="Default"><strong>Resumo: </strong>Este artigo aborda o papel da cultura letrada nos embates políticos no final do Primeiro Reinado. Mais especificamente, analisa a atuação do periódico liberal exaltado <em>Tribuno do Povo </em>na oposição ao governo e sua contribuição para a deslegitimação de D. Pedro I, destacando sua importância na difusão de informação e as implicações resultantes para a prática política do período. A conclusão do trabalho é que, ao relacionar suas explicações com o passado e com o presente, interagir com outros periódicos e com leitores e leitoras através de cartas, este periódico contribuiu para erigir identidades políticas como a do “brasileiro” e definir o sentido do termo “patriótico” em contraposição ao “português” e “antipatriótico” que marcaram as disputas no final do Primeiro Reinado.</p><p class="Default"><strong>Palavras-chave: </strong>História da Imprensa; mulheres no século XIX; Iluminismo no Brasil; imprensa e identidade nacional.</p><p class="Default"><strong><br /></strong></p><p class="Default"><strong>Abstract</strong>: This article discusses the role of literacy in the political struggles at the end of the First Empire. Specifically, it analyzes the influence of the radical newspaper “Tribune of the People” in the opposition movement to the government and its contribution to the delegitimization of D. Pedro I, highlighting its importance in spreading information and the resulting implications for political practice in the period. The conclusion of the paper is that, by relating their explanations with the past and the present and interacting with other periodicals and with its readers through letters, this journal helped to build political identities as the "Brazilian" and define the meaning of term "patriotic" versus the "Portuguese" and "unpatriotic" in the disputes that marked the end of the First Empire.</p><p class="Default"><strong>Keywords</strong>: Press History; women in the Nineteenth Century; The Enlightenment; press and national identity.</p>

scholarly journals ROLE OF MEMORY IN SHAPING CHARACTERS� IDENTITY IN MAHESH DATTANI�S FINAL SOLUTIONS

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 227
Author(s):  
Suman Sigroha
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Public Memory ◽  
The Political ◽  
Personal Memory ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Personal Interests

While writing of contemporary issues Mahesh Dattani constructs a sense of a shared urban cultural identity, which is upper-middle class, professional, English speaking and a cityfied identity. Memory plays a very important part in the plays. Public memory is time and again juxtaposed with personal memory, and it becomes a means to explain and justify the political acts committed for personal interests. This paper looks at how memory, personal as well public, shapes the identities (social, personal and religious) of characters in Mahesh Dattanis Final Solutions. Incidents are important, but only to explain why and how the people populate his plays, acting in ways that they do. The psychological action is of greater relevance than any physical action that takes place in the play. He reveals his characters by placing them in situations where they are forced to analyze themselves in the light of what happened in their lives in the past.

Reconciliation as a political discourse in Thailand’s current conflicts

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-269
Author(s):  
Wichuda Satidporn ◽  
Stithorn Thananithichot
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Thai Language ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
The People ◽  
Reconciliation Process

Abstract Why do Thai governments fail in maintaining peace through conducting a reconciliation process? This article answers this question through an assessment of how the term reconciliation has been defined and used by the Thai governments and political leaders during the past decades. This article finds that the political conflicts in Thailand have never been solved because several times, reconciliation in the Thai language is a term that has been dynamically interpreted and applied by leaders of the conflicting groups as a means to defeat the people of the opposing groups rather that a means of resolving problems and reconciling society.

FREEDOM, JUSTICE, AND THE POWER OFADAB

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen McLarney
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
Political Relationships ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
Self Rule

AbstractThis article analyzes in depth four main writings by the pioneeringnahḍaintellectual Rifaʿa Rafiʿ al-Tahtawi, who drew on classical kinds ofadabto articulate new kinds of political subjectivities. He especially draws on the image of the body politic as a body with the king at its heart. But he reconfigures this image, instead placing the public, or the people, at the heart of politics, a “vanquishing sultan” that governs through public opinion. For al-Tahtawi,adabis a kind of virtuous comportment that governs self and soul and structures political relationships. In this, he does not diverge from classical conceptions ofadabas righteous behavior organizing proper social and political relationships. But in his thought, disciplinary training inadabis crucial to the citizen-subject's capacity for self-rule, as he submits to the authority of his individual conscience, ensuring not only freedom, but also justice. These ideas have had lasting impact on Islamic thought, as they have been recycled for the political struggles of new generations.

The Memory of the Civil War in Algeria: Lessons from the Past with Reference to the Algerian Hirak

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-53
Author(s):  
Faouzia Zeraoulia
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Political System ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
Algerian Civil War

The Algerian Civil War during the 1990s is considered to be one of the violent wars in the Arab world. For one decade, isolated from the international community, the country and its civilians suffered from extremism, radicalism, torture, and assassinations. Today, it is arguable that the memory of the Algerian Civil War played a pivotal role in producing the legitimacy of the political system and framing the citizens’ perceptions of the postwar regime before the current manifestations. Nevertheless, no field research has explored how that memory is represented and recalled by the people. Through analyzing the public narrative, surveying and examining the public platforms, and conversations dealing with the past civil war in Algeria, this article seeks to demonstrate how that violent past is remembered in the public arena, the emotions that have been accumulated from such experience and the lessons that have been learned by the people. In doing so, we use many examples from the Algerian manifestations after 22 February 2019, or what is called “the Algerian Hirak.”

Between reason and will: On Christopher Meckstroth’s The Struggle for Democracy

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 490-499
Author(s):  
Carlo Invernizzi Accetti
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Theory ◽  
Central Problem ◽  
The Political ◽  
Intrinsic Interest ◽  
The People ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
Internal Coherence

Christopher Meckstroth’s book The Struggle for Democracy poses and attempts to solve a central problem of democratic theory: what he calls the ‘paradox of authorization’, whereby the very activity of spelling out the political content of democracy is said to potentially contradict its object, since the democratic theorist may end up substituting himself or herself for ‘the people’ in deciding what this form government amounts to in practice. In order to avoid this problem, Meckstroth suggests that the political content of democracy ought to be extrapolated out of concrete political struggles, by submitting competing claims to represent the people’s will to a rational scrutiny that tests them for internal coherence. While pointing out the intrinsic interest and originality of this approach, the review also advances some reservations concerning the posited criterion’s capacity to perform all the work Meckstroth assigns it. In the end, the proposed solution to the ‘paradox of authorization’ may fall prey to it too, since on its own terms the criterion of internal coherence is insufficient to specify any determinate outcomes. This leaves it up to the theorist applying it to (arbitrarily) decide which concrete proposals best satisfy the test.

scholarly journals Solidarity in a Global Age–Seattle and Beyond

2000 ◽  
pp. 19-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Wilkin
Keyword(s):  
World Trade ◽  
World System ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Past ◽  
Global Age ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
The World ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
Run Up ◽  
Human Actors

There are good grounds for taking seriously Wallerstein's dictum that the world system has entered what he describes as an interregnum. By this he means two important things: First, that the world is moving between two forms of world system, from a capitalist world system to something new; Second, that in such an interregnum questions of structure become less signi? cant than those of agency. The world system is one that has been produced, reproduced and will ultimately be transformed by human actors. The direction that it takes will be the result of the political struggles that ensue in the interregnum. In this paper I examine some of these claims in the context of a series of events that have taken place over the past decade and in the run up to the protests that occurred in December 1999 at the World Trade Organization (WTO) summit in Seattle. In so doing I hope to put some empirical ?esh on the bones of the idea that Wallerstein has suggestively offered us.

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