Literature and Political Intellection in Early Stuart England

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd Butler
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Mental States ◽  
John Donne ◽  
Francis Bacon ◽  
Political Position ◽  
Stuart England ◽  
The Relationship

Drawing upon myriad literary and political texts, this book charts how some of the Stuart period’s major challenges to governance—the equivocation of recusant Catholics, the parsing of one’s civil and religious obligations, the composition and distribution of subversive texts, and the increasing assertiveness of Parliament—evoked much greater disputes about the mental processes by which monarchs and subjects imagined, understood, and effected political action. Rather than emphasizing particular forms of political thought such as republicanism or absolutism, the book investigates the more foundational question of political intellection, or the ways in which early modern individuals thought through the often uncertain political and religious environment they occupied, and how attention to such thinking in oneself or others could itself constitute a political position. Focusing on this immanence of cognitive processes in the literature of the Stuart era, the book examines how writers such as Francis Bacon, John Donne, John Milton, and other less familiar figures of the seventeenth century evidence a shared concern with the interrelationship between mental and political behavior. These analyses are combined with close readings of religious and political affairs that return our attention to how early Stuart writers understood the relationship between mental states and the forms of political engagement such as speech, debate, and letter-writing that expressed them. What results is a revised framework for early modern political subjectivity, one in which claims to liberty and sovereignty are tied not simply to what one can do but how—or even if—one can freely think.

Conclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 209-216
Author(s):  
Todd Butler
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Political Decision ◽  
Stuart England ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Political Decision Making

Concerns over equivocation, captured letters, and religious division continued to attend the relationship between thought, expression, and political obedience throughout the Restoration. The concern in early Stuart England for political intellection was thus not simply a product of its immediate moment but the catalyst for a more fundamental recognition of deliberation and other forms of individual and institutional thought as being arenas for political action. In looking backward, then, we might recognize the early Stuart era’s continual attention to the means by which monarchs and subjects alike thought through their political dilemmas to be something of a precursor to a more modern interest in political decision-making, and the extent to which processes of the mind remain integral to the operation—proper or otherwise—of contemporary democracies.

scholarly journals Paradoxical Desire in the Poetry of Sidney, Spenser, Donne, and Herbert

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Qiwei He
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Edmund Spenser ◽  
John Donne ◽  
The Body ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
Divine Grace ◽  
Early Modern English ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Temple

<p>Inspired by conventional Petrarchism, early modern English poets adopted the concept and rhetoric of paradox in their articulations of desire while revealing significant progression and innovation. Desires expressed by the poet-lovers in the poems of Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, John Donne, and George Herbert are the culmination of attempts to coordinate incongruent and contrasting extremes. This thesis examines how desire operates as paradox in Philip Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella, Philip and Mary Sidney’s Psalms, Spenser’s Amoretti and Epithalamion, Donne’s amorous and religious poems, and Herbert’s poems.   Chapter One discusses Astrophil’s desire in Astrophil and Stella as demonstrating the Petrarchan lover enfolded in Neoplatonism. It also explores Donne’s amorous poems, which apply religious vocabularies to communicate sexual love, filling the gap between the distant extremes, establishing a paradoxical unity. In Chapter Two, the thesis compares Spenser’s speakers in Amoretti and Epithalamion and the Sidneys’ Psalmist as Neoplatonic lovers, both of whom search within the physical realms—nature and the body—to express the desire for their divine beloved. In Chapter Three, I compare Donne’s religious poems and selected lyrics from George Herbert’s The Temple. I argue that in Donne’s religious poems, spiritual love is mediated through fleshly desire in a sacramental poetics. The relationship between physical desire and spiritual love is comprehended through sacramental analogy. Comparably, in Herbert’s The Temple, the internal and external components of religious desire reflect the Sacramental theories in which Eucharistic elements communicate their divine referents. The effective way to express love for God, paradoxically, is to establish a spiritual justification for an affirmative embrace of sexuality, making fleshly desire serve as a vehicle of Divine grace.   As Donne asserts in his Paradoxes and Problems, “by Discord things increase”. The poet-lovers in the works this thesis explores constantly yearn to imitate and represent their beloved by means of “Discord” and the performance of paradoxical unity. Accordingly, paradoxical desire becomes the inevitable consequence of the poet-lover as a desiring subject who approaches a supposedly insuperable obstacle when he correlates with the beloved obj</p>

EXPLORE OF CORRELATION OF COGNITIVE AND EMOTIONAL COMPONENTS IN PSYCHOLOGY

2021 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
N.U. Begaliyeva ◽  
◽  
A.K. Nurkhozhayeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Quality Characteristics ◽  
Scientific Article ◽  
Relationship Model ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

Like cognitive processes, mental states are subject to neurophysiological justification according to the length, quality characteristics, validity and self-regulation of functions it is distinguished by its ability. In addition, many researchers believe that mental development the dynamic interaction of these aspects of the psyche at all stages and he noted the unity that exists in the interaction. The close connection of cognitive processes and emotional state is determined by the one-sidedness of the subject, which is expressed in the selectivity of attention and emotional the brightness of cognitive processes. Methodological foundations of the study relationship between mental state and cognitive processes can serve as a theoretical the relationship model. This scientific article is considered to study the relevant issues cognitive and emotional components in psychology. For today’s day, specific works in these areas are not available. However, for analyzing scientific works of various representatives of psychology, we are systematize these are areas.

Does Changing a Light Bulb Lead to Changing the World? Political Action and the Conscious Consumer

2012 ◽  
Vol 644 (1) ◽  
pp. 160-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret M. Willis ◽  
Juliet B. Schor
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Consumption ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Political Actions

As the prevalence of “conscious” consumption has grown, questions have arisen about its relationship to political action. An influential argument holds that political consumption individualizes responsibility for environmental degradation and “crowds out” genuine forms of activism. While European and Canadian empirical research contradicts this perspective, finding that conscious consumption and political engagement are positively connected, no studies of this relationship have been conducted for the United States. This article presents ordinary least squares (OLS) regression models for two datasets, the 2004 General Social Survey and a detailed survey of approximately 2,200 conscious consumers conducted by the authors, to assess the nature of the relationship between conscious consumption and political activism. The authors find that measures of conscious consumption are significantly and positively related to political action, even when controlling for political involvement in the past. The results suggest that greater levels of political consumption are positively related to a range of political actions.

scholarly journals Commerce, finance and statecraft

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Dew
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
English Civil War ◽  
British History ◽  
Francis Bacon ◽  
Historical Writing ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Selection Of

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, historians of England pioneered a series of new approaches to the history of economic policy. Commerce, Finances and Statecraft charts the development of these forms of writing and explores the role they played in the period's economic, political and historiographical thought. Through doing so, the book makes a significant intervention in the study of historiography, and provides an original account of early-modern and Enlightenment history. A broad selection of historical writing is discussed, ranging from the work of Francis Bacon and William Camden in the Jacobean-era, through a series of accounts shaped by the English Civil War and the party-political conflicts that followed it, to the eighteenth-century's major account of British history: David Hume's History of England. Particular attention is paid to the historiographical context in which historians worked and the various ways they copied, adapted and contested one another's narratives. Such an approach enables the study to demonstrate that historical writing was the site of a wide-ranging, politically-charged debate concerning the relationship which existed – and should have existed – between government and commerce at various moments in England’s past.

scholarly journals Paradoxical Desire in the Poetry of Sidney, Spenser, Donne, and Herbert

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Qiwei He
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Edmund Spenser ◽  
John Donne ◽  
The Body ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
Divine Grace ◽  
Early Modern English ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Temple

<p>Inspired by conventional Petrarchism, early modern English poets adopted the concept and rhetoric of paradox in their articulations of desire while revealing significant progression and innovation. Desires expressed by the poet-lovers in the poems of Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, John Donne, and George Herbert are the culmination of attempts to coordinate incongruent and contrasting extremes. This thesis examines how desire operates as paradox in Philip Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella, Philip and Mary Sidney’s Psalms, Spenser’s Amoretti and Epithalamion, Donne’s amorous and religious poems, and Herbert’s poems.   Chapter One discusses Astrophil’s desire in Astrophil and Stella as demonstrating the Petrarchan lover enfolded in Neoplatonism. It also explores Donne’s amorous poems, which apply religious vocabularies to communicate sexual love, filling the gap between the distant extremes, establishing a paradoxical unity. In Chapter Two, the thesis compares Spenser’s speakers in Amoretti and Epithalamion and the Sidneys’ Psalmist as Neoplatonic lovers, both of whom search within the physical realms—nature and the body—to express the desire for their divine beloved. In Chapter Three, I compare Donne’s religious poems and selected lyrics from George Herbert’s The Temple. I argue that in Donne’s religious poems, spiritual love is mediated through fleshly desire in a sacramental poetics. The relationship between physical desire and spiritual love is comprehended through sacramental analogy. Comparably, in Herbert’s The Temple, the internal and external components of religious desire reflect the Sacramental theories in which Eucharistic elements communicate their divine referents. The effective way to express love for God, paradoxically, is to establish a spiritual justification for an affirmative embrace of sexuality, making fleshly desire serve as a vehicle of Divine grace.   As Donne asserts in his Paradoxes and Problems, “by Discord things increase”. The poet-lovers in the works this thesis explores constantly yearn to imitate and represent their beloved by means of “Discord” and the performance of paradoxical unity. Accordingly, paradoxical desire becomes the inevitable consequence of the poet-lover as a desiring subject who approaches a supposedly insuperable obstacle when he correlates with the beloved obj</p>

scholarly journals Family and communism in Maria Leitner’s Mädchen mit drei Namen and Hermynia Zur Mühlen’s Lina: Erzählung aus dem Leben eines Dienstmädchens

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-128
Author(s):  
Katherine E. Calvert
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Young Female ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Cultural Discourses ◽  
Political Position ◽  
Communist Movement ◽  
The Impact

This article analyses the portrayal of the impact of capitalism on the working-class family and the promotion of the communist movement as a form of surrogate family in Maria Leitner’s Mädchen mit drei Namen (1932) and Hermynia Zur Mühlen’s Lina: Erzählung aus dem Leben eines Dienstmädchens (1924). Reading these two Weimar-era texts as works of Gebrauchsliteratur, which seek to promote communism to a young female readership, I argue that, despite urging greater female participation in the male-dominated sphere of left-wing political action, Leitner and Zur Mühlen rely on normative ideas about gender to advocate political engagement to a demographic assumed to be politically naïve or disinterested. With reference to Weimar-era cultural discourses and strategies of the communist movement, I contest that both novellas are contradictory in their claim to represent a radically progressive political position while simultaneously failing to challenge fundamentally conservative gender norms.

Composition, Counsel, and the Prerogatives of Deliberation

2019 ◽  
pp. 85-118
Author(s):  
Todd Butler
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Bound State ◽  
Francis Bacon ◽  
Ideal Case ◽  
James I ◽  
Textual Evidence ◽  
State Authority

During the Jacobean era, disputes over the cognitive processes structuring both manuscript and print helped establish and bound state authority. The chapter examines the collapse of the 1614 Addled Parliament and then a conflict between James I, Francis Bacon, and Sir Edward Coke that arose in the aftermath of the session upon the arrest of Edmund Peacham for a hostile but undelivered sermon. The ensuing debate centered on the nature of Peacham’s offense and the textual evidence that revealed it, as well as the king’s right to consult with his judges prior to trial. When read together, the debates over Peacham’s manuscript and subsequent disputes over Coke’s own Reports present an ideal case study in how early modern conflicts over the processes of writing—the distillation of thought, its production on the page, and its circulation—illumine the period’s much larger struggle over the mechanisms of individual and corporate thought.

Features of self-regulation of students’ mental states: operational aspect

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. G. Yusupov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Cognitive Styles ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Psychosomatic Disorders ◽  
Current State ◽  
Communication Differences ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Operational Aspect

The instability of modern social conditions, informational and emotional richness of learning contribute to the emergence of negative states of fear, uncertainty, aggression, and provokes psychosomatic disorders of students. In order to satisfy the requirements of society, it is necessary to have a high level of development of the ability to control oneself, allowing self-regulation of the mental state within certain social frameworks. In everyday life, students use sets of techniques developed in individual experience that allow them to cope with negative conditions, enter the educational rhythm or relieve stress. Therefore, it is relevant to study spontaneously developing methods and techniques for self-regulation of states that help prevent the negative dynamics of the current state and provide an acceptable level of adaptation. In this regard, the article aims at studying ordinary ways of self-regulation of negative states of students and their relationship with the productivity of cognitive processes and individual cognitive styles. According to the results of the study, we found that typical negative states of students are fatigue, laziness, frustration. The most frequent methods of their regulation are communication, music, walking, sleeping. The relationship between the productive, stylistic characteristics of cognitive processes and the choice of self-regulation methods is shown. Thus, respondents with a high level of imagination and heuristic cognitive style choose a method of communication. Differences in the methods of self-regulation and experienced states in boys and girls were revealed. The results can be of interest to teachers and practical psychologists in education.

scholarly journals Shut Up and Play: Black Athletes, Protest Politics, and Black Political Action

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher C. Towler ◽  
Nyron N. Crawford ◽  
Robert A. Bennett
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Black Athletes ◽  
President Obama ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
Black Voter ◽  
2016 Election ◽  
American Society ◽  
The Relationship

The convergence of sports and celebrity can have a powerful influence on everyday politics, especially for groups underrepresented in mainstream American society. This article examines the relationship between race, celebrity, and social movements, specifically Colin Kaepernick’s protest of police violence and whether his activism mobilizes black Americans to political action. Using the 2017 Black Voter Project (BVP) Pilot Study, we explore African American political engagement in the 2016 election, a time devoid of President Obama as a mobilizing figure. We find African Americans who strongly approve of Kaepernick’s protest engage in politics at elevated rates, even after accounting for alternative explanations. Moreover, approval for Kaepernick also moderates other forces rooted in group identity, such as identification with the Black Lives Matter movement. In the end, Kaepernick and the protest movement he leads offers a powerful mobilizing force for African Americans.

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