Untimely Epic

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Complex Form ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Apollonius Rhodius ◽  
The Past ◽  
Time Treatment ◽  
The People ◽  
Intellectual Potential ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Ethical Significance

Apollonius Rhodius’ Argonautica is a voyage across time as well as space. The Argonauts encounter monsters, nymphs, shepherds, and kings who represent earlier stages of the cosmos or human society; they are given glimpses into the future, and themselves effect changes in the world through which they travel. Readers undergo a still more complex form of temporal transport, enabled not just to imagine themselves into the deep past, but to examine the layers of poetic and intellectual history from which Apollonius crafts his poem. Taking its lead from ancient critical preoccupations with poetry’s ethical significance, this book argues that the Argonautica produces an understanding of time and temporal experience which ramifies variously in readers’ lives. When describing the people and creatures who occupied the past, Apollonius extends readers’ capacity for empathetic response to the worlds inhabited by others. In the ecphrasis of Jason’s cloak and the account of Jason’s conversations with Medea, readers are invited to scrutinize the relationship between exempla and temporal change, while climactic episodes such as Jason’s battle with the Earthborn and the taking of the Golden Fleece explore links between perceptions and their temporal situation. Running through the poem, and through the readings that comprise this book, is an attention to the intellectual potential of the ‘untimely’, objects, experience, and language which do not belong straightforwardly to a particular time. Treatment of such phenomena is crucial to the poem’s aspiration to inform and expand readers’ understanding of themselves as subjects in and of history.

scholarly journals Héroes nacionales como vehículos emocionales de conceptos / National Heroes as Emotional Vehicles of Political Concepts

2017 ◽  
pp. 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Isabel González Manso
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
The Past ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Historical Figures ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Siglo Xix ◽  
The Relationship

This article deals with the relationship between concepts, heroes and emotions. To that purpose it propounds an explicative mechanism through the comparative analysis of the use of heroes in Spanish politics in the late eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century. The spread of some political concepts was facilitated by their association with heroes of the past, which not only provide legitimacy but also a strong emotional burden in terms of the values they represented. The proposed methodology is applied to the examination of political uses of two historical figures: Padilla and Pelayo.Key WordsEmotions, national heroes, intellectual history, nineteenth centuryResumenEl presente artículo examina la relación entre conceptos, héroes y emociones. Para ello propone un mecanismo que se sirve del análisis comparado del uso de héroes en la política española de finales del siglo XVIII y de la primera mitad del XIX. La difusión de ciertos conceptos políticos se vio facilitada por su asociación con héroes del pasado que no solo aportaban legitimidad y prestigio sino también una fuerte carga emocional dado los valores que estos héroes representaban. Las consideraciones metodológicas se aplican al análisis de los usos políticos de dos personajes históricos: Padilla y Pelayo.Palabras claveEmociones, héroes nacionales, historia intelectual, siglo XIX

scholarly journals Demokrasi dalam Perspektif Pendidikan Agama Islam

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aa Wasi'a
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
Western Democracy ◽  
Form Of Government ◽  
Democratic System ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACTDemocracy in the perspective of Islamic education so far has no concrete definition, the difference between western democracy and islamic democracy, as well as the implementation of democracy that is not in accordance with Islamic teachings, then the problem that will arise is how democracy according to Islamic teachings? How is democracy in Islamic government? And to what extent is the relationship between democracy and Islamic religious education?In the age before Islam entered the people of ethnic groups and nationalities and the existing ties were blood ties. But after the teachings of Islam enter the bonds that apply are religious ties. This is in accordance with the word of Allah Surah Al-Hujrat: 13, Sura Al-Imron: 26 and 159 and Sura As-Shura: 38.Democracy according to Islam is often synonymous with the word musyawarah (shura), largely functioning as a form of government. Even though the reality is actually wider, it functions to all aspects of Islamic life.The democratic system in determining leadership and procedures for appointing leaders according to the Islamic concept as well as the thoughts of scholars on the concept of democracy shows that there are significant differences between western democracy and Islamic democracy, among the differences are western democracy, the highest power belongs only to the people, whereas in Islamic democracy The highest power is in the hands of God (Allah) and the Shari'ah of the past and the people are only as kholifah (representatives) of Allah to manage and manage the State while still relying on the Al-Quran and Sunnah. also Islamic lawThe relationship between democracy and Islamic religious education is very close because in education there is one of the principles of education, namely the understanding of democracy and Islam always puts forward the principle of deliberation in deciding everything.Keywords: Islamic and western democracy, Islamic Government System and Islamic Religious Education

Barbarian Europe and Early Iron Age Greece

1965 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 229-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. M. Snodgrass
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Aegean Area ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
The People ◽  
Mediterranean World ◽  
The Relationship

This paper is concerned with the nature of the relationship that existed between Central Europe and the Aegean area in the early 1st millennium B.C. Interest in Aegean-continental connections has been strong for a considerable time, but has been intensified, particularly from the continental standpoint, in the past fifteen years. Although some of these studies have been concerned with the contacts between 2nd millennium (Late Bronze Age) Greece and the north, others have examined in detail the evidence for the links between the Urnfield culture and Greece during the 10th, 9th and 8th centuries. For Greece, this is an utterly different period from the preceding one; the evidence for foreign contacts suddenly becomes scarce and that for military disasters is virtually non-existent. Yet some scholars have reached very similar conclusions, involving the transmission of objects and of the people who carried them from Central Europe into Greece, for this period as for the preceding Late Bronze Age. Such arguments have a recent exponent in Professor W. Kimmig, whose paper Seevölkerbewegung und Urnenfelderkultur ranges over the whole period from about 1200 to 700. His list of objects and practices in this period, which he considers to have been donated by the Danube-Balkan peoples to the Mediterranean world, is comprehensive indeed: it would include bronze shields and body armour, the equipment of Goliath, the knobbed ware of Troy VII B, the practice of cremation in the Iron Age, the ritual spoliation of weapons in graves, iron swords, spears, knives, bits, lugged axes, spits, fire-dogs, bronze personal objects generally, clay idols, the maeander pattern and the swans of Apollo.

The Hangman's Noose and the Empty Box: Kyd's Use of Dramatic and Mythological Sources in The Spanish Tragedy (III.iv-vii)

1977 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 334-340
Author(s):  
Frank Ardolino
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
The Past ◽  
Source Study ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Do So

Source study has generally been discredited as a useful critical tool because of the past simplistic conception of the relationship between the source and its adapted context. Generally, source hunters emphasized parallel passages as the major proof of similarities between texts, merely listing the parallels without investigating more important critical implications. If we are to continue to consider source study a valuable scholarly tool—and there are good reasons to do so—we need to establish its interpretational relevance through a method which compares the conventional ideas and symbols of the source with the motifs and themes of the adapted context. Thus, the contextual method of ascription, as it shall be termed for purposes of discussion, will require an understanding of the interaction between the source's original context, including subsequent intellectual history, and the themes of the new context.

scholarly journals The discourse of Kurdish traditional textiles

2021 ◽  
Vol 72 (06) ◽  
pp. 623-631
Author(s):  
KAWA ABDULKAREEM SHERWANI
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Symbols ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Codes ◽  
The People ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Specific Meaning ◽  
Mixed Approach ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods

Verbal communication is not the only way by which people can interact; people communicate with each other through different signs, colours, cultural symbols and costumes. One of the ways that people can communicate through is clothes or textiles. The language of textiles and its covert discourse have not been studied profoundly. Each bit of textile has its specific meaning. Through the discourse of their clothes, people try to show their nationality, age, gender, social status, geographical belonging etc. Kurdish traditional clothes are believed to be culturally rich, since they are dressed by a large number of people in the past and present. This study is an attempt to examine the relationship between discourse and clothes. It tries to study the hidden discourse of Kurdish traditional textiles. The study seeks to answer several questions, including: What do the clothes say about the people who wear them? How different types of clothes show different forms of people’s identity? How do clothes reveal the people’s nationality, age, gender, geographical territory and social class? The principles of discourse analysis, more specifically Foucault’s approach of material discourses, are used to investigate the collected data. The study uses a mixed approach of quantitative and qualitative methods. The data are collected in three ways: by analysing the photo albums, a survey and a site visit to Kurdish Textile Museum in Erbil. The study concludes that the pieces of textiles can be seen as linguistic elements in communications and Kurdish traditional clothes embraces specific cultural codes and symbols that can be used to reveal the discourses they embrace.

scholarly journals Lukisan Cadas: Simbolis Orang Maluku

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Lucas Wattimena
Keyword(s):  
Social System ◽  
System Structure ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Survival Strategy ◽  
Archaeological Remains ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
Rock Paintings ◽  
The Impact

Rock paintings in Moluccas has a core meaning and symbols in the life cycle of Moluccans in the past, present and future-future. Archaeological remains of rock paintings is a cultural interpretation of the past, where the construction of the values contained therein are an integral part of the social system of human culture the people of Moluccas. The values contained is the value of kinship, religion, grouping, knowledge, survival (survival strategy). Rock paintings in Ohoidertawun, Wamkana and Gulf Saleman have hinted that there are phases of any future development of human society. Research on how the rock paintings as archaeological remains, as the impact of the cultural value system and the structure of the rock painting itself. Performed in order to determine the value of the cultural and social system structure Moluccans rock paintings. The study of literature become the main reference of the study, with emphasis on past and present the data. From the research results prove that the archaeological remains of rock paintings have been contributing to the sociocultural meaning people of Moluccas, including the meaning of identity, culture and plurality or diversity.Lukisan cadas di Maluku memiliki inti makna dan simbol dalam siklus hidup Orang Maluku pada masa lampau, sekarang dan masa-masa yang akan datang. Tinggalan arkeologi lukisan cadas merupakan interprestasi kebudayaan masa lampau, dimana konstruksi nilai yang terkandung didalamnya adalah bagian integral dari sistim sosial budaya manusia masyarakat Maluku. Nilai-nilai yang terkandung adalah nilai kekerabatan, religi, pengelompokkan, pengetahuan, bertahan hidup (survival strategy). Lukisan cadas yang ada di Ohoidertawun, Wamkana dan Teluk Saleman telah memberikan petunjuk bahwa ada fase-fase perkembangan masyarakat manusia setiap masa. Penelitian tentang bagaimana lukisan cadas sebagai tinggalan arkeologis, sebagai dampak sistem nilai budaya dan struktur lukisan cadas itu sendiri. Dilakukan dengan tujuan untuk mengetahui sistem sosial nilai budaya dan struktur lukisan cadas Orang Maluku. Studi literatur menjadi acuan utama penelitian tersebut, dengan mengutamakan data terdahulu dan kini. Dari hasil penelitian membuktikan bahwa tinggalan arkeologis lukisan cadas telah memberikan kontribusi makna bagi sosial budaya Orang Maluku, diantaranya makna identitas, peradaban dan pluralitas atau kemajemukan.

scholarly journals A Posture of Protest? The Search for Christian Identity in A Post-Secular Society: Between Secularised Eschatology and A Sacralisation of History

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariëtta Van der Tol ◽  
Matthew Rowley
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Christian Identity ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
Secular Society ◽  
Good And Evil ◽  
The Relationship

This article theorises ideations of “the people” in a comparative reflection on Latin-Christian theologies and typologies of time and secularised appropriations thereof in right-wing as well as far-right movements in Europe and the United States of America. Understanding the world in grand narratives of “good” and “evil” emerges from Christian eschatological hope: the hope of the restoration and renewal of the cosmos and the final defeat of evil prophesised in association with the return of Christ. However, this language of good and evil becomes detached from the wider corpus of Christian belief and theology. In its secular expression, it may attach the good to an abstract and normative account of “the people”, who are defined in contrast to a range of others, both internal and external to the nation. Secular iterations might further echo the stratification of present, past and future through a sacralisation of the past and a dramatization of the future. The context of contemporary right-wing and far-right movements poses a series of questions about the relationship between belief and belonging, the acceptability of the secularization of Christian traditions and theologies, and the extent to which Christian communities can legitimately associate with right-wing movements.

scholarly journals The Approach to Reform Islamic religion

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Omer Najmaldden Inja Aljabbary
Keyword(s):  
Collective Responsibility ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Adam And Eve ◽  
The People ◽  
Islamic Religion ◽  
Common Interests ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Peace And Reconciliation

This study (The Approach to Reform Islamic religion) deals with the following: 1 - Islamic religion is a set of rules, laws and instructions created by Allah Almighty to organize human society by bringing benefit to them and the preservation of their necessary interests and preventing any harmful and corrupted things from them. Moreover, it prevents overwhelming anyone in his religion, life, wealth and mind.2- Peace is among the fundamentals of the Islamic religion and it is a means of building the country, spreading religion and cooperation among the members of society in addition to organizing international relations between Islamic countries and others to preserve the common interests of the human being, considering that all people are brothers and they came from one father and one mother, Adam and Eve , and that war is an exception should be resorted only in the cases of defense and aggression. Even in the case of war, it must be resorted to peace and reconciliation. 3. Religion is a means of reforming the relationship between the individuals and the individual with the group to achieve peaceful coexistence. 4 - The Islamic religion is not a religion of violence, killing and aggression as alleged by the hypocrites who want to abuse the religion of heaven; because the appeal of the Islamic religion is an abuse to the rest of the heavenly religions; as the source of religions is Allah Almighty. Moreover, the religion was found to serve the community by organizing and preserving their interests. 5. Responsibility for the preservation of religion is a collective responsibility shared by the individual, society, clergy and the government. It must be legislated and directing the people not to offend religions and by insulting the heavenly religions as it is the source of Chaos and aggression among people.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
American Intellectual ◽  
American Intellectual History ◽  
Intellectual Production ◽  
American Thought

‘Introduction’ examines the scope and aims of American intellectual history. It shows how it is an approach to understanding the American past by way of ideas and the people who made or were moved by them. Intellectual history seeks to understand where certain persistent concerns in American thought have come from and why some ideas, which were important in the past, have faded from view. Intellectual history also concerns itself with the myriad institutions that are sites of intellectual production and dissemination. Ultimately, intellectual history invites thinking about thinking, both in the past and today. It seeks to demonstrate that thinking is where so much of the historical action is.

scholarly journals The Impact of Immigrate Population on the Housing Rental Market in Beijing

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 219
Author(s):  
Wenqiong Hu
Keyword(s):  
Central City ◽  
Housing Prices ◽  
Urban Housing ◽  
Registration System ◽  
Rental Market ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

<p>In recent years, rents of apartments in Beijing have been rising rapidly. A survey shows that Beijing, as a central city, has a large number of population changes due to the concentration of various high-quality resources. Besides, the immigrate population is an important reason for the increase of urban housing demands and the further increase of housing prices. At the same time, the problem of household registration system makes a large number of immigrate population still choose to buy houses in the original place, which further aggravates the spatial mismatch of housing demands in China. To find out the changes law of rent with the immigrate population, further help the government to perfect the policy for rental market, and help the people to get suggestions for rent, this article uses Saiz model for reference to build a theoretical model of the impact of immigrate population on housing prices to studies the relationship between immigrate population and rent changes in Beijing during the past eight years, and makes reasonable suggestions for residents and the government.</p>

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