Touching Eternity

2020 ◽  
pp. 109-153
Author(s):  
Mark Chinca
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Christian Mysticism ◽  
Life After Death ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The One ◽  
The Way

This chapter is concerned with Heinrich Seuse’s mystical treatise, the Büchlein der ewigen Weisheit (ca. 1330), and the way in which it seeks to bring about a meditative experience of life after death which it describes as enphintlich: “sensible” or “feeling.” The organs of this experience are the inner senses: spiritual analogues of the corporeal senses which, in a tradition of Christian mysticism descended from Origen, are capable of directly seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and touching God when they detect his presence in the divine Word. In Seuse’s version, readers of the Büchlein are encouraged to feel God’s eternity as an inner touch: an encounter in which the boundaries of the self dissolve because in the moment of contact it is impossible to distinguish between the one who touches and the one who is touched.

scholarly journals Computer Gameplay and the Aesthetic Practices of the Self: Game Studies and the Late Work of Michel Foucault

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Computer Games ◽  
The Self ◽  
Game Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Late Work ◽  
Practices Of The Self ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The One ◽  
The Way

This paper aims to critically introduce the applicability of Foucault’s late work, on the practices of the self, to the scholarship of contemporary computer games. I argue that the gameplay tasks that we set ourselves, and the patterns of action that they produce, can be understood as a form of ‘work on the self’, and that this work is ambivalent between, on the one hand, an aesthetic transformation of the self – as articulated by Foucault in relation to the care or practices of the self – in which we break from the dominant subjectivities imposed upon us, and on the other, a closer tethering of ourselves through our own playful impulses, to a neoliberal subjectivity centred around instrumentally-driven selfimprovement. Game studies’ concern with the effects that computer games have on us stands to gain from an examination of Foucault’s late work for the purposes of analysing and disambiguating between the nature of the transformations at stake. Further, Foucault’s tripartite analysis of ‘power-knowledge-subject’, which might be applied here as ‘game-discourse-player’, foregrounds the imbrication of our gameplay practices – the extent to which they are due to us and the way in which our own volitions make us subject to power, which is particularly pertinent in the domain of play.

“A distant mirror”: Sensemaking in the era of Trump

Leadership ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 174271502095408
Author(s):  
Sarah Chace ◽  
Benjamin T Lynerd ◽  
Adrianna DeSantis
Keyword(s):  
Individual Case ◽  
Presidential Power ◽  
Seminal Contribution ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Constitution ◽  
Us Senate ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The One ◽  
The Way

Sensemaking is an ongoing act of constructing a reality to be interpreted. While numerous articles have explored the notion of sensemaking in organizations, far fewer have examined it through the empirical prism of an individual case of sensemaking, with the notable exception of Weick’s seminal contribution and formulation, “The Collapse of Sensemaking in Organizations: The Mann Gulch Disaster” (1993). In this article, we seek to build on the literature of sensemaking in organizations by offering an analysis of the actions of former Republican Senator Jeff Flake, whose leadership interventions we interpret as efforts at sensemaking in the era of Trump. In this context, we focus on the US Senate as an organ of sensemaking established by the framers of the Constitution to be relied upon in times of disruption, confusion, and chaos—a check on presidential power established by the framers of the US Constitution to provide prospective sensemaking for uncharted waters. In analyzing the case of Jeff Flake as sense-maker, we rely on certain definitions of leadership embedded in the era of post-truth. We conclude that Flake’s actions may be seen as a distant mirror (to quote Tuchman, 1978) of Weick’s treatment of the storied smokejumper Wag Dodge—a sense-maker whose persuasive powers failed him in the moment, only to be viewed in retrospect as the one who paved the way forward toward survival in the midst of a “cosmological episode.”

scholarly journals Eindigheid, eie opstanding en die politiek van differance *

1997 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Johann Beukes
Keyword(s):  
Linear Relation ◽  
Georges Bataille ◽  
The Self ◽  
Life After Death ◽  
The Way

Finiteness, own resurrection and the polities of differance Employing Derrida's notion of diffirance, the author approaches the conviction of life after death (-own resurrection -) as a conviction which has been typically marginalized and even disallowed by modernity. The politics of differance, which could be regarded as a postmodern strategy for rehabilitating those aspects of reality which were marginalized by modernity, is shown to have critical consequences for the linear (modern) understanding of finiteness and death. Rather than understand finiteness and own resurrection as being in linear relation, the author appeals to the postmodern persuasion of the siclical nature of reality: death is own resurrection. Death is a life giving gift: The Self dies so that Others may live - and the Self is resurrected when it lives on in the lives of Others. Thus parting company with the empirical understanding of history, death and resurrection, the author leaves us with the tadt question: is this not the way the resurrection of Christ is to be understood? He lives on in us, as we will live on in Others. Wie dood is, is dood, en wie dood is, sallewe - Georges Bataille -

scholarly journals إدارية التعلم الذاتي في تعلم مهارة الكلام في مركز اللغات لتعليم اللغة العربية بجامعة مولانا مالك إبراهيم الإسلامية الحكومية مالانج ومعهد عبد الرحمن بن عوف بجامعة محمدية مالانج

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anyes Lathifatul Insaniyah
Keyword(s):  
Arabic Language ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Directed Learning ◽  
Oral Test ◽  
Directed Learning ◽  
Planning Implementation ◽  
The One ◽  
The Way ◽  
Speaking Skills

The Management of Self Directed Learning in Speaking Skills in The Arabic Language Center at State Islamic University of Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang and Ma'had Abdurrahman Bin Auf of University of Muhammadiyah Malang include planning, implementation and evaluation. And the Self Directed Learning that is intended in this research is the way in speaking learning.The results of this research is the Management of Self Directed Learning in Speaking Skills in The Arabic Language Center at State Islamic University of Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang and Ma'had Abdurrahman Bin Auf of University of Muhammadiyah Malang, there is an equal point in planning, implementation and evaluation. The equal point of planning in the composition of the plan for the activities of daily education means memorizing the vocabulary. And the implementation in the formation of the Arab environment, and encourage students in the practice of speaking the Arabic language, and the preference of students in choosing the method of learning. And on the one hand is to establish oral test on each student.

Robert Lowell

2020 ◽  
pp. 52-81
Author(s):  
Calista McRae
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Robert Lowell ◽  
The One ◽  
Day By Day ◽  
The Way

This chapter looks at the ways in which being alienated from and encumbered with one's self, of inevitably being caught in a role, can be funny. It discusses how Robert Lowell wants to shed the way he sounds, the thoughts he gravitates toward, the reputation he has, and the physical brain he fears and depends on. It also mentions Lowell being at odds with his own style as he keeps changing style and undercuts the one he is working in. The chapter refers to Lord Weary's Castle and Day by Day, describing the act of writing about the self that is loaded with one's extreme instability, predictableness, and self-dramatization. It then talks about Lowell's frequent revolutions of form which question the tonalities of humor that change when poetry loses the guarantees and obligations of rhyme and meter.

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 152-160
Author(s):  
Joseph W. Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Political Party ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Central Issue ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Square ◽  
New States ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The One ◽  
The Way

So what happened to the Whigs? The antebellum political party died a slow death from 1845 to 1854. First, President James K. Polk provoked a morally bankrupt war with Mexico in 1845, annexing Texas, and extending the nation’s borders to California’s Pacific coastline along the way. The addition of so much new territory so quickly drove questions about slavery that moderate Whigs and Democrats alike had dodged for thirty years from the abstract into the public square. On the one hand, many Americans (mostly northern and middle western, mostly Whiggish) argued that slavery should not spread to any new states formed from the territories stolen from Mexico. To the contrary, many other Americans (mostly southern, mostly Democratic) argued that slaves were a legitimate form of constitutionally protected property that could not legally be excluded from territory won using the common treasury and national armies. The discovery of gold in California in 1849 only added fuel to the partisan fire because it inspired so many people to head west in search of fortune, hastening that state’s ability to meet the demographic requirements for admission to the Union, and forcing the country at large to grapple with questions for which it was unprepared. Thus, the contest was joined over the central issue that was to dominate all American political life for the next dozen years, namely, the disposition of the territories. For the moment, moderates who desperately longed for a compromise that might stifle the underlying issue of slavery held the majority. However, it is a truism that happens to be true that, in crises of this sort, extremists grow in power, swallowing up all political space in the conciliatory center....

scholarly journals Making Sense of Shame

Philosophy ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
James Laing
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Evaluation ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The Social ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Sense Of Shame ◽  
The Way

Abstract In this paper, I argue that we face a challenge in understanding the relationship between the ‘value-oriented’ and ‘other-oriented’ dimensions of shame. On the one hand, an emphasis on shame's value-oriented dimension leads naturally to ‘The Self-Evaluation View’, an account which faces a challenge in explaining shame's other-oriented dimension. This is liable to push us towards ‘The Social Evaluation View’. However The Social Evaluation View faces the opposite challenge of convincingly accommodating shame's ‘value-oriented’ dimension. After rejecting one attempt to chart a middle course between these extremes, I argue that progress can be made if we reject the widespread assumption that the other-oriented dimension of shame is best understood primarily terms of our concern with the way we appear to others. Instead, I outline an account which treats shame as manifesting our desire primarily for interpersonal connection and which elucidates the property of shamefulness in terms of merited avoidance (or rejection).

From Emerson to Edwards: Henry Whitney Bellows and an “Ideal” Metaphysics of Sovereignty

1988 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-411
Author(s):  
James Duban
Keyword(s):  
Ralph Waldo Emerson ◽  
Transcendental Philosophy ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Divinity School ◽  
The One ◽  
The Way ◽  
At Home

The date was 19 July 1859; the occasion, the commencement address at the Harvard Divinity School. Twenty-one years earlier, as Henry Whitney Bellows well knew, Ralph Waldo Emerson had there delivered the famous Divinity School Address, which offended the Unitarian faculty by berating historical Christianity, by advancing that the moral and religious sentiments were synonymous, and by claiming that intuitive apprehension of these sentiments could elevate persons to Christ-like stature. The ensuing “miracles controversy”—including, on the one hand, Andrews Norton's charges about “The Latest Form of Infidelity” and, on the other, George Ripley's, Theodore Parker's, and (early on, at least) Orestes Brownson's efforts to establish a “religion of the heart” by championing Kant over Locke—has been chronicled elsewhere. More to the present point is the way that, at a time when heated controversy over Emerson and his intuitionalist disciples might have seemed dated, Bellows attacked the self-reliant tendencies of Emerson's 1838 address: “The Emersonian and transcendental school at home, acknowledge[s] only one true movement in humanity—the egoistic—the self-asserting and self-justifying movement—which is Protestantism broken loose from general history.” Such criticism was hardly unprecedented in the school of divinity from which Bellows himself had graduated just a year before Emerson would deliver the Divinity School Address; nor would the faculty at Harvard have deemed Bellows innovative in chastising “the transcendental philosophy” for “making the … human and the divine, the natural and the supernatural, one and the same.

La première lecture heideggérienne de l'Éternel Retour

Dialogue ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-52
Author(s):  
Golfo Maggini
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Eternal Recurrence ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Double Function ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The One ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Way

AbstractThis paper focuses on Heidegger's 1937 lecture course on the Nietzschean doctrine of the Eternal Recurrence of the Same. Heidegger interprets the motive of recurrence in Nietzsche as the Moment (Augenblick) of the Eternal Recurrence. Through this key motive of the moment, we try then to examine the double function of the doctrine which, on the one hand, refers us back to some essential themes of the existential analytics, whereas, on the other hand, it paves the way for the new confrontation with metaphysics in the Beiträge zur Philosophie. We hold that the turning away from the existential conception of the moment toward its “aletheiological” understanding in terms of a “site of the Moment” (die Augenblicksstätte) takes place in the context of this very lecture course. This transition is even more critical as it constitutes the very heart of Heidegger's critique of subjectivity in the new perspective opened by the history of Being: Nietzsche's doctrine of time provides the basis for this questioning.

scholarly journals The Constitutionalization of the Civil State: The Self-Definition of Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen Following the Arab Uprisings

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 269
Author(s):  
Limor Lavie
Keyword(s):  
Armed Forces ◽  
The Self ◽  
Civil State ◽  
Arab Uprisings ◽  
Muslim Countries ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Way ◽  
Constitution Making

This paper offers a contextualized analysis of the way in which three Islamic constitutions—in Egypt (2014/2019), Tunisia (2014), and Yemen (2015)—came to a similar self-declaration of a “civil state” (dawla madaniyya), following the Arab uprisings. This self-expressive proclamation, which did not exist in their former constitutions, nor in any other constitution worldwide, is the product of the ongoing internal struggles of Muslim societies over the definition of their collectivity between conservatism and modernity, religiosity and secularism. In Egypt, the self-definition of a civil state enshrines the one-sided narrative of the June 2013 coup regime and the Armed Forces’ intrusive move into the field of state–religion relations; in Tunisia, the constitutionalization of the civil state reflects a settlement between Islamists and non-Islamists regarding the role of Islam in politics and legislation; in Yemen, it expresses an aspiration of detribalization and modernization within an Islamic model of statehood. The paper further seeks to trace the path of migration of this idea from one country to another, and the interconnectedness between the three cases, while pointing out possible implications on future constitution making in other Muslim countries.

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