Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 206-216
Author(s):  
T. K. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Private Life ◽  
First Century ◽  
Deep Roots ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Real Power ◽  
Modern Politics ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
New Challenges

Any survey of the evolution of political violence over the past 250 years needs to pay attention to the deep roots of stability in Western societies. Western states have successfully controlled violence through the exercise of infrastructural power over wide areas of public and private life. More than any other single factor, it has forced the prospect of insurrectionist violence from modern politics. Basic state stability endures, despite new challenges throw up by the network society. Political violence no longer seems to offer an existential threat. But there are also less comforting lessons. Before the late eighteenth-century revolutions, violent threats to political elites were limited and sporadic. They focused on the very top of society—where real power was located. But by the early twenty-first century, a general aura of threat was more democratic. While much of this violence remains fairly minor, there seems to be more of it. And it is harder to ignore.

Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Production ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
First Century ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Fifty Shades Of Grey

Media expansion into the digital realm and the continuing segregation of users into niches has led to a proliferation of cultural products targeted to and consumed by women. Though often dismissed as frivolous or excessively emotional, feminized culture in reality offers compelling insights into the American experience of the early twenty-first century. This book brings together writings from feminist critics that chart the current terrain of feminized pop cultural production. Analyzing everything from Fifty Shades of Grey to Pinterest to pregnancy apps, contributors examine the economic, technological, representational, and experiential dimensions of products and phenomena that speak to, and about, the feminine. As these chapters show, the imperative of productivity currently permeating feminized pop culture has created a generation of texts that speak as much to women's roles as public and private workers as to an impulse for fantasy or escape. The book sheds new light on contemporary women's engagement with an array of media forms in the context of postfeminist culture and neoliberalism.

The Minor Prophets and the Book of the Twelve in Late Eighteenth-Century through Early Twenty-First-Century Research

2021 ◽  
pp. 266-278
Author(s):  
Marvin A. Sweeney
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Theodore Of Mopsuestia ◽  
Critical Scholarship ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Book Of The Twelve ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Minor Prophets

This essay traces and analyzes modern-critical scholarship on the Minor Prophets or Book of the Twelve Prophets from the late eighteenth century through the early twenty-first century. It differentiates between the Christian practice from the time of Jerome and Theodore of Mopsuestia that treated the Twelve as twelve individual Minor Prophets that were collected together and the Jewish practice of reading the Twelve as the Book of the Twelve Prophets. Early treatment of the Minor Prophets focuses especially on the early work of J. G. Eichhorn (1780–1783), W. M. L. de Wette (1817), F. Hitzig (1838), H. Ewald (1840–1841), and B. Duhm (1875, 1922). More modern treatment of the Book of the Twelve Prophets focuses especially on the work of K. Budde (1922), R. E. Wolfe (1935), D. Schneider (1979), O. H. Steck (1991, 1999), James D. Nogalski (1993, 2011), Jakob Wöhrle (2006, 2008), and the author (Sweeney 2000).

scholarly journals Daniel Call’s Schocker: German Knittelvers in the late twentieth century

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-30
Author(s):  
David Chisholm
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Verse Form ◽  
Verse Forms ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

The word “Knittelvers” has been used since the eighteenth century to describe four-stress rhyming couplets which seem to be rather simply and awkwardly constructed, and whose content is frequently comical, course, vulgar or obscene. Today German Knittelvers is perhaps best known from the works of Goethe and Schiller, as well as other late eighteenth and early nineteenth century writers.Well-known examples occur together with other verse forms in Goethe’s Faust and Schiller’s Wallensteins Lager, as well as in ballads and occasional poems by both poets. While literary critics have shown considerable interest in Knittelvers written from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, there has been almost no discussion of the further use and development of this verse form from the nineteenth century to the present, despite the fact that it continues to appear in both humorous and serious works by many contemporary German writers. This article focuses on an example of dramatic Knittelvers in a late twentieth century play, namely Daniel Call’s comedy Schocker, a modern parody of Goethe’s Faust. Among other things, Call’s play, as well as other examples of Knittelvers in works by twentieth and early twenty-first century poets, demonstrates that while this verse form has undergone some changes and variations, it still retains metrical characteristics which have remained constant since the fifteenth century. Today these four-stress couplets continue to function as a means of depicting comic, mock-heroic and tragicomic situations by means of parody, farce and burlesque satire.

Distinguishing Classical Tyrannicide from Modern Terrorism

1988 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 390-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
David George
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Special Problem ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Benefit ◽  
Political Assassination ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Behavioral Criteria

Tyrannicide has traditionally been distinguished from political assassination in terms of the difference between public and private life. Tyrannicide was a self-sacrificing act for public benefit (and so morally esteemed); common assassination, its opposite, namely, a self-serving act for private gain (and correspondingly censured). Terrorist assassinations, though similarly condemned, raise a special problem since they purport to be self-denying acts for the public good. It is argued that a satisfactory distinction between them and tyrannicide cannot be drawn on the basis of historical or behavioral criteria alone, and consequently a supplementary “teleological” criterion is required. This leads to a consideration of the “classical” and “ideological” styles of politics as the respective contexts of tyrannicide and terrorism. In context, terrorism and tyrannicide can be seen as not only categorically different but also antithetical kinds of political violence. Terrorism, in short, is a form of tyranny of which tyrannicide is a negation.

scholarly journals The Erotic Charisma of Alexander Hamilton

2010 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
CAROLINE V. HAMILTON
Keyword(s):  
Projective Identification ◽  
Private Life ◽  
First Century ◽  
Habeas Corpus ◽  
Alexander Hamilton ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Old Left ◽  
Physical Presence ◽  
Image Representations ◽  
History Books

As an outsider with a mysterious childhood, Alexander Hamilton is, as psychologists say, a good “hook” for a projective identification. For his admirers Hamilton is a source of political capital. His ideas and proposals about the debt, protectionism, and an American manufacturing base are in the news in the early twenty-first century. Although the Old Left saw Hamilton as an elitist, possibly a monarchist, and a promoter of industrial capitalism, contemporary American progressives have called attention to his explicit support for habeas corpus, his efforts on behalf of banking, and his surprisingly enlightened attitudes about race and slavery. As one of the founders of a new republic, Hamilton knew he would be in the history books, but his image, representations of his physical presence, and speculation about his private life circulate on the Internet in ways that would surely astonish him. Alexander Hamilton not only has admirers in the fields of politics and history; he also has fans.

Romanticism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Coeckelbergh
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
1960S And 1970S

In chapter 2 historical Romanticism is outlined as it emerged and thrived in Germany, Britain, and France around 1800 and as it reached deep into the nineteenth century. The works and lives of Rousseau, Novalis, Morris, and others are discussed for this purpose. Moreover, he social and political side of Romanticism (Ruskin, Morris, and Marx) and romantic Gothic are discussed. Historical Romanticism is then linked to romanticism more broadly defined. The author argues that in many ways romanticism still persists today and that there is a line to be drawn start from Rousseau in the late eighteenth century to twentieth century counterculture and beyond. Even in the early twenty-first century forms of subjectivity are very much shaped by Romanticism - mainly in the form of our heritage from 1960s and 1970s romantic counterculture.

IMAGING AMMAN THROUGH REAL-ESTATE ADVERTISING DISCOURSE

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Majd Musa
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
First Century ◽  
Real Power ◽  
The Public ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Advertising Discourse ◽  
Real Estate Advertising ◽  
The City

This article investigates the role real-estate advertising discourse of early-twenty-first-century megaprojects in Amman, Jordan, plays in creating an image of the city. It addresses power relations through which real-estate advertising in the city is produced and interpreted, including the power of corporations and the public. The research draws upon major theoretical understandings of discourse, analyses texts and images of advertisements and marketing brochures of three megaprojects designed for the city in the 2000s – The New Downtown of Amman (Abdali), Jordan Gate, and Sanaya Amman, and interprets the city residents’ readings of advertising materials, which were sought through in-person interviews. The article finds that real-estate advertising discourse that promotes recent megaprojects in Amman constructs the city as a competitive regional and global centre. The article infers that advertisement of Amman’s megaprojects hides the real power relations involved in the production of these developments, where the private developers have the greatest agency followed by the agency of state and city officials. The article concludes that although the city inhabitants have the least agency in the generation of megaprojects and advertising discourse surrounding them, they exercise some power as they make sense of the advertisements, sometimes resisting and other times accepting the developers’ preferred reading of these advertisements. In addition to testing the applicability of discourse theories to advertising in Amman, this article helps stimulate critical readings of real-estate advertisements, which can undermine the role advertisement texts and images play in shaping the city’s built environment and its perception.

The Emotional Side of Men in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany (Theory and Example)

1994 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne-Charlott Trepp
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Historical Change ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Family And Household ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Anglo American

For a long time, the emotional, more intimate and private spheres of life have not been taken seriously by historians. Only the public side of life has been considered to be a legitimate subject for scholars. Disregard of “the private” is as yet not a practice of the past, in particular when traditional historians are concerned. In spite of the “new, wide-ranging anthropological orientation” of historiography in the last few years, the marginalization of private life is, (in contrast to French and Anglo-American historical research) still the norm in Germany. The reasons for this disinterest in the private are numerous, but lie primarily in the tenaciously held, often not openly expressed, assumption that the nature of the private is in itself ahistorical. In contrast to the public, (a correlation considered to be dualistic) the private is seen as an anthropological constant, “timeless” and universal, simply a part of “nature.” The private, used synonymously for the spheres of marriage, family, and household, thus was placed beyond history, and therefore beyond historical change. This more than anything else determined that women had no “history” (Geschichtslosigkeit)—their inherited place was, after all, to be found within the context of family and household. Against this background, the binary concept of public and private appeared to be a promising heuristic tool for tracing women in history for quite sometime.

scholarly journals Quilts: Unfolding personal and public histories in South Africa and the United States

Image & Text ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marsha MacDowell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Private Collections

Quilts and related textiles are a particularly capacious textile medium through which the intersection of materiality and narratives can be explored. There are thousands of extant historical examples to be found in public and private collections, and the "quilt world" of the early twenty-first century is robust and enormous. There are literally millions of individuals around the globe who are involved in some aspect of quilt production, preservation, and study. This article provides a brief overview of quiltmaking and quilt studies in the United States and in South Africa. It draws upon samples of work from both countries to illustrate how, through their needles and their stories, quilt artists provide unique windows into personal and public histories.

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