The Most Silent of Men: Nietzsche's Other Madness

AbstractSilence and madness can be likened to irritating cousins. Both introduce questionable or negative elements to the ideals of dialogue and rational communication. Silence can disturb and disrupt the rational pursuit of truth, while madness can noisily provoke a mockery of any meaningful or reciprocal exchange of ideas and thoughts. In the work and life of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, silence and madness highlight more positive features.To study and articulate these features, this paper relies on the central themes of two prominent thinkers, the archaeological and genealogical studies from the late Michel Foucault and the revived forces of phenomenology from American philosopher Alphonso Lingis, to present the case that Nietzsche embraced a late 19th century disorder called the fugue. This disorder, what Ian Hacking calls a transient mental illness, involves nomadic life. Nietzsche exemplified such a life. His writings and experiences comprise a mixture of travels, arts of the self, willful forgetfulness, and a philosophical play with madness. From conventional perspectives, this play is viewed as irrelevant or detrimental to Nietzsche's philosophical importance. From Nietzsche's own perspective, however, this play might be appreciated as a gift from the insights of madness and the enriching contacts with silence.

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Successful Against All Odds? – Margaret Fuller: The Self-Made Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Ad Americam ◽

10.12797/adamericam.19.2018.19.10 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 ◽

pp. 143-154

Author(s):

Jolanta Szymkowska-Bartyzel

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

19Th Century ◽

Social Determinants ◽

The Self ◽

Early Age ◽

Margaret Fuller ◽

Cultural Model ◽

Women's Lives ◽

The Times ◽

Work And Life

Margaret Fuller was an American philosopher, writer, journalist and one of the first gender theorists. The article examines Fuller’s work and life in the context of 19th century American culture and social determinants influencing women’s lives. From a very early age, Fuller perceived her role in society different from the role designed for her as a biological girl by the cultural model of the times she lived in. The article focuses on Fuller’s achievements in the context of the self-made man/woman concept.

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Typology of Aggressiveness and National Violence in the Former USSR

International Journal on Minority and Group Rights ◽

10.1163/15718119620907328 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 4 (3-4) ◽

pp. 263-278 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Keyword(s):

Ottoman Empire ◽

19Th Century ◽

Special Interest ◽

The Self ◽

Soviet Regime ◽

Late 19Th Century ◽

Cultural Traditions ◽

The North ◽

Former Ussr ◽

Different Cultures

AbstractWith the beginning of glasnost in the former USSR, ethnic problems that were claimed to have been solved during the Soviet regime quickly developed into open conflicts, revealing different 'cultures of violence'. The analysis of the initial, often symbolic, stage of the conflict is of special interest, since it can better reveal the peculiarities of national patterns of violence in different cultural traditions, these patterns usually becoming indistinguishable soon after the conflict grows into a real war. The article analyses the first nine months of the Armenian - Azerbaijani conflict (February-November 1988), indicating the quite different models of aggressive behaviour of the groups involved in the conflict. It shows how national violence has been shaped by historical and/or mythological patterns (the militant branch of the Armenian national movement of the late 1980s reflecting the fedayi movement of the late 19th century in the Ottoman empire; the Chechen terrorists reflecting the heroes of the North Caucasian Nartian epic). The article also discusses the hidden forms of national violence (the ecological movement in Estonia addressed firstly towards the native Russians; the self-damaging ecological movement in Armenia; pseudo-ecological anti-Armenian rallies in Azerbaijan, etc).

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English drama at the German theatre in Ljubljana in the last decades of the Habsburg monarchy

Acta Neophilologica ◽

10.4312/an.45.1-2.33-52 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 45 (1-2) ◽

pp. 33-52

Author(s):

Margarete Rubik

Keyword(s):

19Th Century ◽

18Th Century ◽

The Self ◽

English Drama ◽

Habsburg Monarchy ◽

Late 19Th Century ◽

Self Image ◽

Late 18Th Century ◽

German Newspaper ◽

English Culture

This article examines the English repertoire of the German theatre in Ljubljana in the last decades of the Habsburg monarchy and its reception by the local German newspaper, Laibacher Zeitung. It considers only drama, not operas or operettas. The English plays were, of course, performed in translation, in German, as opposed to the plays performed in the Slovenian language from the late 18th century on and especially within the Dramatično društvo circle established in 1867. The choice of performances gives interesting insights into the late 19th century attitude towards English culture as well as the self-image fostered by the German stage in Ljubljana.

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Interpreting the Maritime and Overland Trade Regulations of 1882 between Chosŏn and the Qing: How logics of appropriateness shaped Sino–Korean relations

International Area Studies Review ◽

10.1177/2233865919871704 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 23 (1) ◽

pp. 114-132

Author(s):

Jung Mee Park ◽

Chun-Ping Wang

Keyword(s):

Cultural Capital ◽

19Th Century ◽

Foreign Affairs ◽

The Self ◽

Late 19Th Century ◽

Taiping Rebellion ◽

Treaty Negotiations ◽

Tribute System ◽

Choson Korea ◽

International Laws

Prior research on Qing China’s relationship towards Chosŏn Korea in the late 19th century suggested that China’s influence over Korea was a continuation of the tribute system. However, the Qing’s awareness of Westphalian laws altered Sino–Korean relations. In 1882, Qing China signed the Maritime and Overland Trade Regulations with Chosŏn Korea. Unlike the previous treaties that China signed with western states, the Qing negotiated terms economically beneficial to China in the agreement. The Qing officials determined much of the terms found in the Regulations. The Qing officials had leverage over Chosŏn officials partly because China had amassed cultural capital through centuries of tributary exchanges. The logics of appropriateness (LoA) or ‘bounded rationality’ of the tribute system shaped the Qing’s and Chosŏn’s responses, even in treaty negotiations. We argued that the Regulations reflected the Qing’s attempts to ‘modernize’ tributary relations with Westphalian LoA in light of the Qing’s own domestic crisis. Domestic insurrections such as the Taiping Rebellion led members of the self-strengthening ( Ziqiang) movement to focus on foreign affairs and adopt Westphalian international laws. The Qing’s goals to self-strengthen via an unequal agreement with Chosŏn, however, failed when westerners criticized China’s perceived suzerain authority over Korea. The criticisms highlighted the cleavages between the tributary and Westphalian systems as individuals attempted to justify their roles within these institutions.

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Current music and dance practice of central Kosovo and Metohija: Transformations since the 1990s

New Sound ◽

10.5937/newso1749035z ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 35-51

Author(s):

Mirjana Zakić ◽

Sanja Ranković

Keyword(s):

Ethnic Groups ◽

19Th Century ◽

Partial Information ◽

Contemporary Music ◽

Field Trip ◽

The Self ◽

The Political ◽

Late 19Th Century ◽

Main Motive ◽

Insight Into

Ethnomusicological and ethnochoreological research of the central part of Kosovo and Metohija has been conducted since the late 19th century up to the present. However, the gathered data are sparse and provide insufficient (and only partial) information regarding the music and dance tradition of this area. This fact was the main motive for arranging our own field trip to the region, during 2015 and 2016. The recorded material and numerous informants' narratives provided an important insight into the state of both previous and contemporary music and dance practice, enabling one to examine the transformations regarding music and dance that have taken place since the 1990s from several viewpoints: national and multinational, professional and amateur, local and regional. The causes of the changes that have occurred over the course of the last few decades, will be discussed in this paper through the political, ideological, sociological, and cultural prism. Thus, our attention will focus particularly on the national ensembles Shota (Pristina) and Venac (Gračanica), as well as on the local repertoire of different ethnic groups - Serbian, Albanian, Romani and Croatian, in former and contemporary conditions. An especially intriguing question is to what extent, and in what ways did geopolitical restructuring and cultural evaluations in the post-socialist period influence the sustainability, i.e. the change in music and dance forms, as important aspects of the self-representation of the ethnicities that exist in this region?

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