Introduction: Revisiting Civil Religion from an Aesthetic Point of View

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Anne Koch
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Civil Religion ◽  
Value Orientation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
National Discourse ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Central Characters

This special issue enquires into aesthetic ways of newly creating or re-shaping and re-presenting civil religion and its central characters, symbols, or figures. Normally, civil religion addresses value-orientation and social integration. In addition to these features, the papers make the aesthetic performance of civil religion the subject of discussion. The reason for taking this path is the altered aesthetic circumstances of highly mediatised and consumerist societies. Before this backdrop, images, literary figurations, movie sequences, and brands in media, public and national discourse are examined in various case studies from Italy, Finland, the uk, France, the former gdr, and Switzerland. At the same time, the negotiation and aesthetic plausibility of aesthetic styles, pragmatic power, and particular media logics are evaluated. The concept of civil religion deserves this closer re-definition also with respect to past and recent (post-)secularisation and non-religion discourses. Hopefully, this multi-layered analysis of aesthetics and aesthetic pragmatics of civil religion will shed some light on the persistent appropriateness of the ‘civil religion’ concept and its capacity to be introduced into various methodological contexts in combination with the aesthetic perspective.

Stanisław Kowalczyk. Elementy filozofii i teologii sportu [The elements of philosophy and theology of sport]

1970 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 293-294
Author(s):  
Stanisław Kowalczyk ◽  
Jan Kłos
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Religious Faith ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Art Philosophy ◽  
The Aesthetic

Sport plays today an eminent role in man's life and in societies. Various sciences have made it the subject-matter of their reflection, i.e. psychology, sociology, the natural and humanistic sciences, art, philosophy, and theology. The present work seeks to answer some fundamental questions connected with the phenomenon of sport: what is it for man (part one)? whether and when does it serve the social integration of a community (part two)? what are the premises and principles of the ethics of sportive activity (part three)? what is the aesthetic dimension of sport (part four)? what are the relations between sport and religious faith (part five)? The philosophical profile is dominant in the book, taking into consideration various aspects of sport: anthropological, social, axiological, and theological.

scholarly journals Symmetry in Engineering Sciences

Symmetry ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 797 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco G. Montoya ◽  
Raúl Baños ◽  
Alfredo Alcayde ◽  
Francisco Manzano-Agugliaro
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Engineering Sciences ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Geometric Solutions

The symmetry concept is mainly used in two senses. The first from the aesthetic point of view of proportionality or harmony, since human beings seek symmetry in nature. Or the second, from an engineering point of view to attend to geometric regularities or to explain a repetition process or pattern in a given phenomenon. This special issue dedicated to geometry in engineering deals with this last concept, which aims to collect both the aspects of geometric solutions in engineering, which may even have a certain aesthetic character, and the aspect of the use of patterns that explain observed phenomena.

How Do Teachers Manage to Teach? Perspectives on Problems in Practice

1985 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 178-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalene Lampert
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Mathematics Teacher ◽  
Elementary Mathematics ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Research On Teaching ◽  
The Subject

The author is a scholar of teaching practice and also an elementary mathematics teacher. Her work, like that of her colleagues at the Institute for Research on Teaching, focuses on teaching practice from the point of view of the practitioner. Here, in two case studies, she views the teacher as dilemma manager, a broker of contradictory interests, who "builds a working identity that is constructively ambiguous." To emphasize her conviction that teaching work is deeply personal, the author makes herself the subject of one of these studies. She concludes with an examination of how her view contrasts with prevalent academic images of teachers' work.

scholarly journals Scale Shifting: New Insights into Global Literary Circulation

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 467-480
Author(s):  
Wiebke Sievers ◽  
Peggy Levitt
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Individual Case ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Sociological Factors ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract This special issue on scale shifting brings into sharper focus the complexity of global literary circulation, especially when viewed from the perspective of global literary peripheries. In this introduction, we present the idea of scale shifting, a concept we use to move beyond translation to include circulation in global languages, such as English and French. We build on earlier analyses that mapped previous literary worlds and shed light on the aesthetic and sociological factors that enabled outsiders to enter them by (1) focusing on how peripheralised writers scale up to gain global recognition in multiscalar literary fields and (2) analysing how, in turn, this scale shifting changes the national, regional and global levels of these fields. In addition, we provide a preview of each article included in this volume and summarise the collective takeaways gleaned from our individual case studies.

scholarly journals Italian Thrilling Spectacle Between Aesthetics, Enthusiasm and Nostalgia

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-78
Author(s):  
Jan Švábenický
Keyword(s):  
Parallel Line ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Italian Cinema ◽  
Historical Document ◽  
Periodical Press ◽  
Popular Cinema ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Industrial Context ◽  
Critical Interest

Abstract This study focuses on the reflection of popular genres from Italian cinema during the 1960’s to 1980’s in Czecho(Slovakian) film and non film press during the years 1990 to 2000. The subject for analysis will only be comprehensive and compact texts that deal with concrete popular genres or with the productions of filmmakers that represent various models of a thrilling spectacle. We will mention only one example from Czech and Slovak translations, because this study deals purely with original published Czech and Slovak texts. This study aims to emphasize the themes chosen by Czech and Slovak film publicists, critics, and journalists in relation to popular Italian genres and in what way they developed interpretative thinking and historical, socio-cultural and industrial context of various models of a thrilling spectacle. Part of our study examines the point of view of film journalism in Czecho(Slovak) periodical press, in the sense of a historical document about period thinking on popular genres of Italian cinema, it will also take into account the enthusiastic and nostalgic approach taken by some of the authors that became a parallel line to the aesthetic interpretation of the films. The study will also touch on social, cultural and medial transformations after the year 1989 which led in Czecho(Slovak) film journalism to a greater critical interest in Italian popular genres. The text will be divided into two parts. The first part will deal only with the Italian western that belonged to the most often reflected and analyzed categories of spectacular spectacle. The second part will point to other lines of thrilling spectacle in Italian popular cinema and to some filmmakers whose work was repeatedly reflected in film journalism.

scholarly journals Recent research on the aesthetics of knowledge in science and in religion

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arianna Borrelli ◽  
Alexandra Grieser
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Current Special Issue

As an introduction to the case studies collected in the current special issue, this review article provides a brief, and by no means exhaustive, overview of research that proves to be relevant to the development of a concept of an aesthetics of knowledge in the academic study of religion and in science and technology studies. Finally, it briefly discusses recent work explicitly addressing the aesthetic entangle-ment of science and religion.

Becoming-Animal Cinema Narrative

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Rothermel
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Free Indirect Discourse ◽  
Indirect Discourse ◽  
Mise En Scene ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Animal Perception ◽  
Film Language

This chapter connects distinctive animal territories to specific uses of film language through a series of case studies, most notably Robert Bresson’s Au hasard Balthazar (1966), Michelangelo Frammartino’s Le Quattro Volte (2011), Bela Tarr’s The Turin Horse (2011), and Ang Lee’s Life of Pi (2012). Significantly, becoming-animal cannot be represented by conventional point-of-view and shot-reverse-shot editing (the structural mainstay of filmic suture), because it ties the animal to the conventional (and thus delimiting) human vectorial space of Deleuze’s action-image. Instead, inspired by Pier Paolo Pasolini’s seminal essay, ‘The “Cinema of Poetry”’, the chapter notes that all four filmmakers resort to a form of free-indirect discourse, whereby animality fills up the film from the inside as formative of the representation rather than rendering the subject within the structure of representation. Not unlike T.S. Eliot’s objective correlative, where the character’s subjectivity is presented objectively in and through the mise-en-scène as well as individual focalisation (in this case the character is also on-screen), animal perception is able to be expressed by a form of camera self-consciousness, what Deleuze calls ‘cinema a special kind of cinema where the camera makes itself felt.

Higher Education, Technological Change, and Local Development

2016 ◽  
pp. 376-394
Author(s):  
Jorge Núñez Jover ◽  
Galia Figueroa Alfonso ◽  
Ariamnis Alcázar Quiñones ◽  
Isvieysys Armas Marrero
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Technological Change ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Alternative Energy ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Economic Recovery ◽  
The Subject

In the 90s, Cuban universities directed their efforts toward innovation. This “innovation turn” intended to increase the role of Higher Education (HE) in the economic recovery of the country and the solution of significant social problems. At the beginning of last decade universities began to project over the subject of local development (we have called this process “territorial turn”). In the document is explored the capacity of HE to unfold nets that allow the flow of knowledge and technologies for local development. Its role as key actor on the promotion of innovation in municipalities is also analyzed. Through case studies methodologies, it is discussed a group of practices related with alternative energy production, food production based in agroecological methods and the echo-materials production for housing. Each one of those socio-techniques trajectories, emerged in Cuban HE institutions, pay attention to social inclusion, cohesion and social integration goals.

scholarly journals Sport and Art: Differences and Theatrical Similarities

2014 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerzy Kosiewicz
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Physical Culture ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
English Language Literature ◽  
Aesthetic Properties ◽  
Philosophy Of Sport ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Artistic Values ◽  
Language Literature

Abstract A certain tradition of philosophical considerations on the interrelation between sport and art has already been established. According to Tim L. Elcombe (Elcombe, 2012, p. 201), such considerations on the subject first appeared in English-language literature in the 1970s and 1980s, and were fruitful. Usually, they appear together with questions on the aesthetic properties of sport - in this case, a special issue of the Journal of the Philosophy of Sport dedicated to ―Sport and Aesthetics‖ (2012, vol. 39, no. 2), and an excellent postdoctoral dissertation by Jakub Mosz entitled ―Estetyczne aspekty uczestnictwa w sporcie‖ (English: Aesthetic aspects of participation in sports) may serve as good examples. In his article (Elcombe, 2012), Tim L. Elcombe describes the contention and briefly characterizes the main differences between the two opposing viewpoints (Elcombe, 2012, pp. 202-204). It should be noted that he sympathizes with the view of David Best, who some years ago argued that sport is not art (1988, pp. 527-539). He believes that ―although art could use sport as a subject, art could not be the subject of sport‖ (Elcombe, 2012, p. 202). I would like to make that statement more specific by adding that its second part suggests that the display of artistic values cannot be the fundamental purpose of sport. I shall expand on that later. Best's viewpoint was criticized by Jan Boxil (1988), Spencer Wertz (1988), and Terry Roberts (1995), who believed that sport could be treated as art. Christopher Cordner (1995a; 1995b) and Joseph Kupfer (1988) also challenged Best, although they did not entirely disagree with him (see: Elcombe, 2012, pp. 202-204). Because literature on the subject published in English presents diversified statements on the interrelation between sport and art, and the circle of people engaged in the matters of physical culture in Poland is still in favor of equating sport with art, I have decided to present my own stance on that matter.

A Modified Chair Geometry for Whole Body Counting

1976 ◽  
Vol 15 (05) ◽  
pp. 246-247
Author(s):  
S. C. Jain ◽  
G. C. Bhola ◽  
A. Nagaratnam ◽  
M. M. Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Marked Improvement ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Spatial Response ◽  
Body Counting ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Whole Body Counting ◽  
The Buddha

SummaryIn the Marinelli chair, a geometry widely used in whole body counting, the lower part of the leg is seen quite inefficiently by the detector. The present paper describes an attempt to modify the standard chair geometry to minimise this limitation. The subject sits crossed-legged in the “Buddha Posture” in the standard chair. Studies with humanoid phantoms and a volunteer sitting in the Buddha posture show that this modification brings marked improvement over the Marinelli chair both from the point of view of sensitivity and uniformity of spatial response.

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