Introduction: Nahḍah Narratives

2019 ◽  
Vol 99 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Jolanda Guardi ◽  
Maria Elena Paniconi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Production ◽  
Mediterranean Area ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
History Of ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
Political Essays

Abstract In the last decade, the field of Nahḍah Studies has been gathering momentum. Scholars from different subject-areas have highlighted several aspects of the 19th–early 20th century cultural fervor in the Arab and south Mediterranean area. Accordingly, the whole set of Nahḍah narratives has been readdressed. By “Nahḍah narratives” we mean both the set of theoretical readings, definitions and views developed by the nahḍawī groundswell, itself and the metacritical narratives developed by international scholarship on the Arab Nahḍah. In dialogue with the recent scholarship, the papers collected here represent a contribution in questioning the “Arab awakening”: their theoretical approaches, crossing comparative literature, literary analysis, history of ideas — achieve a broader understanding of the movement, dwelling especially on intersections with other disciplines and widening the research on the Nahḍah from the point of view of cultural production. The focus on modern Arab journalism, theatre, translation, political essays, prose and poetry writing which characterizes this special issue of Oriente Moderno attempts at going beyond the critical perspectives of a Nahḍah molded on Euro-centric modernity, on a diffusionist model of text circulation and on a “retrospective” idea of a modernity-to-be.

‘Matta Bestialita’ in Dante's ‘Inferno’: Theory and Image

Traditio ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 247-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfred A. Triolo
Keyword(s):  
High Probability ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Alternative Solution ◽  
Nicomachean Ethics ◽  
The Third ◽  
History Of ◽  
Scholarly Discussion ◽  
Total Structure

What was Dante's interpretation of the third Aristotelian disposition of Nicomachean Ethics 7, which he calls ‘la matta bestialitade’ and how does it function in the structure of the Inferno? Correlatively, what range of meaning did Dante assign the second disposition, ‘malizia’? The problem is difficult at best and, from a modern point of view, apparently literarily unrewarding. What is more, after a long tradition of scholarly discussion and dispute a kind of consensus has emerged. With the solution which it proposes most are willing to rest content and indeed many simply take its correctness for granted. It is the thesis of this study that the consensus is based on an improvisation and that the high probability of an alternative solution can be effectively demonstrated. Underlying this is the conviction that this is not a scholarly quibble, of interest only to the ‘experts’ or merely a matter of interest for the history of ideas. Rather it is a problem with profound significance for the total structure of the Inferno both intellectual and literary.

scholarly journals The Need for an Alternative Narrative to the History of Ideas or To Pay a Debt to Women: A Feminist Approach to Ricœur's Thought

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-20
Author(s):  
Fernanda Henriques
Keyword(s):  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
The Other ◽  
Men I ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
History Of ◽  
Human Capacity ◽  
The One

This paper explores the thought of Paul Ricœur from a feminist point of view. My goal is to show that it is necessary to narrate differently the history of our culture – in particular, the history of philosophy – in order for wommen to attain a self-representation that is equal to that of men. I seek to show that Ricoeur’s philosophy – especially his approach to the topics of memory and history, on the one hand, and the human capacity for initiative, on the other hand– can support the idea that it is possible and legitimate to tell our history otherwise by envisioning a more accurate truth about ourselves. 

Der avancierte Affe

1994 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hartmut Kliemt
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
History Of ◽  
Human Kind

AbstractIn this article sociobiology is ‘put into perspective’, from a history of ideas and a systematical point of view. It is argued that it would be foolish to regard biology as irrelevant to our concept of man and society. At the same time it would be grossly inadequate too to ignore the characteristics of human kind.

The classification of the sciences and the quest for interdisciplinarity: a brief history of ideas from ancient philosophy to contemporary environmental science

2011 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. W. TROMPF
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Science ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Deep Roots ◽  
Science Centre ◽  
History Of ◽  
Subject Areas ◽  
Medieval Universities ◽  
Unity Of Knowledge

SUMMARYBurgeoning acquisition of information about the workings, scope and diversities of the cosmos put serious pressure on 19th-century European intellectuals to classify branches of human knowledge. A challenge presented itself not only to order different subject-areas and disciplines intelligently, or assess them according to apparent degrees of certitude, but also to discover some synthesizing principle by which all the distinctive methods of approaching the world might be viewed in interrelationship. This review shows that such endeavours to classify and unify were traditional procedures, with deep roots going back to antiquity, and they brought coherence to academic programmes through the centuries. As a mark of European modernity, there was a tendency to establish more rational, scientific and secular principles of order, and the consequent tensions between positivistic and holistic styles of approach to science have continued since. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, it is also recognized, the constant subdividing of academic agendas has made the work of classification much less manageable and attractive. If traditional principles to express the unity of knowledge were philosophical, or, in the case of the medieval universities, evoked the oneness of the divine Creation, it is intriguing how planetary survivalism in the present time has pushed environmental science centre-stage as a pivotal point of activity encouraging interdisciplinary collaboration. If varying consideration has been granted to practical subjects (for example agriculture) in the history of knowledge classification, their importance has been clarified by current biospheric predicaments.

Les « superstitions » à l’épreuve de la modernité : un retour en grâce ?

2016 ◽  
Vol 63 (4) ◽  
pp. 497-512
Author(s):  
Lionel Obadia
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
The Other ◽  
Relevant Point ◽  
History Of ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Better Than

Have we finished with superstition, from the point of view of history, of ideas and of psychology? Nothing is less certain. On the basis of some ancient or recent publications on this topic, this article attempts to pinpoint the fact that, owing to the empirical and theoretical topicality of superstition, it certainly deserves better than the ideological and intellectual disqualification it has been subjected to. Recent reflections, inspired by anthropological and psychological approaches, seem part of a new interest in beliefs and symbols previously mastered by dominant and exclusive systems of thoughts, be they religious or profane. But a close examination of the effective uses of the notion of ‘superstition’ demonstrates that the projective stigmatization of the ‘Other’ remains a relevant point of departure from which it can be rehabilitated, alongside the latest psychological approaches of belief.

Saint‐Simon and the Politics of Industrial Societies

1973 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ghiţa Ionescu
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Intellectual Biography ◽  
Nation States ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Industrial Societies ◽  
Proper Context

MOST STUDENTS OF SAINT-SIMON HAVE BEEN ESPECIALLY CONCERNED with his relations with the different 19th-century ideological movements; hence few have approached his work from the point of view of the incompatibility between his attitudes and those of the Jacobins. Yet such an approach re-situates his intellectual biography in its proper context – and indeed protects his work from the anachronistic interpretations which have plagued it in the history of ideas. Moreover it illuminates even more rewardingly his present relevance. His clash with Jacobinism might be taken as the startingpoint of the opposition between Jacobinism and industrialism, between the modern industrial societies and the ‘politics of power’ of the old centralized nation states. From this then derives his theory of the difference between the politics of power and the politics of abilities. The importance of this theory, especially for political science, has not been sufficiently stressed in the classic studies on Saint-Simon's work. Mostly sociological, these studies are divided amongst themselves on whether his work must be seen as socialism, Utopian or otherwise, or as elitism, technocratic or otherwise. And yet it is this theory which provides the logical link between these two seemingly contradictory interpretations.

scholarly journals II. Burke and the Ancient Constitution—a Problem in the History of Ideas

1960 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. G. A. Pocock
Keyword(s):  
First Principles ◽  
Political Knowledge ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Trial And Error ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ancient Constitution ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Critical Reason

The intention of this paper is to inquire into Burke's doctrine of traditionalism—as it may be termed—from a point of view not quite identical with that usually adopted. The aspect of Burke's thought thus isolated may or may not be the most important or the most characteristic, but it is the most familiar and that with which the student first becomes acquainted. Burke held—to summarize what may be found in a hundred text-books on the history of conservatism—that a nation's institutions were the fruit of its experience, that they had taken shape slowly as the result, and were in themselves the record, of a thousand adjustments to the needs of circumstance, each one of which, if it had been found by trial and error, to answer recurrent needs, had been preserved in the usages and established rules of the nation concerned. He also held that political knowledge was the fruit of experience and that reason in this field had nothing to operate on except experience; from which it followed that, since the knowledge of an individual or a generation of individuals was limited by the amount of experience on which it was based, there was always a case for the view that the reason of the living, though it might clearly enough discern the disadvantages, might not fully perceive the advantages of existing and ancient institutions, for these might contain the fruits of more experience than was available to living individuals as the sum of their personal or reported experience of the world. It also followed that since the wisdom embodied in institutions was based on experience and nothing but experience, it could not be completely rationalized, that is, reduced to first principles which might be clearly enunciated, shown to be the cause of the institutions' first being set up, or employed to criticize their subsequent workings. There was, in short, always more in laws and institutions than met the eye of critical reason, always a case for them undiminished by anything that could be said against them.

scholarly journals One Time, Many Times

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 299-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rahul Rao
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Review Article ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time

This review article surveys recent work on time and temporality in international relations. It begins with an overview of Kimberly Hutchings’s influential history of ideas exploring the relationship between chronos (quantitative experience of time) and kairos (qualitative conceptualisation of time). Building on the architecture of Hutchings’s argument, it surveys more recent scholarship that supplements, extends and complicates her insights in two ways. First, while Hutchings focuses on the way in which theorisations of kairos shift over time, the development of a unified global chronotic imaginary was itself a contested process, frequently interrupted by kairotic considerations. Second, while Hutchings is interested in western conceptualisations of kairos, recent work has shifted the analytical focus to those subject positions marginalised by such kairotic imaginaries.

scholarly journals Tafuri on Hous-‘ing’: Housing History as City-making Praxis

2017 ◽  
pp. 36-51
Author(s):  
Irina Davidovici
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Housing Projects ◽  
European Cities ◽  
History Of

Manfredo Tafuri’s assessment of modernist housing projects as “islands of realised utopia” summarises dilemmas still faced in the production of European cities today. In his writings, Tafuri has consistently shown that housing is not only about industrial production but, fundamentally, social reproduction. Understood as a discursive practice, the history of housing as a history of ideas reveals fundamental mechanisms in the production of urban space. The historian’s perspective necessarily engages with cycles of cultural production and economic enterprise, intertwined in endless discourse.  On this basis, this article reviews the research methodologies distilled from Tafuri’s housing case studies in Berlin and Frankfurt, Vienna and Rome, in order to, firstly, re-evaluate the critical instruments of the housing historian, and secondly, trace their transformation as theoretical discourses into practices of city-making. Taking into account Tafuri’s notion of historical analysis as a contradictory, complex and constantly renewable operation, the paper proposes a revised understanding of twentieth-century housing history as a history of productive urban practices.

scholarly journals Application of lasers in automotive industry

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milesa Srećković ◽  
◽  
Nenad Ivanović ◽  
Stanko Ostojić ◽  
Aleksandar Kovačević ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Automotive Industry ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Power Production ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Automotive Technology ◽  
Special Scientific ◽  
History Of ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Contemporary Development

Laser role and couplings with vehicles and solar power are numerous and in this paper we will analyze the principles, contemporary development of special scientific areas and engineering, from the metrological point of view. This area is, in broader sense, connected to history of our planet, or since the midst of the previous century and golden age of quantum electronics. Some of the general problems have rather slow dynamics of solving, but on the other hand, considering contemporary state-of-the-art of unconventionally powered vehicles and realized components, some characteristics change conservative opinions on the realizable capacities. The main goal of this consideration is to point to the unity of problems, which might speed up the gradients of the developments in solar technology of automotive technology, by multi-disciplinary approach. Overall, we have considered both theoretical approaches and current developed systems in the fields of technology, metrology and power production and transformation.

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