scholarly journals When Baehr met Steffen: Appraising classicality through the lens of neglect

2021 ◽  
pp. 000169932110388
Author(s):  
Josef Ginnerskov
Keyword(s):  
Formation Processes ◽  
Magnum Opus ◽  
Classical Sociology ◽  
Main Candidate ◽  
The Way

Classical sociology has long served as a locus for the discipline's self-understanding, and is a phenomenon increasingly studied in its own right. The growing literature is synthesised in Peter Baehr's renowned framework for scrutinising reception and formation processes. By theorising on the trajectories of multiple classics, Baehr has helped pave the way for sociology’s understanding of how classicality becomes established. This paper deploys this framework in order to appraise neglected work with classicality potential in early sociology, namely the bulky production of Sweden's main candidate for a classic, Gustaf F. Steffen (1864–1929), with special attention given to his magnum opus Sociology: A g eneral theory of society (1910–1911). The analysis exposes some of the conceptual ambiguity in Baehr's framework, while proposing that both the notion of a ‘classic’ and the sole focus on reception and formation need to be expanded. This article also argues that our understanding of classicality could be advanced if we were to distinguish between author, text, and theory, since each of these plays different roles in reception, formation, and neglection processes.

Parallel Computation in Word Formation

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 657-701 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis López
Keyword(s):  
Parallel Computation ◽  
Parallel Computations ◽  
Event Structure ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Distributed Morphology ◽  
Formation Processes ◽  
Testing Ground ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Morphology Model ◽  
The Way

Taking the Distributed Morphology model as a starting point, this article presents and develops the hypothesis that parallel computations drive some word formation processes. Along the way, some Distributed Morphology assumptions, particularly those concerning contextual allomorphy, are revised. It is argued that event structure is a syntactic head independent of the presence of a vP. Nominalizations in Spanish, which often exhibit verbal thematic vowels between the root and the nominalizing affix, turn out to be an ideal testing ground for theoretical hypotheses.

Johann de Monte-Snyders in Newton’s Alchemy

2018 ◽  
pp. 223-245
Author(s):  
William R. Newman
Keyword(s):  
Standard View ◽  
Magnum Opus ◽  
The Way

This chapter focuses on self-proclaimed adept Johann de Monte-Snyders or “Snyders” as Newton usually calls him, who increasingly influenced Newton from the mid-1680s onward. More than any other figure, Snyders fits the picture of a wandering adept who would drift into town, perform a transmutation or two, and then mysteriously disappear. In order to illustrate the way in which Newton tailored the writings of Snyders to fit his own conception of the alchemical magnum opus, the chapter explores other contemporary accounts of Snyders's processes and shows that Newton's interpretation did not fit the standard view. The German adept exercised more impact on Newton the alchemist than any other author short of Philalethes.

The Sociology of Morality as Ecology of Mind

2018 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-89
Author(s):  
Stefan Bargheer
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Wild Birds ◽  
Ecology Of Mind ◽  
Sociology Of Morality ◽  
Moral Justifications ◽  
Classical Sociology ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe article engages in a comparative analysis of efforts to pass international legislation for the conservation of wild birds in turn-of-the-century Europe. Obstacles to this project were not merely incompatible laws already existing in the involved countries, but the different ways of relating economic, moral, and aesthetic evaluations of wildlife to each other. Focusing on the stark differences between German and British approaches to the topic, the article shows how the way these categories were related to each other was a product of the involved practices shaping the experience of the natural environment. As a result of different practices, moral justifications in Britain were one form of argument among many others formulated by conservationists. The logic of discourse was cumulative, comprising of different arguments that were presented as compatible with each other. In Germany, by contrast, conservationists recognized the existence of a variety of arguments for conservation, yet emphasized the incommensurability of these arguments and commonly advanced only one argument as a valid justification. Taking the centrality of the experience of nature into account, the article argues for the expansion of the classical sociology of morality into an ecology of mind.

From the ground up. Depositional history, memory and materiality

2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara J. Mills
Keyword(s):  
Formation Processes ◽  
Depositional History ◽  
Cultural Formation ◽  
Cultural Formation Processes ◽  
Per Se ◽  
The Many ◽  
Interpretive Frameworks ◽  
The Way

Archaeologists often take stratigraphy for granted, using it for building chronologies, recognizing various natural and cultural formation processes, and understanding relations between features and settlements. But for the last few decades there has been a subtle shift in the way that we approach stratigraphy – in terms of both the kinds of techniques that can be applied (residue analyses, micromorphology, Harris matrices and so on) and the interpretive frameworks that can be employed. Perhaps it is not stratigraphy that we are talking about per se, but rather depositional practices – the many ways in which people make and alter archaeological deposits – in addition to the different interpretive frameworks that we apply to these physical accumulations.

Theory and Praxis in Aristotle and Heidegger

1998 ◽  
pp. 20-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catriona Hanley
Keyword(s):  
Being And Time ◽  
Nicomachean Ethics ◽  
The World ◽  
Magnum Opus ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

The discussion of Heidegger's “destructive retrieve” of Aristotle has been intensified in recent years by the publication of Heidegger's courses in the years surrounding his magnum opus. Heidegger's explicit commentary on Aristotle in these courses permits one to read Being and Time with Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Metaphysics. My paper analyzes a network of differences between the two thinkers, focusing on the relationship between theory and praxis. From Aristotle to Heidegger, there is: (1) a shift from the priority of actuality to the priority of possibility. This shift, I argue, is itself the metaphysical ground of: (2) a shift from the priority of theory to the priority of praxis. This shift is seen most clearly in the way in which (3) Heidegger's notion of Theorie is a modification of his poíesis. The temporal ground of the reversal is seen in (4) Heidegger's notion of transcendence towards the world, and not towards an eternal being.

scholarly journals The reflexive turn in French and German-speaking geography in comparison

2013 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-64
Author(s):  
O. Graefe
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Formation Processes ◽  
National Scale ◽  
The Status ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
History Of ◽  
Hans Georg Gadamer ◽  
The Way

Abstract. The papers presented by Bernard Debarbieux and Ute Wardenga at the symposium on "Les fabriques des `Géographies' – making Geographies in Europe'' and published in this thematic issue both take a historiographical perspective, which at a first glance seems evident. In order to understand how geography is thought about and practiced, the best is to look back on how these thoughts and practices have been respectively established and have evolved in the different national contexts. But at second glance, this historiographical perspective seems revealing regarding the status and the position of geography as an academic discipline. One can hardly imagine a symposium on the "making philosophy'' or "making physics'' in Europe privileging such a historiographical stance in order to illustrate and understand the differences and commonalities of a discipline in different countries today. Other disciplines might have favoured a dialogue on how a theory or a prominent author is received in order to excavate the differences or commonalities in a particular discipline of different countries. Such dialogues have been organized for example in Sociology with the exchange of approaches on Bourdieu published by Catherine Colliot-Thélène, Étienne François and Gunter Gebauer (2005). Another example and a reference of such dialogues is the famous debate on hermeneutics between Hans-Georg Gadamer and Jacques Derrida in the early 1980s. The emphasis on the history (Debarbieux) and the way to write the history of geography (Wardenga) points out the difficulty of our discipline to position itself in academia, and reveals the crisis to which Wardenga refers to in her paper. As Ute Wardenga pointed out by quoting Jörn Rüsen, "genetical narratives'' are part of identity formation processes by "mediating permanence and change to a process of self-definition'' (Rüsen, 1987, cited by Wardenga, this issue). Both presented papers expose in different but complementary ways this identity formation of geography as a distinct discipline on the national scale in France (B. Debarbieux) and on a more international scale (U. Wardenga). The first analyses the conceptualization of space, the nation and the national territory by French geographers, while the second reflects upon the internationalization of the historiography of our discipline, meaning the way history is written and not the history itself. The underlying question here is the specificity of geography in Germany or in France and what their relationships are with other geographies, i.e. in how far they are influenced by or reject ideas and methodologies especially (but not exclusively) from Anglophone geographers.

‘Ordering’ Novels

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Garside
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Tiered System ◽  
Magnum Opus ◽  
Title Pages ◽  
The Way

This essay considers the way in which various types of fiction were projected at their original readers, primarily through the title pages, but also through reviews and circulating-library catalogues. Increasing use was made of ‘Novel’, ‘Romance’, and ‘Tale’ as main descriptors, with Novel gradually gaining prominence in the later eighteenth century, Romance enjoying a moment of popularity round the turn of the century, and Tale or Tales achieving ascendancy by the 1820s. Additional components in titles, such as the Sentimental, Gothic, and Historical, helped communicate different subgeneric types of fiction. Eventually, a three-tiered system stretched from ‘common’ circulating fiction to novels of reputation, the latter signalled by the use of the larger octavo format and through the development of distinct author identities (even when published anonymously). The Magnum Opus collected edition of Scott’s novels made him a classic in his time, finally establishing the novel as a fully established genre.

Historical revisit: Goddard Henry Orpen, Ireland under the Normans, 1169–1333 (1911–20)

2000 ◽  
Vol 32 (126) ◽  
pp. 246-259
Author(s):  
Seán Duffy
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
The Third ◽  
University Library ◽  
Anglo Norman ◽  
Magnum Opus ◽  
Original Edition ◽  
Take All ◽  
The Way

Almost a century after the publication, in 1911, of the first two volumes of his magnum opus (the third and fourth appeared together in 1920) Goddard Henry Orpen’s Ireland under the Normans remains controversial. The way to test this is not to read the polite comments of this generation of his successors but to go to a university library, take all four volumes off the shelf, and expose one’s eyes to the palimpsest of student marginalia added down through the decades. Pencilled emotions ranging from anger and outrage to ridicule and blasphemy litter the pages and tarnish its author’s memory, every bit as much in the reprint (dating, interestingly, from 1968) as in the original edition.When the first two volumes, covering the period 1169-1216, were published, they were warmly greeted in certain quarters, British journals in particular carrying laudatory reviews. But in nationalist Ireland grave offence was taken not merely at some of the author’s apparently callous and hurtful statements, but at his basic thesis, a thesis which Orpen set out clearly in the preface to his first volume: In the course of my study of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries (which has been spread over many years) … I have been led to regard the domination of the English Crown and of its ministers in Ireland, during the thirteenth century, and indeed up to the invasion of Edward Bruce in 1315, as having been much more complete than has been generally recognised, and to think that due credit has not been given to the new rulers for creating the comparative peace and order and the manifest progress and prosperity that Ireland enjoyed, during that period, wherever their rule was effective …. . . it is, I think, manifest that the most prominent effect of the Anglo-Norman occupation was not, as has been represented, an increase of turmoil, but rather the introduction over large parts of Ireland of a measure of peace and prosperity quite unknown before.

scholarly journals Telaah Kitab Tafsir Firdaus Al-Na’im Karya Thaifur Ali Wafa Al-Maduri

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Moh Azwar Hairul
Keyword(s):  
Arabic Language ◽  
Simple Explanation ◽  
Special Pattern ◽  
Magnum Opus ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
The Way

This article aimed to describe one of the Tafsir which compiled by Ulama Madura named Thaifur Ali Wafa. He is the son of famous Ulama Madura named KH. Ali Wafa. Thaifur’s capacity as the Ulama could not be doubted. Inherited the expertise of his father, now he has produced a number of books. One of His magnum opus is Tafsir Firdaus al-Na’im. The Tafsir classified as the unpublished tafsir, so that his Tafsir considerend unnoticed on the studies of The Alquran in Indonesia. Tafsir Firdaus al-Na’im consist complete commentary of Alquran within 30 Chapter and written by Arabic language. It took approximately three year to complete his written. The Methodology of the Tafsir is using the Tahlili method. althought that, the way its explanation not totally as the same Tahlili ways. It viewed with the aspect of interpretation using ijmali analysis with simple explanation, it’s feature interpretation could not be affilated to any special pattern. The existance of the Tafsir Firdaus al-Nai’m in the modern era showed the dynamics development of interpretation of the Alquran in Indonesia. at least, this Tafsir could add the treasury of literature interpretation of the Alquran in Nusantara.

scholarly journals La narrativa transmedia: construcción colectiva de experiencias y reflexiones en torno a las problemáticas sociales desde la mediación de TIC / The Transmedia Narrative: Collective Construction of Experiences and Reflections on Social Issues from the Mediation of ICT

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-44
Author(s):  
Yina Paola Salamanca Monroy ◽  
Liliana Cadena Montenegro ◽  
José Ignacio Palacios
Keyword(s):  
Social Issues ◽  
Formation Processes ◽  
First Semester ◽  
University Life ◽  
The University ◽  
Collective Construction ◽  
Work Done ◽  
The Way

ABSTRACTWithin the framework of the development of the formation processes in the Francisco Jose de Caldas District University and in particular in the work done with first semester students (1 to 3) of the Faculty of Engineering of the University and in order to involve them in university life and knowledge of the University as such and the District University, is proposed as a strategy the incorporation of transmedia narrative as a way for students to be active and participatory in front of the knowledge and sense of the University, is as well as in this article, the way in which this trasmedia narrative is developed for a group of 142 students is addressed and explained, and thus motivates new experiences in this area of education.RESUMENEn el marco del desarrollo de los procesos de formación en la Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas y en particular en el trabajo realizado con estudiantes de primeros semestres (1 a 3) de la Facultad de Ingeniería de la Universidad y con el fin de involucrarlos en la vida universitaria y en el conocimiento de la Universidad como tal y de la Universidad Distrital, se propone como estrategia la incorporación de la narrativa transmedia como una forma para que los estudiantes asuman un rol activo y participativo frente al conocimiento y sentido de la Universidad, es así como en este artículo se aborda y explica la forma como se desarrolló esta narrativa transmedia para un grupo de 142 estudiantes, y que así motive nuevas experiencias en esta área de la educación.

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