No Man’s Land: Mutant Natures in Canadian Eco-Horror Film

2021 ◽  
pp. 153270862110592
Author(s):  
Jason J. Wallin ◽  
Jennifer Sandlin
Keyword(s):  
Natural World ◽  
Horror Film ◽  
The Will ◽  
No Man's Land

This essay aims to analyze the significance of Canadian “eco-horror” film within the so-called “Anthropocene” era, wherein it functions as a form of nostalgia and vehicle for imagining the liberation of nature from under the yoke of cultural repression. Assuming Canadian director Adam MacDonald’s critically lauded natural horror film Backcountry as its centerpiece, this essay surveys eco-horror’s reversal of heteropatriarchal masculinity and settler thinking by confronting it with a monstrous image of nature wholly distinct from the Canadian mythos of “beneficent” natural world submitted to the will of Man.

Ibn Khaldun’s Theory of Social Change

1998 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fida Mohammad
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Social Knowledge ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
Ibn Khaldun ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Compare And Contrast

In this article I shall compare and contrast Ibn Khaldun’s ideas aboutsociohistorical change with those of Hegel, Marx, and Durkheim. I willdiscuss and elaborate Ibn Khaldun’s major ideas about historical andsocial change and compare them with three important figures of modemWestern sociology and philosophy.On reading Ibn Khaldun one should remember that he was living in thefourteenth century and did not have the privilege of witnessing the socialdislocation created by the industrial revolution. It is also very difficult tocategorize Ibn Khaldun within a single philosophical tradition. He is arationalist as well as an empiricist, a historicist as well as a believer inhuman agency in the historical process. One can see many “modem”themes in his thinking, although he lived a hundred years beforeMachiavelli.Lauer, who considers Ibn Khaldun the pioneer of modem sociologicalthought, has summarized the main points of his philosophy.’ In his interpretationof Ibn Khaldun, he notes that historical processes follow a regularpattern. However, whereas this pattern shows sufficient regularity, itis not as rigid as it is in the natural world. In this regard the position ofIbn Khaldun is radically different from those philosophies of history thatposit an immutable course of history determined by the will of divineprovidence or other forces. Ibn Khaldun believes that the individual isneither a completely passive recipient nor a full agent of the historicalprocess. Social laws can be discovered through observation and datagathering, and this empirical grounding of social knowledge represents adeparture from traditional rational and metaphysical thinking ...

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-37
Author(s):  
Miikka Ruokanen
Keyword(s):  
Natural World ◽  
Medieval Theology ◽  
True Nature ◽  
Divine Grace ◽  
Human Situation ◽  
The Will ◽  
God's Grace ◽  
Theological Language ◽  
Theological Conflict ◽  
To Receive

The debate between Luther and Erasmus was basically about to what degree, if any, a sinner can freely prepare him/herself for the reception of divine grace. When rejecting the bull of Pope Leo X, Luther had used an exaggerating deterministic or necessitarian theological language which alarmed Erasmus. Erasmus concentrated on the application of God’s grace into the human situation “from below”; Luther, on the contrary, focused on the theocentric nature of grace “from above.” Erasmus promoted the commonly accepted rational view of Late Medieval Catholic soteriology: “to those who do what they can God does not deny his grace,” God’s justice requires that he necessarily grant grace to anyone who freely prepares him/herself to receive it, while Luther spoke the language of Biblical realism: Although human will is free in relation to the natural world, the human being is captivated by the overwhelming power of unfaith, sin, and Satan, being incapable of changing his/her ultimate psychic orientation. In his criticism Luther rehabilitated Augustine’s teaching on the radical limits of human freedom and on the Pneumatological dynamism of divine grace, the view neglected in Medieval theology. Research on Luther’s The Bondage of the Will has not recognized the strong Pneumatological and Trinitarian accent of his theology. Instead, the contradiction between Luther and Erasmus has been explained in philosophical terms such as free will, determinism, necessity, and predestination; this has not revealed the true nature of the profoundly theological conflict between the two “forms of Christianity.” The work at hand makes critical comments on Luther research of the last hundred years and launches the task of a detailed and thorough systematic-theological analysis of the major treatise of Luther.

Caring for the World

2011 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 164-185
Author(s):  
Vincent Blok ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Contemporary Philosophy ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Will ◽  
The One

In the twentieth century, the concept of the will appears in bad daylight. Martin Heideg-ger for instance criticizes the will as a movement of reducing otherness to sameness, dif-ference to identity. Since his diagnosis of the will, the releasement from a wilful manner of thinking and the exploration of the possibility of non-willing has become a prevalent issue in contemporary philosophy. This article questions whether this quietism is still possible in our times, were we are confronted with climate change and the future of mankind is fundamentally threatened. On the one hand, the human will to 'master‘ and 'exploit‘ the natural world can be seen as the root of the ecological crisis, as Heidegger observed. On the other hand, its current urgency forces us to evaluate the releasement of the will in contemporary philosophy. Because also Heidegger himself attempted to develop a proper concept of the will in the onset of the thirties, we start our inquiry with Heidegger‘s phenomenology of the will in the thirties. Although Heidegger was very critical about the concept of the will later on, we are not inclined to reject the concept of the will as he did eventually. In this article we show that Heidegger's criticism of the will is not phenomenologically motivated, and we will develop a proper post-Heideggerian concept of willing. Finally the question will be answerd whether this proper concept of willing can help us to find a solution for the ecological crisis.

A Note on Sources

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Lyman Bushman
Keyword(s):  
Natural World ◽  
The State ◽  
Mutual Trust ◽  
Court Records ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
The Future ◽  
Male Head ◽  
The Will ◽  
Relationship Of

Beyond the basic farm idea, we can catch a glimpse of the farm mentality by looking closely at the documentary sources farming created: court records, tax lists, account books, and so on. Each one formed a particular world in which farmers led part of their lives. The deed created a space formed of artificial lines imposed on the natural world. The purpose of the deed was to move these chunks of space between the largely male owners, the only significant actors in this world. The promissory note created a period of obligation. During the specified time, the borrower was tied to the lender in a relationship of mutual trust. All farmers were festooned with obligations linking him to other lenders and borrowers. The estate auction revealed the farmer amidst his small possession, forever changing his assemblage of tools, furniture, animals, and land. The will exhibits the farmer ordering the future, willing what the small society of his family will look like after he is gone. Tax lists can be interpreted, after Foucault, as the state exercising discipline by naming every person and exacting a tax. They also reveal the eminence of the male head of the household and the obscurity of women, children, and servants. Finally, the lists ranked farmers by their productivity and ownership, a ranking every farmer could see by glancing at his neighbors’ properties compared to his own.

The Problem of Nature in Hegel's Philosophy of Right

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Simon Lumsden
Keyword(s):  
Political Thought ◽  
Blind Spot ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Ethical Life ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Philosophy Of Right ◽  
Objective Structures ◽  
External Powers ◽  
At Home

Abstract The notion of being-at-home-in-otherness is the distinctive way of thinking of freedom that Hegel develops in his social and political thought. When I am at one with myself in social and political structures (institutions, rights and the state) they are not external powers to which I am subjected but are rather constitutive of my self-relation, that is my self-conception is mediated and expanded through those objective structures. How successfully Hegel may achieve being-at-home-in-otherness with regard to these objective structures of right in the Philosophy of Right is arguable. What is at issue in this paper is however to argue that there is a blind spot in the text with regard to nature. In Ethical Life the rational subject's passions and inclinations are brought into the subject such that she is ‘with herself’ in them; with regard to external nature no such reconciliation is achieved or even attempted. In Abstract Right external nature is effectively dominated by and subsumed into the will and it is never something in which one is with oneself. It remains outside the model of freedom that Hegel develops in the Philosophy of Right. There is something troubling about this formulation, since it excludes nature from freedom, but also something accurate, as it reflects the unresolved attitude of moderns to the natural world.

scholarly journals Osobowość ekologiczna płci - badania ankietowe

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-52
Author(s):  
Irena Grochowska
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Personality Types ◽  
Abnormal State ◽  
Clean Environment ◽  
Clean Air ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Rational Type

After analysing the above answers we can deduct some results, which confirm certain behaviour in girls that can be scientifically explained. A survey helped in establishing ecological consciousness and was a help in characterizing a survival persona. Looking at the answers with inclusion of two different sexes we can follow differences in the views concerning environmental protection, the survey results clearly show a difference in approach to the natural environment depending on the sex. Women more clearly see the beauty, harmony and set order in the environment. Nature astonishes them and is a guarantee of life. Analysing the survey results it is not possible not to see the differences in viewing the natural environment. Quoting Estes we can say that mature woman (surviving woman) looking at a forest sees a home for herself and other people, whilst others looking at the same forest imagine cutting down trees and making money on it. Clean environment allowing life is like air necessary to live and you can only breathe deeply with clean air. It is similar with woman’s psyche where a mechanism of full breath operates and forces her to breathe in the fresh air. The research results confirmed that girls show more concern about harmony and complexity of the natural world and definitely at every opportunity become protectors of life. So a smaller extend that boys they support technological and technical development, they do not see it as a solution to problems connected with degradation of environment. If you would like to separate pro environment personality types taking into account these characteristic for boys and girls, based on the performed survey, we can present: Rational type , scientific thinker and technocrat, consumer, which is dominant in boys answers and emotional type, esthetic environmentalist which is dominant within girls answers. Woman can show man how to admire nature, how to develop sensitivity and open ones eyes to new perspectives, whose theoretical author is often he himself. It is women who with their hearts read and introduce into life philosophical life and written theological works whose authors are men. Woman’s task is activity connected with protecting the wisdom of soul, not to accept abnormal state for normal and to hale the courage to celebrate natural forces with elements of Her soul and life, which a priceless treasure of each woman. When women do not follow their voice when intervening in unacceptable situations her views fade, her nature fades and natural world. Love fades as well as the will to repair the world and harmony with nature, The Word lacks fresh air and water, but also the voice of consciousness. Research I have performed confirmed the thesis I had made and allows to precise the desired personality characteristics, needed to shape a survival personality.

Medievalism and Identity Construction in Pagan Folk Music

2020 ◽  
pp. 585-608
Author(s):  
Scott R. Troyer
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Horror Film ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
Past Half

European interest in its pagan or pre-Christian past has grown and flourished over the past two centuries, from Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s theorization of an ancient, polytheistic nature-based folk religion in the eighteenth century to the iconic 1973 horror film The Wicker Man and its failed 2006 remake. As popular interest has grown around this topic, so too have various groups claiming the heritage of medieval pagan Europe. These modern Pagans face the challenge of constructing a distinct identity tied to a pre-Christian past in a world where medieval pagan culture was suppressed and assimilated, creating a significant temporal gap between ancient practitioners and their more recent successors. Pagans often face this challenge by constructing identities that run counter to the modern, Christian-influenced world, revere a natural world untouched by industrial or postindustrial civilizations, and celebrate the human body. Throughout the past half century, Pagan musicians like the German band Faun and UK-based Omnia have cultivated particular identities through varied references to an idealized pagan Middle Ages. In their outputs, medievalism functions to establish an Otherness to modern society and Christianity, support an ecocentric message, and imagine a liberation of the human body from Christian oppression.

scholarly journals Entre lo orgánico y lo aórgico: figuras de la reconciliación en las teorías estéticas de Schiller y Hölderlin

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaime Llorente Cardo
Keyword(s):  
Natural World ◽  
Common Reference ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Way

RESUMENLas posturas estéticas de Hölderlin y Schiller convergen en un decisivo punto de confluencia: la voluntad de reconciliación entre lo finito y lo infinito, entre lo definido y lo ilimitado. El objetivo último pretendido por esta armonización de potencias opuestas radica en el intento de restañar la originaria fisura entre la subjetividad incondicionada y el mundo natural que se alza ante ella como resistencia y obstáculo. El presente estudio trata de mostrar el modo en el que ambos artistas-pensadores intentan favorecer tal conciliación a través de una común referencia al vínculo estético existente entre lo indeterminado y lo finito.PALABRAS CLAVESchiller, Hölderlin, determinabilidad, reconciliación, formaABSTRACTHölderlin and Schiller´s aesthetical stances concur on a decisive point of confluence: the will to reconciliation between the finite and the infinite, between the defined and the unlimited. The last aim sought by this harmonization of opposed powers has its root in the attempt to stanch the original fissure between the unconditioned subjectivity and the natural world that arises in front of it as a resistance and as an obstacle. The present study tries to show the way in which both artist-thinkers attempt to favor such conciliation through a common reference to the aesthetical bond that exists between the indeterminate and the finite.KEYWORDSSchiller, Hölderlin, determinability, reconciliation, form 

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