scholarly journals Situating strategic or hybrid Confucianism(s): Issues and problematics

2021 ◽  
pp. 204382062110177
Author(s):  
Andrew M Law
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Main Claim ◽  
Contemporary Chinese ◽  
Made In

This commentary reviews the arguments made in An et al.’s ‘Towards a Confucian Geopolitics’. Particularly, I consider An et al.’s main claim that a form of strategic and/or ‘hybrid Confucianism’ has played a significant role in the construction of contemporary Chinese geopolitics. While I accept aspects of this argument, this commentary also raises further theoretical and empirical issues that are immanent within the work. I draw attention to: (1) concerns relating to the historical narrative constructed by the authors; (2) problematics relating to the recent diversity of contemporary Confucian discourse; and (3) questions relating to the geographies of Confucianism.

The Values of Imperfection

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 225-238
Author(s):  
Mads Rosendahl Thomsen
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Made In ◽  
The Way

Georges Perec's La Vie mode d'emploi ( Life: A User's Manual) was famously based on a number of meticulously crafted lists, including a list of errors that should be made in the writing of each chapter. The engagement with imperfection in Perec's novel is central in the way it balances structure and composition with random and exchangeable elements and throughout his work the random plays a significant role. In this article, I will move from Perec's work to a wider discussion of the values of imperfection in two distinct domains: the idea of the classic and the vision of the posthuman.

Stability through Change: The Pervasiveness of Political Ideas

1999 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas Hinnfors
Keyword(s):  
Rational Choice ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Path Dependency ◽  
Main Claim ◽  
Political Ideas ◽  
Policy Window ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Point Of Reference ◽  
Made In

For all the day-to-day changes, the parties have actually been surprisingly faithful to their overarching ideologies. However, in no way has this stability precluded change. The main claim made in this article is that, on the contrary, in several instances it appears that the only way of keeping up ideological stability is through policy change. The kind of stability based on an ongoing adaptation and change might be the very triggering cause behind the successful opening up of a policy window. By offering a firm point of reference, ideology analysis could function as a bridge between ‘formative’ approaches – which indicate some degree of actor freedom — and ‘path dependency’ approaches – which stress deterministic structuring by institutions – and provide one of the missing links between institutional and rational choice analyses.

scholarly journals Art and memory. Artistic contemporaneity at the Exile Memorial Museum (MUME)

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 289
Author(s):  
Alfons Quera Carré
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Historical Explanation ◽  
Artistic Creation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Memorial Museum ◽  
Materials Used

Since its opening to the public in 2008, the MUME has been giving importance to artistic creation throughout its programmatic proposal. Moreover, in the permanent exhibition which leads the thematic axis of the museum, contemporary creation already has a very significant role. The materials used, the museographic devices distribution, the interchange between visual and artistic resources along with the historical explanation, place the MUME on the same line as other international memorial institutions. Therefore, from the very beginning, the presence of art among historical narrative was considered unavoidable.

scholarly journals History in High Places: Tatarna Monastery and the Pindus Mountains

2021 ◽  
Vol 64 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Molly Greene
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Western Balkans ◽  
Central State ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
History Of ◽  
Promising Source ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Made In

Abstract Monasteries and the records they produced are a promising source base for writing a history of the mountains of the western Balkans. These mountains are, by and large, absent from accounts of the Ottoman presence in the Balkans and, as with mountainous areas more generally, are often considered to exist outside of the main historical narrative. Using the example of a monastery that was founded in the Pindus mountains in 1556, I argue that the monastery’s beginnings are best understood within the context of the Ottoman sixteenth century, even as due regard for Byzantine precedent must also be made. In addition, I pay close attention to the monastery’s location, for two reasons. First, this opens up a new set of questions for the history of monasteries during the Ottoman period; to date most studies have focused on taxation, land ownership and the relationship to the central state. Second, the monastery’s location offers a way into the environmental history of these mountains at the Empire’s western edge. This article aspires to extend the nascent field of Ottoman environmental history into mountainous terrain.

‘But Art itself is Natural to Man’: Adam Ferguson and the Principle of Simultaneity

2018 ◽  
pp. 109-123
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Berry
Keyword(s):  
Human Experience ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Material Life ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Short Hand ◽  
Made In

Despite a passage in his Institutes Ferguson does not systematically order his historical narrative in terms of what is labelled (as short-hand) the ‘four stages’. Ferguson’s conception and typology of ‘arts’ is explored; more particularly it addresses his argument that all the arts are co-eval in human experience. Hence Ferguson claims of the basic 3-fold classification (made in the Principles) of commercial, political and ornamental arts that they are simultaneous. As he recognises this means it is mistake to prioritise, both chronologically and conceptually, those arts which attend to the exigencies of material life over those which serve the need for mental attainment and ornament.

Eros Interrupted

2021 ◽  
pp. 127-149
Author(s):  
Tony Pipolo
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Special Weight ◽  
Visual Description ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Made In

The two films discussed in this chapter on Robert Beavers speak to two kinds of loss. The Ground is an elegiac work made in the wake of the death of Gregory Markopoulos, friend and partner of Beavers from the early 1980s until Markopoulos’ death. Sotiros is compoed of three earlier films, later combined into one film in two sections. The first section is a visual description of the Beavers/Markopoulos relationship, while the second focuses on the impact on that relationship of injuries suffered by Beavers as a result of an accident. The author argues that the melancholic tenor of these circumstances is given special weight through the filmmaker’s use of synecdoche, contrasting the head, lens, and tripod of the camera with various parts of his damaged body. In both sections of the film the significant role of Apollo as the god of light and healing is stressed.

scholarly journals Education in European cinema and society’s exclusion of the young

Comunicar ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (35) ◽  
pp. 53-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrique Martínez-Salanova-Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
European Cinema ◽  
Role Of Parents ◽  
Children Education ◽  
Made In

This article analyses the portrayal of education in European cinema from the perspective of systems of education and the behaviour of teachers and pupils in the classroom. Since its very beginnings, cinema has played a significant role in forming the collective European memory, and has cast a critical eye over pedagogy and didactics, especially with regard to young outcasts. The article reviews a number of films whose subject is education, the classroom and the role of parents and teachers in educating children. Education and children is a recurring theme in European cinema, which examines its subject from a critical viewpoint that is sometimes satirical and occasionally savage. The exclusion, marginalization, neglect and manipulation of children and adolescents, and the abuse and merciless severity of certain educational systems are all part of the collective European memory thanks to the condemnation of some of the best films ever made in the continent. They ask pointed questions about educational systems, the behaviour of teachers and inadequate didactics, as well as tackling the conflicts in a multiethnic society. Analizar el cine europeo desde una perspectiva educativa y en cuanto a sus sistemas educativos y la vida en las aulas de profesores y alumnos, es el objeto de este trabajo. El cinematógrafo, desde sus comienzos, ha tenido una gran influencia en el establecimiento de la memoria colectiva europea, en especial, en la visión crítica que aporta al mundo de la pedagogía y la didáctica, que ha tratado casi desde sus inicios, en particular hacia los menores y adolescentes marginados. Se citan brevemente y se presentan una serie de films que tienen que ver con la educación, las aulas, el rol de maestros, profesores, padres y educadores en relación con los niños… temas que han sido recurrentes en el cine europeo, expuesto en su mayor parte de forma crítica, y en ocasiones, de manera satírica o con excepcional dureza. La exclusión, la marginalidad y el abandono, la manipulación de niños y adolescentes, los malos tratos y la dureza despiadada de algunos sistemas educativos… forman parte de la memoria colectiva de Europa, con la ayuda de algunas denuncias del mejor cine que se han realizado en el Continente. Se plantean así agudos interrogantes sobre la educación, los sistemas educativos, los comportamientos de maestros y profesores y la escasez de didácticas adecuadas, así como los conflictos en una sociedad multiétnica.

Balancing, Judicial Review, and Disobedience: Comments on Richard Posner's Analysis of Anti-Terror Measures (Not a Suicide Pact)

2009 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Re'em Segev
Keyword(s):  
Distributive Justice ◽  
Judicial Review ◽  
Moral Theory ◽  
General Assumption ◽  
Small Probability ◽  
Main Claim ◽  
Competing Interests ◽  
Utilitarian Theory ◽  
Made In

The general assumption that underlines Richard Posner's argument in his book Not a Suicide Pact is that decisions concerning rights and security in the context of modern terrorism should be made by balancing competing interests. This assumption is obviously correct if one refers to the most rudimentary sense of balancing, namely, the idea that normative decisions should be made in light of the importance of the relevant values and considerations. However, Posner advocates a more specific conception of balancing, both substantively and institutionally. Substantiality, he argues for balancing based on a consequential moral theory that rejects the ideas of deontological rights and particularly absolute or very weighty deontological rights. More specifically, it seems that Posner assumes a utilitarian theory that also rejects intrinsic concern for distributive justice. Institutionally, Posner argues that this method of reasoning should be adopted by judges when interpreting the Constitution. These substantive and institutional background assumptions are of course controversial, but I do not dispute them in this Article. My critique concerns Posner's conclusions based on these assumptions. Posner's main claim is that given the magnitude of the danger of modern terrorism, even a small probability that an act of terror may occur justifies extreme anti-terror measures.

Nicholson Versus Ingram on the History of Political Economy and a Charge of Plagiarism

2000 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 433-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Moore
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
History Of ◽  
A Charge ◽  
History Of Political Economy ◽  
Made In ◽  
Methodological Debate

In 1885 John Kells Ingram published a lengthy article on the history of political economy in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and in 1888 he republished this same article, with only minor changes, as a book entitled The History of Political Economy. Ingram unashamedly interpreted the historical development of political economy from a Comtean variant of the historicist perspective, and, for this reason, these publications became extremely important for the methodological debate, known as the English Methodenstreit, then raging between the orthodox and historical economists. Although the historicist message dovetailed into Ingram's historical narrative was clearly contentious and polemical, the reviews of both versions of this history from either side of the conceptual divide were overwhelmingly positive. Two exceptions were damning anonymous newspaper reviews in The Scotsman: one in 1885 in response to the Encyclopaedia Britannica article, and another in 1888 in response to the book. It is apparent from an entry made in the diary of John Neville Keynes that the first of these reviews was written by Joseph Shield Nicholson (JNK, July 28, 1885, Add 7834), and since the articles are strikingly similar in tone, substance, and style, and since Nicholson wrote other reviews for The Scotsman, it is safe to assume that the second article was also written by Nicholson. The substance of Nicholson's critique can be reduced to two main accusations: first, that Ingram was neither qualified to write a history of political economy nor competent to comment on the methodological issues then under scrutiny, and second, that Ingram had brazenly plagiarized passages drawn from various German histories of political economy.

scholarly journals IDENTITIES IN BRANDT SEMIGROUPS, REVISITED

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 80
Author(s):  
Mikhail V. Volkov
Keyword(s):  
Brandt Semigroup ◽  
Original Proof ◽  
Main Claim ◽  
Brandt Semigroups ◽  
Finite Exponent ◽  
Made In

We present a new proof for the main claim made in the author's paper "On the identity bases of Brandt semigroups" (Ural. Gos. Univ. Mat. Zap., 14, no.1 (1985), 38–42); this claim provides an identity basis for an arbitrary Brandt semigroup over a group of finite exponent. We also show how to fill a gap in the original proof of the claim in loc. cit.

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