Technoscientific Synergies between Germany and Spain in the Twentieth Century: Continuity amid Radical Change

2009 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert Presas I Puig
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Radical Change

scholarly journals Architettura nel farsi delle cose

ARCHALP ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Working Condition ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Landscape History ◽  
Western Alps ◽  
Local Dimension ◽  
Formal Aspect ◽  
Central Eastern ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Contemporary Architecture

When compared with the central-eastern ones, the Western Alps have experienced a growing marginality in the new century. After all, getting out of the heavy legacy left by twentieth-century modernisation – abandonment of territories and tourism – is not easy. Today, however, there seems to be some evidence of a radical change in sensitivity, characterised by an awareness of the potential and limits of the contemporary architecture in relation to local dimension. This is how environment, landscape, history, traditions, heritage are no longer just a “fetish” to be exhibited for the mountain users, but become the threads with which contemporaneity tries to mend the ties interrupted with the territories. Quality architecture no longer seems to be just a self-referential exercise of composition, but a conscious opportunity to translate the demands, imaginaries, expectations, identities of the territories, in physical projects. Projects that are within the processes and that necessarily respond to compromises, in which sometimes the aesthetic-formal aspect is only one among all that control the project, that become the result of extremely diversified and contrasting questions. This working condition, always at the edge of the processes, inevitably also affects the forms of architecture, in which the difficulties and precariousness of the operational context become a prerequisite for the characterisation of the figurative and architectural aspects.

Tung Pi-wu: A Political Profile

1964 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 66-83
Author(s):  
Howard L. Boorman
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Sustained Attention ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Drastic Change ◽  
Violent Conflict ◽  
May Fourth Movement ◽  
The Past ◽  
Fourth Movement ◽  
National Leaders ◽  
Communist Government

The counterpoint of radical change and durable continuity which has characterised the Communist upheaval in China is nowhere so marked as in the ambivalent attitudes towards youth and age. Traditional China was a backward-looking civilisation, espousing a view of life and of history which esteemed past over present, age over youth, authority over innovation. The twentieth century has seen a definite, often violent, conflict between the generations, with the revolt of 1911, the May Fourth movement, and the Northern Expedition each expressing an aspect of the upsurge of youthful aspiration. The emergence of a Communist government has been marked by a drastic change in the official attitude, a new preoccupation with the future rather than the past, and sustained attention to the organisation of the youth of China, from which group will come the national leaders of the generation ahead.

scholarly journals THE POLITICAL, ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS ORIGINS OF THE CRISIS IN THE BALKANS IN THE LAST DECADE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. E. Rustambekova ◽  
◽  
А.A. Ospanova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
Former Yugoslavia ◽  
The Political ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Soviet Government ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Political Conflicts

The article discusses the prerequisites for the collapse of the former Yugoslavia, which was the "center" of conflicts at the global level, in particular, the onset of religious, ethnic, political conflicts in the Balkans in the last decade of the twentieth century, chronological and geographical conflicts. Specific characteristics are differentiated. The article also examines the situation in which the socialist states of Eastern Europe gained independence from the collapse of the Soviet government in 1991-1992, in particular, in the economic sphere. The epochal systemic changes that followed the collapse of the USSR and Yugoslavia predetermined a radical change in political, social and spiritual orientations and expectations in society. At the same time, the historical consciousness of peoples (like no other sphere of public, including ethnic self-identification) was involved in general transformational processes, reflecting in its development the well-known inconsistency and inconsistency of the socio-political evolution of the former republics in recent decades.

scholarly journals Changing attitudes to secularization processes within the theory of modernization of religion

2020 ◽  
pp. 66-82
Author(s):  
Yuliya Medvedyeva
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
General Theory ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Clash Of Civilizations ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
High Level ◽  
Changing Attitudes ◽  
Random Part

The article considers the key factors in development of the religious situation in the second half of the twentieth century, which caused a radical change in the attitude to the theory of secularization by sociologists of religion. From the beginning, the theory of secularization was a core part of the general theory of modernization and marked the specifics of modernization`s impact on religious life. However, the inability to explain such phenomena as the sharp rise in religiosity in post-socialist countries, as well as the consistently high level of religiosity in the typically modernist United States, led researchers to abandon the classical theory of secularization. Another reason for the change in the attitude to secularization was the presence of a religious component in numerous political conflicts in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The religious factor in the conflicts was so unusual and decisive that under its influence the theory of “clash of civilizations” by S. Huntington was born at the end of the twentieth century. Even though the general theory of modernization has not disappeared and still remains popular among sociologists of religion, there is no clear reference to the theory of secularization. Secularization is considered either a random part of modernization processes at certain stages, or one of the options for the development of the religious situation along with counter-secularization, or even completely rejected as a false positivist construct that has not been validated with the real state of affairs.

Air design, meteorological architecture, and atmospheric preservation: towards a theory of feeling

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 188-193
Author(s):  
Stefano Corbo
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
The Body ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Natural Landscape ◽  
Gaseous State ◽  
Original Meaning ◽  
A Site ◽  
Aesthetic Sensibility ◽  
First Time

In 1960, Belgian artist Rene Magritte painted La Corde Sensible. In the background is a natural landscape, characterised by mountains and by a river. At the front is a champagne glass topped by a cloud. It prompts questions: does the cloud have its own weight? Is the glass mediating between the liquid state of the river and the gaseous state of the cloud? A few years later in 1972, the Viennese group Haus-Rucker-Co depicted a similar provocative scenario in ‘Big Piano’. In place of a champagne glass, a ladder with many steps – each with a different sound – reaches towards a cloud, which is a site of immersion and the loss of orientation.These two examples, along with other artistic manifestations from the same period, reveal the rise of an aesthetic sensibility, which for the first time, questioned traditional physical and perceptual boundaries seemingly fixed by tradition, pursuing a sort of material evanescence. They illustrate a process of formal and conceptual dematerialisation. Generally, one may say that, from the second half of the twentieth century, the discipline of aesthetics experienced a radical change: shifting away from semantic or hermeneutic interpretations back to its original meaning: aesthetics as aisthesis, the ancient Greek word for perception. This implied a rediscovery of the body, the rehabilitation of the senses, and a renewed interest in phenomenology.

scholarly journals Trading Places in New Zealand two women's literary search for self-realization overseas

2014 ◽  
pp. 275-284
Author(s):  
Igor Maver
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Katherine Mansfield ◽  
Women Authors ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Search For Self ◽  
Overseas Travel ◽  
At Home

Toe paper compares sorne of the possíble reasons for the radical change of locale and overseas travel far away from home in the case of the New Zealand writer Katherine Mansfield and especially the Slovenian author Alma Maximiliana Karlin in the early twentieth-century, which shows an interesting parallelism and search for the 'othemess' of experience beyond their respective homelands. If Mansfield decided to leave New Zealand for London to study, and for the second time to avoid the provincial climate at home, then the Slovenian travel writer Alma Karlin decided to leave Europe for Asia and New Zealand at roughly the same time as Mansfield arrived in the modemist literary Bloomsbury area in London. Toe publication of Mansfield's famous collection, I11e Carden Parti; and Other Ston·es (1922), and Karlin's travel book, Solitan; Journey (Die Einsame Weltreise, 1929), almost coincided, although the two women authors never met.

scholarly journals Buddhism in Ukraine

2007 ◽  
pp. 120-129
Author(s):  
Lesya Yuriyivna Kryzheshevska
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
World View ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Legal Personality ◽  
Human Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of

The end of the twentieth century is a turning point for many elements of human culture. Religious life is no exception. Thus, in the history of Ukraine, this time has become a period of radical change in existing world-view structures and ideologies, the birth of new ones and the revival of forgotten world-views. Religion has played and continues to play a significant role in this process. Under these conditions, numerous non-traditional religious trends began to emerge and take root on Ukrainian soil, one of which is Buddhism. The time of economic, political and, finally, meaningful and existent uncertainty, which has become a typical, "normal" phenomenon for Ukraine over the past 15 years, has caused among a certain number of Ukrainians to find meaningful stability in their lives and to make sense of it in the realm of unconventional denominations. Not the exception is Buddhism, which every year finds more and more of its adherents among Ukrainian citizens. About 100 Buddhist communities operate in Ukraine today, of which 43 already have official registration and legal personality.

Some Polish Composers of To-Day

Tempo ◽  
1948 ◽  
pp. 25-28
Author(s):  
Andrzej Panufnik
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Fertile Soil ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Progressive Group ◽  
Karol Szymanowski

It is ten years since KAROL SZYMANOWSKI died at fifty-four. He was the most prominent representative of the “radical progressive” group of early twentieth century composers, which we call “Young Poland.” In their manysided and pioneering efforts they prepared the fertile soil on which Poland's present day's music thrives.

V1214: Edward Loughborough Keyes: An Early Twentieth Century Leader In Urology

2004 ◽  
Vol 171 (4S) ◽  
pp. 320-320
Author(s):  
Peter J. Stahl ◽  
E. Darracott Vaughan ◽  
Edward S. Belt ◽  
David A. Bloom ◽  
Ann Arbor
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Early Twentieth Century
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