scholarly journals Eseistyczna chopinologia Piotra Wierzbickiego

2021 ◽  
pp. 327-348
Author(s):  
Dobrawa Lisak-Gębala
Keyword(s):  
Musical Style ◽  
Philosophical Reflection ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Fundamental Difficulty ◽  
Deep Interest

Piotr Wierzbicki’s deep interest in Chopin’s music has been revealed in his volumes of essays published since 1993. What appears to make his music writings exceptional in comparison with other Polish essays dealing with Chopin’s life and work is the prevailing concentration on particular pieces or even single performances chosen by famous pianists. Wierzbicki develops his project of extradisciplinary essayistic Chopinology that blends together the musicological knowledge, critical involvement, philosophical reflection and highly individual psychosomatic experience. Having stated a fundamental difficulty of ‘translating’ sounds into words, he tries to elaborate a ‘musical’ style and form for his writing, e.g. he includes ekphrases full of metaphors and synesthetic figures. This wide array of music-centred properties encourages readers to treat these essays as a starting point for coming up with the question of whether it is possible to differentiate a type of ‘musical’ essay.

scholarly journals A EMERGÊNCIA E “CRISE” DA CONCEPÇÃO MODERNA DE TEMPO E SUAS IMPLICAÇÕES NA REFLEXÃO HISTORIOGRÁFICA E FILOSÓFICA CONTEMPORÂNEAS

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (28) ◽  
pp. 48-71
Author(s):  
ANTONIO NELORRACION GONÇALVES FERREIRA
Keyword(s):  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Philosophical Reflection ◽  
Modern Conception ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Political Character

Este artigo busca abordar algumas das principais reflexões teórico-metodológicas (algumas com um caráter mais nitidamente político) sobre o tempo no campo das ciências humanas na contemporaneidade. Tem-se como ponto de partida um breve esboço da concepção moderna de tempo. Já que é a constituição e “crise” dessa noção em seus vários desdobramentos que aparece como condição de possibilidade das reflexões que serão aqui abordadas, como: o “campo de experiência” e o “horizonte de expectativa” de Reinhart Koselleck, o tempo redimido em Walter Benjamin e o devir e o acontecimento no tempo não-reconciliado de Gilles Deleuze. Palavras-chave: Tempo. Modernidade.Político.   THE EMERGENCE AND “CRISIS” OF THE MODERN CONCEPTION OF TIME AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR CONTEMPORANY HISTORIOGRAPHICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTION Abstract: This article tries to address some of the main theoretical-methodological reflections (some with a more clearly political character) about the time in the field of the human sciences in the contemporaneity. The starting point is a brief outline of the modern conception of time. Since it is the constitution and "crisis" of this notion in its various unfoldings that appears as a condition of possibility of the reflections that will be addressed here, such as Reinhart Koselleck's "field of experience" and the "horizon of expectation", the redeemed time in Walter Benjamin and the becoming and the event in the unreconciled time of Gilles Deleuze. Keywords: Time. Modernity. Political. LA EMERGENCIA Y “CRISIS” DE LA CONCEPCIÓN MODERNA DE TIEMPO Y SUS IMPLICACIONES EN LA REFLEXIÓN HISTORIOGRÁFICA Y FILOSÓFICA CONTEMPORÂNEAS Resumen: Este artículo busca abordar algunas de las principales reflexiones teórico-metodológicas (algunas con un carácter más nítidamente político) sobre el tiempo en el campo de las ciencias humanas en la contemporaneidad. Se tiene como punto de partida un breve esbozo de la concepción moderna de tiempo. En cuanto a la constitución y “crisis” de esa noción en sus diversos desdoblamientos que aparece como condición de posibilidad de las reflexiones que se abordarán aquí, como: el "campo de experiencia" y el "horizonte de expectativa" de Reinhart Koselleck, el tiempo redimido en Walter Benjamin y el devenir y el acontecimiento en el tiempo no reconciliado de Gilles Deleuze. Palabras clave: Tiempo. Modernidad. Político.

The Bhagavad Gita

2021 ◽  
pp. 31-55
Author(s):  
Christopher W. Gowans
Keyword(s):  
Self Control ◽  
Affective States ◽  
True Self ◽  
Bhagavad Gita ◽  
Philosophical Reflection ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Action Knowledge ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Bhagavad Gītā

The chapter defends an interpretation of the Bhagavad Gita as a self-cultivation philosophy. First, it depicts our existential starting point as a state of anxiety, fear, confusion, and worry. Second, it describes the ideal state of being as a life of wisdom, union with the divine, self-control, peace, renunciation of desire, freedom from attachments and disruptive emotions, and performance of our duties—and ultimately liberation from the cycle of rebirth. Third, its transformation program includes spiritual exercises that emphasize philosophical reflection, meditative understanding, the purification of our affective states, and the reformation of our habits, all under the guidance of Krishna (namely, action, knowledge, and devotion yoga). Finally, this analysis is based on a complex conception of human nature according to which, though our true self appears to be prakṛti (matter), it is in fact puruṣa (spirit), and it is connected to other persons and the divine, especially Krishna.

scholarly journals Introduction: Towards an Ethics of Gesture

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucia Ruprecht
Keyword(s):  
Special Section ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Philosophical Reflection ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Forward Looking

The introduction to this special section of Performance Philosophy takes Giorgio Agamben�s remarks about the mediality and potentiality of gesture as a starting point to rethink gesture�s nexus with ethics. Shifting the emphasis from philosophical reflection to corporeal practice, it defines gestural ethics as an acting-otherwise which comes into being in the particularities of singular gestural practice, its forms, kinetic qualities, temporal displacements and calls for response. Gestural acting-otherwise is illustrated in a number of ways: We might talk of a gestural ethics when gesturality becomes an object for dedicated analytical exploration and reflection on sites where it is not taken for granted, but exhibited, on stage or on screen, in its mediality, in the ways it quotes, signifies and departs from signification, but also in the ways in which it follows a forward-looking agenda driven by adaptability and inventiveness. It interrupts or modifies operative continua that might be geared towards violence; it appears in situations that are suspended between the possibility of malfunction and the potential of room for play; and it emerges in the ways in which gestures act on their own implication in the signifying structures of gender, sexuality, race, and class, on how these structures play out relationally across time and space, and between historically and locally situated human beings.

“Ignorance of Your Culture Is Not Considered Cool”: Reconsidering the Avant-Garde Impulse in American Punk

Damaged ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 63-92
Author(s):  
Evan Rapport
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Musical Style ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Blackface Minstrelsy ◽  
Vernacular Culture ◽  
American Popular Music

This chapter reconsiders the role of American rock experimentalists such as Captain Beefheart, DEVO, and the Residents in the formation of punk’s musical style. Although these musicians are often referenced in punk histories, their contributions are typically misunderstood because of an anachronistic focus on the British punk scene of 1977 as punk’s starting point. These musicians used avant-garde approaches to American popular music and vernacular culture in order to tackle American music’s unacknowledged and whitewashed history, including such controversial practices as blackface minstrelsy, as well as the problems of white suburbia, the war in Vietnam, the failures of hippie idealism, and a frustration with both mainstream American culture and the counterculture.

scholarly journals Om behovet att skilja mellan empiriska och begreppligt konstitutiva frågor

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Birgit Schaffar
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Education ◽  
Fundamental Difference ◽  
Important Task ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Philosophical Reflection ◽  
Educational Processes ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Empirical Approaches

<em><span style="font-family: CronosMM-It_408_10_; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: CronosMM-It_408_10_; font-size: x-small;"><p>This article clarifies the fundamental difference between empirical and conceptual questions in education. In the ongoing debate about the role of philosophy of education, many authors either unreflectively assume or actively demand that philosophy of education should try to adapt to (empircal) science. Through a discussion of the possibilities of a child to open up to educational processes (Herbart: Bildbarkeit) the article illustrates how philosophical reflection on education fundamentally differs in character from empirical approaches. It suggests that one important task for philosophy of education is to clarify what questions can be answered empirically from those that are constitutive of our understanding of education. Wittgenstein’s later philosophy is used as a central starting point in this article.</p></span></span></em><span style="font-family: CronosMM-It_408_10_; font-size: x-small;"></span>

scholarly journals Explicit and Implicit Aspects of Confucian Education

Asian Studies ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-112
Author(s):  
David BARTOSCH
Keyword(s):  
Essential Elements ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
Philosophical Problem ◽  
Philosophical Reflection ◽  
The Core ◽  
General Conception ◽  
Wang Yangming ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Conception Of Man

The following essay contains a more general philosophical reflection on the significance and some main elements of pre-modern Confucian learning. The topic is developed by presenting some essential elements in the whole range from explicit (linguistically expressible) knowledge to symbolic aspects as well as the (philosophical) problem of ineffable knowing. The essay starts with the general conception of man which underlies the mainstream of Confucian learning. On that basis, the more explicit contents and easily explicable subjects or branches of classical Confucian learning are mapped out. This becomes the starting point to move on to reflect on a more symbolic layer of Confucian learning. Finally, the core level of Confucian learning is addressed. This presents us with the problem of ineffability. The reference points of the present essay are restricted to some important classical passages as well as the thought of Wang Yangming 王陽明 (1472–1529).

scholarly journals Roman Ingarden’s theory of intentional musical work

Muzikologija ◽  
2004 ◽  
pp. 155-165
Author(s):  
Jan Stęszewski
Keyword(s):  
Single Layer ◽  
Intentional Object ◽  
Musical Experience ◽  
Musical Work ◽  
Philosophical Reflection ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Starting Point

Roman Ingarden (1893-1970) is a representative of the phenomenological trend in philosophy. He pursued his ontological interests in his fundamental treatise Das literarische Kunstwerk that was the starting point for his studies of other areas of art including music. For Ingarden, direct musical experience is a starting point for philosophical reflection, which should be free from any theoretical prejudice. He considers the essence of the musical work in such dimensions as ontological, the work?s structure, its perception and axiology (aesthetics). Ingarden formulates a thesis about a single layer of the musical work, an aspect which distinguishes music from other works of art. A musical work is for him a purely intentional object whose origins spring from creative acts of composers and whose ontological basis rests directly in the score.

Analysis of the evolution of culture

2020 ◽  
pp. 40-43
Author(s):  
S. Petrova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Philosophical Reflection ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Artistic Life ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Post Industrial

The paper is devoted to the analysis of determinants and sources of culture. If earlier certain cultural values have not changed for many centuries, determining the existence of more than one generation, now several cultural eras alternate throughout one life. The transition to a post-industrial society leads to a transformation in the spiritual sphere and the emergence of mass culture. It is shown that the starting point for the philosophical reflection of mass culture should be beyond the consideration of this phenomenon only as a phenomenon of artistic life of "people of mass culture" and the definition of its conditionality from the development of culture of society as a whole.

Crystal structure images of large gold clusters and growing crystals by HRTEM

1984 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 428-429
Author(s):  
L.R. Wallenberg ◽  
J.-O. Bovin ◽  
G. Schmid
Keyword(s):  
Crystal Structure ◽  
Nucleation And Growth ◽  
Close Packing ◽  
Gold Clusters ◽  
Molecular Weight Determination ◽  
Growth Mechanisms ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Nucleation And Growth Mechanisms ◽  
Points Of View

Metallic clusters are interesting from various points of view, e.g. as a mean of spreading expensive catalysts on a support, or following heterogeneous and homogeneous catalytic events. It is also possible to study nucleation and growth mechanisms for crystals with the cluster as known starting point.Gold-clusters containing 55 atoms were manufactured by reducing (C6H5)3PAuCl with B2H6 in benzene. The chemical composition was found to be Au9.2[P(C6H5)3]2Cl. Molecular-weight determination by means of an ultracentrifuge gave the formula Au55[P(C6H5)3]Cl6 A model was proposed from Mössbauer spectra by Schmid et al. with cubic close-packing of the 55 gold atoms in a cubeoctahedron as shown in Fig 1. The cluster is almost completely isolated from the surroundings by the twelve triphenylphosphane groups situated in each corner, and the chlorine atoms on the centre of the 3x3 square surfaces. This gives four groups of gold atoms, depending on the different types of surrounding.

Two isoprenylated flavonoids from Dorstenia psilurus activate AMPK, stimulate glucose uptake, inhibit glucose production and lower glycemia

2019 ◽  
Vol 476 (24) ◽  
pp. 3687-3704 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aphrodite T. Choumessi ◽  
Manuel Johanns ◽  
Claire Beaufay ◽  
Marie-France Herent ◽  
Vincent Stroobant ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Glucose Uptake ◽  
Human Cancer ◽  
Glucose Production ◽  
Liver Mitochondria ◽  
New Drugs ◽  
Structural Isomer ◽  
Rat Liver Mitochondria ◽  
Ionization Mass ◽  
Ampk Activation ◽  
Starting Point

Root extracts of a Cameroon medicinal plant, Dorstenia psilurus, were purified by screening for AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) activation in incubated mouse embryo fibroblasts (MEFs). Two isoprenylated flavones that activated AMPK were isolated. Compound 1 was identified as artelasticin by high-resolution electrospray ionization mass spectrometry and 2D-NMR while its structural isomer, compound 2, was isolated for the first time and differed only by the position of one double bond on one isoprenyl substituent. Treatment of MEFs with purified compound 1 or compound 2 led to rapid and robust AMPK activation at low micromolar concentrations and increased the intracellular AMP:ATP ratio. In oxygen consumption experiments on isolated rat liver mitochondria, compound 1 and compound 2 inhibited complex II of the electron transport chain and in freeze–thawed mitochondria succinate dehydrogenase was inhibited. In incubated rat skeletal muscles, both compounds activated AMPK and stimulated glucose uptake. Moreover, these effects were lost in muscles pre-incubated with AMPK inhibitor SBI-0206965, suggesting AMPK dependency. Incubation of mouse hepatocytes with compound 1 or compound 2 led to AMPK activation, but glucose production was decreased in hepatocytes from both wild-type and AMPKβ1−/− mice, suggesting that this effect was not AMPK-dependent. However, when administered intraperitoneally to high-fat diet-induced insulin-resistant mice, compound 1 and compound 2 had blood glucose-lowering effects. In addition, compound 1 and compound 2 reduced the viability of several human cancer cells in culture. The flavonoids we have identified could be a starting point for the development of new drugs to treat type 2 diabetes.

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