scholarly journals The paradoxical self: duality and ambiguity in the works and lives of Oscar Wilde and Morrissey

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 285-302
Author(s):  
Karolina Adamskich
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Oscar Wilde ◽  
The State ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Self Duality ◽  
Social Standards ◽  
Limited Perspective ◽  
Traditional Lifestyle ◽  
Body And Soul

Oscar Wilde’s and Morrissey’s lives seem to be full of contradictions. Their art constitutes a reaction against materialism, traditional lifestyle and social standards, as well as defence of individualism and freedom of thought. So far, their works have been analysed only from a very limited perspective of the tension between aesthetics and ethics. Nevertheless, it is worth mentioning that what prevails in their art is the state of ambivalence and ambiguity in relation to the issues connected with religion and morality, innocence and experience, life and death. This article aims at demonstrating multiplicity of personalities of the artists mentioned and ethical ambivalences of their works. Taken together, Wilde and Morrissey’s creative outputs present a clash between different spheres of life, the divided consciousness and the split between body and soul. Thus, the oscillation between opposite standpoints and values excluding each other is not only the result of the artists’ personal experience but it may symbolise the paradox and absurdity of the human existence as well.

PRACTICES OF DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY FINANCIAL POLICY OF HIGHER EDUCATION INNOVATION OF UKRAINE

2017 ◽  
pp. 72-83
Author(s):  
Vitaliy MARTYNIUK
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
The State ◽  
Direct Result ◽  
Financial Policy ◽  
Innovative Development ◽  
Efficient System ◽  
Social Standards ◽  
Key Factor

Introduction. Article reviews the current state and key aspects of financial policy in higher education and it’s innovative development in Ukraine. Through education institutions achieved increase of social standards, needs and increase welfare, increase the competitiveness of the state as a whole. Purpose. The purpose of this paper is to determine the characteristics of the development strategy of financial policy of innovative development of higher education and finding ways to improve its implementation. Results. The article deals with the importance of an innovative approach to the development of financial strategy in higher education. The ways to improve the effectiveness of the financial policy of innovative development of higher education are defined. Today an important form of state regulation of the economy is macroeconomic planning and forecasting. Conclusion. Innovative development of higher education is the foundation of economic growth of the economy and improvement of social standards. The financial policy of the state in this area is aimed, ultimately, to ensure the welfare of all members of society. Achieving high rates of innovation in the field of higher education facilities by building efficient system of economic mechanisms of financing. Important direct result of providing innovative educational services not only to order the state or the employer, but also on the personal needs of citizens in their development. The level of education is a key factor the ability of the workforce to adapt to new conditions, increase overall efficiency, etc.

scholarly journals Worms, worms, everywhere, and not a one to see: The connotative role of worms in Shakespeare’s canon

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Christine Reid
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
The State ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cultural Constructs ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
The Individual

The study of animals in Shakespeare’s collected works has expanded over the last 30 years. While a number of different animals have been discussed, the importance of the worm in the larger scope of the canon has largely been ignored. By focusing on the perception and presentation of worms in relation to cultural ideas of death, corruption, and consumption, ideas surrounding the body and soul are brought to the forefront. Worms are integral to our understanding of the Early Modern cultural constructs of the body and soul as the presence of worms reveals the state of the individual or the broader environment. Overall, the depiction of worms in Shakespeare’s works serves as a way to understand the metaphysical processes surrounding death and corruption.

scholarly journals THE EXISTENTIAL NATURE OF THE HIKMETS OF AHMED YASSAWI

Adam alemi ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 90 (4) ◽  
pp. 43-52
Author(s):  
N. Sarsenbekov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Direct Path ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Existential Crisis ◽  
Time And Being

This article analyzes existential concepts in the work of Ahmet Yassawi “Diwani hikmet”, which forms the Sufi direction of the deeply rooted Turkic civilization, using comparative research methods. In this context, the article collected and investigated the following metaphysical problems, such as the unity and struggle of time and being, disinterested attachment to the Creator, as well as the phenomenon of life and death. The content of the Hikmet is an existential representation of a religious preaching orientation, filled with the principles of a nomadic civilization developed in the Kazakh steppe. Although the main goal of the Hikmet is religious, there are often such existentials as the existence of the Creator and the problems of human existence, life and death, morality, justice, responsibility, conscience. The main position of the Hikmets is to point out a direct path to the Islamic world and suggest ways to form a “True Muslim”. The concepts of the book of wisdom are a way of revealing transcendental contradictions for those who are in an existential crisis. For those who cannot understand the meaning of life and are in existential stagnation, we decided to use the hikmet of Ahmet Yassawi to explain the meaning of real life.

scholarly journals The etymological reconstruction of the concept of "reincarnation"

2013 ◽  
pp. 105-115
Author(s):  
L. Kompaniec
Keyword(s):  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Religious Values ◽  
Scientific Thought ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
A Value ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Immortality Of The Soul ◽  
Existential Issues

The idea of ​​reincarnation, the belief in the possibility of reincarnation is now one of the most interesting topics. She increasingly attracts the attention of philosophical, religious, and above all scientific thought. It is difficult not to agree with the depth of the circle of existential issues that it covers, because it is a whole range of problems of human existence: despair, life and death, hope, immortality of the soul. As a result, on the basis of attempts to follow the ways of their solution, vital projects of cultures, valuable landmarks are lined up. In the scale of religious values, the idea of ​​immortality of the soul is in higher hierarchical layers as a goal and an ideal, a condition for the achievement of the otherworldly, kingdom of God. In the context of this gradation, the phenomenon of reincarnation, as containing the idea of ​​eternal existence of the soul, has a value aspect, succinctly fits into the hypothetical problem of human immortality and, in our opinion, requires more in-depth study.

scholarly journals Self Development And Integral Theory

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Melissa Baker
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Integral Theory ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Gradual Evolution ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Personal Process ◽  
Experiential Process ◽  
The Moment

Development is a focal point of human existence from the moment of birth. A magnitude of options is offered in which to choose a path of growth and expansion as we progress. The following is a review of one such choice, the integral theory; included are both an explanation of theory and ideology of human development. This understanding is applied to my personal experience as I participated in P.L. Lattuada’s experiential process of organismic constellation. Through a gradual evolution of meditative processes Lattuada’s organismic constellation method offers a chance to explore one’s egoic translations. The second portion of this paper explores my personal process, revealing some of my personal egoic translations of traumas, fixations, complexes, and shadows. KEYWORDS Integral Theory, Organismic Constellations, Consciousness as Such Building, Human Development, First Attention Epistemology, Second Attention Epistemology

The Worst Man in London

2018 ◽  
pp. 103-111
Author(s):  
Andrew Glazzard
Keyword(s):  
Death Certificate ◽  
Oscar Wilde ◽  
John Ruskin ◽  
Algernon Charles Swinburne ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Public House ◽  
James Mcneill Whistler ◽  
Real Person

Charles Augustus Milverton, blackmailer of society women in the 1904 story that bears his name, is assumed by critics to be based on a real person – but which real person is open to doubt. The favourite is Charles Augustus Howell, a larger-than-life associate of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (whose members knew him as ‘Owl’), friend to James McNeill Whistler and Algernon Charles Swinburne, and one-time secretary to John Ruskin. However, it is by no means established that Howell was, in Lancelyn Green’s words, a ‘scoundrel and blackmailer’. He certainly seems to have fallen out with a lot of people, but the more outlandish stories about his life and death – Oscar Wilde may be the source for the claim that Howell was found dying outside a Chelsea public house ‘with his throat cut and a ten shilling piece between his clenched teeth’ – may be urban myths rather than actual facts: his death certificate, for instance, records that he died of pneumonia.

Mesopotamian Religion

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-19
Author(s):  
Tzvi Abusch
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
The State ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The Public ◽  
Religious Significance ◽  
Short Piece ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Cult Of The Individual ◽  
The Temple

This chapter presents the background situation that gave rise to Mesopotamian religious concepts, as well as the forms of the gods and their service in the classical theology of Mesopotamia. The chapter examines both the temple cult, that is, the public dimension of the religion, and the cult of the individual. It studies several supernatural beings, some active in the state pantheon, others in the sphere of family life, and discusses several literary works of religious significance. The chapter concludes its reflections on Mesopotamian religion with a short piece about the Epic of Gilgamesh, a profound Mesopotamian reflection on the meaning of life and death.

Carceral violence at the intersection of madness and crime in Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-285
Author(s):  
Christina Fawcett ◽  
Steven Kohm
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Video Games ◽  
General Population ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
The State ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
High Security

The action-adventure video games Batman: Arkham Asylum (2009) and Batman: Arkham City (2011) draw on familiar comic book narratives, themes and characters to situate players in a world of participatory violence, crime and madness. In the first game, the player-as-Batman is situated in Arkham Asylum, a high-security facility for the criminally insane and supervillains that also temporarily houses a general population of prisoners from Blackgate Penitentiary. The elision of criminality and mental illness becomes amplified in the second game with the establishment of Arkham City, a combined facility that conflates asylum and prison, completely dissolving any distinction between crime and madness. We draw on Rafter’s conceptual framework of popular criminology to seriously interrogate the representation of violence, crime and madness in these games. More than simply texts offering popular explanations for crime, the games directly implicate the player in violence enacted upon the bodies of criminals and patients alike. Violence is necessary to move the action of the game forward and evokes a range of emotional responses from players who draw from personal experience and other cultural and media representations as they navigate the game. We argue that while the game celebrates violence and the brutal conditions of incarceration, it also offers possibilities for subversive and critical readings. While working to affirm assumptions about crime and mental illness, the game also provides a visceral and visual critique of excessive punishment by the state as a source of injustice for those deemed mad or bad.

Monsters that remember: Tracing the story of the Workers' Monument in Tophane, İstanbul

2011 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 9-47
Author(s):  
Meltem Ahiska
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Dead Body ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The Past ◽  
Forms Of Life

AbstractThis article focuses on a particular monument in Tophane, the Workers' Monument, which has been subjected to destructions ever since the time it was put in place in 1973 and which still stands in the same place as a crippled and unidentifiable body. Many people have referred to it as a “monster.” The term “monster” points to unacceptable forms of life, cast aside as “abnormal,” and can be of use in tracing how certain memories are crushed or abandoned and become aberrant. Thus, I argue that the story of the destruction of the Workers' Monument cannot be read independently of the performative command of the state, best observed in erecting Atatürk monuments all over the country as visual embodiments of power and furthermore securing and protecting them against destruction by the force of law. Monuments contribute to the closure of the past as a dead body. However, they also forge a regime of memory and desire that serves power. I dwell on the issue of monuments in Turkey in that interstice between life and death, that is, in their “monstrosity,” so as to reflect on what remainsunrepresentablewithin the complex history—in other words, to reflect on the problem of power, history, and memory/counter-memory.

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