Asymmetrical decentralization in Spain – implications for politics and political system/ Decentralizacja niesymetryczna w Hiszpanii – implikacje polityczne i ustrojowe

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wioletta Husar
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
State System ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
System Transformation ◽  
Dynamic Changes ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Main Determinants

AbstractGlobalization processes, weakening position of national states, integration processes, society changes and democratization of systems are just a few of the main determinants of dynamic changes taking place in the twentieth and twenty-first century. Their effects become revealed by, for example, an increasing independece tendencies among nations without their own countries. Spain, for centuries forming a heterogeneous state system, after the fall of the Francoist regime and facing the need for system transformation, has implemented many innovative solutions, especially in the field of territorial decentralization. The intensification of secession demands from the part of autonomous Spanish communities, seems to make introduction of reforms inevitable, reforms that would have to maintain the unity of the monarchy, and on the other hand, to live up to the expectations of the regions.

scholarly journals DANTES LITTERÆRE ATMOSFÆROLOGI

1970 ◽  
Vol 41 (116) ◽  
pp. 33-48
Author(s):  
Dennis Meyhoff Brink
Keyword(s):  
Divine Comedy ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Peter Sloterdijk ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The One ◽  
Atmospheric Phenomena ◽  
Lauren Berlant

DANTE’S LITERARY ATMOSPHEROLOGY | The article argues that recent theories on affect and atmosphere by, for instance, Teresa Brennan, Lauren Berlant, and Peter Sloterdijk, can enter into an extraordinarily fruitful interchange with Dante’s Divine Comedy. On the one hand, these theories can direct our attention to the hitherto overlooked atmospheric phenomena that occur ubiquitously in Dante’s Comedy and provide us with concepts that render them legible as products of human emissions. On the other hand, the numerous descriptions of different atmospheres in Dante’s Comedy can contribute to overcoming the lack of linguistic specifications and distinctions which – according to theorists such as Brian Massumi and Peter Sloterdijk – characterizes today’s Western understanding of affective atmospheres and impedes its ongoing theorization. Based on readings of a selected number of atmospheres in Dante’s Comedy, the article argues that the Comedy not only anticipated insights that were not articulated theoretically until the twentieth and twenty-first century, butalso makes up an exceptional encyclopedia of affective atmospheres that have not yet been examined, neither by Dante researchers, nor by theorists of affects and atmospheres. Therefore, both camps have much to learn from Dante’s literary atmospherology, which the article aims to make explicit.

The Standard of Taste Debate

Food Fights ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 100-123
Author(s):  
Charles C. Ludington
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Tribal Identity ◽  
Political Beliefs ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Class Status ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Standard Of Taste ◽  
The One

On the one hand people like to say that “there is no accounting for taste.” On the other hand, people constantly make judgments about their own and other people’s taste (gustatory and aesthetic). Charles Ludington examines the taste for wine in eighteenth-century England and Scotland, and the taste for beer in twenty-first century America, to argue that taste can in fact be accounted for because it is a reflection of custom, “tribal” identity, gender, political beliefs, and conceptions of authenticity, which are mostly but not entirely conditioned by class status and aspirations. And rightly or wrongly, we judge other people’s taste because taste positions us in society.

Realigning Philosophy and Wisdom in the 21st Century

2020 ◽  
Vol 112 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-340
Author(s):  
Victoria S. Harrison
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Good Life ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Securing a future for philosophy and wisdom in the professionalized and specialized context of twenty-first century academia is the challenge taken up by this article. If the conception of philosophy as the love of wisdom expects too much of philosophers, the construal of philosophy as the study of wisdom expects too little. To attempt to rehabilitate the relationship between philosophy and wisdom by claiming that philosophy is the study of wisdom unreasonably limits the scope of the current vibrant and expansive discipline, leaving it unclear how the more theoretical dimensions of philosophy might fit into it. Moreover, to exclude from consideration the possibility that a person might be improved by philosophy, and his or her life enhanced, is to denature the discipline. The model of philosophy as encouraging friendship with wisdom, on the other hand, does not underestimate philosophy’s potential for helping someone to become the kind of person who could make the choices likely to contribute to the living of a good life. By providing a way of thinking about the relationship between philosophy and wisdom that is appropriate to our age, the idea that philosophers are friends of wisdom can contribute to our evolving practice and understanding of the discipline, while at the same time allowing philosophy and philosophers to remain vitally connected to their heritage.

scholarly journals Izquierda, software e internet: una agenda invisible

2018 ◽  
pp. 289-308
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
New Social Movements ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The One ◽  
Activist Groups ◽  
Los Grupos ◽  
Movimientos Sociales

Resumen: El objetivo de estas páginas consiste en analizar las inscripciones políticas alrededor de ciertas discusiones en curso sobre software e internet. Específicamente: este artículo trata sobre los modos en que distintos grupos activistas abocados a los problemas políticos producto del uso masivo de servicios digitales fuertemente centralizados inscriben su lucha dentro de la tradición cultural de las izquierdas. Si, por un lado, la bibliografía destinada a pensar la izquierda del siglo XXI parece desconocer las propuestas concretas de los grupos activistas, por otro lado, estos mismos apelan a diferentes elementos tanto de la tradición marxista como libertaria. Se trata de discusiones que en buena medida también caen fuera de los estudios político-sociales contemporáneos y los activistas que las llevan a cabo han logrado plantear tanto una desconocida agenda de discusión sobre estos problemas como las coordenadas políticas para pensarlos. A continuación este texto pretende lograr su objetivo a través de tres de estos ejes de discusión: (I) sobre privacidad y criptografía, (II) sobre el uso de software libre y (III) sobre la importancia de utilizar redes descentralizadas. Finalmente, las inscripciones activistas y académicas de estas intervenciones permiten observar cómo se reconfiguran actualmente nuevas prácticas de militancia en relación a otras luchas sociales tradicionales dentro de la izquierda. Palabras clave:Izquierdas, Software libre, Encriptación, P2P, nuevos movimientos sociales Left Thought, Software and Internet: an Invisible Agenda Abstract:The aim of this article is to analyze the activists’ political inscriptions around the discussions connected with software and internet. On the one hand, the literature intended to think the left of the twenty-first century seems to ignore the concrete proposals of these activist groups. Where as, on the other hand, the activists dedicated the digital fights usually appeal to elements of the Marxist and anarchist traditions. Most of these activists have an academic inscription, but, in fact, they raise an unknown agenda of discussion and some concepts to think about it. Therefore, this text aims to achieve its objective through three of these axes of discussion: (I) cryptography and privacy, (II) software libre and left thought, and (III) importance of digital decentralized services. Finally, the activist and academic inscriptions of these interventions might lead us to an analysis of these new militant practices in relation with other traditional struggles of the left culture. Keywords: Left Thought, Software Libre, Cryptography, P2P, New Social Movements

scholarly journals Gurinder Chadha’s Viceroy House (2017) and Other Evictions: Transnational Connections of Past and Present Crises in Cinema

2021 ◽  
pp. 173-187
Author(s):  
Elena Oliete-Aldea ◽  
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Past ◽  
Hybrid Nature ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Transnational Connections ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Global And Local

Crisis is the word that seems to best characterize the twenty-first century conjuncture. The bleakness and instability of an uncertain and troubled present often encourages the proliferation of nostalgic images of past times, which become sweetened scenarios for escapist memories. On the other hand, the local and global current economic, social and political divisions have also brought to light the need to revisit certain aspects of the past from other perspectives. This is the case of Gurinder Chadha’s films, which frequently advocate for the crossing of cultural borders by showing the hybrid nature of communities and their heritage. Following Robert Stam’s cultural and filmic methodology which includes a transdisciplinary, transmediatic, transtextual, transregional, and transartistic approach (2019), I aim to analyze Chadha’s Viceroy’s House as a film that proposes a revision of India’s Partition while offering a critical transnational and intersectional connection of contemporary global and local scenarios.

scholarly journals The Wrong Practice Of Anointing Oil In The Church According To James 5:14 A Theological study

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-20
Author(s):  
Sayangi Laia ◽  
Harman Ziduhu Laia ◽  
Daniel Ari Wibowo
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Theological Study ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

The practice of anointing with oil has been done in the church since the first century to the present. On the other hand, there are also churches which have refused to do this. The practice of anointing with oil has essentially lifted from James 5:14. This text has become one of one text in the New Testament which is quite difficult to understand and bring a variety of views. Not a few denominations of the church understand James 5:14 is wrong, even the Catholic church including in it. The increasingly incorrect practice of anointing in the church today, that can be believed can heal disease physically and a variety of other functions push back the author to check the text of James 5:14 in the exegesis. Studies the exegesis of the deep, which focuses on the contextual, grammatical-structural,

The Imagined War between Secularism and Religion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Juergensmeyer
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Charlie Hebdo

The case of the 2015 attack on the offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine in Paris illustrates the imagined war between secularism and religion that is in the background of many incidents of violence at the turn of the twenty-first century. The Enlightenment idea that there are two different worldviews—two distinctly different spheres of understanding about reality, one of them secular and the other religious—is inherently problematic. This dichotomy creates an arena of discord that is easily exploited by people who feel isolated and marginalized for whatever reason and look for someone to blame and some battle to join. It is a false conflict that extremists on both sides, religious and secular, have exacerbated.

Jan Hasištejnský z Lobkovic: A Fifteenth-Century Czech Traveler to the Mediterranean World

2012 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Lisy-Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Multinational Group ◽  
Central European ◽  
Mediterranean World ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Twenty First Century

In 1493, a Czech nobleman named Jan Hasištejnský z Lobkovic embarked on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. As nearly all Central European pilgrims did, he traveled south through the Tyrol to Venice and joined a large, multinational group there before setting out across the Mediterranean. He remained nearly a month in Venice, meeting prominent political figures, visiting churches and cloisters, and admiring the realism of the painting and sculpture of the Venetian quattrocento. Among all the other marvels of Venice that he describes in his 1505 travelogue is the memory of his day trip to the island of Murano. “In this little town,” he writes, “there are, I think, close to seventy artisans or more, and all are glass makers.” He describes some of the fine works that he saw there, and eagerly adds, “and there is always a great quantity of these various things completed, so that whoever arrives wants to buy something of it.” In this moment, the fifteenth-century tourist is not that far removed from his counterpart in the twenty-first century.

The Practical Economics of Walter Bagehot

1996 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory C. G. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Political System ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Other Hand

Walter Bagehot is an excellent example of the mid-Victorian polymath. He was a banker, journalist, editor, biographer, literary critic, economist and political analyst. The educated reader of today remembers him as the author of The English Constitution, which, though published in 1867, remains one of the best introductions to the workings of the Westminster political system. Economists, on the other hand, vaguely recall him as the monetary commentator who wrote Lombard Street (1873b) and edited The Economist (1861–1877). Only a few historians of economic thought cite Bagehot for his participation in the English Methodenstreit. He played a significant role in this largely forgotten Victorian debate between the historical and orthodox economists. He was one of the first orthodox economists to respond to the historicist challenge, and, in doing so, he articulated a highly controversial relativist interpretation of the orthodox doctrines. Specifically, in response to the historicist claims that recent evidence gathered from custom-bound societies falsified the orthodox

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