Cruel Consciousness

2016 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-114
Author(s):  
Jeanette Samyn
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Natural World ◽  
John Ruskin ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Moral Standards ◽  
Human Ethics ◽  
Ecological Thought ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Way

Jeanette Samyn, “Cruel Consciousness: Louis Figuier, John Ruskin, and the Value of Insects” (pp. 89–114) This essay examines two opposing theories of consciousness and value in relation to nineteenth century entomology. In The Insect World (1868), the French popularizer of science Louis Figuier extends consciousness to aesthetically unappealing and seemingly cruel insects such as parasites by attributing to them sociality and industry. With little recourse to theological or conventional moral standards, Figuier ascribes value to parasites—on account of their consciousness, which aligns their experience with human sentience, and also because of their role as environmental mediators. In this view, he subtly paves the way for a biocentric approach to the natural world that remains controversial today. John Ruskin, meanwhile, brings up popular entomology (epitomized, he says, by Figuier’s text) as a complicated counter to his own views on labor and aesthetics in his letters to the working men and women of England, Fors Clavigera (1871–84). Questioning the contemporary “instinct” for the study of parasites—and despite recent associations of Ruskin with ecological thought—Ruskin takes pains in these letters to uphold the difference between human and nonhuman life. In his efforts to limit consciousness to the most valuable and difficult of human labors, however, he engages seriously with the implications of proto-parasitological thought for human ethics.

“There is nothing human in nature”

2020 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 473-501
Author(s):  
Pascale M. Manning
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Bearing Witness ◽  
Ecological Thought ◽  
Boundary Lines ◽  
The Way

Pascale M. Manning, “‘There is nothing human in nature’: Denying the Anthropocene in Richard Jefferies” (pp. 473–501) This essay contends that the work of the nineteenth-century British writer and naturalist Richard Jefferies embodies both a recognition and a radical denial of the Anthropocene, expressing a nascent form of the ambivalence that stalks our contemporary recognitions and misrecognitions of the human in/and nature. Drawing upon a range of Jefferies’s writings—both his essays and his autobiography in addition to his fiction—it argues that there exists in Jefferies’s work a recurring vein of anti-ecological thought, particularly evidenced in the way it frequently depicts strict boundary lines, whether between agricultural and urban spaces, between civilization and wild nature, or between the human and the natural world. Taking issue with recent ecocritical accounts of Jefferies’s post-apocalyptic novel After London (1885), this essay rereads Jefferies’s novel in light of the wider range of his writings to argue that it is most usefully read not as a proto-ecological rebuke to the unsustainability of human agro-industrial practices, nor as a prophetic evocation of a world re-greened by the collapse of those practices, but rather as the irresolute culmination of a career spent both testifying to the essential inviolability of nature and bearing witness to the mounting evidence of anthropogenic rupture.

scholarly journals "The blindfold test"

1970 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 37-54
Author(s):  
Sabina Versieck
Keyword(s):  
Gender Difference ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Women's Writing ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Room Of One's Own ◽  
Women’S Writing ◽  
The Way

Is there a recognisable gender difference in the way men and women write?Is it possible to tell an author's gender from his or her prose? Or as E.M.Forster puts it: when you are reading a book can you teil instinctively whetherit is the work of a man or a woman? Virginia Woolf is concerned with thesequestions in (a.o.) A Room of One's Own; E.M. Forster writes about them inThe Feminine Note in Literature. Both Woolf's views and those of E.M.Forster on the difference between men's writing and women's writing and onsexual difference in general are examined and compared and put in a broadercontext.

Advertising for Love

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Epstein
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Personal Interaction ◽  
Matrimonial Advertisements ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

This chapter discusses how matrimonial ads give a new and unique insight into the way that rapid urban growth and capitalism of the nineteenth century affected people's intimate lives and their approach to experiencing love. Matrimonial advertisers provide an excellent window into how these upheavals in society were negotiated; they were ordinary men and women who wanted nothing more than to conform to a middle-class lifestyle but felt forced to find traditional relationships in an unconventional fashion. Matrimonial advertisements provided a space, for urban dwellers in particular, in which to experiment with a new kind of personal interaction. Matrimonials revealed individuals who were on the move—both geographically and socially—circulating themselves in public in an attempt to find intimacy.

Symmetry and space Groups

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Pickworth Glusker ◽  
Kenneth N. Trueblood
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Property ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Symmetry Operation ◽  
Bravais Lattice ◽  
High Symmetry ◽  
Space Group ◽  
Space Groups ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Symmetry Operations ◽  
The Way

A certain degree of symmetry is apparent in much of the natural world, as well as in many of our creations in art, architecture, and technology. Objects with high symmetry are generally regarded with pleasure. Symmetry is perhaps the most fundamental property of the crystalline state and is a reason that gemstones have been so appreciated throughout the ages. This chapter introduces some of the fundamental concepts of symmetry—symmetry operations, symmetry elements, and the combinations of these characteristics of finite objects (point symmetry) and infinite objects (space symmetry)—as well as the way these concepts are applied in the study of crystals. An object is said to be symmetrical if after some movement, real or imagined, it is or would be indistinguishable (in appearance and other discernible properties) from the way it was initially. The movement, which might be, for example, a rotation about some fixed axis or a mirror-like reflection through some plane or a translation of the entire object in a given direction, is called a symmetry operation. The geometrical entity with respect to which the symmetry operation is performed, an axis or a plane in the examples cited, is called a symmetry element. Symmetry operations are actions that can be carried out, while symmetry elements are descriptions of possible symmetry operations. The difference between these two symmetry terms is important. It is possible not only to determine the crystal system of a given crystalline specimen by analysis of the intensities of the Bragg reflections in the diffraction pattern of the crystal, but also to learn much more about its symmetry, including its Bravais lattice and the probable space group. As indicated in Chapter 2, the 230 space groups represent the distinct ways of arranging identical objects on one of the 14 Bravais lattices by the use of certain symmetry operations to be described below. The determination of the space group of a crystal is important because it may reveal some symmetry within the contents of the unit cell.

Objectcy and Agency

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denis M. Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Evolution ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Modern Synthesis ◽  
Scientific Theories ◽  
Object Theory ◽  
Theory Of Evolution ◽  
Agent Theory ◽  
Comprehensive Account ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Way

Organisms are like nothing else in the natural world. They are agents. Methodological vitalism is a view according to which the difference that organisms make to the natural world cannot be captured wholly if we treat them as mere objects. Understanding agency calls for a different kind of theory, an agent theory. Most of our scientific theories are object theories. The modern synthesis theory of evolution is a prominent example of object theory. Being the way it is, it cannot countenance the contribution to evolution that organisms make as agents. A comprehensive account of adaptive evolution requires an agent theory.

scholarly journals Sensory Perception, History and Geology

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Read
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
John Locke ◽  
The United States ◽  
John Ruskin ◽  
William Hazlitt ◽  
Theology And Science ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Verbal Analysis

William Molyneux's question to John Locke about whether a blind man restored to sight could name the difference between a cube and a sphere without touching them shaped fundamental conflicts in philosophy, theology and science between empirical and idealist answers that are radically alien to current ways of seeing and feeling but were born of colonizing ambitions whose devastating genocidal and ecocidal consequences intensify today. This Element demonstrates how landscape paintings of unfamiliar terrains required historical and geological subject matter to supply tactile associations for empirical recognition of space, whereas idealism conferred unmediated but no less coercive sensory access. Close visual and verbal analysis using photographs of pictorial sites trace vividly different responses to the question, from those of William Hazlitt and John Ruskin in Britain to those of nineteenth-century authors and artists in the United States and Australia, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Cole, William Haseltine, Fitz Henry Lane and Eugene von Guérard.

Sartorial Facts and Fashions of the Early 1890s

Costume ◽  
1968 ◽  
Vol 2 (sup1) ◽  
pp. 16-20
Author(s):  
A.A. Whife
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
The Way

It is true to say that the concluding decade of the nineteenth century was a rather nondescript period so far as clothes were concerned. There was little in the way of fashion innovation – in either the masculine or the feminine sphere. Indeed, there had been but few basic changes in the style and cut of clothes for men and women in the latter part of the 1880s, a period in which a certain severity of dress was to be found. The comparatively small ranges of materials and the somewhat restricted variety of their patterns may well have contributed to this. Greys, blues and browns – mostly in plain design and of darkish shade – were almost universal at that time.

The difference between men and women

VASA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 237-238
Author(s):  
Christine Espinola-Klein
Keyword(s):  
Men And Women ◽  
The Difference

PENGARUH TERAPI TERTAWA TERHADAP PENURUNAN TEKANAN DARAH LANSIA DI UPT PANTI WREDHA BUDHI DHARMA YOGYAKARTA

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Niken Setyaningrum ◽  
Andri Setyorini ◽  
Fachruddin Tri Fitrianta
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Group Comparison ◽  
Control Blood Pressure ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Treatment Of Hypertension ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Difference

ABSTRACTBackground: Hypertension is one of the most common diseases, because this disease is suffered byboth men and women, as well as adults and young people. Treatment of hypertension does not onlyrely on medications from the doctor or regulate diet alone, but it is also important to make our bodyalways relaxed. Laughter can help to control blood pressure by reducing endocrine stress andcreating a relaxed condition to deal with relaxation.Objective: The general objective of the study was to determine the effect of laughter therapy ondecreasing elderly blood pressure in UPT Panti Wredha Budhi Dharma Yogyakarta.Methods: The design used in this study is a pre-experimental design study with one group pre-posttestresearch design where there is no control group (comparison). The population in this study wereelderly aged over> 60 years at 55 UPT Panti Wredha Budhi Dharma Yogyakarta. The method oftaking in this study uses total sampling. The sample in this study were 55 elderly. Data analysis wasused to determine the difference in blood pressure before and after laughing therapy with a ratio datascale that was using Pairs T-TestResult: There is an effect of laughing therapy on blood pressure in the elderly at UPT Panti WredhaBudhi Dharma Yogyakarta marked with a significant value of 0.000 (P <0.05)

العربية المقاربة المقاصديّة في ردّ ابن فودي على القادح في جلستهم الدعويّة

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alawiye Abdulmumin Abdurrazzaq ◽  
Ahmad Wifaq Mokhtar ◽  
Abdul Manan Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Analytical Methods ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Subject

This article is aimed to examine the extent of the application of Islamic legal objectives by Sheikh Abdullah bn Fudi in his rejoinder against one of their contemporary scholars who accused them of being over-liberal about the religion. He claimed that there has been a careless intermingling of men and women in the preaching and counselling gathering they used to hold, under the leadership of Sheikh Uthman bn Fudi (the Islamic reformer of the nineteenth century in Nigeria and West Africa). Thus, in this study, the researchers seek to answer the following interrogations: who was Abdullah bn Fudi? who was their critic? what was the subject matter of the criticism? How did the rebutter get equipped with some guidelines of higher objectives of Sharĩʻah in his rejoinder to the critic? To this end, this study had tackled the questions afore-stated by using inductive, descriptive and analytical methods to identify the personalities involved, define and analyze some concepts and matters considered as the hub of the study.

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