scholarly journals THE COUNTERPOINT OF EARTH AND WORLD MEANINGS IN THE NATIONAL IDENTITY’ EXPRESSION

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edvardas ČIULDĖ ◽  
Asta STEIKŪNIENĖ
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Political Awareness ◽  
The Public ◽  
Economic Exploitation ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Identity Expression ◽  
Scientific Reduction

The meanings of the earth and the world can be associated with issues of national identity. In the article, the issues of fostering national identity are discussed in the context of M. Heidegger's philosophy‘s outlook on a land and world disputes. The article tries to define how much a nation can be an object of scientific cognition. Understanding the nation as a resistance to limiting objectification is a methodological background to the development of the topic, which obliges the philosophical interpretation of the problem to be trusted, at least as a scientific reduction of the problem. Sketches of the earth and the world we use as a kind of catalysts of intellectual imagination and methodological guides. The main aim of the article is the attempt to analyze the conditions of the expression of the national identity in terms of both the subject matter and the non-objective reflection, where different approaches complement each other (what we call by the term "counterpoint", borrowed from the theory of music). The collision of national identities through Martin Heidegger's typology of images has not been examined before. There are also discussed the untapped reserves for nurturing Lithuanian identity - both spiritual and economic. The aim is to refine the political awareness of the Public Treaty model raised by the Enlightenment thinkers. Land is an important factor in the economic development of a so ciety and the object of economic exploitation, but, more importantly, it is a standpoint in establishing and maintaining the nation's vitality. The dispute between the earth and the world which foster the thesis of national identity acquires the essence of the truth of being.

scholarly journals Coming up for Air: On Reading in a Global Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-21
Author(s):  
Aparna Tarc
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Teaching Of Reading ◽  
Racial Injustice ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Public Sphere

The thought of breath grips the world as climate change, racial injustice and a global pandemic converge to suck oxygen, the lifeforce, out of the earth. The visibility of breath, its critical significance to existence, I argue, is made evident by poets. To speak of breath is to lodge ourselves between birth and death and requires sustained, meditative, attentive study to an everyday yet taken for granted practice. Like breathing, reading is also a practice that many took for granted until the pandemic. My paper will engage the affective and/or poetic dimensions of reading left out of theories of literacy that render it instrumental and divorced from the life of the reader (Freire, 1978). I will suggest that scholars of literacy, in every language, begin to engage a poetics of literacy as attending to the existential significance of language in carrying our personhood and lives. I will also argue that our diminishing capacities to read imaginatively and creatively have led to the rise of populist ideologies that infect public discourse and an increasingly anti-intellectual and depressed social sphere. Despite this decline in the practice and teaching of reading, it is reported that more than any other activity, reading sustained the lives of individuals and communities’ during a global pandemic. Teachers and scholars might take advantage of the renewed interested in reading to redeliver poetry and literary language to the public sphere to teach affective reading. Poetry harkens back to ancient practices of reading inherent in all traditions of reading. It enacts a pedagogy of breath, I argue, one that observes its significance in our capacity to exist through the exchange of air in words, an exchange of vital textual meanings we have taken for granted as we continue to infect our social and political world and earth with social hatred, toxins, and death. In this paper I engage fragments of poetry by poets of our time (last century onward) that teaches us to breathe and relearn the divine and primal stance that reading poetry attends to and demands. More than any other form, “poetry,” Ada Limon claims, “has breath built into it”. As such, reading poetry helps us to breathe when the world bears down and makes it hard for us to come up for air.

Nothing Absolute

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Theology ◽  
German Idealism ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Theological Perspective ◽  
Traditional Approaches ◽  
First Time ◽  
Point Of Reference

Staging for the first time in extant scholarship a rigorous encounter between German thought from Kant to Marx and new forms of political theology, this ground-breaking volume puts forward a distinct and powerful framework for understanding the continuing relevance of political theology today as well as the conceptual and genealogical importance of German Idealism for its present and future. Against traditional approaches that view German Idealism as essentially a secularizing movement, this volume approaches it as the first speculative articulation of the political-theological problematic in the aftermath of the Enlightenment and the advent of secularity. Via a set of innovative readings and critiques, the volume investigates anew such concepts as immanence, utopia, sovereignty, mediation, indifference, the earth, the absolute, or the world, bringing German Idealism and Romanticism into dialogue with contemporary investigations of the (Christian-)modern forms of transcendence, domination, exclusion, and world-justification. Over the course of the volume, post-Kantian German thought emerges as a crucial phase in the genealogy of political theology and an important point of reference for the ongoing reassessment of modernity and secularity. As a result, this volume not only rethinks the philosophical trajectory of German Idealism and its aftermath from a political-theological perspective, but also demonstrates what can be done with (or against) German Idealism using the conceptual resources of political theology today.

National Identity in and around Multinational Corporations

2020 ◽  
pp. 601-617
Author(s):  
Alexei Koveshnikov ◽  
Janne Tienari ◽  
Eero Vaara
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Organizational Context ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Group Level ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Changing Roles

This chapter focuses on national identity in and around multinational corporations (MNCs). The authors offer three conceptualizations of national identity and demonstrate how it may be studied in MNCs. First, they argue that organizational actors (re)construct their national identities via references to, and associations with, particular ideologies and worldviews. These are rigid constructions, which are deeply rooted in actors’ place in and fundamental views about the world. Second, national identity is (re)constructed through group-level relations vis-à-vis relevant ‘others’ in the specific organizational context. Such constructions are relatively stable but they are relational in the sense that they are rooted in actors’ identification with their cultural group. Finally, national identities are (re)constructed by organizational actors through mundane everyday relations and interaction. These are fluid and temporary constructions contingent on the immediate interests of those involved and the social dynamics of specific interactions. Based on their conceptualization, the authors outline avenues for future research to understand better the changing roles and implications of national identity in modern organizations.

scholarly journals Preservation of national identity as one of UNESCO’s roles

2016 ◽  
pp. 877-888
Author(s):  
Miodrag Cujic
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Social Development ◽  
The State ◽  
National Identities ◽  
International Organization ◽  
State Sovereignty ◽  
Strategic Objectives ◽  
Historical Monuments ◽  
The World

The cultural heritage and historical monuments are silent witnesses of social development and they deserve a special place in the world?s annals, both in material and in spiritual sense. In this regard, UNESCO has undertaken a number of measures which recognize such values. However, the current international events directly usurp cultural and historical features using international politics which in the process of globalization puts in an uncertain position the characteristics of certain national identities. The jurisdiction of this international organization is compromised by pressures of leading international subjects. By defining its strategic objectives, the position of the state sovereignty of its member states is determined. Consequently, it is necessary to induce the criteria and proposals to prevent such tendencies in order to preserve not only the cultural heritage of a nation, territory, religious population, but also its identity and its statehood.

scholarly journals The Transnationalism of Swedish and Russian National Theatres in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century: How Foreign Performative Art Sharpened the Aesthetics of National Identity

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 104
Author(s):  
Maria Berlova
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
National Identity ◽  
National Identities ◽  
European Countries ◽  
General Tendency ◽  
English Drama ◽  
National Cultures ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
French And English ◽  
Similarities And Differences

In this article, I consider the formation of national theatres in Sweden and Russia under the guidance of King Gustav III and Empress Catherine II. Both Swedish and Russian theatres in the second half of the eighteenth century consolidated their nationalism by appealing to various national cultures and absorbing them. One of the achievements of the Enlightenment was the rise in popularity of theatre and its transnationalism. Several European countries, like Russia, Sweden, Po- land, Hungary and others, decided to follow France and Italy’s example with their older traditions, and participate in the revival of the theatrical arts, while aiming at the same time to preserve their national identities. The general tendency in all European countries of “second theatre culture” was toward transnationalism, i.e. the acceptance of the inter-penetration between the various European cultures with the unavoidable impact of French and Italian theatres. The historical plays of the two royal dramatists – Gustav III and Catherine II – were based on nation- al history and formulated following models of mainly French and English drama. The monarchs resorted to the help of French, Italian and German composers, stage designers, architects, choreographers and actors to produce their plays. However, such cooperation only emphasized Swedish as well as Russian national- ism. Despite many similarities, Gustav III and Catherine II differed somewhat in how each positioned their own brand of nationalism. By delving deeper into the details of the formation of the national theatres by these monarchs, I will explore similarities and differences between their two theatres.

Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Fresh Perspectives, New Methods. Edited by Richard J. A. Talbert and Richard W. Unger. Pictura et Scriptura: textes, images, et herméneutique des mappae mundi (XIIIe–XVIe siècles). By Margriet Hoogvliet. Maps and Monsters in Medieval England. By Asa Simon Mittman. The Cartographic Imagination in Early Modern England: Re-writing the World in Marlowe, Spenser, Raleigh and Marvell. By D. K. Smith. Novels, Maps, Modernity: The Spatial Imagination, 1850–2000. By Eric Bulson. Constructing Lithuania: Ethnic Mapping in Tsarist Russia, ca. 1800–1914. By Vytautas Petronis. Petermann's Planet: A Guide to German Handatlases and Their Siblings throughout the World, 1800–1950. Vol. 2: The Rare and Small Handatlases. By Jürgen Espenhorst. Catálogo analítico des lo atlas del Museo Naval de Madrid. By Luisa Martín-Merás. Vigilia colonial. Cartógrafos militares españoles en Marruecos (1882–1912). By Luis Urteaga. Mapping Colonial Conquest: Australia and Southern Africa. Edited by Norman Etherington. Mapping Jordan through Two Millennia. By John R. Bartlett. Chaining Oregon: Surveying the Public Lands of the Pacific Northwest, 1851–1855. By Kay Atwood. Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America. By Neil Safier. The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies. By Nicolás Wey Gómez. Coastlines: How Mapmakers Frame the World and Chart Environmental Change. By Mark Monmonier. Geography and Vision: Seeing, Imagining and Representing the World. By Denis Cosgrove. Placing the Enlightenment: Thinking Geographically about the Age of Reason. By Charles W. J. Withers.

Imago Mundi ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-276
Author(s):  
Ronald E. Grim ◽  
Sarah Bendall ◽  
Alfred Hiatt ◽  
Naomi Kline ◽  
Margriet Hoogvliet ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
The Public ◽  
Age Of Reason ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The World ◽  
Ethnic Mapping ◽  
Spatial Imagination ◽  
The Tropics

scholarly journals POLLUTION AND HUMAN HEALTH

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (9SE) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Seema Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Prolonged Exposure ◽  
World Health ◽  
Health Impacts ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Human Need ◽  
Global Concern ◽  
Health Organization

Over the last three decades there has been increasing global concern over the public health impacts attributed to environmental pollution, in particular, the global burden of disease. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that about a quarter of the diseases facing mankind today occur due to prolonged exposure to environmental pollution.  Recent reports have shown that approximately around 50,000 people dies daily due to water pollution only. The main reason behind this rapid increase in pollution is the Human greed of development and industrialization.   Recent reports have shown that with this rapid rate of conservation of natural sources of energy, natural biomass sources would completely vanish from the earth in less than 20years. Clearly, Human Greed has taken over human need of development. In this blind race of industrialization, mankind has forgotten that how much it is affecting our environment and what drastic results would occur if we continue to disrespect the nature.  With this rate of pollution, many severe issues such as Global Warming and depletion of ozone layer etc.

scholarly journals What happened to the Enlightenment?

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Public Health Community ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Public Health Professionals ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Health Community ◽  
The World ◽  
Vested Interests

Abstract Health public policies are built on evidence and reason. Today, these principles are under attack, from politicians who see the truth as optional and by powerful vested interests using ever more sophisticated means to shape public opinion. The ability to create deepfakes, in which words are literally put into the mouths of others, or at least images of them, mean we can no longer believe our eyes. Fake news is widespread, and travels much faster than the truth. In this session we call on the public health community to recognize the threat that these developments pose and to acquire the skills necessary to combat them. How do we recognize fake news? How do we discover who is spreading it, and why? And how do we frame our messages so they don't backfire? Introduced by an investigative journalist who has done more than almost anyone else to expose the scale and nature of interference in political processes, we ask public health professionals from around the world to reflect on what we need to do.

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