scholarly journals 'A Hostile Environment': Failure of Composition in the Poetry of Anna Mendelssohn.

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Self ◽  
Place Of Death ◽  
Hostile Environment ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
The Law ◽  
Ecstatic Experience ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

This essay examines the effects of incompleteness in Anna Mendelssohn’s poetry, when incompleteness constitutes a requirement to take the thought of the poem further, beyond and outside itself, especially in its refusal to be reconciled with reality as it exists. Taking composition to mean the integration of the materials of a poem into a whole, the argument seeks to show that Mendelssohn’s poems are not-whole, and do not construct a world, but on the contrary carry through an unappeasable criticism of the reality she lived, which is that of late twentieth-century Britain. Her work is in unremitting rebellion against language that covers over and permits misogyny, racism, class oppression, hatred of art, insipid living. She writes from a situation in which not-speaking is imposed, in which the speech organs themselves have been damaged and closed up. This condition carries a removal of the self from life, into a place of death. Another, contrary death, however, takes place in her poetry: that of the self that passes through a disintegration, which Mendelssohn places at the heart of ecstatic experience of life. She excoriates those who want to remove the extreme aliveness of lyrical language from life and poetry. The law is what gives permission to that suppression: her poetry repeatedly moves against the actions of the law as it deadens life and language. Mendelssohn’s poetry is an account, implacable and without resentment, of a life lived inside and against personal and historical suffering.

Litigating for Profit

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Dennis
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The State ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
The Law ◽  
Legal Strategies ◽  
Legal Barriers ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

Michael Dennis looks at grocery workers in the late twentieth century, and the lopsided power mounted against their effort to organize. Despite the clear sentiment in favor of unionization, employers unleased antiunion consultants and legal barriers that countered the millions of dollars spent by the union to organize. Dennis shows that employer determination supported by the state were the chief reasons for management’s victory. Unions’ reliance on legal strategies were no match for employers’ determination to skirt the boundaries of the law.

Exploring the Self Through Algorithmic Composition

1999 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 89-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Alsop
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Computer Technology ◽  
The Self ◽  
Musical Composition ◽  
Algorithmic Composition ◽  
Computer Algorithms ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Musical Interests ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

The author discusses his views on musical composition in the late twentieth century, focusing on the influence that communication and computer technology have had over his pursuit. He goes on to describe his use of computer-based algorithmic composition and how this particular approach enhances and refines his understanding of his own musical self-expression. He describes four computer algorithms, used in recent compositions and improvisations, that reflect his particular musical interests.

A Raid on the Inarticulate

2019 ◽  
pp. 28-45
Author(s):  
Jeanne Gaakeer
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Eleventh Century ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
The Law ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

Chapter 2 offers an overview of the historical development of the language of law from Euripides to Herder and into the twentieth century, not out of nostalgia to the halcyon days of the unity of law and the humanities, but to show jurists what brought them where they are now. It also provides an overview of the development of the process of differentiation of law, i.e. from the unity brought about by the rediscovery of the Corpus Iuris Civilis in the eleventh century to the diversity occasioned by the rise of national legal systems culminating in the nineteenth century, and from law as an autonomous discipline to the interdisciplinarity of the “Law and…” movements from the late twentieth century onwards.

Rorty, Richard McKay (1931–2007)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Voparil
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Original Work ◽  
Political Liberalism ◽  
The Self ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
Early Exposure ◽  
Traditional Philosophy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

Best known for his lively and provocative advocacy of pragmatism, Rorty was a wide-ranging and iconoclastic philosopher, whose influential, frequently decried work helped define some of the key intellectual debates of the late twentieth century. His broad training in the history of ideas, early exposure to pragmatism, and self-taught fluency in analytic philosophy combined in his landmark book, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979), to yield a profound anti-Cartesian and anti-Kantian critique of the foundationalist and representationalist assumptions of modern epistemology and metaphysics. Drawing insight and inspiration from novel juxtapositions and associations of thinkers – Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and Dewey; Quine, Sellars, and Davidson; Freud, Sartre, and Gadamer – Rorty set the terms of his decades-long project: what he called in Mirror the negative, "therapeutic" work of historicizing the purportedly timeless problems of traditional philosophy to highlight how they resulted from the adoption of contingent vocabularies, and the positive, "edifying" (1979) effort to think through what it would mean to move beyond "the entire cultural tradition which made truth…a central virtue" (1982, 35). In his most original work, Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (1989), and across four volumes of philosophical papers and a collection of popular essays, Rorty elaborated the implications of this broader cultural and intellectual shift for our understanding of language, the self, community, politics, ethics, justice, and religion. Increasingly identifying with the pragmatist tradition, he engaged with leading philosophers around questions of truth, knowledge, justification, and relativism. Yet, the moral core of his project centered on asserting "the priority of democracy to philosophy" (1991a) and reorienting philosophical reflection away from the problems of philosophers and toward a political liberalism dedicated to the reduction of human cruelty and suffering.

Islam, Rawls, and the Disciplinary Limits of Late Twentieth-Century Liberal Philosophy

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Murad Idris
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Comparative Philosophy ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Law Of Peoples ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Liberal Philosophy ◽  
The Law ◽  
Actual Method ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

This article tells the archival story of how Rawls invented a hypothetical Muslim state that he called “Kazanistan.” It examines drafts of The Law of Peoples from 1992 to 1998, Rawls's notes, his personal correspondence, and the sources preserved in his archives. I track Rawls's gradual interest in Islam, which resulted in his invention of Kazanistan during the final revisions, in March 1998. Contrary to the aesthetics of rigor and simplicity in ideal theory's methods, Rawls's actual method in his incursion into “comparative philosophy” and Islam was circuitous and contingent. And contrary to ideal theory's self-presentation as emerging from an ahistorical conceptual realm, the idealized abstraction of Islam emerges from Rawls's own history, or from an ideologically limited set of texts, conversations, and political debates about Islam. The genealogy of Kazanistan illustrates how liberal philosophy extracts data from other disciplines to construct other peoples, without regard for the surrounding disciplinary politics.

scholarly journals Barriers to the Self

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Wall
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Young Women ◽  
The Self ◽  
Capitalist Society ◽  
Common Thread ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Perception Of Self ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

This article explores Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar (1967) and Elizabeth Wurtzel’s Prozac Nation (1994) through the effects that depression has on the creation and perception of self in young women. Depression is explored in terms of the barriers it erects around young women’s attempts to conceptualise selfhood as it forms in adolescence. This article particularly focuses on the problem of productivity in both texts as protagonists Esther Greenwood and Elizabeth Wurtzel appear to view productivity, particularly academic and literary, as the means through which they will create and establish a coherent self. This fetishised productivity is halted by their depressions, illustrating a further tension between the wider capitalist society which demands productivity and the destabilising nature of depression. Whilst Esther and Elizabeth have different experiences, due to the periods of composition, both characters and texts have striking similarities which suggest that there is a common thread which unites the experiences of female depression in the late twentieth century.

Competition Law and Telecommunications

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent Smith ◽  
Lorna Woods
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Competition Law ◽  
Telecommunications Regulation ◽  
Telecommunications Sector ◽  
Competition Rules ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
State Monopoly ◽  
The Law ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

Telecommunications regulation was born from the need to police the removal of state-owned telecommunications monopolies in Europe from the 1980s onwards. Indeed, the telecommunications sector is not a market which has developed naturally. Instead it was a response to governmental choices, originally to create a state monopoly and, in the late twentieth century, to move to market provision, ultimately to be controlled by general competition law. This chapter introduces these competition rules and illustrates how they have been applied in the telecommunications context. Since competition law applies across all sectors, the law and practice developed in competition cases from other areas also plays an important role in deciding how competition law applies to telecommunications operators.

Taylor, Charles (1931–)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Calhoun
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Political Action ◽  
The Self ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Science Ethics ◽  
Adequate Understanding ◽  
Historical Reconstructions ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

Among the most influential of late twentieth-century philosophers, Taylor has written on human agency, identity and the self; language; the limits of epistemology; interpretation and explanation in social science; ethics; and democratic politics. His work is distinctive because of his innovative treatments of long-standing philosophical problems, especially those deriving from applications of Enlightenment epistemology to theories of language, the self and political action, and his unusually thorough integration of ‘analytic’ and ‘continental’ philosophical concerns and approaches. Taylor’s work is shaped by the view that adequate understanding of philosophical arguments requires an appreciation of their origins, changing contexts and transformed meanings. Thus it often takes the form of historical reconstructions that seek to identify the paths by which particular theories and languages of understanding or evaluation have been developed. This reflects both Taylor’s sustained engagement with Hegel’s philosophy and his resistance to epistemological dichotomies such as ‘truth’ and ‘falsehood’ in favour of a notion of ‘epistemic gain’ influenced by H.G. Gadamer.

Fundamentalism: Not Just a Cautionary Tale

2019 ◽  
pp. 133-151
Author(s):  
Edith M. Humphrey
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Self ◽  
Cautionary Tale ◽  
Ad Hominem ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
The One ◽  
Conservative Christians ◽  
Late Twentieth Century ◽  
The Church

Paradox attends the Biblical thread concerning foundations and the one true foundation, Christ—the unique divine cornerstone foundation is also a means of scandal to those who reject him. In this essay, Humphrey traces the history of the term “fundamentalism” from its Scriptural and Patristic reference to the person of Jesus Christ and/or the tradition of the Church, through the self-ascription of Protestant scholars of various denominations seeking an inclusive Christian minimalism, and into the pejorative use against sectarian evangelical Christians and political terrorists in the late twentieth century. In the end, the pejorative use of the term is too broad to offer us anything but a caricature, and “fundamentalism,” whatever it means, is more vilified than carefully explained or answered. She concludes by arguing that this term cannot reasonably be used against tradition-driven, maximalist Catholic or Orthodox Christians, and she suggests that its deployment signals a need for less conservative Christians to confront the issues raised by “fundamentalists” rather than resort to ad hominem attacks.

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