scholarly journals Beyond Form. Lukács’s Turn to Revolutionary Praxis

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 209-228
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Kavoulakos
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Central Position ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
The World ◽  
Revolutionary Praxis ◽  
The Individual

The concept of form occupies a central position in Georg Lukács’s early aestheticist work. Nevertheless, Lukács was aware of the limits of form in its confrontation with everyday life. In his critical appraisal, he revealed these limits in regard to aesthetic and ethical form. Neither can penetrate the ordinary life of men and they, thus, entrap the individual in a solipsistic relation to the world. In his pre-Marxist period, Lukács searched for an alternative in a kind of practical mysticism. This turn allowed him to discover a path beyond formalism in revolutionary, transformative praxis. This is the very path that finally led him to his dialectical-practical understanding of Marxism.

scholarly journals Character of Vasyl Stus as Basis of Writer’s Psychotype

2019 ◽  
pp. 3-13
Author(s):  
Olha Punina
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
World Order ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Psychological Type ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Literary Style ◽  
Psychological Structure ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Features ◽  
The Individual

In the present paper the scholar refers to the first part of her theoretical concept “psychotype – creator – image” and focuses on the peculiarities of Vasyl Stus’s character. This approach helps to defi ne the psychological type of the poet. Psychic ways of adaptation always leave a mark on the character of the individual. The coincidence between indirect observations of friends, acquaintances and psychological self-characteristics of the writer gives especially important information for the researcher. The analyzed materials include literary texts and different everyday life records that contain psychologically mediated observations and self-observations on the character of Vasyl Stus. These data allow identifying the specific psychological structure of personality based on many characteristics. The attributes ‘strong-willed’, ‘vulnerable’, ‘sensitive’, ‘quicktempered’, ‘uncompromising’, and ‘intellectual’ may be recognized as key features of this personality. The psychological exclusivity of Vasyl Stus is presented by the characteristics ‘self-suffi cient’, ‘intellectually deep man of strong will’, ‘inclined to expansive reaction and unsuited for compromise’. The scrupulous attention to the moral, volitional, emotional and intellectual components of Vasyl Stus’s character brings the researcher closer to determining the author’s model of the world order. The defined psychotype of the writer helps to understand the interdependence of the psychological nature of the author and his literary style

scholarly journals Global Humanism: Possibilities and Risks of a New Humanistic Model

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 17-20
Author(s):  
Lisz Hirn
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Ethical Concept ◽  
The World ◽  
Special Challenge ◽  
The Individual

Introduction The world develops terrifically fast: Technologies, media, states... But do humans develop as fast as their inventions? Which effects does the globalization have on the understanding of the individual and humanity? We have to choose between lots of possibilities - thanks to technology and research, but: What should we do now? How should we handle the potential which is available for us? My book „Global Humanism – possibilities and risks of a new humanistic model“ appeared in 2010 and discusses the possibilities and risks of a new, ethical model, a Global Humanism, which puts the individual as a global being in the centre of attention. Humanism is a big idea which everyday life puts to the test. I have recently returned from travels all around the world and to keep your humanistic attitude while travelling is a special challenge. It also showed me the necessity of a global ethical concept, which can apply in a lot of human environments. Nevertheless, the important question to be discussed remains: What can an ethical model like the Global Humanism really perfom? This question caught my interest as a scholar. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/bodhi.v6i0.9241 Bodhi Vol.6 2013: 17-20

scholarly journals German Cities in the World City Network

2011 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan V. Beaverstock
Keyword(s):  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
World City ◽  
World City Network ◽  
The World ◽  
City Network ◽  
Alternative Research ◽  
World City Networks ◽  
The Individual ◽  
German Cities

Abstract This paper provides a brief critical appraisal of the relationality of German cities in the world city network. The paper is divided into four parts. After the introduction, part two highlights the major findings of each individual contribution to this special issue, and teases out the major patterns of German world city connectivity at both the international and domestic scale. This is followed in part three by a critical evaluation of the sum of all the individual paper findings, which comments on their aggregated contribution to three significant themes in world city studies: methods and empirics, theory and policy. The final part of the paper considers an alternative research agenda, calling for more qualitative research and engagement with in-depth, process-based studies of German world city networks, which will analyse both attributive and relational data.

III. Chaucer's “Troilus and Criseyde” as Romance

PMLA ◽  
1938 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Young
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Troilus And Criseyde ◽  
Critical Writing ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
Modern Novel ◽  
The World ◽  
Modern Sense ◽  
Psychological Novel

In the critical writing of the last few decades Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde has been described prevailingly as a psychological novel. Our most influentual interpreters, that is to say, draw our attention primarily to the subtle exhibition of psychology in the personages of the poem, and to the resemblance of the descriptive background to what we ordinarily call real life. By emphasizing these aspects of the Troilus they bring it into association with our modern novel. Representative of this view are such expressions as the following:“Our first great psychological novel”; “A great psychological novel”; “An elaborate psychological novel”; “The first novel, in the modern sense”; “Its spirit and temper is that of the modern novel”; “A page out of the book of modern everyday life”;6 “[Chaucer's] first and greatest adventure into the world of every day”; “[What Chaucer adds to the Filostralo] is what we roughly call reality…. one has a sense of ordinary life going on”; “Troy is mediaeval London”; “[The Troilus] is not a romance”; “[In the Troilus Chaucer] leaves all romantic convention behind.”

scholarly journals The sweet peace of perfect assurance: On well-being in the hymns texts of Fanny Crosby

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daleen Kruger
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Religious Involvement ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The World ◽  
Positive Sense ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Individual

Well-being is often described as a state of happiness or satisfaction with life, but it is so much more. The influence of religious involvement on a positive sense of well-being of the individual has been well documented. One aspect of religious involvement comprises the singing of hymns. Through the texts and the power of music, the well-being of the singer/believer can be positively influenced. Fanny Crosby (1820- 1915) wrote more than 8 000 hymn texts on various aspects of religious life such as assurance, salvation, redemption, worship and witness. Many of the hymns deal with the difficulties of everyday life, which is juxtaposed to the better life in the world to come. This paper is concerned with the portrayal of aspects of assurance in some of Fanny Crosby’s hymns texts. It is also shown how her hymns touch on aspects of well-being in the way that they stress the importance of having meaning in life and point towards the fact that the believer’s life can be worthwhile.

scholarly journals Brand in the Philosophical Sense: from Object to Person

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.38) ◽  
pp. 135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Artur Dydrov ◽  
Anatoly Nevelev ◽  
Vera Neveleva ◽  
Ekaterina Milyaeva ◽  
Regina Penner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Philosophical Anthropology ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Material Consumption ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
European Civilization

Under the influence of the values of Western European civilization, the life of contemporary human has been gradually shifted from the supremacy of the practices of material consumption to the practices of self-realization. It is interesting to understand the phenomenon of brand, which goes beyond researches in economics and marketing (D. Aaker, J. Trout and D. Ogilvy). Brand is able not only to take away the individual's world but also helps the individual to stand out, to overcome the ordinary life through brand’s universality which contributes to the establishment of mutual understanding between people. Philosophical anthropology and its theories by H. Marcuse, J. Ortega y Gasset or E. Fromm can become the basis for a new interpretation of brand as a socio-cultural phenomenon that plays a significant role in the human everyday life. The authors substantiate the thesis that brand and human-brand, in particular, can be tools of assembly and can be used as a reference for other people, can overcome the crisis of the identity of modern human.  

The Plot Coherence as a Generalization of the Causality Principle

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 390-400
Author(s):  
Oleg Shimelfenig ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Causality Principle ◽  
Time Model ◽  
Ordinary Life ◽  
Science And Art ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
The World ◽  
Systemic Crisis ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Space Time Model

In connection with the growing manifestations of the systemic crisis of civilization – ideological, ecological and socio-economic, there is an urgent need for a holistic spiritual and psychophysical picture of the world, called ‘the plot-game’ by the author. The author investigates the concept of ‘causality’ within the frame of this paradigm, and then shows the expediency of generalizing it to the concept of ‘plot coherence’, which opens up new possibilities for applying the plot-game methodology. The methodology and methodology of the research are based on the categorical apparatus of the story-game paradigm, the main feature of which, the novelty, is the proposal to add a third parameter to the space-time model of the world – the individual, who at each moment perceives the first two aspects – space and time – in his own way as a certain plot. Thus, the art-historical concepts of plot, scenario and game are generalized to the level of ideological universals and at the same time natural-scientific terms – ‘cross-cutting’ units of Being. It is shown that we see each object under study as a participant in the flow of story cycles, and its essence is the roles that it ‘played’, can play and will play in them, and which are reflected in its genetic and acquired scenarios. The plot stream of events is formed as the resultant of the attempts of all its participants to implement their own behavior scenarios, generated mainly automatically with the help of programs for processing all incoming information, which are formed from the moment of birth in each individual. On the basis of the story-game paradigm, the concept of causality is expanded to plot coherence, and it can be applied both in natural science and in the humanities. In the proposed model of communal reality, the rigid opposition of science and art is removed, since both there and here, as in ordinary life, we not only learn, discover, and observe something ‘from the outside’, but continuously reproduce, create the world and ourselves in it, regardless of our awareness of this fact; and the story-game picture of the Universe and its corresponding approach make it possible to realize the dependence of the ‘world plot’ on our ‘scenarios’ and games, to feel the responsibility for the future in each of our steps.

Fragments d’un discours iconographique : Poétique de l’image dans L’Empire des signes de Roland Barthes

2015 ◽  
pp. 149-160
Author(s):  
Khalid Lyamlahy
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Individual Subject ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Large Scope ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

Roland Barthes was not only a literary theorist, a critic or a semiotician. Above all, he was concerned with signs, symbols and representations which shape the everyday life and nourish both identities of the individual subject and the social group. As the world celebrates in 2015 the centenary of his birth, the question of his intellectual and literary legacies has never been more relevant. In the large scope of his works, L’Empire des signes, published in 1970 following several trips to Japan, is rather a particular piece which hinges on a specific combination of text and images. By looking at the structure of Barthes’s work and the relationship between the author’s discourse and the meanings released through the images, this paper aims to highlight the poetics of the image as a founding element in L’Empire des signes. The study of three categories of images used in the volume and their confrontation with the author’s developments shed new light on the contribution of the iconographic element towards a valuable understanding of signs and significations.

scholarly journals Recognizing Second-Hand Phenomenon

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Prijana Prijana
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Human Knowledge ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The World ◽  
Cognitive Authority ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Learning From Others

The purpose of the study is to convey knowledge about the phenomenon of second-handdalam everyday life, at home, at work, at school, and in social environments residence. The method used is a critical analysis about human social activity. The results of the study showed that human knowledge is actually obtained through two (2) ways, namely, first, from his own experience; second, obtained from others. Both of these sources affect each other and compete with each other in the individual. The lack of stock in the individual ideas leads to learning from others to get to know the world. This phenomenon is called the phenomenon of second-hand, people recognize the world of others, rather than themselves. Conclusion: the knowledge of the world from what they see in their daily lives and from what they told others. Although one is never counted them, just that they think know what they are talking about, this is by Patrick Wilson named as cognitive authority.

The Root of Immortality: Death in the Context of Jewish Wisdom

1978 ◽  
Vol 71 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 177-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
John J. Collins
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Peter Berger ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Sacred Canopy ◽  
Business As Usual ◽  
Human Enterprise

In his influential studyThe Sacred Canopy, Peter Berger asserted that “the power of religion depends, in the last resort, upon the credibility of the banners it puts in the hands of men as they stand before death or, more accurately, as they walk, inevitably, toward it.” Berger was not suggesting that religion is primarily a private obsession of the individual with death. Rather his thesis is that religion is a social phenomenon, part of the human enterprise of “world-building” by which we attempt “to impose a meaningful order upon reality.” The significance of death is not an individual matter because “death radically challengesallsocially objectivated definitions of reality—of the world, of others, and of the self. Death radically puts in question the taken-for-granted, ‘business-as-usual’ attitude in which one exists in everyday life. Here everything in the daytime world of existence in society is massively threatened with ‘irreality’—that is, everything in that world becomes dubious, eventually unreal, other than what one used to think.” In short, death is a threat to the meaningfulness not only of the individual life, but of the common enterprise of society and, indeed, of any attempt, social, religious or philosophical, to perceive reality as a coherent and purposeful order.

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