scholarly journals PARADOXES OF “THE COFFIN-MAKER”: EXPLICIT AND HIDDEN ELEMENTS

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (4) ◽  
pp. 94-113
Author(s):  
Oleg B. Zaslavskii
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Personal History ◽  
The Real ◽  
Implicit Form ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

One of obscure places in “The Coffin-maker” is the inscription on the sign advertising his services, since it contains elements that contradict common sense. The article provides a brief critical review of the existing interpretations of this inscription. It is shown that this absurd inscription has a narrative potential, predicting subsequent events that “occurred” in the character’s dream. In this aspect, it is an example of the so-called inverse metaphor. It also has an iconic character, as it advertises non-existent services to send to the world of nonexistence. The article reveals a number of other narrative aspects of the story that are present in an implicit form, which is an example of a hidden plot.As a result of the reconstruction of the omitted plot links, a number of circumstances of the undertaker’s personal history, related to his family and the history of moving, are restored, which allows us to understand the nature of his experiences, with the description of which the story begins. The logic of the plot leads to the assumption: soon after the coffin-maker joyfully realizes that the nightmarish events were a dream, the news of the real death of Tryukhina should follow.

One Family Story – Nikolai Rainov and Bogomil Rainov in Irreconcilable Differences

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariya Andirkova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Socialist Realism ◽  
Personal History ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Aesthetic Values

Our story is about the personal history of two prominent intellectuals with a different place in the Bulgarian art studies. We are talking about the lasting and the conjuncture in the world of moral and aesthetic values. The first one, the father Nikolay Raynov, is among the pioneers in the process of Europeanization of Bulgarian art with a significant and lasting contribution, while the son Bogomil Raynov, is an apologist of socialist realism from his initial Stalinist phase to the very end, with a few exceptions, when, after the unstoppable decline, the Communist regime and its art remain in history.

Sartre, Jean-Paul (1905–80)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Howells
Keyword(s):  
Collective Choice ◽  
Personal History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
Dialectical Reason ◽  
History Of ◽  
Phenomenological Account ◽  
Material Conditions

Sartre was a philosopher of paradox: an existentialist who attempted a reconciliation with Marxism, a theorist of freedom who explored the notion of predestination. From the mid-1930s to the late-1940s, Sartre was in his ‘classical’ period. He explored the history of theories of imagination leading up to that of Husserl, and developed his own phenomenological account of imagination as the key to the freedom of consciousness. He analysed human emotions, arguing that emotion is a freely chosen mode of relationship to the outside world. In his major philosophical work, L’Être et le Néant(Being and Nothingness) (1943a), Sartre distinguished between consciousness and all other beings: consciousness is always at least tacitly conscious of itself, hence it is essentially ‘for itself’ (pour-soi) – free, mobile and spontaneous. Everything else, lacking this self-consciousness, is just what it is ‘in-itself’ (en-soi); it is ‘solid’ and lacks freedom. Consciousness is always engaged in the world of which it is conscious, and in relationships with other consciousnesses. These relationships are conflictual: they involve a battle to maintain the position of subject and to make the other into an object. This battle is inescapable. Although Sartre was indeed a philosopher of freedom, his conception of freedom is often misunderstood. Already in Being and Nothingness human freedom operates against a background of facticity and situation. My facticity is all the facts about myself which cannot be changed – my age, sex, class of origin, race and so on; my situation may be modified, but it still constitutes the starting point for change and roots consciousness firmly in the world. Freedom is not idealized by Sartre; it is always within a given set of circumstances, after a particular past, and against the expectations of both myself and others that I make my free choices. My personal history conditions the range of my options. From the 1950s onwards Sartre became increasingly politicized and was drawn to attempt a reconciliation between existentialism and Marxism. This was the aim of the Critique de la raison dialectique (Critique of Dialectical Reason) (1960) which recognized more fully than before the effect of historical and material conditions on individual and collective choice. An attempt to explore this interplay in action underlies both his biography of Flaubert and his own autobiography.

scholarly journals Management of Various Safety Parameters in Tunnel Construction: A Critical Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 170 ◽  
pp. 06003
Author(s):  
Priyanka Omar ◽  
MVN. Siva Kumar ◽  
Subbarao Yarramsetty
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Tunnel Construction ◽  
Good Management ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Safety Parameters ◽  
History Of ◽  
Inspection And Maintenance ◽  
Extent Of Damage

Population is growing rapidly and so are vehicles on roads. This leads to enormous need of tunnels and subways for easy locomotion and mobilization. From conventional tunnels, for sewage and water facilities to modern electrified tunnels, for mass transit and underwater highways, method of construction of a tunnel to its safety inspection and maintenance has taken a wide leap. Tunnel construction requires wide range of resources like human, technology, machinery, materials, energy, and finance. To handle all these resources simultaneously becomes complex and requires good management. Even with good management, accidents and hazards might occur. A critical review of various safety parameters while constructing a tunnel and its management is presented in this paper. This review paper discusses the history of safety of tunnels till present safety measures and techniques adopted around the world for different tunnels; various critical factors which affect the safety in tunnels; the extent of damage occurring due to these factors; numerous preventive measures which are adopted around the world to prevent loss of property and lives in tunnels; and advanced technology and software, which are being used in modern era to enhance safety in tunnel construction. The study from manual horse drawn-tramway to autonomous robotic system has been done. This paper also considers various tunnels around the world and gives a summary of factors for safety focused on for making these tunnels, with its adopted remedy.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Kaushik Roy
Keyword(s):  
Great War ◽  
World War ◽  
The Real ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Global War

Before the onset of global war in 1941, the war that engulfed the world between 1914 and 1918 was known as the World War or Great War. For example, The Real War, 1914–1918 was published by B.H. Liddell Hart in 1930 and expanded as A History of the World War 1914–1918...

Edinburgh 1910-2010: A Retrospective Assessment

Ecclesiology ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-316
Author(s):  
Jeremy Morris
Keyword(s):  
Objective Analysis ◽  
The Real ◽  
Ecumenical Movement ◽  
Retrospective Assessment ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender

AbstractThe centenary of the World Missionary Conference held at Edinburgh in 1910 has recently been celebrated. The Conference has been hailed as a decisive point in the rise of the modern ecumenical movement and in the history of mission. But there is a need for objective analysis of what the Conference achieved. This article examines the legacy of Edinburgh 1910 through the themes of unity and mission, exploring subsequent changes in attitudes and concerns in the four areas of secularization, empire, nationalism and gender. It suggests that the real achievements of the Conference have been obscured by the mythology that has grown up around it, and that a proper reception of the Conference requires much closer attention to the conditions that produced it than has conventionally been undertaken.

scholarly journals Facilitation Technologies in the Process of Understanding of the Writer’s Biography

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.38) ◽  
pp. 205
Author(s):  
Svetlana Ivanovna Grakhova ◽  
Karina Anatolievna Okisheva ◽  
Irina Mikhailovna Zakharova ◽  
Aleksandra Viktorovna Potanina
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Group Work ◽  
Personal History ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
World Cafe ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Work Model ◽  
The 19Th Century

The article presents the methodology of organizing educational activities to study a writer’s biography with the help of facilitation approach. A key aspect of the paper is the group work model, i.e., “The World Café” which allowed the authors to process and comprehend a large amount of information about F.M. Dostoevsky, share it with students, and plan further work on the study of his creative writing.In addition, the article identifies important concepts in the comprehension of the first part of the posthumous biography “The materials for the biography of F.M. Dostoevsky”. The compiler of the biography was O.F. Miller, a professor of literature in St. Petersburg University (Russia), critic, publicist, and a famous educator of the 19th century. Interestingly, “Materials for the biography of F.M. Dostoevsky”, published in 1883, were not fully republished and did not receive sufficient scientific understanding until 2010, even though the work of O.F. Miller remained the main source the experts studying F.M. Dostoevsky. Of much importance is the fact that some parts of “Materials for the biography of F.M. Dostoevsky” appeared on the Internet only after 2012. This paradox highlights the importance of the research describing the biography.  In 2010, the personal history “Materials for the biography of F.M. Dostoevsky” became an integral part of the academic thesis by K.A. Okisheva “F.M. Dostoevsky and O.F. Miller: the history of relationships”. Our present study highlights the importance of biographies for the education of young generations. Our major concern is the methodology, according to which personal history’s information serves as an essential part of roundtable discussions which simultaneously target the acquisition of F.M. Dostoevsky’s biography and innovative classroom activities. 

scholarly journals Becoming-Flashdrive: The Cinematic Intelligence of Lucy

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 284-303
Author(s):  
Laurence Kent
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Film Theory ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Specific Form ◽  
Ethical Relation ◽  
Philosophical Account ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Universal Values ◽  
A Site

An important but easily forgotten moment in the history of film-philosophy is Jean Epstein's assertion that cinema, more than merely thinking, has a kind of intelligence. If it is a newfound conception of rationality that is needed for any contemporary ethical relation to the world, as thinkers from Reza Negarestani and Pete Wolfendale to feminist collective Laboria Cuboniks have espoused in their respective neo-rationalist projects, then cinema as a thinking thing must be interrogated in its relation to reason. A somatophilia of purely affective and phenomenological approaches in film theory alongside micropolitical injunctions to undermine common-sense and liberate one's desire in extremity can fall limp in view of such calls for universal thinking around rationality. To understand cinema's specific form of intelligence, this article will explore Luc Besson's Lucy (2014) as an instance of how film is able to represent intelligence. Besson's film provides a site where Western cultural anxieties and assumptions around intelligence are manifested. This will allow an explication of contemporary approaches to intelligence in philosophy whilst confronting these discourses with the insidious problematics of gender and race that undergird the film. I argue that Lucy shares many of its ambitions with the emerging vectors of thought associated with the neo-rationalist perspective in its engaging with a rethinking of universal values and the Promethean possibilities of human action. Reading the film through these philosophies will help position the ethical stakes it sets up, but also to distinguish it from a trend of contemporary “posthuman” films that it finds itself in company with. While it is certainly true that posthuman themes, as well as transhumanist fantasies, seem to permeate Besson's film, this article will incorporate another neologism, taken from neo-rationalist thinkers, in order to emphasise moments that can be productive from the standpoint of a philosophical account of intelligence: “rationalist inhumanism.”

scholarly journals From History of the World to the World—A Reflection on Establishing a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. p39
Author(s):  
Sang Yanhai
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Social Order ◽  
World History ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
The Real ◽  
Chinese Traditional Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Theoretical Significance ◽  
History Of

Nowadays the world is still in a state of anarchy and the real political meaning of “world” does not truly exist. In this sense, the design of establishing a community with a shared future for mankind is a great innovation of theory, which, theoretically, has the significance of breaking through the world history and reconstructing the social order of the real “world”. The logical deduction of “family-country-world” in Chinese traditional culture is of great theoretical significance for the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind.

The Siberian Odyssey of a Zagorje Corporal

2021 ◽  
pp. 11-22
Author(s):  
William Klinger ◽  
Denis Kuljiš
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
The State ◽  
Personal History ◽  
Modern History ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Europe ◽  
Childhood Memory ◽  
The Village

This chapter introduces Marshal Tito, who was born and raised in the Croatian village of Kumrovec and joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY) as a worker in Kraljevica Shipyard in 1925. It describes Tito's personal history as a closely guarded secret, noting that the state he ruled while he was in power took care of it. It also tells Tito's story as a cryptic man who emerged from the Balkan mists and became one of the key protagonists of the modern history of Europe and the world. The chapter recounts Tito's earliest years in the village of Podsreda in Slovenia, on the fief of the Austrian princely family Windisch-Graetz. It cites Tito's time in Slovenia with his grandfather as his most cherished childhood memory.

Politics of Vision in the Carceral State: Legibility and Looking in Hostile Territory

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Hunt
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
The United States ◽  
Carceral State ◽  
Freedom Struggle ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Control ◽  
Multiple Discourses

As we begin to think about the United States as a carceral state, this means that the scale of incarceration practices have grown so great within it that they have a determining effect on the shape of the the society as a whole. In addition to the budgets, routines, and technologies used is the culture of that carceral state, where relationships form between elements of its culture and its politics. In terms of its visual culture, that relationship forms a visuality, a culture and politics of vision that both reflects the state’s carceral qualities and, in turn, helps to structure and organize the society in a carceral manner. Images, architecture, light, presentation and camouflage, surveillance, and the play of sight between groups of people and the world are all materials through which the ideas of a society are worked out, its politics played out, its technology implemented, its rationality or common sense and identities forming. They also shape the politics of freedom and control, where what might be a free, privileged expression to one person could be a dangerous exposure to another, where invisibility or inscrutability may be a resource. In this article, these questions are asked in relation to the history of prison architecture, from premodern times to the present, while considering the multiple discourses that overlap throughout that history: war, enslavement, civil punishment, and freedom struggle, but also a discourse of agency, where subordinated peoples can or cannot resist, or remain hostile to or in difference from the control placed upon them.

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