scholarly journals Widmo Chopina krąży po Warszawie

2021 ◽  
Vol 60 ◽  
pp. 82-94
Author(s):  
Łukasz Piaskowski
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Main Task ◽  
German Culture ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The World ◽  
The City ◽  
Intellectual Climate

Pejzaż myśli. Warszawa Chopina i początek polskiej nowoczesności [A landscape of thoughts: Chopin’s Warsaw and the beginning of Polish modernity] by Michał Kuziak is a book combining the values of a scholarly work and a work whose main task is to popularise knowledge both about Frédéric Chopin himself and about the world that surrounded him and that shaped him. The dissertation is not only the context for the composer’s life; it is also part of a broader stream of research on the beginnings of Polish modernity. The book is therefore about Warsaw understood not only as the place where young Frédéric grew up, but also as the area where the foundations of Polish modernity were laid. Chopin functioned in a kind of intellectual melting pot within which there was a conflict between tradition and modernity, between progress and conservatism. The author precisely delineates the chronological framework within which he moves. These are the years 1810–1830, that is, the first 20 years of the composer’s life. However, the book does not only focus on the person of Chopin, so it is not “Chopin-centric.” The work consists of three parts, each of them marked with a significant title: 1. “City and people”; 2. “Institutions and people”; 3. “Thoughts and people.” This arrangement is a good example of the author’s main idea: to show Chopin among people, and also people within the city, municipal institutions and the thoughts that developed there. For the author of the book, Warsaw was a crucible and a cosmos of thoughts: on the one hand, there is a constant offensive of scientifi c and technical thought related to the Enlightenment tradition, and on the other, the birth of the world of spirit and religion. Polish modernity is an eclectic mixture in which there are still remnants of the noble world, but the foundations of the bourgeois world are also being laid. Kuziak, drawing an image of Warsaw at that time, emphasises the importance of key cultural institutions, such as literary salons and cafés. For Chopin, cafés, where he met with representatives of the contemporary world of literature and poetry, were of particular importance. Warsaw’s intellectual climate, inspired by the French Enlightenment, was giving way more and more to the influences of German culture associated with Romanticism. Kuziak writes that the modernity of the Romantic type was shaped by German culture. He regards the considerations of Kazimierz Brodziński and Maurycy Mochnacki as the two largest projects of modern Polish identity. Importantly, both of these authors were closely associated with the Polish musical culture which the young Chopin absorbed. The author of the book makes a reservation that it is difficult to conclusively confi rm what influence the institutional and intellectual shape of Warsaw at that time had on Chopin. He states with certainty that Chopin’s trips outside the city, and thus getting to know Masovian folklore, had a decisive impact on his imagination. The book does not, however, determine how the then Warsaw shaped the composer’s later life. The author brilliantly reconstructed the background on which Chopin’s shadow moved, but he chose not to answer the most important question: did the city, people, institutions and intellectual climate ultimately form the composer’s modern world view? This question remains open.

Some Aspects of Islamic Eschatology

1968 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
John B. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The World ◽  
Student Audience

To a student audience seduced by the claims of a ‘secular Christianity’, Professor Gordon Rupp once urged the combined loyalties of ‘worldmanship’ and ‘other-worldmanship’. The Muslim world shows little friendship to secularist ideologies which explicitly reject the eschatological dimension, but Muslims are increasingly involved in secularising processes; many of these are ‘Islamised’, if they are compatible with Islamic social or political ideals, and the stigma of bid‘ah, innovation, is thereby avoided. A Lebanese author, Muhammad Darwazah, in his Dustūr al-Qur’ ānī, Cairo 1956, advocated a ‘Qur'ānic Constitution’ for the modern world since the Qur'ān’s world-view is both in-worldly and other-worldly:‘Islam is a religion of the world (dīn al-dunyā), of government, society, morals and order, to the same extent as it is a religion of faith and belief and the next world (dīn al-ākhirah).’

scholarly journals Creating meaningful space: Yoga practice transforming bodily habits of 'being-in-the-world'

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-42
Author(s):  
Hanna-Leena Ylönen
Keyword(s):  
Buenos Aires ◽  
World View ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Yoga Practice ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Modern Yoga ◽  
The World ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The City

Buenos Aires, the city of tango, good meat, and. . . yoga? As in many modern big cities, yoga has become extremely popular during the last decades. It is everywhere; in gyms, book stores, yoga centers, multinational companies, even churches. We have hatha, swasthya, and ashtanga yoga, hot yoga, naked yoga, yoga for pregnant women, and for Catholics; the list is endless. For Dutch anthropologist Peter van der Veer (2007), modern yoga is a product of global modernization, originated in the dialogue between the Indian national movement and the western political, economic, and cultural influences. Yoga has become an item in the wide catalogue of alternative therapies, seen as a physic­al exercise promoting bodily and mental health, a way of life, which does not conflict with western science. For van der Veer this ‘therapeutic world view’ is part of global capitalism. (Van der Veer 2007: 317.)

scholarly journals Children of “Toxic Parents”: An Attempt of Interpretation of “The Unconsoled” by Kazuo Ishiguro

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 281-301
Author(s):  
Barbara Myrdzik
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Kazuo Ishiguro ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Professional Success ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
The World ◽  
Inner World ◽  
Professional Fulfillment ◽  
The City

The article constitutes an attempt to interpret the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro The Unconsoled – a work with a complex plot and a multi-threaded structure, typical for a composition stretched on the frame of the rhizome-like labyrinth and the motif of memory imperfections. The labyrinth is a space of strangeness, of being lost. It is a journey of the main character who wanders around various spaces of the city and hotel (which performs a variety of functions), meets many random people and listens to their accounts. The life problems of the city’s inhabitants indicate the eternal truth, according to which a man cannot live without understanding, without talking to someone kind who has the ability to listen. They were looking for someone who would listen and understand them, someone who would kindly respond to their problems. It may also be assumed that living in a world without the feeling of a lack of transcendence, the inhabitants were looking for an authority like a messiah who would indicate the direction of renewal in the world of chaos and who would answer the question: How to live? The novel describes a cultural crisis triggered by the feeling of a fundamental contradiction between the world of scientific truths and the inner world of every human being. Values such as faith, friendship, selflessness, truthfulness or family, to which Ishiguro pays a lot of attention, have been lost. “Toxic parents” are shown in multiple configurations: on the example of Ryder’s parents, or Ryder himself as the father of Boris and Stephan Hoffman. The author shows one of the major causes of the paternity crisis, namely the cult of professional success. Professional success and rivalry connected with it completely absorb Ryder’s life and activities. As a result of the pursuit of professional fulfillment, the role of emotional ties in his life becomes less significant, they almost disappear. It may be assumed that, using the example of the crisis in the described city, Ishiguro presents the contemporary world, which lost the sense of life; however, he did not limit it to the lost past. The world in which all attempts to search for a new form of expression and valorization end in failure. It is a labyrinthine, objectified world which is only given outside, a world of showing off and a “game” of pretending, without honesty and simplicity. It is a place dominated by a pose and culture of narcissism, full of inauthenticity, artificiality and appearance. In addition, The Unconsoled is a poignant novel about human loneliness.

scholarly journals Urban Development and its Negative Reflections on The Problem of Housing and Shortage of Housing in Bagdad City

2018 ◽  
Vol 224 (2) ◽  
pp. 339-356
Author(s):  
Prof. Dr. Basheer Ibrahem Iltaif ◽  
Dr. Areej Bahjat Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Integrated System ◽  
City Development ◽  
Housing Policies ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
The World ◽  
Basic Services ◽  
Residential Use ◽  
And Function ◽  
The City

      The residential use is considered one of the most important uses of main urban lands .There is no city in our contemporary world without houses .Housing is an urban appearance that reflects the stage of interaction of societies with the environment .That mean the residence may change in its form and function due to the changes that occurs according to the technologic and economic development and changing of many human behavior  manners. Thus the manners and stages of city development are changed due to the change of its morphologic stages .But healthy residence provided by all basic services (potablewater,electricity , sanitation …..) as well as the necessity of the house connecting with streets within the city with providing integrated system of wastes disposal. Thus the suitable residence becomes the main aim of the housing policies for the world countries.

COMBATING CORRUPTION IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT: EU EXPERIENCE FOR UKRAINE

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor Savenko ◽  
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Kateryna Manuilova ◽  
Kateryna Kolesnikova ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Procurement ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
The State ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Destructive Effect ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
The World ◽  
Further Development

Solving the problem of overcoming corruption is the main task of all countries of the world and Ukraine. After all, corruption is the most dangerous phenomenon in the sociopolitical life of any state. Total corruption destroys the foundations of statehood: national security; constitutional and other normative-legal bases of regulation of public life of the state. In a broad sense, the concept of "corruption" involves a complex process (phenomenon) that manifests itself in various forms of public, political and private relations. Corruption has a destructive effect on the state's economy, the functioning of public authorities and the development of the state as a whole. Today it is safe to say that no country in the world has completely overcome corruption. Finding effective means to combat corruption is a key issue for all countries of the world and for our country in particular. The issue of overcoming corruption in public procurement is becoming especially relevant in the modern world. Work to combat corruption in Ukraine should be comprehensive and requires harmonization of Ukrainian public procurement legislation, as well as further development of a program of structural reforms in the justice sector, education, e-government, economic and political spheres, but also the political will of the current Ukrainian government.

scholarly journals On the question of the religious factor in politics

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-170
Author(s):  
S. V. Perevezentsev
Keyword(s):  
World Politics ◽  
Development Economic ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Complete Disappearance ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
Traditional Religions ◽  
The World ◽  
Natural Man ◽  
Religious Factor

The article examines the phenomenon of the religious factor in modern world politics, suggests taking into account the religious factor along with other factors of historical development (economic, political, social, natural and climatic, etc.). From the traditionalist point of view, the confrontation between the teachings of humanism and traditional religions is shown, as a spiritual confrontation of various religious teachings. The main spiritual and political processes in the modern world are revealed: the process of purposeful destruction of traditional values, religions and cultures and the process of reviving traditional values, religions and cultures in order to preserve the “blooming complexity”, i.e., the civilizational diversity of the world community. In the first process, on the basis of numerous data, shows the struggle of the supporters of the religious-philosophical doctrine of humanism with traditional religious teachings, especially Christianity, and the main task of this struggle provided dechristianization of man and society, because the Christian faith is the basis of the locomotive of world history, European civilization. The main goal of this struggle is to replace Christianity and the traditional world religions with the religion of man-God, i.e., humanism and rationalism. The author reveals the meaning of the concept of transhumanism: the creation of an artificial, unified, fully controlled world populated by biological objects without individuality or any personal characteristics at all. Thus, the ant-human essence of the religion of man-god is revealedthe destruction of the “natural man”. The article presents the main essential features of the second spiritual-political process, which is opposite to the first one. On the basis of numerous sociological studies, it is proved that in general, there is a noticeable increase in traditional religiosity and the importance of traditional religions in the world. The strengthening of the role of traditional religions and religious organizations in the life of society, especially Orthodoxy and the Russian Orthodox Church, is also recorded in Russia. At the same time, the article notes the contradictory nature of both processes, the confrontation of which is still far from complete. As a result of the analysis, three main conclusions are made. First, in the future, those peoples and civilizations whose spiritual roots will be the strongest will remain and will determine world politics, and traditional spiritual meanings and values will continue to be significant for the majority of members of a particular community. Second, those nations and civilizations that will continue to be in a state of spiritual impoverishment and, as a result, will finally lose their own spiritual sovereignty will be the losers, even to the point of complete disappearance. Third, the rejection of traditional religions, meanings and values in favor of the religion of man-god can lead humanity to the physical disappearance and replacement of “natural man” with “artificial intelligence”.

scholarly journals Between THe aacient and the modern world: war and community in Max Weber’s city typology

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 168-195
Author(s):  
Guilherme Moerbeck
Keyword(s):  
Careful Analysis ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
World War ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Greek City ◽  
Ideal Types ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Singular Analysis ◽  
The City

Economy and Society, one of the most influential oeuvres of the early twentieth century, with impact in several branches of the Human Sciences, has in one of its parts a text of particular interest to researchers of Ancient History, the Typology of Cities. Although Max Weber’s significant aims in composing his text were, blatantly, to evaluate the contemporary world, the density of the Weberian text, the fruit of a unique erudition, revealed an in-depth and singular analysis of the ancient Greek city. The purpose of this article is to analyze Weber’s interpretive choices, in the light of historiographical criticism and a careful analysis of the Typology, in articular as regards the ideal types which he made to understand the city of the ancient Greeks.

scholarly journals Representação identitária, de memória e de retomada da história: topônimos de logradouros públicos da cidade de Balsas-MA

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 32-53
Author(s):  
Maria Célia Dias de Castro ◽  
Marta Helena Facco Piovesan
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
World View ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Verbal Interactions ◽  
Urban Agglomerations ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

Os nomes próprios de lugares, os topônimos, são elementos singulares do léxico da língua que, dentre suas várias funções como signo toponímico, prestam-se como indícios da história dos povos que os utilizam em suas interações verbais. Para além disso, são verdadeiros testemunhos dos diversos aspectos da memória e da identidade. Com esta perspectiva, este trabalho tem como objetivo principal verificar como os topônimos dos aglomerados urbanos da cidade de Balsas - MA manifestam as representações identitárias, de memória e de história de seus habitadores. A metodologia segue os pressupostos da onomástica, notadamente da toponímia, com uma análise descritiva das categorias identidade e memória entrelaçadas com a história, as quais são aplicadas aos topônimos de natureza antropocultural de base antroponímica, axionímica, coronímica e historionímica. Os resultados revelam que esses topônimos do sul do Maranhão expressam as acepções que abarcam a visão do mundo e da vida física e a visão da vida humana, os quais representam caracteres memorísticos e identitários dos vários povos que habitam este município, estabelecendo uma proximidade com essas transposições e instituições da língua.Abstract: The proper names of places, toponyms, are singular elements of the lexicon of the language that, among its various functions as toponymic sign, lend themselves as evidence of the history of the people who use them in their verbal interactions. In addition, they are true testimonies of the various aspects of memory and identity. With this perspective, Thus, this paper has as main aims to verify how the toponyms of the urban agglomerations of the city of Balsas-MA manifest the identity, memorable and historic representations of its inhabitants. The methodology follows the assumptions of onomastics, notably toponymy, with a descriptive analysis of the categories identity and memory intertwined with history, which are applied to toponyms of anthropocultural nature, with base axionimic, coronimic and historionimic toponyms. The results reveal that these toponyms in the south of Maranhão express the meanings that encompass the world view and the physical life and the human life view, which represent memorable and identity characters of the various peoples that inhabit this municipality, establishing proximity with these transpositions and institutions of the language. Key-words: Toponyms, Identity, Memory, History, Balsas-MA.

scholarly journals Slavery in the Contemporary World

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 181-190
Author(s):  
Babatunde M. Idowu ◽  
Mercy C. Arua ◽  
Chiedozie P. Nwosu ◽  
Felix M. Nwankwo
Keyword(s):  
Radical Change ◽  
Conflict Theory ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Migration ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Trafficking In Persons ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Modern Slavery ◽  
The World

The paper examines slavery in the contemporary world with focus on examination of modern slavery in Africa. It underscored factors promoting slavery in the modern world, trends of modern slavery, causes of modern slavery in Africa, and consequences of modern slavery in Africa. The Marxian conflict theory was used as a guide and a background upon which the paper was anchored. From the point of view of the theory and available literature reviewed, the paper observed that factors such as population explosion of the post second world war, rapid economic change and the incorporation of the third world economies into the world economy in the guise of globalisation, and the widespread governmental corruption among others, are responsible for modern slavery in Africa and the world over. It revealed that forced labour, sex slavery, practice of debt bondage and trafficking in persons are all characteristics of modern slavery. The significance of this is enormous and antithetical to the development of the continent and humanity at large. The paper recommended that policies on human migration should be reviewed across borders, agencies established to tackle the menace of trafficking in persons should straightened so as to function effectively and efficiently, African countries should make frantic efforts in tackling the issue of corruption and over-dependence on advanced countries of the world. Finally, a radical change in mentality is advised of African citizens on migration.

Anarchy in the U.K.? Ideas of the City and the Fin de Siècle in Contemporary English Film and Literature

1996 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 635-656
Author(s):  
Stephen Brooke ◽  
Louise Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Racial Identity ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Hanif Kureishi ◽  
The World ◽  
Contemporary Perspective ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Heritage Industry ◽  
The City ◽  
Film And Literature

“…before I die I must know my beloved London again: for me it is the centre of civilization—tolerant, intelligent and completely out of control now, I hear”—Hanif Kureishi, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1988)“D'you want me to go on? The end of the world is nigh, Bri. The game is up!”—Mike Leigh, Naked (1993)In an essay published in 1969, Alastair Macintyre reflected upon the contradictory place of faith in the modern world, caught between absence and presence, absent because it is apparently no longer central to life, present because its structures still lie all around us. Macintyre suggests that it is at the moment when faith is lost that it becomes more easily, if trivially, incorporated into modern life: “[o]nly since the crisis of belief in the last century, however, has theism so emptied itself of any content that might affront us culturally that it has proved wholly assimilable.”From the contemporary perspective, one might make the same observation of the secular creed of “Englishness.” It has been suggested that the post-1945 crisis of confidence in the pillars of that mythic “Englishness”—imperial greatness, economic strength, a uniform national and racial identity—can be set against the relatively easy and successful assimilation of past notions into perceptions of the present, perceived, for instance, in the “heritage” industry, whether in tourism or in film. If, as Macintyre remarks of faith in the modern world, we are saddled with “an identity that we can now neither fully recover nor yet quite disown,” it might be argued that England enjoys or endures the same predicament with regard to its national identity.

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