Measuring the Moment: Strategies of Protest in Eighteenth-Century Afro-English Writing.

1990 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 261
Author(s):  
Barbara McCaskill ◽  
Keith A. Sandiford
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
English Writing ◽  
The Moment

What are those without faith doing in liturgical enactments?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Wolterstorff
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Way

Often there are, among those who participate in some liturgical enactment by saying the prescribed words and performing the prescribed bodily actions, some who are lacking in faith: they do not have faith that the doctrines presupposed by the prescribed acts of worship are true. Why do they nonetheless participate in the way described? And what are they doing when they participate? Are they just going through the motions? Is that possible? Or are they, for example, thanking God even though they lack faith that God exists and is worthy of being thanked? Is that possible? These are the main questions addressed in this chapter. The chapter closes with a discussion and appraisal of the sincerity movement in eighteenth-century England, whose members insisted that worshippers should only say what they feel at the moment; to act otherwise would be insincere. And insincerity is a vice.

DEATH RITUAL

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 56 (6) ◽  
pp. 1013-1013
Author(s):  
Philippe Aries
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
The Real ◽  
Death Ritual ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The One ◽  
Hospital Team

Death in the hospital is no longer the occasion of ritual ceremony, over which the dying person presides amidst his assembled relatives and friends. Death is a technical phenomenon obtained by a cessation determined in a more or less avowed way by a decision of the doctor and the hospital team. Indeed, in the majority of cases the dying person has already lost consciousness. Death has been dissected, cut to bits by a series of little steps, which finally makes it impossible to know which step was the real death, the one in which consciousness was lost, or the one in which breathing stopped. All these little silent deaths have replaced and erased the great dramatic act of death, and no one any longer has the strength or patience to wait over a period of weeks for a moment which has lost a part of its meaning. From the end of the eighteenth century [there has been] a sentimental landslide . . . causing the initiative to pass from the dying man himself to his family . . . Today the initiative has passed from the family, as much an outside person, to the hospital team. They are the masters of death—of the moment as well as the circumstances of death.

Prosaic Suffering

2019 ◽  
pp. 139-171
Author(s):  
Alex Eric Hernandez
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Samuel Richardson ◽  
Denis Diderot ◽  
The Moment

This chapter examines the uses and meanings of prose in tragedy during the eighteenth century. It offers a close, comparative reading of Aaron Hill’s The Fatal Extravagance (1721) and Edward Moore’s The Gamester (1753), and places the developing conventions of bourgeois tragedy in conversation with the insights of Samuel Richardson, Denis Diderot, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, and the actors called upon to embody its emotion. In doing so, this chapter argues that prosaic suffering performed its grief under an illusion of immediacy, in ways that were absorptive rather than theatrical, and provocatively disenchanted in their implications. Hence, bourgeois drama’s “natural picture” adapted the novel’s “writing to the moment” and embodied emotional practices characterized by quotidian concerns and an ambivalence about middle-rank life.

“THE MOMENT OF SOCIAL SCIENCE”: THEDECADE PHILOSOPHIQUEAND LATE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH THOUGHT

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL SONENSCHER
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
Jeremy Bentham ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Open Question

The first issue of theDécade philosophiqueappeared on 29 April 1794. In all, fifty-four volumes of the journal were published between that date and 1807, when, on Napoleon's orders, it was forced to merge with theMercure français. TheDécadewas published three times a month (taking its name from its appearance on the tenth day of each month of the French republican calendar) and the periodical soon became one of the intellectual powerhouses of the French republic after Robespierre. But quite what, in this particular setting, an intellectual powerhouse might have been is still an open question. Alongside Immanuel Kant or Jeremy Bentham, and their vast and varied intellectual legacies, the significance of the dozens of writers, including Pierre-Jean-Georges Cabanis, Pierre-Samuel Dupont de Nemours and Jean-Baptiste Say, who contributed to theDécade, is now more difficult to specify. There have, of course, been several fine studies of theDécadeand its contributors, notably by Joanna Kitchen and Marc Régaldo, and more broadly by Sergio Moravia, Martin Staum and Cheryl Welch. But it is still somewhat easier to associate the periodical with a number of keywords, such asidéologieandscience sociale, than with anything comparable to those more comprehensively articulated bodies of thought that came to be labelled “idealism” or “utilitarianism”. “Ideologism” never seems to have existed, and certainly never caught on. But this very indeterminacy may still be an advantage. It may help to open up, both historically and analytically, rather more of the intellectual space once covered by the broad range of subjects and arguments that first helped to shape—and then came to be buried by—idealism and utilitarianism.

Architects and Intellectual Culture in Post-Restoration England

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Walker
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Intellectual Culture ◽  
Robert Hooke ◽  
Classical Architecture ◽  
Cultural Elite ◽  
Restoration England ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Christopher Wren ◽  
John Evelyn

Architects and Intellectual Culture in Post-Restoration England charts the moment when well-educated, well-resourced, English intellectuals first became interested in classical architecture in substantial numbers. This occurred after the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660 and involved people such as John Evelyn, Robert Hooke, Sir Christopher Wren, and Roger North. The book explores how these figures treated architecture as a subject of intellectual enquiry, either as writers, as designers of buildings, or as both. In four substantial chapters it looks at how the architect was defined as a major intellectual figure; how architects acquired material that allowed them to define themselves as intellectually competent architects; how intellectual writers in the period handled knowledge of ancient architecture in their writing; and how the design process in architecture was conceived of in theoretical writing at the time. In all, the book shows that the key to understanding English architectural culture at the time is to understand how architecture was handled as knowledge, and how architects were conceived of as collectors and producers of such knowledge. It also makes the claim that architecture was treated as an extremely serious and important area of intellectual enquiry, the result of which was that, by the turn of the eighteenth century, architects and architectural writers could count themselves amongst England’s intellectual and cultural elite.

The Machiavellian Moment

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. G. A. Pocock ◽  
Richard Whatmore
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
American Revolution ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Social Consciousness ◽  
Civic Humanism ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Renaissance Italy ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Century Thought ◽  
The Ideal

Originally published in 1975, this book remains a landmark of historical and political thought. The book looks at the consequences for modern historical and social consciousness arising from the ideal of the classical republic revived by Machiavelli and other thinkers of Renaissance Italy. It shows that Machiavelli’s prime emphasis was on the moment in which the republic confronts the problem of its own instability in time, which the book calls the “Machiavellian moment.” After examining this problem in the works of Machiavelli, Guicciardini, and Giannotti, the book turns to the revival of republican ideology in Puritan England and in Revolutionary and Federalist America. It argues that the American Revolution can be considered the last great act of civic humanism of the Renaissance and it relates the origins of modern historicism to the clash between civic, Christian, and commercial values in eighteenth-century thought.

Intersections

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Gikandi
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Culture Of Consumption ◽  
Eighteenth Century Britain ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Modern Identity

This chapter moves beyond the critical debates raised in Chapter 1 to provide a more concrete narrative of the coexistence of taste and slavery as aesthetic objects and products of everyday life in the modern world. It explores the link between slavery, consumption, and the culture of taste, all-important conduits for understanding modern identity. With a particular emphasis on changing theories of taste in eighteenth-century Britain, it provides an analysis or reading of the troubled relation between race, ideologies of taste, and the culture of consumption. It examines how slavery enabled the moment of taste; led to fundamental transformations in the self-understanding of modern subjects; and, consequently, resulted in a redefinition of notions of freedom, selfhood, and representation.

Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Greek Reception of Aquinas

2021 ◽  
pp. 312-328
Author(s):  
Vassa Kontouma
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
The Moment

This chapter explores several original documents in order to identify the references to Thomas Aquinas that occur in the Greek theology of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and to evaluate the context in which these appear. A portion of the Thomistic oeuvre, already translated into Greek by late Byzantine authors, continues to be copied in the eighteenth century, and seven manuscripts record this. Furthermore, Thomas’s name is cited in a number of debates of this time, such as that on the Eucharist (the moment of consecration, the matter and form of the sacrament), on divine properties and activities, and on the necessity and limitations of the scholastic method. The authors considered in this regard are: Sebastos Kyminetes (1632–1702), Eustratios Argenti († c.1757), Vikentios Damodos (1700–1752), Eugenios Boulgaris (1716–1806), Athanasios Parios (1722–1813), Emmanuel Romanites († c.1758), and Nikodemos the Hagiorite (1749–1809).

Feathered Women and Persecuted Birds: The struggle against the Plumage Trade, c. 1860–1922

Rural History ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. Moore-Colyer
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Love Affair ◽  
The Moment ◽  
High Politics ◽  
Ebb And Flow

In the personality of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, undisputed mistress of Whig society in the two closing decades of the eighteenth century, were combined a heady mixture of formidable intellectual qualities and a recklessness and frivolity extraordinary even by the standards of the day. Leaving aside her involvement in high politics, the ambivalence of her personal relationships and her adventures at the card table, she would be memorable alone as a fashion icon whose excesses, particularly where her milliner and coiffeuse were concerned, were legendary. From the moment she appeared in public with a three-foot hair tower created with pads of horsehair and set off with an exotic arrangement of stuffed birds and ostrich feathers, female society high and low began its lengthy love affair with feathers.1 Fashions might ebb and flow, yet feathers, in some form or another, would intermittently adorn women's clothes (and the uniforms of some units of the Army) for the next century or so. This article is largely concerned with the efforts of various individuals and groups to bring an end to the trade in exotic plumage which fed upon the demand for the feathers of birds from tropical and subtropical territories.

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