Hegel

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincenzo Ferrone
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ◽  
The Self ◽  
Philosophical Issue ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Subject

This chapter examines how Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel addressed the major philosophical issue of the Enlightenment—the dilemma of man— in terms of the “dialectical moment,” linking it to the theme of the self-foundation and sublation of the crisis opened by modernity. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Hegel laid the foundations of what is known as the philosophers' Enlightenment in the name of a concept of philosophy entirely different from that of Immanuel Kant and other Enlightenment figures: he shifed the focus from the primacy of the subject to that of the spirit. Hegel placed the emphasis on the organic union of man and universe, within which eternal nature operates, rather than on an abstractly determined individual tending towards his own happiness. The chapter also considers Hegel's philosophy of unification and “conciliation.”

Language, Religion, Nation

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Jefferson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
The Self ◽  
Abstract Entities ◽  
Individual Character ◽  
Collective Phenomenon ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Individual

This chapter traces the popular usage of “genius” in the nineteenth century. If genius no longer has the self-evidence that was attributed to it in the eighteenth century, this is due in part to the profligacy with which the word had come to be used. While the term is widely invoked—in fact, ever more widely so—it is rarely the subject of sustained theoretical scrutiny of the type established by aesthetics and philosophy in the previous century. The genius celebrated in this popular usage was, more often than not, a collective phenomenon linking success or supremacy with the individual character of institutional or abstract entities in a way that combined genius as ingenium with genius as the form of superlative excellence.

Foucault

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincenzo Ferrone
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Western World ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Core Identity ◽  
The Right

This chapter examines how Michel Foucault reformulated the philosophical issue of the Enlightenment by moving from a deliberate rereading of the Hegelian Centaur to an advocacy of the “death of man”—the extinction of a rational platform of knowledge along the lines developed by Immanuel Kant and the Enlightenment at the end of the eighteenth century. It considers Foucault's genealogical historiography, a new and original tool for the analysis of history, and his arguments against the idea of a necessary and defining connection between knowledge and virtue, which had been the core identity of the Enlightenment, the link between power and knowledge, and the rise of disciplinary violence in the history of the Western world. Finally, it explores Foucault's view that “critique is the movement by which the subject gives himself the right to question truth on its exercise of power, and to question power on its discourses of truth.”

scholarly journals Issues of education and upbringing in the pages of "Wielkopolanin" (1848-1850)

1970 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-209
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Kabacińska-Łuczak
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Nursery Schools ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Educational Issues ◽  
The People ◽  
The Subject ◽  
At Home

The aim of the article is to attempt and show the “enlightenment” of the peasants of Greater Poland in the middle of the nineteenth century in the magazines addressed to them, especially in relation to matters of education and upbringing. The subject of the research is the information on educational issues raised in one of the magazines for the people – “Wielkopolanin,” which was published in the years 1848-1850. Among the educational issues raised, the most important was the promotion of national identity both at school and at home. Further, it covered such topics as the influence of teachers on patriotic activity (their attitudes, values, importance in the local community), the role of village nursery schools, and support for orphans.

scholarly journals The Conception of Popularity in the Enlightenment and Romanticism

Romantik ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Günter Oesterle
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
Alternative Conception ◽  
Friedrich Schlegel ◽  
Johann Gottlieb Fichte ◽  
Especial Reference ◽  
Central Concern ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Main Criticism

<p>It can hardly be disputed that the theme of popularity is central to the Enlightenment. Popularity is the sociality equivalent to the individual appeal: ‘Dare to know.’ Parallel to this runs the following imperative: ‘Dare to encourage your neighbour and your fellow man and woman to think on their own – even though they do not belong to the erudite elite.’ It is also undeniable that Romantic authors and philosophers polemically attempted to tear down the popularity project of the Enlightenment, their main criticism being its tendency towards mediocrity. It is less well known that Romantic authors and philosophers themselves, around the turn of the nineteenth century, made popularity their central concern. To quote Friedrich Schlegel in the journal Athenaeum: ‘The time of popularity has come.’ This article explores the Romantics’ alternative conception of popularity, with especial reference to Johann Gottlieb Fichte and the Grimm brothers. To this end, it is helpful to reconstruct the background of the Romantic attempt to create an independent<br />concept of popularity: the debate between Immanuel Kant and the German popular philosopher Christian Garve on the necessity, possibilities, and limits of popularity.</p>

scholarly journals The Culture of the XVIIIth Century and the Return to the Human Being

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 90-102
Author(s):  
Gleb K Pondopulo
Keyword(s):  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
The Self ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Johann Gottfried Herder ◽  
Giambattista Vico ◽  
Cultural Process ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of

Analyzing the works of Giambattista Vico, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Johann Gottfried Herder and Immanuel Kant, the article searches into the typological peculiarities of the 18th century culture, shows a fundamental refocusing of the whole cultural process from the cosmological idea to the anthropological one, gives the humanist reasons of culture and the definition of its personalized form, reveals the self-identification of a human being not as the object but the subject of learning and creative work.

scholarly journals Disciplinary Power and the Role of the Subject at a Nineteenth-Century Danish Asylum

PhaenEx ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
BJØRN HAMRE
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Self ◽  
Psychiatric Practice ◽  
Disciplinary Power ◽  
Pastoral Power ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
The Way

This article reports on the ways in which psychiatric practice and power were constituted in a Danish asylum at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The point of departure will be a complaint by a former patient questioning the practice at the asylum in 1829. In an analysis of this narrative the study draws upon Foucauldian concepts like disciplinary power, confession, pastoral power and subjectivation. I will argue that the critique of the patient provides us with an example of the way that disciplinary power works in the case of an informal indictment of the methods and practice at an asylum. A key issue is whether the critique is not itself a part of the self-legitimation of disciplinary power.

scholarly journals Listening to the Self: The Shawshank Redemption and the Technology of Music

2011 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel K. L. Chua
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
The Self ◽  
Special Effect ◽  
The Core ◽  
Virtual Self ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Sound Technology

Abstract Music has often been used to symbolize and express ontological experiences. This article explores a mode of nineteenth-century self-audition where music captures a glimpse of the freedom that lies at the core of the subject. This mode of listening has intensified with the development of modern technology and is still prevalent in constructing the identity of the self. The opera scene from the Shawshank Redemption not only is an example of this special effect, but provides a narrative of how music achieves this affect, creating an ideal and virtual self through sound technology.

The Topographies of a Typographer

2018 ◽  
pp. 9-24
Author(s):  
Malcolm Dick
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Book Design ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries

The chapter considers the ways in which Baskerville has been interpreted since the eighteenth century. Celebrated as a genius by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century historians of Birmingham, he was, however, criticised by others for his allegedly lowly origins, lack of education and unconventional morality and beliefs. The revival of interest in the quality of his typeface design at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries led to biographies and bibliographical studies which added to our knowledge of his work as a ‘complete printer’. These were important studies, but they resulted in a narrowing of our appreciation of Baskerville. He became, almost entirely, the subject of students of printing and book design and was largely ignored by economic, social and cultural historians. Baskerville’s importance as an industrialist, contributor to the Enlightenment and the significance of his books as cultural artefacts provide new ways of seeing the man and his works.

Horkheimer and Adorno

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincenzo Ferrone
Keyword(s):  
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Will To Power ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Form ◽  
Subjective Reason ◽  
The Way

This chapter examines the claim by Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, articulated in their work Dialektik der Aufklärung that the Enlightenment underwent a dialectical reversal that paradoxically transformed it into a new form of myth, a totalitarian religion devoted solely to an instrumental rationalism whose final aim was to creatie a dehumanized society dominated by science and technology. Dialektik der Aufklärung began with the adventures of Odysseus (the first Dialektik der Aufklärungrer) and traveled on all the way to Adolf Hitler's totalitarianism and the American mass consumerism in their own day. Horkheimer and Adorno indicted what they saw as the historical failure of the Enlightenment's emancipation project. They took issue with the philosophy of the subject as described in Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, appropriating both Karl Marx's critique of ideologies and Friedrich Nietzsche's unmasking of subjective reason as a smokescreen for the will to power.

Metaphors the East Is Othered by: A Critical-cognitive Study of Metaphor in Lady Sheil’s Travelogue Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 894
Author(s):  
Ehsan Golahmar ◽  
Manoochehr Tavangar
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cognitive Analysis ◽  
Cognitive Poetics ◽  
Critical Metaphor Analysis ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Cognitive Study

Regarding travel writing as the textual manifestation of the Self and the Other confrontation, travelogues provide interesting material for analyzing otherness discourse and various strategies of othering. Accordingly, this paper aims to study how metaphor functions as an othering device in travel writing. The travelogue which is the subject of this research is Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia written by Lady Sheil in the mid-nineteenth century. The framework employed for analyzing metaphor in this text is Critical Metaphor Analysis which is amongst various approaches of cognitive poetics. The critical-cognitive analysis of metaphors in this travelogue implies that Sheil metaphorized Persia mainly as an Oriental Other which has a denigrated inferior position relative to the Occidental Self. In so doing, she has vastly used different stereotypical images of the East abundantly present in the Orientalist discourse. It can be argued that Orientalism as a discourse has exerted great influence on Sheil’s metaphorization of Persia as an Eastern Other via a number of conceptual metaphors which characterize the East as a unified object which has no diversity and should be studied by European scholars.

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