The Feminine Paradigm of Culture in Alice Voinescu’s Conception

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-200
Author(s):  
Magda Wächter
Keyword(s):  
Abstract Thinking ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Cultural Paradigm ◽  
New Man ◽  
Cognitive Pattern ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Male Model ◽  
Eternal Feminine ◽  
Masculine Culture ◽  
Modern Perspective

"The Feminine Paradigm of Culture in Alice Voinescu’s Conception. Alice Voinescu, the first Romanian woman to obtain a PhD in Philosophy, proposed a female cultural paradigm in the conferences she held between 1933-1943, in the context of the women’s emancipation movement of the interwar period. In her view, the male model of knowledge, based on abstract thinking, must be permanently conjoined with the female one, based on intuition and affect, in a totalizing, modern perspective. The salvation of the “eternal human” through the “eternal feminine”, characterized by respect for tradition and continuity both in culture and in society, represents an alternative for materialistic civilization, which is the outcome of the male cognitive pattern. Keywords: Alice Voinescu, femininity, feminism, spirituality, masculine, culture, generation, new man "

scholarly journals A cultura do masculino na voz das mulheres em A Casa de Bernarda Alba – uma questão de ressonância

Scriptorium ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
Ana Lúcia Montano Boessio ◽  
Neemias Flor Brandão
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Federico Garcia Lorca ◽  
Religious Perspective ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
Women's Voice ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Hayden White ◽  
Masculine Culture

A partir de uma abordagem comparatista, este trabalho tem por objetivo analisar a representação do feminino enquanto ressonância de uma cultura dominante masculina em A Casa de Bernarda Alba – Drama de mulheres em povoados da Espanha (1936), de Federico García Lorca, contemplando três perspectivas: cultural, de acordo com o conceito trazido por Roy Wagner de cultura enquanto invenção; histórica, a partir da teoria da meta-história proposta por Hayden White, que relativiza o campo ao reconhecer o jogo de influências que o mesmo sofre e ao inserir no discurso histórico uma dimensão ficcional; e uma perspectiva religiosa, com base na visão de Pierre Debergé sobre o papel da mulher na sociedade. A construção ficcional de Lorca configura-se como um jogo de ressonâncias signíficas, onde o espaço da mulher e sua voz se (des)constituem no emaranhado das invenções e convenções sociais, culturais e históricas, desvelando, assim, a sua condição de silenciamento. *** The masculine culture in women’s voice in A Casa de Bernarda Alba – a matter of resonance ***From a comparative approach, this paper aims to analyze the representation of the feminine as a resonance of a dominant masculine culture in A Casa de Bernarda Alba – Drama de mulheres em povoados da Espanha (1936), by Federico García Lorca, considering three perspectives: cultural, according to Roy Wagner’s concept of culture as an invention; historical, through Hayden White’s metahistory theory, which relativizes the field by inserting a fictional dimension into the historical discourse, recognizing therefore the game of influences it undergoes; and a religious perspective based on Pierre Debergé’s point of view about the role of women in society. Lorca’s fictional construction constitutes itself as a game of signifying resonances, where women’s space and their voices (de)constitute themselves in the intertwinement of cultural, social and historical inventions and conventions, unveiling thus their silenced condition.Keywords: literature; feminine; culture; Federico Garcia Lorca.

scholarly journals Western Sophiology? The "Eternal Feminine” in the Thought of Henri de Lubac

Verbum Vitae ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 327-345
Author(s):  
Andrzej Persidok
Keyword(s):  
The Feminine ◽  
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin ◽  
Eternal Feminine ◽  
The Church ◽  
Historical References

The study is dedicated to the Mariology and ecclesiology of Henri de Lubac. It analyzes the works in which de Lubac emphasizes the unity of these two fields of theology, referring primarily to the Fathers of the Church and to the thought of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. This article tries to show that these are not purely historical references, but an expression of de Lubac’s original reflection, which forms a coherent whole. This whole is reconstructed at the end of the article. In consequence, there might be seen a kind of “Western sophiology,” a theological synthesis in which the “feminine element” plays an important role, and the central, rather than peripheral, nature of the truths of faith concerning the Mother of God and the Church becomes visible.

Primacy of Commodified Knowledges

2010 ◽  
pp. 107-127
Author(s):  
Karim A. Remtulla
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Adult Education ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Cultural Paradigm ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Learning Scenarios ◽  
And Training

This chapter discusses the cultural paradigm of ‘commodified knowledges’ in the workplace. This cultural paradigm is the second of two paradigms discussed in this book that shape socio-culturally insensitive, technological artefactual approaches to workplace e-learning research and study. Subsequently, this paradigm also socially reshapes workplace e-leaning historicity for workplace adult education and training, resulting in socio-cultural impacts on the workforce. ‘The knowledge-based economy’ as a concept of the global age comes from the various schools of thought. Each of the theories forwarded by these schools of thought continues to influence knowledge-based economic policy today, whether in regards to information-based societies; knowledge products; knowledge workers; or, technological innovations. These are the global policies that afford commodified knowledges their priority in the (knowledge-based) workplace. Organizations specifically concerned with knowledge governance, now invest in practices better known as ‘knowledge management’. Organizational apparatuses such as strategic priorities, value chains, and business processes, all become appropriated towards the materialization and reification of knowledge as an economic commodity for the benefit of the workplace. ‘Business process reengineering’ continues to have impact on the workplace as both a mandate and method for knowledge management towards the commodification of knowledge in the workplace. Workplace e-learning for workplace adult education and training now becomes another means for commodified knowledges through continuously reengineered knowledge management apparatuses. For workplace e-learning, adherence to the belief in the primacy of commodified knowledges leads to two workplace e-learning scenarios: (a) dehumanizing ideologies (see Chapter 9); and, (b) social integration (see Chapter 10).

scholarly journals Domesticating Viragos. The Politics of Womanhood in the Romanian Legionary Movement

Fascism ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-176
Author(s):  
Mihai Stelian Rusu
Keyword(s):  
Hybrid Model ◽  
New Woman ◽  
Ideal Type ◽  
Basic Premise ◽  
New Man ◽  
Mixed Features ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
The New Woman

Building on the basic premise that the attempt to create a New Man was one of fascism’s master-ideas, this article focuses on the feminine underside of this program of political anthropogenesis. The article centers on the image of the New Woman and the politics of womanhood within the Romanian Legionary movement. It argues that the Legion’s trademark rhetoric of martial heroism and martyrdom led to an essential tension between a virile model of womanhood (patterned upon the masculine ideal type of the martyr-hero) and a more conservative domestic model. A third, reconciliatory hybrid model, which mixed features borrowed from the two antagonistic types of Legionary womanhood was eventually developed to defuse this tension.

scholarly journals THE COGNITIVE PATTERN ‘MENTAL PHENOMENA’ IN THE ENGLISH LINGUOCULTURE

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 51-59
Author(s):  
Ekaterina V. Savitskaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Abstract Thinking ◽  
Material World ◽  
Historical Continuity ◽  
Cognitive Pattern ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Human Thinking ◽  
Organically Grown ◽  
Semantic Evolution ◽  
Verbal Thinking

The article contains the results of research on historical continuity and parallelism between concrete eidetic verbal thinking and abstract conceptual verbal thinking. We demonstrate how sensory images acquire a symbolic function, expressing abstract ideas, and how events of the inner (mental) world are modeled by using images of events of the outer (material) world. In the course of historical evolution, on its way to becoming abstract, human thinking inherited patterns developed at previous stages; new ideas concerning the world are based on old ones, used as a foundation. The cognitive basis of abstract thinking consists of sensory images. By way of illustration, we study the cognitive pattern ‘Mental Phenomena’ belonging to the English linguoculture, in which images of events occurring in the objective (material) world serve as models of events occurring in the subjective (mental) world. The results of this process are embodied in the meanings, the inner form, and the combinability of units of the English language. The examples given in the article show that the sensory substrate has deeply and organically grown into abstract thinking and latently influences it. Even scientific abstract thinking is not free from sensory visualization; the latter acts as its cognitive substrate. This visualization, which makes it possible to model objects by analogy, plays a useful role in scientific thinking. In many units of the English language having an abstract meaning and included into the semantic field ‘Mental Phenomena’, a concrete meaning may be found at some point of their semantic evolution. This is a manifestation of historical continuity and structural parallelism between concrete and abstract thinking.

The Wisdom of God as the Eternal Feminine: Dante and V.S. Solovyov on Sophianic Unity

2021 ◽  
pp. 54-69
Author(s):  
A.I. Pigalev
Keyword(s):  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Dante Alighieri ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Guiding Principle ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Binary Oppositions ◽  
Magnum Opus ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Eternal Feminine

The paper deals with the continuity of ideas concerning the Eternal Feminine and Sophia as the Wisdom of God from the point of view of Dante Alighieri and Vl.S. Solovyov. The analysis focuses not so much on the very notion of Sophia as on the meaning, origins, and contexts of their conception of Sophianic unity. The latter, being an ideal form of reducing a multitude to a unity, is considered as either an alternative or a supplement to the model of totality that reproduces the binary and hierarchical structure which at the social and political level is considered to be the pattern of imperial centralism. The study proceeds from the consequences of Dante’s negation of the difference between the spiritual sense of the Holy Scriptures and the literary sense of secular poetry. It is shown that for Dante it was necessary, first of all, to understand under whose inspiration and guidance he composed his verses, which gave particular importance to the image of a guide in his magnum opus. I show that in this context Dante turned to the intuitive representation of the feminine idea as a guiding principle that was personified by Beatrice, although Dante did not use the term “Sophia” and could not use the term “the Eternal Feminine,” which did not yet exist at the time. The disputes in Dante’s time on the essence of monarchy are considered in connection with his understanding of femininity as the guiding principle of such a unity of humanity that could reject a rigid hierarchy and, thus, free itself from imperial centralism. It is pointed out that the social and political aspects of the all-encompassing Sophia, which also resolves contradictions as a supplement to the intrinsically contradictory Logos, were given great importance in Solovyov’s philosophy. The paper concludes that it was Solovyov, who, having identified Sophia with humanity as a whole, created the presuppositions for a detailed study of the structure of Sophia’s unity. This study ends with a discussion of the validity of the convergence of a non-hierarchical Sophianic unity with the deconstructive strategies of modern philosophy, the aim of which is the elimination of binary oppositions and hierarchies from the gender context.

scholarly journals Feminity – An Image of Alterity in The Girl from the Forest by Ioan Slavici

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-16
Author(s):  
Andreea Petre
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Feminine Beauty ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Romanian Literature ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Status Differences ◽  
Modern Perspective

Abstract The short-story The Girl from the Forest by Ioan Slavici emphasises, from a modern perspective, the encounter with the Other, represented here by the feminine character, Simina. The Girl from the Forest can be read as a drama of excessive beauty, taking into account the fact that, in Romanian literature, the beauty of the positive feminine character was a datum, harmonised with a matching character, until Slavici; with Simina from The Girl from the Forest, feminine beauty becomes, first of all, a source of selfconfedence, it confers self-awareness and helps the woman to overcome the traditional condition of a passive individual. A complex character, Simina transfigures her maternal vocation in an attempt to save the man she loves. This is the moment when the relationship with the Other (Man, Master, Father) reaches the point of conflict. Simina is a figure of otherness because, although all the characters belong to the same environment, the rural country, the economic and social status differences are obvious, and, in the encounters with the Other, the feminine character refuses to behave submissively; she is an active protagonist, who takes full responsibility for her desire to valorise her subjectivity.

Money, Morals, and the Pillars of Bismarck's Society

1970 ◽  
Vol 3 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 49-72
Author(s):  
Fritz Stern
Keyword(s):  
Social Revolution ◽  
Communist Manifesto ◽  
Bourgeois Society ◽  
New Man ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
The Creation ◽  
As If

Perhaps one of Europe's more remarkable achievements has been the creation of a flourishing bourgeois civilization that has never been free from the most penetrating bourgeois criticism. “Épater le bourgeois” was a great pastime of the last century and the sport still seems to be alive. Ibsen'sPillars of Society, published in 1877, was a radical analysis of the moral pretensions and the moral burden of bourgeois society. The pillars of that society were rotten; the life of the protagonist was a lie violating his own nature and that of his fellowmen. It is as if Ibsen had written a dramatic commentary on theCommunist Manifestowithout indulging in the comforting hope that a social revolution would create a new man in a newly virtuous society. In the play, salvation came through an improbable act of contrition and self-purgation; at his most revolutionary, Ibsen thought that the feminine slamming of doors sufficed for human improvement.

Is the Personal Always Political?

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 133-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danny Osborne ◽  
Yannick Dufresne ◽  
Gregory Eady ◽  
Jennifer Lees-Marshment ◽  
Cliff van der Linden
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Openness To Experience ◽  
Political Sophistication ◽  
Knowledge Based

Abstract. Research demonstrates that the negative relationship between Openness to Experience and conservatism is heightened among the informed. We extend this literature using national survey data (Study 1; N = 13,203) and data from students (Study 2; N = 311). As predicted, education – a correlate of political sophistication – strengthened the negative relationship between Openness and conservatism (Study 1). Study 2 employed a knowledge-based measure of political sophistication to show that the Openness × Political Sophistication interaction was restricted to the Openness aspect of Openness. These studies demonstrate that knowledge helps people align their ideology with their personality, but that the Openness × Political Sophistication interaction is specific to one aspect of Openness – nuances that are overlooked in the literature.

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