scholarly journals Lost in Translation: Heidegger and Ski Jumping in Slovenia

2010 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lev Kreft
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Sport Performance ◽  
World War ◽  
Popular Discourse ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Ski Jumping ◽  
Letting Go ◽  
Repeated Use ◽  
Lost In Translation

Lost in Translation: Heidegger and Ski Jumping in SloveniaHeidegger developed his non-concept Gelassenheit after World War II. Its meaning remains uncertain and controversial, something different from notions of everyday conversation. In Slovene, however, it has been translated as sproščenost, which is parallel to English ‘relaxedness’, thus producing hybridity between notions of relaxedness, relaxation and releasement, which is, together with letting-go, a proper English translation of Gelassenheit.This hybridity was (ab)used for political slogans during the 2004 elections, when Heidegger's term was repeated on and on, until it entered popular discourse as well as other domains such as the economy, culture, and media. This phenomenon was examined by Boris Vezjak in The Relaxed Ideology of Slovenes (The Peace Institute, Ljubljana 2007). Relaxedness-releasement entered sport jargon as well, but Vezjak's book did not cover this field. At first abundant, this term more or less disappeared later. With one exception: in ski jumping, where it became one of the main words used to explain what was missing from Slovenian ski jumping during 2004-2009 period. In Slovenia, ski jumping is a national sport, and the absence of excellence during this long period created additional pressures on athletes and the whole ski jumping commonwealth.To examine the numerous cases where releasement was used to explain what is wrong with ski jumpers, or what they finally achieved in rare examples of success during that period, the only Slovene sport daily, "Ekipa" (The Team), was consulted for research. This study revealed that releasement was indeed lost in translation, appearing in ads as a signifier without any certain signified, and functioning as a je-ne-sais-quoi of sport performance and excellence. Through cases of repeated use of releasement as mystical and at the same time scientific (instead of relaxation) and colloquial notion (which is relaxedness, even carelessness), we get at inoculation of kinesiological mechanicism and psychological technique with philosophical mysticism.

The Politically Weak

2020 ◽  
pp. 93-119
Author(s):  
Martin Crotty ◽  
Neil J. Diamant ◽  
Mark Edele
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
World War I ◽  
Political Process ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
World War ◽  
Long Period ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Democratic Systems

This chapter investigates the cases of victory and defeat and explains what politically influential veterans were able to produce to secure benefits and rights. It focuses on China after its long period of war and civil war that ended in 1949, the United Kingdom after both world wars, the United States after World War I, and the USSR after World War II. It analyses the cases wherein veterans had little or limited success in securing meaningful social and political status. The chapter identifies factors that determine the veterans' status, where it is victory or defeat, or authoritarian versus democratic systems of government. It discusses the political process and the attempts to convert claims into entitlements in order to explain the negative outcomes for the veterans of victorious armies.

Conclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 147-160
Author(s):  
Julie Golia
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Collective Communication ◽  
World War ◽  
Popular Discourse ◽  
Newspaper Industry ◽  
Digital Communities ◽  
Personal Interaction ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
New Generation

After World War II, transformations in the newspaper industry, in mainstream gender values, and in the nature of popular discourse again reshaped Americans’ experience with advice. The rise in the 1950s of a new generation of advice columns, led by Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren, also marked the decline of local, participatory columns like the Detroit News’ “Experience” and the Chicago Defender’s “Advice to the Wise and Otherwise.” Yet early twentieth-century advice columns set key precedents of collective communication that continue to shape the digital communities that serve as our primary modes of personal interaction today.

Treaty or Travesty?: Legal Issues Surrounding the U.S.- Philippines Military Base Agreement of 1947–1992

2001 ◽  
Vol 10 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 93-121
Author(s):  
L. Eve Armentrout Ma
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
The United States ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Military Bases ◽  
Common Elements ◽  
World War ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Host Nation ◽  
Do So

AbstractSince the end of World War II, the United States has been foremost in negotiating military bases on foreign soil, and it can be anticipated that it will do so again in the future. In general, these base agreements have had many common elements. Most have allowed the stationing of American troops on foreign soil for a very long period of time, and have involved a certain measure of extraterritoriality. Most have been concluded under conditions of stress for the host country. Often, for example, the host nation has been one that was devastated by war, and was either the recently defeated enemy or the near-prostrate victor. In many cases the host nation was relatively small, economically shaky, and newly independent, fearful of its chances of survival in an unpredictable and often hostile world; and more often than not, the former ruler or territorial administrator was the United States.

scholarly journals The organisation of solfège pedagogy in Serbia from the second half of the 19th century until today - achievements and attainments

Muzikologija ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 27-50
Author(s):  
Kristina Parezanovic
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Music Education ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Art Music ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Music Pedagogy ◽  
World War ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Western European ◽  
The 19Th Century

This research focuses on the development of art music, music pedagogy and teaching solf?ge in Serbia in the long period stretching from the second half of the 19th century until the present day. In this article I present a chronology of the institutionalisation of the music education system in Serbia; then, I discuss the origins of the influence of Western European artistic-pedagogical practices on Serbian teaching, through the testimonies by Stevan Hristic, Berthold Hartmann, Miloje Milojevic, Stanislav Vinaver, Milan Grol and others. I finish with the presentation of the most important Serbian music pedagogues and their achievements in the period before World War II (Stevan Stojanovic Mokranjac, Isidor Bajic, Miloje Milojevic, Miodrag Vasiljevic) in parallel with the results and practices of the Western European and global music pedagogy. My goal is to observe Serbian approaches to music pedagogy in relation to the question of the possibilities, realistic or hypothetical, to use the educational principles which were in expansion in Europe at the end of the 19 th and beginning of the 20th centuries in Serbian music pedagogy. After examining the methods of teaching solf?ge in the period from the end of World War II until today, I conclude that Serbia has developed its own pedagogic style (even though it is based on the complementarity of several autochthonous and foreign methodical solutions), built upon and supperted by the experience and knowledge of Serbian and foreign attainments in music pedagogy.

scholarly journals Publishing ‘Paper Bullets’: Politics, Propaganda and Polish-English Translation in Wartime London

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 217-235
Author(s):  
Joanna Rzepa
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Cultural Diplomacy ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
World War ◽  
Daily Press ◽  
War Effort ◽  
Polish Government ◽  
Scholarly Attention

During World War II, publishing was an important element of the war effort for both the Allies and the Axis powers. Wartime propaganda and cultural diplomacy relied primarily on books, magazines and the daily press. The exiled governments in London, including the Polish government, undertook a major effort to translate, publish and promote numerous books and pamphlets that would appeal to British readers and thereby help to sway public opinion. This paper focuses on translation as an important aspect of wartime publishing that has not yet received much scholarly attention. It offers a contribution to research into the role and place of translations in wartime publishing by discussing the Polish government-in-exile's translation and publishing campaign. Drawing on various archival sources, it demonstrates that publishing translations was an important part of wartime cultural diplomacy and led to the development of extensive state-private networks that brought together exiled governments and British publishers. By analysing this material in a broad cultural context, the paper highlights the historical, ideological and political relevance of translation studies research to wartime publishing and censorship.

scholarly journals The decline in volatility in the US economy. A historical perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-123
Author(s):  
María Dolores Gadea ◽  
Ana Gómez-Loscos ◽  
Gabriel Pérez-Quirós
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Business Cycle ◽  
Structural Breaks ◽  
Great Moderation ◽  
World War ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Us Economy ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Business Cycle

Abstract In this paper, we analyse the volatility of US GDP growth using quarterly series starting in 1875. We find structural breaks in volatility at the end of World War II and at the beginning of the Great Moderation period. We show that the Great Moderation volatility reduction is only linked to changes in expansions, whereas that after World War II is due to changes in both expansions and recessions. We also propose several methodologies to date the US business cycle in this long period. We find that taking volatility into account improves the characterization of the business cycle.

“A World of Tomorrow”: Trauma, Urbicide, and Documentation in A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-206
Author(s):  
Sarah E. Cornish
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
National Identity ◽  
English Translation ◽  
Collective Trauma ◽  
World War ◽  
Publication History ◽  
The World ◽  
Red Army ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship

The World War II diary A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City (2005) documents one woman’s story of survival in the spring of 1945 in Berlin, during which upward of 130,000 women were raped by soldiers of the Red Army. First, this essay introduces the politics of recuperating the English translation of the diary within the context of the scant supporting historical documentation and memorialization of Berliner women’s experience during the occupation. Second, it demonstrates how the diary produces a feminist account of survival and a narrative for collective trauma by examining the diarist’s representations of the effects of rape and rubblestrewn Berlin. Third, the essay details the complicated publication history of the diary through a consideration of the relationship between the trauma sustained by the survivors of mass rape and the blows to German national identity that it documents.

scholarly journals A Tumor-Like Lump in the Palm Caused by an Inconspicuous-for 75 Years-Bullet

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Efstratios D. Athanaselis ◽  
Apostolos Fyllos ◽  
Nikolaos Stefanou ◽  
Socrates E. Varitimidis ◽  
Dimitrios Giannikas
Keyword(s):  
Differential Diagnosis ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Foreign Body ◽  
Unusual Case ◽  
Foreign Bodies ◽  
Soft Tissue Mass ◽  
World War ◽  
Tissue Mass ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Bullet Fragment

Case. An unusual case of a foreign body in the hand is described here. Excision of a tumor-like soft tissue mass revealed a 75-year-old World War II bullet fragment of which patient was unaware. Conclusion. Differential diagnosis of hand lumps and inflammatory reaction must always include retained foreign bodies even after a very long period of posttraumatic quiescence or patient’s inability to provide a relative injury case history.

scholarly journals Remembering Poland: The Ethics of Cultural Histories

2002 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
William Gorski
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
National Identities ◽  
World War ◽  
Personal Memory ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
The Future ◽  
Lost In Translation

Art Spiegelman's Maus, Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl, and Eva Hoffman's Lost in Translation and Exit into History are recent American texts that draw upon cultural histories of Poland to launch their narratives. Each text confronts and reconstructs fragments of twentieth-century Poland at the interactive sites of collective culture and personal memory. By focusing on the contested relationship between Poles and Jews before, during, and after World War II, these texts dredge up the ghosts of centuries-long ethnic animosities. In the post-Cold War era, wherein Eastern Europe struggles to redefine itself, such texts have a formative influence in re-mapping the future of national identities.

scholarly journals The “Good Man from Cologne”: Heinrich Böll’s Literary Ethics

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-188
Author(s):  
Boris Dudaš ◽  
Barbara Kasun
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Physical World ◽  
World War ◽  
Life Conditions ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Literary Ethics ◽  
State Of Mind ◽  
Moral Ethics ◽  
Simple Character

Moral ethics which developed and grew only to become stronger and clearer, during and after World War II is a complex and resourceful subject which can be found in the work from “The Good Man from Cologne” – Heinrich Böll. Even at first glance, Böll has a rather clear message that he sends to his readers, whether he writes from experience or his state of mind (one affected by the other): War is not to be glorified. There is not one aspect of the war that can or should be considered as pride or heroism, for no one participating (in example – honoring a soldier with a piece of metal, which is in war used to kill and destroy). Then, why write about war? Because no one should ever forget it. All the suffering and victims should be presented simply – as they were, to warn and clarify the readers. The clarification meant for Böll to name the ones that let this kind of horror to take place, like organizations that collaborated with the Nazis for their own interests. In his works, he shows how the characters – uneducated and the intellectuals – deal with guilt even years after the war has ended – every simple character for himself, as an individual. Therefore, he shows his compassion for the simple men but underlines his hostility towards organizations. Not only have Germans had to live with their guilt, but also with a vast amount of rubble – in their minds, souls, but also in their physical world. That is why Böll holds onto “Rubble Literature” for a long period after the war. The importance of the precise depiction of war shows how strongly Böll committed in his effort to shine the light only on the real side of war. His determination to fight for the “weak” that were by the mainstream defined as “waste” shows high levels of his morality and ethics. He enjoys a society full of individuals, whose life conditions vary from case to case, and therefore, vary in their (inter)actions towards life, and is their voice in the constant fight for human and civil rights.

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