scholarly journals The Feeling of Seeing: Factical Life in Salsa Dance

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Phenomenological Inquiry ◽  
Outer Frame ◽  
Felt Sense ◽  
Dance Movements ◽  
Life Engagement ◽  
World Champion ◽  
Oriented Approach ◽  
The Way ◽  
What Matters

Salsa dancing, a partnered dance premised on the felt sense of connection, is well suited to an exploration of Henry’s radical phenomenology of immanence and Heidegger’s facticity of life. Birthed in social celebratory contexts, salsa carries a particular motile freedom. What matters most is not how the dance movements are created from an outer frame of reference, but the experience of interactive responsiveness that emerges from unanticipated acts of giving life to another. Connecting to one’s partner and exuding a presence filled with life is revealed in an indepth interview with two-time world champion salsa dancer, judge, choreographer and coach, Anya Katsevman. This interview attempts to invoke the kinetic, kinesthetic and affective registers of the lividness and livingness of salsa dancing. As a phenomenological inquiry into factical life, the inter-view is presented not so much as a matter of shared perspectives or viewpoints, but more in the way of an inter-feeling, a practice of life engagement. This affectively-oriented approach provides both promise and challenge to the field of phenomenology. It invites us to delve more deeply into feeling acts of seeing. It also helps us understand how, through attending more fully to acts of seeing, we can increase the intensity with which we feel the upsurge of life.

On What Matters

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek Parfit
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Theory ◽  
Previous Treatment ◽  
Moral Discourse ◽  
Wide Sense ◽  
Normative Naturalism ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Way ◽  
What Matters

This third volume of this series develops further previous treatment of reasons, normativity, the meaning of moral discourse, and the status of morality. It engages with critics, and shows the way to resolution of their differences. This volume is partly about what it is for things to matter, in the sense that we all have reasons to care about these things. Much of the book discusses three of the main kinds of meta-ethical theory: normative naturalism, quasi-realist expressivism, and non-metaphysical non-naturalism, which this book refers to as non-realist cognitivism. This third theory claims that, if we use the word ‘reality’ in an ontologically weighty sense, irreducibly normative truths have no mysterious or incredible ontological implications. If instead we use ‘reality’ in a wide sense, according to which all truths are truths about reality, this theory claims that some non-empirically discoverable truths — such as logical, mathematical, modal, and some normative truths — raise no difficult ontological questions. This book discusses these theories partly by commenting on the views of some of the contributors to Peter Singer's collection Does Anything Really Matter? Parfit on Objectivity.

scholarly journals Living in the Present: Rethinking the Paradox of Suspense through Videogames

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Atkinson ◽  
Farzad Parsayi
Keyword(s):  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
The Spectator ◽  
The Way

In the study of film, Nöel Carroll (2001) coined the term the “paradox of suspense” to refer to a situation in which rewatching a film continues to invoke suspenseful feelings. According to the paradox, the tension associated with anticipation and uncertainty persists even though the spectator definitely knows what will happen (Carroll 2001). Many of the articles on the paradox and suspense examine the narrative events shaping spectator or player knowledge (Branigan 1992; Gerrig 1997; Ortony, Clore, and Collins 1988; Prieto-Pablos 1998; Smuts 2008; Yanal 1996), however, this paper takes a slightly different approach by addressing factors that contribute to the feeling of suspense irrespective of the awareness of specific narrative events. By examining videogames, we also shift the frame of reference from narration to gameplay and the way players prepare for suspenseful events. We argue that videogames require a particular attitude manifest in the gameplay that continues to foster suspense even in the replaying of a game.

scholarly journals Religious Responses to Environmental Crises in the Orange Free State Republic, C. 1896-C. 1898

Perichoresis ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 95-113
Author(s):  
Phia Steyn
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Free State ◽  
Folk Religion ◽  
Severe Drought ◽  
Black Africans ◽  
Concept Of God ◽  
Frame Work ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Way

Abstract The purpose of this article is to explore the religious responses within the Orange Free State republic to the environmental crises in the period c. 1896 to c. 1898. During this time the state was subjected to severe drought, flooding, and the outbreak of various diseases. The article examines the way in which these afflictions where interpreted by the Christian and wider community in terms of God’s wrath for unrepented sins. The persistence of synchronistic elements of folk religion was seen to have brought plagues like those found in Exodus which were visited upon the Pharaoh and his kingdom. This interruptive frame work led to calls for national repentance, but also a resistance to scientific and medical resolutions to the crises. It also reinforced racial divisions. Black Africans were perceived as the carriers of the disease so their movement was prohibited. The article goes on to show how the effect of this biblical frame of reference protected the concept of God as the ever-present active God in every aspect of life against the scientific rationalism of the age, while at the same time ironically hindering the work of mission and the life of the church.

The Presence of the Sophist in Our Time

2019 ◽  
pp. 23-38
Author(s):  
Barbara Cassin
Keyword(s):  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Universal Truth ◽  
Alter Ego ◽  
The Way

Cassin distinguishes between the way Freud read the Greeks, reinterpreting their great myths in allegorical fashion, and Lacan’s more nuanced attention to the philosophical arguments, notably of the Sophists and Presocratics, and their understanding of language, speech, or logos. As Lacan says, “The psychoanalyst is a sign of the presence of the sophist in our time, but with a different status,” and Jacques the Sophistbecomes an extended commentary on this sentence.Sophistry is often presented as philosophy’s negative alter ego, its bad other, yet the two are shown to be inextricably bound together. Cassin uses the term “logology,”coined by Novalis, to connect the shared approach of both Lacan and the Sophists to language, which becomes uncoupled from universal truth as an Aristotelian frame of reference.

Ideas and statistics

1953 ◽  
Vol 11 (04) ◽  
pp. 189-208
Author(s):  
F. M. Redington
Keyword(s):  
Title I ◽  
Considerable Difficulty ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Technical Sense ◽  
The Way ◽  
What Matters

I have long wanted to give vent to the thoughts in this talk and therefore I should start by saying ‘Thank you’ for providing me with an audience. Although the broad ideas have been in my mind for a long time, when it came to the point I had considerable difficulty in deciding just what to say and particularly in choosing a suitable title. I am far from satisfied with the somewhat pretentious name with which I have christened the infant, but it does I hope convey the thought that although I shall be talking about statistics—a fact which may or may not be an attraction and was therefore better not concealed—it will not be in a detailed technical sense. Indeed one of my first duties must be to disavow, not only any desire but any considerable ability to expound on statistics in detail.I have reached the age in life when I begin to gain much comfort from the thought that what matters is not the facts you know but the way you think. It is a comforting thought when you have forgotten most of the facts.

Tetsuro Watsuji’s Milieu and Intergenerational Environmental Ethics

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laÿna Droz ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Ethics ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Temporal Distance ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Future People ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way ◽  
What Matters

The concept of humans as relational individuals living in a milieu can provide some solutions to various obstacles of theorization that are standing in the way of an ethics of sustainability. The idea of a milieu was developed by Tetsuro Watsuji as a web of signification and symbols. It refers to the environment as lived by a subjective relational human being and not as artificially objectified. The milieu can neither be separated from its temporal—or historical—dimension as it is directly related to the “now” of perceptions and actions in the world. In other words, elements of the natural milieu can be said to have a constitutive value as they contribute to our well-being by helping us make sense of our life and our world. In their temporal and relational dimensions, Watsuji’s notions of the milieu and human being are thus directly related to the notion of sustainability. This concept offers some convincing solutions to overcoming the problem of temporal distance, by shifting the center of argumentation from unknown, passive, and biologically dependent not-yet- born people to the transmission of a meaningful historical milieu. The turning point here is that if what matters is the survival of ideal and material projects that people live (and sometimes die) for, then future generations have tremendous power over them, as the actions of those future people will determine the success or failure of the projects started by present generations.

scholarly journals City of Stones

1998 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-136
Author(s):  
Hasan Langgulung
Keyword(s):  
Historical Study ◽  
Eastern Side ◽  
Old City ◽  
History Of ◽  
Process Oriented ◽  
Political Opinions ◽  
Oriented Approach ◽  
Holy City ◽  
The Way

This book is a political and historical study of the holy city of Jerusalem andits periods from the biblical era to the present. Beginning with a discussion ofthe contrasting versions of Jerusalem’s history presented by Palestinian Arabsand Israeli Jews, the author goes on to examine the way the radically opposedgoals and aspirations of both sides results in conflicts. The author concludes thatthe stalemate over Jerusalem’s future is a “condition” that can be dealt with onlyby a “process oriented” and not “solution oriented” approach. The participantsmust deal with the problems caused by the existing conditions. This book representsa dissenting Israeli view of the problem.Meron Benvenisti, a former deputy mayor of Jerusalem whose authorityincluded the administration of the eastern side of Jerusalem and the Old City, ishighly qualified to write an unfalsified history of the Holy City.In his book Ciry ofstone, the author tried his best to demonstrate multisidedhistorical, demographic, cultural, religious, and political opinions, together withthe citizen’s feelings, without victors or vanquished.As I read the eight chapters of this precious book, I found that some issuesneeded clarification. and some questions needed answers ...

scholarly journals Techne as technology and Techne as Art: Heidegger’s phenomenological perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-24
Author(s):  
D. Rio Adiwijaya
Keyword(s):  
Martin Heidegger ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Literary Study ◽  
Practical Utilization ◽  
Phenomenological Inquiry ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
Phenomenological Perspective ◽  
Western Intellectual ◽  
The Way

We live in an age where our existence has been remarkably shaped by technology. However, as contemporary thinkers have elucidated, technology is not a mere sum of our tools. At a more profound level, technology forms an instrumental context that frames our relation to the world and to ourselves. Everything thereupon tends to appear merely as a means to an end. Countering the instrumentalistic tendencies of global technologization, this paper would like to ponder on the meaning of technology beyond mere tools. The core influence of this study is the thought of Martin Heidegger (18891976) which reveals that both technology and art stem from ancient techne, our basic way to reveal reality through embodied praxis. However, 2500 years of Western intellectual history has rendered the instrumental meaning of techne – that is, the way we understand technology today as practical utilization of science – becomes far more dominant than the artistic or poetic one. It is the aim of this literary study to elucidate Heidegger’s dense phenomenological inquiry which reveals the dual meaning of techne: techne as technology and techne as art. Recovery of the forgotten poetic meaning of techne is crucial to counter instrumentalism that pervades art in our techno-scientific age.

The Institutional Definition of Poetry: Some Heretical Thoughts

1998 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Fishelov
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Context ◽  
The Other ◽  
Verse Form ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Oriented Approach ◽  
The Way

A few contemporary theories of poetry (e.g., Culler, 1975; Fish, 1980) claim that texts do not have any poetic qualities prior to, and independently of, the institutional context in which they are presented. When a text, any text, is printed in verse form, in a book whose subtitle is “Poems,” then we start looking for poetic qualities. And what we look for, we are bound to find. In order to challenge this approach, and to argue for a more objective, text-oriented approach to the categorization of texts (Hanaor, 1996; Miall & Kuiken, 1996), I have conducted a test. My test was based on two types of questionnaires, the one in prose form, the other in verse, in which students were asked to identify those texts that were “originally” poems or prose. The results obtained corroborate the assumption that readers have quite definite intuitions about the poetic qualities of texts prior to and independently of the way they are institutionally presented.

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