scholarly journals Modernity as a Process of De-Limitations

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 413-446
Author(s):  
Hans Schelkshorn
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Cultural Transformations ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Rational Power ◽  
New Perspective

Abstract This article presents some outlines of a new theory of modernity. As distinct from the theories of modernity of the Enlightenment (Habermas) and their critique in the form of theories of power (Foucault, post-colonial philosophies), modernity is described as a complex process of various “de-limitations”, which is set in motion in Renaissance philosophy. Since in antiquity cosmology as well as the geography of the ecumene were each tied to anthropological, ethical and political conceptions respectively, the de-limitation of the cosmos (Cusanus, Copernicus) and the de-limitation of the ecumene by the European naval powers trigger scientific, political and cultural transformations reaching from the upvaluation of insatiable curiosity to the anthropological idea of experimental self-creation (Montaigne) up to the idea of limitless economic growth (Locke). Since rational, power-related and cultural ideas are amalgamated in the different de-limitations, this theory opens up a new perspective on the ambivalences of modernity.

What exactly is Takeuchi Yoshimi's logic of Asian resistance?

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Dennis Stromback
Keyword(s):  
Literary Critic ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Chinese Modernity ◽  
Western Modernity ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Positive Kernel ◽  
Failed Attempt ◽  
Alternative Sites ◽  
Global World

Abstract Literary Critic and Sinologist, Takeuchi Yoshimi, provides post-colonial and decolonial studies a logic of resistance that seeks to destabilize the colonialist projects of Western modernity without repeating its structural logic. In this regard, Takeuchi's logic of resistance functions as a dialectical lens into the “emancipatory traps” of Western modernity that frame the victim–victimizer paradox by turning negativity into a method of generating heuristic possibilities. But in this pursuit to look for alternative sites for mining theoretical possibilities, Takeuchi returns to the origins of Chinese modernity for imagining a proper logic of Asian resistance, that which could be deployed as a resource for negating the imperial gestures of modernist thought while affirming the positive kernel of the Enlightenment with the hope of bringing forth a global world that is continuously transformed by the cultural particulars themselves. The goal of this article is to further elucidate Takeuchi's logic of Asian resistance and to discuss how this logic can be read as having the potential to correct Nishida Kitarō's and the Kyoto School's failed attempt to overcome modernity.

scholarly journals Membangun Peradaban Sufistik melalui Hermeneutika Schleiermacher pada Ekspresi-Ekspresi Sejarah Perjuangan Imam Husain

ESOTERIK ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 90
Author(s):  
Fadhlu Rahman ◽  
Dicky Darmawan
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Spiritual Civilization ◽  
Analysis Methods ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Space ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Western Perspective

<p class="06IsiAbstrak">The modern western perspective initiated by the renaissance and the enlightenment century successfully couped the reality of God. This was carried out by some western intellectuals and thinkers, which ultimately gave obscurity to the human concept. The obscurity of this concept then has implications for the meaning of the progress of human civilization. This further gives serious problems to almost the entire social order.   Husain's struggle as the eternal history of humanity interpreted through Hermeneutics Scheleiermacher provides another perspective on human concepts and the progress of civilization. The monotheistic values they contain glance at the sides of spirituality as a measure of the progress of civilization. From it the definition of civilization gained new space and paved the way for human potentials that were inherently the cornerstone of the progress of civilization. This paper tries to uncover the values of Imam Husain's struggle in Karbala which is interpreted through Schleiermacher's psychological and grammatical interpretation and contextualizes it with the concept of Coomaraswamy spiritual civilization, as a foundation for the meaning of civilization using historical and descriptive analysis methods. So that the paradigm of the progress of civilization gets an alternative new perspective, and spirituality can be used as a measure of the progress of civilization.</p>

The Developmental State

2019 ◽  
pp. 71-100
Author(s):  
Luis Eslava
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
International Law ◽  
Developmental State ◽  
The State ◽  
The South ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Institutional Formation ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Impact

The battle for international law during the era of decolonization in the mid-twentieth century was to a large extent a battle fought over the nature, function and objectives of the state—above all, over their relationship to the idea of ‘development’. A particular normative and institutional formation resulted from this battle: the ‘developmental state’, the impact of which on (in)dependence in the South was and continues to be profound. However, the ‘developmental state’ did not spring ready-made out of nowhere. On the contrary, using Latin America’s much earlier experience of colonialism, decolonization and independent statehood as a starting-point, this chapter draws attention to the long and complex process through which the developmental state’s most important elements emerged, defining what was thinkable and doable there and elsewhere in the post-colonial world.

scholarly journals Public opinion on crime, punishment and the death penalty in Barbados

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 302-320
Author(s):  
Lynsey Black ◽  
Lizzie Seal ◽  
Florence Seemungal
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Death Penalty ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Crime And Punishment ◽  
Focus Group Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Group Research ◽  
Global North ◽  
New Perspective

The bulk of extant research on public opinion on crime and punishment is focused on Global North nations. This article contributes a new perspective to the literature on punitivism by examining public opinion on crime, punishment and the death penalty in Barbados. The article presents insights from exploratory focus group research conducted in Barbados in 2017. These findings are particularly relevant as Barbadian lawmakers navigate reform of the nation’s death penalty law. While the focus groups reveal anxieties that echo those identified in other jurisdictions, related to nostalgia for the past and concern regarding social order for instance, they also demonstrate the specific relevance of time and place. Using approaches from Caribbean Criminology and drawing on post-colonial perspectives, the article examines the context of views on punishment in Barbados, including perceptions of ‘neo-colonial’ interference and concerns about what can be lost in the process of ‘progress’.

scholarly journals BUSINESS CYCLE – GROWTH NEXUS: A REVIEW

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 519-538
Author(s):  
Marinko ŠKARE ◽  
Daniel TOMIĆ
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Business Cycles ◽  
Business Cycle ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Empirical Testing ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Cycle Growth ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Theoretical Reasoning

Frequent reversals in business cycles pose the question whether country can achieve macroeconomic stability and/or economic growth by coordinating its economic policies. Thus, what is the role of economic policy within the short/long run in amplifying or dampening shocks? Business cycle – economic growth relationship is rather ambiguous and has, thus, attracted controversy. In this sense the (dis)belief that there indeed exists a relationship between the economic growth and business cycle, and their long-run convergence brings us to three important hypotheses that: (1) the evaluation of cycle-growth bond is inconclusive, (2) empirical testing of cycle synchronization is exaggerated and (3) the hypothesis of coupling/decoupling is ambiguous and can be misleading. Economic growth is a complex process and cannot be attributed to a single factor of observance hence this essay is just a tool of theoretical reasoning with firm grip on empirical circumstances that lead us to consider some issues that dwell the “growth economists” these days. Our study suggests a conclusion that discussions on the cycle-growth nexus are far from over, revealing us some remarkable confrontations within empirical domain.

John Locke on Custom's Power and Reason's Authority

2012 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 607-629 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth W. Grant
Keyword(s):  
John Locke ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Critical Distance ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Intellectual Independence

AbstractLocke stresses the power of custom in shaping opinion and behavior, though this aspect of his thought has been underappreciated. Recognizing its importance raises critical issues, particularly the relation between custom and reason and the role of authoritative custom in supporting political and social power. Locke explains in detail the various psychological and sociological mechanisms by which the power of custom is manifested; but he nonetheless consistently and emphatically rejects its authority. Instead, Locke is a champion of the authority of reason. Because custom is powerful, but reason is authoritative, Locke attempts to enlist the power of custom in the service of reason and of reasonable politics, and because custom is powerful and its impact unavoidable, individual intellectual independence cannot mean being without cultural prejudices. At best, it means the ability to gain some critical distance from them. These observations place Locke's relation to the Enlightenment in a new perspective.

scholarly journals The Rise of the Academies: Continuity or Change?

2001 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Tolley
Keyword(s):  
Colonial Period ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Curricular Reform ◽  
Benjamin Franklin ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
History Of ◽  
Benjamin Rush

In his book, The Age of the Academies, Theodore R. Sizer argued that academies represented a significant break from the relatively narrow schooling that had been previously available to students in the early Latin grammar schools. In his view, the proliferation of academies heralded a new age in education, one more reflective of the Enlightenment values promoted by such Republican leaders as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, or Benjamin Rush. After thirty-five years of additional scholarship on academies, does Sizer's thesis still stand? This essay investigates the range of educational institutions that provided some form of advanced schooling to Americans just preceding and concurrent with the founding of the earliest academies. It examines the differences and similarities among a number of northern and southern early nineteenth-century schools in order to address the following question: to what extent did schools calling themselves academies represent a distinctly new turn in the history of American education? By clarifying the relations between the various types of institutions during the post-colonial period, I conclude that the historical significance of the early academy movement is broader than the intellectual or curricular reform discussed by Sizer.

Sicily

2020 ◽  
pp. 334-354
Author(s):  
Alessandra Molinari
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Cultural Transformations ◽  
Fertile Island ◽  
Cultural Tensions ◽  
Trading Networks

Sicily is a large and fertile island at the center of Mediterranean trading networks. Renewed public interest in its medieval past, a surge in research in recent years, and the richness of its archaeological and architectural heritage make it particularly fascinating for scholars of the Islamic world and beyond. While conquered much later than other regions, it saw an incomplete Islamization during the two and a half centuries of Muslim rule but an incredible economic growth especially during the 10th century. The fulcrum of the Sicilian social, economic, and cultural transformations was the great metropolis, al-Madina, Balarm (Palermo). Contrary to scholarly assumption, the arrival of the Normans in 1061 was not painless, and archaeological evidence points to gradual but substantial changes. Social and cultural tensions at the end of the Norman kingdom came to a head in Swabian times. Sicily in the late 13th century is a different world to 10th-century Sicily in every way: crops, culture, language and religion, settlement models, material culture, and networks of exchange.

scholarly journals Integrating Culture in Africa’s Economic Development

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 611-616
Author(s):  
Remmy Shiundu Barasa
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Post Colonial

The importance of culture as panacea of development can fully be appreciated by considering its role in regenerating world economies. In the last few decades, interest by nations in culture as an economic force of its own has been manifested in their development blueprints. In this paper we argue that although there is evidence from early civilizations and economic manifestos of African countries that culture drives economic growth, there is a dearth of explicit literature on how this happens. This is a library-based qualitative study in which we argue that culture fosters economic growth. The study draws on post-structuralism, modernism and post-colonial approaches to find that institutions and practices reveal particular cultural pretensions, ethics and meanings; and gives recommendations on integrating culture with economic growth on the continent.

scholarly journals Het ons kerkwees in strukture gestol?

1986 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Spoelstra
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
People Of God ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Formal Institution ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Distinct Concept ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Church Structures ◽  
The Church

Does the church freeze in structures? Indications worldwide reveal that no clear and distinct concept of the church prevails today. It is maintained that a dynamic concept of the church and ministerial view on ecclesiastical institutions gave way during the Enlightenment to the concept of the church as a fixed formal institution or a legally defined structure. Even the Reformation wanted to reform papacy and not to establish church structures in opposition to Rome. The structural and denominational view of the church triggered off recurrent church schisms and on the other hand gave birth to an overwhelming urge to unify and form worldwide ecumenical structures, whereby local diversities are even called sin. The question is raised: By retaining the dynamic concept of the church as humans, people of God, wouldn't a new perspective be opened on the problem of diversities?

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