Dyskretny urok burżuazji u schyłku wielkiego konania. Czas, pamięć i cywilizacja w dwóch powieściach Tomasza Manna – Buddenbrookowie. Dzieje upadku rodziny oraz Czarodziejska góra

2021 ◽  
pp. 22-35
Author(s):  
Ewa Zakrzewska
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Linear Time ◽  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
Relationship Of

The paper aims to juxtapose and compare the notions of temporality, memory and civilization in Thomas Mann’s two seminal novels: Buddenbrooks and The Magic Mountain. It sheds light on a range of Mann’s topics and motives, such as the tension between cyclic and linear time in the bourgeois milieu, the artefact mediated memory, the unobvious relationship of familial and social history and the role that fate plays within them, possible concepts of temporality in a metaphorically ill and weakened civilization. These analyses serve the aim of sketching out a philosophy of history which Mann tacitly but steadily employs throughout his oeuvre.

Debate: Fiction in the archives: the York cause papers as a source for later medieval social history

1997 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. P. GOLDBERG
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Recent Article ◽  
Essential Point ◽  
Court Records ◽  
Social Trends ◽  
The People ◽  
Changing Patterns ◽  
The One ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

In a recent article Frederik Pedersen used the records of matrimonial litigation from the York consistory, the principal Church court of the province, during the fourteenth century to make a number of observations concerning the relationship of these records to the society from which they were generated. He argued that ‘the medieval court documents do not present a random sample illustrating trends in the surrounding society’ and that litigants tended to be disproportionately drawn on the one hand from the upper echelons of society and on the other hand from locations close to York itself. He has further suggested that the age structures of male and female deponents found within the surviving cause papers do not fit the same model life tables and that this raises ‘further doubts about the representativeness of court documents as evidence of changing patterns of lay behaviour’. In this article, I shall show that his analysis is based upon a flawed methodology, is marred by error, and is ultimately mistaken. Pedersen's essential point in ‘Demography in the archives’, as outlined in the Abstract to the article, is that the people who appear in the court records are unrepresentative of society as a whole, and hence ‘that the court records tell us more about the people who used the courts than about trends in the society in which litigation arose’. My argument is that it is the very unrepresentativeness of the people and their cases that provides us with a window into the society from which the cases arise. I shall suggest ways in which the York cause paper evidence can indeed be used to illuminate broader social trends, but also suggest caveats as to the reading of individual causes.

scholarly journals Certain Attitudes Towards Byzantium As Manifested in the Russian Historiosophical Literature of the Early and Middle 19th Century (Ivan Kireyevsky, Petr Chaadaev, Alexander Pushkin, Arist Kunik)

2021 ◽  
pp. 16-27
Author(s):  
Dmitry Biriukov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literature Analysis ◽  
First Line ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Introduction. I expose in Ivan Kireyevsky a specific attitude to the Byzantium, which I qualify as byzantinocentric. Methods and materials. I use the historical method. Materials are Russian Historical and Publicistic Literature. Analysis. In the course of research, I identify two opposite lines in terms of perception of the image of Byzantium, manifested in the circle of Kireyevsky. One of these lines may be called anti-Byzantine, while the other Pro-Byzantine. The first line goes back to the anti-Byzantine message inherent for the age of Enlightenment. It found its expression in the “Lectures for the philosophy of history” by Georg Hegel, which became known in Russia soon after its publication. In this study, I point out in Kireyevsky the traces of an implicit polemic with Hegel’s anti-Byzantinism and reveal the context of this polemic in Russian literature. I find such a context in Arist Kunik’s papers. Results. This anti-Byzantine line is clearly seen in Petr Chaadaev, for whom the theme of the relationship of Russian civilization with the Byzantine was sensitive, because Chaadaev considered such a relationship very negatively. This view is the opposite of Kireyevsky’s one, for whom this relationship is also obvious, but Kireyevsky perceives it as happy. Alexander Pushkin – a close acquaintance of both Chaadaev and Kireyevsky (in pre-Slavophil period of the latter) – also recognizes this kinship and, like later Kireyevsky, perceives it as happy and beneficial for Russia (i.e. the both share the Pro-Byzantine line). At the same time, Pushkin’s view assumes freedom and the absence of determinism of Russia by Byzantium, which is inherent to Chaadaev’s position. The difference between Pushkin and Kireyevsky in this respect is that Kireyevsky’s byzantinocentrism includes the idea of a higher spiritual connection between Byzantium and Russia, whereas Pushkin leaves Russia free from Byzantium in this respect as well.

scholarly journals N.I. KAREEV ON THE DIALOGUE OF CULTURES IN LINE WITH THE VIEWS OF WESTERN EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHERS OF XVIII-XIX CENTURIES

2020 ◽  
pp. 150-161
Author(s):  
Елена Евгеньевна Михайлова ◽  
Надежда Александровна Соболева
Keyword(s):  
World History ◽  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Third Stage ◽  
History Of ◽  
Classical Philosophy ◽  
Western European ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
The Relationship

Рассматривается диалог культур в трактовке западноевропейских мыслителей XVIII-XIX вв. Показано, что изучение истории взаимоотношений различных, в своем основании и формах, культур прошло три содержательных этапа: первый - начало «разговора» о взаимоотношении культур и постановка понятий «Запад» и «Восток» (просветители); второй - смещение вопроса о дуальности «Запад - Восток» на уровень дилеммы философии истории и всемирной истории (представители немецкой классической философии); третий - применение новой, многофакторной методологии (позитивисты). Сделан вывод о том, что русский историк и представитель позитивистской философии истории Н.И. Кареев дал конструктивно-критическую оценку воззрениям западноевропейских мыслителей на проблему взаимоотношений разных культур и творчески использовал их идеи в построении своей философии истории. The article deals with the dialogue of cultures in the interpretation of Western European thinkers of the XVIII-XIX centuries. It is shown that the study of the history of relations between cultures, which differ in their basis and forms, has passed three meaningful stages. The first stage is the beginning of a «conversation» about the relationship of cultures and the formulation of the concepts of «West» and «East» (enlighteners). The second stage is characterized by a shift of the question of the duality of «West-East» to the level of the dilemma of the philosophy of history and world history (representatives of German classical philosophy). The third stage is the application of a new, multi-factor methodology (positivists). It is concluded that the Russian historian and representative of the positivist philosophy of history N.I. Kareev gave a constructive and critical assessment of the views of Western European thinkers on the problem of relations between different cultures and creatively used their ideas in building his philosophy of history.

scholarly journals RELATIONS BETWEEN MOSQUE AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF ISLAMIC EDUCATION

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-153
Author(s):  
Anna Triayudha ◽  
Rateh Ninik Pramitasary ◽  
Hermansyah Akbar Anas ◽  
Choirul Mahfud
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Early Period ◽  
Islamic Education ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Function ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Role And Function

The growth and development of Islamic Education is inseparable from the growth of institutions. The Prophet made it happen by establishing institutions that had a role in developing and advancing Islamic education, one of which was a mosque. Research on the relationship of mosques with the social history of Islamic education is discussed by using descriptive qualitative methods that are oriented to literature review. This paper shows that in the early period of Islamic education, the Prophet provided exemplary by building and empowering mosques. The example of the Prophet continued with the Caliphs afterwards until the present era. The mosque was built by the Prophet from the Al Haram mosque located in Makkah, Quba Mosque located in Quba, Nabawi mosque located in Medina and so on. The role and function of the mosque at that time was as a place of prayer, a place of prayer, a place for discussion or deliberation, a meeting place to develop a war strategy and others related to the problems and needs of Muslims. From time to time, the role or function of the mosque has changed slightly. In essence, mosques are currently influencing the development of the social history of Islamic education in Indonesia.

`My Dear Nephew': letters to a student priest

2008 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Curry
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Young Student ◽  
Mentoring Relationship ◽  
Form Part ◽  
Family Based ◽  
Relationship Of

The following compilation of letters date from between 1845 and 1854; they form part of a larger collection of papers relating to Christina Gordon and her descendants, which are currently in the author's possession.1 The bulk of the letters included in this article were written by a Scottish priest, Donald Carmichael, to his great-nephew and namesake whilst the latter was a seminarian in Europe and are full of kindly advice and news from home for the young student.2 also offer a fascinating snapshot of Scottish religious and social history in the 1840s and 1850s. The correspondence is fundamentally a personal and family based one, reflecting as it does the mentoring relationship of great-uncle to his protégé. However, there is also much to interest historians in the post-emancipation but pre-reestablishment of the Scottish Catholic hierarchy era.

Dewey: A Pragmatist View of History

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serge Grigoriev
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
Methodological Pluralism ◽  
Brief Treatment ◽  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Proper Form ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Despite the centrality of the idea of history to Dewey’s overall philosophical outlook, his brief treatment of philosophical issues in history has never attracted much attention, partly because of the dearth of the available material. Nonetheless, as argued in this essay, what we do have provides an outline of a comprehensive pragmatist view of history distinguished by an emphasis on methodological pluralism and a principled opposition to thinking of historical knowledge in correspondence terms. The key conceptions of Dewey’s philosophy of history discussed in this paper – i.e. historical constitution of human nature, constructivist ontology of historical events, as well as the belief that the proper form of historical judgments is underwritten by the category of continual change – are discussed with a view to the current challenges in philosophy of history, e.g. the contest between naturalism and rationalism, objectivity and relativism, questions surrounding the function of narrative in history, and the relationship of history to the problems of identity and self-knowledge. The intended upshot of the essay is to suggest that Dewey’s brief yet substantial analysis may be capable of supplying the guiding principles for articulating a viable and promising pragmatist (and naturalist) conception of historical knowledge.

Place and Politics in the Work of George Sturt

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-91
Author(s):  
Simon Featherstone
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Local Labour ◽  
Country Life ◽  
History Of ◽  
Organic Community ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Relationship

Since the 1930s George Sturt's Change in the Village (1912) and The Wheelwright's Shop (1923) have been associated with the cultural theory of the journal Scrutiny and its idealised concept of a rural English ‘organic community’. Focusing on his earlier writing as contexts for these works, this essay offers a reappraisal of Sturt as a self-consciously political analyst of late-Victorian agrarian experience. His contributions to The Commonweal, the newspaper of William Morris's Socialist League, in the 1880s mark out a distinctively dissentient position that was developed through contributions to periodicals such as Country Life and in the two ‘Bettesworth’ books that drew upon the oral histories of local labour. These contributions to the developing commercial genre of English ‘country writing’ in the period are also critical reflections upon its modes and media. Formally experimental and uncomfortably reflective upon what he termed his ‘misery of being a Socialist employer of labour’, Sturt's examination of the relationship of agrarian tradition and modernity in West Surrey represents a distinctive contribution to the radical social history of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

The Moral Economy of Music in Tenganan, Bali

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy McGraw
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Moral Economy ◽  
General Concept ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Economic Practice ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Relationship

This article discusses the relationship of economic, aesthetic, and economic life in the village of Tenganan, Bali, Indonesia. Music in Tenganan (primarily the slonding gamelan ensemble) is part of a complex cultural fabric weaving together the village’s aesthetic, ethical, and economic life, dynamically interconnected through both material and immaterial dimensions. I first outline a general concept of “goods” and “the good” that informs my analysis of the intersections of economic, ethical, and aesthetic life in Tenganan. I then describe communitarian life in Tenganan through a quick overview of the social history and organization of the village. Next I analyze the village’s material and immaterial economies. Ceremonial exchange, within which music is an important component, is the primary engine of the village economy. Finally, I describe ethics in Tenganan, explaining how different ethical regimes concretsely impact ceremonial, and therefore economic, practice.

“History and Theory”

1962 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 525-535
Author(s):  
J. G. A. Pocock
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
Editorial Note ◽  
Editorial Committee ◽  
Historical Figures ◽  
Cultural Implications ◽  
To Come ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
History And Theory

This occasional but substantial joumal, devoted by its title to the philosophy of history, will publish, we are told in an editorial note, material “principally in four areas: theories of history, cause, law, explanation, generalisation, determinism; historiography, studies of historians, historical figures and events which illuminate general historiographical problems; method of history, interpretation, selection of facts, objectivity, social and cultural implications of the historian's method; related disciplines, relationship of problems in historical theory and method to those of economic, psychological and other social sciences.” The distinctions here drawn seem, on the whole, to be indicative rather than analytical: “determinism” is grouped a little oddly with its neighbours, and it is not quite clear how the third area (“method of history”) is related either to the first or to the second; but all in all, there is little doubt what the province of a journal of philosophy of history is here taken to he be.To borrow words from the opening lines of the first contribution, an article entitled “History and Theory” by Sir Isaiah Berlin (a member of the editorial committee), “history is what historians do”; and philosophy of history is a mode of enquiry into what it is and how they do it. This philosophy is concerned with the explanation rather than the explicandum; its tools are analytical and its statements second-order statements. Some exceptions to this view can be found in the issues so far published and there may be more to come.

scholarly journals Cities and Museums: Introduction

2005 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Kay Ferres
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Literary Fiction ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Museum Professionals ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Cultural Regeneration ◽  
Selection Of

In September 2004, the Museum of Brisbane, Museums Australia and the Centre for Public Culture and Ideas at Griffith University hosted a symposium, ‘Cities and Museums’, at the university's Southbank campus. This event initiated a conversation among museum professionals and academics from across Australia. Nick Winterbotham, from Leeds City Museum, and Morag Macpherson, from Glasgow's Open Museum, and were keynote speakers. Their papers provided perspectives on museum policy and practice in the United Kingdom and Europe, and demonstrated how museums can contribute to urban and cultural regeneration. Those papers are available on the Museum of Brisbane website (www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/MoB). The Cities and Musuems section in this issue of Queensland Review brings together papers that explore the relationship of cities and museums across global, national and local Brisbane contexts, and from diverse disciplinary perspectives. The disciplines represented in this selection of papers from the symposium include social history, urban studies, literary fiction, and heritage and cultural policy.

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