The Life and Death of Authorship in Wim Wenders’ The State of Things

1990 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-28
Author(s):  
Catherine Russell
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Wim Wenders

Mesopotamian Religion

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-19
Author(s):  
Tzvi Abusch
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
The State ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The Public ◽  
Religious Significance ◽  
Short Piece ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Cult Of The Individual ◽  
The Temple

This chapter presents the background situation that gave rise to Mesopotamian religious concepts, as well as the forms of the gods and their service in the classical theology of Mesopotamia. The chapter examines both the temple cult, that is, the public dimension of the religion, and the cult of the individual. It studies several supernatural beings, some active in the state pantheon, others in the sphere of family life, and discusses several literary works of religious significance. The chapter concludes its reflections on Mesopotamian religion with a short piece about the Epic of Gilgamesh, a profound Mesopotamian reflection on the meaning of life and death.

Monsters that remember: Tracing the story of the Workers' Monument in Tophane, İstanbul

2011 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 9-47
Author(s):  
Meltem Ahiska
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Dead Body ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The Past ◽  
Forms Of Life

AbstractThis article focuses on a particular monument in Tophane, the Workers' Monument, which has been subjected to destructions ever since the time it was put in place in 1973 and which still stands in the same place as a crippled and unidentifiable body. Many people have referred to it as a “monster.” The term “monster” points to unacceptable forms of life, cast aside as “abnormal,” and can be of use in tracing how certain memories are crushed or abandoned and become aberrant. Thus, I argue that the story of the destruction of the Workers' Monument cannot be read independently of the performative command of the state, best observed in erecting Atatürk monuments all over the country as visual embodiments of power and furthermore securing and protecting them against destruction by the force of law. Monuments contribute to the closure of the past as a dead body. However, they also forge a regime of memory and desire that serves power. I dwell on the issue of monuments in Turkey in that interstice between life and death, that is, in their “monstrosity,” so as to reflect on what remainsunrepresentablewithin the complex history—in other words, to reflect on the problem of power, history, and memory/counter-memory.

Moral Distress: The State of the Science

2004 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debra R. Hanna
Keyword(s):  
Moral Distress ◽  
The State ◽  
Natural Order ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Current State ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Adequate Definition ◽  
Clinically Significant ◽  
State Of The Science ◽  
Topical Area

Moral distress, a complex human experience, has lacked a clear, complete definition. Intuitively, clinicians know that moral distress might be occurring for patients with increasing frequency due to technological advances that alter the natural order of life and death. Yet clinicians have not been able to evaluate the presence or extent of moral distress. To date, moral distress has been investigated mainly as an occupational issue using Jameton’s (1984) definition, which has been problematic for several reasons. Without an adequate definition, moral distress can be unrecognized, yet have a silent, clinically significant impact on health. The literature is discussed from several perspectives to show the current state of the science in this topical area, and its potential future.

A Right to Assist? Assisted Dying and the Interim Policy

2010 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-52
Author(s):  
Ben Livings
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Assisted Suicide ◽  
The State ◽  
European Convention ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The Law ◽  
New Guidelines ◽  
Potential Challenge

There are few more controversial, or emotive, debates within the criminal law than that which surrounds the topic of euthanasia, questioning as it does the fundamental role of the law in regulating the most intimate aspects of a person's life and death. The acknowledgement by the courts (notably in the cases of Diane Pretty and Debbie Purdy) that this area engages a person's rights under the European Convention on Human Rights exacerbates the urgency of the problem, and further nuances the debate as to the extent to which the autonomy of the person is impinged upon, and whether this is a function legitimately exercised by the state. In the wake of the announcement of new guidelines for prosecution in cases of assisted suicide, this article examines the state of the law regarding assisted suicide in England and Wales, and the fragile position of euthanasia within the criminal law. It will look to the various, and often rights-based, challenges to the law, and in particular a potential challenge through Article 7 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

scholarly journals Freedom and Independence During the Pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 39-47
Author(s):  
Svetlana Dimitrova ◽  
Kristina Ovdina
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
The State ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Bare Life ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Responsible Attitude ◽  
To Come ◽  
Effective Development ◽  
Restrictive Measures

The scale and the speed of the spread of the new coronavirus strain and economic crises associated with it are becoming the reason to rethink the essential features and ways of interaction between freedom and independence. The aim of the research is to consider new and evaluate the significance of traditional approaches to defining independence and freedom. The authors analyze the mechanisms of the formation and development of biopower, the effectiveness of which is manifested in the possibility of turning people into "obedient bodies" (M. Foucault) and reducing human existence to the state of "bare life" (J. Agamben).The researchers emphasize that the highest form biopower manifestation, arose due to the effective development of medicine, became the possibility of transforming life and death into political concepts that require a "special solution". Therefore, the restrictive measures that arose during the spread of COVID-19 cannot be considered as a manifestation of total forms of addiction are established by biopolitics. The research allows the authors to come to the conclusion that the impossibility of achieving freedom and the loss of independence arise in the process of consistent implementation of the individualistic ideals. The results of the study contain a few contradictions identified by the authors. First of all, the development of biopower points that the concern for people's health enables the State to penetrate and manage all spheres of an individual's existence including issues of life and death. Biopolitics does not contribute to the establishment and development of civil rights, but creates effective means for reducing people to a state of "bare life". In the spread of COVID-19 the contradiction of following the individualistic ideals became obvious. Risks and threats that have a global character are confronted by a person unwilling to take responsibility. The revealed contradictions lead to the conclusion that a condition to maintain independence and achieve freedom in the modern world can be the formation of the new types of solidarities that make it possible to overcome the autonomy of existence and develop a responsible attitude to what is happening in the world.

The Life and Death of The Harmonicon: An Analysis

1989 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 137-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leanne Langley
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Financial Distress ◽  
The State ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Real ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Average Lifespan ◽  
The Subject ◽  
A Current

Between 1800 and 1845 some 30 periodicals devoted to music were launched in Britain, nearly all of them attributing their appearance to a current ‘general’, ‘wide’, ‘perfect’ or ‘increasing’ cultivation of the subject. But the real flurry of activity seems to have been in publishing rather than music. The average lifespan of a single musical journal in this period was only about two years and four months; most lasted a year or less and died from financial distress. From this record, one might question not only the state of genuine musical cultivation in early nineteenth-century England but also the rationale of editors, printers, publishers and proprietors who continued to produce for a marginal, certainly elusive, musical audience.

Preparing for Death: Aspects of Continuity and Change in Swedish Late Medieval and Reformation Traditions

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stina Fallberg Sundmark
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Seriously Ill

AbstractWhen a person in the parish was in bed seriously ill or was hovering between life and death, the priest would be called to him or her and it was part of the priest’s duty in the medieval and Reformation traditions to make his way to the sick or the dying whatever the weather or the state of the roads, a journey that could be both long and arduous. When the priest arrived at the sickbed, he could listen to confession and give communion and extreme unction. This article gives an overview over the ways in which the pastoral visits to the sick and the preparation for death should or could be carried out liturgically according to Swedish medieval and Reformation sources. Some central conceptions of dying are pointed out in the relevant liturgical parts, as well as their theological and pious explanations.

Sovereignty, survival and the Westphalian blind alley in International Relations

1999 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAREL PAUL
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
International System ◽  
The State ◽  
Ontological Status ◽  
Blind Alley ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The Core ◽  
Dead End ◽  
State Survival

That states are sovereign units interacting under conditions of anarchy has long been the core assumption of the discipline of International Relations. Operating largely with an anthropomorphic conceptualization of the state, 'statists' create a stunted ontology of the international system dominated by the concepts of state survival and an assumed state survival interest. By constituting sharp lines of demarcation between being and non-being, between 'life' and 'death', statists ignore a host of more subtle changes in the ontological status of states which are ill-treated by reference to 'survival'. This Westphalian ontology leads ultimately to a dead end, for such a definition rejects from the outset an ontology of overlapping political authorities in a single territory but at distinct scales which is characteristic not only of the present international system but of the so-called Westphalian era as well.

scholarly journals An Official Matter: Life and Death During the Sanitary Crisis. Semiotics and Philosophy in Times of Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-135
Author(s):  
Vasile Hodorogea ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
The State ◽  
Infected People ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Awareness Campaigns ◽  
Education And Awareness ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
General Goal ◽  
Semiotic Perspective

Over a million cases of infected people, thresholds and dramatic records constantly exceeded, the voices of the State and of the civil society covering each other in search of validation, an alienated and disoriented population – this is the general picture of a Romanian society trying, on one side, to understand a global phenomenon and, on the other side, to adapt to situations, norms and regulations that has not been encountered for generations. In an effervescent social, economic and political context, the Coronavirus pandemic tests the whole society and forces the State to react, both through concrete measures (rules, restrictions) and through education and awareness campaigns. The official messages transmitted by the State, through the media and in the form of commercials, advertisements, are subject to an evolution in visual and verbal aspect, which can be questioned both in terms of philosophical theories such as utilitarianism or social contract, and from the semiotic perspective of the meanings carried by these messages. How is the "common good" found in the education and awareness campaigns for wearing protective masks and for frequent sanitation and disinfection? And if Rousseau's "common good" is not fully visible in the mask that "can save your life," is the general goal of the government campaign one of a utilitarian nature? To what extent does the promise of the presence of pleasure and the absence of pain appear, as described by John Stuart Mill, in a campaign built on "saving lives" and "protecting others"? This research advances the proposition of a perception analysis of the meanings conveyed in the television commercials from the official awareness and education campaign regarding the Coronavirus pandemic, between March 2020 and January 2021, decanted in terms of basic semiotic and philosophical concepts and theories.

scholarly journals But where is György Dózsa? – are there objective heroes in history?

1970 ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Hanneleena Hieta
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
The State ◽  
First Century ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Class Background ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Hungarian State ◽  
Peasant Revolt

In this paper, the author focuses on the controversial life and death of György Dózsa, the sixteenth-century mercenary and leader of a peasant revolt against the upper classes, to address the questions of what is heroism and who gets to define it. Whereas earlier Marxist historians considered him a hero for challenging the rule of the upper classes (while at the same time ignoring his upper-class background), twenty-first century historiography has omitted him from the pantheon of Hungarian national heroes. This omission is highlighted most clearly in Ópusztaszer National Historical Memorial Park near Szeged in south-eastern Hungary, a region claiming to be the place where the Hungarian state was born. The statues erected to commemorate one thousand years of Hungarian statehood did not include György Dózsa; instead, they commemorate those figures who best symbolized the stability of the state. Internal dissent does not make for good national heroes. 

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