"A Motion as Near Flying as Any Human Being Could Attain": The 19th Century Umpire as Sprinter

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-25
Author(s):  
Peter Morris
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The 19Th Century

scholarly journals The concept of bovarism illustrated by a postmodern prototype: Gheorghe Crăciun’s Pupa russa

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-86
Author(s):  
Bianca-Maria Bucur Tincu
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Real World ◽  
Critical Angle ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Thematic Approach ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The 19Th Century

This paper aims to illustrate the concept of bovarism as defined by Jules de Gaultier at the end of the 19th century, as illustrated by Pupa russa, a postmodernist novel written by Gheorghe Crăciun. The thematic approach evinced by the Romanian author is challenging its readership because it follows a rhizomatic literary narration that also encapsulates a historical dimension. The focus of the analysis is on the similarities and differences between Crăciun’s and Flaubert’s protagonists, Leontina Guran and Emma Bovary, and on the fascination and importance of the bovaristic trajectory, with its implications and dimensions. This critical angle unveils the novel’s message, as well as a heightened sense of awareness with regard to the realities of personal actions against the background of the communist regime.   The condition of the human being implies both outer and inner growth, yet there are several factors such as the societal conditions one is subjected to that can irrevocably change the future “I”. The episodes presenting LeonTina’s life are key elements, nodes of connections accessed by an objective and realistic eye. Therefore, all the observations are intended to clarify, to reveal the meanings and to outline the inner effects produced by a circular, closed social environment and how one can or cannot find one’s true way. The innate impulse of “becoming someone” can very easily be perceived as “becoming someone else”. Thus, the present critical approach is highly relevant to contemporary readers. The apparent freedom possessed by everyone in present times entails responsibility as well as danger. The present comparison is an example shedding light on some issues regarding bovaristic behaviour, which is more and more apparent in the real world.  

scholarly journals Restoring a Man

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-13
Author(s):  
Andrzej Wojciechowski
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The Face ◽  
The 19Th Century

Abstract We lost a man - a person always rational, always free and gifted with the soul. We lost a man mainly in the space of language. Instead of a human is “individual” - a measure. This process has already accelerated in the second half of the 19th century. There is no human being anymore, there are individuals with a definable quality, and to segregate and destroy those who do not correspond to the desired image. Also in globally meant social aid. There is a need to go back to seeing the face of each human. Restore everyone.

scholarly journals Eesti- ja Liivimaa libahundipärimus rahvapärase ontoloogia muutumise peegeldajana

Mäetagused ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 80 ◽  
pp. 71-88
Author(s):  
Merili Metsvahi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The World ◽  
The One ◽  
The 19Th Century

The article gives a short overview of the Estonian werewolf tradition in the 16th and 17th centuries and a glimpse into the 19th–20th-century werewolf beliefs. The image of werewolf of the earlier and later periods is compared. The differences between the images of these two periods are explained with the help of the approaches of Tim Ingold and Philipp Descola, which ground the changes in the worldview taking place together with the shift from the pre-modern society into modernity. The mental world of the 16th–17th-century Estonian and Livonian peasant did not encompass the category of nature, and the borders between the human being and the animal on the one side and organism and environment on the other side were not so rigid as they are in today’s people’s comprehension of the world. The ability to change into a wolf was seen as an added possibility of acquiring new experiences and benefits. As the popular ontology had changed by the second half of the 19th century – the human mind was raised into the ultimate position and the animal was comprehended as being inferior – the transformation of a man into an animal, if it was seriously taken at all, seemed to be strange and unnatural.

scholarly journals HUMAN BEINGS AS CONCEIVED BY JÓZEF ROSENBLATT

Probacja ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 51-69
Author(s):  
Sabina Prejsnar-Szatyńska
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Positive Change ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Taking Care

An article’s objective is to analyze Józef Rosenblatt’s thought. He was a lawyer, professor of criminal law at the turn of the19th and 20th century. Inspired by anthropology, he tried to solved old criminal problems in a new way. His outlook shows how that criminal law developed until today, when we can eventually use solutions preventing crime from the end of the 19th century. Some of them have turned out to be inappriopriate (like whipping), but some of them have showed us a good direction (local communities and societies taking care of convicts) and they are an importat factor in resocialisation. Crime causes and prevention are related to Rosenblatt’s anthropology. According to him, a human being is determined by his/her drives. When one makes a decision, one has one’s reasons and motifs. One’s behviour depends upon power of these motifs. Human nature, understood in this way, can lead to positive change in people’s conduct.

“Éloquence magique”, ou descriptions des mondes de l'au-delà explorés par le magnétisme animal: Au carrefour de la Naturphilosophie romantique et de la théosophie chrétienne (première moitié du XIXème siècle) “Magic Eloquence”, or Descriptions of the Worlds of the Beyond Explored by Animal Magnetism: At the Crossroad of Romantic Naturphilosophie and Christian Theosophy (first half of the 19th century)

Aries ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoine Faivre
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Personal Contact ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Five Senses ◽  
Animal Magnetism ◽  
The One ◽  
The 19Th Century

AbstractThe article opens with a distinction between three kinds of “clairvoyance” phenomena. 1) A faculty of seeing/hearing things which are normally outside the reach of the clairvoyant's five senses (like being able to read sentences from a book although it is closed), but which do not extend beyond the domain of our common reality. 2) A “higher” faculty, which consists in seeing/hearing entities like spirits of the dead, angels, demons, etc., and occasionally in having a personal contact with them. 3) A “highest” faculty, of a noetic (“gnostic”) character, which extends beyond the first two and consists in being able to have acess to some sorts of “ultimate realities”: the visions thus imparted to the subject bear on ontological mysteries that concern, for example, the divine world, the cosmos, the hidden sides of Nature, etc. The author bestows the name “magic eloquence” on the narratives of visions pertaining to that third kind of clairvoyance, which are documented in the literature of Christian theosophy (see Jacob Boehme's and Swedenborg' vivions, for instance) and of animal magnetism. After presenting a few examples of magic eloquence chosen in the literature of animal magnetism in the first half of the 19the century, the article discusses the interpretations thereof put forward in the same period by a number of representatives of some German romantic Naturphilosophen who were both interested in animal magnetism and influenced by Christian theosophy. Their interpretations were based, on the one hand, upon the theosophical version of the myth of Fall and Reintegration; on the other hand, upon the “traditional” tripartition spirit/soul/body. On that basis, they constructed a series of heuristic tools successively, around notions like “ethereal light-substance”, “ganglionic system”, and Nervengeist. In the latter, they eventually came to see the cornerstone of the “physicopsycho-spiritual” structure (made of five constitutive elements) of the human being as they imagined it. Moreover, if considered as such, the Nervengeist appears to be the key for understanding the physico-spiritual procedures that undergird the production of magic eloquence. Finally, after presenting a few relevant examples in the literature of fiction inspired by animal magnetism, and some considerations devoted to the continuation of magical eloquence in later spiritual movements, the article draws a parallel between two anthropological “constructs” of the “soul” – namely, by the Naturphilosophie discussed above; and by psychoanalysis.

scholarly journals Nikolai Gogol’s Literary Works, Tsar's Absolutism and Russian Cutural Life in the 19th Century: A Preliminary Note

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-32
Author(s):  
Herdi Sahrasad ◽  
Muhammad Ridwan
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Nikolai Gogol ◽  
Old Regime ◽  
Preliminary Note ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
The Social ◽  
The 19Th Century

This paper is to study and understand the work of Nikolai Gogol, and to learn what and to what extent Tsar's absolutism in Russia under the old regime, has influenced his work, as well as its impact on the social, cultural, political, and economic realities of Russia under the Emperor's powerful rule in 19th century. Here also revealed, to what extent the tragic human life in Gogol's work and how the efforts of the author to uphold the existence and dignity of themselves and their society are revealed in the story "TarasBulba" and examine the tragic human life that experiences injustice and dehumanization, which is revealed in the story " Shinel " (Baju Mantelor  Coat Dress). It is important to be able to learn and understand what and to what extent Gogol's role in the literary and cultural life of Russia in his day, especially regarding his  influence in Russian literature and the values of Gogol's universal humanism for the life and culture of human being in this Earth.

scholarly journals Come Inside my Silence and Know me

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-106
Author(s):  
Asmaa M. Saleh
Keyword(s):  
Sign Language ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
The Other ◽  
Deaf People ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The World ◽  
Love Relationship ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Hostile Attitude

Deafness has been considered an exceptional condition and people who have this individuality are recognized all over the world as weak, fragile, deformed, and in great need for help from other “fit “people. The problem of integrating deaf people in their societies has been risen since the 19th century. There appeared two camps; one which advocated for teaching the deaf individuals the skills that enable them to blend in the world of “hearing people “while the other camp, the manualists, called for teaching and learning sign language as a means of communication. Amid all the conflicts between those two camps appeared literary works that dealt with this issue. In Children of a Lesser God which was written 1980 by the American playwright Mark Medoff, there is a manifestation of this conflict presented by the dramatist through the characters of his play and through a love relationship between a hearing man and a deaf woman. The play depicts the suffering of a deaf woman in a hearing society and the abuse she gets from people who are unable to appreciate her uniqueness as a human being. She faces a hostile attitude starting from her parents, society, and eventually from the man she love. The current work aims at exploring the leading female character in the play and how her deafness has added to the restrictions she experiences as a woman

scholarly journals Le silence des fous chez Zola et Maupassant

2017 ◽  
pp. 73-81
Author(s):  
Anna Kaczmarek-Wiśniewska
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Pathological Condition ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The 19Th Century

It is difficult to define all the meanings and connotations of silence depicted in literary works. In the 19th century, where the Realism and the Naturalism paid much attention to the study of both physical and mental illnesses, silence was considered as one of the distinctive signs of madness. The paper analyzes four examples of this phenomenon in selected Zola’s and Maupassant’s texts (novels and short stories) whose characters, all mad or maniac, embody various aspects of the silence regarded as a pathological condition of a human being.

scholarly journals A Feministic Approach to Nora of Henric Ibsen’s A Doll’s House

2019 ◽  
pp. 28-34 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Female Character ◽  
Henrik Ibsen ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
A Doll's House

A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen is a significant work as a model play in the rise of feminism of the 19th century. Nora, the central female character, acts as the harbinger of feminism here. She is seen in the play as a rebellious female for establishing her own recognition as a human being. She discovers herself as a locked bird in both her father’s house and husband’s as well. She also proves that in the name of love and adoration she receives only humiliation from the male-dominated families. So she leaves her “happy home” for uncertainty as well as she leaves the community of her own people. Actually, Nora is the representative of the pioneering female world who tried to change the male-dominated social systems and to change their discriminatory outlook to the womanhood. So this study is to find out the seeds of feminism in the women waiting to be flourished with an explosion of freedom in the 19th century.

NEW RELIGIOUS ANTHROPOLOGY AND TRANSFORMATION OF SCIENCE IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY

2020 ◽  
pp. 18-39
Author(s):  
Vladislav S. Razdyakonov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Scientific Concepts ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
Human Capacity ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Impact

New religious anthropology is defined as an aggregate of doctrines and practices that postulated the existence of a particular arrangement of the human being, distinctive from what was recognized as consistent with the scientific approach of the latter half of the 19th century, as well as the human capacity to acquire superhuman powers. The article is focused on the impact of scientific concepts and ideas on the doctrines of new religious anthropology. It reveals that the key role in the formation of new religious anthropology was played by the processes that determined the development of science, such as institutionalization, specialization and mediatization of scientific knowledge. The article suggests a heuristic typology of new religious anthropology, distinguishing Christian, Scientific, Orientalist and Occult types. New religious anthropology is viewed as a means of overcoming the conflict between the science and the religion that was typical for the discourse of the latter half of the 19th century.

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