scholarly journals FRANKO’S POETIC CYCLE “MOURNING SONGS”: ASPECTS OF POETICS

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-21
Author(s):  
Alla Shvets
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Mental State ◽  
World Order ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
Chronological Order ◽  
Old World ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Lyrical Subject ◽  
Earthly Paradise

Franko’s poetic cycle “Mourning Songs” became the third in his collection “From the Heights and Lowlands” (1893), however, this cycle was not included in the first edition of the collection in 1887. Nine lyrical poems of the cycle “Mourning Songs” mainly belong to the genre of reflective-meditative lyrics, in which the author (lyrical subject) reflects on social structure, ontological and existential problems. The articulation of the mental state of the lyrical hero, his inner suffering, loneliness, social vacuum, feeling of being unwanted in the world are important motives here. Franko purposely doesn’t arrange poems in chronological order but instead develops the inner plotline of the cycle with the following motives: guilt for the mournful mood of his muse, inner rebellion against social evil, apocalyptic vision of destroying the old world order, declaration of his solidarity with the humiliated, obsession with the idea of service, emotional despair, resignation and passive reconciliation with one’s own misfortune, statement of one’s social credo, the experience of loneliness and marginality, optimistic vision of the earthly paradise against the background of prison-like gloom. As a result, eschatological motives appear: the domination of evil on earth inevitably will lead to its destruction for the sake of a new life and restoration of just law and order. In mood and stylistically, Franko’s jail poetry corresponds to the prison lyrics by Taras Shevchenko. Each of the nine poems in the cycle has been considered in terms of poetics, genre, imagery, literary means, versification, as well as intertextual parallels at the level of reminiscences and allusions. The researcher paid attention to the character of the lyrical hero, the internal plot of the cycle, chronotopic organization, leitmotifs, folklore structures. The philosophical meditations of the cycle “Mourning Songs”, perceived in the context of Franko’s biography, reflect the parallelism of the lyrical hero’s existence and the author’s psychobiography of the period marked by the first two arrests.

Transformations of the world order in the run-up to the third decade of the XXI century

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-24
Author(s):  
I. V. Bocharnikov ◽  
O. A. Ovsyannikova
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
World Order ◽  
The United States ◽  
Modern World ◽  
New World Order ◽  
World Community ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Run Up

Тhe article reveals the main directions of transformation of the modern world order caused by the decline of the American-centric system, as well as the crisis of European integration. The main factors that determine the development of these processes, problems and prospects for the formation of a new world order at the beginning of the third decade of the XXI century are determined. The most significant aspects of the transformation of the policy of the United States and its European allies in relation to Russia are considered, and historical analogies are drawn with the processes of transformation of the world community in the XIX and XX centuries.

Bad cops and true detectives: The horror of police and the unthinkable world

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Travis Linnemann
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Critical Reading ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
Police Power ◽  
Mass Consumption ◽  
Speculative Realism ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Ontological Position

The first season of the HBO series True Detective has drawn attention to Eugene Thacker’s horror of philosophy trilogy and his tripartite mode of thinking of the world and the subject’s relation to it. This article is an effort to read Thacker’s speculative realism into a critique of the police power. Where the police concept is vital to sustaining the Cartesian world-for-us, a world of mass-consumption and brutal privation, the limitations, failures or absence of police might also reveal horizons of disorder—primitivism, anarchism—the world-in-itself. A critical reading of True Detective and other police stories suggests that even its most violent and corrupt forms, as inseparable from security, law and order, the police power is never beyond redemption. What is rendered unthinkable then is the third ontological position—a world-without-police—as it exposes the frailties of the present social order and the challenges of thinking outside the subject.

scholarly journals Decolonisation, Identity, Neo-Colonialism and Power

Phronimon ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bert Olivier
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
World Order ◽  
Related Question ◽  
The Third ◽  
Neoliberal Capitalism ◽  
The World ◽  
Hardt And Negri ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Manuel Castells

This paper explores the implications of “decolonisation,” first by focusing on the work of African thinker, Frantz Fanon’s work in this regard, particularly his insistence that decolonisation entails the creation of “new” people, before moving on to the related question of “identity.” Here the emphasis is on the work of Manuel Castells, specifically his examination of three kinds of identity-construction, the third of which he regards as being the most important category for understanding this process in the 21st century, namely “resistance identity.” It is argued that this casts the decolonisation debate in South Africa in an intelligible light. An interpretation of E.M. Forster’s paradigmatically “decolonising” novel, A Passage to India, is offered to unpack the meaning of the concept further, before switching the terrain to the question of the urgent need for a different kind of decolonisation, today, pertaining to the economic neo-colonisation of the world by neoliberal capitalism. The work of Hardt and Negri on the emerging world order under what they call “Empire” is indispensable in this regard, and their characterisation of the subject under neoliberal Empire in terms of the figures of the indebted, securitised, mediatised and represented, stresses the need for global decolonisation in the name of democracy. This part of the paper is concluded with a consideration of what decolonisation is really “all about,” namely power.

THE POEM «THE EAGLE» BY N. GUMILYOV: REPRESENTATION OF THE PERFECT DEATH

2019 ◽  
pp. 20-38
Author(s):  
Arkadiy Chevtayev
Keyword(s):  
World Order ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
The World ◽  
Poetic Text ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Lyrical Subject ◽  
Spiritual Reality ◽  
The One ◽  
Alter Ego ◽  
The Universe

The article discusses the poetics of the poem «The Eagl» (1909) by N. Gumilyov in the aspect of mortal conceptualization of the poet’s literary worldview. It defines the meaning of his third book of poems «The Pearls». It is hypothesized that in Gumilyov’s poetic universe the death is a basis and guarantee of convergence found in the internal and external aspects of lyrical subject self-actualization. The study of this poetic text is carried out by combining structural-semiotic and mythopoetic methods that allow the researcher to detect deep semantic layers of Gumiltyov’s literary self-determination. The analysis of the the poem «The Eagle» narrative structure shows that the lyrical narration of the «ornithological» hero’s («the eagle’s») death represents death as an axiological ideal of N. Gumilyov’s lyrical subject. The sacrificial catastrophic nature of the «eagle» flight and the postmortem fusion of the bird with the cosmic universe becomes an ontological measure of existence. «The eagle’s» death is implicitly likened with an act of creative transformation of existance, due to which it is possible to comprehend secret movements of the world order and convergence of microcosm and macrocosm.In Gumilyov’s conception «the eagle» is presented as objectified outward incarnation of the lyrical hero. Therefore, the «the eagle’s» death is extremely alienated from the subjective «I» on the one hand, and it is inextricably assosiated with its thirst for magical overcoming of the universe laws, it is an act of ultimate existential heroism on the other hand. The bird’s sacral ability to posthumously exercise a «regal flight» in the universe gives this «ornithological » character status of an ideal «double» (alter ego) of the lyrical subject who wants to creatively get rid of death, thereby to achieve the world harmony. The author concludes that the ideal manner of the narrative hero’s death is entirely associated with the attainment of immortality in the light of the inviolability of the universe as a spiritual reality of the created world which possesses exceptional status in N. Gumilyov’s mythology.

scholarly journals Linguaculturological Features of the Images of the Celestial World in the Russian Poetry of the 1990’s

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 1095-1104 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. S. Dutbayeva
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
World Order ◽  
Russian History ◽  
Cultural Symbols ◽  
Old World ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Russian Poetry ◽  
Heaven And Earth

Modern philology studies language at the junction of different directions, e.g. hermeneutics and cultural studies, cognitive linguistics and literary criticism, linguaculturology and textology, etc. As a rule, combined methods provide the most interesting results. The article describes the images of the sky / heaven in the Russian poetry of the late XX century, the period of Russian history known as “the dashing nineties”. Contemporary poets seemed to have a very peculiar perception of that period. Their vision of traditional mythological and cultural symbols differed from commonly accepted interpretations. They described Russia as a dead woman or as a man at a crossroads, while the sky was a lost paradise that retained the peace and tranquility that are not to be found on the earth any more. The gap between heaven and earth is shown by the chaos of birdcalls, machinery noise, and nuclear clouds. Heaven and earth are connected by the World Tree, which unites the macroand microcosm. Man seeks balance and harmony but cannot find them. In the 1990’s, mankind was repeating the stage it had passed in the early XX century, when cherry orchards gave place to railways, and the old world order was coming to an end. In such periods, people do not look at the sky for solace; they mind their own step and see heaven reflected in the rails. The poetry of the 1990’s is filled with deep symbolism. The present analysis revealed several image clusters of the sky: mythological, religious, culturological, philosophical (eschatological), scientific and technological, and folklore. These clusters are interconnected and complement each other.

scholarly journals La nave di pietra: The stone ship

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 75-89
Author(s):  
Zoran Lazović
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Many Worlds ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Time Trace ◽  
Earthly Paradise ◽  
The City ◽  
Urban Utopia

The World is permanently constructed and deconstructed. Is there an essential paradox of deconstructionism in creative works of architects? What does architectural design correspond to? Diary of a story where the narrator is his own interpreter: From an uncertain reminiscence and faded copies to the multiple new originals. Where was the architect's Babylon? The Group Portrait. Kriegs Insel in Plannen. The Expulsion from the Earthly Paradise. Block 24. The Culture Center of the Third Millennia. The Futuristic Approach to the Sava Amphitheatre of the Third Millennia. Urban Utopia: Homage to the City of Vukovar. The City of Hope. Cauchemare. Night work. Imago Mundi. Observatory of the Future? Wandering and the life at the low frequency. Belgrade Necrosis and the Death of Serbia. The Parallel of introspection, or the death of many worlds in front of us. Those who cannot see that dying will see some other worlds disappearing: their decay, dissolution, disappearance. Look into abyss of the past: for some trace, or for some more traces comparatively. The Architecture. Images. Fragments. Hybrids. Testimony of preserved images, objects, architectural compositions, iconographic fragments, montages, assemblages, art collages, menthol bricolages. The Reflection of major events and ideas: constantly changing and disappearing Context. Context of the big movements. Fashion. Trends. Mainstreams. Wars. Creative priorities and visions. The Anatomy Lesson: confronting your own designs and constructs, bonding, parsing, deconstruction, reminiscence and reconstruction, re-membering. Some trace of already obliterated existence and the inevitable disappearance. Is there an anticipation and a prediction of the events and disintegration, departure and return? What sorts of frames have had the images that were invisible at the time? Trace through the Specter of Derrida.

Janusz Kuczyński’s Philosophy of Universalism

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-57
Author(s):  
Michael H. Mitias ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Human Life ◽  
World Order ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
The Third ◽  
Short Overview ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

This paper is a critical analysis of the conditions under which a decent world order is possible, an order in which the different peoples of the world can thrive under the conditions of peace, cooperation, freedom, justice, and prosperity. This analysis is done from the standpoint of Janusz Kuczyński’s philosophy of universalism as a metaphilosophy. More than any other in the contemporary period, this philosophy has advanced a focused, systematic, and comprehensive analysis of these conditions on the basis of a universal vision of nature, human nature, and the meaning of human life and destiny. The paper is composed of three parts. The first part is devoted to a short overview of activism in the history of philosophy. The second part is devoted to an analysis of the main elements of universalism as a metaphilosophy, especially the theoretical conditions of establishing a decent world order. The third part is devoted to a discussion of the practical steps that should be taken to establish a decent world order.

scholarly journals The global elite of power

2003 ◽  
pp. 93-108
Author(s):  
Miroslav Pecujlic
Keyword(s):  
World Order ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
Alternative Possibilities ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
The Third ◽  
Top Managers ◽  
The World ◽  
National Organizations ◽  
Key Participants ◽  
Global World

In this paper, the author discusses contradictions in the contemporary process of globalization related to its current proponents (participants). The first part of the papers tries to solve the enigma of the key participants and social forces shaping the globalization, so it discusses the tree rival theories: the theory of classes, oligarchy and elite of power. The author chooses the third theory of the global elite of power. Its theoretical foundations range from classic theories of elite (Pareto Mosca, Weber) to Mill's famous elite of power. However, the trans-national elite of power is an entirely new social entity. The global elite of power is firmly established in the economic sphere, in the ownership and management of global means of production and capital, and in the use of global labor force. It is characterized by a highly articulated status culture or "class consciousness" - the cosmopolitan "Davos-culture". It represents more a network of groups than one monolithic entity, so it should be discussed synthetically. The second part analyses a collective portrait of the global elite of power in which the outstanding place is occupied by the owners and top managers of trans-national corporations and banks (whose capital highly surpasses the wealth of many countries in the world) together with them, there is the political elite (the leaders of the G-7 Group and the rulers of the trans-national organizations like MMF, World Bank, Security Council of the UN,NATO). The intellectual elite, like "The Trilateral Committee" or "Economic Forum" occupies a less conspicuous, but not insignificant place. The third part discuses the current role of the dominant (authoritarian) wing of the global elite of power, and the fourth points to the alternative possibilities and potential participants in the democratization of the global world order. The concluding, fifth part points to the historical situation in which the democratic alternative although necessary, is almost powerless. Due to the un-intended consequences of the activities of the global elite of power, future of the world society is quite uncertain.

scholarly journals Trypillia Megasites in Context: Independent Urban Development in Chalcolithic Eastern Europe

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bisserka Gaydarska ◽  
Marco Nebbia ◽  
John Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
Relational Approach ◽  
The Third ◽  
Structure And Dynamics ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The 1960S

The Trypillia megasites of the Ukrainian forest steppe formed the largest fourth-millennium bc sites in Eurasia and possibly the world. Discovered in the 1960s, the megasites have so far resisted all attempts at an understanding of their social structure and dynamics. Multi-disciplinary investigations of the Nebelivka megasite by an Anglo-Ukrainian research project brought a focus on three research questions: (1) what was the essence of megasite lifeways? (2) can we call the megasites early cities? and (3) what were their origins? The first question is approached through a summary of Project findings on Nebelivka and the subsequent modelling of three different scenarios for what transpired to be a different kind of site from our expectations. The second question uses a relational approach to urbanism to show that megasites were so different from other coeval settlements that they could justifiably be termed ‘cities'. The third question turns to the origins of sites that were indeed larger and earlier than the supposed first cities of Mesopotamia and whose development indicates that there were at least two pathways to early urbanism in Eurasia.

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