Conclusion

2017 ◽  
pp. 211-221
Author(s):  
Hussein Ali Abdulsater
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Religious Faith ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
Cultural Milieu ◽  
Recent Scholarship

Murtaḍā’s theology is assessed to gauge its debt to Muʿtazilism, with reference to the findings above. Its contribution to the consolidation of Imami Shiʿi identity is likewise examined, with the aim of tracing the scope and duration of his influence. The interaction of cosmology, ethics and theology is investigated, particularly where they converge to answer critical questions of human experience. The dynamics of this interaction thus serve as a basis for classifying Murtaḍā’s doctrinal system in light of his cultural milieu and with reference to recent scholarship. As such, the monograph serves to deepen readers’ understanding of Islamic intellectual history writ large and to depict a particularly influential conceptual framework from within the parameters of religious faith as shaped by sectarian identities.

Sin and Punishment in the Book of Isaiah

2020 ◽  
pp. 248-264
Author(s):  
Blaženka Scheuer
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Social Injustice ◽  
Book Of Isaiah ◽  
Recent Scholarship

This chapter explores the themes of sin and punishment through the lens of a theodicy that the authors and redactors of Isaiah offer to justify Yhwh’s actions and to instruct the Israelites to stay loyal to him. The three parts of Isaiah agree that the exile was Yhwh’s punishment for the Israelites’ rebellion demonstrated through social injustice and idolatry. However, because of the different historical realities that they address, they present varied understandings of the identity of the sinners and of the rationale for their punishment. The chapter also surveys the changes in recent scholarship in the study of sin and of the correspondence between sin and punishment in the Hebrew Bible. It draws attention to the fact that amid all the declarations of the Israelites’ sins, Isaiah gives voice to the human experience of unjust punishment.

PROSLAVERY EXTREMISM GOES TO WAR: THE COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY CONFEDERACY AND REACTIONARY MILITARISM

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-285
Author(s):  
ROBERT E. BONNER
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Popular Government ◽  
Racial Domination

Recent scholarship on Southern intellectual history has tended to minimize the importance of America's most reactionary defenders of bondage. This essay revisits the significance of proslavery extremists by attending to how George Fitzhugh and a group of fellow polemicists legitimated Confederate authoritarianism during the early 1860s. By joining together as avowed counterrevolutionaries during a period of rapid change, these publicists vindicated force and “institutionalism” as an alternative to the American founders' commitment to consensual government and equal political rights. Conjuring up sweeping historical vistas and developing a modish vocabulary of organic social development helped these popular essayists gain a hearing for their strikingly frank hostility towards popular government. In their growing attention to martial themes, they forecast an impending transition within Southern authoritarianism. As emancipation made earlier proslavery efforts obsolete, the enduring affinity for martial principles among Southern conservatives demonstrated the prescience of those writers who first recast an emphasis on racial domination into an even broader species of reactionary militarism.

scholarly journals Collective Healing to Address Legacies of Transatlantic Slavery: Opportunities and Challenges

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-65
Author(s):  
Scherto R. Gill ◽  
Garrett Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
Harmful Effects ◽  
Acts 2 ◽  
Healing Processes

In this article, we show how pathways to justice and reconciliation pertaining to the transatlantic slavery should begin with collective healing processes. To illustrate this conclusion, we first employ a four-fold conceptual framework for understanding collective healing that consists in: (1) acknowledging historical dehumanizing acts; (2) addressing the harmful effects of dehumanisation; (3) embracing relational rapprochement; and (4) co-imagining and co-creating conditions for systemic justice. Based on this framework, we then examine existing collective healing practices in different contexts that are aimed at addressing legacies of transatlantic slavery. In doing so, we further identify challenges and pose critical questions concerning such practices. While globally there are, and have been, many different kinds of racism and slavery, and even though transatlantic slavery has many features specific to it, nevertheless, we hope that this exploration of collective healing will be illuminating for other situations where acts of brutality have served to demean and dehumanize.

Imperien verstehen

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
The State ◽  
Global History ◽  
Recent Scholarship

How can we understand empires? Why have they exerted such influence throughout history? What are their determining structures and actors? Do we still live in a world of empires? Two decades after the imperial turn, this edited volume explores the state of recent scholarship on empires. It also invites new perspectives on this subject from political theory, intellectual history, global history and international relations, and high-lights not only the diversity of approaches and methods that can currently be used to conduct research into empires, but also their constant development. With contribution by David Armitage, Andreas Eckert, Eva Marlene Hausteiner, Ulrike von Hirschhausen, Sebastian Huhnholz, Ulrike Jureit, Jörn Leonhard, Samuel Moyn, Herfried Münkler, Stephan Stetter und Andreas Vasilache

NEW LIFE IN THE MODERN CULTURAL HISTORY OF DEATH

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 833-852
Author(s):  
HANNAH MALONE
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Critical Overview ◽  
Selection Of

AbstractThis essay presents a critical overview of recent literature in English on the modern cultural history of death. In order to locate new developments, it charts the evolution of the field from the 1970s until today and distinguishes between French and Anglophone strands in the historiography. A selection of studies published between 2005 and 2015 exemplifies a revival in recent scholarship that hangs on four main innovations: the abandonment of grand narratives of modernization and secularization; an interdisciplinary integration of political, cultural, and intellectual history; greater attention to the individual; and the expansion of the field beyond Europe and North America. Thus, today, the history of death is both local and global, public and private, personal and universal.

A re-visionist Her-story of De cierta manera ([1974] 1977): Reading Yoruba myth in Sara Gómez’s revolutionary classic1

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Hackett
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
Additional Filter ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Moral Lesson ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Impact

Recent scholarship on Sara Gómez has expanded upon existing discourse on her work beyond her singular feature film, De cierta manera/One Way or Another ([1974] 1977) to examine not only her earlier documentary shorts of the 1960s, but to demonstrate the impact that her body of work has had on a subsequent generation of Cuban filmmakers who continue her mission to critique the Revolution through an antiracist and feminist lens – contemporary filmmakers such as Gloria Rolando, Sandra Gómez and Susana Barriga. This article seeks to push this conversation forward by arguing several interrelated points: (1) that De cierta manera contains symbolic, visually embedded references to a specific patakí (myth) about the Afro-Cuban orishas Ogun and Ochún; (2) that De cierta manera holds this in common with Gloria Rolando’s Oggun: An Eternal Presence (1991), which tells the patakí in a more explicit manner, and therefore the two films warrant comparison and (3) lastly, that this interpretation of De cierta manera offers a novel take on a ‘classic’ Cuban revolutionary film, offering additional interpretive layers that do not change the message of the film, per se, but complicate it by adding an additional filter through which to view and interpret it: that of Yoruba moral philosophy. The Afro-Cuban word patakí in Cuban Lucumí liturgical speech refers to a parable with a moral lesson, and is derived from the word pàtàkì, which means ‘[something] important’ in the Yorùbá language of West Africa. This article will attempt to answer how and why this particular myth is ‘important’ (pàtàkì) to the reading of De cierta manera and argue for a broader re-centring and privileging of African-derived philosophical frameworks within Cuban intellectual history and popular culture.

Public Administration and Public Choice

2019 ◽  
pp. 83-100
Author(s):  
Paul Dragos Aligica ◽  
Peter J. Boettke ◽  
Vlad Tarko
Keyword(s):  
Public Choice ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Distinctive Type ◽  
History Of

Chapter 4 documents the conceptual territory at the interface of public administration and public choice and puts the Ostromian contribution in an interpretive context that anchors it in the intellectual history of public administration. Identifying areas of convergence and affinities between the two intellectual domains, it charts the ground opened by the Ostroms’ work, an ambitious attempt to blend the two traditions and to create a conceptual framework for a distinctive type of public administration: democratic public administration. The seeing-like-a-state perspective in public administration is openly challenged by the seeing-like-a-citizen alternative, in a field that was anyway trying to unshackle itself from the inherent statism of its Wilsonian progressive legacy.

scholarly journals Postphenomenological Method and Technological Things Themselves

Human Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Ritter
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Pragmatic Approach ◽  
Technological Mediation ◽  
The World ◽  
Phenomenological Perspective ◽  
Human World ◽  
Empirical Turn

AbstractWe live in a world where it is impossible to exist without, and beyond, technologies. Despite this omnipresence, we tend to overlook their influence on us. The vigorously developing approach of postphenomenology, combining insights from phenomenology and pragmatism, focuses on the so-called technological mediation, i.e., on how technologies as mediators of human-world relations influence the appearing of both the world and the human beings in it. My analysis aims at demonstrating both the methodological weaknesses and open possibilities of postphenomenology. After summarizing its essentials, I will scrutinize, first, its ability to turn to the technological things themselves and, second, the so-called empirical turn as realized by postphenomenology. By assessing its conceptual framework from the phenomenological perspective, I hope to demonstrate that postphenomenology needs philosophical clarification and strengthening. In short, it needs a more phenomenological, and less pragmatic, approach to technology in its influence on human experience.

Philology, Theory, and Critical Thinking Through the History of the English Language

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Giancarlo
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
English Language ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Potential Usefulness ◽  
Language Difference ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
History Of ◽  
Theoretical Issues

This chapter summarizes recent scholarship on the history of philology and literary theory, and on calls for a “return to philology.” It explains the potential usefulness of theoretical questions for teaching the History of the English Language (HEL). It summarizes a set of relevant theoretical issues for organizing a HEL curriculum along a series of contrasts and self-critical questions: synchrony vs. diachrony; content vs. structure; levels of change; conscious vs. unconscious variation; stability vs. instability; standard vs. nonstandard; language difference and identity. The chapter then presents a series of sample inquiries and resources for foregrounding these issues in teaching practice. It concludes with a summary set of practical observations about teaching outcomes for promoting greater discourse awareness through HEL, and the potential scope for further theoretical elaboration in HEL teaching.

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