Direction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus Nordlund
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Main Plot ◽  
The One

Chapter 1 is entitled ‘Direction’, with a pun on the theatrical and the spatial senses of the word ‘direction’. The main purpose of the chapter is to mediate between, on the one hand, James Hirsh’s extended argument that Shakespeare’s soliloquies and asides were almost exclusively self-addressed, and, on the other, the modern tendency of scholars, actors, and directors to return Shakespeare to his medieval, audience-addressed roots. The chapter then turns to an extended reading of Launce’s soliloquies in The Two Gentlemen of Verona which explores how their satirical counterpoint to the main plot interrogates the underlying conditions of Shakespeare’s dramatic art.

The Wilding of Cape York Peninsula

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Neale
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
The Other ◽  
Northern Australia ◽  
Partial Failure ◽  
Hand Part ◽  
Cape York ◽  
The One ◽  
Colonial Encounters

In Chapter 1, I argue that ‘wildness’ is a product settler attempts to understand and thereby spatially remake the Northern Australia since the first colonial encounters in the 17th Century. For European explorers, a region like Cape York Peninsula was a wilderness to be surveyed, and through the misadventures and conflicts of inland expeditions it came to be understood as ‘wretched’ country populated with ‘treacherous’ peoples. Surveying subsequent uses of ‘the wild’ in this region, this chapter shows that if, on the one hand, part of the settler project has been to discursively and materially dictate the shape and texture of the region through such forms of wildness – ‘wilderness,’ ‘wild time,’ ‘wild blacks’ and ‘wild whites’ – then, on the other, the contemporary ‘wilderness’ should be understood not only as a product of the resistance and resilience of its Indigenous peoples, but also as the partial failure of this project.

Plato on Practical Reason and Practical Knowledge

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. M. M. Olfert
Keyword(s):  
Practical Reason ◽  
Practical Reasoning ◽  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
The Other ◽  
Normative Structure ◽  
The One

In Chapter 1, I argue that in a number of dialogues, Plato proposes that when we reason about what to do, we are equally and inseparably concerned with two sets of aims or concerns: grasping the truth and gaining knowledge on the one hand, and acting and acting well on the other. That is, from the perspective of practical reasoning, the goals of grasping the truth and gaining knowledge is inseparable from, and equally fundamental as, the goals of acting rationally and well. I argue that this Platonic idea is a plausible and worth examining both on its own terms, and because it has a legacy in Aristotle’s notion of practical truth. As I argue in the remainder of the Book, Aristotle uses his innovative conception of practical truth to formalize and make explicit the dual normative structure of practical reasoning suggested by Plato.

The Death of (a) Cinema

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lúcia Nagib
Keyword(s):  
Local Environment ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
End Of History ◽  
Mise En Abyme ◽  
Material Reality ◽  
The One

Chapter 1 focuses on Wim Wenders’s 1982 The State of Things, a watershed film that distils, in programmatic fashion, the idea of cinema’s inherent but unachievable mission to become material reality. The film is located at a significant historical juncture, which marks, on the one hand, the end of the European new waves and new cinemas, and, on the other, Hollywood’s move into a self-styled postmodern era, dominated by selfreflexive remakes. More pointedly, it attempts to theorise, in form and content, this cinematic end of history by means of a mise-en-abyme construction evolving across multiple layers of self-referentiality and self-negation, that exposes it to the contingencies of the local environment and improvisations of the characters/actors.

Hot Souls, Pneumatic Bodies, and Interplanetary Journeys

2020 ◽  
pp. 43-68
Author(s):  
Anya P. Foxen
Keyword(s):  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Other ◽  
Subtle Body ◽  
Medical Theory ◽  
The One

Chapter 1 establishes the origins of harmonial ideas in antiquity, focusing primarily on the Greek and later more broadly Hellenic world, and especially on thought of the Pythagorean, Platonic, Aritotelian, and Stoic traditions, ranging approximately from 500 BCE to 500 CE. It starts by exploring the evolution of cosmological ideas of harmony (harmonia) and sympathy (sympatheia) on the one hand, and spirit (pneuma) and its relationship to notions of the soul (psyche) on the other. It then proceeds to focus on the idea of a subtle body and the two spheres in which its utility has been explored: religious soteriology (or theurgy) and medical theory and practice.

The Logics of Worldlessness

2020 ◽  
pp. 245-292
Author(s):  
Roland Végső
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Historical Condition ◽  
The One

The final chapter provides a close reading of Alain Badiou’s The Logics of Worlds. It argues that the theoretical conflict between Being and Event and The Logics of Worlds plays out in the space defined by the tension between the ontological primacy of worldlessness and the phenomenological necessity of worlds. While the ontology of radical multiplicity introduced in Being and Event provides us with one of the most compelling arguments in favour of worldlessness, in the sequel to Being and Event Badiou turns to a novel phenomenology to account for the necessity of worlds. The chapter argues that it is the Heideggerian contradictions expounded upon in Chapter 1 that will help us make sense of a fundamental contradiction in Badiou’s philosophy: a conflict between the ontology of worldlessness and the politics of world-creation. To put it differently, in Badiou’s thought we encounter two forms of worldlessness: on the one hand, Being is worldless (which is a positive enabling condition) and, on the other hand, Capital is worldless (which is a negative historical condition).

Untangling the Impact of Negative Campaigning on Citizens

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Kim L. Fridkin ◽  
Patrick J. Kenney
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Negative Campaigning ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Negative Messages ◽  
The Impact

The tolerance and tactics theory of negativity is presented in Chapter 1. The marriage of citizens’ tolerance for negativity, on the one hand, with the tactics employed by candidates, on the other hand, will clarify when negative campaigning works. The theory begins with a simple premise: people vary in their tolerance for negative campaigning and individuals with less tolerance for negativity will be more influenced by attack advertising. In addition, it is crucial to consider the content and tone of the negative messages to know when negativity will be effective. Finally, the interplay between people’s tolerance of negativity and candidates’ tactics provide a framework for understanding the effects of negativity on citizens’ assessments of candidates and their likelihood of voting on Election Day.

Introduction

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Hayes
Keyword(s):  
Classical Tradition ◽  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
The Other ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
Classical Greece ◽  
The One ◽  
Divine Law

The chapters in part I explore the distinctive discourses of divine law that prevailed in the two sources of Western civilization—the Hebrew Bible on the one hand (chapter 1) and classical Greece and Rome on the other (chapter 2). Both the biblical tradition and the classical tradition feature ...

scholarly journals From Parenthood to Tutto può succedere

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (17) ◽  
pp. 146
Author(s):  
Stefania Antonioni ◽  
Chiara Checcaglini
Keyword(s):  
Large Family ◽  
The Other ◽  
Original Series ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Main Plot ◽  
The One

In our article we propose an analysis of the Italian TV series Tutto può succedere, a remake of the American TV series Parenthood (NBC 2010-2015). The Italian remake precisely reproduces some Parenthood’s ready-made elements: the two series share the main plot, many storylines and characters’ personalities, dealing with the ups and downs of a large family, formed of four siblings, their parents and their children. We will focus on the differences and similarities of the two shows from several perspectives, such as formal and content divergences, and their cultural, social and production implications. On the one hand, the Italian remake loses the distinguishing style and the faster pace of the original series to adjust to Rai’s more basic aesthetics; on the other hand, Rai chooses to focus on specific plots and characters that match its own purposes. Indeed, we can assume that youngest characters are the means by which Raiuno tries to connect with younger viewers, and the same function is assumed by the role played by music in the series and by the on-screen presence of young Italian musicians.

scholarly journals Realism in Theology and Metaphysics

2020 ◽  
pp. 19-35
Author(s):  
Michael C. Rea
Keyword(s):  
Ontological Commitment ◽  
The Other ◽  
Van Fraassen ◽  
Bas Van Fraassen ◽  
The One ◽  
Analytic Metaphysics

Since the early 2000s, increasing attention has been paid in two separate disciplines to questions about realism and ontological commitment. The disciplines are analytic metaphysics on the one hand, and theology on the other. Chapter 1 discusses two arguments for the conclusion that realism in theology and metaphysics—that is, a realist treatment of doctrines in theology and metaphysics—is untenable. The first is due to Peter Byrne, the second to Bas van Fraassen. The chapter concludes that practitioners of metaphysics and theology ought simply to ignore this conclusion. Those who are already sceptical of theology or metaphysics or both will find in the objections plenty to agree with. But they should not convince the unconvinced.

Demosthenic Scholarship

2018 ◽  
pp. 6-18
Author(s):  
Thomas Paulsen
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
High Standard ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
World War ◽  
Political Judgement ◽  
Political Interpretation ◽  
The One

Chapter 1 discusses the range of scholarship dealing with Demosthenes’ life and work, published in three distinct periods: from the eighteenth century to 1945, from 1945 to the late 1990s, and during the last twenty years. Before World War II, work on Demosthenes focused on the constitution and translation of the text on the one hand, and on the political judgement—often one-sided and heavily influenced by the contemporary outlook—of Demosthenes the politician on the other hand. After the war political interpretation, and interest in oratory in general, waned, whereas the last two decades have seen a new surge of research on Demosthenes, with particular prominence of high-standard commentaries.

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