scholarly journals The Pleasures of Daldaldal: Freud, Jokes, and the Development of Intersubjective Aesthetics

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-274
Author(s):  
Sanja Bahun
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Intersubjective Theory ◽  
Art Production ◽  
Modernist Studies ◽  
Discourse Practice

This article focuses on Freud's account of joking in Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious (Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewußten, 1905) in its historical and cultural context. Freud's treatise, the author argues, must be reclaimed for modernist studies for at least two reasons. First, Freud's contribution to theories of laughter presents an important threshold in intellectual history – one that sees the emergence of contemporary notions of intersubjectivity, language, and art-production. Second and consequential to the first, Freud's 1905 assessment of joke-work deserves to be recontextualized as a modernist text in its own right. These motives provide the argumentative line and shape to the present article. It first investigates the Freudian intersubjective theory of jokes and its diverse contexts and then suggests some avenues for assessing Freud's book on jokes as a meaningful participant in a discourse and practice of modernist artistic engagement with the comic. Freud's reflections on joke-work, it is argued, amount to a seminal modernist theory not only because they purposefully depart from and rework traditional and contemporary assessments of humour but also because of their particular position in relation to modernist artistic discourse-practice as such.

Russian iambic pentameter

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 187-203
Author(s):  
Emily Klenin
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Line Length ◽  
General Tendency ◽  
Word Stress ◽  
Russian Poetry ◽  
Iambic Pentameter ◽  
Stress Patterns

The Russian pentameter is historically associated with the English and German traditions, but typologically it has with some justice been compared to the French decasyllable. The present article analyzes the structure and cultural context of Russian pentameter and examines in detail the use of caesura in a small corpus of iambic pentameter poems by Afanasy Fet. It is shown that the use of caesura correlates with patterns of word stress. In particular, the appearance of caesuraed lines in poems in which caesura is relatively weak correlates with the stress patterns of the lines in question: caesuraed lines are less heavily stressed than uncaesuraed ones, a correlation that theoretically should promote equalization of line length across the text. Russian poetry has a general tendency to promote equality of line length, and the intrusion of occasional I6 lines into I5 texts, a phenomenon known in many Russian I5 poems, can be viewed as a related strategy for handling ragged I5 lines.

scholarly journals VIRTUE LANGUAGE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ORIENTALISM: A CASE STUDY IN HISTORICAL EPISTEMOLOGY

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 689-715 ◽  
Author(s):  
HERMAN PAUL
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Historical Epistemology ◽  
Detailed Case ◽  
Thought Pattern ◽  
History Of ◽  
Dependency Relations

Historical epistemology is a form of intellectual history focused on “the history of categories that structure our thought, pattern our arguments and proofs, and certify our standards for explanation” (Lorraine Daston). Under this umbrella, historians have been studying the changing meanings of “objectivity,” “impartiality,” “curiosity,” and other virtues believed to be conducive to good scholarship. While endorsing this historicization of virtues and their corresponding vices, the present article argues that the meaning and relative importance of these virtues and vices can only be determined if their mutual dependencies are taken into account. Drawing on a detailed case study—a controversy that erupted among nineteenth-century orientalists over the publication of R. P. A. Dozy'sDe Israëlieten te Mekka(The Israelites in Mecca) (1864)—the paper shows that nineteenth-century orientalists were careful to examine (1) the degree to which Dozy practiced the virtues they considered most important, (2) the extent to which these virtues were kept in balance by other ones, (3) the extent to which these virtues were balanced by other scholars’ virtues, and (4) the extent to which they were expected to be balanced by future scholars’ work. Consequently, this article argues that historical epistemology might want to abandon its single-virtue focus in order to allow balances, hierarchies, and other dependency relations between virtues and vices to move to the center of attention.

Erik H. Erikson, Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History (1958)

2022 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-75
Author(s):  
Hetty Zock
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Theory Of Religion ◽  
Existential Theory

Abstract As part of NTT JTSR’s series on Key Texts, the present article discusses Erik H. Erikson’s interdisciplinary, psychohistorical study of the young Martin Luther, its reception, and its relevance for today. Erikson showed how Luther’s own identity crisis – emerging from the troubled relationship with his father – converged with a crisis in late medieval society and theology, and how being a talented homo religiosus helped Luther to solve both crises at the same time, presenting a “religiosity for the adult man” in accordance with the Renaissance need for autonomy. It is argued that during his psychosocial study of Luther and the latter’s cultural context, Erikson developed a general, existential theory of religion that is also relevant for an understanding of the search for identity and religion in modern times.

Authentic leadership and feedback-seeking behaviour: An examination of the cultural context of mediating processes in China

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 286-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Qian ◽  
Xiaosong Lin ◽  
George Zhen-Xiong Chen
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Authentic Leadership ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Power Distance ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Feedback Seeking ◽  
Instrumental Value ◽  
Feedback Source

AbstractDespite an increasing number of studies that show a positive relationship between the supportiveness of the feedback source and feedback seeking, little is known about the role that supervisors play in promoting employee feedback-seeking behaviour when they serve as feedback sources. The present article developed a model to fill this void and tested it with data from a sample of 237 supervisor–subordinate dyads. We hypothesized and found that authentic leadership was positively related to feedback-seeking behaviour mediated by both perceived instrumental value and image cost of feedback seeking. The results also demonstrated that employees' individual cultural value of power distance moderated the relationships between authentic leadership and the perceived instrumental value and image cost of feedback seeking.

scholarly journals Eisenstein’s Aesthetics in Semiotic Perspective

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-19
Author(s):  
Nikolai Andreyevich Khrenov
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Philosophical Approach ◽  
Sign System ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
Russian Cinema ◽  
Semiotic Perspective ◽  
Modernist Studies ◽  
Vyacheslav Ivanov ◽  
Academic Interests

The article is devoted to the semiotic interpretation of the theoretic heritage of the film director Sergey Eisenstein by Vyacheslav Ivanov whose jubilee has been recently celebrated. Sergey Eisenstein foresaw the structural methodology that became so popular after the 60s. Vyacheslav Ivanov is known for his vast range of academic interests. The present article is focused on his interest in cinema, in particular - the theoretic heritage of Eisenstein. This interest may be explained by Vyacheslav Ivanovs assertion, that Eisenstein tended to see cinema as a language or, more specifically, a sign system. This fact couldnt escape Vyacheslav Ivanovs notice, since the formation of semiotic methodology in Russia is closely connected with Eisenstein. So it is quite natural that Vyacheslav Ivanov reflects on the prehistory of semiotics too. As for cinema, prehistory in question is closely connected with Sergey Eisensteins aesthetics. The author of the present article also touches upon applying semiotic methodology to cinema as a sign system in general. Due to this purpose, the author refers to the period, when Russian cinema theorists were involved in semiological analysis introduced with the influence of structuralist and post-modernist studies in humanities. Some theoreticians attacked semiotic approaches in favor of philosophical and, in particular, phenomenological one. Nevertheless though these approaches are appropriate and efficient, they do not replace the semiotic one. The author argues, that such attempts to refuse from the semiotic approach in the cinema field were ill-timed and superficial. Vyacheslav Ivanovs semiotic works on cinema, especially his book Eisensteins Aesthetics, simultaneously affirm a philosophical approach to this topic. Interpreting the meaning of the title, the author of the present article argues, that the concept of semiotics was already created at the initial stage of the development of aesthetics as a branch of philosophy.

scholarly journals O "Grande Mundo": mundanismo e sociabilidade na literatura academicista brasileira durante o Pré-Modernismo * "The Big World": worldliness and sociability in academic brazilian literature during Pre-Modernism

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 204
Author(s):  
MAURÍCIO SILVA
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Brazilian Literature ◽  
Literary Historiography ◽  
The Relationship

<p><strong>Resumo:</strong> O presente artigo analisa o contexto cultural do Pré-Modernismo brasileiro, destacando alguns aspectos estéticos e literários da Literatura Brasileira. Além disso, este artigo analisa as possíveis relações entre autores Pré-Modernistas e a Academia Brasileira de Letras, durante a passagem do século XIX para o XX.</p><p><strong>Palavras-chave:</strong> Pré-Modernismo – Literatura Brasileira – Mundanismo – Historiografia Literária.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Abstract:</strong> The present article analyses the cultural context of Brazilian Pre-Modernism, and points out some aesthetic and literary aspects of Brazilian Literature. Furthermore, the present article analyzes the relationship between the Pre-Modernist writers and the Brazilian Academy of Letters, detaching the institutionalizations issues on the turn-of-the-century.</p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong> Pre-Modernism – Brazilian Literature – Worldliness – Literary Historiography.</p>

Religion and Science in Early American Psychology

1987 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Spilka
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Nature Of Science ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
History Of Psychology ◽  
Philosophical Psychology ◽  
Religion And Science ◽  
Early American ◽  
American Psychology ◽  
History Of

Most texts in the history of psychology ignore American contributions prior to the appearance of Hall and James. This may be a function of the strong religious inclinations of the pre-Jamesians, but there is reason to believe their views were of significance to the later development of American psychology. The present article attempts to place the psychology of this time into historical-cultural context, and then explicate the nature of science during that period The paramount place of religion in this philosophical psychology is discussed Finally, the implications of these ideas for contemporary psychology are brought to the fore. The need for further attention to the work of these religious American philosopher-psychologists is emphasized.

Intellectual History and Assyriology

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niek Veldhuis
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ancient Mesopotamia

AbstractThe present article proposes to understand knowledge and knowledge traditions of ancient Mesopotamia as assets, deployed by actors in the social contexts in which they found themselves. This approach is illustrated with three examples from different periods of Mesopotamian history.

scholarly journals Introduction: From Concord to Peace

Theoria ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (159) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Andrew Benjamin ◽  
Francesco Borghesi
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
The Political ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

This special issue arose from a workshop on “Peace and Concord from Plato to Lessing”, organised by the editors and which took place at the University of Sydney on 18 and 19 September 2017. Central to the work of both the editors is the relationship between the concepts of ‘concord’, ‘peace’ and ‘dignity’ within a setting created by a concern with the development of a philological anthropology. Their work combines both intellectual history and philosophy, a combination that is reflected in the contents of the special issue of Theoria. The importance of these terms is that they allow for another interpretation of the ethical and the political. Central to both is the location of human being within a larger cultural context. That context demands an approach in which philosophy does not exclude history, and history recognises that it is already informed philosophically. If there is a unifying term, it is ‘culture’. The approach taken within the larger project starts with the centrality of culture as that which demands to be thought. And yet culture is neither tranquil nor unified. As Walter Benjamin argued, there ‘is no document of culture which is not at the same time a document of barbarism’. Allowing for culture’s centrality entails a reconfiguration of both philosophy and intellectual history.

Exploring Ibn ‘Arabi’s Metaphysics of Time and Space in Sufi Ritual: the ‘Issawiya Dhikr of Sidi Bou-Sa‘id

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-248
Author(s):  
Dia Barghouti
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Islamic Philosophy ◽  
Performance Traditions ◽  
Metaphysics Of Time ◽  
The Rich ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Embodied Practice ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines the relationship between medieval Islamic philosophy and contemporary Tunisian Sufi ritual. Focusing on the metaphysics of time and space in the writings of the twelfth-century Andalusian saint Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi, the author explores the dhikr ritual within the framework of Sufi ontology in order to highlight the relevance of Islamic intellectual history to the religious practices of the ‘Issawiya Sufi community. The dhikr is one example of many indigenous performance traditions that are part of the rich cultural life of Tunisia. These are spaces where adepts engage with complex philosophical ideas through embodied performances. Thus, Sufi rituals raise important questions about the relationship between theory and embodied practice, which, although grounded in a particular cultural context, could be of relevance to the broader range of theatre. Dia Barghouti is a playwright and PhD candidate in the Department of Theatre and Performance at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her plays have been performed at the Ashtar Theatre, the SIN festival of video and performance art, and the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre, all in Ramallah, Palestine.

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