scholarly journals Reading Proust in Barthes's Journal de deuil

2014 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Watt
Keyword(s):  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Point Of Departure

This article contributes to ongoing critical reflection on the place of Marcel Proust's writings in the œuvre of Roland Barthes, through a reading of Barthes's Journal de deuil. I explore the explicit references made to Proust as well as the more indirect or involuntary traces of À la recherche that surface in the notes that make up the Journal. These are read comparatively with references made to Proust, mourning, memory and writing that figure in Barthes's contemporary works, notably the lecture ‘“Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure”’, Fragments d'un discours amoureux and La Chambre claire. I argue that Proust's place in the Journal de deuil, Barthes's most intimate of texts, is almost inevitable since, by Barthes's own avowal, Proust's writings were – like Barthes's mother up until that point – a constant in his life, a point of departure and return.

Notes on Loving a Mourner (with Roland Barthes and Others)

Paragraph ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-227
Author(s):  
Matt Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Melanie Klein ◽  
Personal Observation ◽  
Late Work ◽  
Point Of Departure

This essay examines the place of love in grief, staging a relation between a mourner and her lover. Taking as its point of departure Freud's observation that mourning leads to a ‘loss of the capacity to love’, it considers the effects bereavement might have on the bereaved's relations with those that love them, and the possibilities, pitfalls and ethics of care in such a context. This is explored largely through a reading of Roland Barthes's late work (both as a writer of grief and a theorist of love), as well as ideas drawn from Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, Sara Ahmed, Hamlet and personal observation. Love and care are thought through alongside notions of ‘tact’, ‘benevolence’ and ‘parrying against reduction’ in late Barthes.

The Expressive Limits of International Criminal Justice: Victim Trauma and Local Culture in the Iron Cage of the Law

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 1014-1045
Author(s):  
Barrie Sander
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Complex Terrain ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
International Criminal ◽  
International Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Courts ◽  
Cultural Assumptions ◽  
Iron Cage ◽  
Point Of Departure

Scholarship within the field of international criminal justice has increasingly turned towards expressivist strands of thought, characterised by a concern for the didactic qualities of international criminal courts. Taking expressivism as its point of departure, this paper critically examines the expressive limits of international criminal justice. Specifically, the paper examines the extent to which international criminal courts have been expressively constrained both in their ability to alleviate the traumas of victims and in their receptivity to the local cultural values of conflict-affected communities. The paper argues that a critical reflection on the expressive limits of international criminal courts, paying particular attention to their retributive core and cultural assumptions, can help such institutions better navigate the complex terrain in which they operate, reducing aspirations concerning what they should be expected to achieve in practice and improving their legitimacy amongst local communities.

scholarly journals Convivencia, Abrahamic Religions and Study Abroad in Spain

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-101
Author(s):  
Mitchell A. McCoy ◽  
Sally Smith Holt
Keyword(s):  
Study Abroad ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
International Study ◽  
Objective Understanding ◽  
Abrahamic Religions ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
Study Abroad Program ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Nation People

As a point of departure for understanding the complexities of Spanish national and individual identities, it is incumbent that a student begins by investigating Spanish iterations of the three Abrahamic religions. This presupposition of religion’s centrality in the pursuit of better-informed understandings of the Spanish nation, people, history and culture has served as a cornerstone in the construction of Belmont University’s Maymester study abroad program in Spain and as a lodestar in its evolution. This article will describe the genesis of the program, analyze curricular changes over time and offer a critical reflection about why international study is the quintessential milieu for achieving the sought-after objective: understanding the role of religions and the concept of convivencia in the cultivation of Spanish identities. 

scholarly journals Nepal-India Relations: Beyond Realist and Liberal Theoretical Prisms

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-102
Author(s):  
Karun Kishor Karki ◽  
Hari KC
Keyword(s):  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Mutual Respect ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
Internal Affairs ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Modern Nation State

Taking the historical narratives that tout Nepal-India relations as based on mutual respect of each other’s sovereignty as a point of departure, we provide a critical reflection upon the flaws of such a single uncritical discourse that not only risks the danger of creating stereotypes but also leaves it incomplete and misleading. Although many aspects of the Nepal-India relations indeed predate the origin of the modern nation-state, any historical discourse that downplays the realpolitik in these relations leaves the story untold about India being a hegemon interfering in Nepal’s internal affairs and obstructing Nepal’s social, economic and political progression. From a neocolonial lens, we provide snapshots of the ways and instances in which India has infringed upon Nepal’s sovereignty and independence.

Out of the Ivory Tower and into the Play Room

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-73
Author(s):  
S. Steve Kang
Keyword(s):  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Ivory Tower ◽  
Constructive Theology ◽  
Triune God ◽  
Christian Families ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
The Church

This article seeks to demonstrate how the church can rediscover the task of doing theology for the life of the church. Taking a critical reflection on the bifurcation of theology and the consequential anthropocentric tendencies of theologizing as a point of departure, it proceeds to engage in a constructive theology of being parents as a case study, demonstrating how every theological endeavor should proceed from the Triune God and for the life of God’s household. Then the article explicates how this theocentric theology may be employed to serve Christian families in God’s household.

scholarly journals Fotografi Di Era Media Sosial : Studi “Toko Memorabilia” Karya Agan Harahap

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-88
Author(s):  
Aji Susanto Anom Purnomo
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Theory Of Reading

The development of photography technology in the era of social media currently contribute various problems that need to be studied and reflected. One of them is about the essence or meaning of the presence of "photography" itself. This paper reflect the essence or meaning of photography in the social media based on the theory of reading photographs "cynical phenomenology" by Roland Barthes through a case study study of "Toko Memorabilia" which is one of the social criticisms by the artist Agan Harahap. Memories Commodification  and visual carnivals are two instruments of meaning that the author discovers in his critical reflection journey and will be described further through this study.

scholarly journals The pleasure of the hypertext

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 138-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristian Bankov
Keyword(s):  
General Model ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Communicative Exchange ◽  
Point Of Departure

In this paper I examine the relation between textualism and eroticism and how this relation evolves in the digital age. The point of departure is Roland Barthes’ works on the notion of text and especially The pleasure of the text (1973), where we find enough evidence that the attitude of the French semiologist is of fetishistic character with explicit erotic connotations. Such attitude is quite representative for the whole epoch of both structuralism and post-structuralism. The age of the hypertext (and the internet in general) changes the textualists’ culture in new forms of intertextual exchange where the pleasure itself becomes object of communicative exchange. The eroticism of the hypertext is more explicit compared to the text and it is getting a myriad of forms, difficult to be put in a general model. The last chapter examines the consequences of the hypertextual reality for the educational institutions and their role in the digitalized societies.

The Contribution of Pavlov's Typology of CNS Properties to Personality Research

1997 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Strelau
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Animal Species ◽  
Special Significance ◽  
The West ◽  
Personality Dimensions ◽  
Personality Research ◽  
Personality Theories ◽  
Strength Of Excitation ◽  
Point Of Departure

This paper presents Pavlov's contribution to the development of biological-oriented personality theories. Taking a short description of Pavlov's typology of central nervous system (CNS) properties as a point of departure, it shows how, and to what extent, this typology influenced further research in the former Soviet Union as well as in the West. Of special significance for the development of biologically oriented personality dimensions was the conditioned reflex paradigm introduced by Pavlov for studying individual differences in dogs. This paradigm was used by Russian psychologists in research on types of nervous systems conducted in different animal species as well as for assessing temperament in children and adults. Also, personality psychologists in the West, such as Eysenck, Spence, and Gray, incorporated the CR paradigm into their theories. Among the basic properties of excitation and inhibition on which Pavlov's typology was based, strength of excitation and the basic indicator of this property, protective inhibition, gained the highest popularity in arousaloriented personality theories. Many studies have been conducted in which the Pavlovian constructs of CNS properties have been related to different personality dimensions. In current research the behavioral expressions of the Pavlovian constructs of strength of excitation, strength of inhibition, and mobility of nervous processes as measured by the Pavlovian Temperament Survey (PTS) have been related to over a dozen of personality dimensions, mostly referring to temperament.

Migrant Diplomacies: Rethinking Diplomacy Beyond State-Centric Perspectives. A Civic Bi-Nationality Experience from North America

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Alejo
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Interdisciplinary Dialogue ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
Migrant Activism ◽  
Point Of Departure

There is a pressing need to extend our thinking about diplomacy beyond state-centric perspectives, as in the name of sovereignty and national interests, people on move are confronting virtual, symbolic and/or material walls and frames of policies inhibiting their free movement. My point of departure is to explore migrant activism and global politics through the transformation of diplomacy in a globalised world. Developing an interdisciplinary dialogue between new diplomacy and sociology, I evidence the emergence of global sociopolitical formations created through civic bi-nationality organisations. Focusing on the agent in interaction with structures, I present a theoretical framework and strategy for analysing the practices of migrant diplomacies as an expression of contemporary politics. A case study from North America regarding returned families in Mexico City provides evidence of how these alternative diplomacies are operating.

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