scholarly journals The Selbständigkeit of the Essence: Michel Henry and the Meaning of Philosophical Knowledge

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 813
Author(s):  
Roberto Formisano
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
German Idealism ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Philosophical Discourse ◽  
Religious Attitude ◽  
Research Hypothesis ◽  
Philosophy And Religion ◽  
Michel Henry

This paper deals with a research hypothesis tying the legacy of German idealism to the first foundation of Michel Henry’s “phenomenology of life”. Based on a series of archive documents, the paper reconstitutes the hermeneutical horizon in contrast with which the young Henry (1946–1963) defined his conception of phenomenology, philosophy, and religion, i.e., the French existential–Hegelian debate (Wahl, Kojève). The reconstitution of this dialogue between the young Henry and the French Hegelianism of the 20th century will provide the theoretical framework for the analysis of the “religious attitude” in Henry’s philosophy and in his attempt to rethink the transcendental connection between phenomenality and (philosophical) discourse.

In the Beginning was the Word

2019 ◽  
pp. 101-148
Author(s):  
George Pattison
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New Testament ◽  
German Idealism ◽  
Rudolf Bultmann ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Michel Henry ◽  
John's Gospel ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Original Interpretation

Turning to the New Testament, the chapter examines the prologue to St John’s Gospel as an exemplary commentary on Christian vocation. However, this requires rejecting interpretations that have seen John’s logos in terms of Platonic ideas or ‘ratio’, as in much ancient and medieval commentary (Eckhart’s commentary is used for illustration). German Idealism (Fichte) refigures ratio in terms of will, and in the twentieth century, Michel Henry foregrounds ‘life’. A rediscovery of the word element is found in Ferdinand Ebner and Rudolf Bultmann. Their insights are used to develop an original interpretation of the Gospel, contrasting John’s existential focus on calling and the name with Platonizing interpretations.

scholarly journals Art on Both Sides of Reality. (Article I)

2021 ◽  
pp. 16-39
Author(s):  
I.V. Kondakov ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Philosophical Discourse ◽  
20Th Century Art

In a broad cultural and philosophical discourse, the comparison and differentiation of two layers of artistic reality in the 20th century, defining “the position of postmodern” (J.-F. Lyotard), are considered. It should be noted that in the 20th century art, without completely excluding the narrative-type artistic reality, was increasingly mastering the post-narrative artistic reality, but most often combined both artistic realities — modern and postmodern. The comprehension of art on both sides of reality presupposes the combination of narrative and post-narrative artistic realities as two layers of meaning covering the “vital reality” displayed and simultaneously overcome by them from both sides. The combination of “one’s own” text as the author’s narrative of life reality and the interweaving of “others” texts, ironically or creatively reflected in the form of a post-narrative texture, are put together as a two-layer text that contrasts “the life reality” in two ways. These provisions are confirmed by a number of literary examples.

scholarly journals William Golding's Free Fall as a Künstlerroman

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arab World English Journal ◽  
Noura Al-Madi
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Free Fall ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Human Psyche ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Art School

Psychoanalysis has been a research field for authors a long time ago. The human psyche is complicated; it is a mix of emotions, instincts, actions ad reactions. The 20th century is revolutionary, new inventions and discoveries were trending, with the new way of living people started to lose faith. William Golding's Free Fall as Künstlerroman is tracing the development of the artist Sammy Mountjoy's character from childhood until he matures. The things he faced and the factors that reshaped his life. He was chastened by suffering as he learned from the school of life. In this non-thesis paper, a study of the character of Sammy as he grows up is explored with examining the factors that affected his personality. The introduction illustrates Künstlerroman as a subgenre of Bildungsroman and explains them as a theoretical framework, the difference between them and their characteristics. Also, it discusses psychoanalysis definition. Chapter I will focus on Sammy's childhood living in Rotten Row and his friends, the role of his parents and moving to the art school where he met Beatrice. Chapter II will discuss Sammy the man when he was investigated in prison. It deals with mature Sammy who wants to fix his mistakes and feels free from guilt.

Space in Relation to God or the Absolute in the Thought of Henry More and Śaṅkara: An Exercise in Comparative Philosophy

Numen ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 60 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 507-527
Author(s):  
Jonathan Duquette
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Philosophy ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Philosophical Discourse ◽  
Present Discussion ◽  
Philosophy And Religion ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Henry More ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractSince Antiquity thinkers of all civilizations have speculated on the concept of space. The idea arose under various typologies and descriptions in different areas of knowledge ranging from cosmology, physics, and mathematics to philosophy and psychology. However, less known are the role and implications of space in theological and religio-philosophical discourse. This article aims to examine and characterize the claim that space is intimately related to God or the absolute from the perspective of two thinkers rooted in different historical, cultural, and religious settings: the Cambridge Platonist Henry More and the Advaita Vedāntin Śaṅkara. A comparative approach will bring forward the meeting points in their respective assessment of the relationship between space and God/the absolute, as well as the distinctiveness in their arguments, approach, and motivations. The present discussion may demonstrate alternative ways of addressing a valuable problem recurring at the intersection of philosophy and religion at different times and places throughout history.

scholarly journals Reconstructive Hermeneutics in African Christology

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julius Gathogo
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Primary Task ◽  
Relevant Model ◽  
African Theology ◽  
African Christianity ◽  
Cultural Codes ◽  
The One ◽  
The Ideal

The article sets out to demonstrate African reconstructive Christology as the seventhChristological trend in African Christianity. Considering that African theology is kerygmatically universal, but theologically provincial, the study shows that Christology in our contemporary Africa can be best understood by retracing it from the early Christologicalcontroversies through to the present times. Certainly, African Christology in the 21st century is dominated by calls for contextualisation, indigenisation, rebirth, inculturation,renewal, rejuvenation, renaissance and reconstruction. To this end, the article endeavours todemonstrate that Christ, the ideal reconstructionist, the one who broke the cultural codes of his time in order to reconstruct the society, is the relevant model to our contemporary world.The article draws its theoretical framework from the works of Jesse Mugambi, Kä Mana,and Wachege, amongst other proponents of reconstructive motif in African theology. In its methodology, the article first attempts to identify some early Christological developments through to the contemporary trends. It subsequently attempts a survey of the six Christologicaltrends of the 20th century; that is a Christological trend that commits itself to interpreting and adapting Christology to modern mentality and situation; Christologies geared exclusively to thehistorical Jesus; Christology that tends to uphold the Trinitarian theology; Christologies based on the proclaimed Christ and the historical Jesus; Asian Christologies of inculturation and liberation;and African Christologies of inculturation and liberation. Afterwards, it analyses Christological trends of the 21st century where a seventh dimension, African reconstructive Christology, has become the norm. In so doing, the article builds on the premise that the primary task of African Christology today is restoration.

scholarly journals Political and Socio-Cultural Poetics of the Novel the Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis: A New Historicist Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 04 (05) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Afzal Hossain ◽  
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Visual Discourse ◽  
Cultural Productions ◽  
Dominant Ideologies ◽  
Visual Materials

This paper intends to explicate the novel ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ by Walter Tevis with a new historicist lens to explore the complex layers of politics of representation and power relations with a view to produce a close -reading of issues like contemporary (Mid-20th century, 1950s and 1960s) socio-political and cultural context of America, Cold War, Communism, Christianity, Capitalism, Atheism, critical racial issues, western concept of beauty as well as moral values and beliefs, considering not only the literary discourse but other non-literary cultural productions and forms like visual discourse (TV, movies) and sports, in this context, Chess. The paper has adopted new historicist theoretical framework to shed light also on the biographical, historical, socio-political and cultural contexts of when the novel was written and published (Mid-1970s and published in 1983). The temporal and spatial setting of the novel, mid-20th century and Kentucky, America have also been analyzed from the same theoretical framework. The objective of this paper is explorative and analytical in nature in its reading of the novel, by applying exegesis in the form of content analysis and textual analysis. The paper has also drawn substantially from cultural studies, research methods like close reading of visual materials and other non-literary cultural productions. Institutional analysis and ideology critique approach has been used to critically analyze how the orphanage (Methuen Home) has been portrayed and represented and what impressions it gives about the nature and operation of power dynamics and dominant ideologies within the orphanage and also in the larger context of America.

Tracing the Evolution of Urbanism in Kuwait

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 80-89
Author(s):  
Yasser Mahgoub
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Gulf Region ◽  
Modern Cities ◽  
Adequate Understanding ◽  
Oil Crisis ◽  
Economic Boom ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Hybrid Forms

This paper hypothesizes that contemporary Gulf cities are not an evolution of traditional settlements but rather forms of modern cities that emerged during the second half of the 20th century after the discovery of oil, the economic boom following the mid 1970s oil crisis and finally political, economic, technological and communication globalization that swept this region since the beginning of the 21st century. While focusing on the case of Kuwait city, the paper reflects on several examples from the Gulf region cities to discuss their development as hybrid forms of modern cities. The paper adopts the theoretical framework proposed by Appadurai in 1996 to understand the flow of modernity through the Gulf cities' scapes. This theoretical framework provides an adequate understanding of Gulf cities evolution and modifications required to make them more adequate to the Gulf region conditions.

Contributions of Social Capital Theory to HRM

2011 ◽  
pp. 1896-1903
Author(s):  
Marina Burakova-Lorgnier
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Human Resources Management ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Social Capital Theory ◽  
Community Studies ◽  
Capital Theory ◽  
The Social

The philosophic premises of the social capital theory (SCT) number centuries of years. However, the term itself became explicit only in the second half of the 20th century. Emerged as a theoretical framework in sociology, it was soon adopted by community studies and management sciences. The concept of social capital (SC) has been criticized for recycling well-known fundamental theories and propounding a common sense truth. At the same time, more and more numerous testimonies stand for its recognition as a persuasive explanatory framework for various human resources (HR)-related issues. The present article outlines theoretical discussions around the SCT, as well as its quantifiability and contribution to the further improvement of human resources management (HRM).

International Coordination of Financial and Economic Policy: Gustav Cassels Theoretical Contribution

2012 ◽  
pp. 51-64
Author(s):  
D. Kadochnikov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
International Finance ◽  
Purchasing Power Parity ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Power Parity ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
International Coordination ◽  
Normative Perspective

Gustav Cassel (1866-1945) developed a number of original ideas in the field of international finance, which may prove to be relevant today. These ideas, however, were largely forgotten or remained unnoticed in the second half of the 20th century. To a large extent this is due to the fact that Cassels theoretical framework was fragmented, while one of the key elements of his argumentation - the purchasing power parity concept - was taken out of the context and misinterpreted. The papers aim is to restore and demonstrate Cassels vision of the goals and significance of the international coordination of financial and economic policy as an inherently normative perspective.

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