Johnson, T. S. Eliot, and the City

2019 ◽  
pp. 21-40
Author(s):  
Melvyn New
Keyword(s):  
Paradise Lost ◽  
Religious Faith ◽  
Shared Experience ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Love Song ◽  
The City

In “Johnson, T. S. Eliot, and the City,” Melvyn New reexamines Johnson’s relationship to Modernism by discussing the shared experience of two young writers adjusting to life in the city, an adjustment worked out respectively in Johnson’s London and Eliot’s Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. The essay argues that Christianity plays a more important role in their poems than the label Modernism might otherwise suggest. For both poets, the city represents science, progress, and Enlightenment, but equally the delusions of pride and perfection that tie both poems to Paradise Lost and the Fall in the Garden. New concludes that Johnson and Eliot shared a Modernism that looked backward in despair over an ever-receding sea of religious faith and ahead in equal despair over the Enlightenment secular faith that was replacing it.

The Resilient City

2005 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
World Trade Center ◽  
Religious Faith ◽  
Oklahoma City Bombing ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Ancient City ◽  
Trade Center ◽  
The City

In 1871, the city of Chicago was almost entirely destroyed by what became known as The Great Fire. Thirty-five years later, San Francisco lay in smoldering ruins after the catastrophic earthquake of 1906. Or consider the case of the Jerusalem, the greatest site of physical destruction and renewal in history, which, over three millennia, has suffered wars, earthquakes, fires, twenty sieges, eighteen reconstructions, and at least eleven transitions from one religious faith to another. Yet this ancient city has regenerated itself time and again, and still endures. Throughout history, cities have been sacked, burned, torched, bombed, flooded, besieged, and leveled. And yet they almost always rise from the ashes to rebuild. Viewing a wide array of urban disasters in global historical perspective, The Resilient City traces the aftermath of such cataclysms as: --the British invasion of Washington in 1814 --the devastation wrought on Berlin, Warsaw, and Tokyo during World War II --the late-20th century earthquakes that shattered Mexico City and the Chinese city of Tangshan --Los Angeles after the 1992 riots --the Oklahoma City bombing --the destruction of the World Trade Center Revealing how traumatized city-dwellers consistently develop narratives of resilience and how the pragmatic process of urban recovery is always fueled by highly symbolic actions, The Resilient City offers a deeply informative and unsentimental tribute to the dogged persistence of the city, and indeed of the human spirit.

Cities of Refuge, Rebel Cities, and the City to Come

2019 ◽  
pp. 253-271
Author(s):  
Giovanna Borradori
Keyword(s):  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
The Political ◽  
Shared Experience ◽  
The Core ◽  
Political Transformations ◽  
Urban Contexts ◽  
To Come ◽  
The City

As the processes of globalization transform cities into nodes of accumulation of financial and symbolic capital, it is fair to assume that urban contexts have never been more vulnerable to the systemic imperatives of the market. It is thus surprising that cities continue to be the site where the deepest social and political transformations come to the surface. What, then, preserves the city as a space of dissent? The claim of this chapter is that a critical reflection on the political agency of Northern and Southern cities has to start from asking what it means today to occupy the pavement of their streets. The argument explored here is that, in this age of molecular neoliberal encroachment and restructuring, it is a certain experience of dispossession, rather than the quest for identification and recognition, that makes the city the core of a shared experience of refuge and resistance.

Mythopoetics of the Siberian estate in the Russian prose of the end of the XIX — the first third of the XX centuries

2020 ◽  
pp. 127-137
Author(s):  
Elena N. Ertner ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Paradise Lost ◽  
Sacred Space ◽  
Play Behavior ◽  
Rural Life ◽  
History And Criticism ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
Promised Land ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City ◽  
Business Philosophy

For the first time in the history and criticism of literature the article regards the features of the Siberian “estate topos” as a new modification of the Russian culture “estate text”, typical for the literature of the late XIX — the first third of the XX centuries. In the prose of N.A. Lukhmanova, M.M. Prishvin, N.M. Yadrintsev Tyumen merchant estate transforms into a new “cultural space”. The shift from the philosophy of the rural life to the “business” philosophy and the idea of the commercial Siberian estate bring forward the new topos-related notions: “estate is a factory” and “tannery Lyon”. We introduce the comparative mythopoetics of the Siberian city and country estates through the processes of demythologization of classical country “estate myth” and local remythologization of the concepts: “estate is a fortress”, “estate is a garden / a greenhouse”, and “estate is a nest”. The merchant “estate topos” forms at the intersection of the Russian land Paradise lost and the Siberian Eden, newly created by settlers. The Tyumen schismatic estate be comes “the promised land” or the city of Kitezh: the sacred space of secret chapels, “the underground Kingdom of our Fathers’ faith”. The emphasis is also given to the “theatri cality” of the merchant “estate” play behavior.

Stars & Stones: Astronomy and Archaeology in the Works of the Mexican Polymath Antonio León y Gama, 1735–1802

Itinerario ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Pimentel
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Central Place ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Construction Work ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mary Louise Pratt ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The City

The main square of Mexico City, known as the Zocalo, occupies a central place in the make-up of the city, the nation, and even the national identity of Mexico. As we all know, the conquistadors built Mexico City on the site of Tenochtitlán, the capital of the Aztec empire. Indeed, the ruins of the Great Temple of the old city lie hidden under the square itself. This essay deals with the moment when the native past began to emerge from beneath the plaza, when a viceroy had the ground paved, and undertook a series of public works to solve the problems of drainage and water channelling which had existed throughout the history of the city. In his effort to modernise, the viceroy brought his contemporaries face to face with a long-buried past. For amidst the construction work two great archaeological pieces were discovered in 1790. These findings were subsequently studied by the multi-talented Creole, Antonio León y Gama, one of the most steadfast representatives of the Enlightenment in New Spain. By examining elements of Leon y Gama's work, I want to do a bit of historical excavation myself and reveal the existence of what we might describe, following Mary Louise Pratt, as a contact zone—one in which contemporary tools for investigatively ordering time and space were brought to bear on natural and cultural phenomena alike, in order to situate Mexico and its cultural heritage historically as well as geographically.

Knowing God and Knowing About God: Martin Buber's Two Types of Faith Revisited

2012 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 402-420
Author(s):  
R. W. L. Moberly
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Religious Faith ◽  
Cognitive Content ◽  
Theological Interpretation ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Canonical Approach ◽  
Constructive Engagement

AbstractInitially I briefly expound Martin Buber's Two Types of Faith so as to clarify Buber's sharp contrast between Jewish faith (Hebrew Emunah) and Christian belief (Greek Pistis). I suggest that Buber's polarisation of Emunah, a trust and existential engagement with God, over against Pistis, an intellectual acknowledgement which lacks immediacy with God, has certain resonances with Wilfred Cantwell Smith's distinguishing between ‘faith’ and ‘belief’ in his attempt to overcome the Enlightenment tendency to reduce religious faith to propositional belief. I also acknowledge that Buber's conceptually alert and religiously constructive engagement with the Bible in its own way embodies many of the concerns in the current attempts to bring Bible and theology together via ‘theological interpretation’ or ‘a canonical approach’. However, Buber's account of the Old Testament overlooks the presence of the idiom ‘to know that’ (Hebrew yada( ki), which points to the importance of cognitive content in relation to knowing Israel's God. I consider a number of narratives which feature the deuteronomic idiom ‘to know that Yhwh is God’ (or closely comparable formulations) – Elijah on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18), Rahab (Joshua 2), Naaman (2 Kings 5) and David and Goliath (1 Samuel 17) – and consider the function of ‘knowing that Yhwh is God’ in each passage. By way of conclusion I reflect on the complementarity of ‘knowing God’ and ‘knowing about God’ and the problematic nature of tendencies, represented by Buber, to set these over against each other. I also suggest that there is fruitful work to be done through a comparative and synthetic biblical and theological study of the relationship between the Old Testament concern that people should ‘know that Yhwh is God’ and the New Testament concern that people should ‘believe that Jesus Christ is Lord’.

Zwischen nationalem Anspruch und lokalpolitischen Zwängen: Entstehungs- und Rezeptionsbedingungen der Kasseler Opern Louis Spohrs

2011 ◽  
Vol 52 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 311-321
Author(s):  
Wolfram Boder
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
World War ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The City ◽  
German Opera

In 1823 Louis Spohr published an article entitled “Aufruf an deutsche Komponisten” (Appeal to German Composers) in the Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung (AMZ). He did so for the purpose of encouraging young German composers to contribute to the genre of German opera. But he probably had other intentions, too. He was determined to promote his latest opera Jessonda, which he mentioned as a model for his ideas of German opera. Thus one could say that the project of “German opera” was in some aspects merely a marketing strategy.A closer look at Jessonda reveals that Spohr did certainly not think along nationalist lines. In a way its dramaturgy depicts Kant’s definition of the Enlightenment and aims at a united and enlightened mankind. So did Spohr in his personal life. And by so doing he became very popular with the liberal citizens in Kassel, the city in which he worked as “Hofkapellmeister” from 1822 to 1857. This popularity in some cases misguided him. The liberal and enlightened ideas of Spohr are so prominent in his operas that they became increasingly neglected in the 1870s when chauvinistic tendencies became more prominent. This development culminated in the 1940s when the Nazis banned Jessonda from the German stage. They did however try to make it suitable for their ideas of German opera. As Spohr’s original did resist to this violation, the “Reichsstelle für Musikbearbeitungen” commissioned an amended version. Luckily the end of World War II terminated these efforts.

Study on the Enlightenment from EU Smart City Evaluation System

2014 ◽  
Vol 641-642 ◽  
pp. 624-628 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dong Mei Ni ◽  
Rui Han Liu
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
City Development ◽  
Low Carbon Economy ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
City Construction ◽  
The City ◽  
Carbon Economy

In this paper, EU smart city evaluation system is introduced, and every index and its characteristic is explained particularly. Smart city construction of foundation is created by innovation. They emphasized green, low carbon economy and lifestyle and encouraging public participation, advocate social forces to participating in urban development. From the ranking result, it is known that the EU smart city construction has the following characteristics: The level of EU smart city development is not balanced. Smart move, smart people and the smart life is better overall development. The development of the city itself is not balanced.

scholarly journals Ancient Philosophers in Saint Petersburg: Visual-Plastic Forming of City and Person

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 868-893
Author(s):  
Daniil Dorofeev
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Art Collections ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
Saint Petersburg ◽  
Philosophical Significance ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Plastic Forming ◽  
Human Image ◽  
The City

The article is devoted to the study of philosophical significance of visual and plastic iconography of ancient philosophers as a special way of education and formation of human image, landscape of the city and culture as a whole. The author seeks to identify and analyze as much as possible the presence of such images in St. Petersburg, primarily in the form of sculptural statues and busts in palaces and parks. For this purpose the article examines what role antique plastic art played in the systems of education and aesthetics of everyday life of in the 18th and 19th centuries men, how and by whom it was perceived, disseminated and propagandized. Particular attention is paid to the history and philosophy of garden art from Ancient Greece to the Enlightenment, since this is where the educational function of the iconography of ancient philosophers (for example, in the Summer Garden and Pavlovsky Park) is expressively revealed. The article uses extensive material to illustrate the peculiarities of ancient art collections and the originality of images of ancient philosophers in European and Russian culture of the 18th–19th centuries.

scholarly journals Reviewing Premises on Public Spaces in Democratic, Inclusive, Agential Cities, Illustrated by Amsterdam

2019 ◽  
pp. 123-144
Author(s):  
Maurice Harteveld
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
General View ◽  
Urban Theory ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The People ◽  
Municipal Autonomy ◽  
The City ◽  
Global Travel

This article highlights the dynamics of values in our reasoning on public space. By means of an epistemological study, illustrated by examples in the Dutch city of Amsterdam, it tests the contemporary premises underlying our ways to safeguard the inclusive, democratic, agential city, and, as such, it aims to update our view on public space. The article raises three subsequent main questions: [i] Is the city our common house as perceived from the Renaissance onward, containing all, and consequently are public spaces used by the people as a whole? [ii] Is the city formalising our municipal autonomy as emphasised since the Enlightenment, in an anti-egoistic manner, and in this line, are public spaces owned by local governments representing the people? And, [iii] is the city open to our general view as advocated in Modern reasoning, restricting entrepreneurial influences, and synchronically, is its public spaces seen and/or known by everyone? - Inclusiveness, democracy, and agentiality are strongholds in our scientific thinking on public space and each issue echoes through in an aim to keep cities connected and accessible, fair and vital, and open and social. Yet, conflicts appear between generally-accepted definitions and what we see in the city. Primarily based upon confronting philosophy with the Amsterdam case for this matter, the answering of questions generates remarks on this aim. Contemporary Western illuminations on pro-active citizens, participatory societies, and effects of among others global travel, migration, social media and micro-blogging forecast a more differentiated image of public space and surmise to enforce diversification in our value framework in urban theory and praxis.

scholarly journals Feodosia of Konstanin Bogaevsky

2020 ◽  
pp. 137-147
Author(s):  
Анастасия Сергеевна Сиренко
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Chronological Order ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The City ◽  
High Skill

Статья посвящена интерпретации образов города Феодосии в творчестве Константина Федоровича Богаевского – представителя «Киммерийской школы живописи». Приводятся итоги исследования вех творческой биографии художника, выстроенные в хронологическом порядке, учитывая особенности изменений стилистической манеры и решаемые им эстетические задачи. Охарактеризованы параметры и круг мастеров «Киммерийской школы живописи». Выбрав главной темой своего творчества в самом начале пути загадочную страну Киммерию, художник претворял ее в больших панорамных живописных произведениях и малоформатных рисунках и акварелях, отмеченных высоким мастерством и глубокой мифопоэтикой. Рассказывается о мастерской живописца, ставшей местом притяжения для многих гостей, представлявших творческую интеллигенцию Москвы и Ленинграда. Освещается вклад уроженца Феодосии и почитателя творчества К.Ф. Богаевского – И.М. Саркизова-Серазини в просвещение родного города среди модных курортов начала ХХ века, а также судьба его необычайной коллекции. The article is devoted to the interpretation of images of the city of Feodosia in the creativity of Konstanin F. Bogaevsky – the representative of the “Cimmerian painting school”. The results of the study of the milestones of the artist’s creative biography are presented, arranged in chronological order, taking into account the peculiarities of changes in the stylistic manner and the aesthetic tasks that he solves. The parameters and circle of masters of the “Cimmerian painting school” are described. Having chosen the mysterious country of Cimmeria as the main theme of his work at the very beginning of his work, he embodied it in large panoramic paintings and small-format drawings and watercolors, marked by high skill and deep mythology. The article tells about the artist’s workshop, which has become a place of attraction for many guests representing the creative intellectuals of Moscow and Leningrad. The contribution of the native of Feodosia and admirer of the work of Konstantin F. Bogaevsky – Ivan M.Sarkizov-Serazini to the enlightenment of his native city among the fashionable resorts of the early 20th century and the fate of his extraordinary collection is highlighted.

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