The sublime, the conflicted self and attention to the other: Bringing Iris Murdoch and Julia Kristeva into conversation

2022 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Julia Kristeva ◽  
The Other ◽  
Iris Murdoch ◽  
The Sublime

The Foundation of the Ottoman Foreign Ministry

1972 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 388-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carter V. Findley
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
History Of ◽  
Foreign Ministry ◽  
Economic Outlook

Analysis of the late unreformed state of those offices of the Sublime Porte out of which the Ottoman Foreign Ministry was to develop makes clear, as we have shown in an earlier article,1 that the possibilities for reform of the traditional bureaucracy were generally limited by two sets of determinants. One set, readily perceptible at what might be termed a macrohistorical level, consists of those largely exogenous forces which dominated the entire later history of the empire.2 In contrast, the other set derives from the legacy of the old bureaucracy itself. Determinants of this class can be identified only by close examination of that legacy, which in turn had been shaped by the nature of the traditional state, as well as by those patterns of social organization and economic outlook which over the centuries had characterized Ottoman society in general.

scholarly journals Wzniosłe i cielesne pożywienie w sztuce jedzenia i nie-jedzenia

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-68
Author(s):  
Robert Dobrowolski
Keyword(s):  
Modern Art ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Sensual Pleasure ◽  
The One

Wzniosłe i cielesne pożywienie w sztuce jedzenia i nie-jedzeniaPrzenikające współczesną sztukę rozmaite, często przeciwstawne, strategie estetyczne manifestują się w  kulinarnym artyzmie nowoczesnej kuchni, a  także w  zmieniających się pod jej wpływem postawach i  zwyczajach żywieniowych. Z  jednej strony — abiektualizacyjny porządek dadaistycznej dezynwoltury, perwersyjna obrona przed całkowitym nihilizmem, w  perwersyjny sposób dekonstruuje estetykę jedzenia w  kuchni fusion; z  drugiej — zupełnie odmienna i  szczególnie zaskakująca w  wypadku sztuki jedzenia, charakterystyczna dla kuchni molekularnej, estetyka wzniosłości, zbliżająca się niekiedy do anorektycznej awersji wobec ciała, ale też nigdy nieporzucająca perspektywy smaku i  związanej z  nią zmysłowej przyjemności. The sublime and carnal food in the art of eating and not eatingVarious aesthetic strategies present in modern art, often contradictory, are not only manifested in culinary art of modern cuisine, but also in changing dietary attitudes and habits. On the one hand — abject order of dadaistic unceremoniousness, defense against complete nihilism, perversely deconstructs the food aesthetics in fusion cuisine; on the other hand — completely surprising in the context of food art, characteristic of molecular cuisine, aesthetics of sublime acquires sometimes anorectic aversion to the body, but never abandons the taste and connected with it sensual pleasure.

The Animistic Way: Contemporary Paganism and the Posthuman

Poligrafi ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 107-127
Author(s):  
Victoria Dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Natural World ◽  
Julia Kristeva ◽  
The Other ◽  
Relational Ontology ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
Human World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
Contemporary Paganism

This article aims to explore the affinities between contemporary Paganism and the posthuman project in how they approach the non-human natural world. On the one hand, posthumanism explores new ways of considering the notion of humans and how they are linked with the non-human world. On the other hand, Neopaganism expands this reflection to the spiritual domain through its animistic relational sensibility. Both perspectives challenge the modern paradigm where nature and humans are opposed and mutually disconnected. They instead propose a relational ontology that welcomes the “different other.” This integrated relationship between humans and the “other than human” can be understood through the semiotic Chora, a notion belonging to Julia Kristeva that addresses how the subject is not symbolically separated from the world in which it is contained.

The Artful Politics of Trauma: Rancière’s Critique of Lyotard

2018 ◽  
pp. 121-141
Author(s):  
Tina Chanter
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Absolute Difference ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Singular Event ◽  
Privileged Status ◽  
Specific Meaning ◽  
Per Se ◽  
The Absolute

Just as Rancière challenges the absolute difference between politics and art, he resists the absolutization of the other that he sees as characteristic of the ethical turn in contemporary aesthetics. The tendency of Lyotard, however, remains turning alterity into the unrepresentable, the unassimilable, and the unthinkable. Its consequences are precisely what Rancière forebodes with the appropriation of the sublime: For all its talk of art witnessing that which is unrepresentable—and the holocaust as the unrepresentable per se—the ethical turn only manages to rejoin a discourse of purism. If everyone is traumatised, what specific meaning remains for trauma? This chapter explores the context of Rancière’s critique of Lyotard, particularly regarding the attenuation of any sense to trauma that accumulates a privileged status for its singular event; it subsequently interrogates the generalization of trauma to such an extent that one evacuates it of any significance.

Can there be a Finite Interpretation of the Kantian Sublime?

Kant Yearbook ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-40
Author(s):  
Sacha Golob
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Comparison ◽  
The Other ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Resultant Theory

Abstract Kant’s account of the sublime makes frequent appeals to infinity, appeals which have been extensively criticised by commentators such as Budd and Crowther. This paper examines the costs and benefits of reconstructing the account in finitist terms. On the one hand, drawing ona detailed comparison of the first and third Critiques, I argue that the underlying logic of Kant’s position is essentially finitist. I defend the approach against longstanding objections, as well as addressing recent infinitist work by Moore and Smith. On the other hand, however, I argue that finitism faces distinctive problems of its own: whilst the resultant theory is a coherent and interesting one, it is unclear in what sense it remains an analysis of the sublime. I illustrate the worry by juxtaposing the finitist reading with analytical cubism.

Someone

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel K L Chua
Keyword(s):  
String Quartet ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
The Face ◽  
External Forces

This ‘movement’ considers how Beethoven’s music models a freedom of alterity founded on an openness to the other, particularly through a close analysis of the Cavatina in Beethoven’s String Quartet in B♭ major, Op. 130. In contrast to the sublime freedom that defines its autonomy through resistance to external forces, music’s blank sign is reconfigured as an encounter with an-Other that is equally disarming in its fragility. The heroic Augenblick is confronted by another ‘look’ – the eyes of someone. This musical encounter is given a theological twist that affirms freedom in the face of vulnerability.

The Simian Basis of Human Mechanics or Ape to Engineer

Antiquity ◽  
1938 ◽  
Vol 12 (46) ◽  
pp. 196-209
Author(s):  
Earnest A. Hooton
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Organic Basis ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Material Progress

My subject should not be construed by the refined as a malicious innuendo, nor by the vulgar(unrepresented here, of course) as a ‘ dirty dig ’. The transition from ape to engineer is from the ridiculous to the sublime-or, at any rate, from a little short of one to a little short of the other. This handsome statement must serve as my panegyric on mechanical science. As an anthropologist, I am perturbed by the fact that human invention has outstripped man's organic development, and his control of nature his control of himself. So I propose to discuss the organic basis of mechanical achievement and the cause of man's physical and social lag in relation to his material progress.

Providing orientation by philosophizing at school. Phenomenological and postmodern validity claims

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (3 (249)) ◽  
pp. 150-161
Author(s):  
Philipp Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Learning Objective ◽  
The Other ◽  
Lived Body ◽  
First Person ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
The World ◽  
Validity Claims ◽  
Liberal Societies ◽  
Rational Argumentation

In liberal societies it seems to be important to provide orientation by philosophizing at school. We are used to doing this by discussing classic ethics with our students. Here, skills like rational argumentation can be trained. It is the universal rationality that can be applied to different ethical issues and, thus, provide orientation. When it comes to this learning objective phenomenology and postmodernism are mostly not expected to provide assistance. Phenomenology might be seen as just dealing with perception whereas postmodernism is under suspicion for contributing to indecision, arbitrariness and relativism. In this article I will try to outline the potentials of phenomenology and postmodernism in the field of orientation. In the tradition of Husserl’s ‘epoché’ we can let students discover the perspective of a first person and what it means to be a ‘self’. Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty have not only described a certain closeness to the world which can be described as ‘dwelling’ of a lived body. They have also delineated elements of a new ‘postmetaphysical’ and at the same time ‘prehermeneutical’ metaphysics. All this can help to open the depth of self, life, and world. Postmodern thinkers claim a plurality of truths. By this means, these theories can encourage self-empowerment. At the same time, authors like Lévinas (responsibility for the other), Lyotard (the sublime), and Rorty (solidarity) describe new ways of openness towards the world which are not founded by any primal truth and thus provide orientation.

The Sublime and the Other

1997 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard White
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Sublime

The Authorship of the περ Τψονς

1938 ◽  
Vol 32 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 133-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. C. Richards
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Intimate Friend ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Prose Style ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Dionysius Of Halicarnassus

It is hardly necessary to recapitulate Rhys Roberts' cumulative and convincing proof that the treatise ‘On the Sublime’ was not written by Cassius Longinus, the tutor of Zenobia, but belongs to the early days of the Empire. Not the least convincing of the arguments for this date is the fact that the treatise is suggested by and put out as a substitute for the Περ ״ϒψоνς of Caecilius of Calacte, who according to Suidas taught rhetoric (σоφστενσε) in Rome in the time of Augustus. Now Caecilius was an intimate friend of Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Ep. ad Pomp. 776 τῷφιλττῳ Kαικιλψ): they were both Atticists and fellow-workers in leading literary Romans back to the best models of Greek prose style. But Dionysius is no candidate for the authorship of the extant treatise, which is not one that he could have written. On the other hand he gives a plain indication by which to identify its writer, which Rhys Roberts mentioned but did not adopt. It is the object of this paper to put this identification seriously forward.

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