scholarly journals In a Romanesque Maze of Enes Karić

2021 ◽  
pp. 51-62
Author(s):  
Irma Marić
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Transformation ◽  
Narrative Fiction ◽  
Philosophical Perspective ◽  
Road Signs ◽  
Magnum Opus ◽  
Fundamental Categories

In the romancer magnum opus of Enes Karić, consisting of five novels – Pjesme divljih ptica (2009), Jevrejsko groblje (2011), Slučajno čovjek (2013), Boje višnje (2017) i Bogovo roblje (2020) – questions arise from humanistic and Islamic theological-philosophical perspective considering harmony and disharmony from the internal, that is, spiritual transformation and external establishing of the identity. In the poetics of Karić’s narrative fiction, we can recognize the tradition of Andrić-Selimović model of narration, where we can follow spirituality and knowledge through road signs of central protagonists of his prose. These two fundamental categories rise over and integrate status and other special features of Karić’s characters into believable structural-compositional units. And all of them are somehow spherically connected; they are united by the author’s tendency to use their life actions to verify his ecumenical, intercultural and interreligious thoughts.

scholarly journals EPISTEMOLOGY OF CONFLICT IN THE SYSTEM OF PHILOSOPHICAL KNOWLEDGE

2020 ◽  
pp. 134-139
Author(s):  
B.V. Kabylinskii ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Theory ◽  
The Body ◽  
Methodological Principle ◽  
Philosophical Perspective ◽  
Philosophical Education ◽  
The World ◽  
Angle Of View ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Fundamental Categories ◽  
Structure Of Knowledge

In the system of higher philosophical education, conflict topics are mainly endowed with an acidental status and do not receive detailed study. This is largely due to the methodological imperfections of the knowledge system about the phenomenon of conflict. Accordingly, the methods of teaching conflict theory from a philosophical perspective are built on a theoretical foundation borrowed from related branches of knowledge. In this regard, it must be noted that the current state of affairs is unsatisfactory and needs to be optimized and corrected. The article formulates the main methodological principle of the modern epistemology of conflict and the main elements of the profile structure of philosophical knowledge. The purpose of the author of the article is to consider scenarios for using the epistemological potential of conflict theory to optimize the system of higher philosophical education. In accordance with the logic of the article, the epistemology of conflict should proceed from the principle of bodily integration of the subject into the world around him. Understanding that my body belongs to me and can be considered in whole and in parts suggests that the perception of the world around me is subject to the same laws. At the same time, the knowing subject captures his own body at a certain angle of view, in particular, the nose is always in front of the eyes, and the back is hidden from view. Despite this position of the body in space, consciousness assimilates that my body is always mine, although it cannot be completely embraced, even with the help of devices such as a mirror or a camera. Accordingly, the surrounding world can also be comprehended by analogy with the body, let much always be outside Ego cogito. It must be clearly understood that in the twenty-first century the human body is gaining a new place in cultural and social processes. In view of the above, the term «episteme» should be included in the structure of knowledge of the theory of conflict as one of the fundamental categories that can form the basis of the system of higher philosophical education in this profile.

Spiritual transformation and character strength development

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah A. Schnitker ◽  
Justin L. Barrett ◽  
Robert A. Emmons
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Transformation ◽  
Strength Development ◽  
Character Strength

Comprehension and training of international road signs

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shanna J. Ward ◽  
Michael S. Wogalter ◽  
Andrew W. Mercer
Keyword(s):  
Road Signs ◽  
And Training

Language, Politics and Society in the Middle East

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abeer AlNajjar
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Linguistic Landscape ◽  
Language Politics ◽  
Road Signs ◽  
Grassroots Initiatives ◽  
Language And Politics ◽  
Development Of Language ◽  
Core Questions ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

This book aims to shed light on core questions relating to language and society, language and conflict, and language and politics, in relation to a changing Middle East. While the book focuses on Arabic, it goes way beyond a purely linguistic analysis by bringing to the fore a set of pressing questions about the relationship between Arabic and society. For example, it touches on the development of language policy via an examination of administrative mandates (top-down) in contrast to grassroots initiatives (bottom-up); the deeper layers of the linguistic landscape that highlight the connection between politics, conflict, identity, road signs and street names; Arabic studies and Arabic identity and the myriad ways countries deal simultaneously with globalisation while also seeking to strengthen local and national identity, and more.

Modernism, Empiricism, and Rationalism

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-47
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Squires
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modern Poetry ◽  
Philosophical Perspective ◽  
Irish Poetry ◽  
Dimensional Spectrum ◽  
Culture History ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Rule Out

Modernism is usually defined historically as the composite movement at the beginning of the twentieth century which led to a radical break with what had gone before in literature and the other arts. Given the problems of the continuing use of the concept to cover subsequent writing, this essay proposes an alternative, philosophical perspective which explores the impact of rationalism (what we bring to the world) on the prevailing empiricism (what we take from the world) of modern poetry, which leads to a concern with consciousness rather than experience. This in turn involves a re-conceptualisation of the lyric or narrative I, of language itself as a phenomenon, and of other poetic themes such as nature, culture, history, and art. Against the background of the dominant empiricism of modern Irish poetry as presented in Crotty's anthology, the essay explores these ideas in terms of a small number of poets who may be considered modernist in various ways. This does not rule out modernist elements in some other poets and the initial distinction between a poetics of experience and one of consciousness is better seen as a multi-dimensional spectrum that requires further, more detailed analysis than is possible here.

The Language of Flowers in the Victorian Knowledge Age

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
Molly Engelhardt
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
George Eliot ◽  
Charlotte Bronte ◽  
Elizabeth Gaskell ◽  
Romantic Love ◽  
Narrative Fiction ◽  
Knowledge Age

The language of flowers is typically dismissed as a subgenre of botany books that, while popular, had little if any influence on the material culture of Victorian life. This article challenges this assumption by situating the genre within the context of the professionalisation of botany at mid-century to show how efforts to change attitudes towards botany from a fashionable pastime for the gentler sex to a utilitarian practice in service of humanity contributed to the revitalisation and popularity of the language of flowers. While scientific botanists sought to know flowers physiologically and morphologically in the spirit of progress and truth, practitioners of the language of flowers – written primarily for and by women – celebrated uncertainty and relied on floral codes to curtail knowing in order to extend the realm of play. The struggle for floral authority was centred in botanical discourses – both scientific and amateur – but extended as well into narrative fiction. Turning to works by Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Brontë, and George Eliot, I show how Victorian writers expected a certain degree of floral literacy from their readers and used floral codes strategically in their fiction as subtexts for practitioners of the language of flowers. These three writers, I argue, took a stand in the gender struggle over floral authority by creating scientific botanists who are so obsessed with dissecting plants to reveal their secrets and know their ‘life truths’ that they become farsighted in matters of romantic love and unable to read the most obvious and surface of floral codes. The consequences of the dismissal of the superficial are in some cases quite disastrous.

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