scholarly journals Idioms and Idiotisms: Theodore Thass-Thienemann’s The Interpretation of Language and Spectral Inheritance

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 78-91
Author(s):  
György Fogarasi
Keyword(s):  
Final Analysis ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Late Work ◽  
Psychoanalytic Discourse ◽  
Late Works

The late work of the Hungarian émigré linguist and comparatist, Theodore Thass-Thienemann, presents a challenging combination of psychoanalytic discourse and the historical study of languages. His two-volume book entitled The Interpretation of Language (1973) sets out to complement the Freudian analysis of dream images and bodily symptoms via an investigation into the symbolism of ordinary verbal expressions as they appear in the languages of Indo-European cultures. His attention to the unconsciously inherited dimensions of particular idioms opens a path to the linguistic archeology of the human mind and a rethinking of the very notion of “idiom” in terms of “idiotism.” After providing a brief overview of the life and late works of Thass-Thienemann, this study offers a comprehensive analysis of his book. In the final analysis, Thass-Thienemann appears as the provocative thinker of a spectral inheritance, from which even his own discourse is not exempt.

scholarly journals Single-machine Pareto-scheduling with multiple weighting vectors for minimizing the total weighted late works

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Shuen Guo ◽  
Zhichao Geng ◽  
Jinjiang Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Polynomial Time ◽  
Single Machine ◽  
Approximation Scheme ◽  
Pareto Frontier ◽  
Dynamic Programming Algorithm ◽  
Programming Algorithm ◽  
Polynomial Time Approximation Scheme ◽  
Late Work ◽  
Weighting Vector ◽  
Late Works

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>In this paper, we study the single-machine Pareto-scheduling of jobs with multiple weighting vectors for minimizing the total weighted late works. Each weighting vector has its corresponding weighted late work. The goal of the problem is to find the Pareto-frontier for the weighted late works of the multiple weighting vectors. When the number of weighting vectors is arbitrary, it is implied in the literature that the problem is unary NP-hard. Then we concentrate on our research under the assumption that the number of weighting vectors is a constant. For this problem, we present a dynamic programming algorithm running in pseudo-polynomial time and a fully polynomial-time approximation scheme (FPTAS).</p>

scholarly journals Neutral Life: Roland Barthes’ Late Work – An Introduction

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-34
Author(s):  
Sunil Manghani
Keyword(s):  
Roland Barthes ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Late Work ◽  
Collège De France ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Entire Career ◽  
Lecture Courses ◽  
Late Works ◽  
Lead Article

As the introduction and lead article for a special issue of Theory, Culture & Society, ‘Neutral Life/Late Barthes’, this article offers an overview of the ‘new’ Barthes that emerges from the late writings and recent ‘Barthes Studies’. The account centres upon the posthumous publication of Barthes’ three key lecture courses delivered at the Collège de France, at the end of the 1970s, which reflect his preoccupation with the everyday, yet reveal a new degree of sophistication, both formal and conceptual. Presented in their original note form, the lectures present perhaps the clearest (if incomplete) affirmative project of Barthes’ entire career. The Neutral in particular is pivotal in understanding an ethics of the late works. While Barthes is perhaps most cited for his rumination on the temporality of the photograph, the lecture courses give rise to an ethics of space and distance, rather than of time and telos. Crucially, for Barthes, the Neutral is not neutrality; it is not divestment, but ‘an ardent, burning activity’. In establishing Barthes’ ethics of a Neutral Life, the articles closes – with reference to Derrida’s mourning of Barthes – with a reminder to read Barthes again, or rather a reminder of our current postponed reading of him.

scholarly journals Disbelief about the time. Timelessness in the late works of Paul Celan

Literatūra ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 27-43
Author(s):  
Inga Bartkuvienė
Keyword(s):  
Linear Time ◽  
Historical Event ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Paul Celan ◽  
Late Work ◽  
Sequence Of Events ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Late Works ◽  
Verbal Utterance

 The poetry of Paul Celan has a reflected intention to ask about the temporal determination of human being and simultaneously questions the term and definition of time. In may of his works he reflects he the catastrophic transformation, the reflection also includes the revision of the conventional conception of time. He tries to show, that beside the usual forms of historical, causal und linear time, individuals also perceive timelessness. Paradoxically, the accomplishment of a historical event (Holocaust) evokes a consciousness of the historical caesura, and thus of the untold and the inhospitable. In his perception, for the poet, writing (after holocaust) means writing after apocalyptic break, where history does not exist, in other words surrounded by the timelessness. The task of preserving the memory of what happened in poetry goes hand in hand with the awareness of a disorder and often borders on the impossibility of verbalizing what has happened or even being able to express itself verbally. The experience of disconnection from the temporal sequence of events (through trauma) coincides with the moments of speechlessness, emptiness in consciousness, verbal utterance, and time experience overlap. This tendency is radicalized especially in his late work. In this article late works of Paul Celan, that deal with the questions of timelessness and manifestations of it are analysed (“Zeitlücke”, “Die Trombonestelle” “Largo” and others).

„Le Roi Carotte“

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Grün
Keyword(s):  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Complete Analysis ◽  
Second Empire ◽  
Stage Design ◽  
Design Models ◽  
Late Work ◽  
First Time

This complete analysis of an almost unknown late work by Offenbach makes it abundantly clear that his stage works contain much more than just pleasing melodies and satirical verses. Using the completely-preserved autograph score of the monumental blockbuster opera “Le Roi Carotte”, as well as spectacular costume designs and original stage design models from the first performance, Alexander Grün examines for the first time the genesis of the work as well as all relevant compositional aspects of an opera score from the so-called "father of operetta". This comprehensive analysis of rhythm, melody, harmony, time and tempo structures, leitmotifs and reminiscences, as well as the practical aspects of the first performance at the Théâtre de la Gaîté in Paris in 1872, is unique in Offenbach research and impressively debunks the usual view of Offenbach as a prolific popular composer who never managed to capitalise on his early successes after the collapse of the Second Empire.

scholarly journals PEMIKIRAN FAZLUR RAHMAN TENTANG FILSAFAT PENDIDIKAN DALAM ISLAM

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-93
Author(s):  
Noor Aziz
Keyword(s):  
Human Mind ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Physical Universe

Paper ini membahas tentang gagasan yang Rahman dilatarbelakangi oleh pengamatannya terhadap perkembangan pendidikan Islam di era modern di beberapa negara yang mayoritas penduduknya beragama Islam seperti Turki, Indonesia, Mesir dan Pakistan. Menurut Rahman Pendidikan Islam di negara-negara tersebut masih dihadapkan kepada beberapa problem pendidikan yang antara lain berkaitan dengan; 1) Tujuan Pendidikan tidak diarahkan kepada tujuan yang positif, 2) Dikotomi sistem pendidika,  3) Rendahnya kualitas anak didik, munculnya pribadi-pribadi yang pecah dan tidak lahirnya anak didik yang memiliki komitmen spiritual dan intelektual yang mendalam terhadap Islam, 4) Sulitnya menemukan pendidik yang berkualitas dan profesional serta memiliki pikiran yang kreatif dan terpadu, dan 5) Minimnya buku-buku yang tersedia di perpustakaan. Pemikiran Fazlurrahman yang dibahas dalam kajian ini meliputi; a) Karakteristik pengetahuan, b). Tujuan pendidikan, c). Sistem pendidikan, d). Anak didik, dan e). Pendidik. Semua pengetahuan dalam Islam, pertama; diperoleh melalui observasi dan eksperimen. Kedua, selalu berkembang dan dinamis. Pengetahuan manusia dibagi tiga jenis, yaitu pengetahuan tentang alam, sejarah, dan manusia. Dan semua pengetahuan didasarkan pada tiga sumber yaitu; alam (physical universe), manusia (constitution of the human mind) dan sejarah (the historical study of socieites). Tujuan pendidikan Islam yang bersifat defensif dan cenderung berorientasi hanya kepada kehidupan akhirat tersebut harus segera diubah. Tujuan pendidikan Islam harus berorientasi kepada kehidupan dunia dan akhirat sekaligus serta bersumber pada al-Qur’an. Untuk menghilangkan dikotomi sistem pendidikan Islam adalah dengan cara mengintegrasikan antara ilmu-ilmu agama dengan ilmu-ilmu umum secara organis dan menyeluruh. Sebab pada dasarnya ilmu pengetahuan itu terintegrasi dan tidak dapat dipisah-pisahkan.  Anak didik harus diberikan pelajaran al-Qur’an melalui metode-metode yang memungkinkan kitab suci bukan hanya dijadikan sebagai sumber inspirasi moral tapi juga dapat dijadikan sebagai rujukan tertinggi untuk memecahkan masalah-masalah dalam kehidupan sehari-hari yang semakin kompleks dan menantang. Dalam mengatasi kelangkaan tenaga pendidik yang profesional ditawarkan solusi: Pertama, merekrut dan mempersiapkan anak didik yang memiliki bakat-bakat terbaik dan mempunyai komitmen yang tinggi terhadap Islam. Kedua, mengangkat lulusan madrasah yang relatif cerdas atau menunjuk sarjana-sarjana modern yang telah memperoleh gelar doktor di universitas-universitas Barat dan telah berada di lembaga-lembaga keilmuan tinggi sebagai guru besar-guru besar bidang studi bahasa Arab, bahasa Persi, dan sejarah Islam. Ketiga, para pendidik harus dilatih di pusat-pusat studi keislaman di luar negeri khususnya ke Barat. Keempat, mengangkat beberapa lulusan madrasah yang memiliki pengetahuan bahasa Inggris dan mencoba melatih mereka dalam teknik riset modern dan sebaliknya menarik para lulusan universitas bidang filsafat dan ilmu-ilmu sosial dan memberi meeka pelajaran bahasa Arab dan disiplin-disiplin Islam klasik seperti Hadis, dan yurisprudensi Islam. Kelima, menggiatkan para pendidik untuk melahirkan karya-karya keislaman secara kreatif dan memiliki tujuan.

‘Transprosing and Transversing’: religion, revolution, and the end of history in Dryden’s late works

2018 ◽  
pp. 199-240
Author(s):  
Matthew C. Augustine
Keyword(s):  
Political Identity ◽  
John Dryden ◽  
The Self ◽  
English History ◽  
Late Work ◽  
End Of History ◽  
The End Of History ◽  
Extensive Body ◽  
Late Works ◽  
Subsequent Failure

Notwithstanding its reputation as a secular age, the Restoration was notable for its religious converts, not least its most famous pair of writers, Lord Rochester and the Stuart laureate John Dryden. This chapter explores the development of Dryden’s art in the wake of his conversion to Rome in 1685 and the subsequent failure of Stuart rule. Its theme is ‘transprosing and transversing’, as Dryden and his contemporaries referred to the transformation of one kind of text into another. Dryden’s late work of fable and translation represents an extensive body of transversive writing – one that resonates strongly with his experience as a convert, of fashioning a new spiritual and political identity on top of a prior script that cannot be wholly erased. And indeed, in the palimpsestic play of Dryden’s late aesthetic, this chapter also traces a shift in the poet’s conception of English history, from the providential typologies of Astraea Redux (1660) and Absalom and Achitophel (1681) to the self-consciously contingent allegories of The Hind and the Panther (1687), Don Sebastian (1689), and Fables (1700).

Technical progress, fashion and nationality(“The watch” by Georgi Zhivkov)

2020 ◽  
pp. 49-53
Keyword(s):  
Technical Progress ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Creative Potential ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual

This article suggests an attempt to analyse a literary work from the period of Bulgarian National Revival — the dialogue “The Watch” by Georgi Zhivkov. Its aim is to study some aspects of the technical progress which is unconditionally linked to the following of certain cultural and civilizational models, the removal of the boundaries between the Self and the Other, and the unfolding of human creative potential. However, as with almost everything in life, it has a different side, provoking hesitation, uncertainty, and in some cases, a definite denial. “The Watch” is the text that belongs to that other side with the proviso: the rejection of the technical means not in itself as an achievement of the human mind, but of the replacement through it of basic existential categories the consequences of which affect not only the individual but also the relations with the world. In the article the cultural and literary-historical study and ‘close reading’ interpretation are used.

A Quick Visual Mind Can be a Slow Auditory Mind

2009 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sander Martens ◽  
Addie Johnson ◽  
Martje Bolle ◽  
Jelmer Borst
Keyword(s):  
Attentional Blink ◽  
Task Difficulty ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Visual Modality ◽  
Present Evidence ◽  
Conscious Level ◽  
Visual Targets ◽  
Concurrent Information

The human mind is severely limited in processing concurrent information at a conscious level of awareness. These temporal restrictions are clearly reflected in the attentional blink (AB), a deficit in reporting the second of two targets when it occurs 200–500 ms after the first. However, we recently reported that some individuals do not show a visual AB, and presented psychophysiological evidence that target processing differs between “blinkers” and “nonblinkers”. Here, we present evidence that visual nonblinkers do show an auditory AB, which suggests that a major source of attentional restriction as reflected in the AB is likely to be modality-specific. In Experiment 3, we show that when the difficulty in identifying visual targets is increased, nonblinkers continue to show little or no visual AB, suggesting that the presence of an AB in the auditory but not in the visual modality is not due to a difference in task difficulty.

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