Is there a Feminine Genius?*

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Kristeva
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Melanie Klein ◽  
Similarities And Differences

This chapter presents the text of a lecture on feminine genius. It highlights the achievements of Hannah Arendt, Melanie Klein, and Colette in their respective fields. It defines the concept of feminine genius and describes the similarities and differences of these three women. It also comments on the sexual, social and political liberation of women and their entry into various political and intellectual domains in the twentieth century.

scholarly journals Experiência, ação e narrativa: reflexões sobre um curso de Hannah Arendt

2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (60) ◽  
pp. 289-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Celso Lafer
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Social Research ◽  
New School

O artigo examina o alcance intelectual do curso de pós-graduação ministrado por Hannah Arendt na Universidade de Cornell, nos Estados Unidos, no semestre do outono de 1965, intitulado "Political experiences in the twentieth century". Baseia-se nos meus próprios apontamentos como seu aluno em Cornell e nos roteiros preparados por Hannah Arendt para ministrar o curso, que estão guardados nos seus papéis na Biblioteca do Congresso dos Estados Unidos. Indica, com base na documentação contida na Biblioteca do Congresso, as convergências desse curso com o ministrado anteriormente, em 1955, na Universidade da Califórnia e, subseqüentemente, em 1968, na New School for Social Research. Explora como esses cursos contribuem para a compreensão da importância por ela atribuída, na sua obra, à experiência, à narração, à ação, à imaginação e ao juízo reflexivo, que são componentes da maior relevância na configuração da originalidade do percurso intelectual de Hannah Arendt e que dela fazem uma das grandes pensadoras do século XX.

scholarly journals POLITIK PEMUSNAHAN DAN PEMUSNAHAN POLITIK : Telaah Kritis Atas Konsep Hannah Arendt Tentang Totalitarisme

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 129
Author(s):  
Mathias Daven
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Concentration Camp ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
Total Domination ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Totalitarian Regime

If we wish to understand a totalitarian system as a whole, we need first to understand the central role of the concentration camp as a laboratorium to experiment in total domination. Arendt’s analysis of totalitarianism in the twentieth century shows how a totalitarian regime cannot survive without terror; and terror will not be effective without concentration camps. Experiments in concentration camps had as their purpose, apart from wiping out any freedom or spontaneity, the abolishing of space between human beings, abolishing space for politics. Thus, totalitarianism did not mirror only the politics of extinction, but also the extinction of politics. As a way forward, Arendt analyses political theory that forces the reader to understand power no longer under the rubric of domination or violence – although this avenue is open – but rather under the rubric of freedom. Arendt is convinced that the life of a destroyed nation can be restored by mutual forgiveness and mutual promises, two abilities rooted in action. Political action, as with other acts, is identical with the ability to commence something new. Keywords: Totalitarisme, antisemitisme, imperialisme, dominasi, teror, kebebasan, kedaulatan, kamp konsentrasi, politik, ideologi, tindakan

scholarly journals Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Nelson Mandela and the dilemma of violent resistance in retrospect

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
John W De Gruchy
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Regime Change ◽  
The Other ◽  
Dietrich Bonhoeffer ◽  
Armed Struggle ◽  
Nelson Mandela ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Violent Action ◽  
The One

Nelson Mandela and Dietrich Bonhoeffer have become twentieth century icons of resistance against illegitimate regimes and oppression. Both of them were committed makers of peace who were forced by circumstances to engage in violent resistance, the one in an armed struggle and the other in a plot to assassinate a dictator. This recourse to violent means in extraordinary circumstances was driven by moral and strategic considerations that followed a similar logic, even though their contexts were different in important respects. In this essay, we explore these similarities and differences, as well as their reasons for engaging in violent action, and offer certain propositions based on their narrative for responding to political oppression and the call for regime change today.

Julia Kristeva and Female Genius

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Jefferson
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Julia Kristeva ◽  
Melanie Klein ◽  
French Theory

This chapter turns to Julia Kristeva's discussion of female genius. It presents Kristeva's three biographical studies of Hannah Arendt (1999), Melanie Klein (2000), and Colette (2002), published under the collective title Le Génie feminine. Her perspective is predominantly psychoanalytic as she approaches her subject with a certain boldness as she treats female genius as a given rather than defensively pleading the cause. Hence, collectively, the trilogy offers a psychoanalytically grounded account of gender and femininity as part of its reflection on genius. Genius takes a new, explicitly gendered form here and it does so thanks to the mix of literary criticism, feminist theory, and psychoanalysis that is characteristic of the later years of “French theory.”

An Introduction to Tourism Policing and a Brief History

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Community Policing ◽  
Private Security ◽  
First Century ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Specific Material ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

Chapter 1 explores what tourism policing and private security are and how they differ from other forms of policing. The chapter provides a brief historical overview of American tourism policing in the late twentieth century and twenty-first century. The chapter addresses the similarities and differences between tourism policing and community policing, how they influence each other and where they separate. Finally, this chapter provides a literary overview of the pertinent literature that regarding tourism policing and addresses the lack of specific material in this field.

1. After the expulsion

2021 ◽  
pp. 7-18
Author(s):  
Ilan Stavans
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Jewish Literature ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Elias Canetti ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Natalia Ginzburg ◽  
Area Of Study

“After the expulsion” looks at the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492, along with the rise of the Enlightenment, as decisive moments in which Jews entered modernity. The literature of Crypto-Jews in the Iberian Peninsula and the Americas is worth looking at in this area of study, especially the memoir of Luis de Carvajal the Younger as are the literary manifestations of Sephardic writers such as Bulgarian writer Elias Canetti, Italian writer Natalia Ginzburg, Israeli writer A. B. Yehoshua, and Mexican writer Angelina Muniz-Huberman. There are similarities and differences in the relationship between the Ashkenazi and Sephardic branches in modern Jewish literature. Ladino is a language that evolved after the 1492 expulsion but lost steam in the twentieth century.

Talking over Water: History, Wireless and the Telephone

2007 ◽  
Vol 125 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-56
Author(s):  
Jock Given
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Real Time ◽  
The Other ◽  
Telephone Service ◽  
Water History ◽  
Morse Code ◽  
The World ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Submarine Cables ◽  
Economics And Politics

For a third of the twentieth century, the only way Antipodeans could talk with people on the other side of the world was by wireless. The submarine cables that traversed the oceans from the 1860s carried messages in Morse code, ‘telegraphy’, but not voice. From 30 April 1930, the wireless telephone service made it possible to conduct a conversation in real time between England and Australia. This article explores the old era of international wireless telephony at a time when wireless is again transforming social and economic possibilities. It examines the economics and politics of the era, the man most closely identified with the Australian services, the technology employed and the way the service was used, identifying similarities and differences between this period and the present.

Similarities and Differences among Immunities

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Chukwuemeke Okeke
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
General Principle ◽  
State Immunity ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Rules Set

This chapter examines the similarities and differences between the immunities of States and international organizations, as well as their interrelationship with diplomatic immunities. It also points out the pitfalls of analogies among the various immunities. The analogy between the immunities of States and international organizations might have proved promising when international organizations came into existence in the twentieth century, but it is now fraught with pitfalls. In an attempt to restrict the jurisdictional immunity of international organizations, it has been analogized to State immunity, but such an analogy is inapt even though the immunity of international organizations had roots in diplomatic and State immunities. Although the immunity of international organizations originated as “a general principle resting on the questionable analogy of diplomatic immunities; it has become a complex body of rules set forth in detail in conventions, agreements, statutes and regulations.”

Constitutional Revolutions and State Formations in Comparison

2019 ◽  
pp. 67-89
Author(s):  
Nader Sohrabi
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Political Development ◽  
State Building ◽  
The Political ◽  
Building Projects ◽  
History Of ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Modern Turkey ◽  
Constitutional Revolution

The history of both modern Turkey and modern Iran have often been told through their founding figures, Atatürk and Reza Shah, whose state-building projects are often assumed to have been similar. This chapter compares the Young Turk Revolution in the Ottoman Empire of 1908 with the Constitutional Revolution in Iran in 1906 to point to both similarities and differences in the trajectories of these two countries in the early twentieth century. Both revolutions, it is argued, were foundational moments for the political development and processes of each country and are key to understanding the context in which Atatürk and Reza Shah emerged.

scholarly journals Opposing Scientific Cruelty: The Emotions and Sensitivities of Protestors against Experiments on Animals

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 523-543 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTOPHE TRAÏNI
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Scientific Experiments ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Marked Decline ◽  
Affective Experiences ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Cruelty To Animals ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

AbstractAfter a marked decline, protests against cruelty to animals in scientific experiments acquired fresh momentum from the middle of the twentieth century onwards. This article sets out to show that the analysis of emotions and sensitivities is best able to account for the similarities and differences between historically distant mobilisations. While late twentieth-century activists have revived an emotional register invented by their precursors of the previous century, the meaning they attribute to their revolt has been profoundly transformed by sensitivities that derive from a very different social status and a different range of affective experiences.

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