'Menacing Works in my Isolation': Early Pieces

2000 ◽  
pp. 47-85
Author(s):  
James Keery
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
The 1950S

In this second chapter, James Keery closely reads Fisher’s early poetry from the 1950s. In his analysis, Keery explores the poetry’s historical context and interrelations, in order to develop a well-rounded perspective on the period. While the chapter focuses mainly on work produced in the 1950s, Keery also discusses later poems written by Fisher that adopt the themes previously established in the 1950s.

The ‘Zen’ in the western monochrome

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 55-78
Author(s):  
Simon Morley
Keyword(s):  
Zen Buddhism ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Other ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Middle Way ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The One ◽  
Contemporary Painting ◽  
The Impact

I look at the impact of Zen Buddhism on western painters during the 1950s and 1960s, focusing on the monochrome in particular, in order to create a historical context for the consideration of transcultural dialogue in relation to contemporary painting. I argue that a consideration of Zen can offer a ‘middle way’ between conceptions of the monochrome (and art in general) often hobbled by models of interpretation that function within a binary opposition between ‘literalist/sensory’ on the one hand, and ‘intellectual/non-sensory’ readings on the other.

scholarly journals Transitions to adulthood in flux. Assessing coming of age through an historical lens in Finland and France

Sociologija ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-185
Author(s):  
Aurelie Mary
Keyword(s):  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
First Century ◽  
Transitions To Adulthood ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Societal Context ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Post War

According to youth experts, a significant number of contemporary young people in Western societies reach adulthood at a later age than previous generations. This phenomenon is generally perceived as a temporary misstep on the path to default patterns of transition established in the 1950s and 1960s. Given the current societal context, should the transition to adulthood today really conform to that model? This paper provides an historical analysis of transitions to adulthood to enquire whether the post-war model can still be considered a meaningful reference today. Were routes of transition similar or different in earlier times, or has the model always existed? To answer this question, the paper looks at demographics in two case countries, Finland and France, in three periods: the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the 1950s-1970s, and the early twenty-first century. The paper argues that the post-war generation?s rapid patterns of transition w ere unique, resulting from a sustained period of economic growth in developed societies. This has generated new pathways of transition and a model of adulthood still used as a standard point today, even though the current socio-economic context has changed. Transitions to adulthood are not static. They have always evolved, mirroring the wider historical context within which individuals operate.

Revolution in Brazil

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Sarzynski
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Origin Stories ◽  
Development Institutions ◽  
Cultural Movements ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Cold War

The first chapter introduces the main political and cultural actors engaged in the struggles in Northeastern Brazil during the Cold War. The chapter analyzes the origin stories of the different groups to show how certain versions that reinforced the trope of o Nordeste gained more attention in the mass media. The groups include the main rural social movements in the Northeast in the 1950s and 60s – the Ligas Camponesas, the Brazilian Communist Party Rural Syndicates, and the Catholic Church Federations; “Conservatives” including large landowners, the mainstream media, and state police; Brazilian development institutions such as SUDENE (Regional Development Agency); Brazilian regional and national politicians, U.S. journalists and government officials in the Northeast; and cultural movements and artists including filmmakers and popular poets. The chapter also outlines the regional, national, and international historical context of Northeastern Brazil in the 1950s and 1960s.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin R. Levy
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Sketch Study ◽  
Historical Developments ◽  
Creative Interchange

Ligeti’s belief that “technique and imagination influence one another in a constant interchange” guided his development through the 1950s and 60s. The introduction explains the book’s methodology, which uses sketch study to look at this creative interchange, placing analytical observations alongside Ligeti’s written statements in their historical context. Rather than aiming for “definitive” analyses, this book aims for parallel discoveries in the composer’s prose, sketches, and finished scores, which augment one another and lead to an enriched appreciation of these already multifaceted works. The introduction also previews many of the historical developments discussed in the following chapters, including the influences of modernist and postmodernist trends in composition on the developments in rhythm, pitch, and timbre that became characteristic of Ligeti during these years.

Transformational Post-Secularism: An Overlooked Strand of Thought

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Schewel
Keyword(s):  
Significant Influence ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Axial Age ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
The 1950S

Abstract This article identifies an overlooked strand of post-secular thought, which I call “transformational.” Transformational post-secularism differs from other prominent post-secularisms by envisioning the emergence of a new socio-spiritual order that transcends modern secularism without abandoning its commitment to diversity. This article clarifies the main features of transformational post-secularism and identifies the historical context in which it arose. As part of this analysis, I argue that, contrary to Khaled Furani’s claim that post-secular discourse arose in the late 1990s, it actually began in the 1950s as part of a wider “crisis of man” debate. I also suggest that the axial age discourse, which crystallized at the same time and has gained significant influence in recent years, constitutes a main arena in which transformational post-secular thinking has, over the last seven decades, evolved. I conclude by considering the plausibility and potential applications of the idea of transformational post-secularism, which includes responding to Mahmood’s and Furani’s suggestion that scholars drop the term “post-secular” from their lexicon.

A Bright New Future, With Monsters

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steffen Hantke
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Korean War ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
World War ◽  
The Korean War ◽  
Science Fiction Films ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Cold War

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book's key themes. This book focuses on American science fiction films of the 1950s, many of which are fondly remembered, yet critically dismissed. It argues that it is through the intersection of past and present, of unresolved trauma superimposed upon present anxieties, that 1950s science fiction films acquire topical relevance within their historical context. Science fiction films from the 1950s are a belated response to the national trauma of World War II and the Korean War projected onto the unsettling experience of the Cold War. With much of the critical work on the Cold War aspects of the films already delivered by other scholars, this book will weigh in on the side of the argument that has, as yet, remained critically neglected—the side of past trauma: on World War II and the Korean War, and their troubling legacy in the first decade of the American Century.

Boom and Bust, Revival and Renewal

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi Haynes
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Economic Diversity ◽  
Boom And Bust ◽  
Pentecostal Churches ◽  
The 1950S

This chapter provides the ethnographic background for the rest of this book. It begins by responding to James Ferguson's (1999) well-known study of Kitwe, which portrayed the Copperbelt as a place of decline and despair. In contrast to Ferguson's description, this chapter situates the Copperbelt in a broader historical context of boom and bust, with regular cycles of prosperity as well as poverty. This is one of the main reasons for the optimism found during fieldwork. The chapter also offers a description of Nsofu, focused on those features of township life that facilitate moving, namely economic diversity and the large number of Pentecostal churches. In addition, it traces the development of Pentecostalism in Zambia, beginning with the arrival of the first Pentecostal missionaries in the 1950s.

The Liaison between Analytic and Ancient Philosophy and Its Consequences

2018 ◽  
pp. 120-139
Author(s):  
Christof Rapp
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Analytic Philosophy ◽  
Ancient Philosophy ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Paradigm Case ◽  
Philosophical Debate ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S

Is it reasonable to expect that the occupation with history of philosophy contributes to our contemporary philosophical debate? The scholarship on ancient philosophy seems to be a paradigm case for the discussion of this kind of question. In the 1950s and 1960s, philosophers and scholars such as John L. Austin, Gilbert Ryle, G.E.L. Owen, John Ackrill and Gregory Vlastos initiated a new style of scholarship that was influenced by analytic philosophy. This analytic style of ancient philosophy scholarship encouraged philosophers to take arguments presented by Plato or Aristotle more seriously and to import ancient ideas into contemporary debates. It was objected that analytic scholars tend to be thematically narrow and to neglect the historical context. By sketching the development of the first two generations of analytic scholarship this chapter tries to show that analytic scholarship need not be anachronistic and that the gain of this method outweighs possible excesses.

Observations From the Architects of the Fields of Learning Disabilities and Emotional/Behavioral Disabilities

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (5) ◽  
pp. 319-327
Author(s):  
Steven P. Chamberlain
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Behavioral Disabilities ◽  
Historical Perspectives ◽  
Emotional Behavioral Disabilities ◽  
The 1950S

In 2010, Intervention in School and Clinic undertook a project to interview “giants” in the fields of learning disabilities and emotional/behavioral disabilities. The purpose of the interviews was to document the perspectives and reflections of leaders who had contributed to their respective fields over several decades (i.e., in most instances spanning back to the 1950s or 1960s) in order to provide a historical context for current and future professionals to envision a successful future. Contributors were asked to discuss their careers and their historical perspectives about their fields and to focus on areas of success and struggles. Interviews from 29 contributors were reviewed for this article, which focuses on concerns and reasons for optimism in both fields. Themes across interviews are described, along with highlights of contributors’ observations.

scholarly journals Радянський джентльмен: український професор супроти викликів історії

2019 ◽  
pp. 11-22
Author(s):  
Oksana Blashkiv
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Academic Identity ◽  
The Novel ◽  
University Professor ◽  
The 1950S

The emphasis is placed on the main character’s personal, national and academic identity. A university professor and a linguist, the protagonist constructed his identity through combining the elements of Sovietness, Englishness, and Ukrainianness. While focusing on the protagonist’s identity quest, the author also identifies historical context of the novel, which is rooted in Ukrainian socio-historic reality throughout the 1950s-2010s.

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