scholarly journals Littérature-médecine et scénographie du traumatisme psychologique dans "J'ai le SIDA" de Blasius Ngome

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Suzanne Eyenga Onana
Keyword(s):  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Nous Concluons ◽  
Literary Space ◽  
Personal Myth ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Constituent Elements ◽  
The Way

Literatura-medicina (2015) es una variante ficticia que aborda temas de enfermedades en el espacio literario. En J'ai le SIDA, Blasius Ngome presenta un personaje debilitado por una aprehensión psicológicamente desestabilizadora: se cree el portador de VİH/VİH. El autor conduce entonces al lector por el laberinto de una historia de suspenso cuya trama está puntuada por numerosas maniobras digestivas. ¿Cómo se desarrolla la narración de este malestar, que sumerge al héroe de Ngome en un traumatismo inquietante que lo subyuga desde el principio hasta el final de la historia? La sociocrítica y la psicocrítica guían nuestra reflexión. Ambos tienen en cuenta la inmanencia del análisis literario. Además, la primera teoría encaja hábilmente en la segunda, mientras que la segunda abre el camino a una "red embrujadora" y a un despliegue del "mito personal" del autor que se negocia a través de los elementos constitutivos de la diégesis. Concluimos examinando el esquema del mensaje del demiurgo ante esta pandemia que sigue haciendo estragos en las ciudades del mundo muchas décadas después del descubrimiento de su existencia. Literature-medicine (2015) is a fictional variant that addresses issues of disease in the literary space. In I have AIDS, Blasius Ngome presents a character weakened by a psychologically destabilising apprehension: he thinks he is the bearer of HIV/HIV. The author then leads the reader in the maze of a suspenseful story whose plot is punctuated by numerous digetic maneuvers. How does the narration of this malaise develop, which plunges the hero of Ngome into a haunting traumatism that subjugates him from the beginning to the end of the story? Socio-criticism and psycho-criticism guide our reflection. Both take into account the immanence of literary analysis. Moreover, the first theory fits skillfully into the second, while the second opens the way to a "bewitching network" and a display of the author's "personal myth" that is negotiated through the constituent elements of diegesis. We conclude by examining the outline of the demiurge's message in the face of this pandemic that continues to ravage in the cities of the world many decades after the discovery of its existence.   La littérature-médecine est une variante fictive qui aborde les questions de la maladie dans l'espace littéraire. Dans J'ai le SIDA, Blasius Ngome présente un personnage affaibli par une appréhension psychologiquement déstabilisante : il pense être le porteur de VİH/VİH. L'auteur entraîne ensuite le lecteur dans le dédale d'une histoire à suspense dont la trame est ponctuée de nombreuses manœuvres d'espionnage. Comment se déroule la narration de ce malaise, qui plonge le héros de Ngome dans un traumatisme obsédant qui le subjugue du début à la fin de l'histoire ? La sociocritique et la psycho-critique guident notre réflexion. Toutes deux prennent en compte l'immanence de l'analyse littéraire. De plus, la première théorie s'intègre habilement dans la seconde, tandis que la seconde ouvre la voie à un "réseau obsédant" et à un déploiement du "mythe personnel" de l'auteur qui se négocie à travers les éléments constitutifs de la diégèse. Nous concluons en examinant les grandes lignes du message du démiurge face à cette pandémie qui fait toujours rage dans les villes du monde plusieurs décennies après la découverte de son existence.

'Mission In Christ's Way': The Way of Which Christ?

Exchange ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 270-277
Author(s):  
Gnana Robinson
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Local Churches ◽  
Power Struggle ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
The Way

AbstractAll Churches and Missionary Movements in different parts of the world assert without hesitation that in all that they do, they follow the way of Jesus Christ. But the gross injustice in international economic dealings promoted by the so-called 'Christian Nations' in the world and the consequent widening of the gap between the rich and the poor in the world, the discrimination of people on the basis of creed, class, race and colour practised by many Christians and the power-struggle and corruption found in many local churches make the world wonder, the way of which Christ these Christians follow! The image of the Biblical Jesus is that of the Servant-leader, crowned with thorns, who emptied himself of all worldly riches, pomp and power and laid down his life as a ransom for many. Since the time of Emperor Constantine, this thorn-crowned servant Jesus is turned into a gold-crowned King, an anti-Christ with the face of 'Mammon', the idol of riches and power. Since one cannot worship God and Mammon at the same time, it is mandatory on the part of us all faithful Christians, to introspect ourselves and decide, the way of which Christ we want to follow.

Dostoevskii and the Book of Job: The Struggle to Find Faith

2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Rampton
Keyword(s):  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Recent Criticism ◽  
Book Of Job ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

The book of Job is essential for understanding Dostoevskii’s art, because of the similarity of the questions the authors engage with and the way their texts are constructed. However, ambiguities in the book of Job itself as well as disagreements about the presentation of faith and doubt in Dostoevskii’s fiction have made the discussion of precisely how the book of Job influenced Dostoevskii remarkably wide-ranging. In this article I argue for complementing the literary analysis of Dostoevskii’s novels with the insights of recent criticism of the book of Job. According to this reading, Job does not provide Dostoevskii with a cognitive answer to the question of why the innocent suffer or explain the existence of evil in the world, but rather acts as a confirmation that faith is a process in which doubt plays a crucial and ongoing role.

scholarly journals Truthmaking and the world-time parallel

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Gareth Leniston-Lee
Keyword(s):  
Possible Worlds ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ontological Status ◽  
Parallel Argument ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
To Come ◽  
Structural Parallel ◽  
Made In ◽  
The Way

<p>There is a close structural parallel between the way we talk about time and the way we talk about modality (i.e. matters of possibility, necessity, actuality etc.). A consequence of this is that whenever we construct a metaphysical argument within one of these domains, there is a parallel argument to be made in the other. On the face of it, this parallel between possible worlds and moments in time seems to commit us to holding corresponding attitudes to the ontological status of non-present and non-actual entities.  In this thesis I assess a claim made by Sider (2001: 41-42) that truthmaking – the idea that truth is grounded in existence – provides a way to avoid the commitment to ontological symmetry that this world-time parallel seems to foist upon us. Truthmaking challenges presentists, who deny the existence of past entities and actualists, who deny the existence of merely possible entities, to come up with a way of grounding truths that are ostensively about the events and entities that they deny exist. Sider’s claim can be broken down into three propositions:  1. Truthmaking provides reason to reject presentism. 2. Truthmaking does not provide reason to reject actualism. 3. Truthmaking breaks the ontological symmetry between time and modality.  In this thesis I argue that while 1 is false, 3 remains true. While I am not a presentist myself I do not think that truthmaking provides a sound basis for rejecting the position. Much of this thesis is dedicated to defending presentism against the challenge truthmaking poses. I also don’t believe that truthmaking undermines actualism, but do not commit myself to any particular actualist response to the truthmaking challenge in this thesis. My central aim is to show that the presentist has a viable response to the truthmaking challenge and that this response does not have a viable parallel in the modal case. So while I think that both presentists and actualists can provide adequate responses to the challenge truthmaking poses, truthmaking still breaks the symmetry because the arguments made in defence of each position are very different. So one might rationally accept one argument but not the other.</p>

Personal Myth: A Preliminary Statement

1984 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 363-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Swartz
Keyword(s):  
Personal View ◽  
The Core ◽  
Present Experience ◽  
Personal Myth ◽  
The World ◽  
Symbolic Value ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Self Instruction ◽  
The Way

Personal myth is the individual aesthetic resolution of our experience of being present in the world in both a particulate and transcendent way. Beginning early, personal myth develops as the core of our individual psychological nature and the foundation of our personal view of reality. The evolution of transcendent encounter into a continuous present experience fixes the pattern of the duality of our existence and initiates the personal mythmaking process. Myth bridges the particulate and transcendent realms by combining selected sets of transcendent properties into idealized particulate images. The act retains the archetypal values appropriate to the parent transcendent encounters. These values supply the story the myth tells. Personal myth operates in the particulate realm to condition the way we transact the world's business. In the transcendent realm it enhances the symbolic value of events to make them available as media of self-instruction.

scholarly journals AKIVAIZDAUS TAPATUMO KERAI

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 84-101
Author(s):  
Nerijus Čepulis
Keyword(s):  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Western Thought ◽  
Traditional Notion ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Way

Šiuo straipsniu siekiama permąstyti tradicinę tapatumo sąvoką. Į tapatumą Vakarų mąstymo istorijoje buvo žiūrima visų pirma ontologiniu požiūriu. Moderniųjų laikų posūkis į subjektą susitelkia į Aš kaip bet kokio tapatumo centrą, pagrindą ir gamintoją. Fenomenologinė analizė tapatumo ištakas pagilina iki Aš santykio su išore, su pasauliu, su kitybe. Tačiau kitybė, tapdama sąmonės turiniu, nėra absoliuti kitybė. Būdas, kuriuo tapatumas, įsisavindamas savinasi pasaulį ir naikina kitybę, yra reprezentacija, siekianti akivaizdumo. Reprezentacija kaip intencionalus įžvalgumas bet kokį objektą lokalizuoja sąmonės šviesoje. Šviesa ir regėjimas – tai paradigminės Vakarų mąstymo tradicijos metaforos. Straipsnyje siekiama parodyti, kodėl ir kaip šviesa bei akivaizdumas netoleruoja absoliučios kitybės. Iš akivaizdumo kerų tapatumas atsitokėti gali tik per atsakingą santykį su Kitu, tai yra etiką. Čia tapatus subjektas praranda pirmumo teisę kito asmens imperatyvo atžvilgiu. Begalybės idėja, draskydama totalų tapatumą iš vidaus, neleidžia jam nurimti ir skatina atsižvelgti į transcendenciją, į kitybę, idant ji būtų laisva nuo prievartinio tapimo egocentrinio tapatumo turiniu ir manipuliacijos auka. Atsakomybė kito žmogaus veido akivaizdoje eina pirma akivaizdaus suvokimo ir įteisina jį.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: tapatumas, akivaizdumas, kitybė, socialumas.Charms of Evident IdentityNerijus Čepulis SummaryIn this article I seek to rethink the traditional notion of identity. In the tradition of Western thought identity was viewed first and foremost from an ontological point of view. After the turn toward the subject, the I is thought of as the centre, the base and the producer of any identity. Phenomenological analysis deepens the origin of identity to the relation of the I to the world, i.e. to the alterity. Yet the alterity, by becoming the content of consciousness, is not an absolute alterity. The way, in which identity assimilates, possesses the world and annihilates alterity, is representation. Representation seeks evidence. Representation as intentional perceptivity localizes every object in the light of consciousness. Light and vision are paradigmatic metaphors of the traditional Western thought. Hence in this article I seek to show why and how light and evidence do not tolerate absolute alterity. Identity can be sobered from the charms of evidence only by responsible relation to the Other, i.e. by ethics. Here identical subject loses the right of priority in front of the imperative of the other person. Idea of infinity worries total identity from within. Infinity does not permit identity to quiet down and induces to heed transcendence and alterity. Only in this way alterity can escape the violence to become a content of egocentrical identity and the victim of manipulation. Responsibility in the face of the other person precedes evident perception and legitimates the latter.Keywords: identity, evidence, alterity, sociality.

WHAT'S NIETZSCHE TO EURIPIDES? THE AESTHETICS OF SUFFERING IN NIETZSCHE'S BIRTH OF TRAGEDY AND EURIPIDES’ TROJAN WOMEN

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Zachary Case
Keyword(s):  
Dialogic Reading ◽  
Human Suffering ◽  
The World ◽  
Birth Of Tragedy ◽  
Close Study ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Critical Resistance ◽  
The Way

This article reads Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy in dialogue with Euripides’ Trojan Women, synthesising a Nietzschean reading of Euripides’ tragedy with, as it were, a Euripidean reading of Nietzsche's theorisation of the tragic. It focuses on the way in which both texts confront the threat of nihilism in the face of human suffering and attempt to redeem or transfigure it. This is manifested internally and self- consciously in Euripides’ play through the actions of Hecuba and the chorus, who seem both to exhibit what Nietzsche might call a ‘pessimism of strength’, and to express Nietzsche's fundamental claim that ‘only as an aesthetic phenomenon is existence and the world eternally justified’. Yet Trojan Women ultimately resists Nietzschean theorising – a form of critical resistance which, as it will turn out, is already anticipated by Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy. More than a close study of two texts, this dialogic reading also has some big implications for thinking through the relationship between philosophy and tragedy in general.

Changing Roles in Information Dissemination and Education

2000 ◽  
pp. 141-159
Author(s):  
Brian Kroeker
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
The World ◽  
Changing Roles ◽  
The Face ◽  
Teaching Faculty ◽  
The Way

The World Wide Web (WWW) is changing the face of today’s academic libraries — the way we use them and how we give value to them. In this article I will explain what the WWW means to the academic library and why it has become worthy of consideration. I will show that the WWW will impact greatly upon the Library whether the Library wants it to or not, and this impact will be in large part be dictated to the Library by forces both technologically and socially based, and thus beyond the Library’s overall control. Some consequences that I see of attempting to ignore WWW technology or providing inadequate resources to it will be discussed as well. Finally I will present some observations that I see on how the WWW is changing the balance between the Library as provider of information and teaching faculty as providers of education.

scholarly journals The Woman’s Curse: A Redemptive Reading of Genesis 3:16

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 600
Author(s):  
Abi Doukhan
Keyword(s):  
Legitimate Authority ◽  
Church Fathers ◽  
Male Domination ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Face ◽  
Genesis 3 ◽  
The Way

In light of the recent developments featuring women around the world reclaiming their autonomy and self-respect in the face of male domination, it is becoming increasingly urgent to rethink the ancient “curse” on woman and the way that it has not only allowed but condoned male oppression and domination over women throughout the centuries. Rather than read the text through the traditional Aristotelian lens used by Church fathers to describe woman as the seductress and man as the legitimate authority over woman’s corrupt nature, this paper proposes a radical re-reading of the “curse” of Genesis 3:16 as a redemptive rather than a punitive moment wherein the woman is given back her power as the ezer kenegdo of man, and man is given back his kingdom lost and his reign over the whole of Creation, or mashal, through the woman’s love, or teshuqah. This will entail that the two key concepts mashal and teshuqah be profoundly re-interpreted from a Hebrew inter-textual perspective rather than through a Greek philosophical lens.

“The World was Paradise Malformed”: Poetic Language, Anthropomorphism, and Secularism in Wallace Stevens

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Mutter
Keyword(s):  
Wallace Stevens ◽  
Poetic Language ◽  
Death Of God ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Working Out ◽  
The Way

That Stevens’s poetry repeatedly returns to the death of God as a condition of existential vertigo is a scholarly commonplace, but this chapter argues that for Stevens, language itself harbors a dangerous bias toward transcendence. Stevens is mistrustful of the way metaphor slides into metaphysics, the way an analogical worldview becomes a theological one, and the ways in which signs and symbols tend to refer solid, immanent things to supersensible narratives or “meanings.” In the face of this danger, he develops a poetics of tautology meant to divest language of such bias. Yet later in his career, this chapter contends, he returns to analogy as a mode of transcendence-in-immanence, and establishes a concept of “description without place” in which imagined goods, which have no immanent existence, correspond to details of a particular scene. Stevens is, in other words, working out a version of Nietzsche’s famous claim that we are not rid of God until we are rid of grammar while simultaneously harnessing the religious possibilities of language.

scholarly journals La pandemia de gripe española de 1918 en México: apuntes para un análisis comparativo

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (137) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Víctor Villavicencio Navarro
Keyword(s):  
Medical Science ◽  
Revolutionary Movement ◽  
The Press ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Spanish Flu ◽  
Last Stage ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

The so-called "Spanish flu" appeared suddenly in North America in 1918, spread throughout the world and caused around 30 million deaths. In Mexico, its outbreak caused various complications amid an already difficult panorama, since the country was in the last stage of the revolutionary movement. The measures adopted by the government and the way in which the press reported the news of the contagions and deaths caused by the disease, as well as the impact caused in society, show the progress of the medical science in Mexico, the changes in social behavior in the face of a highly contagious disease, and the way in which a phenomenon of this nature is treated by the national press.

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