scholarly journals Hacia una risa posthumana y decolonial: Construyendo una risistencia feminista monstruosa en la payasaria

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 143-169
Author(s):  
Melissa Lima Caminha
Keyword(s):  
Work Values ◽  
Body Politics ◽  
Political Body ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Historical Importance ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Theater Festivals

En las dos últimas décadas, diversas payasas vienen desarrollando un movimiento de visibilización de este tipo cómico, tanto en el circo como en el teatro. Festivales, talleres e investigaciones vienen contribuyendo para escribir la historia doblemente excéntrica de las payasas. Este honorable movimiento, sin embargo, aun parece seguir la misma lógica arquetípica del payaso moderno, heredero de la Ilustración. Este trabajo pone en valor la payasa en tanto cuerpa política fundamental, con el potencial de crear risistencias plurales que puedan deconstruir la figura del payaso moderno y la risa humanista encarnada en su arquetipo. Reconoce la importancia histórica de la payasa, e invita a seguir avanzando en sus políticas artísticas del cuerpo, ahora a partir de una perspectiva feminista posthumanista y decolonial, proponiendo políticas de coaliciones artística y teórica en pro de una democracia de la risa. A través de la creación de figuraciones feministas móviles monstruosas, el proyecto tiene como objetivo animar un movimiento de risistencia a la risa moderna, ilustrada, colonial, humanista y patriarcal. In the last two decades, various female clowns have been developing a movement of visibility of this comic type, both in the circus and in the theater. Festivals, workshops and research have been contributing to write the doubly eccentric herstories of women in clowning. This honorable movement, however, still seems to follow the same archetypal logic of the modern clown, heir to the Enlightenment. This work values the female clown as a fundamental political body, with the potential to create plural laughters that can deconstruct the figure of the modern clown and the humanistic laugh embodied in its archetype. It recognizes the historical importance of female clowns, and invites a step forward in its artistic body politics, now from a feminist post-humanist and decolonial perspective, proposing artistic and theoretical coalitions in favor of a democracy of laughter. Through the creation of monstrous mobile feminist figurations, the project aims to encourage a movement of laughteresistance at modern, enlightened, colonial, humanistic, and  patriarchal laughter.

Cassiodorus and the Rise of the Amals: Genealogy and the Goths under Hun Domination

1989 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. 103-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Heather
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
World Order ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Formative Stage ◽  
River Danube ◽  
Historical Importance ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Creation

From the mid-third century, Gothic tribes inhabited lands north of the river Danube; they were destined, however, to play a major role in the destruction of the Roman Empire and the creation of the medieval world order. In the last quarter of the fourth century, in the face of Hun attacks, some Goths (those commonly known as Visigoths) fled into the Roman Empire, winning a famous victory at Hadrianople in 378 and sacking Rome in 410. They later moved further west to found a kingdom in southern Gaul and Spain. Of equal historical importance are those Goths (usually known as Ostrogoths) who remained north of the Danube under Hun domination from c. 375 to c. 450. They too then entered the Empire, and, under Theoderic the Great, established a kingdom in Italy which is known to us through Boethius, Cassiodorus, and Ennodius. Much less well known, however, is the formative stage of their history when the Ostrogoths endured Hun domination, and it is on our sources for this period that this study will concentrate.

Haydn's Creation and Enlightenment Theology

2008 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 25-44
Author(s):  
Mark Berry
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
High Culture ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Age Of Enlightenment ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Austrian Tradition

Haydn's two great oratorios, The Creation and The Seasons (Die Schöpfung and Die Jahreszeiten) stand as monuments—on either side of the year 1800—to the Enlightenment and to the Austrian Enlightenment in particular. This is not to claim that they have no connection with what would often be considered more “progressive”—broadly speaking, romantic—tendencies. However, like Haydn himself, they are works that, if a choice must be made, one would place firmly in the eighteenth century, “long” or otherwise. The age of musical classicism was far from dead by 1800, likewise the “Age of Enlightenment.” It is quite true that one witnesses in both the emergence of distinct national, even “nationalist,” tendencies. Yet these intimately connected “ages” remain essentially cosmopolitan, especially in the sphere of intellectual history and “high” culture. Haydn's oratorios not only draw on Austrian tradition; equally important, they are also shaped by broader influence, especially the earlier English Enlightenment, in which the texts of both works have their origins. The following essay considers the theology of The Creation with reference to this background and, to a certain extent, also attempts the reverse, namely, to consider the Austrian Enlightenment in the light of a work more central to its concerns than might have been expected.

scholarly journals The enlightenment and the beginnings of modern Serbian culture

Balcanica ◽  
2006 ◽  
pp. 103-110
Author(s):  
Ljubinka Trgovcevic
Keyword(s):  
National Culture ◽  
Nation State ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
Religious Tolerance ◽  
Habsburg Empire ◽  
Value Of Knowledge ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Creation

The Enlightenment, mostly in its Austrian form, influenced in many ways the Serbs both in the Habsburg Empire and in the Principality of Serbia, still under Ottoman suzerainty. First, its emphasis on the value of knowledge and science raised the awareness of the importance of education and contributed to its development. Religious tolerance and anticlericalism placed Orthodox Serbs side by side with representatives of other nations and religions and helped them to liberate themselves from the strong traditionalist impact of their church. Both education and a new awareness of their own rights strengthened national consciousness, eventually leading to the creation of a nation state and modern national culture.

ONTOTHEOLOGICAL UNDERSTANDING OF LANGUAGE IN THE WORKS BY J.G. HAMANN

2020 ◽  
pp. 36-47
Author(s):  
Aleksei V. Lyzlov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Human Language ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
God's Word ◽  
Human Understanding ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Language Characteristic ◽  
The Relationship

Understanding of the language in the works by J.G. Hamann is considered as preceding the M. Heidegger’s philosophy of language. However, if Heidegger refuses the theological concepts and thinks the language exclusively in an ontological way, Hamann understands the language not in an ontological, but in an ontotheological way. Hamann’s apprehension of the word as both the ground of all things and the basis of human understanding is discussed. The relationship between the word of God and the word of man; speech as a “translation” of the God’s word, that sounds in the creation, into the human language; the specifics of the language situation after the fall, are discussed as the essential themes of Hamann’s philosophy of language. The historicity of human language and speech and the interrelations between language, creativity and sexuality are posed as important themes of Hamann’s controversy with the contemporary to him philosophy of the Enlightenment contesting the instrumental understanding of language characteristic of the Enlighteners and their understanding of reason as having no external preconditions, a supraindividual and supra-historical instance.

THE POLITICS OF ENLIGHTENMENT: FROM PETER GAY TO JONATHAN ISRAEL

2012 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 785-805 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANNELIEN de DIJN
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Democratic Values ◽  
The West ◽  
Liberal Democracies ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
New Form ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Jonathan Israel ◽  
Anglophone World

ABSTRACTAccording to the textbook version of history, the Enlightenment played a crucial role in the creation of the modern, liberal democracies of the West. Ever since this view – which we might describe as the modernization thesis – was first formulated by Peter Gay, it has been repeatedly criticized as misguided: a myth. Yet, as this paper shows, it continues to survive in postwar historiography, in particular in the Anglophone world. Indeed, Gay's most important and influential successors – historians such as Robert Darnton and Roy Porter – all ended up defending the idea that the Enlightenment was a major force in the creation of modern democratic values and institutions. More recently, Jonathan Israel's trilogy on the Enlightenment has revived the modernization thesis, albeit in a dramatic new form. Yet, even Israel's work, as its critical reception highlights, does not convincingly demonstrate that the Enlightenment, as an intellectual movement, contributed in any meaningful way to the creation of modern political culture. This conclusion raises a new question: if the Enlightenment did not create our modern democracies, then what did it do? In answer to that question, this paper suggests that we should take more seriously the writings of enlightened monarchists like Nicolas-Antoine Boulanger. Studying the Enlightenment might not allow us to understand why democratic political culture came into being. But, as Boulanger's work underscores, it might throw light on an equally important problem: why democracy came so late in the day.

scholarly journals The image of a Russian noble lady in the poetry of Charles de Lin

2021 ◽  
pp. 100-105
Author(s):  
Sergey А. Chirkin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Two Cultures ◽  
High Class ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Genre Classification ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Cosmopolitan Education

The article considers a series of poems by Prince Charles de Lin (1735–1814), dedicated to Russian women of the Catherine era. The novelty of the research is that these poems have not yet been studied and published in Russian. A description of the Prince de Lin’s relations with Russia is presented. The list of poetic messages of the “Russian cycle”is given. Information is given about the personalities of the addressees-representatives of the highest (titled) Russian aristocracy of the second half of the XVIII and early XIX centuries. The circumstances of the creation of individual poems, which caused their pathos, are indicated. A genre classification of works is proposed — madrigals, poems in albums, humorous songs. The above quotes indicate the collective image created by Prince de Lin of a high-class Russian lady of the end of the Enlightenment era. It is a whimsical combination of grandeur, coquetry, piety, courtesy, and artistic taste. With all the unique personality of each addressee, we see the personification of beauty and tenderness, refinement and kinship. The generally idealized view of the enlightened Belgian on the Russian high society of that era, when emancipation and cosmopolitan education of noblewomen were already more than a century old, has a certain historical significance and deserves attention in the light of the dialogue between the two cultures.

9. After Alexander

2014 ◽  
pp. 99-108
Author(s):  
Hugh Bowden
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Alexander The Great ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Romantic Hero ◽  
The Creation

‘After Alexander’ looks at Alexander's afterlife, and how many of the views of Alexander that are prominent in popular culture came into being. The Alexander that has come to us from ancient historical narratives developed under certain circumstances. He is the creation of Roman authors writing for a Roman audience. However, authors and scholars since Roman times have influenced how we see Alexander as well. The terms of the modern debate about Alexander were set in the Enlightenment. Historians are still trying to decide whether he was a romantic hero or a bloodthirsty tyrant. Did his campaigns bring good or harm? Whatever we think of Alexander the Great, the bigger question is, what did his contemporaries think of him?

A Methodological Investigation on Christian Natural Theology

2020 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-57
Author(s):  
Chulho Youn
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Natural Theology ◽  
Human Reason ◽  
Creation Theology ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Universal Reason ◽  
Culture Tradition

SummaryThe purpose of this article is to present a desirable understanding of Christian natural theology in terms of methodology. In the Enlightenment era, natural theology was understood as that which provides support for religious beliefs by starting from a premise that does not include any religious beliefs. The natural theology of this age was performed under the premise that humanity could prove God’s existence by universal reason without the revelation of God, and that everyone could reasonably agree with the proof. Today, however, the concept of universal reason, which all humans have in common, is being questioned. Today it has become clear that the human reason is conditioned by some sort of perspective formed within a particular culture, tradition, and community and therefore operates in a very diverse way. This article aims at proposing a natural theology which is required today methodologically in terms of postfoundational Christian natural theology. This investigation proceeds in the following order: the creation theology of the Old Testament (II; the natural theology in Christian history (III); the definition of Christian natural theology (IV); today’s Christian natural theology as a creation theology (theology of nature) and as a scientific theology (V); Jürgen Moltmann’s Christian natural theology in terms of methodology (VI); the postfoundational Christian natural theology as a model of postmodern Christian natural theology (VII); conclusion (VIII).

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