scholarly journals Looking Back at Medical Libraries in the 20th Century. Hospital Libraries in Japan. Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future.

2000 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 358-371
Author(s):  
Mari OKUDE
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Medical Libraries ◽  
Looking Back

States of reason and reasons of state

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 266-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rukmini Bhaya Nair
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Context Sensitivity ◽  
Thought Processes ◽  
Half Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Noam Chomsky ◽  
Past Half Century ◽  
The Future ◽  
Past Half

Over the past half-century, Noam Chomsky has established a powerful intellectual presence in two apparently unrelated domains of discourse — the field of theoretical linguistics and the arena of anti-establishment politics. This paper examines Chomsky’s use of metaphor across these domains, arguing that in Chomsky’s work metaphor enables an undercover, perhaps even classically ‘anarchic’ dialogue between disciplines. Organizationally as well as psychologically, the two major inquiries into human nature undertaken by him are, the paper suggests, structured and unified in relation to each other via the seemingly innocuous agency of metaphor. The paper also traces Chomsky’s innovative production of metaphors to engage in dialogue with both the past and the future. To reconstruct Chomsky through his metaphors is to attempt to read him not as a doctrinaire Cartesian but as someone who has responded with extreme ‘context-sensitivity’ to changing circumstances in both his fields. Finally, the paper contends that a study of Chomsky’s metaphorical practice could, inter alia, offer unprecedented insights into the creative and essentially unified thought processes of a major 20th century thinker.

Looking Back at Oneself in Time: Another Approach to the Actor-Observer Phenomenon

1976 ◽  
Vol 43 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1283-1287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Lenauer ◽  
Lillian Sameth ◽  
Phillip Shaver
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Observer Effect ◽  
The Past ◽  
Trait Attribution ◽  
The Future ◽  
Within Subjects ◽  
Looking Back

Two studies were reported in which a mean trait attribution pattern parallel to the Jones-Nisbett actor-observer effect was obtained within subjects when people were asked to describe what they were like in the past, are like now, and will be like in the future. This argues in favor of the perspective or salience explanation of the actor-observer phenomenon. Both temporal and role defined actor-observer differences, while statistically significant, were due to a minority of subjects. This minority did not differ from the majority on measures of locus of control and self-consciousness. Problems and implications were discussed briefly.

Charles Scott Sherrington (1857-1952)

1975 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-63 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Looking Back

ON 30 March 1908, there was a sale of drawings and pictures in London, at Christie’s, and many of them came from the home of Mrs Caleb Rose of Ipswich—she died in May 1907 at the age of 89. Mrs Rose, the widow of Dr Caleb Rose, had been previously the wife of James Norton Sherrington of The Hall, Caister, near Norwich, and she was the greatly beloved mother of Charles Scott Sherrington. Looking back over exactly half a century I can place the Christie sale as the turning point of my father’s life; it meant for him that the home he had loved so much was gone for ever and, from that time onwards, the outlook was concentrated on the future not on the past, except for those unutterably happy memories which remained vivid to him until the very end, for he spoke to me of them with some yearning the evening before his death.

Looking Back as an Antidote for the Fear of the Turn of the Centuries. „Kurier Warszawski” and its „Contest of the Century”

Tekstualia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (63) ◽  
pp. 49-68
Author(s):  
Iwona Przybysz
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The World ◽  
Looking Back

The article focuses on the construction of the narration about the end of 19th and the beginning of the 20th century in the daily newspaper „Kurier Warszawski”. Its crucial manifestation was the „contest of the century”, a questionnaire addressed to representatives of the world of science and the arts evaluating the most important Polish scientifi c and artistic achievements of 19th century. A key assumption of the narration thus shaped was the recapitulation and appreciation of the past and the idea of a long passing of the history. Such an idea served as an answer to the catastrophic atmosphere and the fear of the unknown.

Identitŕ dell'architettura del XX secolo e progetto contemporaneo

TERRITORIO ◽  
2012 ◽  
pp. 76-80
Author(s):  
Pierfranco Galliani
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
The Past ◽  
General Orientation ◽  
Enormous Amount ◽  
Active Protection ◽  
The Future ◽  
Value Judgements ◽  
Positive Assessment ◽  
The Many

Considering the enormous amount of the architecture built in the 20th century, only the most significant instances will be able to be restored in the true sense of the term. To do this a positive assessment must be made of the many forms of the general orientation towards the restoration of modern architecture. The difficult and operational relationship proposed by the design of restoration for buildings or modern urban fabrics can in fact highlight the issues of the ‘critical continuity' between the past and the present and also the actions designed to maintain architecture and to modify contexts may constitute supports for each other for development which looks to the future. As an alternative to the analogical relationship between the concepts of protection and conservation which usually compress use objectives, the search for the identity of a work of architecture is a path which connects ‘value judgements' with the objective of contemporary design itself, fully representing the idea of ‘active protection'.

6. Conclusion

2018 ◽  
pp. 138-146
Author(s):  
Adam Sharr
Keyword(s):  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
New Materials ◽  
Steel Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Structure Space ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Electric Light

It took until the first half of the 20th century for architects’ ideas to mature, in conjunction with the new materials of steel, reinforced concrete, and electric light, into the distinctive imagery now recognized as modern architecture. But that imagery was only the outward sign of new ways of organizing structure, space, and surface. The Conclusion clarifies that, for much of the 20th century, modern architecture stood for the place of the future—as related to the past—in the present. But the associations of those ideas about future, present, and past always remained complex, changing, and contested. For all its global effects, modernity was never a unified phenomenon.

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