scholarly journals ESSAY: THE KUNSTWOLLEN OF THE SCIENTIFIC ERA AND ALOIS RIEGL’S STIMMUNG

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (55-56) ◽  
pp. 65-81
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Vassiliou

Alois Riegl’s essay “Die Stimmung als Inhalt der modernen Kunst” (1899) has been one of art historiography’s early attempts to bridge art and science. In this text, Riegl not only presents the background of some of his theoretical and methodological premises but he also provides an overarching argument for the way natural sciences af- fect modern spectatorship. In this way, he establishes the basis of a Kunstwollen for the ‘age of the natural sciences’ and describes its appropriate artistic traits. Addressing the intellectual and historical context of the Stimmung Essay, this article shows how Riegl’s ideas work in a subtle and intricate manner, involving the combination of sensual and phenomenological observations to modes of knowl- edge. In this respect, the relation of art and science does not seem to be settled on a fixed contemplative basis but on the combination of the art with cognition and affects.

2004 ◽  
pp. 114-128
Author(s):  
V. Nimushin

In the framework of broad philosophic and historical context the author conducts comparative analysis of the conditions for assimilating liberal values in leading countries of the modern world and in Russia. He defends the idea of inevitable forward movement of Russia on the way of rationalization and cultivation of all aspects of life, but, to his opinion, it will occur not so fast as the "first wave" reformers thought and in other ideological and sociocultural forms than in Europe and America. The author sees the main task of the reformist forces in Russia in consolidation of the society and inplementation of socially responsible economic policy.


2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 330-334
Author(s):  
Octavio A. Chon Torres

AbstractThere is a record of the positive effects of astrobiological research for the natural sciences and eventually for their technological use on Earth. However, on the philosophical effects, this is not as visible as the other sciences, which is why it can be assumed that it is a waste of time speculating on astrobioethics or also on the philosophy of astrobiology. This is the reason why this work seeks to identify and sustain the philosophical utility of astrobioethics. To achieve this, this article focuses on three essential aspects: teloempathy, education and astrotheology. Russell's argument about the value of philosophy will be used as a fundamental basis for the usefulness of astrobioethics.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken Hirschkop

In this introduction to Mikhail Bakhtin, Ken Hirschkop presents a compact, readable, detailed, and sophisticated exposition of all of Bakhtin's important works. Using the most up-to-date sources and the new, scholarly editions of Bakhtin's texts, Hirschkop explains Bakhtin's influential ideas, demonstrates their relevance and usefulness for literary and cultural analysis, and sets them in their historical context. In clear and concise language, Hirschkop shows how Bakhtin's ideas have changed the way we understand language and literary texts. Authoritative and accessible, this Cambridge Introduction is the most comprehensive and reliable account of Bakhtin and his work yet available.


Author(s):  
Mateo Pérez

GEOGRAFÍA DE LA MIRADA. EL PAISAJE DESDE LA MIRADA FOTOGRÁFICA CONTEMPORÁNEA RESUMEN ¿Cómo entender el concepto de paisaje a partir de las prácticas fotográficas contemporáneas? Este artículo busca responder a esta pregunta con la ayuda de un proyecto finalizado de creación artística que tenía como objetivo exponer una serie de imágenes fotográficas del Salto del Tequendama y alrededores, en las inmediaciones de Bogotá. Se trata de comprender la manera en que se abordó este proyecto artístico y también de dilucidar ciertos aspectos del concepto de paisaje, especialmente la forma en que hoy se le considera desde la fotografía. Con este acercamiento, se hace una revisión histórica de las imágenes que existen del Salto del Tequendama de modo que, a través de ellas, se pueda comprender e interpretar mejor las formas de representación actuales, específicamente las que se produjeron para la exposición. El artículo señala cómo el concepto de paisaje es un concepto dinámico, construido a partir de su contexto histórico. PALABRAS CLAVES Fotografía, paisaje, Romanticismo, Salto del Tequendama, sublime, suicidio. AWANINAMANDA KUWANGAPA ATUN LLAGTA KAWANGAPA MAIPI NUKANCHI KAUSAGTA SUGLLAPI Kaipi ninakumi imasai kawachinaku nukanchipakausadiruta parlanakume sug kilkawa imasami karunimanda kawanaku tapuchiskata añispa kawachispa kunauramandakunata kai fotokuna salto de Tequendama suti, paikuna rurankuna sug iachachikuna mana chingaringapa kai ñugpamanda kausaikuna chasallata tukui rurakuna tukuikunata iachachispa kawachispa tukuikunamanda. IMA SUTI RIMAI SIMI: Kawachiikuna, sachaku, llakii, wañui kawachispa sutipa llullangapa. GEOGRAPHY OF THE GAZE LANDSCAPE AS SEEN FROM THE CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHIC GAZE ABSTRACT How to understand the concept of landscape based upon contemporary photography practices? This article tries to answer this question with the help of a concluded artistic project, whose main objective was exposing a series of photographic images of Tequendama Falls and its surroundings, near Bogotá. The article tries to understand the way in which this artistic project was addressed and to explain certain aspects of the concept of landscape and of the way it is conceived by photography today. With this approach, an historic overview of some historical images of Tequendama Falls is carried out, so as to improve the processes of understanding and interpreting contemporary forms of representation, specifically the ones produced for the exhibition. The article points out how the concept of landscape is a dynamic one and how it is based on its historical context. KEYWORDS Photography, landscape, Romanticism, Tequendama Falls, sublime, suicide. GEOGRAPHIE DU REGARD LE PAYSAGE A PARTIR DU REGARD PHOTOGRAPHIQUE CONTEMPORAIN RÉSUMÉ Comment comprendre le concept de paysage basé sur les pratiques de la photographie contemporaine ? Cet article tente de répondre à cette question avec l’aide d’un projet artistique conclu, dont l’objectif principal était d’exposer une série d’images photographiques du Salto del Tequendama et ses environs, près de Bogotá. L’article tente de comprendre la façon dont ce projet artistique a été abordé et aussi d’expliquer certains aspects de la notion de paysage et de la façon dont il est conçu par la photographie aujourd’hui. Avec cette approche, un aperçu historique de quelques images historiques du Salto del Tequendama est réalisé de manière à améliorer les processus de compréhension et d’interprétation des formes contemporaines de représentation, en particulier celles produites pour l’exposition. L’article souligne comment le concept de paysage est dynamique et comment il est basé sur son contexte historique. MOTS-CLEFS Photographie, paysage, romantisme, Salto del Tequendama, sublime, suicide. GEOGRAFIA DO OLHAR A PAISAGEM DESDE O OLHAR FOTOGRÁFICA CONTEMPORÂNEA RESUMO Como entender o conceito da paisagem a partir das práticas fotográficas contemporâneas? Este artigo procura responder a esta pergunta com a ajuda de um projeto finalizado de criação artística que tinha como objetivo expor uma série de imagens fotográficas do Salto do Tequendama e aos redores, nas imediações de Bogotá. Trata-se de compreender a maneira em que se abordou este projeto artístico e também de (desoxidar) certos aspectos do conceito da paisagem, especialmente a forma em que hoje se lhe considera desde a fotografia. Com esta aproximação, se faz uma revisão histórica das imagens que existem do Salto do Tequendama de maneira que, a través delas, se possa compreender e interpretar melhor as formas de representação atuais, especificamente as que se produziram para a exposição. O artigo assinala como o conceito da paisagem é um conceito dinâmico, construído a partir de seu contexto históricoPALAVRAS CHAVES Fotografia, paisagem, Romantismo, Salto del Tequendama, sublime, suicídio.   Recibido el 07 de octubre de 2014 Aceptado el 03 de diciembre de 2015


2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Jacek Wiewiorowski

THE NATURAL SCIENCES IN THE SERVICE OF PLEADINGS IN CASES INVOLVING MINORS: REMARKS ON CTH 2.4.1 [A. 318/319] = C. 5.4.20)SummaryThe subject of this article is the status of juvenile persons in Roman law, as exemplified by one of the constitutions of Constantine the Great, CTh 2.4.1 [a. 318/319] = C. 5.40.2, fragments of which are preserved in Theodosius’ Code of 438, and in an abridged version in Justinian’s Code of 534. In the first part of the article the author analyses the extremely controversial issue of the identity of the constitution’s addressee. In the second part he discusses the content of this constitution and the premises for its issue in the light of the Constantinian legislation on family matters and the way it was later interpreted. The article’s third part is an attempt to apply the natural and social sciences to the question of minors and their personality, and the examination of this issue as regards CTh 2.4.1 [a. 318/319] = C. 5.40.2. The author takes into consideration the basic data on the status of minors in Roman law, in the subsequent history of European law, and in non-European cultures. He concludes by making a series of observations on the potential for the application of the natural sciences in the study of Roman law, which could serve to confirm the timeless and universal nature of some of the solutions it prescribed.


2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 235-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lâle Uluç

This paper introduces a copy of the Iskandarnāma of Nizami dated 1435 and dedicated to the Timurid prince Ibrahim Sultan, grandson of the eponymous founder of the Timurid dynasty. It discusses the various features of the manuscript together with comparable examples from the same period, and also focuses on Abu al-Fath Ibrahim Sultan ibn Shah Rukh and his role as both a military leader and a patron of the arts during his tenure as the governor of the provinces of Fars, Kirman, and Luristan (1414–35). Utilizing the visual data together with the historical context of the period, this essay interprets one of the illustrations of the Iskandarnāma, hoping to fulfill what David Summers called “the most basic task of art history,” which he says “is to explain why works of art look the way they look.” The addition of this Iskandarnāma manuscript to the surviving corpus of works that can be connected to Ibrahim Sultan will provide a further insight into the important patronage of this Timurid prince.


2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 436-447
Author(s):  
Felix Brahm

The Brussels Anti-Slavery Conference in 1889–1890 agreed upon a sales ban of modern firearms for large parts of the African continent, a covenant that served joint imperial interests amid the ‘Scramble for Africa’. This article reconstructs the historical context in which the Brussels provisions came into being and explores the inter-imperial co-operation that paved the way for the agreement. To understand its origins, special attention must be paid to local events in East Africa and to a naval blockade that was executed here in 1888–1889. It was against this background that the German government, navigating between commercial and security interests, drafted the international control scheme that was later in large part adopted by the Brussels Conference. The article also demonstrates how in this context the issue of arms control was bound up with anti-slavery politics, thereby linking it to the imperial ‘civilising mission’.


Author(s):  
Adam Y. Wells

This introductory chapter has three aims. First, it summarizes the phenomenological method. Second, it explores the way that various assumptions about the epistemic priority of the natural sciences operate in modern biblical criticism. Third, it summarizes the essays included in the volume.


Author(s):  
Christopher Morton

Chapter 1 sets out the main arguments and contexts of the book. It begins with a discussion of why using the photographic archive to explore the fieldwork on which Evans-Pritchard’s celebrated writings was based is so transformative. It discusses the relationship between anthropology and colonialism in the 1920s and 1930s, and Evans-Pritchard’s equivocal positioning within this as someone directly funded by the colonial administration and yet having a critical relationship to it. It explores the way in which Evans-Pritchard sought to move anthropology away from the natural sciences and towards history and the humanities. It compares his fieldwork photography to other anthropologists of the period and challenges the assumption that anthropology in the period was not a visual endeavour.


Author(s):  
Rudolf A. Makkreel

Wilhelm Dilthey saw his work as contributing to a ‘Critique of Historical Reason’ which would expand the scope of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason by examining the epistemological conditions of the human sciences as well as of the natural sciences. Both kinds of science take their departure from ordinary life and experience, but whereas the natural sciences seek to focus on the way things behave independently of human involvement, the human sciences take account of this very involvement. The natural sciences use external observation and measurement to construct an objective domain of nature that is abstracted from the fullness of lived experience. The human sciences (humanities and social sciences), by contrast, help to define what Dilthey calls the historical world. By making use of inner as well as outer experience, the human sciences preserve a more direct link with our original sense of life than do the natural sciences. Whereas the natural sciences seek explanations of nature, connecting the discrete representations of outer experience through hypothetical generalizations and causal laws, the human sciences aim at an understanding that articulates the fundamental structures of historical life given in lived experience. Finding lived experience to be inherently connected and meaningful, Dilthey opposed traditional atomistic and associationist psychologies and developed a descriptive psychology that has been recognized as anticipating phenomenology. Dilthey first thought that this descriptive psychology could provide a neutral foundation for the other human sciences, but in his later hermeneutical writings he rejected the idea of a foundational discipline or method. Thus he ends by claiming that all the human sciences are interpretive and mutually dependent. Hermeneutically conceived, understanding is a process of interpreting the ‘objectifications of life’, the external expressions or manifestations of human thought and action. Interpersonal understanding is attained through these common objectifications and not, as is widely believed, through empathy. Moreover, to fully understand myself I must analyse the expressions of my life in the same way that I analyse the expressions of others. Not every aspect of life can be captured within the respective limits of the natural and the human sciences. Dilthey’s philosophy of life also leaves room for a kind of anthropological reflection whereby we attempt to do justice to the ultimate riddles of life and death. Such reflection receives its fullest expression in worldviews, which are overall perspectives on life encompassing the way we perceive and conceive the world, evaluate it aesthetically and respond to it in action. Dilthey discerned many typical worldviews in art and religion, but in Western philosophy he distinguished three recurrent types: the worldviews of naturalism, the idealism of freedom and objective idealism.


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