scholarly journals “Mixed identity of circumstances”: Bronisław Malinowski in Australia and Melanesia

2021 ◽  
pp. 35-51
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Kosecki
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
First World War ◽  
Strict Sense ◽  
World War ◽  
Emotional Tension ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Bronislaw Malinowski ◽  
Bronisław Malinowski ◽  
First World

During his stay in Australia and Melanesia from 1914 to 1920, the anthropo- logist Bronisław Malinowski frequently experienced dichotomous and contradictory atti- tudes to people, places, and events: the contrast between the ‘civilized’ Australia and the ‘savage’ Melanesia; the background of the Austria-ruled Poland in which he grew up and the British-dominated Australia, Austria’s enemy in the First World War; the emotional tension of simultaneous attraction to two women – Nina Stirling of Adelaide and Elsie Rosaline Masson of Melbourne; the dilemma of the ‘heroic’ versus the ‘unheroic’ related to the war. Most of the dualities of Malinowski’s Australian-Melanesian experience, re- flected in letters to his mother Józefa Malinowska, Elsie R. Masson, and in Diary in the Strict Sense of the Term (1989), were resolved at the end of the period, which became a turning point in his life.

Protection of Private Foreign Investment by Multilateral Convention

1959 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 371-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur S. Miller
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World ◽  
Multilateral Treaty ◽  
Private Foreign Investment

Since the end of the first "World War—an event widely considered to mark a turning point in the development of international law—several suggestions have been made to negotiate a multilateral treaty aimed at the protection of private foreign investment.

scholarly journals The Politics of Prophecy: Reformation Memory and German Exceptionalism in Weimar Thought

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cat Moir
Keyword(s):  
Weimar Republic ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Ernst Bloch ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
First World

In the German-speaking world, the memory of the Reformation has often been closely connected to the theory of German historical exceptionalism, the idea that Germany’s historical development took a ‘special path’ (Sonderweg) to modernity. Yet considering how much attention has been paid to the question of a German Sonderweg and the significance of Weimar as a turning point in the story, scholars have paid little attention to the ideology of exceptionalism in the Weimar Republic itself. This article contributes to the historiography of the Sonderweg debate by examining the complex ways in which the poet Hugo Ball (1886-1927) and the philosopher Ernst Bloch (1885-1977) traced a narrative of German exceptionalism back to the Reformation era. It argues that these writers appealed to the intellectual and political legacies of the Reformation in an attempt to explain the formative events of their own time: the First World War, and the Russian and German Revolutions. The divergent ideological conclusions they drew reveals much about the conflicted atmosphere of Weimar thought, in which German intellectuals struggled to bridge the gap between crisis and tradition.

scholarly journals O dwu pieśniach kryzysu przysięgowego

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 59-74
Author(s):  
Agata Skała
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
First World War ◽  
News Story ◽  
World War ◽  
German Army ◽  
The First World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
Solid Foundation ◽  
Military Units ◽  
First World

The paper is dedicated to two soldiers’ songs from the second half of 1917, written in the atmosphere of rebellion of the Polish Legions against the Central Powers. The turning point in the history of Polish military units during the First World War, which was caused by the so-called Oath crisis, for the demilitarised and interned soldiers, was the time of fighting by means of word, rather than weapon. However, they manifested their pride and perseverance of the Polish soldier, using mockery. Occasional poetic works – Dziadowska pieśń żałobna o odwrocie legionów spod Warszawy and Santa Lucia – shaped the independence ethos on the basis of a solid foundation of folklore and literary tradition (using e.g. the convention of ‘a beggar’s song’ and ‘a news story’). Arrogance and an ironic attitude, expressed in songs, conceal the real tragic situation of the soldiers – who were deprived of the chance to serve the Nation for being disobedient towards the German army. Szczypiorno and Beniaminów – places to which they were interned – are elevated to the rank of symbols of defiance and contempt for the invaders and constitute a significant element of the legend surrounding Piłsudski’s Legions.

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