BEETHOVEN AND THE TEST OF FAITH François-Nicolas Vozel
Angelaki : journal of theoretical humanities,
12/2020, Letnik:
25, Številka:
6
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Hélène Cixous’s engagement with faith is a significant but overlooked facet of her work. Focusing on Beethoven à jamais ou l’existence de Dieu Beethoven Forever or the Existence of God (1993), this ...article contends that Cixous envisions faith as the ground and horizon of both artistic creation and love. To illustrate this point, the author focuses on Cixous’s idiosyncratic portrayal of Ludwig von Beethoven. Her representation of Beethoven as an impassioned lover and artist runs against the grain of the canonical depiction of the composer as a “great man” or a “heroic individual,” as found in the writings of Romain Rolland and Sigmund Freud. For Cixous, love and writing both stem from an unpredictable, joyful event that infinitely exceeds our understanding. Both are predicated on a state of “active passivity” that clears the ground for the event of passion and creation to occur without predetermining what it will be.
Panait Istrati - the "vagabond" born in Brăila - is a totally atypical personality in Romanian literature. He graduated only four elementary grades and Eugen Lovinescu considered him the only writer ...in our literature with "14 jobs lacking intellectuality." In 1907 he left Romania clandestinely and for a long time he traveled to Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Greece, Turkey, France, Switzerland. For a great while, the man Panait Istrati was one of the mysterious figures of the interwar period. This "Balkan Gorki", as Romain Rolland called him, was translated into 30 languages, in countries like Turkey, France, Denmark, Portugal, Japan, former Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. The Danube of his hometown was to mark his wandering soul for ever and his life was always under the sign of adventure, exploration, feeling, knowledge and revolutionary ideas. Even if he was sick or hungry, homeless, sunburnt or frostbitten, Panait Istrati never gave up fighting and always felt a fascinating voluptuousness of life.
Tryst with Fire and Storm Mukherjee, Sanjoy
Globsyn Management Journal,
01/2020, Letnik:
14, Številka:
1/2
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...Narendranath was projected as the leader of tomorrow by his master - not by himself! "Naren shikshe debe" (Naren will teach the world) - was the prophecy of Sri Ramakrishna in the Master's own ...writing. Storm as in crises for him was lifetime companion - severe hardship n Baranagar Math in North Calcutta after the death of his Master, hunger and uncertainty during his parivrajaka (the wandering monk) life in India, anxiety about funds for the America trip, spending sleepless and shivering night in Chicago railway station, lampooned and maligned by his opposition religious groups in the West and even from his close quarters back home. According to him, it is possible for the human being to be completely absorbed within in a state of yoga even amidst the hectic flurry of activities in the heart of humdrum of urban life. ...his was a life of a
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Der Beitrag diskutiert einen Vortrag von Georg Augusta zum Thema Erinnerungsorte im Spannungsfeld von Erinnern und Vergessen. Einzelne Aspekte werden hervorgehoben und teilweise in ...einen anderen theoretischen Kontext gestellt. So zentrale Fragen wie die nach der Möglichkeit, historischer Wahrheit habhaft werden zu können, oder nach dem Stellenwert einer auf das Hier und Jetzt fokussierten Behandlungstechnik werden vor dem Hintergrund psychischer Verarbeitungs- und Erinnerungsprozesse beleuchtet. Es wird die These entwickelt, dass eine geschichtliche Faktizität schlechthin zwar nicht rekonstruiert werden kann, dass durch die Auseinandersetzung mit psychischen Abwehrprozessen, Wünschen und Ängsten eine iterative Annäherung an historische Wahrheit gleichwohl möglich ist. „Erinnerungsorte“ können diesen Prozess befördern. Dabei sind es nicht so sehr bewusste Erinnerungen, die zu einem veränderten Geschichtsbild in der psychischen Realität beitragen, sondern die Auseinandersetzung mit bisher abgewehrten schmerzhaften Gefühlen und Sehnsüchten, wodurch sich ein realistischeres Verständnis der Vergangenheitsobjekte entwickelt. Diese Überlegungen werden am Vortrag Augustas, an psychoanalytischen Konzepten wie Nachträglichkeit und Deckerinnerung sowie an Freuds bemerkenswertem Brief an Romain Rolland ausgearbeitet.
nel primo numero de “Il Politico”, con cui la Facoltà di ScienzePolitiche dell’Università di Pavia dà seguito nel 1950 agli “Annali”che aveva preso a pubblicare dal 1928, bruno leoni inaugura il ...suomandato di direttore specificando gli obbiettivi che la rivista si poneva.In poche pagine dal taglio più consono a un breve saggio scientificoche a un pezzo editoriale, leoni chiama la rivista all’analisi scientificadei fenomeni politici e al confronto con il mondo non scientifico. Così,mentre auspica che la rivista sappia porsi come punto di riferimentoanche all’esterno dell’accademia e sappia contribuire a risolvere i problemipiù urgenti del paese, rimanendo però “al di fuori e al di sopradegli interessi” delle fazioni politiche1, leoni analizza i rapporti fra alcunedelle discipline che concorrono alla conoscenza scientifica di ciòche è politico. In tal modo, egli teorizza ancora prima che annunciarequelli che saranno i tratti imprescindibili de “Il Politico” degli anni avenire: l’impegno a promuovere e valorizzare il confronto e l’interazionefra discipline e metodi differenti e la tensione a includere temi ecompetenze di confine, o trasversali.
Challenging Freud’s contention that the origin of religion is the need for a protective Father (rather than an oceanic feeling of eternity), Augustine’s Confessions (as I read it) indicates that such ...an oceanic experience generated the concept of original sin, to justify a theological procedure for wending one’s way back to that ecstatic experience, and thereby laid the foundation for Christianity. Lacanian and Kristevan theory in turn facilitates our realization that Christianity springs from a wish for maternal fulfillment, a propensity to cling to the plenitude that occupies the void of das Ding. By illustrating the strong line of Christian thinkers Augustine was up against, Agamben puts into relief the subjectivity operating in Augustine’s formation of Christianity, furthering our ability to grasp the psychosexual underpinnings of the concept of original sin, with its ironic capacity to compel belief in a purity of spiritual oneness. Foucault, in Confessions of the Flesh, also weighs in, through his analysis of City of God and Against Julian that not only underscores Augustine’s obsession with sex but suggests that the consumption of the forbidden fruit might “be understood in a sexual way.” The Christian son/daughter therefore, ideally, fuses with the mother-Church to experience an oceanic state of completeness prior to sexual differentiation, an all-embracing fullness that enables a (Monica-inspired) victory—through evasion—over the Law of the Father, the disease of desire, and its concomitant lack. However, although Augustine held Lacanian theory within his perceptual and conceptual grasp, he veers off personally in a direction Lacan would consider a detour, insofar as Augustine “drowns the symptom in meaning,” in mother’s mystical milk, leaving it “repressed.” Yet in doing so, he instigated two-thousand years of Christianity: thanks to Augustine Imaginary maternal protection can be enjoyed through the jouissance of an oceanic feeling, celebrated by dozens of Madonna del Latte paintings.
This essay reconstructs the debate on pacifism between the XIX and XX centuries. The author preliminary uses the reflections of some contemporary philosophers and sociologists, such as Norberto ...Bobbio, Mulford Quickert Sibley, Wilhelm Emil Mühlmann, Michael Allen Fox, David Cortright, Larry May, John Rawls, Eric Reitan, Johan Galtung, and David Boersema. This debate was livened by famous intellectuals: from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Bertrand Russell, Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein passing through John Atkinson Hobson, Vladimir llyich Lenin, Friedrich Nietzsche, Norman Angell, Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Romain Rolland, Luigi Einaudi, Lord Lothian, Lionel Robbins and Jacques Maritain. They encapsulated the main dilemmas derived from the changed political conditions of their time: the crisis of internationalism, the affirmation of imperialism, the spread of irrationalism, the beginning of the Great War, the establishment and failure of the League of Nations, the consolidation of totalitarian regimes, the outbreak of the Second World War, and the escalation of the Cold War. They developed various ideas and models which could ideally be linked to a "positive pacifism" according to which, as foretold by Spinoza, peace could not be conceived as mere absence of war, but above all the presence of justice, law and order.
Amongst the Italian exiles who arrived at the Canton of Ticino following repression perpetrated by the Di Rudinì and Pelloux administrations - after the popular uprisings of 1898 - are Enrico ...Bignami, Giuseppe Rensi and Arcangelo Ghisleri, who, in Lugano, created a sort of secular symposium for fostering spiritual values. This gave birth to Coenobium, the 'international journal of independent studies', which remained in operation between 1906 and 1919. This periodical distinguished itself due to the diversity of the issues addressed: from science to law, from history to philosophy, from literature to spiritualism, philosophy and psychology. With the beginning of the First World War, however, Coenobium's focus was on the spiral of violence triggered by the war; hence a series of denunciations entrusted to the column 'War to war!', which marked a dramatic change in the editorial policy of the magazine edited by Bignami, who was determined to turn it into a strong instrument of pacifist propaganda. Several prestigious figures in Europe's cultural and political milieus participated in this venture, notably Norman Angell, Romain Rolland, Angelo Crespi, Raffaele Ottolenghi, Claudio Treves, Filippo Turati, Henri La Fontaine, Nicholas Murray Butler and Enrico Bignami.
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