Showing papers on "Theme (narrative) published in 1993"

Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity

Abstract: (1993). Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity. Economic Geography: Vol. 69, Theme Issue: Environment and Development, Part 2, pp. 432-436.

Managing Human Resources and Industrial Relations

Abstract: The book brings together for this first time an analysis of human resource management and industrial relations Its pivotal theme is the interplay (and tensions) between individualism and collectivism

The death and resurrection of the beloved son : the transformation of child sacrifice in Judaism and Christianity

Abstract: The near sacrifice and miraculous restoration of a beloved son is a central but largely overlooked theme in both Judaism and Christianity. This book explores how this notion of child sacrifice constitutes an overlooked bond between the two religions.

Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament: Perspectives on South Asia

Abstract: In his extraordinarily influential book "Orientalism," Edward Said argued that Western knowledge about the Orient in the Post-Enlightenment period has been "a systematic discourse by which Europe was able to manage--even produce--the Orient politically, sociologically, militarily, ideologically, scientifically, and imaginatively." According to Said, European and American views of the Orient created a reality in which the Oriental was forced to live. Although Said's work deals primarily with discourse about the Arab world, much of his argument has been applied to other regions of "the Orient."Drawing on Said's book, Carol A. Breckenridge, Peter van der Veer, and the contributors to this book explore the ways colonial administrators constructed knowledge about the society and culture of India and the processes through which that knowledge has shaped past and present Indian reality.One common theme that links the essays in "Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament" is the proposition that Orientalist discourse is not just restricted to the colonial past but continues even today. The contributors argue that it is still extremely difficult for both Indians and outsiders to think about India in anything but strictly Orientalist terms. They propose that students of society and history rethink their methodologies and the relation between theories, methods, and the historical conditions that produced them."Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament" provides new and important insights into the cultural embeddedness of power in the colonial and postcolonial world.

Hegel: Three Studies

Abstract: This short masterwork in twentieth-century philosophy provides both a major reinterpretation of Hegel and insight into the evolution of Adorno's critical theory. The first study focuses on the relationship of reason, the individual, and society in Hegel, defending him against the criticism that he was merely an apologist for bourgeois society. The second study examines the experiential content of Hegel's idealism, considering the notion of experience in relation to immediacy, empirical reality, science, and society. The third study, "Skoteinos," is an unusual and fascinating essay in which Adorno lays out his thoughts on understanding Hegel. In his reflections, which spring from his experience teaching at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, questions of textual and philosophical interpretation are intertwined.Rescuing the truth value of Hegel's work is a recurring theme of the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, and nowhere is this goal pursued with more insight than in these three studies. The core problem Adorno sets for himself is how to read Hegel in a way that comprehends both the work and its historical context, thereby allowing conclusions to be drawn that may seem on the surface to be exactly opposed to what Hegel wrote but that are, nevertheless, valid as the present truth of the work. It is the elaboration of this method of interpretation, a negative dialectic, that was Adorno's underlying goal.Adorno's efforts to salvage the contemporaneity of Hegel's thought form part of his response to the increasingly tight net of social control in the aftermath of World War II. In this, his work is related to the very different attempts to undermine reified thinking undertaken by the various French theorists. The continued development of what Adorno called "the administered world" has only increased the relevance of his efforts.

The Concept of “Greater China”: Themes, Variations and Reservations

Abstract: The world is suddenly talking about the emergence of “Greater China.” The term has appeared in the headlines of major newspapers and magazines, has been the topic of conferences sponsored by prominent think-tanks, and is now the theme of a special issue of the world's leading journal of Chinese affairs. It thus joins other phrases – “the new world order,” “the end of history,” “the Pacific Century” and the “clash of civilizations” – as part of the trendiest vocabulary used in discussions of contemporary global affairs.

The mind and its depths

Abstract: The mind as it is manifested in philosophy and art, in the moral life and psychoanalysis, has always been at the core of Richard Wollheim's celebrated work. This book brings together Wollheim's concerns to illuminate human thought at its furthest reaches of introspection and expression. Interweaving philosophy, psychoanalysis and aesthetics, these essays reveal the critical connections between ideas and disciplines too often regarded as separate and distinct. At the same time, by focusing on actual experience, whether in art or ritual, sexuality or criminal behaviour, they retrieve the ways and workings of the mind from the ponderous abstraction in which much contemporary thought is trapped. A central theme of "The Mind and its Depths" is the importance of psychoanalysis to philosophical discussion. From Freud's writings Wollheim extracts the thesis of the "corporealization of thought", which he uses in a highly original way to reframe the mind/body question. His discussions of issues of moral, social, and political philosophy also emphasize the psychological dimensions of such problems. These, along with his essays on artistic expression and pictorial style, demonstrate the advantages of psychological sophistication in thinking about philosophical issues in general - and about the nature and impact of art in particular.

Upbuilding discourses in various spirits

Abstract: In his praise for Part I of Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits, the eminent Kierkegaard scholar Eduard Geismar said, "I am of the opinion that nothing of what he has written is to such a degree before the face of God. Anyone who really wants to understand Kierkegaard does well to begin with it." These discourses, composed after Kierkegaard had initially intended to end his public writing career, constitute the first work of his "second authorship." Characterized by Kierkegaard as ethical-ironic, Part One, on the theme of "Purity of Heart Is to Will One Thing, " offers a penetrating discussion of double-mindedness and ethical integrity; the irony lies in the relation between factuality and ideality. Part Two, "What We Learn from the Lilies in the Field and from the Birds of the Air, " is humorous for Kierkegaard in that it exposes an inverted qualitative difference between the learner and the teacher. In Part Three, "The Gospel of Sufferings, Christian Discourses, " the philosopher explores the theme of joy, as in "The Joy of It That the School of Sufferings Educates for Eternity."

The Argonautica of Apollonius

Abstract: In recent years the subtlety and complexity of Apollonius' Argonautica have been better appreciated, but in Dr Hunter's view the purposes and aesthetic of the epic are still not readily understood and much basic analysis remains to be done. The present book seeks to offer some of that analysis and to place the Argonautica within its social and intellectual context. A series of studies deal with notions of heroism; with eros and the suffering of Medea; the role of the divine; poetic voice and literary self-consciousness; and the Ptolemaic context of the poem. A pervasive theme of the book is Apollonius' creative engagement with Homer, and a final chapter sketches out an approach to Virgil's use of Apollonius in the Aeneid. The Argonautica emerges as a brilliant and original experiment. This book is the only advanced study of the Argonautica currently available. All Greek is translated.

Academic Understanding and Contexts to Enhance It: A Perspective from Research on Student Learning

Abstract: The theme of this volume is The Design of Constructivist Learning Environments. To begin, we need to explore why we might need such environments in education, and then to identify research findings which might guide the establishment of such environments. Nancy Cole (1990) has recently criticized schooling in the USA for overemphasizing the acquistion of knowledge and basic skills to the detriment of higher-order skills and advanced knowledge. She comments: Students can repeat science facts and principles, but in explanations of events, they fail to use them. They also fail to use them in new, relevant, problem situations.… Conceptions of educational achievement — how we view and characterize achievement — affect what teachers teach and how they teach it.… Present conceptions of educational achievement as basic skills and facts tend to focus attention on the shortterm goals of schooling.… We must have conceptions … that help us attend to the long-term goals (with) some flavour of the higher-order skills and advanced knowledge. …We have under-emphasized (both) the associative uses of schooling (increasing the web of associations students have) and the interpretive uses (translation of ideas, giving meanings). (pp. 2, 4, 6)

Australian cultural studies : a reader

Abstract: The harvest of a long and deep acquaintance with Joyce's fifteen enigmatic stories of Dublin life, Narrative Con/Texts in "Dubliners" creatively widens the definition of "context" to include networks of theme and symbol. By treating Dubliners as an expanding document of lives in the process of being lived and by paying attention to how the boundaries between stories break down, Benstock is able to notice how characters and situations come uncannily to resemble each other. There are several innovative approaches here (for example, the thorough inspection of the economic conditions of Joyce's Dublin, down to the halfpenny) as well as new twists on established ideas. Benstock attempts a global, integrated reading of the stories, substituting his more holistic "con/texts" for the current fashion of context-hunting. His is an old ambition (for full coverage) in a new, upbeat format.

Ludwig van Beethoven : approaches to his music

Abstract: Life and work personal style and the individuality of single works "Ingenium" and "Witz" the symphonic style issues in sonata form theme and character the "underlying idea" form as idea the "new path" "Fidelio" church music and the religion of art subthematicism late works.

Changing Course: A Global Perspective on Development and the Environment

Abstract: (1993). Changing Course: A Global Perspective on Development and the Environment. Economic Geography: Vol. 69, Theme Issue: Environment and Development, Part 2, pp. 436-438.

Brahms as Liberal: Genre, Style, and Politics in Late Nineteenth-Century Vienna

Abstract: writing here of Brahms's anger in the 1880s at the "anti-German" policies of the Czech-Clerical-Polish coalition then in power in the central government-the composer believed that priestly machinations were behind the unsatisfactory state of affairs-and added that "the musical situation in the imperial city also did not please him." Using the religious theme of Parsifal as a tenuous connective to the previous topic of suspected Catholic intrigues, the biographer seized the opportunity to rail further on his own account at those "sanctimo-

Hunting in Middle English Literature

Abstract: The Middle English hunting manuals the traditional inheritance hunting heroes (and villains) the hunt of the world and the hunt of Christ the "Book of the Duchess" and the mutability theme "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight".

Societal Change Between Market and Organization

Abstract: This title was the theme of the Tenth Colloquium of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS), held in 1991 in Vienna. From the papers presented there, this book offers 11 contributions, covering interorganizational networks and the logic of management, and other topics.

On the Margins: The Art of Exile in V.S. Naipaul

Abstract: This study explores the theme of exile in the literary career of V.S. Naipaul, approaching the subject from two perspectives: as an idea that recurs in Naipaul's writings and as a personal experience that has shaped his vision of the world. Informed by the theoretical insights of Mikhail Bakhtin and Tzvetan Todorov, ""On the Margins"" offers readings of Naipaul's major works, from ""Miguel Street"" (1959) to ""India: A Million Mutinies Now"" (1990). Timothy F. Weiss reads Naipaul critically yet empathetically, examining his writings in chronological order and situating them in the cultural contexts in and about which Naipaul wrote. Weiss tries to show how the experience of exile, though alienating and divisive for Naipaul, has also been a transformative source of creative power. By turning his exile into art, the author explains, Naipaul the colonial Trinidad Indian has been able to reconcile the disparate elements of his hybrid identity and to connect his stories with a broader colonial and postcolonial history. In Weiss' view, what distinguishes Naipaul's often controversial works is the author's continuing struggle to look back and remember the past while moving forward toward a new identity and a new vision of society. At their best, Weiss argues, Naipaul's works face in two directions: they are at once ""commemorative and contemporary.

The crowded dance of modern life

Abstract: The linking theme of these essays is modernity, for Woolf was writing in a world radically separated from the old certainties by the catastrophe of World War I. Here she provides some responses to what she called "the crowded dance of modern life".

Surveying the South: Studies in Regional Sociology

Abstract: "Surveying the South" collects some of John Shelton Reed's classic essays which offer an introduction to the sociology of the South. Beginning with the roots of regional sociology, Reed examines threads of continuity and change in southern sociology, including such issues as southern stereotypes and the changing definition of the South. His history of the mythical but often-cited correlation between cotton prices and lynching offers a profound warning students and scholars alike - "always verify your references". Reed offers several essays on what has been called "the central theme" of southern sociology - race relations. He demonstrates the success of the civil rights movement in the South and explores the ways in which southern identity has become more regional than racial. Reed concludes this collection with a plea to sociologists to abandon the effort to "sound scientific". "Let's not seal the borders of our profession with an impenetrable style and vocabulary," writes Reed. "Plainly, outsiders are not impressed". This work is intended to be useful to students of sociology and southern studies and to general readers.

History and the Tourist Gaze: The Politics of Commemoration in Nova Scotia, 1935-1964

Abstract: IN JUNE 1961 WILL R. BIRD sounded like a man besieged. Never since becoming chairman of the Historic Sites Advisory Council in 1949 had he been busier. Every day brought phone calls, visits, meetings. Activists in Parrsboro wanted a plaque for the site of the first "air mail" flight; Bird was doubtful, and suggested they reconstruct a nearby blockhouse instead. In Joggins he conferred with "some of the leading citizens" about honouring "King" Seaman, a legendary entrepreneur; in Amherst, he promised the tourist committee of the board of trade that plaques would be coming in the next year; requests rolled in from Yarmouth and Shelburne, Baddeck and Milton, Sherbrooke and Port Wallis, Marble Mountain and the Ovens: he found it overwhelming. "It is little more than six weeks since our Annual Meeting", he exclaimed in a letter to Premier Robert Stanfield, "and already I have half an agenda for May 1962. I have spoken at ten widely different meetings this spring and all want the same topic — historic Nova Scotia. History has become almost a mania in some communities, who feel they can attract tourists if their history is made known". Bird's description has a contemporary ring. One aspect of our present condition of postmodernity — that is, the experience of a capitalist modernity transformed by globalization, cybernetics and the fragmentation of most traditional systems of meaning — is the "mode retro". Images of the past are used to promote everything from political parties to breakfast cereals: this "flourishing" of the past appears as an immense catalogue of arresting images. Vivid simulacra — perfect copies of non-existent originals — call up times past; theme parks, historical reconstructions,

Adult education and theological interpretations

Abstract: Opening with a debate about the nature of learning as a religious phenomenon, this book includes a collection of contributions based on the theme of the relationship between faith and knowledge.

"This Attempt of Their Sister": Harriet Wilson's Our Nig from Printer to Readers

Abstract: N early September 1859, the Boston firm of George C. Rand and Avery printed the anonymous work Our Nig; or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black.' Prior to its recovery by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., which led to the publication of a facsimile edition in 1983, Harriet Wilson's novel collected dust in libraries, bookshops, and antique stores.2 Gates, who was himself introduced to the book through an antiquarian bookseller in 1981, describes Our Nig as "a book whose central theme is white racism in the North as experienced by a free black indentured servant in antebellum days" and notes that, as such, it revises the typology of nineteenth-century American women's novels described by Nina Baym.3 Gates and several other critics have observed that Our Nig may be an autobiography--or at least an autobiographical

A Thematic Profile of the Images of Teachers in Film

Abstract: The purpose of this article is to draw a thematic profile of the images of teachers in commercial film. Our interest in this project began with a conversation following a viewing of Dead Poets Society (1989). What struck us both about the film was that even though we had seen most of the previous films about teachers, this was the first time that we had seen a film image of a teacher which engendered such strong feelings of professional pride and admiration. Here at last was a portrayal of a teacher with subtlety and emotional range, a teacher with whom bright, ambitious career aspirants might want to identify. While we agreed that there have been other positive portrayals of teachers, we struggled to explain the Harold J. Burbach is a powerful and lingering appeal of Robin Williams' professor in the Mr. Keating. It was only in the process of an ongoing Department of dialogue that we began to understand that the answer Educational Studies, and lay in the development of a better understanding of Margo A. Figgins is a the power and subtlety of film imagery. professor in the According to Hunter (1991, p. 225), movies and Department of Curriculum other popular media define reality and play a key role and Instruction and in shaping history. This is done, he contends, in the Special Education, both in very selection of a movie theme in that it sends a the Curry School of powerful message to the members of society about Education, University of what is important. Moreover, he believes that the Virginia, Charlottesville. substance of a film serves as a filter through which

The Theory and Practice of American Literary Naturalism: Selected Essays and Reviews

Abstract: In his first book devoted exclusively to naturalism, Donald Pizer brings together thirteen essays and four reviews written over a thirty-year period that in their entirety constitute a full-scale interpretation of the basic character and historical shape of naturalism in America.The essays fall into three groups. Some deal with the full range of American naturalism, from the 1590s to the late twentieth century, and some are confined either to the 1890s or to the twentieth century. In addition to the essays, an introduction in which Pizer recounts the development of his interest in American naturalism, reviews of recent studies of naturalism, and a selected bibliography contribute to an understanding of Pizer's interpretation of the movement.One of the recurrent themes in the essays is that the interpretation of American naturalism has been hindered by the common view that the movement is characterized by a commitment to Emile Zola's deterministic beliefs and that naturalistic novels are thus inevitably crude and simplistic both in theme and method. Rather than accept this notion, Pizer insists that naturalistic novels be read closely not for their success or failure in rendering obvious deterministic beliefs but rather for what actually does occur within the dynamic play of theme and form within the work.Adopting this method, Pizer finds that naturalistic fiction often reveals a complex and suggestive mix of older humanistic faiths and more recent doubts about human volition, and that it renders this vital thematic ambivalence in increasingly sophisticated forms as the movement matures. In addition, Pizer demonstrates that American naturalism cannot be viewed monolithically as a school with a common body of belief and value. Rather, each generation of American naturalists, as well as major figures within each generation, has responded to threads within the naturalistic impulse in strikingly distinctive ways. And it is indeed this absence of a rigid doctrinal core and the openness of the movement to individual variation that are responsible for the remarkable vitality and longevity of the movement.Because the essays have their origin in efforts to describe the general characteristics of American naturalism rather than in a desire to cover the field fully, some authors and works are discussed several times (though from different angles) and some referred to only briefly or notat all. But the essays as a collection are "complete" in the sense that they comprise an interpretation of American naturalism both in its various phases and as a whole. Those authors whose works receive substantial discussion include Stephen Crane, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, Edith Wharton, James T. Farrell, Norman Mailer, Joyce Carol Oates, and William Kennedy. Of special interest is Pizer's essay on "Ironweed, "which appears here for the first time.

Hegemony and Greek Historians

Abstract: In this book, John Wickersham studies the concept of hegemony in the histories of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Ephorus. He shows the growth of hegemony as a major theme of the historians and an important concern of classical Greek civilization. While concentrating on the single theme of hegemony, Wickersham also offers an overall appreciation of each author studied and of the Classical Greek historians as a group.

The theology of the shorter Pauline letters

Abstract: This book breaks new ground in offering an exposition of the theological message of the Shorter Pauline Letters. Karl P. Donfried expounds the theology of 1 and 2 Thessalonians, examining the cultural setting of these letters and the particular milieu in which their distinctive themes took shape. He shows that the notion of election is a key theme in the Thessalonian correspondence, while both letters have important things to say to people in our own day about Christ, about forgiveness, and about a sanctifying God who pours out his Spirit. I. Howard Marshall's study of Philippians brings out especially the understanding of the theological basis of the Christian life which underlies the letter, while his discussion of Philemon emphasises how the main theme of the letter is the relation between the gospel and Christian ethics; the implications of Paul's teaching on slavery are considered in a manner which goes much further than the surface of the text might imply.

A Review of the Troops: Social Economics in the Twentieth Century*

Abstract: Ellerman, David P. Socialization of Entrepreneurship: The Empresarial Division of the Cajas Laboral Popular, Somerville, MA: Industrial Cooperative Assoc., 1982. Ferguson, Charles. Macroeconomic Theory of Workable Competition, Durham: Duke University Press, 1964. Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas. "Inequality, Limits and Growth from a Bioeconomic Viewpoint," Review of Social Economy, December 1977. In 1991 the year of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Association for Social Economics Valparaiso University Professor James Henderson was commissioned to look ahead to the next fifty years and to the next century. He was asked to edit the winter 1993 issue of the Review of Social Economy with the theme "the challenges facing social economists in the twenty-first century." I was greatly honored when he asked me to look back before he looked forward to review what social economists had accomplished in our century; that is, to do something in the format of Alfred Marshall's talk to the Cambridge Economics Club in 1886 when he hoped to give, some estimate of the preparation which has been made by the nineteenth century and the old generation of economists for the new generation of economists and the twentieth century (1925, p. 295). To use the occasion of the turning of a century to appraise contributions to the development of social economics is a task as difficult as it is interesting, for there are no guiding criteria. Selection was reduced to picking the social economists who according to this writer best contributed to supplying the building blocks of a realistic and personalist economy. What follows then is a "review of the troops" -- a phrase borrowed from one of the social economists on the list, a truly great social economist of our century, Joseph A. Schumpeter (1950, part III, chap. 4) whose turn to be memorialized in the Review of Social Economy comes in the winter 1994 issue, one year after the "challenges" issue. Noticeably, many well-known economists are left off this list, as are some close colleagues; their work has not yet made as great an impact personally as the ones included or, however important, did not fit into this writer's personal overview of a workable and effective social economy. Understandably, the effort is flawed by the space limitations imposed by a journal article. But even a book may not do justice to such a task. An implication from Jim Henderson's invitation is clear however: it is not enough to look ahead, the heritage of social economics is rich and calls out for continuous synthesis building from the work of the scholars who have gone before us. 1. John Maynard Keynes. "The ideas which are here expressed so laboriously are extremely simple and should be obvious. The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones...." (Keynes, 1936, p. viii). With such views Keynes helps in sorting out the building blocks of social economics by insisting that philosophical premises -- that is, underlying ideas -- are important to the science. He convinces some of us in the preface to the General Theory of the need to examine the philosophical platform upon which a body of science is built, for if the platform is not constructed soundly the rest of the structure will not be sound. What Keynes called "classical" economics, the tradition that dominates from the time of the predecessors of Ricardo through Marshall, Edgeworth and Pigou and to the present, describes an economy "so limited and special," that "its teaching is misleading and disastrous if we attempt to apply it to the facts of experience" (Keynes, 1936, p. 3). The classical base rests on one of those philosophical ideas "which more than vested interest are dangerous for good or evil" (Keynes, 1936, p. 383). ... the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. …