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1979 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-118
Author(s):  
Yi-Fu Tuan ◽  
R Matz ◽  
J H Bird ◽  
R D MacKinnon ◽  
J T Coppock ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Sacred Space ◽  
Economic Models ◽  
Coal Industry ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Social ◽  
Leisure And Recreation

scholarly journals Alienation and Emotion: Hegel Versus Sentimentalism and Romanticism

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Warren D. TenHouten
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Social World ◽  
The Self ◽  
Story Telling ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Early Modernity ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Domination

The structuralist and social-psychological perspectives on alienation are described, with attention to Seeman’s contention that the experience of alienation is based more on sentiment than on reason. The passions in early modernity are described, and the eighteenth-century moral sentimentalists Hume, Smith, and Kant are discussed. Romanticism is described as the first self-critique of modernity, as it opposed Enlightenment science, rationalism, and uniformitarianism; it is linked to interiorized emotionality and to diversitarianism. Romantic concepts of alienation include inhibition of natural sexuality, oppressive condition of work, and the loss of an imagined Golden Age before human alienation. Hegel’s Phenomenology outlines a four-stage mode of the undoing of social domination which has a narrative structure consistent with romantic story-telling, but was grounded not in romanticism but in Gnosticism and Lutheran dialectics. Hegel’s critique of sentimentalism and romantism is explored, with Hegel emerging as a dedicated anti-romantic who condemned the sophistry of Schlegel and Novalis’s ‘beautiful soul’, arguing that the self, to be viable, cannot remain encapsulated in inner subjectivity but must rather engage in emotion-laden confrontation with self-willed others in the social world; this requires a positive kind of alienation of the self from itself. Romantic effort to keep the self in itself as protection from the corrupted and corrupting social world was misguided. Hegel was right in asserting that the self is necessarily both subjective and objective, both inner and outer, but wrong in his contention that the self can progress by resolving inner contradictions, for the self, as the core of our personality, rather progresses through incorporating and elaborating contradictions, ambiguities, and polysemantic meanings.

scholarly journals The New Scottish Renaissance?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Hames
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Cultural Nationalism ◽  
Political Efficacy ◽  
The Self ◽  
Literary Fiction ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Self Image ◽  
The Social

This chapter examines the boom in Scottish literary fiction during the 1980s and 1990s, and the rhetoric of its presentation as a ‘new renaissance’. With this label came remarkably strong claims for the political efficacy of the contemporary literary novel — a phenomenon that has not attracted the interest it deserves from literary historians outside Scotland. In the two decades prior to devolution, the emergence of formally ambitious Scottish novelists sponsored a conflation of fiction and democracy which figured the novel as the locus of national self-representation and reinvention. While there is clear evidence of these writers’ influence on the self-image of post-devolution Scotland, a closer examination of their fiction and its staging of ‘Scottishness’ complicates any straightforward affiliation with cultural nationalism. The ‘new renaissance’ discourse, this chapter suggests, both inflates the social impact of these novelists and delimits the politics of their writing to the display of suppressed ‘identity’.

scholarly journals The Physician Louis Odier and the Medical Market in Geneva (1774–1817)

Gesnerus ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-75
Author(s):  
Philip Rieder
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
The Social ◽  
Medical Market ◽  
Late Eighteenth

Louis Odier was an active physician in late Eighteenth century Geneva. Studying his medical practice conveys an idea of the social impact of a doctor on the local medical market at the time. He encountered a series of economic and professional difficulties for which he found original solutions. Convinced that the practicing physician was capable of offering the best services, he sought to defend professional interests. By his intellectual and public activities, he contributed to medical knowledge and to medical policies; in his practice and by his reflexive thought, he strove to draw the contours of an “ethical” professional figure.

Education and an ambivalent Enlightenment

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian O'Connor
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Central Place ◽  
The Self ◽  
Female Education ◽  
Individual Character ◽  
The Social ◽  
Theories Of Mind ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Social Collective

This chapter highlights the central place of debates over education in Enlightenment thought, with particular attention to the interweaving of political and pedagogical concerns in the mid-eighteenth century. Influenced by sensationist theories of mind and of the self, thinkers during this period came to see education as formative of the individual character and of the social collective. This contributed to a deeply ambivalent strain in Enlightenment thought, one wherein the possibilities opened up by new ways of thinking about education were undercut by a sense of social, political, and institutional inertia. This ambivalent Enlightenment is analyzed in the works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Claude-Adrien Helvétius, and in debates over female education.

Providing Freshmen with a Good “Starting-Block”

2019 ◽  
Vol 78 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 69-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikaël De Clercq ◽  
Charlotte Michel ◽  
Sophie Remy ◽  
Benoît Galand
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Student Adjustment ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Pivotal Phase ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Study Task ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Belonging ◽  
Intention To Persist

Abstract. Grounded in social-psychological literature, this experimental study assessed the effects of two so-called “wise” interventions implemented in a student study program. The interventions took place during the very first week at university, a presumed pivotal phase of transition. A group of 375 freshmen in psychology were randomly assigned to three conditions: control, social belonging, and self-affirmation. Following the intervention, students in the social-belonging condition expressed less social apprehension, a higher social integration, and a stronger intention to persist one month later than the other participants. They also relied more on peers as a source of support when confronted with a study task. Students in the self-affirmation condition felt more self-affirmed at the end of the intervention but didn’t benefit from other lasting effects. The results suggest that some well-timed and well-targeted “wise” interventions could provide lasting positive consequences for student adjustment. The respective merits of social-belonging and self-affirmation interventions are also discussed.

The Social Impact of Suffering: Physical Pain Thwarts Social Needs

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Riva ◽  
James H. Wirth ◽  
Kipling D. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Physical Pain ◽  
The Social
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