Where the Roads Met: East and West in the Silk Production Processes (Seventeenth to Nineteenth Century). Claudio Zanier

Isis ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-131
Author(s):  
Nicola Di Cosmo
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Silk Production ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
East And West

The Federative Argument

2018 ◽  
pp. 135-152
Author(s):  
Holly Case
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Jewish Question ◽  
The Social ◽  
Universal Solution ◽  
The Creation ◽  
East And West

This chapter examines the federative argument, according to which the erasure of boundaries was the shared ideal of the age of questions. It first considers the Jewish question as an international problem requiring a universal solution before discussing how the social and European questions followed a trajectory from indefinite to definite, as did the solutions to those and other questions. It then explains how the notion of a European question was preceded by a rhetorical bundling of emergent questions, and goes on to analyze the concern expressed by many nineteenth-century querists that unresolved questions threatened the precarious unity of “Europe” itself, along with their argument that there should be a unified European response, the creation of a true and unified European field of action. The chapter also explores the idea of federation as a solution that provides equilibrium between geopolitical and social questions, and between East and West.

Beyond Dualism

2020 ◽  
pp. 122-132
Author(s):  
Clémence Boulouque
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
East And West ◽  
Science And Faith

Chapter 11 is devoted to Benamozegh’s presentation of Kabbalah as a vehicle for understanding and achieving religious unity and progress. His use of kabbalistic hermeneutics, predicated on the key concepts of coincidence of opposites, of berur (clarification) and of illuy (elevation), aimed (a) to suspend commonly held binaries such as science and faith, East and West, worldliness and transcendence, and (b) to prove Kabbalah’s affinity with nineteenth-century conceptions of assimilation and of progress.

Dialectics of Sovereignty, Compromise, and Equality in the Discourse on the “Tibetan Question”

boundary 2 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 153-179
Author(s):  
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Real Solution ◽  
The Status ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Cultural Project ◽  
East And West ◽  
Hearts And Minds

Since 1950, the Chinese government has determined the status and position of Tibetans, but it has not won the battle for Tibetans’ hearts and minds. Ongoing Tibetan resistance under Chinese rule points to serious fissures in the Chinese state’s ideological and cultural project of “liberating” Tibet. Wang Hui’s article “The ‘Tibetan Question’ East and West: Orientalism, Regional Ethnic Autonomy, and the Politics of Dignity” analyzes the March 2008 “riots” in and around Lhasa in order to understand the impediments to a real solution to the crisis in Tibet. This piece suggests that although Wang Hui offers productive ways of moving beyond the status quo, his analysis of Tibet is limited by multiple ideological contradictions that ultimately fail to lift Tibet out of the advanced/backward binary that typifies late nineteenth-century orientalism.

The Formation of Occultist Identities Amidst the Theosophy and Socialism of fin-de-siècle France

Tekstualia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (63) ◽  
pp. 23-48
Author(s):  
Julian Strube
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
July Monarchy ◽  
Major Aspect ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
East And West ◽  
Identity Formations

Fin-de-siècle occultism is usually analyzed within the context of the „occult revival” that implies the modernization of the older esoteric tradition. However, this notion is rooted in the defi ning esoteric discourses at the end of the nineteenth century. This article discusses two major aspects of these discourses. First, French esotericists polemically distanced themselves from the „Eastern” esotericism of the Theosophical Society by constructing an ésotérisme occidental. This separation of „East” and „West” occurred as a reaction to the T.S., and should thus be seen as a „nationalist” response to a global phenomenon. The second major aspect of occultist identity formations is socialism. Fin-de-siècle occultists were deeply interested in the socialist theories formulated during the July Monarchy but ambiguously distanced themselves from contemporary „materialist” socialisms.

Cultural Encounters with the Arabian Nights in Nineteenth-Century Britain

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Dickson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
British Literature ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
Arabian Nights ◽  
East And West ◽  
A Site

Aladdin, Sinbad, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Scheherazade winding out her intricate tales to win her nightly stay of execution: the stories of the Arabian Nights are a familiar and much-loved part of the English literary inheritance. But how did these tales become so much a part of the British cultural landscape? This book identifies the nineteenth century as the beginning of the large-scale absorption of the Arabian Nights into British literature and culture. It explores how this period used the stories as a means of articulating its own experiences of a rapidly changing environment. It also argues for a view of the tales not as a depiction of otherness, but as a site of recognition and imaginative exchange between East and West, in a period when such common ground was rarely found.

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