The Self-Aware Image: An Insight into Early Modern Meta-Painting

This article aims to explore the Shaykh-mur?d (disciple) or teacher-pupil relationship as portrayed in Western Sufi life writing in recent decades, observing elements of continuity and discontinuity with classical Sufism. Additionally, it traces the influence on the texts of certain developments in religiosity in contemporary Western societies, especially New Age understandings of religious authority. Studying these works will provide an insight into the diversity of expressions of contemporary Sufism, while shedding light on a phenomenon which seems to fly in the face of contemporary social and religious trends which deemphasize external authority and promote the authority of the self or individual autonomy.

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Die Eigen-Werte der Literatur

Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft ◽

10.28937/1000106149 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 54 (1) ◽

pp. 103-119

Author(s):

Matthias Bickenbach

Keyword(s):

The Self ◽

Literary Writing ◽

Self Organisation ◽

Insight Into

Eine der zentralen Fragen moderner Poetik ist, wie der Werkentstehungsprozeß von kreativer Materialfülle zur ästhetischen Bestimmtheit des Erzählten als autonomem Kunstwerk übergeht. Sten Nadolnys Poetikvorlesung gibt überraschende Einsichten in die Selbstorganisation von Steuerungsbewegungen, die noch unterhalb der Ebene des Schreibens liegen und die als Theorie der Eigenwerte in der Literatur herauszustellen ist. One of the central questions in modern poetics is, how literary writing proceeds from the creative richness of its material to an aesthetic determination as autonomous art. Sten Nadolnys lectures on his poetics enable an astonishing insight into the self-organisation of operations beyond writing, which can be considered as a theory of self-values in literature.

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Speed vs. comfort: Testing the efficacy of a single question for predicting transit users’ route choices

10.31234/osf.io/drj2a ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Joseph John Pyne Simons ◽

Ilya Farber

Keyword(s):

Data Collection ◽

Efficient Method ◽

Choice Task ◽

The Self ◽

Self Report ◽

Model Parameters ◽

Single Item ◽

Alternative Approach ◽

Single Question ◽

Insight Into

Not all transit users have the same preferences when making route decisions. Understanding the factors driving this heterogeneity enables better tailoring of policies, interventions, and messaging. However, existing methods for assessing these factors require extensive data collection. Here we present an alternative approach - an easily-administered single item measure of overall preference for speed versus comfort. Scores on the self-report item predict decisions in a choice task and account for a proportion of the differences in model parameters between people (n=298). This single item can easily be included on existing travel surveys, and provides an efficient method to both anticipate the choices of users and gain more general insight into their preferences.

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Women and Agency in Bankim’s Rajmohan’s Wife and Tagore’s The Home and The World

Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities ◽

10.21659/rupkatha.v12n5.rioc1s16n3 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (5) ◽

Author(s):

Manju Dhariwal ◽

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

The Self ◽

Indian English ◽

Colonial India ◽

English Novel ◽

The World ◽

The Status ◽

Insight Into ◽

Status Of Women

Written almost half a century apart, Rajmohan’s Wife (1864) and The Home and the World (1916) can be read as women centric texts written in colonial India. The plot of both the texts is set in Bengal, the cultural and political centre of colonial India. Rajmohan’s Wife, arguably the first Indian English novel, is one of the first novels to realistically represent ‘Woman’ in the nineteenth century. Set in a newly emerging society of India, it provides an insight into the status of women, their susceptibility and dependence on men. The Home and the World, written at the height of Swadeshi movement in Bengal, presents its woman protagonist in a much progressive space. The paper closely examines these two texts and argues that women enact their agency in relational spaces which leads to the process of their ‘becoming’. The paper analyses this journey of the progress of the self, which starts with Matangini and culminates in Bimala. The paper concludes that women’s journey to emancipation is symbolic of the journey of the nation to independence.

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The Baroque and Philosophy

The Oxford Handbook of the Baroque ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190678449.013.25 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 601-622

Author(s):

Michael Moriarty

Keyword(s):

Modern Philosophy ◽

Early Modern ◽

Visual Arts ◽

Common Sense ◽

The Self ◽

Early Modern Philosophy ◽

The World ◽

Baroque Art ◽

Art And Architecture

Although the concept “baroque” is less obviously applicable to philosophy than to the visual arts and music, early modern philosophy can be shown to have connections with baroque culture. Baroque style and rhetoric are employed or denounced in philosophical controversies, to license or discredit a certain style of philosophizing. Philosophers engage with themes current in baroque literature (the mad world, the world as a stage, the quest for the self) and occasionally transform these into philosophical problems, especially of an epistemological kind (are the senses reliable? how far is our access to reality limited by our perspective?) Finally, the philosophies of Malebranche and Berkeley, with their radical challenges to so-called common sense, and their explanation of conventional understandings of the world as based on illusion, have something of the disturbing quality of baroque art and architecture.

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“Industrious Revolution” Revisited: A Variety of Diligence Derived from a Long-Term Local History of Kuta in Kyô-Otagi, a Former County in Japan

Histories ◽

10.3390/histories1030014 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 (3) ◽

pp. 108-121

Author(s):

Satoshi Murayama ◽

Hiroko Nakamura

Keyword(s):

Early Modern ◽

Industrial Production ◽

Industrial Revolution ◽

Local History ◽

The Self ◽

Modern Times ◽

Original Theory ◽

Self Reliance ◽

History Of

Jan de Vries revised Akira Hayami’s original theory of the “Industrious Revolution” to make the idea more applicable to early modern commercialization in Europe, showcasing the development of the rural proletariat and especially the consumer revolution and women’s emancipation on the way toward an “Industrial Revolution.” However, Japanese villages followed a different path from the Western trajectory of the “Industrious Revolution,” which is recognized as the first step to industrialization. This article will explore how a different form of “industriousness” developed in Japan, covering medieval, early modern, and modern times. It will first describe why the communal village system was established in Japan and how this unique institution, the self-reliance system of a village, affected commercialization and industrialization and was sustained until modern times. Then, the local history of Kuta Village in Kyô-Otagi, a former county located close to Kyoto, is considered over the long term, from medieval through modern times. Kuta was not directly affected by the siting of new industrial production bases and the changes brought to villages located nearer to Kyoto. A variety of diligent interactions with living spaces is introduced to demonstrate that the industriousness of local women was characterized by conscience-driven perseverance.

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