scholarly journals The painter Meri Genetz and the endless quest for spiritual wisdom

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-73
Author(s):  
Sanna Ryynänen
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Emanuel Swedenborg ◽  
Hermes Trismegistus ◽  
In The Beginning

Meri Genetz (1885–1943) was a Finnish painter, esotericist, and a spiritual seeker. Around 1925, she began truly dedicating herself to spiritual seeking and started to make notes of her studies in black notebooks. This article will go through four of those notebooks which today offer a vivid picture of Genetz’s seeking between the years 1925 and 1943. In the beginning, Genetz acquainted herself with Gnosticism, Theosophy, and Kabbalah, as well as the works of Christian mystics, such as Emanuel Swedenborg and Jakob Böhme, the writings of, for example, Paracelsus, and texts attributed to the mythic figure Hermes Trismegistus. Gradually Genetz started to outline her own views, ideas, and theories regarding higher truth and spiritual wisdom. In the beginning of the 1930s her main quest came to be to find her ‘other half’ and become whole. She started attending Spiritualist séances, where she would ask about her other half and discuss the state of her soul, the souls of others, her art and marriage, and the books she had read. In time, Genetz’s quest for true wisdom and self-fulfilment became more and more restless and impatient. When she died in 1943, she was still seeking.

scholarly journals ‘We Too Have a Word to Say’

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-68
Author(s):  
Muzaffer Kaya
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Main Determinant ◽  
Governmental Policy ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Right ◽  
In The Beginning

This article seeks to explain how in the beginning of the 1960s in Turkey the right to strike was adopted as a social right. The existing literature is divided regarding the factors that led to the shift in governmental policy. While some argue that the state granted this right without any struggle on the side of the workers, others propose that the main determinant in the process was the struggle of workers. By scrutinizing the interaction between political developments at the state and party levels, and the actions of the workers in that period, I argue that the recognition of the right to strike was the combined result of several interrelated political developments at the local and global level.

scholarly journals Sonhando Moçambique

2004 ◽  
Vol 24 (33) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Andréa Vilela Gouvêia Quadra
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
The People ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Living State ◽  
Colonization Process ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
As If ◽  
The Invisible

<p>Como nação que lentamente se liberta do jugo da colonização, mas que  já foi (e ainda é) marcada pela cultura do outro, Moçambique tem, na  literatura, autores que conseguiram evidenciar a tensão existente entre a  tradição e a “cultura nova” que se infiltrou no território africano  principalmente a partir do processo de colonização. É de forma sensível  e desvestida de preconceitos que um desses autores, Mia Couto, em seu  romance <em>Terra sonâmbula</em>, aponta a existência dessa teia de influências  que atua na construção da identidade do povo moçambicano. Oral/ escrita;  sonho/ lógica e racionalidade: dois pares de aspectos que, se em princípio  parecem se constituir como dicotômicos, acabam por revelar, na obra, a  defesa de uma mestiçagem como condição harmonizadora da tensão entre  tradição e “cultura nova”. O caráter mestiço da nova Moçambique seria um terceiro “estado de alma” do povo; na obra, um estado <em>sonhambulante</em>:  estado de quem sonha, mas age como se estivesse acordado. Assim o  visível e o invisível, o possível e o impossível formam um novo <em>estado  de vivência</em>, onde seres e acontecimentos fantásticos dividem espaço (de  forma mais concreta que se pode pensar) com a guerra.</p> <p>As a nation that slowly frees itself from the colonization, but has been  (and it still is) stamped by other cultures, Mozambique has, in its literature,  autors that were able to show the tension between tradition and the new  culture, that had entered in Africa manly by the colonization process.  It´s in a sensitive way, with no prejudice that one of these authors, Mia  Couto, in his romance <em>Terra sonâmbula</em>, shows the existence of this  influence net that performs the identity building process of the people  from Mozambique. Oral/ written, dream/ logic and sense: two pairs of  aspects that, if in the beginning seem to be opposites, in this work, they  reveal themselves the defense of the halfcasteness as a balancing condition  of the tension between tradition and new culture. The halfcaste side of  the new Mozambique would be a third “soul state” of the people; in the  work, a “sonhambulante” state (this word is formed by three words:  dream sleep-walker and walking): the state of one who dreams, but acts  as if were awake. Thus, the visible and the invisible, possible and impossible  form a new living state, where beings and fantastic events share the  spaces (in a more concrete way that one may think) with the war.</p>

Risk in Law – Law in Risk: The 50th Annual Meeting of Public Law Assistants in Greifswald, 23–26 February 2010

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 551-567 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Kirchner ◽  
Sebastian Recker
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Public Law ◽  
The State ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Doctoral Studies ◽  
Academic Exchange ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Doctoral Candidates ◽  
Law Professors

The 50th Assistententagung, the annual meeting of public law assistants, convened this year in Greifswald. Greifswald is not only home to academic institutions, but also has a long legal history and is the host city of both the State Constitutional Court and the Highest Court of Administrative Law in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The meeting's aim was to facilitate an exchange between postdoctoral and doctoral candidates on questions relating to public law. Until 1959, the assistants in public law, who are usually conducting doctoral or post-doctoral studies, had been admitted to the annual meeting of public law professors. Assistants could benefit from professors' wealth of experience, including how to structure lectures and how to answer difficult questions, through participation in the Public Law Professors' Meeting. With the exclusion of non-professors from the annual Staatsrechtslehrertagung in the 1950s, assistants no longer had a forum to learn how to perform as academics. This exclusion resulted in the beginning of the annual meeting of German-speaking public law assistants in 1961 in Hamburg, to which not only postdoctoral candidates, but also doctoral candidates were welcomed. The meeting served as both a training course and an opportunity for academic exchange. And it was therefore in accordance with tradition that Jörg Scharrer, who hosted the first panel, had to ask the dean of the law faculty at Greifswald University, Prof. Dr. Axel Beater, to leave the building before opening the first session.

Evaluation of Natural Rubber from Clones of Hevea Brasiliensis

2002 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariselma Ferreira ◽  
Rogério M. B. Moreno ◽  
Paulo S. Gonçalves ◽  
Luiz H. C. Mattoso
Keyword(s):  
Natural Rubber ◽  
Linear Correlation ◽  
Hevea Brasiliensis ◽  
Cold Season ◽  
The State ◽  
Rubber Content ◽  
Good Linear ◽  
Mooney Viscosity ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Good Linear Correlation

Abstract The latex and natural rubber from rubber trees [Hevea brasiliensis (Willd. exAdr. de Juss.) Muell. Arg.] from clones (RRIM 600, IAN 873, GT 1 and PB 252) recommended to the state of São Paulo, Brazil, were studied in three different tapping systems. The parameters studied were dry rubber content (DRC), percentages of ash and of nitrogen, Wallace Plasticity (P0) and Mooney Viscosity (VR). The rubber properties vary considerably as a function of clone type, tapping method and season of the year. DRC tends to decrease in the beginning of the dry, cold season (May and June), whereas both nitrogen % and ash % increase in the same period. A good linear correlation was obtained for P0 and VR. The highest P0 and VR were obtained for RRIM 600.

Sociological analysis on the discourse of crisis in art

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
İnan Keser ◽  
Nimet Keser
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
The State ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Historical Continuity ◽  
Sociology Of Art ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
In The Beginning

For about a hundred and fifty years, it has been continuously expressed that art has been facing a deadly crisis and this crisis roots itself from the reality that there exists no concrete answer to the question of ‘what is art’. However related with the non-existence of consensus on what art is, it’s nothing more than a weak understanding to claim that it is impossible to talk about art. Thus, it can be acknowledged that the continuous repetition of the question of ‘what is art’ and non-existence of consensus on this subject is a clear proof of existence of a sharp struggle in art; and the state of non-consensus and historical continuity of the struggle can be acknowledged as the main source of dynamism of art. For this reason, in this study, it is acknowledged that non-existence of a concrete definition of art is a historical incident; and this controversial state about what art is and calling it the crisis of art itself was made the subject of a sociological analysis. In this analysis, it is concluded that; the actual crisis is not the crisis of art but that of aesthetics’; and that this crisis roots itself from the replacement of aesthetics regime (which dominated art for a very long time) with the non-aesthetic ‘artist regime’ in the beginning of 20th century and the nonfunctioning of aesthetics by this new regime. Keywords: art, sociology of art, aesthetics, art regime, artistic change.

RECONSIDERING THE AFFECTATORES REGNI

2015 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 224-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaclyn Neel
Keyword(s):  
Political System ◽  
Early Republic ◽  
The State ◽  
External Threats ◽  
The Republic ◽  
In The Beginning

In the beginning, Rome was ruled by kings. Their expulsion heralded the foundation of the Republic, a political system strong enough to withstand both internal and external threats to the state. Among these internal threats was the possibility of an elite man trying to set himself up as a king. Modern scholarship agrees that there were three such attempts to recreate a monarchy in the early Republic: Spurius Cassius in 485, Spurius Maelius in 439 and Marcus Manlius Capitolinus in 385/4. The affectatores regni purposefully courted the plebs in order to gain supreme power. But Roman virtue was too strong; all three men were caught, tried (either publicly or privately) and executed. Their possessions were seized and consecrated to the gods; their families shunned their memory. These attempts to establish tyranny revealed both the fragility and the power of the Republic.

The State of Polydispersion of Hevea Latex. II.

1947 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 409-415
Author(s):  
J. H. E. Hessels
Keyword(s):  
Particle Size ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Degree Of Polymerization ◽  
The State ◽  
Rubber Industry ◽  
Mean Particle Size ◽  
Degree Of Dispersion ◽  
The Mean ◽  
In The Beginning

Abstract The influence of the degree of dispersion in latex on the composition and properties of the rubber was studied in detail by means of a series of latices, the mean particle size of which ranged from 1.1 to 0.15µ in diameter. These fractions were first obtained by centrifugation of preserved latex, and the degree of distribution was measured by photomicrographic analysis and by sedimentation. This method of fractionation yields latices and rubbers with compositions which differ widely. With decrease in the size of the particles, their surface area per unit of rubber increases, and the percentage of nonrubber components which is adsorbed irreversibly or which is dissolved in the serum increases greatly. On the contrary, the degree of polymerization decreases with decrease in the diameter of the particles. This may be explained by the fact that, in the beginning, the polymerization of the globules is relatively low, and that it progresses under the influence of a catalyst present in the serum. In brief, then, systematic dispersoidal analysis of Hevea latex is of prime importance in the plantation rubber industry.

scholarly journals THE STRUGGLE OF IDEAS AND «THE NEW TURKEY»

2016 ◽  
pp. 22-31
Author(s):  
V. A. Nadein-Raevskiy
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
The Future ◽  
Hizmet Movement ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Said Nursi ◽  
Ruling Party

A famous Islamic philosopher Fethullah Gulen backed up the nowadays president Erdogan in the beginning of creation of his Justice & Development Party (AKP). Gulen though backed up Erdogan criticized some of his actions. He was against the "Freedom Flotilla" that was sent be Erdogan to raise the blockade of Gaza sector. He visited the Roma Pope while defending the idea of the "Dialog of civilizations" and was sharply criticized for this visit by the Islamists. In 2013 he criticized Erdogan for the police attacks against mass demonstrations of protest in Istanbul. Besides he sharply criticized corruption of the AKP officials. Erdogan was irritated by this criticism. In spite of many common ideas of contemporary «moderated Moslems» - the supporters of Erdogan and followers of Gulen severe inter-political struggle among them lead to massive attacks against gulenist's "Hizmet" Movement and Nurcilar (Nur movement - the followers of anti-secular cleric Said Nursi). In respond "Hizmet" started a broad campaign against corruption and nepotism among the Erdogan's supporters. The latter charged gulenists in conspiracy activities against the ruling party and "betrayal of Turkey". They closed gulenist's educational schools and started the cleansing campaign against "Hizmet" in the state structures. This struggle may influence on the ideologic basement and the future of Turkey.

scholarly journals Modern and Contemporary Art in the Russian Museum Context

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 63-74
Author(s):  
Marina V. Biryukova
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The State ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Traditional Art ◽  
Museum Exhibitions ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
Everyday Context

The article considers contemporary and modern art in Russia as reflected in museum curatorial projects. The concepts of large-scale museum exhibitions are based on certain categories that correspond to following qualities: the connection with the centuries-old tradition, myth-making, ludic aspects and internationality – openness to the perception of other cultures. The article analyses exhibition projects in the beginning of the twentieth century, in which contemporary art is demonstrated in the space of tradition, the media context, the everyday context and the context of cultural myths and symbols. The problem of determination of the aesthetic value of contemporary art is stressed in the space of the museum, and represented artworks receive a bigger expressiveness in the neighborhood of works of traditional art. Exhibition curators effectively use aesthetic and formal contrasts; sometimes classical artworks themselves suggest new ways of understanding meanings, hypothetically included in contemporary art – as seen in the projects at the Hermitage, the State Russian Museum and the State Tretyakov Gallery, where curators can unite or contrast tradition and modernity.

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