Search results for "Postmodernism"

Towards Other Worlds, Towards Other Meanings: Screenplays on the Edge of the Plot

2015

Il saggio riguarda la tematizzazione del cinema nella letteratura, in particolare l'elaborazione di sceneggiature mai realizzate: dopo un'inquadratura generale dell'argomento, considera in particolare opere di Alba de Céspedes e Saul Bellow. The essay concerns cinema's representation in literature, focusing on novels about never realized screenplays, especially on those by Alba de Cespedes and Saul Bellow

The Clash of Epochs: Traditional, Modern, Postmodern, and Evolutionity

2019

Several authors have written about the clash of civilizations and have described it as the main form of conflict in today’s world. My thesis is that the clash of epochs is far more fundamental. It is the hitherto insufficiently noted ground on which different forms of conflict can take place. The clash of epochs, in the form of a conflict among traditional society, modernity, and postmodernity, has led the West to be internally torn apart and increasingly incapable of withstanding new emerging challenges. I argue that to reverse this trend, the Western world has to reconstruct itself again as a civilization. It needs to rediscover the value of its classical moral and intellectual traditions…

Mediated sacralization and the construction of postmodern communio sanctorum: The case of the Swedish foreign minister anna lindh

2005

In the media age, the linkage between mediated communities and images is established by the sacralization of images. Based on the theoretical insights of Michel Maffesoli and on an influential tradition in French sociology, which includes Emile Durkheim, Georges Bataille, and Rene Girard, this article attempts to apply the theory of sacred images to the empirical analysis of images in the media. The analysis of the Swedish and Finnish newspapers' visual coverage of the assassination of Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh suggests that the process of sacralization is actually performed as a communicative behavior involving the media and the crowd as the main actors and a number of symbols wh…

20th-century Baltic drama: comparative paradigms

2014

The paper pays attention to the issues of commensurability in the development of 20th-century Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian literatures. It focuses upon thematic and aesthetic patterns of Baltic drama during this time period which is further subdivided into two parts, the first and the second half of the 20th century. The discussion about the genesis of Baltic drama during the late 19th, early 20th century is followed by an analysis of the impact of the nation states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania upon the institutionalization and development of drama and theatre during the 1920s and 1930s. Special attention is then paid to the notion of socialist realism as the ideological tool of So…

Linguistic Therapy of Evaluation

2006

The linguistic therapy of evaluation (LTE) comes from the theory of general semantics (GS) developed by Alfred Korzybski. GS emphasizes the role that language plays in evaluating the world of “events,” that is, what is going on (WIGO in the individual’s world). GS is the science of both evaluation and values. “Evaluation” implies that a similar degree of importance is given to thinking and feeling. When evaluating an experience, we construe the world through language. Korzybski (1933, p. 24) defined a semantic reaction as “the psychological reaction of a given individual to words, language, symbols, and events, in connection with their meanings, and the psychological reactions, which become…

La ribellione delle lingue: interrelazione delle arti e poesia sperimentale

2018

Este artículo plantea una sintética historia del surgimiento de la poesía ex perimental en España, enfocada hacia la utopía expresiva de la integración de las artes como lenguaje supranacional y réplica al dominio de la imagen en la cultura de masas. This paper presents a synthetic history of the emergence of experimental poetry in Spain, focused on the expressive utopia of the integration of the arts as a supranational language and a replica of the hegemony of image in mass culture. Cet article présente une histoire synthétique de l’émergence de la poésie expérimentale en Espagne, centrée sur l’utopie expressive de l’intégra tion des arts en tant que langue supranationale et réplique de l’…

Markku Eskelisen Nonstop ja tekstuaalinen tila

2004

Theoretical orientations of spanish psychotherapists: Integration and eclecticism as modern and postmodern cultural trends.

2006

In this article, we focus on the theoretical orientations of Spanish psychotherapists with reference to the concepts of integration and eclecticism associated respectively with the cultural patterns of modernity and postmodernity. Data are reported from 179 Spanish therapists who responded to the Development of Psychotherapists Common Core Questionnaire (Orlinsky et al., 1999). The results indicated that these Spanish therapists do not show a tendency toward postmodern eclecticism, suggesting that present clinical practice in Spain still needs high-profile theoretical constructs.

The choice of tradition and the tradition of choice: Habermas’ and Rorty’s interpretation of pragmatism

1999

The paper is aimed at discussing two interpretations of pragmatism in a broader framework of general rules of philosophical interpretation. J. Habermas’ and R. Rorty’s uses of pragmatism are considered in detail and confronted with general assumptions of pragmatic philosophy. It is shown that in both cases the original ideas of pragmatism are changed in order to fit the philosophies of interpreters. The paper ends with discussion of a possibility of applying the rule of interpretative charity and dialogue to philosophical analyses.

On Long-Lasting Humanimal Friendships: Gayness, Aging, and Disease in Lily and the Octopus

2021

This paper analyzes the significance and structural development of the theme of aging in Steven Rowley’s debut novel, the bestselling Lily and the Octopus (2016), a narrative that extends and reinvents the literary approach to manhood through alternate forms of humanimal relations. The novel intersects postmodern conceptions of madness, grief, loneliness, intimacy, and death through a tragicomic exploration of the symmetry between an unlikely (insofar as literary tradition goes) couple: Ted, a gay white male in his early forties, and his senior female dachshund, Lily. As signs of the end of Lily’s life are fleshed out by the cancerous “octopus” that chokes her brain, Ted inadvertently paral…