From Darwin To Weil

Author : Petra Broomans
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9789077922644

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From Darwin to Weil by Petra Broomans Pdf

Cultural transmitters, or mediators, play an important role in the transmission and reception of literature. What is a cultural transmitter? What role do women play in the field of cultural transfer and transmission and how active were women in developing the profession of cultural transmitter?In this volume, the first in the series Studies on Cultural Transfer and Transmission (CTaT), a select group of scholars from various disciplines from Belgium, the Netherlands and Scandinavia discuss the concept of 'cultural transmitter' from a gender perspective. The importance of the ideologies women cultural transmitters themselves entertained concerning the reception of literature is also investigated.The essays demonstrate that religious, political and economic structures played guiding roles in the lives of many women cultural transmitters. Therefore, they dealt with feminism and sociopolitical issues, sexual politics, the practice of translation (to earn money), the role of women in society and how women were raised, the position of women writers and critics and religion. Examples of other fields in which women cultural transmitters were involved include science and philosophy. Furthermore, the discusssion of the concept of 'cultural transmitter' from a gender perspective reveals that religion, nation, womanhood and entrepreneurship are important aspects to be incorporated into any definition of a cultural transmitter.While the focus is on Scandinavia and the Dutch-speaking region in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the positions and activities of the cultural transmitters discussed can be 'translated' into other language areas and 'transferred' to other periods.

Author : Petra Broomans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Culture in literature
ISBN : 9492444631

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From Darwin to Weil by Petra Broomans Pdf

Author : Helen E. Cullen
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781525501807

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A Philosophical Anthropology Drawn from Simone Weil's Life and Writings by Helen E. Cullen Pdf

A Philosophical Anthropology Drawn from Simone Weil’s Life & Writings situates Weil’s thought in the time between the two world wars through which she lived, and traces Weil’s consistent conception of a mind-body dualism in the Cartesian sense to a dualism that places the mind within a carnal part of the soul and establishes an eternal part of the soul as the essence of human beings. Helen Cullen argues that in Weil’s early conception of human nature, her Cartesian conception of perception already shows a glimpse of the eternal. Weil’s dualistic conception also forms the basis of her political analysis of the left of her time, and through working in factories and in the fields, she develops a conception of labour as a theory of “action” and “work with a method.” Weil was influenced by leading thinkers of her time, prompting her to do an analysis of current scientific theories. Cullen argues that Weil’s analysis of Christianity, already present in Greek philosophy, shows us a theory of “identical thought” inherited from the East (India and China) and brought forth by peoples around Israel. This theory leads to Weil’s analysis, developed in The Need for Roots, of how we’ve been uprooted through colonization and how we can grow roots in a free local society (both rural and urban).

Author : Petra Broomans,Sandra van Voorst,Karina Smits
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789491431197

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Rethinking Cultural Transfer and Transmission by Petra Broomans,Sandra van Voorst,Karina Smits Pdf

Rethinking Cultural Transfer and Transmission. Reflections and New Perspectives formulates new directions within the studies on cultural transfer and transmission, including gender aspects of cultural transfer, the importance of cultural transfer for minority literatures and approaches to writing a cultural transfer and transmission history. The articles collected in this volume demonstrate that the field of cultural transfer and transmission is developing quickly and offers a variety of research possibilities. New aspects are scrutinised and new insights gained from rediscovered material, and although the discussion of the theoretical points of departure and the methods used has only just begun, it is already providing us with interesting results and insights. This book is Volume 4 in the book series Studies on Cultural Transfer & Transmission.

Author : Petra Broomans,Mathijs Sanders,Jeanette den Toonder,Elise Bijl
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789493194458

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Literary Prizes and Cultural Transfer by Petra Broomans,Mathijs Sanders,Jeanette den Toonder,Elise Bijl Pdf

Literary Prizes and Cultural Transfer addresses the multilevel nature of literary and translation prizes, with the aim of expanding our knowledge about them as an international and transnational phenomenon. The contributions to this book analyse the social, institutional, and ideological functions of such prizes. This volume not only looks at famous prizes and celebrities but also lesser known prizes in more peripheral language areas and regions, with a special focus on cultural transmitters and their networks, which play a decisive role in the award industry. Cultural transfer and translations are at the heart of this book and this approach adds a new dimension to the study of literary and translation prizes. The contributions reveal the diverse ways in which a cultural transfer approach enhances the study of literary prizes, presenting the state of the art regarding recent developments in the field. Articles with a broader scope discuss definitions, concepts, and methods, while other contributions deal with specific case studies. A variety of theoretical and methodological approaches are explored, applying field theory, network analysis, comparative literature, and cultural transfer studies. By providing multiple perspectives on the literary prize, this volume aims to contribute to our knowledge and understanding of this intriguing phenomenon.

Author : Petra Broomans
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789491431791

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Battles and Borders by Petra Broomans Pdf

Battles and Borders. Perspectives on Cultural Transmission and Literature in Minor Language Areas is about literature on the fringes of Europe. The authors all discuss the often unique ways in which literary history and cultural transfer function in peripheral and central regions against the background of shifting national borders in the last two centuries. Special attention is paid to minority and migrant groups in Northwest Europe. The present volume aims to prompt a reconsideration of the concepts of ‘minority' and ‘migrant' cultures and literatures in the past and the present day. It also suggests a new topic for further study: the importance of cultural transfer for migrant groups (whether or not they form a diaspora) and their ability to create new words and to develop new identities. This seventh volume in the Studies on Cultural Transfer and Transmission (CTaT) series is a spinoff of the research project ‘Peripheral Autonomy? Longitudinal analysis of cultural transfer in the literary fi elds of small language communities'. This project was carried out by scholars at the University of Groningen, Ghent University and Uppsala University. It started in 2006 and concluded with the publication in 2012 of Rethinking Cultural Transfer and Transmission. Reflections and New Perspectives.

Author : Petra Broomans,Marta Ronne
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9789077922811

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In the Vanguard of Cultural Transfer by Petra Broomans,Marta Ronne Pdf

Cover -- Table of contents -- Preface -- In the Vanguard of Cultural Transfer -- Spread the Word. Arne and Hulda Garborg as Cultural Transmitters of Nynorsk -- Marie-Elisabeth Belpaire and Dina Logeman-Van der Willigen: Two Cultural Transmitters in Flanders - in the Same Literary Field? -- Greta Baars-Jelgersma, Cora Sandel and the Dutch Literary Field, 1925-1950. Aspects of Cross-national Literary Transfer -- 'There is Always an Invisible Reader ... ' The Swedish Critic Margit Abenius and the Making of a Female Cultural Transmitter -- Walking the Streets of Helsinki. The Flâneur in Early Finnish Prose Literature -- One Nation - Two Literatures? From Finnish to Swedish: Some Themes in the Translation of Finnish Literature into Swedish, 1900-1950 -- About the Authors -- Bibliography -- Index

Author : Petra Broomans,Ester Jiresch
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789491431067

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The Invasion of Books in Peripheral Literary Fields by Petra Broomans,Ester Jiresch Pdf

Cover -- Table of contents -- Preface -- The Invasion of Books -- Contra-flows in Literary Journalism? Coverage of Foreign, Non-Western and Ethnic Minority Literatures in French, German, Dutch and American Newspapers, 1955-2005 -- Monsters and Blowflies. The Representation of Nynorsk and its Speakers in Three Norwegian Newspapers -- The Colour of Female Choice. Czech and Flemish Women's Magazines as Cultural Patchworks -- A New Golden Era for Finnish Poetry? Nuoren Voiman Liitto and Nihil Interit as Cultural and Literary Transmitters in the 1990s and 2000s -- In the Wake of a Nobel Prize. On Modern Icelandic Literature in Swedish1940-1969 -- Ways of Being. Familiarity with Playwrights as Expression of Taste -- Transmitter Profiles, Power Circles and Canonising Cultural Transfer. The Case of Annie Posthumus - the First Modern Scandinavist within Dutch Academia -- A Foreigner to Her Mother Tongue. Zenta Mauriņa (1897-1978) and Konstantin Raudive (1909-1974) as German-speaking Latvian Writers in Swedish Exile -- About the Authors -- Bibliography -- Index

Author : A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786601339

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Simone Weil and Continental Philosophy by A. Rebecca Rozelle-Stone Pdf

Offering new insight into the pertinence of Simone Weil’s thought, this volume situates her in the Continental discourses which constituted her philosophical background, her milieu, and which frequently reflected her departures from her contemporaries.

Author : Kristien Suenens
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789462702271

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Humble Women, Powerful Nuns by Kristien Suenens Pdf

Nineteenth-century female congregation founders could achieve levels of autonomy, power and prestige that were beyond reach for most women of their time. With a subject hidden for a long time behind a curtain of modesty and mystery, this book recounts the fascinating but ambiguous life stories of four Belgian religious women. A close reading of their personal writings unveils their conflicted existence: ambitious, engaged, and bold on the one hand, suffering and isolated on the other, they were both victims and promotors of a nineteenth-century ideal of female submission. As religious and social entrepreneurs these women played an influential role in the revival of the church and the development of education, health care and social provisions in modern Belgium. But, equally well, they were bound to rigid gender patterns and adherents of an ultramontane church ideology that fundamentally distrusted modern society.

Author : Philip Goodchild
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781786614254

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Credit and Faith by Philip Goodchild Pdf

In line with the development of political theology and economic theology in contemporary European thought, Credit and Faith offers a critical account of the faith structures within economic life and institutions. Goodchild’s ground-breaking work provides a philosophical appropriation of the economic dimension of the New Testament and fresh theological, philosophical and economic perspectives on the present. Covering the theological roots of the way economic life was, and is, articulated, the philosophical roots of value and debt and the economic roots of credit and creation, this book charts the emergence of early theories of capital and banking through a consideration of credit. It draws on some neglected historical figures, as well as Jules Lagneau, Simone Weil, the Kantian problem of freedom and necessity and a critical reading of the early Marx and of Nietzsche’s genealogy; through this Goodchild explains how the Financial Revolution was able to conceal the credit economy which was its foundation and foster the pursuit of self-interest instead of the common good. This innovative interweaving of theology, philosophy and economics constructs a new metaphysical framework for a critical account of the faith structures within economic life and institutions and returns to the practice of philosophy as a way of life – a practical, engaged, worldy discipline.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3210523

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Schmidt's Jahrbuecher by Anonim Pdf

Author : Athanasios Moulakis
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0826211623

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Simone Weil and the Politics of Self-denial by Athanasios Moulakis Pdf

Because it is impossible to distinguish Weil's life from her thought, her writings cannot be understood properly without linking them to her life and character. By situating Weil's political thought within the context of the intellectual climate of her time, Moulakis connects it also to her epistemology, her cosmology, and her personal experience.

Author : Betty McLane-Iles
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015013119220

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Uprooting and Integration in the Writings of Simone Weil by Betty McLane-Iles Pdf

This interdisciplinary study reviews the entirety of Simone Weil's writings on philosophy, history, science, religion, language, folklore and literature in order to give a total perspective of Weil's extensive contributions to twentieth-century thought. In each of these fields, the forces of uprooting and integration move towards a resolution of the problem of estrangement. The extent of Weil's study of the problem of alienation has long been underestimated and so has the value of her contributions. Among these were her role in the formulation of modern existentialist philosophies, her involvement with the crisis of determinism and her refusal of discontinuous forms of probability that had led to quantum mechanics, her denunciation of colonial policies and the bureaucratization of power and labor, and her search for original meaning in language, mythology and poetic expression. This study is an exploration of each of these areas in Weil's writings and the contribution of each to the dialectical power of the forces of uprooting and integration.

Author : Linda Kalof
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780199927159

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The Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies by Linda Kalof Pdf

Intellectual struggles with the "animal question"-- how humans can rethink and reconfigure their relationships with other animals-- first began to take hold in the 1970s. Over the next forty years, scholars from a wide range of fields would make sweeping reevaluations of the relationship between humans and other animals. The Oxford Handbook of Animal Studies brings these diverse evaluations together for the first time, paying special attention to the commodification of animals, the degradation of the natural world and a staggering loss of animal habitat and species extinction, and the increasing need for humans to coexist with other animals in urban, rural and natural contexts. Linda Kalof maps these themes into the five major categories that structure this volume: Animals in the Landscape of Law, Politics and Public Policy; Animal Intentionality, Agency and Reflexive Thinking; Animals as Objects in Science, Food, Spectacle and Sport; Animals in Cultural Representations; and Animals in Ecosystems. Written by international scholars with backgrounds in philosophy, law, history, English, art, sociology, geography, archaeology, environmental studies, cultural studies, and animal advocacy, the thirty chapters in this handbook investigate key issues and concepts central to understanding our current relationship with other animals and the potential for coexistence in an ecological community of living beings.