bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Mäzenatentum und Selbstdarstellung in Exil
Authors: Schiltz Katelijne
Published: September 2021

Während der 1530er und 1540er Jahre wirkten die Florentiner fuorusciti Neri Capponi und Ruberto Strozzi in ihrem venezianischen Exil als Mäzene der Musik. Silvestro Ganassi dal Fontego widmete ihnen seine "Regola Rubertina" (1542-43), Antonfrancesco Doni lobte Capponis ausgezeichneten Geschmack in seinem "Dialogo della musica" (1544), und Girolamo Parabosco widmete Strozzi sein Buch fünfstimmiger Madrigale (1546). Beide fuorusciti hatten ein besonderes Interesse an der Musik Adrian Willaerts; dies geht unter anderem aus den Texten Ganassis und Donis hervor. Zum Beispiel entstand Willaerts berühmteste Sammlung "Musica Nova" (1558-59) in den Kreisen dieser Florentiner Patrizier. Das Exilthema wird in dieser Sammlung von Motetten und Madrigalen jedoch nie explizit behandelt. Musik scheint den fuorusciti eher dazu gedient zu haben, ihre eigene Position und ihr Image als mächtige Politiker zu bestätigen und zu verstärken.
Über die allmähliche Verfertigung musikalischer Gedanken beim Schreiben
Authors: Appel Bernhard R.
Published: September 2021

Plädiert wird für die systematische Erforschung kompositorischer Schreibprozesse als Schlüssel zum individuellen kompositorischen Denken. Entscheidende methodische und analytische Vorleistungen hat die musikwissenschaftliche Skizzenforschung erbracht, doch immer noch verdunkeln Mythen das Verstehen von Schaffensprozessen. Die literaturwissenschaftliche critique génétique vermag weiterführende methodische Anregungen zu geben.
Einige ungewohnte Bemerkungen über die "Zauberflöte" oder: Pamina walzt, Tamino sitzt im Wirtshaus
Authors: Maurer Zenck Claudia
Published: September 2021

Die Dramaturgie in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts "Zauberflöte", insbesondere das Verhalten Taminos Pamina gegenüber, ist von einer psychologischen Unlogik geprägt. Zum einen geht dies sicher auf das Libretto Emanuel Schikaneders zurück, zum anderen ging es Mozart darum, das Publikum mit Komik zu konfrontieren.

bms online (Oliver Schöner)
unveröffentlichte Bühnenmusik von Pierre Boulez zu Nietzsches/Barraults philosophischer Prosa-Dichtung "Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra" (1974)
Authors: Zenck Martin
Published: September 2021

Pierre Boulez' "Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra" nach Friedrich Nietzsche gehört in den Kontext der Entwicklung einer neuen Oper. Die Betrachtung der Skizzen zeigt, dass serielle Musik und Theatralität beziehungsweise Körperlichkeit kein Widerspruch sind.

bms online (Oliver Schöner)
"Wider das Vergessen"
Authors: Hommes Marie-Therese
Published: September 2021

Karl Amadeus Hartmann, während des Dritten Reichs in der inneren Emigration und nach eigener Aussage Verweigerer jeglicher Öffentlichkeit in Hitlerdeutschland, schrieb die Schauspielmusik zu William Shakespeares "Macbeth" für eine Produktion des Bayerischen Staatsschauspiels im März 1942. In der gesamten Münchner Presse wurde Hartmanns Musik mit hoher Anerkennung aufgenommen; man sprach von einer Veroperung der Inszenierung. Hartmanns musikalische Dramaturgie, die sich inhaltlich auf die "Macbeth"-Interpretation Gustav Landauers stützt, konstituiert sich in einer Vielzahl flexibler musikalischer Motive und kleiner Nummern, für die er eine Instrumentalbesetzung symphonischen Ausmaßes vorsah, fallweise erweitert durch solistische und chorische vokale Elemente. Mit diesem Netzwerk stand Hartmann ein Instrumentarium zur Verfügung, das ihm auf der musikalischen Ebene, über die Vorgaben der Textebene hinaus, ein entschiedenes Eingreifen in den szenischen Text und damit eine eigenständige Interpretation jenseits der Lesart des Regisseurs ermöglichte, um in einer zweiten Schicht über der ersten eine deutlich auf das aktuelle nationalsozialistische Zeitgeschehen bezogene politische Stellungnahme zu etablieren. Durch Zitate verknüpfte Hartmann die "Macbeth"-Musik mit seinen ab 1933 entstandenen Werken und den in ihnen eingekapselten Kodierungen, die seine Art des Widerstands gegen das NS-Regime reflektieren. Gleichwohl musste er den Vorwurf riskanter Subversion nicht fürchten: einerseits, weil die wenigen Uraufführungen seiner Werke dieser Zeit im europäischen Ausland stattfanden, demnach nicht an die deutsche Öffentlichkeit gelangt waren, andererseits, weil er in einer geschickten Doppeldramaturgie seine eigentliche, chiffrierte Botschaft hinter einem äußeren Konzept verbarg, das den Normen der NS-Ästhetik nicht zuwiderlief.
Richard Strauss' Brief vom 17. Juni 1935 an Stefan Zweig
Authors: Splitt Gerhard
Published: September 2021

Richard Strauss' Brief vom 17. Juni 1935 an Stefan Zweig wurde von der Gestapo abgefangen und führte zu Strauss' Entlassung als Präsident der Reichsmusikkammer, in der er zu seiner Zeit als einziger den Status eines Beamten innehatte. Die zuletzt genannte Tatsache war bislang ebenso unbekannt wie der korrekte Wortlaut des bewussten Briefes, der anhand einer fehlerhaften Abschrift publiziert wurde. Der handschriftlich verfasste Brief gilt als verschollen, eine im Bundesarchiv befindliche Fotokopie ist indessen erhalten geblieben. Sie wird als Faksimile wiedergegeben und transkribiert.
Changement organisationnel : Quel rôle pour les acteurs ?
Authors: NOUIKER Fatima Ezzahra
Published: September 2021

De nos jours, le changement des organisations aussi bien privées que publiques s’impose pour affronter un environnement caractérisé par l’évolution rapide et accélérée. Il peut avoir pour objectifs le développement de l’organisation, la réalisation de la performance, la résolution d’un problème ou la survie tout simplement en cas de risque de disparition du marché …

A ce niveau, le changement ne peut se réaliser sans la présence d’un certain nombre d’acteurs ayant chacun un rôle à jouer pour faire aboutir le processus. Il s’agit du leader de l’organisation, du chef de projet, de l’équipe de changement, des managers intermédiaires, des destinataires du changement et des consultants externes.

Le présent article a pour objectif d’expliciter les rôles des acteurs du changement à partir de la revue de littérature y relative.
Using ICTs in Promoting EFL Learners' Oral Skills
Authors: Ahmed Eltayeb Mohammed Intisar
Published: September 2021

The current paper aimed to investigate the importance of using information communication technology in EFL and it is a role in enhancing teaching oral skills. To fulfill the objective of the study the researcher used the descriptive-analytical approach. Finally, it is concluded that using ICTs have many benefits in teaching and learning EFL especially in the field of oral communication as it provides EFL students with the required aids and method to practice oral skills.
Financial projects and loans with different, decursive annuities, interest rates and capitalization periods with the use of excel
Authors:   University of Tuzla, Rešić Sead , Ramaj Vehbi , Petković Biljana ,   University of “Haxhi Zeka”,   Alfa BK University,   University of Tuzla, Aganović Samira
Published: September 2021

The authors of the paper have innovated and explored the theory of size relations of a financial project, the duration of its creation, the determination of its price, the duration of use and financing of the price of a project. The duration of use of a financial project has two planned time intervals. The first time interval is planned for repayment of the loan amount of the project price, and the second one is for acquisition of the planned profit. A new model of loan repayment is used – with different; decursive annuities, interest rates and periods of capitalization. The introduced theory was applied to calculations in the form of a financial project model using Excel.
Annual Awards to Teachers in Mathematics and Computer Science & IT
Authors:   Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Vassileva Albena
Published: September 2021

This paper presents the winners of the 2021 Awards to Teachers in Mathematics and Computer Science given annually by the International Foundation “Sts. Cyril and Methodius” for high achievements in identifying and developing gifted students in the last five years. The winners of the annual awards are determined jointly with the Union of Mathematicians in Bulgaria.
Teaching the Notion Conic Section with Computer
Authors:   New Bulgarian University, Marinov Marin , Asenova Petya ,   New Bulgarian University
Published: September 2021

The article discusses the problem of introducing and constructing mathematical concepts using a computer. The Wolfram Mathematica 12 symbolic calculation system is used at each stage of the complex spiral process to form the notion of conic section and the related concepts of focus, directrix and eccentricity. The nature of these notions implies the use of appropriate animations, 3D graphics and symbolic calculations. Our vision of the process of formation of mathematical concepts is presented. The notions ellipse, parabola and hyperbola are defined as the intersection of a conical surface with a plane not containing the vertex of the conical surface. The conical section is represented as a geometric location of points on the plane for which the ratio of the distance to the focus to the distance to the directrix is a constant value. The lines of hyperbola and ellipse are determined by their foci. The equivalence of different definitions for conical sections is commented.
Academic culture of Pakistani medical colleges
Authors: Shahzad Shahmain
Published: September 2021

ABSTRACT

Objectives:

There is a discrepancy between the theory and practice in the academic culture in the medical schools in Pakistan. The overall academic culture and educational armamentarium in Pakistani medical colleges is outdated and is teacher and administration centric. This scoping review is done to highlight these discrepancies and to shed light on problems faced in the academic culture of medical colleges.

 

Methods:

Out of the 98 studies identified relevant to the topic, 27 studies were included in this scoping review. These studies were obtained from PubMed, ERIC and Google Scholar. This review was supported by framework proposed by Arksey and O’Malley.

 

Results:

The scoping review highlighted that the students responded well to clear study objectives, practical application of knowledge over memorization, interactive nature of the teachers and a comfortable and properly equipped learning environment. The absence of aforementioned amenities and facilities enabled poor results, high stress in students and overall low academic performances of medical colleges. Along with that a lack of formal training of teachers and a passive participation of students in research opportunities were also displayed.

 

Conclusion:

The academic culture in Pakistan’s medical and dental colleges display a lack of modern and innovative learning and teaching facilities, which has a negative impact on student performance and growth. A collaborative approach, with active participation from all stakeholders involved can curb a lot of these problems, given proper funding and good leadership.
Exploring the Preferred Learning Styles among Undergraduate Medical Students and Postgraduate Residents by Using VARK Inventory
Authors: Ahsan Amna , Talat Nabila , Fayyaz Saira
Published: September 2021

Background: Factors which influence learning are educators, students, curriculum, and educational environment. To support the learning environment, educators should be aware of the different learning styles of students, so as to efficiently design the teaching strategies and methodologies to cater to the learning needs of students.

Objectives: To determine various learning styles of undergraduate medical students and postgraduate residents by using the VARK questionnaire. To determine the comparison between learning styles of undergraduates and postgraduates.                 

Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted about the learning style preferences of undergraduate medical students and postgraduate residents of Fatima Jinnah Medical University, Lahore, and Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Lahore. The VARK questionnaire was used to categorize the learning styles as Visual (V), Auditory (A), Read and Write (R) and Kinesthetic (K). This study was conducted from 15 July to 15 August 2019. A total of 208 students were selected randomly from final year MBBS and postgraduate residents of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Lahore.

Results: Among 208 students, 102 were undergraduate students and 106 were postgraduate residents. The most common learning style was Kinesthetic (34%) followed by Auditory (29%), Visual (20%), and Read/Write (17%). The unimodal and multimodal percentage of students was 62% and 38% respectively.

Conclusion: The majority of undergraduate students and postgraduate residents in this study had unimodal learning styles. The most common learning style of all students was Kinesthetic (K) which was followed by Auditory (A), Visual (V), and Read/Write (R).

Keywords: Learning styles, VARK, Postgraduate residents
The Nature of the Computing and Natural Science in Engineering Education
Authors: Andonova Bojadzievski , kulkarni Ramesh
Published: September 2021

In engineering, the interdisciplinary essence of the Computing and Natural Science (CNS) as well as its relations with
other fields are described. This paper presents a discussion of the phases by which CNS education evolve from the recognition of
initial growth in the '80's to current growth. The limitations and potential benefits of varying CNS education methodologies are
addressed, and so is the advancement of the number of the foundational elements, which are common to most strategies. The
CNS course content, grades and curriculum are examined and all bachelors’ programs are surveyed. The curricula of the various
programs are examined and discussed for their relative weighting for the standard "toolkit."
Artificial Intelligence for Smart Systems Critical Analysis of the Human Centered Approach
Authors: Hajnal Zoran Galic
Published: September 2021

A program for Artificial Intelligence (AI) is knowledge as intelligent agent, which typically interacts with the ecosystem. This agent is capable of identifying the status of the ecosystem using the sensors before affecting the state via the actuators. We call the smart systems "agents” whenever they are able to make some decisions on their own with respect on particular goals. On the other hand, Machine Learning (ML) signifies a specific strategy meant to design smart systems whereby these systems can adapt to specific behaviors with respect to data. In the modern age, humans are rapidly collaborating with ML and AI systems. The AI that is human-based is a perspective of ML and AI, which algorithms have to be established with the awareness that they are a major segment of the massive system incorporating human. In this paper, we have presented a research that means that AI systems understand humans with respect to their socio-cultural aspects and that AI system assist humans comprehend them. We also present an argument of the challenges of social responsibility e.g. transparency, interpretability, accountability and fairness.
Big Data Analytics and Natural Data Design for Enterprise Management
Authors: Stojkovic Zlatan
Published: September 2021

The advancement of Internet of Things (IoT), economic globalization, consumer satisfaction and competitive advancements have stimulated companies to transform significantly. In that regard, competitive rivalry among various firms is being replaced by the existing rivalry among businesses and their various enterprises. In the present competitive environments, enterprise experts are focusing on dealing with Big Data (BD) to reach agile, effective, efficient and integrated enterprises. Therefore, explosive development in volume and several data types in the business have presented the need to establish technological advancements that can quickly and intelligently assess large sets of data. The concept of Data Analytics (DA) is one of the most effective remedies that can assist firms to overcome challenges. DA provides an instrument for retrieving insightful data and patterns in massive volumes of information. In that case, this study explores the usage of DA.
Lean Implementation Barriers and the duality of lean in an Organisations
Authors: Austin Williams , Adebayo Faith
Published: September 2021

Lean strategy is all about elimination of waste and redundant process; competitive benchmarking, introducing continuous improvement programs, preventive maintenance optimization, cycle time reduction, just-in-time (JIT), new process improvement, quality management programs, value engineering, self-directed work team, total quality management. The study investigates how people and duality of lean impacts lean implementation in organizations, looking at the case of the food processing manufacturing firms in Nigeria. To achieve the objective, the study employed Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) using data collected from 340 questionnaire collected from food processing firms in Nigeria. It was discovered from the study that factors hindering implementation of lean could be in the form of poor communication strategy within organisation, organizational culture, organisational knowledge, management support, policies on human development. The paper concludes that lean implementation does not have a stand-alone methodology, but the existence or lack of the identified factors may make or hinder successful implementation of lean especially in the food processing manufacturing companies in Nigeria.
Institucionalização de pescarias artesanais e diálogo equitativo: o caso do molusco berbigão (Anomalocardia brasiliana) na Reserva Extrativista Marinha do Pirajubaé
Authors: Casagrande Alana , Rover Oscar José
Published: September 2021

Este trabalho analisa a institucionalização da pescaria do molusco berbigão (Anomalocardia brasiliana) na Reserva Extrativista Marinha do Pirajubaé (RESEX) em Florianópolis – SC. Para tanto, foram avaliadas a autonomia dos/as pescadores(as) artesanais e a presença de diálogo equitativo entre os atores. O enfoque teórico-metodológico adotado é o da sociologia da tradução, uma das vertentes da Teoria Ator-rede (Actor-network theory - ANT). Foram realizadas pesquisa bibliográfica, documental e de campo. A institucionalização da pescaria do berbigão envolve a formação de uma rede sociotécnica cuja trajetória abrange quatro fases. Essas fases vinculam problemáticas de gestão da pescaria específicas negociadas e traduzidas pelos diferentes atores envolvidos, tais como: a sustentabilidade ecológica do manejo pesqueiro, a construção de mercados justos para o berbigão e o reconhecimento das mulheres na cadeia extrativista. Dentre essas, a sustentabilidade ecológica do manejo pesqueiro, através da regulamentação ambiental, foi priorizada na gestão. A institucionalização foi influenciada pela criação da área protegida sobre o território pesqueiro, por conflitos decorrentes da fiscalização ambiental e de obras de infraestrutura urbana, por consensos e tensões entre saberes científicos e tradicionais e, mais recentemente, pelo colapso repentino da pescaria. As instituições criadas, tais como os regramentos de pesca, agem como mediadores na rede definindo papéis, direitos e deveres para o uso dos recursos. A legitimidade das instituições foi maior quando o diálogo equitativo e a autonomia dos/as pescadores/as foram promovidos na tomada de decisão. Políticas públicas de desenvolvimento socioeconômico e de inclusão das mulheres em RESEX Marinhas devem ser fortalecidas, visando garantir qualidade de vida e condições equitativas de participação social. A sociologia da tradução — ANT — apresenta contribuição inovadora ao estudo da gestão de recursos naturais comuns, pois permite compreender como as instituições são produzidas e seu papel na estabilização das redes sociotécnicas, privilegiando dinâmicas de coprodução entre os mundos técnico, social, econômico e natural.
NATEGLINIDE SILICA LIPIDHYBRID PARTICLES FOR IMPROVED SOLUBILITY
Authors: Tiwari Shradha , Wadher Shailesh , Gattani Surendra
Published: September 2021

Porous silica-based drug delivery systems have shown substantial potential for improving the oral delivery of poorly water-soluble drugs.The major problem with nateglinide, a BCS Class II drug, is pHdependent solubility, limited aqueous solubility, poor dissolution and variable bioavailability. The aim of the present investigation was to develop a lipid-based solid formulation of nateglinide, as a strategy to improve both the solubility and the dissolution rate of the drug in a tablet dosage form. The silica lipid hybrid (SlH) particles were formulated using Miglyol812 and Acrysol el 135 as liquid lipid vehicles as well aslabrasol and Transcutol HP as surfactants.Nateglinide was dissolved in different lipids and later adsorbed on highly porous silica Sylloid PF244 to obtain free-flowing powders. The prepared nateglinide SlH was characterized by FT-IR, DSC, and XRD.Nateglinide SlH was evaluated for solubility and dissolution. SlH of NTG prepared with Miglyol 812 and Transcutol HP enhanced solubility of NTG 57.21 fold. From the study, it may be concluded that the oral solid lipid-based formulation, SlH has an improved potential for enhancing solubility and dissolution of BCS class II drugs like nateglinide.
DEVELOPMENT AND CHARACTERIZATION OF MUCOADHESIVE PATCHES OF NICERGOLINE FOR BUCCAL DRUG DELIVERY BY USING FACTORIAL DESIGN OF EXPERIMENT (DOE)
Authors: . Sagar , Sethi V. A. , Tyagi L. K.
Published: September 2021

The aim of this research was to develop mucoadhesive buccal patches of nicergoline by using Factorial Design of Experiment, in order to provide a sustained release of drug into the systemic circulation. A 33 factorial experimental design was employed for optimization and to study the effect of formulation variables on responses R1 (% swelling index), R2 (% drug content), R3 (mucoadhesion time) and R4 (mucoadhesion strength). In vitro drug release study was performed on the optimized formulations. All the prepared formulations had good mechanical strength, mucoadhesion strength, neutral surface pH and drug content up to 98.17%. In vitro drug release study revealed that F-5 formulation showed promising sustained drug release profile (98.21%) for over 8 h and could be a potential substitute for marketed conventional formulations. The developed formulation (F5) was found to be optimized with considerably good stability and extended drug release profile.
Scatter 2
Authors: Bennington Geoffrey
Published: September 2021

Scatter 2 identifies politics as an object of perennial difficulty for philosophy—as recalcitrant to philosophical mastery as is philosophy’s traditional adversary, poetry. That difficulty makes it an attractive area of attention for any deconstructive approach to the tradition from which we inevitably inherit our language and our concepts. Scatter 2 pursues that deconstruction, often starting, and sometimes departing, from the work of Jacques Derrida, by attending to the concepts of sovereignty on the one hand, and democracy on the other. Part I follows the fate of a line from Book II of Homer’s Iliad, where Odysseus asserts that “the rule of many is no good thing, let there be one ruler, one king,” as it is quoted and misquoted, and progressively Christianized, by authors including Aristotle, Philo Judaeus, Suetonius, the early Church Fathers, Aquinas, Dante, Ockham, Marsilius of Padua, Jean Bodin, Etienne de la Boétie, up to Carl Schmitt and Erik Peterson, and even one of the defendants at the Nuremberg Trials, before being discussed by Derrida himself. Part II begins again, as it were, with Plato and Aristotle, and tracks the concept of democracy as it regularly impacts and tends to undermine that sovereignist tradition, and, more especially in detailed readings of Hobbes and Rousseau, develops a notion of “proto-democracy” as a possible name for the scatter that underlies and drives the political as such, and that will always prevent politics from achieving its aim of bringing itself to an end.
Politics in Deconstruction
Authors: Bennington Geoffrey
Published: September 2021

Following Derrida, it is argued that the inherited nature of our language and concepts means thinking always involves reading if that inheritance is to be criticized and perhaps resisted. Among inherited concepts, “politics” (as much as philosophy’s traditional adversary poetry) seems a promising one for such a process of reading.
Polykoiranie I (Derrida, Homer, Aristotle, Xenophanes)
Authors: Bennington Geoffrey
Published: September 2021

The chapter begins from Derrida’s quoting of Aristotle quoting a line from Homer as to the superiority of a single ruler over many. Derrida’s use of this line to align Aristotle with Plato in his treatment of the One God is challenged by careful consideration of many ambiguities that arise once the Homer line is read in the context from which it emerges. The complexity of the relation between the One God and the many gods of polytheism is introduced via Xenophanes’ theology.
Stasiology (Rothaug, Peterson, Schmitt, Gregory of Nazianzus)
Authors: Bennington Geoffrey
Published: September 2021

Beginning with a curious invocation of our line from Homer by one of the defendants at the so-called “Justices Trial” at Nuremberg, the chapter analyses the famous exchange over “political theology” between Carl Schmitt and Erik Peterson. The inconsistencies of Peterson’s argument are brought out, and attention is drawn to the importance of the use he makes in establishing the supposed impossiblity of a Christian political theology of a quotation about the Trinity from Gregory of Nazianzus. Schmitt’s own claim as to a “stasiology” at the heart of the doctrine of the Trinity, that would support the thought of a political theology of Christianity, is shown to rely on an egregious misreading of Gregory’s text, but doubt is nonetheless cast on the ability of that doctrine successfully to solve the problems associated with the self-destructive properties of the One, as more clearly brought out by Derrida.
Embodying Solidarity on Catholic Campuses: The Case of Worker Justice
Authors: Beyer Gerald J.
Published: September 2021

This chapter focuses on the situation of adjunct faculty, the largest group of contingent faculty. The chapter presents what the author perceives to be the unjust, dire circumstances of these faculty members. The author appeals to the ideals of solidarity, justice, the option for the poor, the common good, and the workers’ rights tradition of Catholic social teaching to evaluate the adjunct situation. The situation of adjunct faculty is presented vis-à-vis expenditures on athletics and salaries of the highest paid university employees to raise the question of mission-oriented priorities. After describing the situation on the ground, the author argues that complicity in the unjust treatment of adjuncts at Catholic universities glaringly violates CST. Moreover, perpetuating this situation by appealing to its purported inevitability, budgetary constraints, or the excuse that “everybody else is doing it” seriously undercuts the mission of Catholic institutions of higher learning. After critiquing the efforts to prevent adjunct faculty from forming unions, which exacerbates an already unjust situation and runs the risk of causing scandal, the author turns to some of the positive steps taken at Catholic colleges and universities to improve the situation of adjunct faculty.
Socially Responsible Investment, the Stewardship of University Resources, and Integral Ecology
Authors: Beyer Gerald J.
Published: September 2021

This chapter stresses the need for Catholic colleges and universities to engage in the just stewardship of resources. First, the author argues that all Catholic institutions must take seriously the notion of socially responsible investment, informed by the principles of Catholic moral theology and Catholic social teaching. The chapter then considers whether divestment from fossil fuels is a moral imperative and discusses how socially responsible investment principles should also inform whether Catholic institutions can accept donations from individuals, corporations, or government agencies that may have done grave harm to either people or the planet. The author advances the argument that Catholic colleges and universities have a duty to fulfil the vision of integral ecology in Catholic social teaching by implementing “micro-level actions” and promoting systemic level changes to promote sustainability. The chapter also surveys some of the efforts of Catholic institutions to green their campuses and contends that these institutions must recognize that integral ecology relates to both environmental sustainability and human welfare, including the welfare of workers on campus and in their supply chains.
Hegel’s Apprentice: from Speculative Idealism to Speculative Materialism
Authors: Brown Nathan
Published: September 2021

Chapter 4 identifies the epistemological limits of Hegel’s idealism, showing that the concept of the whole is incompatible with Hegel’s methodological alternation between reason and experience. Since this method relies upon the movement of becoming, it is incompatible with the “annulment of time” at the end of the Phenomenology of Spirit and the Science of Logic. I argue that Quentin Meillassoux’s development of a “speculative materialist” philosophy responds directly to this methodological contradiction in Hegel’s work and, in particular, to its consequences for the theory of time. Mediating between my reading of Hegel and my reading of Meillassoux is Heidegger’s theory of the ontological difference. I argue that Meillassoux’s effort to sustain the philosophical consequences of the ontological difference is the key to understanding and appreciating the stakes of his theory of absolute contingency.
Hegel’s Kilogram: Taking the Measure of Metrical Units
Authors: Brown Nathan
Published: September 2021

While Chapter 4 pursues the ontological consequences of a shift from speculative idealism to speculative materialism, Chapter 5 engages the ontic scope of scientific practice in detail. I consider the recent project in scientific metrology to redefine the kilogram unit in terms of Hegel’s theory of measure, as the unity of quantity and quality. The chapter offers a detailed description of experimental approaches to redefining the kilogram, situating this project with respect to the history of the metric system.
Coda: Structure and Form
Authors: Brown Nathan
Published: September 2021

Form may be considered as ideal, material, or phenomenal, designating mathematical or conceptual abstractions, physical shapes, or exterior appearances. Structure mediates relations between the ideal, the material, and the phenomenal. This concept of structure, drawn from my reading of the Timaeus, is implicit in the preceding studies of the metrological redefinition of the kilogram and of Nicolas Baier’s art practice....
The Analytic of Separation: History and Concept in Marx
Authors: Brown Nathan
Published: September 2021

Chapter 10 develops an approach to the relation between historical and conceptual registers of Marx’s Capital by foregrounding the importance of “separation” (Scheidung) in Volume One. I argue that “separation” is the key to understanding how Marx’s theory is both empiricist and rationalist: derived from the history of capital and structured by conceptual relationships. I theorize the implicit centrality of separation to every major conceptual category developed in Volume One of Capital, showing that it traverses the theory of value, the history of the division of labor, and Marx’s account of primitive accumulation. The chapter concludes by assessing the consequences of this reading of Marx for theorizing the category of the proletariat beyond the limitations of Marx’s own system.
Luminous Stuff: The Resurrection of the Flesh in Vaughan’s Religious Verse
Authors: Gil Daniel Juan
Published: September 2021

Henry Vaughan asserts an understanding of resurrection as essentially and fundamentally about the body, and he understands resurrection to be “immanent” in the sense that signs of resurrection can already now be seen breaking into the here and now. Vaughan’s goal in his poetry is to uncover “Traces, and sounds of a strange kind,” as he puts it in “Vanity of Spirit.” Vaughan’s searching analysis of himself splits his bodily life into two: on the one hand, a socialized and historicized life and, on the other hand, a life that, in its material strangeness, is alien to his time and place and therefore the substrate of resurrection. At the same time, Vaughan is also interested in investigating the material stuff of the natural world separate from the uses and meanings that human languages impose upon it. By mystical attention to material stuff, including feathers, rocks, rainbows, and trees, Vaughan believes he can discover a perspective that transcends historical time. In that sense, Vaughan anticipates the Romantic poets. His formal experimentation is designed to make his poetry a tool to investigate the material strangeness of the person. As such, he develops a distinctively avant-garde poetics as theorized by Peter Bürger.
Scenes of Inclination
Authors: Cavarero Adriana
Published: September 2021

Cavarero’s ethic of inclination responds to a postural geometric imaginary in the philosophical tradition that is irrefutably gendered. Opening with a reflection on the character of Irina in Italo Calvino’s ‘If, on a winter’s night, a traveller’ she draws out the inclined, sinuous, curving figures of the female common to literary and philosophical texts, and contrasts them to the straight, upright, correct and erect, male figure. Tracing these stereotypes back to Ancient Greek etymology, she charts its progress through the work of Plato, Kant, and Proudhon. From the devalued imagery of the female body as maternal, Cavarero begins her subversion of the philosophical tradition. Following Arendt’s valorisation of the natal scene, Cavarero emphasises the distinctive role of the inclined mother as care giver. This image of inclined motherhood is to form the basis then, of Cavarero’s ethic of inclination—an altruistic ethic that upends the ‘imagined wholeness’ of the dominant liberal model of the independent, self-sufficient male, individual.
Querying Cavarero’s Rectitude
Authors: Devenney Mark
Published: September 2021

In the opening dialogue of this volume Cavarero contrasts the dispositif of verticalisation with a dispositif of inclination. These contrasting forms of the “proper” are tied up with different ontological, ethical, and political models. Whilst concurring with a relational ontology this etude argues that relationality points to a contingency which is not in itself ethical or ontological. This account of contingency points to the impropriety which underpins any ontology. It contends that Cavarero's argument performs a violence to the texts she reads which betray the ethics she defends. It asserts that this betrayal is more than a mere contradiction—instead relational ethics needs to problematise the “proper” in order to avoid veiling further exclusions.
Violence, Vulnerability, Ontology
Authors: Huzar Timothy J.
Published: September 2021

This etude is sympathetic to Cavarero’s position, seeing a deep complimentarity between Cavarero’s and Judith Butler’s ethics of non-violence. Huzar argues that both enact a Rancierian poetics of politics, though staging ethics that are not so much ontologically grounded as polemical, seeking to critique the violence of our contemporary world, by positing alternatives.
Mahometan/Muslim: The Chronotope of the Oriental Tale
Authors: Khan Maryam Wasif
Published: September 2021

This chapter argues that we read the literary trend for the oriental tale that overtook England in the early part of the eighteenth century as one that extended beyond the metropolis. An essential element of the oriental tale, whether Antoine Galland and Grub Street’s Arabian Nights’ Entertainments or Francois de la Croix’s Turkish Tales, is the chronotope of the Mahometan—the imagined counterpart of the Ottoman or Mughal Muslim kings—a that figure defies Enlightenment modalities of ancient time and geographic origin. A ubiquitous figure in the English oriental tale, the Mahometan is constructed as a homeless potentate, a traveling merchant, an itinerant dervish, and a wanderer.
Martyr/Mujāhid: Muslim Origins and the Modern Urdu Novel
Authors: Khan Maryam Wasif
Published: September 2021

This chapter traces the rise of Muslim nationalism within the large network of twentieth-century Urdu literary journals and print novels. While this period is best-known for the subversive works of All-India Progressive Writer’s Movement, a Bloomsbury-inspired collective in India, the powerful, looming influence of a parallel set of Muslim nationalist writers—Rashid ul-Khairi, Nasim Hijazi, and Razia Butt—has gone unnoticed in literary histories both in the Euro-Amerian academy and in Urdu. Composed largely from the 1920s into the 1970s, the novels of these nationalist writers resituate the once-itinerant, despotic Mahometan in terms offered by colonial modernity: nation, state, language. Within these mainstream works, which include Hijazi’s wildly successful Muhammad bin Qāsim (1945) and Butt’s enduring Bānō (1971), the Muslim qaum, or nation, is envisioned in terms of a single origin and its onward history: the caliphate or Mecca, and the revived relevance of mujāhids, or warriors who fight in the name of Islam for the purpose of creating a separate Muslim state called Pakistan.
Modern/Mecca: Populist Piety in the Contemporary Urdu Novel
Authors: Khan Maryam Wasif
Published: September 2021

By the twenty-first century, seventy odd years into Pakistan’s existence, the cobbled ideals of nationhood and state implode into a radically reimagined Muslimness enabled and legitimized within a number of popular novels and television serials authored by bestselling writers, Umera Ahmad, Nimra Ahmad, and Farhat Ishtiaq. Among them, the “new” Muslim, predominantly signified by young women, is the contemporary reincarnation of a salafī, an early convert and companion of the Prophet Muhammad. In these religio-populist novels, the true Muslim protagonist actively rejects those outside the fold of Islam—minorities, for example—renounces all that is Western—clothing, occupations—while reinventing the self in the image of the early Meccan community of converts to Islam. This exclusionary, often violent discursive formation marks the coming-of-age of a widespread religious populism in the domain of vernacular literature.
Epilogue: Us, People / People Like Us
Authors: Khan Maryam Wasif
Published: September 2021

The epilogue reads the poet and writer, the late Fehmida Riaz as a secular figure in the modern history of Urdu prose. It examines her novella-like work, Zinda Bahar, to show how Riaz’s writing is an attempt to mark her status as exile.
Relational Division
Authors: Barber Daniel Colucciello
Published: September 2021

This essay attempts to elaborate some implications of Jacob Taubes’s remark, presented as a somewhat offhand, adumbrated commentary on Carl Schmitt’s theory of sovereignty, that “I can imagine as an apocalyptic: let it go down. I have no spiritual investment in the world as it is.” On the reading here proposed, what defines apocalyptic is the refusal of worldly relation—a relation that appears, from such an apocalyptic vantage, to be central to the Schmittian link between the political and the theological. When defined in this manner, apocalyptic becomes valid not only within the domain of political theology, but wherever worldly relation is treated as imperative—as is the case, for instance, in Hegel’s philosophy. Understood by means of apocalyptic, there emerges a counterintuitive commonality between Schmitt and Hegel, one which relativizes the distinction between political theology and philosophy.
Kant’s Unexpected Materialism
Authors: Martel James
Published: September 2021

This essay argues that Kant’s relationship to materialism represents a subversion of his transcendentalism. For Kant, the object is meant to be merely a steppingstone, a vanishing mediator for apprehension of the noumenal. Yet, when examined closely, we see that the object has a tendency to linger for Kant. I will argue that the object must not so much vanish as transfer its own materiality to the noumenal, giving the noumenal a way to be apprehended even as that connection to the material world threatens noumenality as such. In this way, Kant’s unexpected materialism works to subvert the moral law itself, saving us from its harsh and dehumanizing rule.
A Political Theology of Tolerance
Authors: Lynch Thomas
Published: September 2021

This chapter explores the position of religious minorities within Hegel’s political theology. Considering this position reveals the way that the particularity of European, Western or Christian thought is obscured in a universal political vision. Though this vision includes the toleration of religious minorities, these minorities are tragically preserved in their difference. They are tolerated as other rather than included. In opposition to this politics of tolerance, the chapter argues for the rejection of universalism and a process of becoming indifferent to politicised differences.
Exception without Sovereignty
Authors: Das Saitya Brata
Published: September 2021

This chapter argues that the later Schellingian idea of “actuality without potentiality” opens up, eschatologically, to a thinking of exception without sovereignty. This idea of “actuality without potentiality,” whose genesis is already visible in his earlier works, is Pauline in spirit and inspiration: It draws on the idea of kenosis that Paul develops in his letter to the Philippians (2:7). Schelling thinks of the event of actuality as emptying out of potentialities that constitute the nomothetic order of worldly hegemonies. It is the contention of this paper that such a kenotic eschatology of Schelling offers us a radical critique of sovereignty, and contributes elements of a “negative political theology” which is based upon an event of exception without sovereignty.
Introduction
Authors: Karaca Banu
Published: September 2021

Beginning with the assumption of the inherent goodness of art that is shared by official discourses on the national (i.e., the state) and supranational level (e.g., UNESCO or the EU), the introductory chapter lays out the conceptual framework of the study. It outlines three key dynamics that call art into the national frame—despite the global formations of the art world and the universalism accorded to art—namely discourses of art as a greater good, decivilizing moments in the arts that are connected to episodes of state violence (including genocide), and dispossession. In order to establish the comparative perspective, the chapter maps the entanglements between Germany and Turkey in both their imperial and modern formations as well as the historical intimacy of the two national contexts. It argues that this intimacy allows for comparing Turkey and Germany, Istanbul and Berlin, and for thinking through a set of interrelated questions regarding the civilizing function accorded to art, and moments in which art is seen to cede this function. The chapter also maps the ethnographic fieldwork (2005–2011) that informs this study, its sites and interlocutors, and the author’s positionality as both insider and outsider in the research settings of Istanbul and Berlin.
Modernity, Nationalism, and Civilizing the Arts
Authors: Karaca Banu
Published: September 2021

Unsettling narratives on the purported alterity of Turkey and Germany, Chapter 1 discusses parallels and differences in German (1871) and Turkish nation-building (1923) and the role of art in claiming modern nationhood. It examines tropes of Turkey’s “belated modernity” and Germany’s Sonderweg as two discourses of exceptionalism that have significantly shaped the art world and asks what these tropes reveal and obscure. The young Turkish republic witnessed an enthusiastic embrace of artistic modernism, as Ottoman art was deemed unfit for the modern nation-state. In contrast, Germany officially decried modernism as decidedly “un-German.” It was only in the 1950s that the Federal Republic adopted explicitly occidental cultural policies to overcome longstanding anti-western and anti-modernist currents as part of its post-WWII rehabilitation. How can one explain the persisting asymmetry in the perception of Turkish and German art, given that Turkey’s attempt to align itself with Western modernity by rationalizing artistic expression in the 1920s predates West-Germany’s shift to occidental cultural policies that were only established after 1945? The controversies surrounding “national art” and continued anxieties regarding modern belonging discussed in this chapter show how ideas of modernity and civility remain indebted to processes of violence that art must always disavow.
Art Worlds
Authors: Karaca Banu
Published: September 2021

Chapter 2 turns to contemporary configurations of the art world, its institutions, and actors. It maps how these actors relate to each other in Istanbul and Berlin and how they mobilize aesthetic theories in the form of pragmatic shorthand to describe their work. These vernacularized formulations of aesthetic theories also serve to reconcile conflicting understandings of art. In contrast to existing, if sparse, institutional studies of the art world that conceptualize art as a cooperative endeavor, the chapter details how structural dependencies, power differentials, and conflicting understandings of art permeate the daily workings of the art world. Showing that relationships between artists, audiences, critics, curators, and art dealers are frequently personalized through a friend/foe binary, it argues that motifs of amity and enmity serve to mediate structural dependencies and power differentials in the art world. A second mediating discourse, primarily employed by collectors and sponsors to deflect the periodic discomforts that arise around corporate sponsorship and the politics of collecting, reconciles divergent interests in art through the trope of art’s civilizing capacities. Within this trope, portrayals of art as a “greater good” that “serves the public” are framed in national terms despite the global connectedness of the art world.
Introduction
Authors: Kearney Richard , Fitzpatrick Melissa
Published: September 2021

Hospitality is a term often heard in today’s world but seldom addressed in the Western history of philosophy. In addition to addressing the contemporary philosophy of hospitality in its own right, we also consider it important to frame our analysis in the context of recent discussions of related interest—namely (1) the phenomenology of the gift; (2) the theology of sacred economy; and (3) the postapocalyptic culture of welcome. Our ultimate aim in this volume is to apply text to action, that is, to translate philosophies of hospitality into some concrete examples drawn from our contemporary world, especially relative to issues of conflict resolution, cathartic commemoration, interconfessional dialogue, and, finally, classroom pedagogy regarding immigration, diversity, tolerance, and peace.
Hospitality in the Classroom
Authors: Kearney Richard , Fitzpatrick Melissa
Published: September 2021

This chapter addresses the claim that our age is an age of anxiety, most tangibly in the sense that young people are more and more frequently finding themselves paralyzed in the face of the uncertain, the unknown, the new. My claim, in line with many contemporary authors, is that the trouble that young people face today is an unwillingness to venture outside of their comfort zones, habituating a lack of resilience in the face of the unexpected, rather than the welcome of exposure, confidence before the unanticipated: that is, an excess of hostility and a lack of hospitality. This chapter provides a brief sketch of what a pedagogy of hospitality might entail, in light of the insights presented in the volume, and examples of hospitality in practice.