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On grand strategy
No full textJohn Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian of the Cold War, has for almost two decades co-taught grand strategy at Yale University with his colleagues Charles Hill and Paul Kennedy. Now, in On Grand Strategy, Gaddis reflects on what he has learned. In chapters extending from the ancient world through World War II, Gaddis assesses grand strategic theory and practice in Herodotus, Thucydides, Sun Tzu, Octavian/Augustus, St. Augustine, Machiavelli, Elizabeth I, Philip II, the American Founding Fathers, Clausewitz, Tolstoy, Lincoln, Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Isaiah Berlin. On Grand Strategy applies the sharp insights and wit readers have come to expect from Gaddis to times, places, and people he’s never written about before. For anyone interested in the art of leadership, On Grand Strategy is, in every way, a master clas
“Painting the Post-Secular: the Sacred as the After in William Gaddis’ the Recognitions”
No full textArguing that William Gaddis’ 1955 novel The Recognitions can be read as an early instance of a post-secular spirituality at work, I suggest that Gaddis uses the protagonist Wyatt Gwyon to show that the visual arts, specifically painting, provides a model for outlining a new location and mode of considering a form of the sacred emerging from collage and encyclopedic aesthetics. Beginning with an overview of post-secular theory, I then move to a consideration of Gaddis’ status within American literary history, and how this relates to his status as a post-secular novelist. I argue that the novel displays a particularly post-secular aesthetic, drawing on the forms of the collage and the encyclopedic novel to best display its conception of sacrality. I then provide readings of two counterpoint father figures in the novel, the protagonist’s father the Reverend Gwyon, who is an early example of a post-secular thinker, and Pastor Dick, his eventual replacement who Gaddis uses as a metaphor of the marketplace’s infection of the sacred. Highlighting the novel’s interest in forgery, I show how Gaddis uses forged paintings as metaphors of unstable signifiers and how this connects with Mark C. Taylor’s theorizations of the virtual in the economic and theological realms. A detour into the economic provides space for considering the role of Dale Carnegie as an example of what I deem a capitalist encyclopedic aesthetic, in contrast to the encyclopedic post-secularism of the novel itself. Central to my argument is a reading of Wyatt’s portrait of his dead mother which is a prime post-secular artwork in its metamorphic depiction of “the after.” I then draw on Richard Kearney’s theology of anatheism to show Wyatt as a particularly post-secular artist, and how this relates to Gaddis’ overall project. I then conclude by demonstrating how for Gaddis, artworks provide a concretization of the notion of the sacred as an emerging from a larger framework of “the after.
“Painting the Post-Secular: the Sacred as the After in William Gaddis’ the Recognitions”
No full textArguing that William Gaddis’ 1955 novel The Recognitions can be read as an early instance of a post-secular spirituality at work, I suggest that Gaddis uses the protagonist Wyatt Gwyon to show that the visual arts, specifically painting, provides a model for outlining a new location and mode of considering a form of the sacred emerging from collage and encyclopedic aesthetics. Beginning with an overview of post-secular theory, I then move to a consideration of Gaddis’ status within American literary history, and how this relates to his status as a post-secular novelist. I argue that the novel displays a particularly post-secular aesthetic, drawing on the forms of the collage and the encyclopedic novel to best display its conception of sacrality. I then provide readings of two counterpoint father figures in the novel, the protagonist’s father the Reverend Gwyon, who is an early example of a post-secular thinker, and Pastor Dick, his eventual replacement who Gaddis uses as a metaphor of the marketplace’s infection of the sacred. Highlighting the novel’s interest in forgery, I show how Gaddis uses forged paintings as metaphors of unstable signifiers and how this connects with Mark C. Taylor’s theorizations of the virtual in the economic and theological realms. A detour into the economic provides space for considering the role of Dale Carnegie as an example of what I deem a capitalist encyclopedic aesthetic, in contrast to the encyclopedic post-secularism of the novel itself. Central to my argument is a reading of Wyatt’s portrait of his dead mother which is a prime post-secular artwork in its metamorphic depiction of “the after.” I then draw on Richard Kearney’s theology of anatheism to show Wyatt as a particularly post-secular artist, and how this relates to Gaddis’ overall project. I then conclude by demonstrating how for Gaddis, artworks provide a concretization of the notion of the sacred as an emerging from a larger framework of “the after.
Dismissing charges : a study of the reception of Willian Gaddis's A Frolic of his own
No full textThis thesis explores the reception of William Gaddis's latest novel, A Frolic of His Own (1994), and presents a reading of the novel that is more sympathetic than most tendered to date. By examining the reception of this work, I reveal several patterns of negative criticism that have emerged. Gaddis's novel makes use of innovative narrative techniques in his portrait of American postmodern society. The participatory role of the reader is essential here as Gaddis's fiction tends to be both complex and erudite. -- Chapter One briefly explains the theory of reception put forth by Hans Robert Jauss in his essay "Literary History as a Challenge to Literary Theory." I apply the essential tenets of Jauss's Reception Theory to the many reviews of A Frolic of His Own. The examination of the popular reception of Gaddis's work better enables me to contend with its complexities. -- Chapter Two studies the presence of indeterminacy in the novel. I address the notion of mimesis and the representation of reality in literature in addition to the reader's role in postulating real-world referentiality. My concern here is not to create a more complex text than that suggested by the majority of the novel's reviewers, but merely to demonstrate the utility of ambiguity to the reader of this rich, innovative fiction. -- Chapter Three addresses allusion, a second readerly challenge left virtually unexamined by the reviewers of A Frolic of His Own. By exploring Gaddis's erudite and often obscure references and citations, I develop a strong connection between allusion and humour in the novel. Gaddis's employment of cultural, historical, and literary allusion also adds to the realism of his text. -- This analysis of the novel ultimately reveals both Gaddis's realistic portrayal of late-twentieth-century American society and his reliance upon readerly participation in fiction. Finally, Gaddis's novel calls upon each reader to create a personal fiction. Recognition of gaps left by indeterminacies and allusions can only enhance the myriad hermeneutic possibilities. The insights derived from the reader's collaboration with the text can then be employed in the reader's interactions with his/her own world.Bibliography: leaves [85]-98
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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George Kennan and the Russian Soul: Issues from the Authorized Kennan Biography by John Lewis Gaddis
No full textGeorge Frost Kennan is probably best known as the author of the “containment policy” which served as the overarching principle informing U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War. With the collapse of the Soviet empire in Eastern Europe in 1989 and the demise of the Soviet Union itself in 1991, very much along the lines that Kennan had foreseen when launching his policy recommendations in 1946, one might assume that the master's life and thoughts would be of consequence today only to historians of the Cold War, like his authorized biographer John Gaddis.
However, a second abiding concern of Kennan throughout his career was to defend the principle of interest-based foreign policy, or Realpolitik, as opposed to the moralistic-legalistic approach to policy formulation which prevailed in the American foreign policy community of his day. Since that very same object of Kennan's scorn, Wilsonian idealism, has become even further entrenched in the Washington of our day, Kennan's life and thoughts are also directly relevant to current politics in America. Moreover, as I will set out in this essay, there are issues surrounding Kennan's career in government service that are instructive as regards today's practices of recruiting and promoting top level planners and implementers of foreign policy. For these reasons, it is very good that in his biography of Kennan which came out last year Gaddis does not let his own persona intrude —put simply, he does not get in the way. He has thereby facilitated a growing discussion about Kennan in the professional community
'Hit your educable public right in the supermarket where they live': risk and failure in the work of William Gaddis
No full textThis essay explores political and aesthetic 'failure' in the work of William Gaddis, specifically arguing that failure was his critical response to the triumphalism of an emerging neo-liberalism. In the first half I argue that Gaddis drew on Norbert Wiener's 1950 The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society as a 'sourcebook' for his novel JR because it offered a critical counter-point to an increasingly hegemonic positivism. I specifically explore the parallels and divergences between the work of Wiener and his erstwhile colleague Milton Friedman to suggest that Wiener provided Gaddis with a formal and methodological alternative to the modelling of conservative economics. The second half of the article focuses on JR, drawing out the ways in which the novel draws on Wiener in order to make evident the importance of failure as a site of political and aesthetic critique. In this section I highlight how the 'difficult' formal properties of the novel offer their own parodic response to an empirical methodology: as they force us to question what it is that we know we know in an entirely different wa
Empirical Aspects of Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Development
No full textIncreased capital flows in the form of foreign direct investment (FDI) and the growing relevance of multinational corporations are two characteristics of the most recent wave of globalization. This volume extensively discusses how these phenomena are interrelated, what determines FDI flows and which role macroeconomic information plays for the latter. It then empirically investigates what these foreign direct investments mean for economic development, especially for the export prices of developing countries and labor market outcomes
Fourth Planetary Data Workshop : June 18-20, 2019, Flagstaff, Arizona
No full textThe goal of these "planetary data" workshops is to bring together planetary data users, space mission data providers, data archivists, and software and technology experts to exchange ideas on current capabilities and needs for improved and new tools that can be used to address evolving needs in planetary research and data analysis.Co-Conveners, Christopher Edwards, Northern Arizona University, Lisa Gaddis, U.S. Geological Survey, Astrogeology Science CenterPARTIAL CONTENTS: Fully Controlled 6 Meters/Pixel Mosaic of Mars' South Pole and Equator from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, III / S. J. Robbins, R. H. Hoover, and M. R. Kirchoff--Handling PDS4 Evolution in the PSA / J. Saiz, I. Barbarisi, R. Docasal, C. Rios, A. Montero, C. Laantee, J. Osinde, J. Ruano, S. Besse, J. Arenas, B. Merin, and C. Arviset--Unified Planetary Coordinates Database Refactor / A. R. Sanders, S. Akins, D. P. Mayer, E. A. Bovre, J. Laura, and L. Gaddis--Modeling and Simulation of the Chandrayaan-I HySI Data for Mineral Mixing Analysis / S. B. Sayyad and Z. R. Mohammed--Making the Most of the CRISM Multispectral Mapping Data — From Pixels to Polygons / F. P. Seelos, S. F. A. Cartwright, G. Romeo, C. Hash, and S. L. Murchie--What's Happening at NAIF? / B. V. Semenov--PDS Geosciences Node Data and Services / S. Slavney, E. A. Guinness, T. C. Stein, J. Wang, L. E. Arvidson, and R. E. Arvidson--Assessing the Robustness of Feature Detectors on Lunar Images / E. J. Speyerer--Improvements to the Apollo 15 and 17 Heat Flow Experiment Data Archive / M. St. Clair, C. Million, and M. Siegler--The Small Body Mapping Tool (SBMT) For Accessing, Visualizing, and Analyzing Spacecraft Data in Three Dimensions: 2019 Update / R. J. Steele, C. M. Ernst, O. S. Barnouin, R. T. Daly, and Small Body Mapping Tool Team
The Evolution of Critical Reception of William Gaddis
No full textTato práce se zabývá osobností Williama Gaddise, velkého, ač opomíjeného spisovatele z USA, který je v českém prostředí téměř zcela neznámý. Jejím cílem je pokusit se představit autora českému akademickému světu, za pomoci sledování vývojové křivky jeho literárního života. Vývoj kritické recepce bude sledován zejména za pomoci dobových kritik, které byly napsány bezprostředně po vydání jeho děl, ale i v retrospektivě, kdy se vzpomínalo na jeho génia.This work deals with the personality of William Gaddis, titanic, although obscure, novelist from the USA, who is in the Czech literary scene completely unknown. Its goal is to try to introduce the author to the Czech academic world via his literary life presented in critical reception. Evolution of critical reception will be examined through contemporary literary criticism which were written immediately after his works were published, or written in retrospect when recognising his genius.Fakulta filozofickáStudent představil téma práce, cílem, zvolenou metodu.
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