660 research outputs found
C.S. Lewis Colloquium: Dr. Devin Brown
No full textDr. Devin Brown, Wilmore, KY, speaks on C. S. Lewis and his perspective on reason and reclaiming the Christian imagination
Review of the book How Fascism Works, by J. Stanley
No full textDr. Devin Z. Shaw (Douglas College) reviews the book How fascism works, by J. Stanley (2020).Final article published
Review of the book Critiquing Brahmanism: A collection of essays, by K. Murali (Ajith)
No full textDr. Devin Zane Shaw (Douglas College) reviews the book Critiquing Brahmanism: A collection of essays, by K. Murali (Ajith) (2020).Final article published
From German communist antifascism to a contemporary united front
No full textDr. Devin Z. Shaw (Douglas College) writes the book chapter From German communist antifascism to a contemporary united front (2021).Final book published.DC Author's celebration 202
Crowner, Dave and Pat, March 10, 2014 [Interview]
No full textDave and Pat Crowner were interviewed on March 10, 2014, by Devin McKinney about their individual and married lives before and during their years at Gettysburg College, with specific focus on their participation in the spring 1971 Christ Chapel production of "Jesus Christ Superstar."Hanson, C. Arnold; Hanson, Jean; Vannorsdall, John W.; Farmer, James; King, Jr., Martin Luther; Marchand, Jacques; Boll, Heinrich; Bonhoeffer, Dietrich; Parks, Rosa; Lewis, John; Schneider, Henry; Warner, Stephen H.; Olinger, Paula; Mattson, Karl J.Carl Arnold Hanson Years
Philosophy of antifascism: Punching Nazis and fighting white supremacy
No full text"Through the existentialism of Simone de Beauvoir, with some reference to Fanon and Sartre, this book identifies the philosophical reasons for the political action being enacted by contemporary antifascists. In addition, using the work of Jacques Rancière, it argues that the alt-right and the far right aren’t a kind of politics at all, but rather forms of parapolitical and paramilitary mobilization aimed at re-entrenching the power of the state and capital. Devin Shaw argues that in order to resist fascist mobilization, contemporary movements find a diversity of tactics more useful than principled nonviolence. Antifascism must focus on the systemic causes of the re-emergence of fascism, and thus must fight capital accumulation and the underlying white supremacism. Providing new, incisive interpretations of Beauvoir, existentialism, and Rancière, he makes the case for organizing a broader militant movement against fascism."--From publisher description.bookpublishe
Paper Session 2-A: Much Ado about Lewis
No full textDating Lewis\u27s Undated Poetry - Charlie W. Starr
At the last Taylor conference I presented a plenary lecture on the analysis I have made of C. S. Lewis\u27s handwriting. Charting changes in Lewis\u27s handwriting has made it possible for me to date never before dated manuscripts (including the Summa at Taylor). Since that presentation I have continued the work most notably dating every undated manuscripts in the Wade Center collection (150 mss). Recently I worked with Don King who had just published the first complete (or near so) collection of Lewis\u27s poetry (The Collected Poems of C. S. Lewis: A Critical Edition). After the book\u27s release I realized that King, the leading expert on Lewis\u27s poetry, was unable to date almost 40 of Lewis\u27s poems. I contacted Don and, together, using his expertise and my Lewis handwriting analysis chart (LHC), we were able to date almost all of the undated poems (and re-date some poems which King mis-dated). In this paper, I will present our findings, paying special attention to the poems Lewis wrote just after his theistic conversion in 1930. We now know that, though he considered himself a failed poet, Lewis\u27s immediate response to his belief in God with a pouring our of poetry.
Friends at Home: C. S. Lewis\u27s Social Relations at The Kilns - David Backmann
In this paper, I propose to tell the story of Jack\u27s friendship with the various people who lived at The Kilns, from the purchase of the house in 1930 until his death in 1963. The history of the society at The Kilns can be broken up into eras: the 1930\u27s, the war years with Maureen and Warnie away and the evacuees in residence, the 1950\u27s, which saw the loss of Mrs. Moore and the arrival of Joy, and sadly, the last few years of Jack\u27s life in the 1960\u27s. I hope to include information on the initially delicate situation of Warnie\u27s joining the Kilns household after his retirement, their shared experiences there,m and on Jack\u27s kindness and enjoyment of the evacuees - interesting information for the Narnia fans. As time allows, other anecdotes about society at The Kilns will be added. You will want to know that I am a former Warden of The Kilns (2014-2015). Other personal information: http://thebeckmannblog.blogspot.com/p/revd-beckmanns-curriculum-vitae.html
The Perils, Pitfalls, and Pleasures of Writing a New Biography of Lewis - Devin Brown
In the fall of 2013, I published A Life Observed, a new biography of C. S. Lewis. While it has been well received and features a generous Foreword from Douglas Gresham, the various steps in its creation were not always easy or anticipated. In this talk I will tell the untold story of how I wrote my biography of Lewis and will offer insights and advice to anyone hoping to write a book of their own
Egalitarian moments: From Descartes to Rancière
No full textDrawing on the claim that egalitarian politics persistently appropriates elements from political philosophy to engage new forms of dissensus, Devin Zane Shaw argues that Rancière's work also provides an opportunity to reconsider modern philosophy and aesthetics in light of the question of equality. In Part I, Shaw examines Rancière's philosophical debts to the 'good sense' of Cartesian egalitarianism and the existentialist critique of identity. In Part II, he outlines Rancière's critical analyses of Walter Benjamin and Clement Greenberg and offers a reinterpretation of Rancière's debate with Alain Badiou in light of the philosophical differences between Schiller and Schelling. From engaging debates about political subjectivity from Descartes to Sartre, to delineating the egalitarian stakes in aesthetics and the philosophy of art from Schiller to Badiou, this book presents a concise tour through a series of egalitarian moments found within the histories of modern philosophy and aesthetics. --From publisher description
Freedom and nature in Schelling's philosophy of art
No full textSchelling is often thought to be a protean thinker whose work is difficult to approach or interpret. Devin Zane Shaw shows that the philosophy of art is the guiding thread to understanding Schelling's philosophical development from his early works in 1795-1796 through his theological turn in 1809-1810. Schelling's philosophy of art is the 'keystone' of the system; it unifies his idea of freedom and his philosophy of nature. Schelling's idea of freedom is developed through a critique of the formalism of Kant's and Fichte's practical philosophies, and his nature-philosophy is developed to show how subjectivity and objectivity emerge from a common source in nature. The philosophy of art plays a dual role in the system. First, Schelling argues that artistic activity produces through the artwork a sensible realization of the ideas of philosophy. Second, he argues that artistic production creates the possibility of a new mythology that can overcome the socio-political divisions that structure the relationships between individuals and society. Shaw's careful analysis shows how art, for Schelling, is the highest expression of human freedom. --From publisher description.bookPublished
The age of analogy: comparative science and social history in the nineteenth-century British novel
No full textThis dissertation pursues the rich vein of comparative historicism found in the written works of nineteenth-century novelists and naturalists, including Scott, Dickens, Eliot, and Darwin. The Victorian novel shared with contemporary natural history an animating fascination with interconnection, both between individuals, and between individuals and history. "The Age of Analogy" argues that the historical novel formulated this comparative historicism, both as it specified older traditions of analogy as aging modes of outdated speculative philosophy, and honed comparative strategies to examine the historicity of the "age" itself. The linguistic technology of this comparative philological, historical, and scientific analysis transformed older hermeneutic traditions of analogy into sophisticated methods of ethnographic and evolutionary inquiry. Drawing from a range of historicist, linguistic, and informatic approaches, I specify analogy and the comparative method as historically-embedded textual forms that structured engagements of comparison and narrative connection. This thesis analyzes the narrative naturalism of Victorian science, an empiricism that explained heterogeneous scientific observations by coordinating these accounts in narratives of fundamental historical process. While the extensive cultural influence of period science has received substantial critical attention, this thesis reverses the direction of influence, and examines the representational and methodological dependence of mid-century naturalism upon the innovations of socio-historical novels, particularly by Scott and Dickens. Comparative textual strategies reshaped period naturalism, and conditioned the scientific theories, models, and configurations of "objectivity" that nineteenth-century science offered. These comparative practices also challenge the secularization hypothesis as it bears upon Victorian literature and science, by foregrounding how ostensibly secular writers like Eliot and Darwin engaged the hermeneutic tradition of analogy as a set of practices with deep roots in biblical scholarship and natural theology. In gauging the relationship between contemporary observations and past processes, novelists and naturalists alike adapted interpretive strategies first crafted to discern God's fingerprints on creation, and in doing so, created the modern vocabulary of multiplicity and differentiation. Revitalized in the historical novel, historicist analogy gave to Dickens' "innumerable histories of the world" and Eliot's "tempting range of relevancies" a logic of organization, and a vantage from which to survey the extensive interrelation that underwrites nineteenth-century writing.Ph.D.Includes abstractVitaIncludes bibliographical referencesby Devin Scott Griffith
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