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Redemption in the work of Francis Stuart
No full textThe idea of redemption is central to an understanding of the work
of Francis Stuart. Through an examination of its development and
expression, it is possible to demonstrate the integrity of his work and
its distinctive qualities. Such a demonstration is necessary because
Stuart's writing has been subjected to comparatively little scholarly
inquiry, although reviews of his work, especially that produced since
1949, suggest that it is impressive and important.
First, a general background to Stuart's work, a discussion of the
special problems associated with reading it, and a summary of his corpus
is provided. This indicates that the idea of redemption is important to
his earliest writing. The state of redemption is shown to be a
necessary apotheosis for Stuart's outcast heroes; it involves spiritual
suffering through which may be found a sense of reintegration and a
higher reality. This is expressed through interrelated themes such as
those of gambler, artist and ordinary man; mystic and criminal; sacred
and profane love; and spirituality and the mundane. The nature of the
redemptive experience is further elaborated by distinctive, complex
motifs, especially the hare, the ark and the woman-Christ. Their
recurrence provides an important element in the unity of Stuart's work.
Because Stuart's idea of the outcast raises important biographical
questions, an examination of the relationship between Stuart's life and
his work is made. Finally, the way in which the idea of redemption
exists in the language structures of Stuart's novels is examined, with
especial reference to his most recent work, The High Consistory. The
thesis shows that the development of the these of redemption
demonstrates the integrity of Stuart's work
John Stuart Mill’s projected science of society: 1827-1848
No full textThe purpose of the thesis is to examine John Stuart Mill’s political thought from
about 1827 to 1848 as an exercise in intellectual history. It focuses, first, on Mill’s view,
formulated by the late 1830s, that contemporary society was ‘civilized’, and second, on
his project of a science of society, which he aspired to develop in the late 1830s and
early 1840s.
By the late 1830s, Mill came to the view that his contemporary society was a
‘commercial society or civilization’, dominated by the middle, commercial class. The
first part of my thesis, constituted by Chapters 2-4, discusses the way in which Mill
formed his notion of civilization, and what he meant by the term ‘civilization’. Mill paid
attention to the implications of the rise of the middle class, and regarded such
phenomena of contemporary society as the corruption of the commercial spirit and
excessive social conformity as an inevitable consequence of the rise of the middle class.
The second part of the thesis, constituted by Chapters 5-9, examines Mill’s
projected science of society. In the late 1830s and early 1840s, Mill attempted to
develop a new science of society whose subject-matter was the nature and prospects of
commercial, civilized society. This aspiration culminated in A System of Logic,
published in 1843. In examining Mill’s projected science, I pay particular attention to
the fact that he conceived new sciences of history and of the formation of character,
both of which were indispensable in his project, although he failed to give a complete
account of these sciences. My thesis shows that the implications of his interest both in
history and in the formation of character are more significant than Mill scholars have
assumed
Introduction to John Stuart Mill\u27s Utilitarianism
No full textJohn Stuart Mill\u27s Utilitarianism, which first appeared in three installments of Fraser\u27s Magazine in 1861, was intended as a defense of the notorious doctrine identified with the liberal reformer Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) and with the author\u27s father, James Mill (1773-1836). The defense was successful. While the principle of utility, or as Bentham has latterly called it, the greatest happiness principle, may have scandalized Victorian England, Mill\u27s Utilitarianism became one of the defining documents of modern British and American liberalism. It is impossible to appreciate contemporary social and political life without coming to grips with utilitarianism
P. G. Maxwell-Stuart (éd., trad.), The Malleus Maleficarum
No full textÀ en croire la quatrième de couverture, cette traduction anglaise de 2007 du Malleus maleficarum serait la première depuis 1928. Malheureusement, cette affirmation est inexacte, car en 2006, Christopher S. Mackay a publié aux Presses de l'Université de Cambridge, en deux volumes, l'édition et la traduction intégrales de cette œuvre, accompagnées d'une introduction de près de deux cents pages et d'un minutieux appareil de notes. Le propos de cette nouvelle traduction anglaise, la troisième don..
New approaches for the analysis of dyestuffs in historical textiles by liquid chromatography and desorption electrospray ionisation (DESI) mass spectrometry: applications to Renaissance embroideries and late nineteenth century textiles
No full textThe analysis of historical dyestuffs plays a central role in the understanding of the
socioeconomic context of textile production while also informing strategies for the
display and preservation of museum objects. Chapter 1 presents a summary of the
most important dyes and fibres together with analytical challenges unique to the field
of historical dye analysis. The main analytical techniques used in the field, including
both invasive and non-invasive as well as destructive and non-destructive techniques
are also discussed. Emphasis is given to the need for the development of more
reliable, efficient, and ideally minimally or non-invasive analytical approaches for
historical dye analysis.
The material and methods used are shown in Chapter 2 while the high-throughput,
small-scale sample preparation method and short analytical time UHPLC-PDA
method developed are described in Chapter 3. The entire workflow from extraction,
filtration, drying and reconstitution strategies as well as the UHPLC-PDA separation
were evaluated using nine flavonoid and anthraquinone chromophores. The method
was applied to a set of 85 reference samples covering 12 dye sources and a case
study of the wedding tartan of Flora MacDonald from the West Highland Museum.
In Chapter 4, the workflow is applied to important examples of Scottish and English
embroideries dated from the mid-16th to early 18th centuries housed at National
Museums Scotland (NMS). The significance of the collection is contextualised through
discussion of embroidery in Tudor and Stuart Scotland and England. The analysis of
26 objects spanning from professional clothing to domestic furnishings show that
similar materials was accessible to all types of embroiderers. The range of dyestuffs
identified; from locally sourced lichens to imported cochineal demonstrate that
embroidery was already by the 16th century, a craft dependent on global trade. The
study also showcases the efficiency of the method applied to over 250 samples.
The development of non-invasive, minimally destructive desorption electrospray
ionisation (DESI) mass spectrometry for the field of dye analysis is presented in
Chapter 5. The design and construction of the source are outlined, alongside
optimisation of geometric parameters using silk and wool samples dyed with
rhodamine B. The feasibility of the application of DESI-MS to textile analysis was
evaluated on natural and early synthetic dye references and successfully applied to
the study of late 19th century historical samples
Beauty for the Present: Mill, Arnold, Ruskin and Aesthetic Education
No full textThe present thesis examines the idea of aesthetic education of three eminent Victorians: John Stuart Mill, Matthew Arnold and John Ruskin. By focusing on the essence of what they meant with ‘the cultivation of the beautiful’ and, more importantly, the way their ideas of beauty informed their criticism of society, my study aims to contribute to our understanding of the idea of aesthetic education in the Victorian context and, further, to participate in a recent debate about the nature of beauty and aesthetic education.
Chapter One focuses on John Stuart Mill’s concept of ‘feeling’ in a series of essays. I will demonstrate how Mill’s idea of ‘aesthetic education’ was an ‘education of feelings,’ and moreover, how this idea was integrated into his literary criticism, his later critique of democratisation, his description of an ideal liberal society and even his own style of writing. Chapter Two contains a comparative study of Matthew Arnold and Friedrich Schiller. Through a rereading of Arnold, I will argue that his idea of aesthetic education is essentially Schillerian and that their resemblance consists primarily in their stress on the importance of aesthetic unity for modern life, which was becoming increasingly fragmentary and multitudinous. Chapter Three examines John Ruskin’s idea of aesthetic education and concentrates particularly on the cultivation of perception. Perception, as I shall show, was pivotal in Ruskin’s idea of aesthetic education. Just as what happened in Mill and Arnold, the emphasis on the education of seeing continued from his early writings well into his art and social criticisms. It not only differentiated him from his fellow art critics; the conviction that people should perceive with a pure heart also enabled him to link observation of artistic details with moral criticism of contemporary society and, thereby, to turn the cultivation of the beautiful into a moral-aesthetic experience
An Open Framework for Integrating Widely Distributed Hypermedia Resources
No full textThe success of the WWW has served as an illustration of how hypermedia functionality can enhance access to large amounts of distributed information. However, the WWW and many other distributed hypermedia systems offer very simple forms of hypermedia functionality which are not easily applied to existing applications and data formats, and cannot easily incorporate alternative functions which would aid hypermedia navigation to and from existing documents that have not been developed with hypermedia access in mind. This paper describes the extension to a distributed environment of the open hypermedia functionality of the Microcosm system, which is designed to support the provision of hypermedia access to a wide range of source material and application, and to offer straightforward extension of the system to incorporate new forms of information access
Unifying Distributed Processing and Open Hypertext through a Heterogeneous Communication Model
No full textA successful distributed open hypermedia system can be characterised by a scaleable architecture which is inherently distributed. While the architects of distributed hypermedia systems have addressed the issues of providing and retrieving distributed resources, they have often neglected to design systems with the inherent capability to exploit the distributed processing of this information. The research presented in this paper describes the construction and use of an open hypermedia system concerned equally with both of these facets
La red de la racionalidad: emoción y lenguaje. Cuicuilco Revista de la Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia: Análisis del discurso y semiótica de la cultura: perspectivas analíticas para el tercer milenio Tomo I. Num. 24 (2002) Vol. 9 enero-abril
No full textEl presente artículo cuestiona la visión mecánica del lenguaje y la comunicación para adoptar un enfoque dinámico y complejo. A la vez, este enfoque descarta la idea de la existencia de un módulo aislado del lenguaje, demostrando las ligas profundas que en todos los niveles, vinculan el lenguaje con la emoción, en la conformación de nuestra "red de racionalidad". Sin la emoción no puede entenderse la ontogénesis ni la filogénesis del lenguaje, como tampoco muchas de sus patologías y de las características esenciales de las lenguas, la comunicación y las culturas.This article challenges mechanical vision of language and communication, to adopt a dinamic and complex approach. At the same time, this approach challenges the idea of the existence of an isolated module of language, demonstrating the profound links that in every level relate language to emotion in the configuration of our "web of rationality". Without emotion we cannot understand the ontogenetical and philogenetical aspects of language. Without emotion we cannot define many of the language pathologies and essential characteristics of languages, communication and cultures.Cohen, N. 2001. Language Impairment and Psychopathology in Infants, Children and Adolescents, Nueva York, Sage.Damasio, Antonio. 1994. Descartes´ Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain, Nueva York, Avon Books.Descartes, Ren. 1989. The Passions of the Soul, Hackett Publishing Company, Indianapolis, Cambridge.Foucault, Michel. 1980. El orden del discurso, Barcelona, Tusquets.Goleman, David. 1995 La inteligencia emocional, México, Vergara.Gopnik, M. et al. 1997. “Familial Language Impairment”, en Gopnik, M. (ed.), The Inheritance and Innateness of Grammars, Nueva York, Oxford University Press, pp. 111-140.Gottlieb, G. 1997. Synthesizing Nature-Nurture: Prenatal Roots of Instinctive Behavior, Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ.Greenspan, Stanley I. 1997. The Growth of the Mind and the Endangered Origins of Intelligence, Addison Wesley Longman, Ma.Greenspan, Stanley I. 2001. The Role of Emotions in the Growth of Mind, trabajo en proceso.Hacker, P. 2001 The Conceptual Framework III: Emotion and Volition, trabajo en proceso.Héller, Agnes. 1987. Teoría de los sentimientos, Barcelona, Fontamara.Ludwig. 1967. Zettel, Oxford, G. E. M. Anscombe y G. H. von Wright, Basil Blackwell.Ludwig. 1999. Investigaciones filosóficas, Madrid, Altaya.Marchant, L. y Nishida, T. (eds.). 1994. Great Ape Societies, Cambridge, Mass., Cambridge University Press.Messinger, D., A. Fogel y L. Dickson. 1997 “A Dynamic Systems Approach to Infant Facial Action”, en Russell, J. y J. Fernández-Dols (eds.), The Psychology of Facial Expression, Cambridge, Mass., Cambridge University Press.Oyama, Susan. 2000. The Ontogeny of Information: Developmental Systems and Evolution, NC, Duke University Press, Durham.Pinker, Steven. s/f. The Language Instinct, Nueva York, William Morrow.Savage Rumbaugh, E. S. et al. 1996. Language Perceived; Paniscus Branches out, W. McGrew.Savage Rumbaugh, E. S., Shanker, S. G. y Taylor Talbot. 1998. Apes, Language, and the Human Mind, Oxford, Nueva York, Oxford University Press.Shanker, Stuart G. 1997. “Descartes´ Legacy: The Mechanist/Vitalist Debates”, en The philosophy of Science, Logic and Mathematics in the Twentieth Century, vol. 9, The Routledge History of Philosophy, Routledge, Londres, G. H. R. Parkinson y S. G. Shanker.Solomon, Robert. 1983. The Passions: The Myth and Nature of Human Emotion, Garden City, Nueva York, University of Notre Dame Press.Spinoza, Baruch. 1992. Ethics, Treatise on the Emendation of Intellect and Selected Letters, traducción de Samuel Shirley, Indianapolis, Indiana, Hackett Publishing Company.Talbot, Taylor. 1992. Mutual Misunderstanding: Scepticism and the Theorizing of Language and Interpretation, Londres, Routledge.Vigotsky, Lev S. 1999. “The Teaching about Emotions - Historical Philosophical Studies-, en Rieber, Robert W., The Collected Works of L.S. Vigotsky, vol. 6, Kluwer Academic, Wittgenstein.Wilson, E. O. 1998. Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, Nueva York, Random Hous
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