177 research outputs found
The \u27Tragic Mulatta\u27 Revisited: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Fiction
No full textThis very sophisticated book is distinguished by taking the figure of the tragic mulatta seriously as an embodiment of central concerns about race and nation in the antebellum United States. -Michael Bennett, Long Island University, Brooklyn Since its inception, the United States has been intensely preoccupied with interracialism. The concept is embedded everywhere in our social and political fabric, including our sense of national identity. And yet, in both its quantitative and symbolic forms, interracialism remains an extremely elusive phenomenon, causing policy makers and census boards to wrangle over how to delineate it and, on an emblematic level, stirring intense emotions from fear to fascination. In The Tragic Mulatta Revisited, Eve Allegra Raimon focuses on the mixed-race female slave in literature, arguing that this figure became a symbolic vehicle for explorations of race and nation-both of which were in crisis in the mid-nineteenth century. At this time, judicial, statutory, social, and scientific debates about the meaning of racial difference (and intermixture) coincided with disputes over frontier expansion, which were never merely about land acquisition but also literally about the complexion of that frontier. Embodying both northern and southern ideologies, the amalgamated mulatta, the author argues, can be viewed as quintessentially American, a precursor to contemporary motifs of hybrid and mestizo identities. Where others have focused on the gendered and racially abject position of the tragic mulatta, Raimon reconsiders texts by such central antislavery writers as Lydia Maria Child, William Wells Brown, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Harriet Wilson to suggest that the figure is more usefully examined as a way of understanding the volatile and shifting interface of race and national identity in the antebellum period. Eve Allegra Raimon is an associate professor of arts and humanities at the University of Southern Maine, Lewiston-Auburn College.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/facbooks/1111/thumbnail.jp
De l'écologie à l'écosophie : l'intuition de Raimon Panikkar
No full textThe environmental crisis has disrupted the lives and activities of man. The ecological movement has proposed solutions to the problems we face, but it always uses the same Logos that got us into these difficulties. Theology, however has focused on this question only recently. It answered to criticisms with a renewed theology of creation. Our author of interest, Raimon Panikkar, proposes to complement this approach with a new Trinitarian theology. What he called the “cosmotheandric intuition” establishes a constitutive close relationship between God, man and the cosmos. This intuition means paying special attention to wisdom. It is therefore urgent that ecology walks hand in hand with ecosophy. To this end, mankind ought to cultivates the virtues that will allow it to reconnect with the others dimensions of reality. This new approach has two fondamental corollaries : an ecosophical ethics and a ecosophical political theology, that we intend to develop in order to prolong on Panikkar’s thought.La crise environnementale a bouleversé la vie de l’homme et toutes ses activités. L’écologie a essayé de trouver des solutions aux problèmes qui nous assaillent, mais elle reste toujours dans le même logos qui nous a mis dans ces difficultés. La théologie, quant-à elle, s’est intéressée depuis peu de temps à cette question. Elle a répondu aux reproches qui lui ont été adressés avec une théologie renouvelée de la création. Notre auteur, Raimon Panikkar, propose de compléter cette approche avec une nouvelle théologie trinitaire. C’est ce qu’il a appelé l’« intuition cosmothéandrique » qui établit une relation étroite et constitutive entre Dieu, l’homme et le cosmos. Cette intuition implique de prêter une attention particulière à la sagesse. Il s’avère donc urgent que l’écologie chemine de pair avec l’écosophie. Dans ce but, il conviendrait que l’homme cultive les vertus qui lui permettront de retrouver son lien avec les autres dimensions de la réalité. Cette nouvelle approche a deux corollaires fondamentaux : une éthique et une théologie politique écosophiques, que nous nous proposons de développer pour prolonger la pensée de Panikkar
From ecology to ecosophy : the Raimon Panikkar’s intuition
No full textLa crise environnementale a bouleversé la vie de l’homme et toutes ses activités. L’écologie a essayé de trouver des solutions aux problèmes qui nous assaillent, mais elle reste toujours dans le même logos qui nous a mis dans ces difficultés. La théologie, quant-à elle, s’est intéressée depuis peu de temps à cette question. Elle a répondu aux reproches qui lui ont été adressés avec une théologie renouvelée de la création. Notre auteur, Raimon Panikkar, propose de compléter cette approche avec une nouvelle théologie trinitaire. C’est ce qu’il a appelé l’« intuition cosmothéandrique » qui établit une relation étroite et constitutive entre Dieu, l’homme et le cosmos. Cette intuition implique de prêter une attention particulière à la sagesse. Il s’avère donc urgent que l’écologie chemine de pair avec l’écosophie. Dans ce but, il conviendrait que l’homme cultive les vertus qui lui permettront de retrouver son lien avec les autres dimensions de la réalité. Cette nouvelle approche a deux corollaires fondamentaux : une éthique et une théologie politique écosophiques, que nous nous proposons de développer pour prolonger la pensée de Panikkar.The environmental crisis has disrupted the lives and activities of man. The ecological movement has proposed solutions to the problems we face, but it always uses the same Logos that got us into these difficulties. Theology, however has focused on this question only recently. It answered to criticisms with a renewed theology of creation. Our author of interest, Raimon Panikkar, proposes to complement this approach with a new Trinitarian theology. What he called the “cosmotheandric intuition” establishes a constitutive close relationship between God, man and the cosmos. This intuition means paying special attention to wisdom. It is therefore urgent that ecology walks hand in hand with ecosophy. To this end, mankind ought to cultivates the virtues that will allow it to reconnect with the others dimensions of reality. This new approach has two fondamental corollaries : an ecosophical ethics and a ecosophical political theology, that we intend to develop in order to prolong on Panikkar’s thought
Ecosofía: hacia una comprensión de la sabiduría de la tierra desde la noción de "ritmo del ser" de Raimon Pannikar
No full textEl presente artículo expone algunas ideas relevantes de la noción de ecosofía de Raimon Panikkar y con ello profundiza en la sabiduría del oikos. Se pretende destacar la originalidad del planteamiento ecosófico de Panikkar, cuyo pensamiento es fruto de un fecundo diálogo interculturalinterreligioso (hinduismo, cristianismo y budismo). Si bien el autor no desarrolló de forma sistemática la noción ecosofía, su ontología de madurez, expresada en la noción del ritmo del ser, nos puede aproximar a comprender de manera novedosa esta sabiduría que se manifiesta en un llegar a ser donde participan lo divino, lo humano y lo cósmico. Se expondrá que la noción de ecosofía nos asienta en la vida contemplativa y la sabiduría de la inter-in-dependenciaThis article presents important ideas in Raimon Panikkar's notion of ecosophy, thus entering more deeply into the wisdom of the oikos. The aim is to highlight the originality of our author's ecosophical proposal, fruit of a fertile intercultural and inter-religious dialogue (Hinduism, Christianity and Buddhism). Although the author did not develop systematically the notion of ecosophy, the ontology of his mature years, expressed in the notion of the rhythm of being, can bring us closer to a new understanding of this wisdom, manifested in a becoming in which the divine, the human and the cosmic each have a part. The article will show that Panikkar's notion of ecosophy sets us in the contemplative life and the wisdom of interindependenc
Ecosophy: towards an understanding of the wisdom of the earth from Raimon Panikkar's notion of the rhythm of being
No full textThis article presents important ideas in Raimon Panikkar's notion of ecosophy, thus entering more deeply into the wisdom of the oikos. The aim is to highlight the originality of our author's ecosophical proposal, fruit of a fertile intercultural and inter-religious dialogue (Hinduism, Christianity and Buddhism). Although the author did not develop systematically the notion of ecosophy, the ontology of his mature years, expressed in the notion of the rhythm of being, can bring us closer to a new understanding of this wisdom, manifested in a becoming in which the divine, the human and the cosmic each have a part. The article will show that Panikkar's notion of ecosophy sets us in the contemplative life and the wisdom of interindependence
El tensionado concepto de esperanza en tiempos de crisis ecológica
No full textThis article explores how to reconsider the concept of hope in times of ecological crisis. The author compares the interpretations of hope given by Jürgen Moltmann and Raimon Panikkar, and evaluates them from a liberation theology perspective.En este artículo se explora cómo reconsiderar el concepto de esperanza en tiempos de crisis ecológica. La autora compara las interpretaciones de la esperanza de Jürgen Moltmann y Raimon Panikkar, y las evalúa desde una perspectiva de la teología de la liberación
Percepción e interiorización del paisaje y construcción literaria. Una lectura geográfica de Els sots feréstecs, de Raimon Casellas (1901)
No full textProposem una lectura, des de l’òptica de la geografia, de la novel·la Els sots feréstecs de Raimon Casellas, publicada el 1901, amb gran èxit, i qualificada per la crítica com una obra rupturista i innovadora en diferents sentits —fins al punt de considerar-la com a paradigmàtica de la denominada “novel·la modernista”. Un aspecte que crida l’atenció de la novel·la és el protagonisme que hi té el paisatge —entès com el medi o escenari físic en el qual es desenvolupa la trama; aspecte, al cap i a la fi, que constitueix el nucli central de la nostra anàlisi i que, al llarg de l’article, tractem de contextualitzar adequadament a fi de permetre, en darrera instància, que la valoració de l’obra no es limiti a les seves qualitats literàries sinó que tingui també en compte el tractament dels aspectes d’ordre espacial i geogràfic, particularment original, que l’autor hi porta a terme.This study undertakes a geographical reading of the novel Els sots feréstecs (translated into English as Dark Vales) by Raimon Casellas and published in 1901. The book enjoyed great success, being described by critics as a ground-breaking, innovative work in many ways, with some even claiming it to be paradigmatic of the “modernist novel”. One striking aspect of the novel is the importance given to the landscape — understood here as the environment or physical setting in which the plot unfolds. It is this specific facet that constitutes the central core of the present article, which seeks to contextualize the landscape described, so that any appraisal of the novel is not simply limited to its literary qualities but also takes into account the original focus given by the author to the book’s spatial and geographical qualities.Proponemos una lectura, desde la óptica de la geografía, de la novela Els sots feréstecs (en la edición en castellano, Las cañadas indómitas) publicada en 1901, con gran éxito, y calificada por la crítica como una obra rupturista e innovadora en diferentes sentidos —hasta el punto de considerarla como paradigmática de la denominada “novela modernista”. Un aspecto que llama la atención de la novela es el protagonismo que tiene en ella el paisaje —entendido como el medio o escenario físico en el que se desarrolla la trama—; aspecto, al fin y al cabo, que constituye el núcleo central de nuestro análisis y que, a lo largo del artículo, tratamos de contextualizar adecuadamente a fin de permitir, en última instancia, que la valoración de la obra no se circunscriba a sus cualidades literarias sino que tenga también en cuenta el tratamiento de los aspectos de orden espacial y geográfico, particularmente original, que el autor lleva a cabo
Raimon Panikkar's Diatopical Hermeneutics:Meister Eckhart's World of Holistic Thinking and the Bhagavadglta's Experience of the World of Wholeness
No full textThe phenomena of interreligious and intercultural dia-
logue as well as of inculturation and interculturation, so relevant
in our context, have to do with understanding religions and cul-
tures other than our own. Most of our efforts in this domain have
got stuck here because beyond prayer meetings and even studies
of other faith-traditions we have been unable to promote deeper
mutual understanding. It is here that Raimon Panikkar’s diatopical
hermeneutics have relevance. The aim of this paper is to discover a
relationship between two different and differing and even mutually
contradictory cosmovisions.
In this article, the author wants to show that Meister Eckhart’s
World o f Holistic Thinking and the Bhagavadglta’s
Experience of the World o f Wholeness are functional equivalences, i. e., we have argued that the Bhagavadglta’s specific Experience o f the World and
Meister Eckhart’s holistic thinking of Reality have the potential-
ity of disclosing a systemic relationship if followed through. What
we have done is tried to show how to go about, it. On the face of it
one would not have dreamt of relating these two utterly different
worlds but for Panikkar’s discovery of the principle of homeomorphic equivalents and their application in the context of his diatopi-
cal hermeneutics
Modelling alkaline silicon-air batteries: A finite element model
No full textRenewable energy sources such as solar and wind energy rely on climate and weather conditions, like sun irradiation in the case of solar energy, and wind speed in the case of wind energy. These change throughout the day and with the seasons. There are periods of little wind, and during the night there is no sunlight. During periods of no sunlight and little to no wind, there is still a demand for energy. This leads to a shortage of energy. On the other hand, there are periods when the amount of available wind and solar energy will surpass the demand for energy, leading to an energy excess. To mitigate this mismatch between energy production and energy demand the excess energy can be stored to be used during periods of shortage. Many different solutions for this have been investigated in recent years. One of the storage technologies that is currently quite dominant is battery storage. Lithium-ion batteries are used quite widely, among others in battery electric vehicles. However, the use of batteries as a storage device to overcome energy mismatch is not yet implemented on a large scale, as most battery technologies are still quite novel, making them uneconomical for this use compared to traditional hydrocarbon fired power plants. Furthermore, many battery technologies depend on scarce and expensive minerals. Recently, a battery utilizing silicon as its anode and oxygen from the air at the cathode has been proposed. This socalled silicon-air battery utilizes mainly silicon and oxygen, which are the two most common elements on earth. Furthermore, the theoretical energy density of this battery type was shown to be significantly higher than the energy density of lithium-ion batteries. Because of this, the silicon-air battery has been a growing area of research in the last years.Battery models help to simulate batteries based on empirical data and electrochemical systems. These models are a powerful tool in the evaluation of the performance of batteries. Parameters of the battery can be altered quickly and specifically. This can provide a powerful analysis tool to determine weaknesses in a batteries. They can also help in further developing an understanding of the operating principles of the battery technology. A specific type of model is the finite element model. In this type of model the object that is modeled is divided into small pieces and for each piece a set of (partial) differential equations is evaluated. Different electrochemical, chemical, physical and mathematical models can be modelled and combined in this tool. For this thesis a finite element model of an alkaline silicon-air battery is developed in COMSOL. The model is based on an earlier model that was developed in 2020.Besides the discharge mechanism, alkaline silicon-air batteries are subject to two secondary reactions that hinder the performance of the battery: corrosion and passivation. Corrosion consumes a large part of the silicon without contributing to the discharge. Passivation creates an oxide layer on the surface of the silicon electrode, stopping the discharge reaction. Both these reactions have been implemented in the model. Besides that, a metal contact on the silicon anode is implemented in the model. The parameters used in this model are supported by empirical values for these parameters. Finally, the model was compared to experimental results.The simulation of the discharge of the alkaline siliconair battery was improved in several ways compared to the pre-existing model. The corrosion was shown in the simulations, although the mechanism is somewhat simplified because of the 1D nature of the model. The passivation reaction was shown in the simulations as well, and was improved on compared to the previous model by breaking it up into two steps. Using this model, experimentally observed trends could be simulated reasonably well. The simulated discharge potential was a close representation of the experimental data, although the open circuit potential was somewhat higher, and for higher current densities the potential was somewhat lower. For different electrolyte concentrations the model showed results similar to what was found in experiments
O amor advaita como caminho para o Diálogo Inter-Religioso na perspectiva de Raimon Panikkar
No full textRaimon Panikkar (1918-2010) was one of the main exponents of the interreligious dialogue. This article investigates how the Hinduism’s advaitic perspective is present in Panikkar’s thought, as what he calls “advaitic love” and, therefore, constitutes a way of building the interreligious dialogue. For such, we contextualize the advaita and its use by the author in his theory of a cosmotheandric vision, based in the Christian Trinity, in his concept of Christophany, and in his understanding of the Religious Pluralism Theology, through a “pluralistic attitude”. We identify, then, the advaita in his theory of the intra-religious dialogue, encountering the other in oneself through the “advaitic love”, in a pilgrimage that takes place in the human being’s interiority, parallel to the interreligious dialogue. This is theoretical research, through a critical-analytical methodological perspective, in view of its apllication in the interreligious dialogue, based in Panikkar’s bibliography.Raimon Panikkar (1918-2010) foi um dos principais expoentes do diálogo inter-religioso. Este artigo procura investigar de que forma a perspectiva advaita do Hinduísmo está inserida no pensamento de Panikkar, como o que ele denomina de “amor advaita” e, assim, se constitui como caminho de construção do diálogo inter-religioso. Para tal, contextualizamos o advaita e a sua aplicação pelo autor em sua teoria da visão cosmoteândrica, baseada na Trindade cristã, em seu conceito de Cristofania e na sua compreensão da Teologia do Pluralismo Religioso, através de uma “atitude pluralista”. Identificamos, então, o advaita em sua teoria de diálogo intra-religioso, como o encontro do outro em si mesmo através do “amor advaita”, em uma peregrinação que acontece na interioridade do ser humano, paralelamente ao diálogo inter-religioso. Trata-se de uma pesquisa teórica, em perspectiva metodológica crítico-analítica, tendo em vista a sua aplicação no diálogo inter-religioso, embasada na bibliografia de Panikkar
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