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A Pursuit of the Decolonial Agenda
The discourse of decolonisation, though littered with unresolved contestation in the university as an institution of higher learning, has often been blamed on the impact of neoliberal globalisation philosophy. The book volume focuses on unfinished project of decolonisation, with an aim on African knowledge and the historical question of canonicity by keeping the emancipative dialogue alive. The authors place great scrutiny on the quality of curriculum offered in universities arguing that a sound relevant curriculum, original to the continent, can save Africa’s citizenry from challenges bedevilling socio-economic development.
Through a decolonial approach to the curriculum universities in Africa, the book proposes, can contribute to the disruption and potential end to Western hegemonic epistemologies that continue to manifest in the neoliberal geopolitical terrain exhibited in the form of cultural imperialism, epistemicide, and linguicide. The volume interrogates and challenges the neocolonial entanglement in regional higher education policy processes coupled with the excessive dependence of regional stakeholders on western external actors for higher education policy and envisages a decolonial alternative future for the regionalisation of higher education in Africa. To that end, the book makes brings in a more philosophical and practical hermeneutic of knowledge production and dissemination that unyokes post-independence African universities from the bondage of erstwhile colonisers.
Through a decolonial approach to the curriculum universities in Africa, the book proposes, can contribute to the disruption and potential end to Western hegemonic epistemologies that continue to manifest in the neoliberal geopolitical terrain exhibited in the form of cultural imperialism, epistemicide, and linguicide. The volume interrogates and challenges the neocolonial entanglement in regional higher education policy processes coupled with the excessive dependence of regional stakeholders on western external actors for higher education policy and envisages a decolonial alternative future for the regionalisation of higher education in Africa. To that end, the book makes brings in a more philosophical and practical hermeneutic of knowledge production and dissemination that unyokes post-independence African universities from the bondage of erstwhile colonisers.
A Pursuit of the Decolonial Agenda
The discourse of decolonisation, though littered with unresolved contestation in the university as an institution of higher learning, has often been blamed on the impact of neoliberal globalisation philosophy. The book volume focuses on unfinished project of decolonisation, with an aim on African knowledge and the historical question of canonicity by keeping the emancipative dialogue alive. The authors place great scrutiny on the quality of curriculum offered in universities arguing that a sound relevant curriculum, original to the continent, can save Africa’s citizenry from challenges bedevilling socio-economic development.
Through a decolonial approach to the curriculum universities in Africa, the book proposes, can contribute to the disruption and potential end to Western hegemonic epistemologies that continue to manifest in the neoliberal geopolitical terrain exhibited in the form of cultural imperialism, epistemicide, and linguicide. The volume interrogates and challenges the neocolonial entanglement in regional higher education policy processes coupled with the excessive dependence of regional stakeholders on western external actors for higher education policy and envisages a decolonial alternative future for the regionalisation of higher education in Africa. To that end, the book makes brings in a more philosophical and practical hermeneutic of knowledge production and dissemination that unyokes post-independence African universities from the bondage of erstwhile colonisers.
Through a decolonial approach to the curriculum universities in Africa, the book proposes, can contribute to the disruption and potential end to Western hegemonic epistemologies that continue to manifest in the neoliberal geopolitical terrain exhibited in the form of cultural imperialism, epistemicide, and linguicide. The volume interrogates and challenges the neocolonial entanglement in regional higher education policy processes coupled with the excessive dependence of regional stakeholders on western external actors for higher education policy and envisages a decolonial alternative future for the regionalisation of higher education in Africa. To that end, the book makes brings in a more philosophical and practical hermeneutic of knowledge production and dissemination that unyokes post-independence African universities from the bondage of erstwhile colonisers.
This volume sheds new light on the extraordinary richness and variety of love poetry written in Latin from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. It shows how Latin love poets reworked classical Roman and Greek models, and engaged in dialogue with mediaeval and contemporary vernacular traditions of poetry. They used the poetic language of love in Latin to reflect and comment on wider social, ethical and literary issues, and reconfigured its codes of representation in response to changing conceptions of love in the philosophical and religious spheres. Their poetry often aligned itself with dominant discourses of power and gender, but it could also be subtly subversive or even openly transgressive.
This volume sheds new light on the extraordinary richness and variety of love poetry written in Latin from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. It shows how Latin love poets reworked classical Roman and Greek models, and engaged in dialogue with mediaeval and contemporary vernacular traditions of poetry. They used the poetic language of love in Latin to reflect and comment on wider social, ethical and literary issues, and reconfigured its codes of representation in response to changing conceptions of love in the philosophical and religious spheres. Their poetry often aligned itself with dominant discourses of power and gender, but it could also be subtly subversive or even openly transgressive.
Is the Sublime Sustainable? introduces the key points of debate around the sublime while opening new avenues for future inquiry, especially through its comparative aesthetics approach. In it, you will discover how thinking on the sublime emerged historically and then engage with the recent critical scholarship on the topic, including from the fields of theology, philosophy, and literature. The critiques of the sublime are then expanded in dialogue with perspectives from Japanese aesthetics and art, shaping the argument that what is needed today is a sublime that enriches human lives by cultivating profound, participative relationships.
Is the Sublime Sustainable? introduces the key points of debate around the sublime while opening new avenues for future inquiry, especially through its comparative aesthetics approach. In it, you will discover how thinking on the sublime emerged historically and then engage with the recent critical scholarship on the topic, including from the fields of theology, philosophy, and literature. The critiques of the sublime are then expanded in dialogue with perspectives from Japanese aesthetics and art, shaping the argument that what is needed today is a sublime that enriches human lives by cultivating profound, participative relationships.
Texts, Traditions and Practices, 10th-21st Centuries
Memory and Commemoration across Central Asia: Texts, Traditions and Practices, 10th-21st Centuries is a collection of fourteen studies by a group of scholars active in the field of Central Asian Studies, presenting new research into various aspects of the rich cultural heritage of Central Asia (including Afghanistan). By mapping and exploring the interaction between political, ideological, literary and artistic production in Central Asia, the contributors offer a wide range of perspectives on the practice and usage of historical and religious commemoration in different contexts and timeframes. Making use of different approaches – historical, literary, anthropological, or critical heritage studies, the contributors show how memory functions as a fundamental constituent of identity formation in both past and present, and how this has informed perceptions in and outside Central Asia today.
Texts, Traditions and Practices, 10th-21st Centuries
Memory and Commemoration across Central Asia: Texts, Traditions and Practices, 10th-21st Centuries is a collection of fourteen studies by a group of scholars active in the field of Central Asian Studies, presenting new research into various aspects of the rich cultural heritage of Central Asia (including Afghanistan). By mapping and exploring the interaction between political, ideological, literary and artistic production in Central Asia, the contributors offer a wide range of perspectives on the practice and usage of historical and religious commemoration in different contexts and timeframes. Making use of different approaches – historical, literary, anthropological, or critical heritage studies, the contributors show how memory functions as a fundamental constituent of identity formation in both past and present, and how this has informed perceptions in and outside Central Asia today.
The Restoration of Classical Bilingualism in the Early Modern Low Countries and Beyond
Did you know that many reputed Neo-Latin authors like Erasmus of Rotterdam also wrote in forms of Ancient Greek? Erasmus used this New Ancient Greek language to celebrate a royal return from Spain to Brussels, to honor deceded friends like Johann Froben, to pray while on a pilgrimage, and to promote a new Aristotle edition. But classical bilingualism was not the prerogative of a happy few Renaissance luminaries: less well-known humanists, too, activated their classical bilingual competence to impress patrons; nuance their ideas and feelings; manage information by encoding gossip and private matters in Greek; and adorn books and art with poems in the two languagges, and so on. As reader, you discover promising research perspectives to bridge the gap between the long-standing discipline of Neo-Latin studies and the young field of New Ancient Greek studies.
The Restoration of Classical Bilingualism in the Early Modern Low Countries and Beyond
Did you know that many reputed Neo-Latin authors like Erasmus of Rotterdam also wrote in forms of Ancient Greek? Erasmus used this New Ancient Greek language to celebrate a royal return from Spain to Brussels, to honor deceded friends like Johann Froben, to pray while on a pilgrimage, and to promote a new Aristotle edition. But classical bilingualism was not the prerogative of a happy few Renaissance luminaries: less well-known humanists, too, activated their classical bilingual competence to impress patrons; nuance their ideas and feelings; manage information by encoding gossip and private matters in Greek; and adorn books and art with poems in the two languagges, and so on. As reader, you discover promising research perspectives to bridge the gap between the long-standing discipline of Neo-Latin studies and the young field of New Ancient Greek studies.
Hierarchies of Modernism
Using Kamel Daoud’s The Meursault Investigation and Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s The Secret History of Costaguana, this book asks you to serve as the jury on euro-modernism, specifically the canonical texts Camus’s The Stranger and Conrad’s Nostromo. The book reveals the extent to which euro-modernist aesthetics was culpable in rationalising colonialism.
Hierarchies of Modernism
Using Kamel Daoud’s The Meursault Investigation and Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s The Secret History of Costaguana, this book asks you to serve as the jury on euro-modernism, specifically the canonical texts Camus’s The Stranger and Conrad’s Nostromo. The book reveals the extent to which euro-modernist aesthetics was culpable in rationalising colonialism.
Ein anderer Blick auf die Philosophie des „Mittelalters“
Das Buch zeigt, warum es kein Mittelalter gegeben hat, und warum sich auf diese Weise ein ganz neuer Blick auf 1000 Jahre Philosophie eröffnet. Es zeigt zugleich, dass dieses Jahrtausend vielgestaltig und vielsprachig, interdisziplinär, transkulturell und multireligiös war. Das gilt auch für die Philosophie. Das gemeinsame spätantike Erbe bildete den Ausgangspunkt für vielfältige Austauschbeziehungen über Sprachgrenzen hinweg. Hierfür bietet das Buch viele anschauliche Beispiele. Grundlage sind die Übersetzungen aus dem Griechischen in das Arabische, Hebräische und Lateinische. Zugleich werden zentrale philosophische Fragen weiterentwickelt. Die Erweiterung der Wissenschaften erhält ihren Ort an verschiedenen Bildungsinstitutionen, vor allem an den neuen Universitäten, die ab dem 13. Jahrhundert ihren weltweiten Siegeszug antreten. Eine zentrale Rolle spielt die Philosophie, die dieses vielfältige Jahrtausend wie keine andere Wissenschaft repräsentiert und in Gedanken fasst.
Ein anderer Blick auf die Philosophie des „Mittelalters“
Das Buch zeigt, warum es kein Mittelalter gegeben hat, und warum sich auf diese Weise ein ganz neuer Blick auf 1000 Jahre Philosophie eröffnet. Es zeigt zugleich, dass dieses Jahrtausend vielgestaltig und vielsprachig, interdisziplinär, transkulturell und multireligiös war. Das gilt auch für die Philosophie. Das gemeinsame spätantike Erbe bildete den Ausgangspunkt für vielfältige Austauschbeziehungen über Sprachgrenzen hinweg. Hierfür bietet das Buch viele anschauliche Beispiele. Grundlage sind die Übersetzungen aus dem Griechischen in das Arabische, Hebräische und Lateinische. Zugleich werden zentrale philosophische Fragen weiterentwickelt. Die Erweiterung der Wissenschaften erhält ihren Ort an verschiedenen Bildungsinstitutionen, vor allem an den neuen Universitäten, die ab dem 13. Jahrhundert ihren weltweiten Siegeszug antreten. Eine zentrale Rolle spielt die Philosophie, die dieses vielfältige Jahrtausend wie keine andere Wissenschaft repräsentiert und in Gedanken fasst.
Bergvisionen zwischen Symbolik und Erfahrungsraum
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Der vorliegende Band untersucht das Zusammenwirken von Bergdarstellungen und Traumnarrativen in Literatur und Film aus epochen- und kulturraumübergreifender sowie intermedialer Perspektive. Dabei soll der Traum in seiner ganzen semantischen Spannweite in den Fokus gerückt werden, denn die komplexe Hybridisierung von Schlaftraum, Tagträumerei und Wunschtraum scheint im Kontext von Bergnarrativen besonders sinnstiftend. Gleichzeitig wird durch die Analyse ästhetischer Bergdarstellungen in onirischen Narrativen eine Re-Evaluierung etablierter Bergtopoi angestrebt. So soll die spezifische Wissens- und Kulturpoetik der Berg-Traum-Narrative herausgestellt werden. Zwischen Selbstfindung und Entfremdung, Fiktion und Referenzialität, rückwärtsgewandter Traumabewältigung und zukunftsgerichtetem Sehnsuchtsraum konstituieren sich ästhetische Darstellungen von 'Traumbergen' und 'Bergträumen' regelmäßig durch eine ambivalente, dialektische Logik, die es zu untersuchen gilt.
Bergvisionen zwischen Symbolik und Erfahrungsraum
Editor:
Der vorliegende Band untersucht das Zusammenwirken von Bergdarstellungen und Traumnarrativen in Literatur und Film aus epochen- und kulturraumübergreifender sowie intermedialer Perspektive. Dabei soll der Traum in seiner ganzen semantischen Spannweite in den Fokus gerückt werden, denn die komplexe Hybridisierung von Schlaftraum, Tagträumerei und Wunschtraum scheint im Kontext von Bergnarrativen besonders sinnstiftend. Gleichzeitig wird durch die Analyse ästhetischer Bergdarstellungen in onirischen Narrativen eine Re-Evaluierung etablierter Bergtopoi angestrebt. So soll die spezifische Wissens- und Kulturpoetik der Berg-Traum-Narrative herausgestellt werden. Zwischen Selbstfindung und Entfremdung, Fiktion und Referenzialität, rückwärtsgewandter Traumabewältigung und zukunftsgerichtetem Sehnsuchtsraum konstituieren sich ästhetische Darstellungen von 'Traumbergen' und 'Bergträumen' regelmäßig durch eine ambivalente, dialektische Logik, die es zu untersuchen gilt.
Zur Praxis materialistischer Literaturinterpretation
Wie steht es um den Materialismus in den Literaturwissenschaften? Gibt es ‚den‘ Materialismus oder eine Pluralität von Materialismen? Wie bringen wir das Verhältnis der Dinge und Texte zu den Bedingungen ihres Erscheinens auf den Begriff? Und wie gestaltet sich dabei das Verhältnis der neuen zu den alten Materialismen? Man müsse, heißt es bei Marx, die Hegelsche Dialektik „umstülpen, um den rationellen Kern in der mystischen Hülle zu entdecken“. Im Anschluss an die vielschichtige Metapher des Umstülpens unternimmt das Buch eine Neuvermessung der Landkarte materialistischer Analyseformate in den Literaturwissenschaften. Auf der Grundlage einer kritischen Rekonstruktion marxistischer Traditionslinien werden gegenwärtige Einsätze vorgestellt und mittels theoretischer Situierung und exemplarischer Analysen auf ihre Potentiale hin befragt: Dabei erweisen sich der Realismus- und der Ideologiebegriff mit materialistischen Theorien der Form oder der Produktion von Literatur eng verwoben. Ansätze einer materialistischen Weltliteraturforschung werden mit postkolonialen und intersektionalen Perspektiven ins Gespräch gebracht. Zum Horizont aktueller Debatten gehören schließlich Fragen der Sorgearbeit oder ‚platform work‘ in der Gegenwartsliteratur. Der Band widmet sich u.a. theoretischen Positionen von Pierre Macherey, Roberto Schwarz, Karen Barad und des Warwick Research Collective sowie literarischen Texten von Wilhelm Raabe, Anna Seghers, Kōbō Abe und Gertraud Klemm. Das Resultat ist keine vollständige Darstellung des Diskursfeldes, sondern eine Orientierungshilfe, die es trotz der Unabgeschlossenheit der Begriffsbildung erlaubt, materialistische Theorie literaturwissenschaftlich fruchtbar zu machen.