Essays In Memory Research Articles

Twentieth-Century Music and Politics: Essays in Memory of Neil Edmunds. Ed. Pauline Fairclough. Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2013, xviii, 292 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Musical Examples. $111.95, hard bound.

Twentieth-Century Music and Politics: Essays in Memory of Neil Edmunds. Ed. Pauline Fairclough. Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2013, xviii, 292 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Musical Examples. $111.95, hard bound.

The Huguenots. History and memory in transnational context. Essays in honour and memory of Walter C. Utt. Edited by D. J. B. Trim. (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 156.) Pp. xxviii+313+ frontispiece. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2011. €99. 978 90 04 20775 2

The Huguenots. History and memory in transnational context. Essays in honour and memory of Walter C. Utt. Edited by D. J. B. Trim. (Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 156.) Pp. xxviii+313+ frontispiece. Leiden–Boston: Brill, 2011. €99. 978 90 04 20775 2 - Volume 65 Issue 1

Right to Development and Global Governance: Old and New Challenges Twenty-Five Years On

"Right to Development" (RTD) called for a fundamental transformation of global governance at its origin. This transformation would enable RTD's full realization by overcoming international barriers to greater influence for the voices of the developing countries in global economic and political decision-making and to more solidarity. Twenty-five years later, elements of that agenda have in fact been achieved, enabling greater voice and influence for some developing countries, while their very success has raised new challenges to global governance of the future. This article analyzes key challenges that arise to the future of the right to development due to the "rise of the rest" and concludes that a fundamental rethinking of RTD and alternative structural changes in global governance are needed to realize the moral and political ideals of the right to development.

Book Review: Faith Seeking Understanding: Essays in Memory of Paul Brand and Ralph D. Winter

Book Review: Faith Seeking Understanding: Essays in Memory of Paul Brand and Ralph D. Winter

Twentieth-Century Music and Politics: Essays in Memory of Neil Edmunds, edited by Pauline Fairclough. Ashgate, £58.50.

Twentieth-Century Music and Politics: Essays in Memory of Neil Edmunds, edited by Pauline Fairclough. Ashgate, £58.50.

WARWICK GOULD (ed.). The Living Stream: Yeats Annual No. 18: A Special Issue. Essays in Memory of A. Norman Jeffares.

WARWICK GOULD (ed.). The Living Stream: Yeats Annual No. 18: A Special Issue. Essays in Memory of A. Norman Jeffares.

Emerson’s Politics

Arsic, Branka. 2010. On Leaving: A Reading in Emerson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. $51.50 hc. xi + 387.Greenham, David. 2012. Emerson's Transatlantic Romanticism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. $85.00 hc. xiv + 213.Habich, Robert D. 2011. Building Their Own Waldos: Emerson's First Biographers and the Politics of Life-Writing in the Gilded Age. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. $29.95 sc. $29.95 e. xxviii + 186.Levine, Alan M., and Daniel S. Malachuk, eds. 2011. A Political Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. $40.00 hc. $40.00 e. xi + 487.Writing for a nation that had recently ended Reconstruction with a devil's bargain that took the federal government out of race politics, Emerson's first biographers had little incentive to commemorate him as a religious rebel who became an abolitionist. Rather, Emerson's legacy was first written in the affirming terms of a literary nationalism built around the heroic independence of the private individual. But in 1882 when Emerson died, even that effort faced significant obstacles because his name, like the word Transcendentalism, was already shorthand for a self-indulgent posture of mystical optimism.Despite the emerging caricature, oracular sketches of the sage of Concord always competed with serious efforts to grapple with Emerson's writing. Friedrich Nietzsche's absorption of Emerson's essays and John Dewey's 1903 commemorative essay Emerson: Philosopher of Democracy began a continuing project of incorporating Emerson's thought into analysis of identity, aesthetics, epistemology, and spirituality. Partly because of the caricature, Emerson's relevance to politics has always been ambiguous. Philosophers with a particular interest in public life have often addressed Emerson's writing. But they have tended to assume that Emerson's thought is fundamentally self-reflective and that its importance for politics is more implicit than explicit. The priority that George Kateb gives to mental over active self-reliance, for example, characterizes this approach to Emerson's thought about liberal political identity (2002, 33-36). In recent criticism, however, it has become common to assume that Emerson's essays make explicit political interventions. Thus, in addition to its relevance for subjectivity, spirituality, aesthetics, and epistemology, Emerson's writing also bears on questions of community, structures of public authority, situated selfhood, citizenship, civic obligation, the value of institutional memberships, and other questions related to political integration.The distinction between Emerson's implicit and explicit relationships to political thought is important because it repositions his project in relation to civil society. It makes him less a critic and skeptic trying to defend individuality against the alienations of mass democracy and industrialization, and more an affirmative theorist of communal relationships trying to envision citizens living in an actually existing civil society.In the 1990s, works such as Len Gougeon's Virtue's Hero (1990), Phyllis Cole's Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism (1998), and Albert J. von Frank's The Trials of Anthony Burns (1998) led to extensive reconstruction of the Transcendentalists' involvement in politics. This research has demonstrated the depth and breadth of their involvement in antislavery and their advocacy of women's and Native American rights. As a result, where it was once reasonable to dismiss Emerson as politically irrelevant and to treat Transcendentalism as an effort to withdraw from the politics of Jacksonian democratization, it is now much more difficult to do so. On the other hand, with the reconstruction of Emerson's thought about race and slavery, recent historicist work has also made it easier to argue that Emerson's politics are either aggressively racist or methodologically reactionary. For example, in her recent history of race in the United States, Nell Painter (2010) singles Emerson out as a uniquely pernicious advocate of Anglo-Saxon superiority. …

DIANA LIPTON (ed.), Universalism and Particularism at Sodom and Gomorrah: Essays in Memory of Ron Pirson

DIANA LIPTON (ed.), Universalism and Particularism at Sodom and Gomorrah: Essays in Memory of Ron Pirson

Personality and Place in Russian Culture—or Not

Simon Dixon, ed., Personality and Place in Russian Culture: Essays in Memory of Lindsey Hughes. 435 pp., illus. London: Modern Humanities Research Association for University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies, 2010. ISBN-13 978-1907322037. $20.00. This collection of articles is a tribute to memory and rich intellectual legacy of late Lindsey Hughes (1949-2007), professor of Russian history at London University's School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies (SSEES, now part of University College London [UCL]). Hughes is probably best known for her pioneering biographies Sophia, Regent of Russia, 1657-1704 and monumental Peter Great: A Biography, as well as for her interest in material as a primary historical source--particularly architecture but also art, clothing, fashion, icons, and ritual. (1) As Robin Miller-Guilland writes, In her many shorter articles, we find a tireless enthusiast for generally disregarded corners of history ..., multivalent, disparate strands that make up texture of human culture (22). These have been cleverly distilled by editor of volume under review, Simon Dixon, Hughes's colleague at SSEES and a leading scholar of Catherinean Russia, as a focus on personality and place, reflecting Hughes's interests in kaleidoscopic variety of individual motivations and shifting meanings attributable to particular settings (13). Dixon's characterization of Hughes's scholarship as a self-denying empiricism and concept-driven (5) may also be applied to works in Personality and Place, which do not attempt large-scale statements about Russian or forefront theoretical or methodological problems but focus on the shifting meanings attributable to particular settings and on specific materials under consideration. That said, it is not easy to identify major themes or issues that tie together collection of articles by 17 authors on a variety of subjects and periods; volume also includes an article by Hughes on Cathedral of SS Peter and Paul and a bibliography of her main works. To some extent, Personality and Place may be taken as a cross-section of contemporary scholarship in English on Russia before Soviet period, with most attention given to 18th century. The book also appeared as a special issue of The Slavonic and East European Review, and it retains look and vestigial traces of a journal (e.g., reference to this journal, 14). (2) Indeed, majority of readers will most likely refer to individual contributions in volume rather than read it in linear fashion. To a greater or lesser extent, all entries deal with personality and/or place but with no common understanding of what exactly these mean. That said, we may tentatively break subject matter down into topics concerning material and print culture, historical sites, expeditions and geography, examinations of discourse in historical context, biographical studies, literary depictions of self, and tributes to Hughes's life and work. I will say a few words about each contribution, by group. Dixon's introduction to collection offers a beautiful evocation of social and cultural world in which Hughes grew up and describes her intellectual formation in postwar Britain. James Cracraft continues with a personal memoir of Hughes, centering on her work on Peter I; Hughes's exhaustive research in archives, libraries, museums, and architectural sites, in his words, yielded an unprecedentedly detailed, complex, and often dark portrayal of great tsar.... Her book leaves its readers, at Peter's death, with a Russia that is exhausted, confused, and fearful--not unlike immediately post-Soviet Russia in which she conducted much of her research (17). Following Hughes's lead, Sergei Bogatyrev and Simon Franklin take up what we may classify as problems in material and print in order to explore images of Russian rulers. …

The Huguenots: History and Memory in Transnational Context: Essays in Honour and Memory of Walter C. Utt. Edited by D. J. B. Trim. Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 156. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2011. xxviii + 316 pp. $136.00 cloth.

The Huguenots: History and Memory in Transnational Context: Essays in Honour and Memory of Walter C. Utt. Edited by D. J. B. Trim. Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 156. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2011. xxviii + 316 pp. $136.00 cloth.

Book Review: From Single Market to Economic Union: Essays in Memory of John A. Usher, edited by Niamh Nic Shuibhne and Laurence W. Gormley. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012)

Book Review: <i>From Single Market to Economic Union: Essays in Memory of John A. Usher</i>, edited by Niamh Nic Shuibhne and Laurence W. Gormley. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012)

Women, Genre and Circumstance: Essays in Memory of Elizabeth Fallaize

Women, Genre and Circumstance: Essays in Memory of Elizabeth Fallaize

A visual essay in memory of PW

Photographs of PW courtesy of Roma Gibson, Niki Willemen and Valentina Vitali. Nightcleaners, 1972-75 Berwick Street Collective. Courtesy of the filmmakers and Lux London. Pineapple, 1982; Bangkok ...

To sing and to dance, to think and to fight: an actor's second nervous system

This two-part essay is on the erotics of pedagogy or education of the senses through learning how to learn from images and sounds of cinema as manifestations of rhythm. Part one creates a conceptual framework derived from the archives on Neurological Modernity and Theatre Anthropology, so as to develop the concept of a “Second Nervous System” which animates performers in the great Asian and European civilizational traditions of performance. Their relevance to early twentieth century European avant-garde performance and cinema and to contemporary transcultural work in performance provides a mobile, flexible, conceptual framework for thinking with film. Part two activates this network of rhythmic connections so as to explore, observe, analyse and learn from the film Khayal Gatha by Kumar Shahani, which is, among other things, about the conditions of transmissibility of cultural traditions after colonialism and political independence. A question drives this essay in memory of Paul Willemen. In the emerging “Asian Century” will we, the peoples of the Asia-Pacific zones of contact, be able to take cues from the anthropology of theatre to create “a thousand and one” transversal story lines on “a thousand plateaus” across the globe and beyond, with cinema/film as our mentor?

Three Epiphanic Fragments: Education and the essay in memory

Pádraig Hogan has argued for a powerful conception of education as epiphany that is illuminated by the work of Heidegger and Joyce. But what are we to make of Stephen Dedalus’ intention (pretension?) to ‘Remember your epiphanies’? Developing the phenomenological Erinnerungsversuch or ‘essay in memory’ of David Farrell Krell, I will examine three ‘epiphanic fragments’ from the literature of education. The problem of the temporality of the educational epiphany will be identified and a resolution will be attempted. I hope thus to extend an ontological account of memory into the educational experience, and also to develop the educational significance of the remembered or recollected epiphany. The article concludes with some emerging thoughts on the relation of education, literature and vocation.

Women, Genre and Circumstance: Essays in Memory of Elizabeth Fallaize ed. by by Margaret Atack, et al. (review)

Women, Genre and Circumstance: Essays in Memory of Elizabeth Fallaize ed. by by Margaret Atack, et al. (review)

The Three-Color Triangle Problem (Essays in Memory of the Late Professor Yukio Ito)

The Three-Color Triangle Problem (Essays in Memory of the Late Professor Yukio Ito)

An analysis of Inalienable possession constructions in Japanese (Essays in Memory of the Late Professor Yukio Ito)

An analysis of Inalienable possession constructions in Japanese (Essays in Memory of the Late Professor Yukio Ito)

Simon Dixon, ed., Personality and Place in Russian Culture: Essays in Memory of Lindsey Hughes

Simon Dixon, ed., <i>Personality and Place in Russian Culture: Essays in Memory of Lindsey Hughes</i>

Experiment to Analyze the Phenomenon of Declining Marriage Rates Using an Agent Model (Essays in Memory of the Late Professor Yukio Ito)

Experiment to Analyze the Phenomenon of Declining Marriage Rates Using an Agent Model (Essays in Memory of the Late Professor Yukio Ito)