History Of Theory Research Articles

Jak nadać sens nowej kondycji historycznej? Taynna Marino rozmawia z Markiem Tammem i Zoltánem Boldizsárem Simonem

Marek Tamm and Zoltán Boldizsár Simon, in dialogue with Taynna M. Marino, discuss some of the main dilemmas and challenges of contemporary historical theory, from the scientific status and so-called crises within the discipline to discussions about new forms of temporality and historicity that can respond to the technoscientific, ecological and socio-political changes we are facing today. In this conversation, the authors emphasize the historians’ role in making history relevant for the future and the efforts to redefine historical knowledge to encompass diverse forms of life (more-than-human, better-than-human, nonhuman) and tackle disconnected pro-spects of the future. Finally, they call attention to the importance of a fruitful dialogue between historians and theorists of history and of collaborating with scholars from other sciences to develop new ways of making sense of the new historical condition.

Integrating Jiang Han Ping Yuan Shadow Puppetry into Education for Cultural Protection and Literacy Development

Jiang Han Ping Yuan Shadow Puppetry, a traditional Chinese performing art rooted in Hubei Province’s cultural heritage, embodies intricate shadow play, music, and storytelling. This research aims to explore the efficacy of integrating Jiang Han Ping Yuan Shadow Puppetry into education for cultural protection and literacy development among students. Conducted in Qianjiang City, the birthplace of Jiang Han Ping Yuan Shadow Puppetry, the study employs a multidisciplinary approach, drawing on ethnomusicology, historical theory, and the anthropology of music. Two key informants, selected for their expertise and local cultural ties, provide insights into the historical development, artistic characteristics, and cultural resilience of this shadow puppetry. Through a meticulous analysis of historical aspects, artistic features, props, and cultural practices, the research uncovers the rich tapestry of Jiang Han Ping Yuan Shadow Puppetry. Findings suggest that despite challenges such as declining popularity and economic factors, the art form has persisted, showcasing adaptability through reforms and innovations. Recommendations include curriculum development, community engagement, and awareness initiatives to strengthen the role of Jiang Han Ping Yuan Shadow Puppetry in literacy programs and cultural preservation.

Objects as Agents (Some Comments on O.L. Gubarev’s Response)

This article builds on the earlier discussion about the actor traits associated with North Germanic weapons. The historical theories and evidence used by O.L. Gubarev to support his approach are analyzed. It is argued that he seems to echo the historiographical tradition relying on oversimplified a priori assertions, rather than a comprehensive analysis of the concept of “living” things in certain cultures. In his polemical response, he misinterpreted some historical sources and the views of other researchers, while also presenting his own controversial ideas as undeniable facts. In conclusion, it is suggested that the beliefs in the ability of inanimate things to have person-like qualities and play an actual social role, the distinction between living and non-living nature, as well as the practice of attributing souls to non-living entities, should be regarded as separate problems that are not clearly related in all cultures.

Objectification Theory in History and Class Consciousness and Its Implications for Ideology Construction

As the pioneer and forerunner of Western Marxism, Lukács’ ideas have had a significant impact on the development of Western Marxism and even Western philosophy. History and Class Consciousness, consisting of eight essays, is the most important work of Lukács’s life. The objectification theory elaborated in the book has important implications for the critique of capitalist ideology and the reconstruction of the consciousness of the proletariat, as well as for contemporary ideological construction.

A Study on Techno-Nationalism, an Emerging Trend in the 21st Century India

Techno-nationalism is a nationalistic and ideological movement that also serves to understand the social and cultural effects of technology on the citizens of a country. Techno-nationalism is a fusion of the two words "Technology and Nationalism," in which they are politically focused together on the advancement of the country in terms of technology and its related dynamics. Initially, it was started in Europe and North America, then later in the twentieth century, various nations begin to make use of Techno-nationalism, and China has mastered this concept for their advancement. anyway, the main objective of this paper is to examine and prove the roots and growth of the Techno-nationalist movement in the world as well as in India and China's hostility to the emergence of Techno-nationalism in India and in its citizens with the support of different eminent references. In this context, a survey also conducted to prove the emergence of the Techno-nationalism in India. Respondents are common Indian people who will fall within the categories of different sectors and analyzed this data through the references of many technological, cultural, scientific, social, historical theories respectively.

The concept of Individuality in Friedrich Meinecke’s Early Work

This article investigates the centrality of the concept of individuality in the young Friedrich Meinecke’s theory of history, positing it as a fundamental element shaping Meinecke’s historical conception. To elucidate this position, an analysis is conducted to discern the significance attributed to the principium individuationis at two critical junctures in Meinecke’s early intellectual development: firstly, in his response to the positivist assault on the German historical school, and secondly, in his endeavor to reconceptualize the underpinnings of a revitalized history of ideas between the late 1800s and the initial decade of the twentieth century. By expounding upon these aspects and contextualizing the intellectual evolution in which these ideas emerged, it is argued that the concept of individuality functioned as a theoretical refuge against what Meinecke perceived as the doctrinaire nature of worldviews incompatible with notions of freedom and spontaneity — principles he considered intrinsic to the historical mode of thought.

Introduction. On the Need for Theory in History

Introduction. On the Need for Theory in History

Postcolonial Apologies, Politics of Regret and Temporal Manichaeism

The article analyzes the forms of temporality and morality which operate in the request for postcolonial apologies in modern democracies, focusing on the Mexican case. There is already rich literature on the changing mnemonic and historiographical interpretations of the Conquest in Mexican history up to the present day. In this paper the Mexican case serves as factual support to discuss theoretically the modes of temporal consciousness that underlie postcolonial apologies and the moral relations to the past that these entail. We will examine the topic in light of the “ethical turn” proposals found in historical theory. We will critically address the assumptions regarding historicity behind the so-called “politics of regret,” questioning the ideological premises that frame the request for apologies and the decolonial theories that support them. Finally, we will approach the problem based on moral philosophy works that have studied collective apologies’ paradoxical nature. The questions to answer are: does retrospective recrimination of colonial processes make sense? Can we reclaim apologies from history? We conclude that the postcolonial apologies demanded by President López Obrador depend on a mythologized vision of the past, which reproduces a logic of temporal Manichaeism, with a scant epistemological basis to judge historically the event that it condemns.

Transformation As The Church's Efforts To Overcome Poverty In Indonesia Based On PSALM 146:1-10

In this case the author proposes a solution based on Psalm 146:1-10, namely that the church carries out transformation as an effort to overcome major problems in Indonesia. The method used is qualitative research which includes library research with critical historical theory, namely form criticism (sitz im leben). The Psalms were sung in communion with the nation of Israel. In particular, surah 146 is read to strengthen the hope that humans will only believe in Allah, while rejecting the power of the nobles. The nobles mentioned by the Psalmist had various unavoidable weaknesses, referring to their limitations. The psalmist reminds us again that the God in question is the God of Jacob. God is almighty and remains faithful in fulfilling His covenant, namely liberation. God will save everyone who asks for His help like one of human ancestors, Jacob. The psalmist praises that as God freed Jacob, so God also freed the Israelites from oppression. In Israel's history, God's submission was manifested through Israel's kings. God chose the kings of Israel to be tools or agents to carry out God's plan or vision of liberation. The novelty of this research is that churches in Indonesia with real commitment will be able to solve the big problem, namely poverty in Indonesia. Likewise, churches in the world will be able to solve global problems. This church-centered approach relies on the church's ability to fight poverty more effectively than other institutions. The church is an institution that has the resources to provide solutions to big problems. By mobilizing churches in all corners of Indonesia, churches can reach communities and the specific needs of the poor

State of the Art: Literary Studies in the Anthropocene

Literary studies are well acquainted with the worlding powers of storytelling. Worlding is the generative process that is transformative enough to integrate the dysfunctionalities of the present and imagine what futures might still be possible (Cheng). As Haraway suggests, worlding also implies entangled histories of human and non-human agencies. For this reason, literary studies are well equipped to appreciate the different ways in which speculative fabulation emerges as a core component of current modes of conceptualising the Anthropocene (Stengers, Braidotti, Haraway, Tsing). At once an ethics, a theory of history and a practice of worlding, speculative fabulation is about imagining other ways of living on a damaged planet and taking active (and reflexive) responsibility for the future. The present article is a survey of the challenges and affordances in literary studies in the Anthropocene. It explores literary practices that go beyond symptomatic reading (Best, Marcus), an approach that interprets texts at hand as symptoms for a deeper, unconscious meaning. Instead, it argues that we are witnessing an abundance of topological fabulations, against “depth”, and aware of the limits of interpretation, as well as increasing attention to different modes of scaling, in order to respond to the challenges of the Anthropocene.

WITH OR AGAINST HAYDEN WHITE? REFLECTIONS ON THEORY OF HISTORY AND SUBJECT FORMATION

ABSTRACTThis article reflects on Hayden White's understanding of the subject and explores how best to move forward discussions in theory of history after his arguments about narrativity. To do so, I reconsider his arguments in light of more recent feminist and queer theorizations. Through a reconstruction of the current international new wave of feminism and LGBTQ+ activism as a rich and complex social movement that involves a narration of its own (practical) past, I will recontextualize and revaluate White's insight from the perspective of Judith Butler's theory of subject formation. The argument will unfold in four parts. First, I will recall White's ironic and existential stance on language and narrativity in the representation of reality and in relation to social beliefs. Second, I will again raise the question of the value of narrativity, as framed by White, in the context of the publication of a recent feminist manifesto. It is here that another issue will emerge as crucial: the relationship between the limits of linguistic self‐consciousness and the question of the subject. In the third part, my argument will take a partial turn “against White” and toward Butler's subject formation theory. My claim will be that there is a residue of the belief in the sovereign individual in White's insistence on self‐consciousness. However, I will also show that his suspicion regarding the psychological impulse toward narrative closure can be re‐elaborated as the challenge Butler is facing with their theory of subject formation: that of critically resisting the belief in our being coherent and self‐sufficient individuals. In the fourth part, I will present Butler's refiguration of the thesis of the subject's opacity in terms of the primary relationality that binds human beings to one another, and I will offer a new understanding of the individual, norms, agency, infancy, and ethics. Finally, I will conclude that we are bodies in history and that theory of history can find a promising line of research through this conception of the subject, a conception that reframes how we understand the intimate links between political consciousness, historicity, and embodiment. I also claim that this line of research constitutes an ethics for our historical undoing.

Embedded Dissonance in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Harmonic Theory and Practice

Seeking to elucidate aspects of harmonic practice that originated in contrapuntal patterns, this article traces a specific set of voice-leading configurations in which the generative roles of dissonance, counterpoint, and harmonic progression are blurred. These configurations, originating in early eighteenth-century practice, feature upper-voice suspensions, which are notable for their interlocking qualities and for their compatibility with an extended range of thoroughbass patterns and bass motions (Harrison 2003). Segments of such patterns were partially assimilated into later compositional practice and appeared in treatises on fundamental-bass and scale-step systems of harmony, but these configurations revealed a degree of friction between counterpoint-based idioms and the emerging harmonic theories attempting to explain them according to singular principles. The continued appearance of these configurations in subsequent compositional practice raises the question of what aspects of dissonance and counterpoint have been both embedded in harmonic practice and increasingly subordinated to chord structure in the harmonic theories that stretch from Rameau to Schenker. This dialectical engagement between historical theory and compositional practice offers a critique of our inherited harmonic theories, exposing competing conceptions of dissonance and discrepancies over its autonomy relative to harmonic principles. Tracing this history also reveals that the essential connections among rhythm/meter, dissonance treatment, and harmonic progression that are clearly present in eighteenth-century practice—Kirnberger’s “rhythmic harmony” (Aldrich 1970)—become increasingly subordinated to harmonic principles in nineteenth-century theory. The historical path of embedded dissonance appears to exemplify Adorno’s notion of sedimentation, which offers several interesting disciplinary and aesthetic conclusions about harmonic theory.

Out of the Blue

The Old Hall Manuscript (OH, c. 1413–1419) is the largest and most complete surviving witness to English music of the early fifteenth century. The extraordinary notational complexity encountered in OH has led to doubt being cast on the performability of some of the repertory copied within this manuscript (Bent 1969, 172). Adopting an approach that places historical theory (Dygon 2006)

Symptomatic Elegies: Ideology and Melancholy in Dennis Lee and Eli Mandel

The CanLit boom of the 1960s and 1970s involved the canonization of a cultural identity preoccupied with a perceived loss of political sovereignty to the United States and, more generally, to the dynamics of capitalist modernity. This article proposes that this emerging identity promoted an ideology that made the loss of sovereignty appear inevitable and concealed the possibility of political resistance. The article takes as case studies Dennis Lee’s Civil Elegies and Eli Mandel’s “On the 25th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz Memorial Services, Toronto, January 25th, 1970 YMHA Bloor and Spadina.” Bringing together diverse fields of Canadian Studies (literature, history, and philosophy) and drawing from contemporary political and historical theory, this article explores how these poems, despite their differences in form and subject matter, partake in the same melancholic fantasy of powerlessness – a fantasy akin to the one that would come to hold sway over the global zeitgeist in the late twentieth century and beyond.

KEPASTIAN HUKUM TERHADAP ORANG ASING YANG DIKENAI TINDAKAN ADMINISTRATIF KEIMIGRASIAN BERDASARKAN PASAL 75 AYAT (1) UNDANG-UNDANG NOMOR 6 TAHUN 2011 TENTANG KEIMIGRASIAN

Immigration becomes part of the embodiment in implementing the upholding sovereignty over Indonesian Territory with its duty to maintain order in the life of the nation and state towards prosperous society based on Pancasila and the 1945 Constitution of the Indonesian Republic. Legal development must receive top priority in order to reduce the occurrence of violations and crimes, especially foreigners who are in the territory of Indonesia. Based on this fact, the formulation of the problem in this thesis is how to regulate and legal certainty for foreigners in the territory of the Indonesian Republic who violate Article 75 paragraph (1) of Law Number 6 of 2011 concerning Immigration.
 The research method used was a normative research method by studying written law from various sources contained in historical theory, philosophy, comparison, structure, composition, scope and subject, articles explanations, formality and the strength of a binding law. This study used a statutory approach, a conceptual approach and a case approach. The data that has been obtained from the results of this study were compiled and analysed qualitatively, then the data was described descriptively
 The results of this study indicate that the legal certainty for foreigners who are subject to Immigration Administrative Actions based on Article 75 paragraph (1) of Law number 6 of 2011 concerning Immigration refers to the application of clear, permanent, consistent and consequential laws whose implementation cannot be influenced by subjective state of circumstances. The form of immigration administrative action imposed is in accordance to Article 75 paragraph (2) of Law number 6 of 2011 concerning Immigration.

Just a matter of time: reviewing temporality in Australian historiography

ABSTRACT Time is a foundational concept in historical studies. The past is located ‘in time’, of course, such that time guides and bounds ‘what happened’ to a ‘when’. There have also been increasing theorisations that understand ‘time’ itself as temporally and culturally bound. As well as historicising, then, time itself must be historicised. Using Australian historiography as a case study, this paper explores the changing concept of ‘time’ over time. It sets out a provisional timeline of Australian history’s understanding and deployment of historical time, contributing a much-needed historicisation of time to a growing field of historical theory. In charting a history of time in Australian historiography, it demonstrates the historicity of ‘time’. This paper shows how the concept of time not only reflects, but in turn shapes and defines, historical practice and research.

Agnes Heller: The time of your life

The following reflections, occasioned by Agnes Heller’s death, attempt to reconstruct Heller’s sense of temporality and historicity as the key to her rethinking of the idea of philosophy of history after the demise of the grand narratives in the form of a fragmentary philosophy of history and a theory of history.

Vygotsky: A Marxist analysis of the crisis in psychology

Vygotsky’s analysis of the crisis in psychology is an important methodological milestone in the development of his cultural historical theory. Therefore, discussing his work would entail including an examination of this analysis from a methodological point of view. This study emphasises the significance of the Marxist method in Vygotsky’s analysis of the crisis in psychology – in the emergence of the social character of psychological knowledge, in the critical approach to the different currents of the time, and in the search for new ways to creatively develop the science of psychology.

“A heroine of ancient times”: Maternity, History, and Empire in Jane West’s The Advantages of Education and The Mother

ABSTRACT Jane West’s novel The Advantages of Education (1793) and her critically neglected epic poem The Mother (1809) signal the role of historical discourse in establishing cultural importance for white British women—mothers in particular—in the Romantic period. They also clarify the ideological importance of mothers to the ascendance of the second British Empire of the nineteenth century. In both texts, mothers are emissaries for the stadial historical theory that positioned Great Britain as a nation destined to dominate less “civilized” parts of the globe. Amelia Williams in The Advantages of Education and the multitude of mothers in West’s epic poem signify the order, self-regulation, and prosperity at the heart of the Empire’s emerging moral imperative. Both texts show how women writers in the Romantic period might revise existing genres in creative ways while simultaneously contributing to a nascent Western feminism that depends upon dehumanizing binaries.

Tadut : Eksistensi Seni Tutur Besemah Era Modern

This research is entitled the state of Tadut Oral Speech Art in Besemah Pagaralam in the Modern Era. The subject of this research is [1] How is the state of the art of Tadut oral speech in Besemah Pagaralam now; [2] Is there still a successor to the art of Tadut oral speech in Pagaralam [3] How do the shops today maintain the art of oral speech in Pagaralam. This research uses historical theory and historical studies with a social approach in examining the state of the art of tadut oral speech in Besemah Pagaralam in the modern era. The method used in data collection is done in two ways, namely primary, namely observation, interviews, documentation, and secondary, namely data obtained through books, journals, and articles related to Tadut. Tadut oral literature is a form of oral speech culture chanted by the Besemah community in Pagaralam in ancient times, where the poems in Tadut contain praise, social teachings, parental advice and religious teachings, from this which makes tadut in its history functions as a means of broadcasting Islam in the land of Besemah Pagaralam. From the research that has been known Tadut as it develops has now changed following the times but still survives in an advanced era.