Postmodern Theory Research Articles

Osobennosti integracii elementov konfucianstva, buddizma i daosizma v dokumentah Dun'huana

This article discusses the philosophical connotation of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism from the perspective of post-modern philosophy, and explains the integration of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism with Dunhuang Taoist documents as an example.

HEGEMOMONI EPISTEMOLOGI POST-MODERNISME FILSAFAT ILMU TERHADAP PENAFSIRAN AL-QUR’AN

This article aims to find common ground between modern and postmodern philosophy in interpreting the Quran, and to explore how the epistemology of postmodern philosophy influences Quranic interpretation. Using a qualitative descriptive research method, the article seeks to identify the impact of postmodern epistemology on Quranic interpretation. The findings reveal that postmodern philosophy does not oppose modern philosophy, but rather seeks to correct and guide and corrects modern philosophy. Postmodernism highlights the compatibility between modern and postmodern philosophies, and how they can be integrated to gain a more comprehensive understanding. Furthermore, the article also examines the hegemony of postmodern epistemology on Quranic interpretation, which is not a rejection of modern interpretation. Instead, it can be seen as an alternative perspective that explores postmodern values as a continuation of modern values. Postmodernism suggests that Quranic interpretation can be integrated with postmodern philosophy without erasing the essential values of the preceding modern era.

A Postmodern Theorization of Islamic Feminism: Constructing Alternative Discourses of Difference and Plurality

This article aims at studying how Islamic feminism has enriched and pluralized feminist research through underscoring its particularity and ability to address the Muslim woman’s quest for equality based on the Islamic referentiality and away from the Universalist feminist discourse. Thus, this paper argues that Islamic feminists draw their agency first from devising female-inclusive hermeneutics of the Islamic foundational texts which enables them to deconstruct the canonized dominant religious patriarchal discourses and second from manifesting the ability to depart from the mainstream Western feminism. I use the postmodernism ‒especially the features of the waning of affect and the weakening of the role of public history‒ to explore Islamic feminism’s heterogeneous alternative approaches to the sacred texts and the Muslim woman’s empowerment. This paper finds out that Islamic feminism is itself endowed with plurality and difference as it utilizes diversified approaches.

How fashion brands can use concepts from Postmodernism theory to plan, create, produce, and post images on their social media channels

How fashion brands can use concepts from Postmodernism theory to plan, create, produce, and post images on their social media channels

Is Santayana an Untimely Philosopher?


 An interesting trend of recent scholarship on Santayana’s thought is focused on his criticism of modernity and brings him together with the major figures of postmodern philosophy, especially with Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, and Rorty. In my opinion, while the criticism of modernity certainly offers a relevant key to understand Santayana’s philosophy, it should be rooted first and foremost in some cultural and philosophical linkages that Santayana himself makes explicit throughout his writings, namely, a classical Latin author such as Lucretius, and a modern author such as Giacomo Leopardi. Answering the question in my title, it seems to me that, ultimately, Santayana is a timely/untimely philosopher, if his concepts of rationality and spirituality can be viewed and understood within the framework labeled by Michel Foucault as epimeleia heautou or cura sui.

The Art of Appreciation: Music and Middlebrow Culture in Modern Britain. By Kate Guthrie

The middlebrow is still a term very much defined by its unfashionable and denigrated status. When talking recently to a former TV critic about bringing together postmodern media theory and football coverage in an issue of Time Out magazine in the 1970s, I asked him whether it could be described as a ‘middlebrow’ initiative. ‘Yes’, was the answer, ‘if you exclude all the negative connotations of that term’! Kate Guthrie’s The Art of Appreciation is a book that, through careful scholarship and archival research, sets aside these tired connotations to examine with fresh eyes certain educational middlebrow initiatives to foster appreciation of classical music. A close focus is maintained throughout on their aims and the extent to which these were achieved in the context of the rapidly changing, class-bound and highly fractious cultural climate that existed in Britain between the 1920s and the early 1960s. According to Guthrie, recent scholarship on the middlebrow has tended to focus predominantly on social questions—this book tries to instead look at how the debates around cultural hierarchies shaped the aesthetic and stylistic forms and cadences of middlebrow cultural products, as well as the contexts of their reception. Guthrie builds upon the kind of work undertaken by Christopher Chowrimootoo on Benjamin Britten (in Middlebrow Modernism, 2018) but adopts a longer historical view and puts musical works ‘into dialogue with the institutions that played an increasingly powerful role in mediating cultural access throughout this period’ (p. 11). In doing so we witness the ‘elective affinity’ that emerged between musical appreciation and various forms of public service media, including interwar BBC radio (Chapter 3) and the documentary film movement (Chapter 4), given their intersecting aims and concerns to educate and widen access to culture.

The Relationship Between Ecocriticism and War

This research which is entitled “The Relationship Between Ecocriticism and War” aims at the analysis and presentation of the roots of the rise of the ecocriticism according to the thoughts and principles of the critics in the field of world literature, ecocriticism, ecology, and different cultures. The significance and importance of such researches are due to prominent existence of the society and culture within the literary texts that noticeably influence human being’s perception and behavior at a universal level. From this point of view, the term ecocriticism and its concept as a post-modern critical theory is discussed in this study, and though it has various fields and branches, only the ecocriticism and war are studied in this research. The ecology of war and its negative effects on the environment and its constituents are our main concerns in this study and carrying out the research helps and enables us to raise the consciousness level and leading the whole towards the acceptance of taking the responsibility towards the environment care. Since the environment is not merely the source of life and prosperity but also it is rather an integrated and more complicated system, therefore human being’s view and understanding towards it should be modified in order to prevent more catastrophes and devastation caused by war and occupation.

Body Integrity Dysphoria and “Just” Amputation: State-of-the-Art and Beyond

Abstract This paper presents the foundation upon which the contemporary knowledge of body integrity dysphoria (BID) is built. According to the World Health Organisation’s International Classification of Diseases, 11th edition (ICD-11), the main feature of BID is an intense and persistent desire to become physically disabled in a significant way. Three putative aetiologies that are considered to explain the insurgence of the condition are discussed: neurological, psychological and postmodern theories. The concept of bodily representation within the medical context is highlighted, with the concept of dysphoria, which was brought to the fore with the introduction of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition (DSM-5), and the ICD-11. Contemporary issues of “justice” are addressed to identify ethically relevant distinctions between BID and sex reassignment surgery. It is argued that there is no ethically relevant difference between the BID actor’s desire for invasive surgical intervention and the wish of gender dysphoric individuals to undergo sex reassignment surgery procedures. Some BID actors self-mutilate, and this presents medical professionals with difficult choices regarding whether or not to intervene in order to satisfy the BID patient’s desire. Both abstention and intervention may lead to severe ethical complications for doctors and patients despite the positive outcomes in terms of quality of life for BID individuals who manage to undergo such procedures.

Modern Portfolio Theory: analysis and implication

The Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) from quantitative theory explains the correct of the logic of investment which isnt put all your eggs in one basket. Although this theory is published in 1952, investors are still using this theory nowadays. Therefore, this paper is researching why this theory is enduring, whether it can provide some insights into the behavior of investors, and what shortcomings can be solved by using other derivative theories based on this theory. The most significant observation of this study can be divided into two parts. Firstly, many limitations of MPT can be improved by Goal-based investing and Post-modern portfolio theory. Secondly, this theory can help the investor to choose the optimal portfolio theory depending on their attitude and goal when they chose the portfolio. There is a strong need for a novel approach, especially for concluding extra costs when investors calculate the risk-adjusted returns. After that, this theory is using historical data to calculate the expected data. Those limitations will influence the choice of optimal portfolio theory.

Concretization, please: A commentary on Turcotte, Holmes, and Murray.

Concretization, please: A commentary on Turcotte, Holmes, and Murray.

Aesthetics of Indeterminacy: The Architecture of Conglomerates

By the early 1970s, concern about the rise and prominence of large conglomerate corporations had fully saturated economic discourse in the United States. As products of a brief yet powerful merger mania during the 1960s, large industrial organizations began to restructure the economy by aggressively merging with and acquiring firms in disparate industries and geographies in order to obtain what business executives referred to as ‘geopolitical’ power. With hundreds of diverse subsidiaries, many of these military-sponsored conglomerates — from Union Carbide to Litton Industries to Teledyne — demanded new laboratories and office buildings that seemed to defy modernist tendencies of material standardization, reproducibility, and homogeneity, since the rates and directions of their future growth were indeterminable. The buildings produced for conglomerates between the 1960s and 1980s have been described by urban geographers and historians as the aesthetic and material epitomes of postmodernism, since they were often designed with highly reflective, hermetic surfaces that protruded, curved, and folded — simultaneously revealing and concealing the late capitalist logics that undergirded them. This article considers how conglomeration was viewed as a geopolitical act that challenges existing histories and theories of postmodernism, which reduce the aesthetic conditions of these buildings to abstract representations of late capitalist economics. Instead, the article draws on the laboratories designed by architects César Pelli and Anthony Lumsden for conglomerates during the late 1960s in order to reveal how these aesthetic conditions were responses to the particular geopolitical practices and structures of conglomerate business, including the imperialist acts of ‘acquiring’ people, land, and other businesses.

A Study of Intertextuality in Peter Ackroyd `s Selected Novels

The concept of intertextuality is a central notion in postmodern theory and an important model to describe the relation between literary texts. The central purpose of this paper is to scrutinize the idea of intertextuality in postmodern theory and how it is manifested by the British prolific novelist Peter Ackroyd `s selected novels. The English critic and novelist of more than a dozen of novels as well as the Booker Prize for Fiction. Ackroyd is a great example of English novelist who rewrites in his novels English literary history through using the notion of intertextuality. As a result, Ackroyd`s novels are significant of shoot of postmodern novel since they document the literary texts of earlier authors to become the subject of their plots which reflect the postmodern idea in which literary works are viewed to mirror other works . Therefore, Ackroyd`s novels can be regarded as unique versions of this trend of postmodern fiction as well as literary criticism. The concept of intertextuality becomes subject to adaptation and revision in postmodern literary theory.

The Integration of Psychology & Christianity: A Domain-Based Approach

The Integration of Psychology & Christianity: A Domain-Based Approach

A Practical Dramaturgy for Actors through Theatrical Production Procedures

Dramaturgy, as a creative and critical act dependent on the theoretical and practical knowledge of theater, consists of two parts with Greek roots: Drama (action) and Ourgia (work and operation). Ourgia literally means to practice, act, and in other words process a raw material. Eugenio Barba divides Dramaturgy in to three parts: Actor Dramaturgy, Director Dramaturgy and Audience Dramaturgy. The modality of the process of acting (character action, corporeal action, and phonetic action) as actor dramaturgy is collaged, divided and assembled and then the dynamic stage motions present in space and time are conducted by actor. Paul Castagno, in his recent theorem, expounds dramaturgy as ‘‘Individual creative contribution of the actor to the growth of a performance’’ and ‘‘actor`s ability to root what they have recounted into a structure of organic actions’’. This perception emanates from a mode that a play, without actor`s cooperation and taking part, would never take place. Through this combination to create the character, Geoffrey Proel attributes the dramaturgical responsibility to the actor and asks them to participate in the creation of the content performance and transfer their lived and personal experience into the organic dramatic structures of the performance. The major problem of this paper is to expound and elucidate the relation between dramaturgy and actor, based on modality of production, exchange and combination of two internal structure (organic force) and external structure (dynamic force) in post-modern performance in theatre. Patrice Pavis, in 2000, predicted the need for an actor-dramaturge to complete playwriting in the 21st century. In order to complete the present study of Patrice Pavis’ recent theory in the field of dramaturgy-actor, we tried to use the later theories of thinkers such as Edvard Brands, Eugenio Barba and Jeffrey Proel. The present article, using analytical-descriptive method based on dramaturgy theories, presents a model of communication between dramaturgy and actor in the dynamic atmosphere of postmodern theater, which relies on three sides of imagination and conceptualization (a priori agent), Analysis and practice (current agent) and production and performance (posterior agent). Theater in general sense, and acting in the specific, are faculties that are in an internal structure; as the organic force and an external structure as dynamic force, are dependent. The result of the study shows that the combination of the phrase dramaturge / actor plays an important role in the actor’s attention to theoretical, practical and critical considerations to eliminate the shortcomings of rehearsals in the process of creating a role during a certain time.

The Call from the Other Shore: Hamlet Based on Postmodern Interpretation

As a subversion of traditional drama, the preoccupation of Hamlet has been discussed universally. However, the interpretations of this work change with times as well. In order to explore the deeper meaning of Hamlet, this essay will focus on postmodernist theory, and analyze Hamlet from the perspectives of interpretation and dissemination, to demonstrate the value of Hamlet and the potential to interpret it from the postmodern perspective. This practice would promote the popularization and re-creation of classic works by virtue of postmodernist theory, which is conducive to the development of literature.

Analysis of the Death in Ariel from the Perspective of Pastiche

As the posthumous work of Sylvia Plath, the American confessional poetess, Ariel plays an important role in the study of Plath's poetry creation, and death, as the most common theme in Plath's poetry, has been criticized and studied by many scholars. Yet people focus more on what caused Plath to write about the subject. Few studies have explored how Plath wrote about death. Based on Jameson's theory of pastiche, this paper discusses Plath's use of pastiche, the contribution pastiche made to the description of the theme of death and Plath's view of death. Pastiche breaks the limits of time, space and ideology in a retro way enabling Plath to construct "facts" from her vague memories and allowed her to express more freely her views on death, namely art, self-defense and redemption. Hope this paper could enrich people's understanding of pastiche theory and of the role pastiche plays in the postmodern theories.

Sztuka wobec przemian wartości – perspektywa pedagogiczna

The purpose of undertaken considerations is to exhibit axiological status of art, modern art in particular, against cultural transition of values. Dangers of ongoing transformation of values on global and European scale were pointed out. Attempts of counteracting those adverse changes of values have been presented. One course of the research is a reference to the permanent values of European culture constituting achievements of many generations. Another direction is determination of values, that can be accepted in multicultural world. The common good is proposed as an axiological universe. The axiological potential of art in Polish pedagogy theory is shown in the context of contemporary problems. It is incorporated in presenting art as an autotelic value and in updated educational values. Changes in the field of art education have been considered, including modern, popular and net-art. The concepts of art from postmodern philosophy present in pedagogical interpretation were recalled, which emphasizes value of understanding oneself and the world through art. Due to the dual potential of art in pedagogy, it can constitute axiological universe for 21 st -century education.

Неогегельянство Александра Кожева и его влияние на постмодернизм

The article discusses the main aspects of Alexandre Kojève's philosophy as well as the reception of his ideas in the philosophy of "Low materialism" (G. Bataille) and Postmodernism (M. Foucault, R. Barthes, B. Groys).The most important moments of Kojève's biography are noted and analyzed, especially his reinterpretation of Hegel’s dialectics, which had become one of the leading concepts of French philosophy of XX century. Moreover, there is a classification of the concepts of Hegelian dialectics, which Kojève uses as his Neohegelian language: Negative dialectics, Lord–bondsman dialectics, The End of History. Apart from this, there are some themes of Postmodern philosophy (The death of the subject) that are analyzed in comparative way with Kojève's ideas. The authors come to the conclusion that Kojève's innovative interpretation of "Phänomenologie des Geistes" had become one of the most important bases of Postmodernism.

Postmodernism and its Most Prominent Foundations in Western Thought: A Critical S tudy

Western thought has a clear impact on Arab and Islamic arena. Western ideas, philosophies, and visions have an impact on the world today. Therefore, this research addresses and identifies the concept of postmodernism, and its most prominent characteristics that distinguished this philosophy, as well as the most prominent foundations that resulted from it, and which led to the transformations that took place in the contemporary world today, from solidity and stability to fluidity and permanent change, and from certainty to suspicion, and from Optimism into nihilism, and these great transformations that occurred in the history of Western thought led to the production and foundations of relativism, which became a feature of postmodernism, as the truth and the tendency to uncertainty and uncertainty were undermined, and it became a saying that there is no single fixed measure of right and wrong, which is the most prominent statement in This thought, and as a result of it, all mental and cognitive axioms were questioned, such as religion, man, beauty, the universe, politics, history and so on. The feature of nihilism also emerged as one of the most prominent features of this thought, as the absurdity, darkness and loss of meaning made life a general feeling and perception about this world, and this feeling we find. According to most postmodern philosophers in their writings, the characteristic of deconstruction came as a given that the philosophers of this thought relied on to deconstruct the certain axioms and knowledge that are central and stable, and these foundations were generalized to include Ga Political, economic, social, cognitive, and other aspects.

Modern and post-modern portfolio theory as applied to moneyline betting

Abstract Modern and post-modern portfolio theory were devised by Harry Markowitz (among others) for purposes of allocating some monetary resources among a number of financial assets so as to strike a suitable balance between risk and expected return. The problem it addresses bears a considerable resemblance to one encountered in making “moneyline” bets on the outcomes of contests in sports like American football. In distributing some allotted funds among a number of such bets, it may be desired to account for the risk. By introducing suitable modifications, the procedures employed in modern and post-modern portfolio theory for the allocation of resources among financial assets can be adapted for use in the distribution of funds among multiple bets. As in the case of financial assets, the most appropriate measures of risk are ones like the semi-deviation or semi-variance that penalize only negative or below-target returns. The various procedures are illustrated and compared by applying them retrospectively to moneyline bets on the outcomes of the college football “bowl” games from the 2020 season.