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Первое издание «Оправдания добра» (1897 г.): отклики современников. Часть четвертая

The article continues the systematic review and analysis of newspaper and magazine responses to the first edition of the main work of V. Solovyov on moral philosophy “Justification of Good” (1897). The fourth part of this series of articles examines critical attacks on this book by representatives of the left, presumably Populist camp of the Russian press and public thought. It describes in detail critical responses of such authors as the regular columnist of the newspaper “Novosti”, literary critic Evgeny A. Solovyov, an anonymous review published in the journal “Russian Thought”, the reviews by the positivist philosopher Pavel V. Mokievsky in “Russkoe bogatstvo” and by the religious idealist Akim L. Volynsky in the “Severnyi vestnik”. It is noted that the main tone of criticism from the left was the assertion that the philosopher took the position of a conformist acceptance of the state and the church in their existing forms. Based on the consideration of all the above responses, the article concludes that none of the aforementioned critics tried to understand the essence of V. Solovyov's views. For most of the left-wing critics, any correlation of philosophy with religion, at least in its traditional forms, was unacceptable. It is argued that certain objections of V. Solovyov's critics on the left against his concept of moral philosophy were not without persuasiveness, which the philosopher had to take into account in the second edition of his work.

Первое издание «Оправдания добра» (1897 г.): отклики современников. Часть вторая

The article continues the systematic review and analysis of newspaper and magazine responses to the first edition of V. Solovyov’s main work on moral philosophy “Justification of good” (1897). In the second part of the article we are talking about the scandal associated with a sharp response to the book of V. Solovyov on the pages of the “Novoye Vremya” regular columnist of the newspaper F.E. Shperk having questioned the necessity of moral philosophy and argued that good does not require any justification, and it is impossible to justify any system of morality with reasonable arguments. The article claims that Shperk's attack caused a big scandal in circles close to V. Solovyov. The reaction to this controversy from publications sympathetic to V. Solovyov is also described. It is noted that the publisher of the newspaper “Novoye Vremya” A.S. Suvorin himself had to politely dissociate himself from the speech of his columnist. The article also reveals the reasons that prompted Shperk to soften his position and his formulations. The article provides a new document - an unpublished letter from V. Solovyov to Suvorin, making why the philosopher’s public reaction to this particular response clear. In conclusion, it is proved that the incident led to a serious mutual alienation Vl. Solovyov from V.V. Rozanov, whom the philosopher reasonably suspected of involvement in this publication.

REVIEW: Soul-searching and revealing memoir charts milestones

Flair and Loathing on the Front Page, by Jim Tucker. New Plymouth, NZ: Jim Tucker Media. 2022, 283 pages.
 'NAMES make news' is a mantra drummed into the head of every young reporter and heaven help those who can’t identify a vital quote or face. It is a lesson that veteran journalist and educator Jim Tucker never forgot. The evidence of that lies in the pages of Flair and Loathing on the Front Page, the first part of his memoir spanning a career that began in Taranaki in 1965 and which has gone full circle. Tucker is a regular columnist on the Taranaki Daily News after serving as a metropolitan newspaper reporter and editor then becoming one of New Zealand’s foremost journalism trainers.

The international of wisdom.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine is the continuation of Soviet communism's aggressive expansion. But as under communism, freedom of thought will prevail.

Sci-Con.

As COVID wanes and scientific conferences come back, some advice on how to deal with, organise and enjoy sharing science at meetings.

A species by any other name would sound as sweet.

David Smith argues against the prevalent practice of naming newly discovered species after human beings.

A Conversation with … Jay Nordlinger, the Writer Who Sees Both Sides.

A Conversation with … Jay Nordlinger, the Writer Who Sees Both Sides.

The human touch.

COVID-19 has forced us into social distancing against humans' need for physical contact. Will we return to consensual embrace after the pandemic or still keep our distance?

Prenatal genetic screening and the evolving quest for "perfect babies": at what cost for genetic diversity?

Commercial screening services for inheritable diseases raise concerns about pressure on parents to terminate "imperfect babies".

Mycobacterium tuberculosis: the honey badger of pathogens.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a fascinating object of study: it is one of the deadliest pathogens of humankind, able to fend off persistent attacks by the immune system or drugs.

Discursive construction of the farmer-pastoralist conflict in Nigeria

Abstract The farmer-pastoralist conflict (FPC) in Nigeria has aggravated in recent years. It generated intense debate between 2015 and 2018 because of the aggravation of the conflict and the increased fatalities associated with it. This paper analyses the media representation of the conflict. Data were newspapers’ editorials and regular columnists’ stories and supplemented by government and independent bodies’ reports. Newspapers, as agents of popular culture, play a critical role in the propagation of various discourses of the conflict which seek interpellation and are also contested. This paper shows that the discourse is dichotomous and conflictive between ecological reasoning and ethnic-regional and religious imaginations.

Deconstructing the “Ideology of ability”: Jhamak Ghimire’s A Flower in the Midst of Thorns

Jhamak Ghimire is a Nepali writer having got birth in 1980, in the eastern suburb of Nepal, Dhankuta. She was born with the severe disability i.e. cerebral palsy which has robbed her of her motor controls of her arms, slurred her speech and limited her movement. She writes with her foot. She has published eight volumes of poetry, stories and essays and is a regular columnist in Kantipur newspaper. She has won many awards for her writings in literature. She has won Madan Puraskar, Nepal’s most prestigious literary prize in 2011, for her autobiographical novel Jeevan Kanda Ki Phool which is translated by Nagendra Sharma and Safal Sharma, in English as, A Flower in the Midst of Thorns. The article attempts to explore the challenges which Ghimire has to confront for deconstructing the “ideology of ability” through her novel. So, this article selects some excerpts from the book to show her subordination at multiple levels.

Celebration of Liberal Values in Gurcharan Das’ Works of Drama and Fiction

Gurcharan Das is a regular columnist for The Times of India and other national and international Newspapers and magazines. He is a versatile personality which has shown his remarkable talents in different genres of literature. Along with his maiden novel A Fine Family (1990), he has published three plays Larins Sahib (1968), Mira (1970) and 9 Jakhoo Hill (1996) and many non-fictional works such as India Unbound: From Independence to the Global Information Age (2000), The Elephant Paradigm: India Wrestles with Change (2002), The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma (2009) and India Grows at Night: A liberal case for a Strong State (2012).

Out With The Old, In With The New

Out With The Old, In With The New

The Worst Idea of All Time

In February 2004, with the other members of the Queue editorial board, I was at our monthly in-person dinner meeting, where we gather to come up with interesting discussion topics that will result in practitioner-oriented articles (and the best authors to write them) for publication in Queue. It was only our second year in business, and although we had published some successful and widely read articles, Queue still had no regular columnists. I was initially invited to board meetings by another editorial board member, Eric Allman, and had written a couple of articles for the publication. I was also co-authoring my first book but had never been a columnist. Although the concept seemed appealing at the time, perhaps due to too much wine with dinner, I was at a loss on how to actually make it work.

Questions of Conscience.

Susan A. Salladay, PHD, RN, serves as online and onsite faculty for several ADN and RN-BSN nursing programs. Her PhD is in philosophy, with specialization in bioethics; she also holds an MSN with a nursing education focus. In addition to being a regular columnist for JCN, she writes a column on ethical problems for Nursing. The author declares no conflict of interest. ∗Name changed to protect privacy.

Toxic Teaching.

Susan A. Salladay, PhD, RN, serves as online and onsite faculty for several ADN and RN-BSN nursing programs. Her PhD is in philosophy with specialization in bioethics; she also holds an MSN with a nursing education focus. In addition to being a regular columnist for JCN, she writes a column on ethical problems for Nursing. The author declares no conflict of interest.

Your Band Sucks: What I Saw at Indie Rock’s Failed Revolution (But Can No Longer Hear) by Jon Fine

Your Band Sucks: What I Saw at Indie Rock's Failed Revolution (But Can No Longer Hear). By Jon Fine. New York: Viking, 2015. [xviii, 302 p. ISBN 9780670026593 (hardcover), $27.95; ISBN 9780143108283 (paperback), $17; ISBN 9780698170315 (e-book), $12.99.]Jon Fine's debut book serves multiple functions: it is an entertaining memoir, it offers a case study of the complete life cycle of an indie rock band, and it is an effective (if not biased) primer on the genre. Fine is currently the executive editor of Inc. magazine and a regular columnist on media for BusinessWeek, and his work appears in several other publications of note. As a musician, Fine was a member of seven bands, most notably as a founding member and guitarist for the regrettably-named Bitch Magnet (1986-90, 2011-12). This book, in its multiple functions, is centered on what caused Bitch Magnet to exist, rise to some degree of consequence, unceremoniously fall (as is the indie rock way), and then eventually and predictably reunite (also the indie rock way).Absent his participation in Bitch Magnet, Your Band Sucks would not exist. The band was formed by Fine with Sooyoung Park while both were students at Oberlin College (neither majored in music). Eventually joined by drummer Orestes Morfin, they released two well-regarded LPs and several EPs, and toured the U.S. and Europe numerous times prior to disbanding for the first time in 1990-remarkably, all preInternet. They played moody and aggressive music that employed a complete dynamic range, and occasionally explored longer song forms and odd meters. During the intervening years Park went on to have much greater success with the band Seam, and Morfin also enjoyed better fortunes with Walt Mink. Fine did not achieve the same level of recognition with his subsequent projects, which preceded his work as a columnist. When the acclaimed label Temporary Residence approached Fine about reissuing Bitch Magnet's recordings, the band elected to reunite to promote the releases. This afforded the band the opportunity to enjoy an increased profile due to the influence they had on many bands that followed in the 1990s, as well to make the most of social media. Their reunion tour featured select appearances throughout Asia, Western Europe, and on the East and West coasts of the United States.Divided into three large sections, the story unfolds chronologically. Book 1 is devoted to Fine's early life through college, concluding with Bitch Magnet in midcareer. Book 2 advances the band's story through its first demise. The section continues with Fine's subsequent band efforts, descent into bacchanalian misadventures, and challenges with maturing. Book 3 focuses on Bitch Magnet's reunion and Fine's settling down into stable employment and marriage.Concurrent with his personal story, Fine provides ample context-cultural, geographic, and socioeconomic-and here this work is at its best as a primer for the musical genre. Your Band Sucks is instructive about American indie rock's roots in the late 1970s, ascent in the 1980s, and embrace by the mainstream in the 1990s; the music industry's chaos in the 2000s; and this music's quest for relevance in the 2010s. These portions are greatly enhanced by interviews that Fine conducted with colleagues and associates prominent in that community (Laura Balance, Andrew Beaujon, and Jenny Toomey, in particular). The book's lack of an index is unfortunate, given the important artists, subjects, labels, movements, places, and other notable persons covered throughout that are relevant to the history of the genre. Musicians who have lived this life (or still are living it) will read many anecdotes that are familiar-at times, painfully so. For the uninitiated, these accounts are highly informative, with sufficient self-awareness and sporadic humor. Fine's prose is that of an experienced author and it strikes a balance between intelligence and naturalness, while maintaining a steady pace. …

Social Networking Meets the IoT

Social clouds bring social networking and cloud computing together. Realizing the value of social clouds and its potential market growth, many companies, such as Oracle and Salesforce, are developing products aimed at both businesses and consumers. The social Internet of Things (SIoT) is an offshoot of the IoT where social relationships are established among objects, things, and people and where social graphs are created. Looking at it in a different way, it's where social networking meets the IoT. This special issue is dedicated to the SIoT and social clouds. It also includes a range of columns and departments, by both our regular columnists and guest experts in the field.

Screenings

Regular FQ columnist Paul Julian Smith looks back on the 40-year history o Mexico’s State Film School and interviews the main players and administrators who give their predictions for the future of the school. Smith discusses the CCC’s competitors, and the challenges that they face in keeping their institution relevant in the Mexican media market.