Things Seen Research Articles

Sacred Skies: UFOs and the Religious Function of the Psyche

With his publication of “Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky,” the psychologist C. G. Jung boldly went where no psychologist had gone before, postulating that enchantment with UFOs was indicative of a collective disturbance in the psyche. Like Jung’s, this essay likewise avoids any stance as to the factual nature of UFOs and chooses instead to view ufology through the lens of a fledgling mythology. It seems little has changed in the 60-plus years since Jung’s essay. This essay therefore attempts to modernize and update Jung’s approach through the work of past and present scholars such as William James, Lionel Corbett, and Jeffrey Kripal. By focusing specifically upon the paradoxical nature of the sacred—found within Jungian psychology, Christianity, and ufology—this essay suggests the archetypal current most at work here is the Trickster, who resides at the borders, transgresses norms, and embraces contradiction. Attention is paid to those areas of ufology in which materialism is championed—and how even those areas reveal a kind of Freudian return of the repressed; in this case the repressed being the sacred itself. My intention with this thesis is to show how mystical experiences, whether the result of religion or science fiction, might point us toward a new paradigm in which paradox, contradiction, and even irreverence can be seen as manifestations of a newly-dominant archetype in the collective Western psyche.

Impersonal Belongings: Annie Ernaux’s Poetics of Chiffonnage

Abstract: Contemporary French author Annie Ernaux makes salvaging, recycling, and defying obsolescence into a materialist poetics. Ernaux aligns her textual collages with a late-capitalist incarnation of the Parisian ragpicker. The overlap of the two main tropes in Ernaux’s oeuvre, the axis of reminiscence (embodied here mainly in the works The Years and A Girl’s Story ) and the axis of everyday experience in late capitalistic Paris and its suburbs ( Exteriors , Things Seen ), assemble into a poetics of chiffonnage . In both axes, residues of the everyday are recycled into writing, an effort that reframes the tradition of ragpicking from its context in nineteenth-century Paris into a discourse of waste and recycling.

Review: Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO, by David J. Halperin

Review: <i>Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO</i>, by David J. Halperin

Сочинение Цишии «Сиюй вэньцзяньлу»: сведения по истории народов Центральной Азии второй половины XVIII в.

Introduction. The article examines the Chinese written source Xiyu wenjian lu 西域闻见录 (‘Record of Things Seen and Heard in the Western Regions’) by the Manchu official Qishiyi (Chunyuan) and its data on the history and ethnography of Central Asian peoples in the mid-to-late 18th century. Goals. The work seeks to introduce new data on the history of Central Asia contained in Xiyu wenjian lu, analyze various copies and versions of the written source, and provide new information about the author of the composition. Materials and methods. The study explores the Japanese woodblock print edition of 1801 and one modern Chinese edition of 2016, translates some extracts. The work considers various works by Russian and foreign authors regarding the written source, employs the generalizing and comparative research methods, while historical/chronological analysis proves instrumental in investigating certain interesting facts from Xiyu wenjian lu. Results. The paper introduces into scientific circulation new translations of extracts from Qishiyi’s work that significantly supplement and expand data presented in the famous work of N. Ya. Bichurin (Hyacinth) titled ‘Description of Dzungaria and East Turkestan in Ancient and Present Times’. The article contains the most famous copies and versions of Xiyu wenjian lu. The biography of the author is supplemented with new facts of his life that have remained little-known to Russian-speaking researchers. Conclusions. The revealed factual materials from Xiyu wenjian lu show that the work of Manchu official Qishiyi contains original data on historical geography, socioeconomic life of Central Asian peoples, and political situation in the region. Despite its fame, Xiyu wenjian lu is to be thoroughly explored since lots of historical accounts from this source remain unexplored.

The Art of God: The Making of Christians and the Meaning of Worship. By ChristopherIrvine. Pp. xii, 148, Chicago, Liturgy Training Publications. 2006, $8.95.The Substance of Things Seen: Art, Faith, and the Christian Community. By Robin M.Jensen. Pp. xi, 152, Grand Rapids/Cambridge, Eerdmans, 2004, $15.93.

The Heythrop JournalVolume 58, Issue 6 p. 971-972 BOOK REVIEW The Art of God: The Making of Christians and the Meaning of Worship. By Christopher Irvine. Pp. xii, 148, Chicago, Liturgy Training Publications. 2006, $8.95. The Substance of Things Seen: Art, Faith, and the Christian Community. By Robin M. Jensen. Pp. xi, 152, Grand Rapids/Cambridge, Eerdmans, 2004, $15.93. Daniel B. Gallagher, Daniel B. Gallagher The Pontifical Gregorian University, RomeSearch for more papers by this author Daniel B. Gallagher, Daniel B. Gallagher The Pontifical Gregorian University, RomeSearch for more papers by this author First published: 10 October 2017 https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.12731Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume58, Issue6November 2017Pages 971-972 RelatedInformation

Experientia and Auctoritas: ʿAbd Al-Latif Al-Baghdadi’s Kitāb Al-Ifāda Wa’l-Iʿtibār and the Birth of the Critical Gaze

This short study looks into the mind of the Ayyubid intellectual Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi, also known as al-Labbad, who was born in Baghdad in 1162 and died there in 1231–32 at the age of 69. The focus of this article is his famous book Kitāb al-Ifāda wa’l-iʿtibār fi’l-umūr al-mushāhada wa’l-ḥawadith al-muʿāyana bi-arḍ Miṣr (The Book of Instruction and Admonition on the Things Seen [mushāhada] and Events Recorded [muʿāyana] in the Land of Egypt), which, as I argue, is al-Baghdadi’s clear manifestation of his “change of mind” in the fields of scholarship and methods of learning. It seems that a turning point in al-Baghdadi’s academic career occurred during the time he spent in Egypt and, perhaps even and more importantly, in front of the antiquities of Pharaonic Egypt. His descriptions of the pyramids, Sphinx, and huge sculptures of ancient Egypt demonstrate al-Baghdadi’s progressive method of looking at and interpreting nature and thus of rewriting history.

Evidence of Things Seen: Univocation, Visibility and Reassurance in Post-Reformation Polemic

Abstract This article reaches out to the audience for controversial religious writing after the English Reformation, by examining the shared language of attainable truth, of clarity and certainty, to be found in Protestant and Catholic examples of the same. It argues that we must consider those aspects of religious controversy that lie simultaneously above and beneath its doctrinal content: the logical forms in which it was framed, and the assumptions writers made about their audiences’ needs and responses. Building on the work of Susan Schreiner and others on the notion of certainty through the early Reformation, the article asks how English polemicists exalted and opened up that notion for their readers’ benefit, through proclamations of visibility, accessibility and honest dealing. Two case studies are chosen, in order to make a comparison across confessional lines: first, Protestant (and Catholic) reactions against the Jesuit doctrine of equivocation in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, which emphasized honesty and encouraged fear of hidden meaning; and second, Catholic opposition to the notion of an invisible-or relatively invisible-church. It is argued that the language deployed in opposition to these ideas displays a shared emphasis on the clear, certain, and reliable, and that which might be attained by human means. Projecting the emphases and assertions of these writers onto their audience, and locating it within a contemporary climate, the article thus questions the emphasis historians of religion place on the intangible-on faith-in considering the production and the reception of Reformation controversy.

The Art of God: The Making of Christians and the Meaning of Worship. By Christopher Irvine. Pp. xii, 148, Chicago, Liturgy Training Publications. 2006, $8.06. The Substance of Things Seen: Art, Faith, and the Christian Community. By Robin M. Jensen. Pp. x

The Art of God: The Making of Christians and the Meaning of Worship. By Christopher Irvine. Pp. xii, 148, Chicago, Liturgy Training Publications. 2006, $8.06. The Substance of Things Seen: Art, Faith, and the Christian Community. By Robin M. Jensen. Pp. x

Things Seen and Unseen: Investigating Experience-Based Qualities of Attention in a Dynamic Work Setting

While interest in the topic of attention has a long history in organizational studies, little research has investigated what qualities of attention are most pertinent to working professionals—and how these qualities may be attained. Through the study reported here, I elaborate theory concerning the qualities of attention in a dynamic work setting (trial law). Specifically, I identify the importance of two qualities of attention—attentional breadth and attentional integration—and examine how these qualities connect to the experiences individuals accrue within the focal context. My findings indicate that, through the acquisition of experience, individuals become attentive to a wide range of events surrounding them (via attentional breadth) and attuned to the opportunities that reside within these events (via attentional integration). Therefore, in achieving these two qualities of attention, individuals are able to see not only more events but also more possibilities.

WHAT ONE HAS HEARD AND SEEN: INTELLECTUAL DISCOURSE IN A LATE EIGHTH-CENTURY MISCELLANY

AbstractThis paper is a case study of the Feng shi wenjian ji 封氏聞見記 (Record of Things Heard and Seen by Mr. Feng) by Feng Yan (fl. 750–800). Because of the views on contemporary political and social life its diverse materials offer, scholars have often treated this collection as an important reservoir of historical information. Here I examine the work as an innovative project undertaken by Feng Yan within a particular historical context. Combining the traditional reportage-style miscellany and the genre of the discourse (lun 論), Feng Yan transforms the wenjian ji into a new mode of independent intellectual exploration. He not only creates an order of knowledge that decentralizes court authority, but also establishes a distinct style of analytical inquiry to achieve what he considers to be a true understanding of the world’s diverse phenomena. His strategies of organization and discussion illustrate an emergent trend of using the miscellany as a flexible yet serious medium of self-expression in the late me...

Celebrating Fifty Years of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy

journal of speculative philosophy, vol. 26, no. 2, 2012 Copyright © 2012 The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA We are gathered this evening to begin the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP). The Executive Committee of the society has presented our plenary panel with a quite formidable challenge to kick off our celebration. The members of the panel are charged to highlight their “own contributions to Continental philosophy and to SPEP in particular.” This involves to a large extent a telling of the story of SPEP from its origins to the present. Plainly enough with this challenge and charge the Executive Committee projects a veritable profile of courage, however one that is accompanied with a measure of risk in relying on the collective memory of a panel of aging senior citizens. I hope that we can rise to the occasion and meet the challenge with an appropriate response. We are called to recollect, to remember, to reminisce on our past as a philosophical society, duly mindful that the past as remembered is not isomorphic with the past as it actually occurred, yet knowing that it is in and through our recollecting, remembering, and reminiscing that the MEANING of the past is constituted, reclaimed, and revisited time and again. A celebration is an event of remembering, recalling names, places, Celebrating Fifty Years of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy

Kokugaku vs. Nativism

Six years ago, this journal published a review article by John Breen with the title Nativism Restored. In it, Breen observed that in 'Japanese studies' . . . still do not know what nineteenth-century Japanese nativism was, where it came from, and what it left behind.1 Since then, Japanese studies has been enriched with two new books on Kokugaku in the nineteenth century. How far do they take us towards answering Breen's questions? Following the lead of H. D. Harootunian's Things Seen and Unseen: Discourse and Ideology in Tokugawa Nativism, it has become an established convention in japanology to translate the term Kokugaku H^ as nativism.2 One of Breen's main points in his 2000 article was to question this identification. He noted that while most Kokugaku scholars had a nativist agenda, they were far from alone in this. Nativism, classically defined as the ambition to revive or perpetuate aspects of indigenous culture in response to a perceived threat from other cul tures, did not originate with the emergence of Kokugaku, nor did it expire with the demise of this school in the Meiji period. Rephrasing Breen's argument, we could say that we need to recognize that, even in the nineteenth century, not all nativism was Kokugaku, nor was nativism all there was to Kokugaku. By criticizing the conflation of Kokugaku with nativism, Breen asked us to think again about the meanings and historical positions of both. How did the Kokugaku variety of nativism relate to other forms of nativism that preceded it, coexisted with it, and replaced it? And from the opposite point of view: to what degree was nativism central to Kokugaku? Is it correct to assume that all

Book Review: The Substance of Things Seen: Art, Faith and the Christian Community

Book Review: The Substance of Things Seen: Art, Faith and the Christian Community

The Substance of Things Seen: Art, Faith and the Christian Community

The Substance of Things Seen: Art, Faith and the Christian Community

The Evidence of Things Seen and Not Seen: The Legacy of Race and Racism

Franklin, A.J. , 2004. Gates, H.L. , 2004. Winston, A. (Ed.). , 2004.

Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, and: Things Seen and Unseen: A Year Lived in Faith, and: The Intimate Merton: His Life from his Journals (review)

Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, and: Things Seen and Unseen: A Year Lived in Faith, and: The Intimate Merton: His Life from his Journals (review)

Book Review: Things Seen and Unseen: A Year Lived in Faith

Book Review: Things Seen and Unseen: A Year Lived in Faith

The Nobumitsu Portrait Inscription: An Annotated Translation

K r ANZE KOJIRO NOBUMITSU 1t'J {SY (1435-1516) was an important noh artist of the late Muromachi period.' Several of his plays, such as Momijigari AIMR, (Autumn Excursion), Funabenkei fY.[ (Benkei on Board), and Kocho Fi~ (The Butterfly), have enjoyed popularity down to this day. Little is known, however, about his life. The most important document concerning him is Nobumitsu gazosan {^Y/T@ (Nobumitsu Portrait Inscription), written by the Gozan Zen prelate Keijo Shuirin 81J0I0 (1440-1518). The inscription combines an account of Nobumitsu's life and accomplishments with a pseudo-history of the Kanze troupe and sarugaku 3 noh based on earlier sources such as Zeami's tH41/F Fuishikaden RlOtf/n. It thus sheds light on the sociocultural history of late Muromachi noh as well as on Nobumitsu the noh artist. The piece is also important for its influence on later writings on noh, including Yoza yakusha mokuroku EW Uiti (Record of Noh Artists of the Four Troupes), Rinchui kenmonshui W2ARJX (A Record of Things Seen and Heard by Rinchiu), Iroha sakusha chuimon 1v, e ;%{'Siut (Comprehensive List of Playwrights), and Kanze tayu kakiage ftHK ? (A Record of Kanze Troupe Leaders).2 Nobumitsu was the seventh child of Kanze Motoshige Wth7t5 (1398-1467), better known as On' ami 4. The son of a younger brother of Zeami Motokiyo

Things Seen and Unseen: Discourse and Ideology in Tokugawa Nativism

Things Seen and Unseen: Discourse and Ideology in Tokugawa Nativism

Review of Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies.

Review of Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies.