Unpublished Writings Research Articles

Africa in Du Bois’s Internationalist Thinking

Abstract This article addresses the recent interest in Black Internationalism in the history of political thought and related fields by engaging with a portion of W. E. B. Du Bois’s (1868–1963) work. It examines in particular how Du Bois treats Africa in his published and unpublished writings from the 1910s to the 1940s in light of the challenges of world war and continued imperial expansionism in the global South. I argue that through a rhetorical framing of problems on the continent, and by situating Africa in relation to global economic problems as well as the goal of long-lasting peace, Du Bois comes up with novel approaches to war and empire, as well as solutions to the problems that they pose. I conclude by reflecting on how he can contribute to debates on Black Internationalism today.

Chance, probability, and uncertainty at the edge of human reasoning: What is Knightian uncertainty?

AbstractResearch SummaryFor more than a century, Frank Knight's Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit has significantly influenced entrepreneurship theory development by exploring the nature of uncertainty and the epistemic limits of entrepreneurial action. Knight's work highlights how economic actors cannot fully predict the consequences of their actions. Despite its broad influence, debates persist regarding the nature of Knightian uncertainty. This study addresses these debates through a comprehensive analysis of RUP and Knight's other published and unpublished writings to offer new insights into the nature and meaning of Knightian uncertainty, revealing Knight's holistic theory that integrates “real indeterminism,” “partial knowledge,” and “subjective beliefs.” This analysis provides much needed construct clarity to advance contemporary theories of entrepreneurial action and the role of uncertainty in business venturing processes.Managerial SummaryThis article revisits Frank Knight's foundational work, Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit, a cornerstone in entrepreneurship research for over a century. We highlight Knight's holistic approach to uncertainty, which integrates the concepts of real indeterminism (the inherent unpredictability of future events), partial knowledge (the incomplete understanding of the present and future), and subjective beliefs (individual perceptions and interpretations). The study offers new perspectives on how Knightian uncertainty influences entrepreneurial decision‐making and action, highlighting how this unique type of uncertainty plays a critical role in the business venturing process. These insights provide valuable contributions to contemporary theories of entrepreneurship, emphasizing the complexity and multifaceted nature of navigating uncertainty in business.

Riddles of Vedānta and the Revival of Kotta Satchidananda Murty

What is the central philosophy of the Upanishads? Is it theistic, monistic, polytheistic, panpsychistic, or something else? Are the world and God real or unreal? Such questions have been a riddle for ancient sages and modern scholars of the Vedāntic tradition, alike. Interestingly, if any thinker has made this discourse more puzzling, it is none other than Śaṅkarācārya (c. 7th–9th centuries CE); through his famous dictum, Brahma satyam jagat-mithya jivo brahmaiva naparah (“Brahman alone is real, the world is unreal. Jiva is not other than Brahman”), he almost changed the entire Vedāntic paradigm, akin to Nietzsche in Western thought with his “God is Dead” dictum. Now, before any thinker embarks on the Vedāntic path, they must first encounter Śaṅkarācārya’s thesis in one way or another, as only then can one engage with notions including ethics, aesthetics, bhakti, karma, and others. Following the same line of inquiry, this review article investigates Professor K. Satchidananda Murty’s distinctive discourse on Vedānta and his engagement with Śaṅkarācārya’s philosophy, as portrayed in a recent edition of some of his works, titled Vedānta and Bhagavadgītā: The Unpublished Writings of K. Satchidananda Murty, proficiently compiled by Professor Ashok Vohra and Kotta Ramesh.

Karin Stephen: Bloomsbury's Rebel Psychoanalyst

This paper highlights the important contribution to psychoanalysis made by the psychoanalyst Karin Stephen. Following in the footsteps of other feminist biographers and historians of psychoanalysis, who have worked to bring ‘Freud’s women’ out of the shadows, this article not only focuses on Karin Stephen’s role within the internal political struggles of the British Psychoanalytical Society during the Second World War, but also shows how her psychoanalytic writings can be read in the context of her political activism in the 1930s. Beginning with a biographical account of Stephen’s early life and marriage in October 1914 to Virginia Woolf’s brother, Adrian Stephen, the paper goes on to explore the impact of Karin Stephen’s political activism on her psychoanalytic writing. The article examines Stephen’s arguments, in both her published and her unpublished writings, about the capacity for psychoanalysis to respond to the political crises of the 1930s and 1940s by offering patients freedom from servility to the ‘raging dictator[s]’ within and beyond the inner world of their minds.

Wielopole, Tadeusz Kantor (1915–1990) and Reverend Julian Śmietana (1908–1995)

Abstract: In 1983 Tadeusz Kantor briefly returned to Wielopole, his place of birth, to stage an extraordinary performance of his play, Wielopole, Wielopole . After an interval of almost fifty years he renewed his acquaintance with the parish priest, Reverend Julian Śmietana, who presented the playwright with his own work about Wielopole. The study of Śmietana’s unpublished writings and his biography, verifying the information given in local histories and the literature on Kantor against official and ecclesiastical sources, permits the clearing up of errors and contradictions concerning Kantor’s childhood and youth, his return to Wielopole and his relationship with Śmietana. The degree of incomprehension, even outrage, with which some inhabitants of Kantor’s birthplace experienced the performance of his play, is also revealed.

The Physical Platonism of Galileo Galilei: Ernst Cassirer’s Interpretation in His Published and Unpublished Writings

The Physical Platonism of Galileo Galilei: Ernst Cassirer’s Interpretation in His Published and Unpublished Writings

A Story in Sound: The Unpublished Writings of Sidney Bechet

A Story in Sound: The Unpublished Writings of Sidney Bechet

“A thousand times more painful than death”: Survival and Unspeakability in Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore’s Post-1945 Unpublished Writings

On June 30, 1945, the Jersey Evening Post on the Channel Island of Jersey ran a story boldly titled “Sentenced to Death by Island Nazis: The Story of Two Gallant Frenchwomen.” It was an interview with French Surrealist photographers, writers, sculptors, political activists, Resistance fighters, and life partners Claude Cahun (born Lucy Schwob) and Marcel Moore (born Suzanne

Leo Strauss and the not so Enlightened Lessing: A way into Nathan the Wise

Leo Strauss suggests that Lessing was one of the most decisive and influential thinkers in his life. However, we barely have some writings where he is mentioned and only one where Strauss approaches him in the frames of exotericism. The other access to the German poet is through Strauss’s early works on Mendelssohn, and besides that, through unpublished writings kept in his Papers-Archive. The unpublished notes for a lecture on Nathan the Wise appear then as an opportunity to understand, from the tolerant and enlightened drama par excellence, a not so enlightened Lessing, the genuine Lessing whom Strauss alluded. We intend in this paper to trace a path to this lecture through two decisive moments of Lessing’s life (the fragments of Reimarus and the confessed Spinozism) and the reflections that these awakened in Strauss.

Revising the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Revising the Eighteenth-Century Novel

Неопубликованное наследие Б.В. Асафьева о М.П. Мусоргском

Boris Asafyev’s unpublished works about M.P. Mussorgsky fundamentally change the existing perceptions of his contribution to the study and publication of the great Russian composer’s legacy. Published in the Soviet times, Asafyev’s works provided insights just into a tiny part of the art history texts about Mussorgsky’s music. The completed research project based on the materials from Moscow and St. Petersburg archives (transcripts of unpublished writings (around 150 letters), official documents, and marginalia on music sheets) fully uncovers the activities of the musicologist that have, until recently, remained unexplored in the context of the humanities. Asafyev took part in the publication of Mussorgsky’s works as P.A. Lamm’s co-editor, music expert and textual critic, music editor preparing the score of “Boris Godunov” for publication, co-author-composer completing the unfinished musical fragments, and composer-orchestrator who fully instrumented “Khovanshchina” in stylistic synchrony with Mussorgsky’s original score.

Abbreviations and Citations of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Works

The same citation format is used throughout the journal. References to Nietzsche’s texts are given in the body of the articles and reviews. References to Nietzsche’s unpublished writings are standardized, whenever possible, to refer to the most accessible print editions of Nietzsche’s notebooks and publications: Kritische Studienausgabe (KSA), compiled under the general editorship of Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari and based on the complete edition of the Kritische Gesamtausgabe (KGW) (Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1967ff) or the electronic version published in the Nietzsche Source collection (http://www.nietzschesource.org/eKGWB) [abbreviated eKGWB]). References to the print editions of letters published by de Gruyter are cited as KSB (Sämtliche Briefe: Kritische Studienausgabe) or KGB (Briefe: Kritische Gesamtausgabe).In references to Nietzsche’s works, Roman numerals generally denote the volume number in a set of collected works or standard subdivision within a single work, and Arabic numerals denote the relevant section number. In cases in which Nietzsche’s prefaces are cited, the letter P is used followed by the relevant section number, where applicable. When a section is too long for the section number alone to be useful, the page number of the relevant translation is also provided. In the cases in which the KGW and KSA are cited, references provide the volume number (and part for KGW) followed by the relevant fragment number and any relevant aphorism (e.g., KSA 10:12[1].37, p. 1 refers to volume 10, fragment 12[1], aphorism 37, page 1).Abbreviations for titles of published works: AOM = Vermischte Meinungen und Sprüche (in Menschliches, Allzumenschliches II); frequently translated as Assorted Opinions and MaximsBGE = Jenseits von Gut und Böse; translated as Beyond Good and EvilBT = Die Geburt der Tragödie; translated as The Birth of TragedyCW = Der Fall Wagner; translated as The Case of WagnerD = Morgenröthe; frequently translated as Daybreak or DawnDS = David Strauss (Unzeitgemäße Betrachtungen I)GM = Zur Genealogie der Moral; frequently translated as On the Genealogy of Morals or On the Genealogy of MoralityGS = Die fröhliche Wissenschaft; frequently translated as The Gay Science or The Joyful WisdomHH = Menschliches, Allzumenschliches; translated as Human All-too-HumanHL = Vom Nutzen und Nachtheil der Historie für das Leben (Unzeitgemäße Betrachtungen II); frequently translated as The Uses and Disadvantages of History for LifeIM = “Idyllen aus Messina”; translated as “Idylls from Messina”RWB = Richard Wagner in Bayreuth (Unzeitgemäße Betrachtungen IV)SE = Schopenhauer als Erzieher (Unzeitgemäße Betrachtungen III); translated as Schopenhauer as EducatorTI = Götzen-Dämmerung; translated as Twilight of the Idols; references to this work also include an abbreviated section nameUM = Unzeitgemäße Betrachtungen; frequently translated as Untimely Meditations, Unmodern Observations, or Unfashionable ObservationsWS = Der Wanderer und sein Schatten (in Menschliches, Allzumenschliches II); frequently translated as The Wanderer and His ShadowZ = Also sprach Zarathustra (part IV originally published privately); translated as Thus Spoke Zarathustra; references to this work also include an abbreviated section name Abbreviations for other frequently cited posthumous and private publications, authorized manuscripts, and collections of Nietzsche’s unpublished writings and notes: A = Der Antichrist; frequently translated as The AntichristBAW = Friedrich Nietzsches Werke: Historisch-Kritische Gesamtausgabe, ed., Hans Joachim Mette and Karl Schlechta 9 vols. (Munich: C.H. Beck’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1934–40).DD = Dionysos-Dithyramben; translated as Dionysian DithyrambsDW = “Die dionysische Weltanschauung”EH = Ecce Homo; references to this work also include an abbreviated section nameFEI = “Über die Zukunft unserer Bildungsanstalten”; translated as “On the Future of our Educational Institutions”GSt = “Der griechische Staat”; translated as “The Greek State”HC = “Homer’s Wettkampf ”; translated as “Homer’s Contest”HCP = “Homer und die klassische Philologie”; translated as “Homer and Classical Philology”NCW = Nietzsche Contra WagnerPPP = “Die vorplatonischen Philosophen”; translated as “The Pre-Platonic Philosophers”PTAG = “Die Philosophie im tragischen Zeitalter der Griechen”; translated as Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the GreeksSGT = “Sokrates und die griechische Tragödie”; translated as “Socrates and Greek Tragedy”TL = “Über Wahrheit und Lüge im aussermoralischen Sinne”; frequently translated as “On Truth and Lie in an Extra-moral Sense”WPh = “Wir Philologen”; translated as “We Philologists” or “We Classicists”

In Memoriam: bell hooks

In Memoriam: bell hooks commemorates the life and legacy of bell hooks through her literary works and words—which outline a lifetime of feminism, social justice, compassion, and unique wisdom. The exhibit, presented by Berea College Special Collections and Archives, and co-sponsored by Hutchins Library and the bell hooks center, claims to recall “the life, career, and contributions of Dr. hooks as documented in her archival legacy, the bell hooks papers.” The exhibit highlights this legacy by including some of Dr. hooks's most seminal works: Belonging: A Culture of Place (1990), Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black (1989), Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (1981), and many others. It also highlights the scope of Dr. hooks's work by positioning her criticisms of white supremacy and misogyny, for example—heavy topics—alongside her children's books that teach the opposite—inclusion, compassion, and resilience.The bell hooks papers are a collection of the personal correspondence, published and unpublished writings, and academic records of Dr. hooks, who passed in December 2021. Staff used these documents to carefully curate the display now housed in the Hutchins Library at Berea College, with which hooks had been affiliated since 2004. Dr. hooks had a long career that involved her with multiple institutions of higher learning, including Yale University and Oberlin College. However, as “home” does for many Appalachians, it called bell hooks back, and she used her impact and platform to serve Berea College in the finest way possible.Dr. hooks, born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, on September 25, 1952, as “Gloria Jean Watkins,” used the pen name “bell hooks”—choosing not to capitalize the name in an intentional effort to draw attention only to the works and words that she poured herself into. Dr. hooks's presence in the region was critical—and remains so. She fought consistently to dismantle the stereotypes associated with Appalachia. Her involvement with Black Appalachian poets and activists—including Frank X Walker, who coined the term “Affrilachia”—gave new recognition to a large group of African American Appalachians who throughout the years seemed to remain “unseen.” Dr. hooks states in her book All About Love: New Visions that “the practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control” (hooks 2000, 153). Dr. hooks took this risk every day, and it is evidenced in the legacy that she leaves behind.Her legacy lives on across Kentucky, and the world—but especially at Berea College. In 2014, the college installed the bell hooks Institute, and later, in 2019, it established the bell hooks center. The bell hooks center is “a feminist hub for scholarship, activism and radical inclusion” (Berea College 2022). The center notes on their website that across campus, Bereans are now thinking and living gender beyond a binary. To meet their needs, the College opened its Women's and Gender Non-Conforming Center in 2019, giving birth to what is now the bell hooks center. In addition to the variety of programming sponsored and housed in it, the bell hooks center offers marginalized students, especially LGBTQPIA+, femme, and students of color, a space to be as they are, outside of the social scripts that otherwise circumscribe their living. (Berea College 2022)This is steadfast with bell hooks's own ideology that “feminism is for everybody.” In keeping with that same energy—bell hooks is for everybody, and Berea College is making that absolutely possible.The In Memoriam: bell hooks exhibit, displayed at the Hutchins Library between February 1 and March 30, 2022, on the first floor of the library, was open to Berea faculty, students, and staff anytime during regular library hours. The books on display were available for checkout. The Hutchins Library—in the spirit of bell hooks being for everybody—has gone above and beyond to ensure that any person seeking out the wisdom of the late Dr. bell hooks will have access to it. Those who are not affiliated with Berea College can create an account and add digital resources from the bell hooks papers to their “research cart” on the library's website. In addition, special appointments and considerations may be made by contacting the Berea College library director. Curators of the exhibit did an amazing job memorializing bell hooks. And although she will be missed by so many in the Appalachian region, and Berea College in particular—her legacy of love, light, justice, and her wisdom with regard to intersectionality, and to the oppressive systems of racism and class domination, are things that generations of young people to follow will be able to use as a guide in navigating their own obstacles.

Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Losing

Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Losing

Néstor Curbelo: The Latin American Andrew Jenson

Néstor Curbelo: The Latin American Andrew Jenson

K-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004–2016) by Mark Fisher

k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004–2016) by Mark Fisher

Abbreviations and Citations of Friedrich Nietzsche's Works

Other| March 01 2022 Abbreviations and Citations of Friedrich Nietzsche's Works The Journal of Nietzsche Studies (2022) 53 (1): iv–vi. https://doi.org/10.5325/jnietstud.53.1.iv Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Abbreviations and Citations of Friedrich Nietzsche's Works. The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 1 March 2022; 53 (1): iv–vi. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/jnietstud.53.1.iv Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectivePenn State University PressThe Journal of Nietzsche Studies Search Advanced Search The same citation format is used throughout the journal. References to Nietzsche's texts are given in the body of the articles and reviews. References to Nietzsche's unpublished writings are standardized, whenever possible, to refer to the most accessible print editions of Nietzsche's notebooks and publications: Kritische Studienausgabe (KSA), compiled under the general editorship of Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari and based on the complete edition of the Kritische Gesamtausgabe (KGW) (Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1967ff) or the electronic version published in the Nietzsche Source collection (http://www.nietzschesource.org/eKGWB) [abbreviated eKGWB]). References to the print editions of letters published by de Gruyter are cited as KSB (Sämtliche Briefe: Kritische Studienausgabe) or KGB (Briefe: Kritische Gesamtausgabe).In references to Nietzsche's works, Roman numerals generally denote the volume number in a set of collected works or standard subdivision within a single work,... You do not currently have access to this content.

Behind the Mask: Death Masks, Celebrity, and the Laurence Hutton Collection

Laurence Hutton (1834–1904) was an American author, critic, and editor who later became a lecturer in English literature at Princeton. Today he is best remembered for leaving the University a remarkable collection of life and death masks that he spent many years accumulating and researching. This body of casts reveals a vital element of Hutton's collecting praxis: his belief that death was a critical (perhaps even the critical) component of enduring celebrity. Death masks – a wax or plaster cast taken posthumously from a person's face – were executed for a number of reasons: scientific, artistic, or intensely personal. In all cases, though, there was a desire to preserve a hypothetically objective likeness of an important person, marking a shift between the perceived binary of life and death. While the death mask facilitated a sense of proximity to the celebrity body, Hutton was driven to flesh these faces out with an array of ephemera, including portraits, autographs, photographs of graves, strands of hair, and even casts of their hands. For Hutton, this triangulation figured as an attempt to capture a physical closeness to the bodies of departed celebrities, an urge he articulated explicitly in his unpublished writings. This article offers a new lens through which to consider celebrity mementoes – as relics in which the ‘imprint’ of the individual is sought and as icons through which we attempt to materialise celebrity.

Axel Sommerfelt in the history of social anthropology

ABSTRACT An unsung alumnus of the Manchester School, Axel Sommerfelt (b. 1926) published little during his career, but has nevertheless had a major impact on contemporary Norwegian anthropology. Following six years as a lecturer in Salisbury, he taught at the University of Oslo from 1966 until his retirement in 1996. This article traces his intellectual itinerary. Beginning with a re-study of Fortes's Tallensi material, Sommerfelt later carried out fieldwork on inter-ethnic relations in south-western Uganda. He distinguished himself from his Norwegian colleagues through an interest in colonial history, nationalism and structural power which tends to be absent from Fredrik Barth's work. Sommerfelt's teaching and mainly unpublished writings reveal him as a supporter of a strong empiricist programme and a skilled Africanist who would have been a worthy contributor to the Manchester School, had he only published his work.

Documenting the flora of a diversity hotspot: Richard Thomas Lowe (1802–1874) and his botanical exploration of Madeira island

AbstractOceanic island floras often exhibit remarkable concentrations of endemic diversity, provide spectacular examples of rapid evolutionary radiations and harbour floras under significant threat due to anthropogenic pressures. They have attracted the interest of biologists for centuries, but their floras continue to yield new taxa and, at a global scale, the extent of their plant diversity remains imperfectly known. Both natural characteristics and historical factors have shaped the development of knowledge of island floras. In this paper, we investigate the approach of Richard Thomas Lowe (1802–1874), to documenting the flora of Madeira island in the North Atlantic. Lowe collected abundantly in Madeira between 1826 and 1873, resulting in several works on Madeira's flora, published from the 1830s. At a time when taxonomic research on island floras was often based on limited collections made during brief expeditions, Lowe's research on the flora, spanning almost half a century, was exceptional. In this study, 2579 herbarium specimens collected by Lowe were georeferenced and used to investigate temporal, spatial and taxonomic patterns in Lowe's collecting activities. We also examine the distribution of specimens by Lowe to other botanists. Some biases are evident in Lowe's collecting efforts, with steep slopes under‐sampled and coastal sites over‐sampled. These reflect constraints imposed by topography and transport links. These limitations aside, Lowe's work on the Madeiran flora was conducted in a systematic manner, resulting in a comprehensive study of the entire flora. His approach was distinctly modern: he gathered and studied all available information in herbaria and in the published and unpublished writings from earlier visitors; his initial fieldwork was conducted widely to gain knowledge of all habitats and their floras; later fieldwork focussed on less‐explored and most promising areas; duplicates were sent to other botanists, facilitating taxonomic exchanges on critical taxa; and his later fieldwork focussed on plant groups where taxonomic problems had been detected. As a result of Lowe's sustained and systematic approach, he is the single most prolific contributor to the study of Madeira's endemic flora. His approach is a model to documenting island floras still relevant today. Areas poorly sampled by Lowe were areas that were difficult to access, which also protected them from anthropic destructive activities and allowed them to serve as refuges for endemic flora. Those areas deserve particular attention in efforts to complete the survey of Madeira's plant diversity, using technological advancements such as drones to prospect areas that are otherwise still largely inaccessible.