Intellectual NewsPub Date : 2005-12-01DOI: 10.1080/15615324.2005.10426938
Fred W. Beuttler
{"title":"Failed nerves and the problem of religion on the american left, the partisan review, 1935–1962","authors":"Fred W. Beuttler","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2005.10426938","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2005.10426938","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract ‘What must we do to be saved?’ asked critic Dwight MacDonald after the fall of France, in the late spring of 1940.1 MacDonald was one of the most prominent of the ‘New York Intellectuals’ a name given to a group of left-wing radicals associated with the journal Partisan Review. In the 40s and 50s it was the leading modernist journal of literature and ideas in the US. Often between the 40s and 50s these Intellectuals posed the Philippians jailer's question, this was because the Second World War and the Cold War had reopened questions they thought had been resolved. Again they questioned the possibility of socialism, the problem of religion, and the future of Western civilisation itself. In this situation of fundamental crisis, American radical intellectuals struggled to defend an embattled West and at the same time work for a just and progressive moral order.","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124847973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Intellectual NewsPub Date : 2005-12-01DOI: 10.1080/15615324.2005.10426933
P. Blum
{"title":"An interview with Stanislav Sousedík on the Czech Republic before and after Charta 77","authors":"P. Blum","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2005.10426933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2005.10426933","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract PB: Paul Richard Blum/SS: Stanislav Sousedík","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132120775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Intellectual NewsPub Date : 2005-12-01DOI: 10.1080/15615324.2005.10426932
C. Blackwell
{"title":"Letter from the editor","authors":"C. Blackwell","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2005.10426932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2005.10426932","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121539428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Intellectual NewsPub Date : 2005-12-01DOI: 10.1080/15615324.2005.10426941
Noémie Goldman, Alejandro Kaufman
{"title":"Argentinean identity: A matter of translation?","authors":"Noémie Goldman, Alejandro Kaufman","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2005.10426941","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2005.10426941","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract To define our culture as ‘derivative’ from certain European models has become almost canonical in Argentina. On the one hand national identity appears as a ‘cracked’, ‘inverted’, or ‘buried’ mirror of European models, while on the other, the derivative explanation poses the following differing topic: (i) What kind of model, and what kinds of correspondences should be proposed between these models? (ii) Is the ‘creationist’ position that excludes the ‘old world’ from the new, viewing the ‘new world’ as an original culture1 the correct view? (iii)Should one accept the negative criticism that rejects the concept of correspondence— by those intellectuals who discussed the ideas of translation and derivation and in doing so resorted to hermeneutic motives such as exile, tragedy, banishment, genealogy and so forth?2","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125467282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Intellectual NewsPub Date : 2005-12-01DOI: 10.1080/15615324.2005.10426935
B. Dorfman
{"title":"Intellectual history in a global world II: a response to Ulrich Schneider' essay","authors":"B. Dorfman","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2005.10426935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2005.10426935","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract What I would like to do over the next several pages is respond in something of a shorthand fashion to Ulrich Schneider's observations in Intellectual News 14 on ‘intellectual history in a global world’. To my mind, this is an important topic. In a world dominated like never before by hypercommodified mass culture, ‘the intellectual’ seems to have taken a cultural scat even further back than usual—and this includes within ‘academic culture’—where results rather than ‘ideas’ are often given a higher value. I would suggest that this has something to do with the rapid-paced, futureoriented nature of the contemporary world.","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"48 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114041734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Intellectual NewsPub Date : 2005-12-01DOI: 10.1080/15615324.2005.10426939
Dennis Bryson
{"title":"Towards a new science of man rockefeller philanthropy and the renovation of the human sciences in the United States","authors":"Dennis Bryson","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2005.10426939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2005.10426939","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In recent decades, scholars have examined in some detail the immense influence exerted on American intellectual life—and especially on the human sciences—by philanthropic foundations during the 20th century.1 Scholars as diverse as Olivier Zunz, Lily Kay, Donald Fisher, Judith Sealander, Martin Bulmer, and John M. Jordan have explored the impact of the foundations on the social and life sciences in the U.S. In doing so, they have demonstrated that the Rockefeller philanthropies—particularly the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, the General Education Board, and the Rockefeller Foundation—played an especially significant role with regard to the elaboration and promotion of the human sciences.2","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"118 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122677524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Intellectual NewsPub Date : 2005-12-01DOI: 10.1080/15615324.2005.10426937
Martin Burke
{"title":"Intellectuals and anti-intellectualism in twentieth-century American public discourse","authors":"Martin Burke","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2005.10426937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2005.10426937","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract At the close of a synoptic article on ‘The Rise of American Intellectual History’, John Higham recommended that his fellow scholars tum their attention to ‘widespread popular attitudes’, and trace the ‘rise, decline, or modification’ of concepts such as democracy, nationalism, individualism, class consciousness, race prejudice and anti-intellectualism1. Higham's piece appeared in The American Historical Review in 1951; it is not surprising that he included anti-intellectualism on the list, given its extensive use as a descriptive and a prescriptive term by his contemporaries.2 As were many American academics at mid-century, John Higham was troubled by the perceived growth of anti-intellectualism in public life; and he hoped to employ the tools of historical analysis to understand and, perhaps, to counter this trend.","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"133 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117057419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Intellectual NewsPub Date : 2005-12-01DOI: 10.1080/15615324.2005.10426936
Martin Woessner
{"title":"American intellectual and cultural history in the age of globalisation","authors":"Martin Woessner","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2005.10426936","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2005.10426936","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract American cultural and intellectual life since the end of the Second World War has undergone a significant transformation, one which has preoccupied recent scholarship in the history of American ideas and culture and that has broad implications for the discipline of intellectual history internationally as it reflects current debates about the phenomenon of globalisation. Although a consensus has yet to be reached about what the term globalisation actually describes and entails, it cannot be denied that post-war American cultural and intellectual history, like the historiography that now attempts to document it, has been both catalyst and observer to globalisation, and current attempts to document this fact are, as a result, thoroughly involved in this process as well. The international exchange of ideas, and the effects this has had on intellectual life both ncar and far, arc thus a topic in need of more careful scholarly scrutiny from all sides.","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"164 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124128714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Intellectual NewsPub Date : 2005-12-01DOI: 10.1080/15615324.2005.10426934
S. P. Vidal
{"title":"The lord of images: An interview with José Burucúa on Aby Warburg in Argentina","authors":"S. P. Vidal","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2005.10426934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2005.10426934","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Aby Warburg was born in Hamburg in 1866, into a wealthy and powerful family of Jewish bankers. From his youth, Aby decided that his destiny would not be linked to economic affairs and, by previous agreement with his brothers, managed to dissociate himself from the family business, assuring beforehand that he had enough money to carry on his research. Warburg studied philosophy, history and religion in the universities of Germany, France and Italy.","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"131 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126208180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Intellectual NewsPub Date : 2005-12-01DOI: 10.1080/15615324.2005.10426940
I. Bargna
{"title":"Questioning the sacred and profane by means of African images and arts","authors":"I. Bargna","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2005.10426940","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2005.10426940","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The purpose of this paper is to investigate the nexus between modernity and secularisation by means of an analysis of contemporary African artistic expressions. In particular I am going to discuss this topic with reference to my fieldwork concerning the rebuilding of the ‘Happiness hut’ (bung die) of the Bamileke chiefdom in Bandjoun, Cameroon.","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115309427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}