701 research outputs found
Inger Christensen / Novalis / Philosophy of Nature
The Danish poet and essayist Inger Christensen (1935â2009) has been labelled a modernist, a postmodernist, an experimentalist, and an exponent of systematic poetry. However, all through her works runs her preoccupation with early German romanticism, the philosophical and poetological writings of Novalis in particular. Christensenâs complex relationship with Novalis has so far received little scholarly attention. The aim of this tripartite article is to fill this lacuna by shedding light on the various ways in which Christensen engages with Novalis and renegotiates his romantic heritage. Central to Christensenâs poetics is a concept derived from Novalis: hemmelighedstilstanden [the state of secrecy]. Reading this concept in conjunction with the contemporary German-Austrian poet Peter Waterhouseâs corresponding concept of Geheimnislosigkeit [literally: secretlessness], Silje Ingeborg Harr Svare explores Christensenâs renegotiation of Novalisâs philosophy of subjectivity and language. Anne Gry Haugland addresses the complex and radical philosophy of nature that resonates throughout Christensenâs works. While this philosophy of nature is indebted to German romantic Naturphilosophie, it is also informed by recent developments in the natural sciences: drawing on concepts in contemporary science such as biosemiotics, scalar ratios, and self-organizing systems â Haugland outlines the scientific context for Christensenâs philosophy of nature. Finally, Klaus MĂŒller Wille explores the relationship between Christensenâs long poem det [It] and Novalisâs unfinished philosophical novel Die Lehrlinge zu Sais [The disciples of Sais], showing that det is informed by Novalisâs fragment on a structural, a diegetic, a rhetorical, and a conceptual level
A âWork of Lifeâ: Jane Harrison on Older Age
The article examines the classical scholar Jane Ellen Harrisonâs (1850-1928) thoughts about aging both as a cultural phenomenon and as personal experience. It argues that her reflections are poised between two diverging ideas about life which I term bergsonism and olympianism. While the former, according to Harrison, points to life as wholeness and permanent process (and which she illustrates by the figures of snowball and wheel, by the imperfective verb in the Russian novel, by the importance of ritual, or by her embracement of imbecility), the latter indicates detachment, idiocy, the perfect tense, discontinuity, and tragic vision. Of particular interest to the article are Harrisonâs three later essays âCrabbed Age and Youth,â âAspects, Aorists, and the Classical Tripos,â and âReminiscences of a Studentâs Life.â The article shows the variety of perspectivesâanthropological, mythical, linguist, aesthetic, and philosophicalâwhich Harrison makes use of to explain the phenomenon of aging
Speaking in Circles: Interpretation and Visitor Experience at Chaco Culture National Historic Park
This study treats Chaco Culture National Historic Park (CCNHP) as a museum space with the National Park Service (NPS) as the head curator. As a museum space and a World Heritage site, Chaco is a place of knowledge production and consumption, with interpretation structured to relay a narrative of Chaco as a thriving prehistoric civilization and to foster an environment where visitors can create idiosyncratic relationships with the space. Trail guides, Wayside Exhibits, and Park ranger interaction constitute formal interpretive resources for visitors to interact with sites in the canyon. These processes are both easily available and easily avoidable for visitors, allowing visitors agency in constructing their experience at Chaco. During visitor interactions with these interpretive materials, visitors and curators enter into a constructive dialogue with one another, creating interpretations and knowledge about the sites. Focusing on the sites of Pueblo Bonito and Chetro Ketl, this study critically examines the relationship between CCNHPs current interpretive processes and actual visitor experience, and discusses the possible implications of this interaction.\u2
Significance of Monitoring and Control for Employeesâ Felt Trust, Motivation, and Mastery
The aim of the current study is to investigate the importance of monitoring and employee control for employeesâ felt trust, as well as felt trust as a mediating variable between monitoring and control, intrinsic motivation and mastery. A random sample of 3015 Norwegian employees was analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling. Monitoring was negatively related to employeesâ felt trust, while employeesâ control over decisions was related to higher felt trust. In turn, felt trust was related to employeesâ intrinsic motivation and experience of mastery. Felt trust also partially mediated the relationship between employee control and intrinsic motivation, employee control and mastery, and entirely mediated the relationship between monitoring and intrinsic motivation and monitoring and mastery. The findings highlight the importance of felt trust for theory related to the workplace: Our findings support that employees are less intrinsically motivated if they are monitored because they feel less trusted
Spin dynamics of quantum and classical Heisenberg dimers
Analytical solutions for the time-dependent autocorrelation function of the
classical and quantum mechanical spin dimer with arbitrary spin are presented
and compared. For large spin quantum numbers or high temperature the classical
and the quantum dimer become more and more similar, yet with the major
difference that the quantum autocorrelation function is periodic in time
whereas the classical is not.Comment: 10 pages, 4 postscript figures, uses 'epsfig.sty'. Submitted to
Physica A. More information available at
http://www.physik.uni-osnabrueck.de/makrosysteme
Svar til SolbrĂŠkke
Da jeg for noen Ă„r siden underviste pĂ„ universitetet, klaget en kollega av meg over hvor frustrerende han opplevde det Ă„ holde forlesninger for begynnerstudenter. Ideelt sett ville han gjerne ha problematisert hver eneste setning, og vist for studentene hvordan hvert eneste Ă¹ùĂsvarĂ¹ùà han ga ledet til nye spĂžrsmĂ„l. Men formatet og mangelen pĂ„ tid gjorde det ikke mulig. Derfor mĂ„tte han holde seg til de enkle formuleringene, selv om Ăą fortalte han Ăą det innebar at han fĂžlte seg nesten som en bedrager. Da jeg jobbet med det kvalitative forskningsprosjektet Ă¹ùĂMenn i pleie og omsorgĂ¹ùĂ, som dannet grunnlaget for bokutgivelsen med samme navn, kom jeg i tanker om denne kollegaen. Ă gjennomfĂžre et slikt prosjekt er selvsagt noe helt annet enn Ă„ holde forelesninger for begynnerstudenter. Men ogsĂ„ som forsker er man tvunget til Ă„ begrense seg. PĂ„ hvert eneste trinn i prosessen gjĂžres det valg, der noen dĂžrer Ă¹ùĂĂ„pnesĂ¹ùà og andre Ă¹ùĂlukkesĂ¹ùĂ. Og selv om man til slutt blir rimelig fornĂžyd med resultatet, sĂ„ vet man ogsĂ„ med seg selv hvor annerledes teksten kunne ha blitt hvis man hadde gjort andre valg. Ofte kan valgene ogsĂ„ vĂŠre vanskelige Ă„ ta: Man blir gĂ„ende med en usikkerhet med hensyn til om valget man gjorde var det beste, eller om man heller burde ha vinklet stoffet annerledes. Derfor er det ikke vanskelig Ă„ vĂŠre enig i de fleste innvendingene og etterlysningene som Kari N. SolbrĂŠkke kommer med i bokessayet som har boka mi som tema, i dette nummeret av Sosiologi i dag
Enrique Dussel: FrigĂžrelsesfilosofi
Hvordan skal vi forholde oss til det faktum at et av Norges stÞrste partier vinner stemmer pÄ sine forslag om Ä gjÞre en av klodens mest privilegerte befolkninger (den norske) enda mer privilegert. Og hvordan skal vi forholde oss til at det samme partiet ser pÄ innvandring fra den tredje verden som den stÞrste faren Vesten stÄr overfor, samtidig som det reiser tvil ved det som faktisk er den stÞrste trusselen, nemlig den menneskeskapte drivhuseffekten? Og hva sier det om demokratiet som styreform at det er en reell sjanse for at partier som dette kan fÄ stadig Þkende innflytelse i Vesten
Correlation functions for ionic motion from NMR relaxation and electrical conductivity in the glassy fast-ion conductor (Li2S)0.56(SiS2)0.44
The Li7 NMR spin-lattice relaxation and the electrical conductivity in the typical glassy fast-ion conductor (Li2S)0.56(SiS2)0.44 are discussed from models of Li+ionic motion with distributions of activation energies, as well as from stretched-exponential time-correlation functions. The measured correlation times from the two effects differ by two orders of magnitude, and the derived distributions are shifted greatly relative to each other. We relate the great differences to percolation around the high barriers in the distribution. We present a phenomenological theory that yields good quantitative fits to the observed NMR relaxation with a Gaussian distribution, and to the conductivity and related dielectric properties with the continuous-time random-walk model and the same Gaussian truncated at the percolation limit. This correlates the two effects in a simple and effective way; both time-correlation functions can be calculated approximately from the distributions, and even the dc conductivity can be calculated from the NMR results. The present approach is discussed and compared with previously proposed models to explain the anomalies in ac electrical-conductivity and NMR relaxation rates in glassy fast-ion conductors
A âWork of Lifeâ
The article examines the classical scholar Jane Ellen Harrisonâs (1850-1928) thoughts about aging both as a cultural phenomenon and as personal experience. It argues that her reflections are poised between two diverging ideas about life which I term bergsonism and olympianism. While the former, according to Harrison, points to life as wholeness and permanent process (and which she illustrates by the figures of snowball and wheel, by the imperfective verb in the Russian novel, by the importance of ritual, or by her embracement of imbecility), the latter indicates detachment, idiocy, the perfect tense, discontinuity, and tragic vision. Of particular interest to the article are Harrisonâs three later essays âCrabbed Age and Youth,â âAspects, Aorists, and the Classical Tripos,â and âReminiscences of a Studentâs Life.â The article shows the variety of perspectivesâanthropological, mythical, linguist, aesthetic, and philosophicalâwhich Harrison makes use of to explain the phenomenon of
aging
«The mausoleum, the wax house»: DÞdspoetikk og bie-topos i Sylvia Plaths bie-dikt
Artikkelen nÊrleser den sÄkalte bie-sekvensen i Sylvia Plaths diktsamling Ariel (1965) bestÄende av dikt om bier og birÞkt («The Bee Meeting», «The Arrival of the Bee Box», «Stings», og «Wintering»). Jeg vil vise hvordan bie-diktene sentrerer seg rundt det som kan kalles en poetologisk urscene, og som tar preg av en beholder-metaforikk. Denne urscenen kjennetegnes av dobbeltheten i liv og dÞd, og figureres som bÄde utklekningssted og likkiste. Artikkelen vil lese Plaths bie-dikt i lys av den lange tradisjonen for Ä se pÄ bier som metafor pÄ diktning (bie-toposet), noe som hittil bare er blitt gjort i beskjeden og usystematisk grad.publishedVersio
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