Anne Schumann
Biographic Data
| ID | 220394 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne Schumann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne |
| FAMILY NAME | Schumann |
| SIGNATURE | SCHUMANN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9944-8627 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Late-Soviet philosophy in the BSSR and the Minsk School of existentialism
This article examines one of the most significant trajectories in the reception of the existential philosophy of Lev Shestov in the USSR. His principal successor in the Soviet context was Yakov Druskin, who developed a distinctive practice of phenomenological reduction that extended Shestov’s notion of the “apotheosis of groundlessness” through the poeticization of experience. This approach was realized in practice by the Chinari, a circle associ…
Stoic and Epicurean Reasoning from the Topological Point of View
This paper proposes a novel approach to Stoic and Aristotelian–Epicurean modal reasoning by replacing traditional Kripkean relational semantics with a topological framework. In the Stoic account, causality and modality are associated with the density of a space, whereas in the Epicurean tradition they are grounded in discreteness and atomic structure. Motivated by this distinction, we argue that causality and modality can be interpreted through t…
At the Vanishing Point in History
Legal Normativism, Argumentation and Logic
Sign-inferences in Greek and Buddhist Logic
The Yogācāra school of logic developed a theory of sign-inferences that has many features of the Stoic and Epicurean logical teachings with small inclusions of Aristotelian ideas. In the Nyāyabindu of Dharmakīrti, we can find the following schemes of formal reasoning: modus Barbara (Figure I) and modus Camenes (Figure IV) of the Aristotelian syllogistic, and all the inference rules of the Stoic logic: modus ponens, modus tollens, modus ponendo to…
Who was the main thinker of the late nineteenth century in Russia? Count Leo Tolstoy vs Vladimir Solovyov
The Origins and Worldwide Significance of Judaic Hermeneutics
This paper explores the origins and global significance of Judaic hermeneutics as a foundational logical culture, arguing that it constitutes one of the earliest and most sophisticated systems of reasoning in human history. Far beyond a method of religious interpretation, Rabbinic hermeneutics represents a logic in practice: a structured, culturally embedded framework of inference rules (middôt), such as qal wāḥōmer (a fortiori reasoning), that g…
On Pre-Śaiva Deities
The paper delves into several layers of pre-Śaivism in India. The earliest layer traces back to ancient cults worshipping the Mother Goddess, which emerged during the Neolithic period, particularly in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (ca. 10,000–8800 B.C.). These cults flourished within the Indus Valley Civilization (its mature form 2600–1900/1800 B.C.) and other Bronze Age societies. The second layer reveals the worship of Inanna (also known as Nanāy…
Ideologies and Encounters of Ideas at the Crossroads of the Ancient World
In the article introducing this special issue, we consider the prospects of cultural diffusionism. We show that diffusion is not a uniform phenomenon since it includes direct, partial, multi-layered, and reverse forms. The complex approach to diverse forms of diffusions is called by us the crossroads concept. It aligns with cultural relativism which examines cultural traits through diffusion and modification. In world-systems analysis, cultural d…
Algebraic Structure of Ancient Mesopotamian Omens
In this paper, it is shown that we can reconstruct an intuition of Boolean algebra in Mesopotamian divination with different omen series organized as catalogues. Each separate omen was formulated as a conditional statement 'if a sign p, then an event q' so that it has only the positive truth value in the Boolean algebra. This means that omen catalogues can be considered as a dataset containing some logical axioms (only true propositions). It is t…
Archaeology of Logic
The question arises whether logic was given to us by God or whether it is the result of human evolution. I believe that at least the modus ponens rule ( A and if A then B implies B) is inherent in humans, but probably many other modern systems (e.g., resource logic, non - monotonic logic etc.) are the result of humans adapating to the environment. It is therefore of interest to study and compare the way logic is used in ancient cultures as well a…
Mesopotaamia jumalanna Nanāia mõjudest Kesk- ja Lõuna-Aasias
In this paper we have traced some basic attributes belonging to the Mesopotamian goddess Nanāia, from their origin in the period of Ur III (2112–2004 BC) in ancient Mesopotamia up to the period of the Kuṣāṇas and Kūšānšāhs (from the 1st century AD to the late 4th century AD) in Central and South Asia, and up to the period of their successors – the Kidarites and Hephthalites. We have shown that there was a smooth transformation of these attributes…
Fichte’s formal logic
Fichte’s Foundations of the Entire Wissenschaftslehre 1794 is one of the most fundamental books in classical German philosophy. The use of laws of thought to establish foundational principles of transcendental philosophy was groundbreaking in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century and is still crucial for many areas of theoretical philosophy and logic in general today. Nevertheless, contemporaries have already noted that Fichte’s deriva…
Defining a Meṇḍaka Question in the Questions of Milinda and Its Commentarial Texts
Some Intercultural Roots of Purāṇic Mythological Cycle around Nārāyaṇa
In this paper, I use the structural analysis of myth proposed by C. Lévi-Strauss to show that there is a structural similarity between two mythological cycles of dying(sleeping)-and-rising god: around Ba’al and around Nārāyaṇa. On the one hand, the West Semitic myth of Ba’al and the Purāṇic myth of Nārāyaṇa have different descriptions and assume different cults. On the other hand, we can detect a homotopy equivalence among mythemes of both cycles…
Christian-Buddhist Intercommunication of Late Antiquity
The paper is devoted to a historical reconstruction of cultural and commercial contacts which took place between Egypt and India at the peak of the maritime Silk Road to the West in antiquity, i.e. from the first to the fifth century AD , and to how these contacts were reflected by the Roman authors of that time. It is shown that in this context the story of Siddhārtha Gautama can have been transmitted to the West from the first to the fifth cent…
The Long Path of Nanāia from Mesopotamia to Central and South Asia
In this paper we show that the Mesopotamian goddess Nanāia had some attributes (such as ‘warrior goddess’ and ‘sitting on a tiger/lion/standing with a lion/lions’) which were preserved in her worship from the period of Ur III (the second millennium BC) in Mesopotamia up to the period of the Kuṣāṇas and Kūšānšāhs (from the 1st century AD to the late 4th century AD), and even up to the period of later Nomadic dynasties of Northern India, such as th…
Nāgārjunian-Yogācārian Modal Logic versus Aristotelian Modal Logic
There are two different modal logics: the logic T assuming contingency and the logic K = assuming logical determinism. In the paper, I show that the Aristotelian treatise On Interpretation (Περί ερμηνείας, De Interpretatione ) has introduced some modal-logical relationships which correspond to T . In this logic, it is supposed that there are contingent events. The Nāgārjunian treatise Īśvara-kartṛtva-nirākṛtiḥ-viṣṇoḥ-ekakartṛtva-nirākaraṇa has in…
Stakeholders’ rank of reflexion diagnostics in a corporate social responsibility system
Music at war
Reggae music has come to be regarded as a quintessential protest music, both within Africa and globally. In Côte d'Ivoire, leading political figures have, since Houphouët-Boigny, tried to co-opt reggae music for political support. However, reggae musicians have, both in their songs and public statements, been fiercely critical of the Ivoirian political elite which they have depicted as driving the country to economic ruin, ethnic polarization and…
Songs of a new era
Journal Article Songs of a new era: Popular music and political expression in the Ivorian crisis Get access Anne Schumann Anne Schumann * *Anne Schumann ([email protected]) is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. This article was first drafted when I was a teaching fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London. The dissertation research upon which the article is based was support…
A Generation of Orphans
Côte d'Ivoire has travelled full circle from economic success (from 1960 to about 1979) to failure (from the 1980s onwards) in little more than a generation. In the early 1990s, Zouglou, today Côte d'Ivoire's internationally best-known music, emerged at the university residences of the University of Abidjan in the Yopougon quarter. The young people who were to become the 'Zouglou generation' were precisely the generation that bore the brunt of th…
Popular Music, New Media, and the Digital Public Sphere in Kenya, Côte d’Ivoire, and Nigeria
In many parts of Africa, successive governments have historically either monopolized or manipulated public spaces for popular expression. New “spaces of freedom” have consequently been forged and fashioned around popular cultural forms. Denied space in public sites of communication, alternative narratives have found expression in popular music, dance, drama, and other formats. These popular cultural forms often provide spaces for political engage…
Popular music and political change in Cte d'Ivoire
In Cte d'Ivoire, popular music genres such as reggae and zouglou have served as a domain for the articulation of ideas about politicians, corruption, citizenship, national history and identity. This paper specifically analyses the divergent dynamics of reggae and zouglou . Reggae, in Cte d'Ivoire as in its country of origin Jamaica, has characteristically been associated with commentary on socio-political issues. zouglou emerged in the 1990s in t…
A Generation of Orphans
Côte d'Ivoire has travelled full circle from economic success (from 1960 to about 1979) to failure (from the 1980s onwards) in little more than a generation. In the early 1990s, Zouglou, today Côte d'Ivoire's internationally best-known music, emerged at the university residences of the University of Abidjan in the Yopougon quarter. The young people who were to become the 'Zouglou generation' were precisely the generation that bore the brunt of th…
Music at war
Reggae music has come to be regarded as a quintessential protest music, both within Africa and globally. In Côte d'Ivoire, leading political figures have, since Houphouët-Boigny, tried to co-opt reggae music for political support. However, reggae musicians have, both in their songs and public statements, been fiercely critical of the Ivoirian political elite which they have depicted as driving the country to economic ruin, ethnic polarization and…
Songs of a new era
Journal Article Songs of a new era: Popular music and political expression in the Ivorian crisis Get access Anne Schumann Anne Schumann * *Anne Schumann ([email protected]) is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. This article was first drafted when I was a teaching fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London. The dissertation research upon which the article is based was support…
Defining a Meṇḍaka Question in the Questions of Milinda and Its Commentarial Texts
Popular Music, New Media, and the Digital Public Sphere in Kenya, Côte d’Ivoire, and Nigeria
In many parts of Africa, successive governments have historically either monopolized or manipulated public spaces for popular expression. New “spaces of freedom” have consequently been forged and fashioned around popular cultural forms. Denied space in public sites of communication, alternative narratives have found expression in popular music, dance, drama, and other formats. These popular cultural forms often provide spaces for political engage…
Popular music and political change in Cte d'Ivoire
In Cte d'Ivoire, popular music genres such as reggae and zouglou have served as a domain for the articulation of ideas about politicians, corruption, citizenship, national history and identity. This paper specifically analyses the divergent dynamics of reggae and zouglou . Reggae, in Cte d'Ivoire as in its country of origin Jamaica, has characteristically been associated with commentary on socio-political issues. zouglou emerged in the 1990s in t…
A Generation of Orphans
Côte d'Ivoire has travelled full circle from economic success (from 1960 to about 1979) to failure (from the 1980s onwards) in little more than a generation. In the early 1990s, Zouglou, today Côte d'Ivoire's internationally best-known music, emerged at the university residences of the University of Abidjan in the Yopougon quarter. The young people who were to become the 'Zouglou generation' were precisely the generation that bore the brunt of th…
Songs of a new era
Journal Article Songs of a new era: Popular music and political expression in the Ivorian crisis Get access Anne Schumann Anne Schumann * *Anne Schumann ([email protected]) is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. This article was first drafted when I was a teaching fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London. The dissertation research upon which the article is based was support…
Music at war
Reggae music has come to be regarded as a quintessential protest music, both within Africa and globally. In Côte d'Ivoire, leading political figures have, since Houphouët-Boigny, tried to co-opt reggae music for political support. However, reggae musicians have, both in their songs and public statements, been fiercely critical of the Ivoirian political elite which they have depicted as driving the country to economic ruin, ethnic polarization and…
Stakeholders’ rank of reflexion diagnostics in a corporate social responsibility system
The Long Path of Nanāia from Mesopotamia to Central and South Asia
In this paper we show that the Mesopotamian goddess Nanāia had some attributes (such as ‘warrior goddess’ and ‘sitting on a tiger/lion/standing with a lion/lions’) which were preserved in her worship from the period of Ur III (the second millennium BC) in Mesopotamia up to the period of the Kuṣāṇas and Kūšānšāhs (from the 1st century AD to the late 4th century AD), and even up to the period of later Nomadic dynasties of Northern India, such as th…
Nāgārjunian-Yogācārian Modal Logic versus Aristotelian Modal Logic
There are two different modal logics: the logic T assuming contingency and the logic K = assuming logical determinism. In the paper, I show that the Aristotelian treatise On Interpretation (Περί ερμηνείας, De Interpretatione ) has introduced some modal-logical relationships which correspond to T . In this logic, it is supposed that there are contingent events. The Nāgārjunian treatise Īśvara-kartṛtva-nirākṛtiḥ-viṣṇoḥ-ekakartṛtva-nirākaraṇa has in…
Some Intercultural Roots of Purāṇic Mythological Cycle around Nārāyaṇa
In this paper, I use the structural analysis of myth proposed by C. Lévi-Strauss to show that there is a structural similarity between two mythological cycles of dying(sleeping)-and-rising god: around Ba’al and around Nārāyaṇa. On the one hand, the West Semitic myth of Ba’al and the Purāṇic myth of Nārāyaṇa have different descriptions and assume different cults. On the other hand, we can detect a homotopy equivalence among mythemes of both cycles…
Christian-Buddhist Intercommunication of Late Antiquity
The paper is devoted to a historical reconstruction of cultural and commercial contacts which took place between Egypt and India at the peak of the maritime Silk Road to the West in antiquity, i.e. from the first to the fifth century AD , and to how these contacts were reflected by the Roman authors of that time. It is shown that in this context the story of Siddhārtha Gautama can have been transmitted to the West from the first to the fifth cent…
Archaeology of Logic
The question arises whether logic was given to us by God or whether it is the result of human evolution. I believe that at least the modus ponens rule ( A and if A then B implies B) is inherent in humans, but probably many other modern systems (e.g., resource logic, non - monotonic logic etc.) are the result of humans adapating to the environment. It is therefore of interest to study and compare the way logic is used in ancient cultures as well a…
Mesopotaamia jumalanna Nanāia mõjudest Kesk- ja Lõuna-Aasias
In this paper we have traced some basic attributes belonging to the Mesopotamian goddess Nanāia, from their origin in the period of Ur III (2112–2004 BC) in ancient Mesopotamia up to the period of the Kuṣāṇas and Kūšānšāhs (from the 1st century AD to the late 4th century AD) in Central and South Asia, and up to the period of their successors – the Kidarites and Hephthalites. We have shown that there was a smooth transformation of these attributes…
Fichte’s formal logic
Fichte’s Foundations of the Entire Wissenschaftslehre 1794 is one of the most fundamental books in classical German philosophy. The use of laws of thought to establish foundational principles of transcendental philosophy was groundbreaking in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century and is still crucial for many areas of theoretical philosophy and logic in general today. Nevertheless, contemporaries have already noted that Fichte’s deriva…
Defining a Meṇḍaka Question in the Questions of Milinda and Its Commentarial Texts
On Pre-Śaiva Deities
The paper delves into several layers of pre-Śaivism in India. The earliest layer traces back to ancient cults worshipping the Mother Goddess, which emerged during the Neolithic period, particularly in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (ca. 10,000–8800 B.C.). These cults flourished within the Indus Valley Civilization (its mature form 2600–1900/1800 B.C.) and other Bronze Age societies. The second layer reveals the worship of Inanna (also known as Nanāy…
Ideologies and Encounters of Ideas at the Crossroads of the Ancient World
In the article introducing this special issue, we consider the prospects of cultural diffusionism. We show that diffusion is not a uniform phenomenon since it includes direct, partial, multi-layered, and reverse forms. The complex approach to diverse forms of diffusions is called by us the crossroads concept. It aligns with cultural relativism which examines cultural traits through diffusion and modification. In world-systems analysis, cultural d…
Algebraic Structure of Ancient Mesopotamian Omens
In this paper, it is shown that we can reconstruct an intuition of Boolean algebra in Mesopotamian divination with different omen series organized as catalogues. Each separate omen was formulated as a conditional statement 'if a sign p, then an event q' so that it has only the positive truth value in the Boolean algebra. This means that omen catalogues can be considered as a dataset containing some logical axioms (only true propositions). It is t…
Legal Normativism, Argumentation and Logic
Sign-inferences in Greek and Buddhist Logic
The Yogācāra school of logic developed a theory of sign-inferences that has many features of the Stoic and Epicurean logical teachings with small inclusions of Aristotelian ideas. In the Nyāyabindu of Dharmakīrti, we can find the following schemes of formal reasoning: modus Barbara (Figure I) and modus Camenes (Figure IV) of the Aristotelian syllogistic, and all the inference rules of the Stoic logic: modus ponens, modus tollens, modus ponendo to…
Who was the main thinker of the late nineteenth century in Russia? Count Leo Tolstoy vs Vladimir Solovyov
The Origins and Worldwide Significance of Judaic Hermeneutics
This paper explores the origins and global significance of Judaic hermeneutics as a foundational logical culture, arguing that it constitutes one of the earliest and most sophisticated systems of reasoning in human history. Far beyond a method of religious interpretation, Rabbinic hermeneutics represents a logic in practice: a structured, culturally embedded framework of inference rules (middôt), such as qal wāḥōmer (a fortiori reasoning), that g…
Late-Soviet philosophy in the BSSR and the Minsk School of existentialism
This article examines one of the most significant trajectories in the reception of the existential philosophy of Lev Shestov in the USSR. His principal successor in the Soviet context was Yakov Druskin, who developed a distinctive practice of phenomenological reduction that extended Shestov’s notion of the “apotheosis of groundlessness” through the poeticization of experience. This approach was realized in practice by the Chinari, a circle associ…
Stoic and Epicurean Reasoning from the Topological Point of View
This paper proposes a novel approach to Stoic and Aristotelian–Epicurean modal reasoning by replacing traditional Kripkean relational semantics with a topological framework. In the Stoic account, causality and modality are associated with the density of a space, whereas in the Epicurean tradition they are grounded in discreteness and atomic structure. Motivated by this distinction, we argue that causality and modality can be interpreted through t…
At the Vanishing Point in History
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