Peter Stanley Fosl
Biographic Data
| ID | 9238776 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Stanley Fosl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter Stanley |
| FAMILY NAME | Fosl |
| SIGNATURE | FOSL P S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Transylvania University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 0 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 43 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Grammatical self, linguistic community and education of grownups
Beginning with Emerson’s essay “Self-Reliance”, his critique of Descartes’ cogito is examined and the Emersonian alternative vision of acquiring individual existence is reconstructed. In this depiction, a solipsistic Cartesian account of man is replaced with a vision of the grammatical self, which is at the same time social, linguistic, and, as a result, literary. The two goals of creating the self—the individual and the social one—constitute for…
Women in Islamic architecture
Throughout Islamic history, some prominent women significantly contributed to the progress and enhancement of their societies as well as expressed a sincere concern for the welfare of people. Many influencing studies examined women’s contribution to many fields of the Islamic civilization, such as the spread of the hadith (sayings) of the prophet Mohamed, education, literature, philosophy, poetry, mathematics, and medicine. Also, Muslim women wer…
Writing as becoming-woman
The methodological approach and starting point for this article are the idea of the difference between men and women creators as suggested and discussed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. As Deleuze and Guattari discuss the case of becoming-woman using the example of Virginia Woolf, her creative work is also a subject of reflection. This distinction is also applied to reveal the special case of becoming-woman in the prose of Lithuanian writer …
Translating Gender from Chinese into English
Informed by feminist linguistics and feminist translation studies, the present study investigates the particular ways in which British translator Gladys Yang (re-)constructs gender in the English translation of the Chinese novel 沉重的翅膀 [Leaden Wings]. Textual and paratextual analyses show a paradox—feminist discourse and linguistic sexism—resides in the translation. Whilst feminist discourse is evident in both the paratexts, i.e. the preface, afte…
Reconciliation
This article analysed the elusive post-war reconciliation policy that the Prime Minister Robert Mugabe proclaimed following his Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party’s election victory in the 1980 multiparty elections. Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU) and ZANU-PF antagonistic relations of the pre-independence era and their traditional rivalry over the control and ownership of the struggle for the liberation of the …
The Carta Marina of Martin Waldseemüller from 1516 – political geography in context of the struggle for the spices of Southeast India
This paper demonstrates that the highly accurate depiction of the Indian Ocean on the Carta marina of Martin Waldseemueller from 1516 is mainly caused by the extremely powerful political and economic interests of the Portuguese Crown and the Upper German-trading companies in the conflict with the Kingdom of Castile over supremacy in the spice trade in India. It is shown that the Portuguese—after reaching the archipelago of the Moluccas before the…
A storm of swords and spears
The past fifteen years have witnessed increasing effort to study and understand the belief system of Bronze Age Scandinavia. Different forms of material culture—including rock art and metalwork—and allusions to texts such as the Vedic Rig Veda, have led many to suggest the existence of a shared belief system with an Indo-European solar focus. Yet certain symbols attributed to this Indo-European system seem to have striking parallels in later Nors…
Attracting investment in green cultural capital through aesthetic differentiation
Certain voices in environmentalism stress a harmonious aesthetic connection with nature, and believe that doing this may have a beneficial effect on moral environmentalism. However, there is also a fair sprinkling of opposing voices that think difference and striving over of sameness and harmony. In alliance with them, and because I am poststructurally inspired, I have taken upon myself the task of thinking aesthetic differentiation and its impli…
From Don Quixote to Zorba, madness and revolt as an ideology in Mohammad Ghazi’s translations
The present article investigates the role of madness in the translated work of a Kurd translator, Mohammad Ghazi (1914–1998) who translated from 1940 to 1998. The aim of the author is discussing the poetics of madness or Revolt in a man who “speaks truth to power” in the guise of madness. Ghazi translated more than 60 books from different authors into Persian. His translations in general construe what we consider as his poetics of madness. What w…
From Print to Painting
Seventeenth-century Dutch genre painter Jan Miense Molenaer (1610/1611–1668) often depicted the sitting male, elegant, full-size lute player for about a decade. He changed the figure little except for costumes, props, and environment from one painting to the next. This author suggests that Molenaer employed a print model, turning it into repeatable patterns in order to copy it with little adjustments from painting to painting. The practice was fi…
If Foucault were an urban planner
Power has always been an obvious presumption in planning theory. At times it has been considered as a one-way, top-down, instrumental and rational dominance while at other times, planning theory, in more fortunate moments, has tried to divide concepts of power between different actors through a communicative rationality-based process. This article locates Foucault’s theory of power in relation to recent planning theories as a magnifier in order t…
“Should I, as a Muslim, join or not Catholics in Churches?” Dilemmas of the Italian Muslim community
Italian Muslims represent 2.6% of the entire population and one-third of all foreigners, constituting a fragmented and pluralistic community. Recently, father Jacques Hamel, a French Catholic priest, was killed by two knife-wielding French men pledging allegiance to the Islamic State. The Muslim French community strongly dissociated from this event. Italian Muslim community heeded this call and also sent delegates to French churches. According to…
The chronotope of third space in Bharati Mukherjee’s “The Management of Grief”
In this article, we have focused on the narrative features and cinematic techniques of Bharati Mukherjee’s short story “The Management of Grief” to examine the construction of identity in “the third space” in the age of immigration. The narrator-focalizer, Shaila Bhave, who has just lost her husband and two sons in the terrorist attack on the Air India, tells her story in the form of a diary with each part written at a distinct moment in time; as…
Justification about the existence and location of Chartres’ cathedral labyrinth based on astronomy and geometry
We present a geometric-astronomical correlation between the rose window on the main façade and the labyrinth of Chartres cathedral. This correlation existed throughout the building’s construction—epoch J1200–. Since classical mythology relates the labyrinth to the Taurus constellation, we will project the daily orbits of the stars of this constellation through the center of the rose window, thus finding their paths on the cathedral’s floor plan. …
Phraseology as indicator for translation quality assessment of museum texts
Phraseological competence, although traditionally left somewhat in the background in research on translation quality assessment, refers to a high level of knowledge of a language, and is therefore worthy of greater attention. Some studies, which are exceptions to this neglect, suggest that the level of phraseological quality of a text is directly related to its overall quality. This paper assesses these 2 types of quality in 14 original and trans…
Auroville as an intentional spiritual community and the practice of Integral yoga
This paper discusses Auroville as an intentional spiritual community in South India and the way facets of Integral yoga are manifested. The existential thinking, aspirations, existential anxieties, daily spiritual experiences and worldview of the residents also called Aurovilians, were studied through a 10-year period. Aurovilians’ scores on measures of existential thinking, aspirations, and spiritual experiences were higher and existential anxie…
A repressed desire named revolution
The present paper attempts to investigate J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) in terms of Fredric Jameson’s concept of the political unconscious. Jameson’s intellectual hermeneutics lies in uncovering the way in which the contradictions, antinomies, sociopolitical and cultural anxieties are to be unfolded within his three semantic horizons of interpretation. This study argues that the narrative, through the political unconscious ana…
Attachment to a charismatic religious figure and development of virtues
This article reports on a 10-year longitudinal study across nine cities in five countries of Jalaram Bapa followers. Jalaram Bapa (JB) is a Gujarati Hindu eighteenth-century charismatic God-like figure. The aim was to examine how attachment to JB leads to the development of virtues. Data were collected from 12,069 followers during phase 1 (2002–2003) and 11,034 followers during phase 2 (2012–2013). They were compared to an equal number of Gujarat…
A double capture of body and life
This article deals with the surrealist paintings of Šarūnas Sauka (b.1958), an artist totally unknown in the West and not even broadly investigated in Lithuania. Following Deleuze, the argument for this paper concentrates on the question: can Deleuzian concepts engaged for the experimental reading of Francis Bacon’s paintings also apply to the works of other artists? The author of the article proposes reading visual stories created by Sauka using…
Critique of relational aesthetics and a poststructural argument for thingly representational art
Although relational aesthetics fulfills many poststructural criteria, I have identified three respects in which it does not. All are concerned with the preference of relational aesthetics for unscripted, participatory performance and the concomitant implosion of distinctions between art and life. More specifically, relational aesthetics eschews artistic thingness, capturing and preserving through reproductive technologies and artistic mimesis. Po…
The essential and the derivative moods of Aristotelian syllogism
It is generally accepted that it is a mistake that Aristotle ignore the moods of the fourth figure in his syllogism. In this paper, I shall argue the Aristotelian syllogism consisting of the essential moods and their derivative moods is complete or self-contained, all the moods of the fourth figure can be derived from the essential moods. The analysis table provided in the paper will contribute to showing the procedure from the essential moods to…
Transdisciplinarity and the fruitful interplay between social science and science of history
On the basis of a research project on the history of the china manufacturer and touristic entrepreneur Ernst Wahliß, who lived and was active in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in the late nineteenth century, the article reflects how interdisciplinary cooperation between historical science and an intervention-oriented social science in the framework of transdisciplinary research design can lead to scientifically interesting results and social impac…
Veneration and elation as proceeds of pilgrimage
Orthodox Churches in Addis Ababa have long history, which have been established for providing spiritual and secular services. Pertaining to religion, churches have provided spiritual services in the form of teaching in religious schools, video-visual preaching, publications, printed leaflets, and pilgrimages. People have traveled from place to place within or out of their country for spiritual conception which is expressed as pilgrimage. Orthodox…
Improvisation in dance with technological mediation
Situated cognition seems to be one of the relevant pillars in the literature on embodied cognition: a matter of understanding the subject and its cognition in involved and mutual manner. This is a continuous process in which the flow of information affects the body, the world, and the very process of engagement. Dance should be deemed as situated cognition. Thus, assuming that contextual interdependence, one can confirm that improvisation in danc…
Incarnation and shame
This paper examines philosopher Richard Swinburne’s recent account of Jesus’ humanity in order to assess the reasonableness of cognitivist renderings of the religious mystery of Incarnation. Swinburne’s reading is positioned alongside a phenomenological and a literary rendering of this mystery in order to show up the potential limitations of representing Jesus’ Incarnation as a matter of mind, rather than a matter of pathos and embodied weakness.…
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Are there some things it is morally wrong to make-believe? An examination of imaginative resistance as a measure of the morality of pretence
This paper discusses the morality of make-believing deviant moral truths within the context of fictional narratives (e.g. make-believing that the killing of innocent people is a morally good thing to do). By examining popular explanations of imaginative resistance (one’s unwillingness to imagine certain fictitious content), the paper assesses the extent to which reasons for our unwillingness to entertain certain forms of pretence might constitute…
Being in-between
Interdisciplinarity happens when we commit to staying in the in-between, to staying in process. It is about not-knowing as a precondition for encountering matter/material, about not aiming at knowledge but at ways of knowing as practices of becoming. Interdisciplinary work is necessarily concerned with what is not present or represented in existing disciplines, but felt. It attends to what discourse leaves out, the elements not only outside the r…
Archaeology, landscape and aesthetics
This paper examines the role, if any, of aesthetic reflections in the discipline of landscape archaeology. It begins by rejecting the charge that archaeologists should set aside their own aesthetic sensibility when studying landscapes. The bulk of the paper, however, is concerned with arguing that attention to the aesthetic sensibilities of the peoples who made the landscapes studied is essential to the kind of understanding and reconstruction of…
Toward a new kalām cosmological argument
William Lane Craig has revived interest in the medieval kalām argument to the point where it is now one of the most discussed arguments for God’s existence in the secondary literature. Still, the reception of Craig’s argument among philosophers of religion has been mostly critical. In the interest of developing an argument that more philosophers of religion would be inclined to support, I will lay the philosophical groundwork for a new kalām cosm…
Incarnation and shame
This paper examines philosopher Richard Swinburne’s recent account of Jesus’ humanity in order to assess the reasonableness of cognitivist renderings of the religious mystery of Incarnation. Swinburne’s reading is positioned alongside a phenomenological and a literary rendering of this mystery in order to show up the potential limitations of representing Jesus’ Incarnation as a matter of mind, rather than a matter of pathos and embodied weakness.…
Young hands, old books
This article scrutinises three marginal drawings in LJS 361, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania Libraries. It first considers the provenance of the manuscript, questioning how it got into the hands of children. Then, it combines developmental psychology with close examination of the material evidence to develop a list of criteria to attribute the drawings to children. There is considerati…
Human values and the value of humanities in interdisciplinary research
Research integrating the perspectives of different disciplines, or interdisciplinary research, has become increasingly common in academia and is considered important for its ability to address complex questions and problems. This mode of research aims to leverage differences among disciplines in generating a more complex understanding of the research landscape. To interact successfully with other disciplines, researchers must appreciate their dif…
Humeaneyes (“one particular shade of blue”)
Grey-blue eyes and a fixed look: Is he a philosopher or a dumb ox? Hume’s eyes and face are trifle which can lead us into some curiosities connected with his life and writings. Looking through Hume’s eyes, we can outline the scholars’ propensity to describe the (painted) face of their favourite philosopher and spread upon it their reading of his work. We can ask questions about portraits and resemblance as a standard of beauty. We can survey the …
Lies like the truth
How is it possible that we can be so deeply affected by poetry even when we are not altogether sure what it is about? By way of interpreting a Platonic dialog, “Lies Like the Truth: On Plato’s Lesser Hippias” links this human capacity to our ability to lie, which, in turn, grounds our ability to tell the truth. Truth-telling requires the option of not telling the truth—it cannot simply be mechanical; it thus always involves looking at the world t…
Transforming discourse
In the book Interdisciplinarity, Joe Moran traced the rise of interdisciplinarity as an inherently transformative approach to the gathering and ordering of knowledge in the modern university. Interdisciplinarity challenges the university as an epistemological project by historicizing it as a context for knowledge production. The academic study of religion arose in this setting and has developed within the intellectual forces—the lines of inquiry …
Selective scepticism over thought
In this paper, I subject a number of statements avowing selective doubt about an act of thinking to philosophical analysis (e.g. “A thought occurred just now but I do not believe that I was thinking it”) to ascertain those circumstances under which they constitute a legitimate expression of scepticism. Can a case be made for epistemic discrepancy sufficient to justify the following claim: “I doubt that I think that thought but not this one”? In s…
Why nobody likes a prophet
This essay focuses on and analyzes the role of prophet that Bartolomé de las Casas (1485–1566) lived out in the conquest and settlement of the New World. Borrowing a great deal from a shorter essay written years ago by Stafford Poole on the history and nature of prophets, we examine how Las Casas’s life mirrored so many of the qualities and characteristics of the prophet, especially those of the Old Testament. It is part of our general argument t…
Relativism defended
I argue for a type of relativism that allows different people to have conflicting accurate representations of the world. This is contrary to the view of most Anglo-American philosophers, who would, with Paul Boghossian in Fear of Knowledge, deny that “there are many radically different, yet ‘equally valid’ ways of knowing the world.” My argument is not a metaphysical argument about the ultimate nature of the outside world, but a psychological arg…
Goethe’s theory of colors between the ancient philosophy, middle ages occultism and modern science
Goethe’s rejection of Newton’s theory of colors is an interesting example of the vulnerability of the human mind—however brilliant it might be—to fanaticism. After an analysis of Goethe’s persistent fascination with magic and occultism, of his education, existential experiences, influences, and idiosyncrasies, the authors propose an original interpretation of his anti-Newtonian position. The relevance of Goethe’s Farbenlehre to physics and physio…
The depiction of America on Martin Waldseemüller’s world map from 1507—Humanistic geography in the service of political propaganda
This paper demonstrates that the depiction of America on Waldseemüller’s world map of 1507, regardless of its apparently modern depiction, was not a rendering based primarily on geographical knowledge of new discoveries across the Atlantic Ocean. On the contrary, this depiction of America should instead be considered to have been much more influenced by the extremely powerful political and economic interests of the Portuguese Crown and the southe…
A philosophical approach to the riddle of Michelangelo’s Florentine Pietà
Michelangelo was quite ambivalent about his Florentine Pietà. On the one hand, the face of Nicodemus depicts the features of Michelangelo who had intended the sculpture to be put above his own prospective grave at Rome. On the other hand, he became enraged by this magnificent work and attempted to destroy it. I try to explain this enigmatic ambivalence on philosophical grounds. While Platonic grounds explain his dissatisfaction with and rage at t…
Homo Ludens (1938) and the crisis in the humanities
Johan Huizinga's Homo Ludens (1938) is, in certain circles, still highly esteemed as a paradigm of humanist scholarship. Huizinga argues that cultures arise and unfold in and as play but that they tend to lose their playfulness as they mature. As a gifted writer and erudite philologist, cross-cultural historian, and culture critic, he made a, at first sight, brilliant case for this intriguing thesis. However, a more thorough reading shows that it…
Unconditional love
Unconditional love gets mentioned quite often these days. The commonest context, and the one often thought to offer the best grip on the idea, is the love of parents for their children. But is there any such thing as unconditional love? I argue that an idea of such love can and does play the role of a kind of ideal in the light of which (some) people can undertake to “love better”. But I think people have also meant, or (so to speak) have wanted …
Common natures of finite modes in Spinoza’s Ethics
This paper revisits the question of the ontological status of universals in Spinoza’s Ethics. Specifically, it re-examines its position on common natures of finite modes. I first show that while it clearly teaches that only individuals ultimately exist and that universals are mere mental constructs, it nevertheless also posits the mind-independent existence of common natures of finite modes. I then reconcile these seemingly contradictory elements…
The essential and the derivative moods of Aristotelian syllogism
It is generally accepted that it is a mistake that Aristotle ignore the moods of the fourth figure in his syllogism. In this paper, I shall argue the Aristotelian syllogism consisting of the essential moods and their derivative moods is complete or self-contained, all the moods of the fourth figure can be derived from the essential moods. The analysis table provided in the paper will contribute to showing the procedure from the essential moods to…
Transdisciplinarity and the fruitful interplay between social science and science of history
On the basis of a research project on the history of the china manufacturer and touristic entrepreneur Ernst Wahliß, who lived and was active in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in the late nineteenth century, the article reflects how interdisciplinary cooperation between historical science and an intervention-oriented social science in the framework of transdisciplinary research design can lead to scientifically interesting results and social impac…
Veneration and elation as proceeds of pilgrimage
Orthodox Churches in Addis Ababa have long history, which have been established for providing spiritual and secular services. Pertaining to religion, churches have provided spiritual services in the form of teaching in religious schools, video-visual preaching, publications, printed leaflets, and pilgrimages. People have traveled from place to place within or out of their country for spiritual conception which is expressed as pilgrimage. Orthodox…
Improvisation in dance with technological mediation
Situated cognition seems to be one of the relevant pillars in the literature on embodied cognition: a matter of understanding the subject and its cognition in involved and mutual manner. This is a continuous process in which the flow of information affects the body, the world, and the very process of engagement. Dance should be deemed as situated cognition. Thus, assuming that contextual interdependence, one can confirm that improvisation in danc…
Phraseology as indicator for translation quality assessment of museum texts
Phraseological competence, although traditionally left somewhat in the background in research on translation quality assessment, refers to a high level of knowledge of a language, and is therefore worthy of greater attention. Some studies, which are exceptions to this neglect, suggest that the level of phraseological quality of a text is directly related to its overall quality. This paper assesses these 2 types of quality in 14 original and trans…
Auroville as an intentional spiritual community and the practice of Integral yoga
This paper discusses Auroville as an intentional spiritual community in South India and the way facets of Integral yoga are manifested. The existential thinking, aspirations, existential anxieties, daily spiritual experiences and worldview of the residents also called Aurovilians, were studied through a 10-year period. Aurovilians’ scores on measures of existential thinking, aspirations, and spiritual experiences were higher and existential anxie…
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