John Durkan
Biographic Data
| ID | 991640 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Durkan |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Durkan |
| SIGNATURE | DURKAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. Augustine College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1934 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Renaissance in Scotland
George Hay's Oration at the purging of King's College, Aberdeen, in 1569
The Apocalyptic Tradition in Reformation Britain, 1530-1645 . Katherine R. Firth Scottish National Consciousness in the Age of James VI
Giovanni Ferrerio, Humanist
Most scholars, one imagines, of sixteenth-century Scotland will think that Giovanni Ferrerio was a fairly marginal figure at the remote edge of Scottish life, his interest confined to his brief sojourn as tutor to the Cistercian monks at Kinloss and his work as continuator of Hector Boece’s history covering the reign of James III. Whether he might have had any say in Scottish ecclesiastical or educational policies or any wider contact with the co…
The University of Glasgow 1457-1577
History Books for Schools
Martyr in Scotland
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John Major
Confusion of Faces
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A Greek on Art
What follows is ho more than some annotations on the very suggestive phrases towards a theory of art, thrown out almost casually by Aristotle in the course of his Poetics. All of these phrases must be taken together, as each may be seen to imply the other at almost every point: and taken together they help to clarify Aristotle's position with regard to the nature of the aesthetic experience, its nature as an intellectual experience felt as physic…
The Lesson of Standardisation
The same clothes, the same swing music, the same technological thinking, the same standardised responses, the same dances, the same transport communications: in other words, the same standardisation all the world over. 'This uniformity is quite another thing than a structure of civilisation properly speaking, it is of an order not specifically human.' The Manichee, in his contradictory thinking, desired to attain to a univocal perfection, to be s…
New Horizons
The mind of man has an inborn bias towards unity. Hence the unity of ideas which even the anarchic self-realizer cannot escape. Hence, too, a critique of the history of ideas must always appear an angular if not arbitrary cross-section through the jungle of fact. If the mind of man was a machine we could take it to pieces, but because it is organic and even supratemporal, it is always more than a welter of faculties and even more than its history…
The ABC of Escapism
The keyword of our generation is "Life." The pathos of this will to live occasionally electrifies cafes and dance halls in the hysteria of an adolescent or middle-aged woman. By typography and photography the Press galvanizes its dead news to an artificial life. The educator no longer sells the corpse of knowledge with copy-book slogans like "Knowledge is power," but alike for adult and child baits the powder with the jam of "vital interest." A r…
Freedom to Surrender
Now it appears to me that almost any man may, like the spider, spin from his own inwards, his own airy citadel. The points of leaves and twigs on which the spider begins her work are few, and she fills the air with a beautiful circuiting. Man should be content with as few points to tip with the fine web of his soul, and weave a tapestry empyrean-full of symbols for his spiritual eye, of softness for his spiritual touch, of space for his wandering…
The Manichen Unreality
Gentile attributes to post-Renaissance literary heresy the familiar form of Manicheanism. Body and soul, the Catholic believes, are married indivorcibly in this life: the historical Manichee emphasizes the soul and neglects the reality of the body. Historically the Manichees regarded marriage as sinful, with the consequence that many came to inflict on themselves sterilization, for that was their doctrine in effect. The outcome was soulfulness an…
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The Manichen Unreality
Gentile attributes to post-Renaissance literary heresy the familiar form of Manicheanism. Body and soul, the Catholic believes, are married indivorcibly in this life: the historical Manichee emphasizes the soul and neglects the reality of the body. Historically the Manichees regarded marriage as sinful, with the consequence that many came to inflict on themselves sterilization, for that was their doctrine in effect. The outcome was soulfulness an…
Freedom to Surrender
Now it appears to me that almost any man may, like the spider, spin from his own inwards, his own airy citadel. The points of leaves and twigs on which the spider begins her work are few, and she fills the air with a beautiful circuiting. Man should be content with as few points to tip with the fine web of his soul, and weave a tapestry empyrean-full of symbols for his spiritual eye, of softness for his spiritual touch, of space for his wandering…
New Horizons
The mind of man has an inborn bias towards unity. Hence the unity of ideas which even the anarchic self-realizer cannot escape. Hence, too, a critique of the history of ideas must always appear an angular if not arbitrary cross-section through the jungle of fact. If the mind of man was a machine we could take it to pieces, but because it is organic and even supratemporal, it is always more than a welter of faculties and even more than its history…
The ABC of Escapism
The keyword of our generation is "Life." The pathos of this will to live occasionally electrifies cafes and dance halls in the hysteria of an adolescent or middle-aged woman. By typography and photography the Press galvanizes its dead news to an artificial life. The educator no longer sells the corpse of knowledge with copy-book slogans like "Knowledge is power," but alike for adult and child baits the powder with the jam of "vital interest." A r…
The Lesson of Standardisation
The same clothes, the same swing music, the same technological thinking, the same standardised responses, the same dances, the same transport communications: in other words, the same standardisation all the world over. 'This uniformity is quite another thing than a structure of civilisation properly speaking, it is of an order not specifically human.' The Manichee, in his contradictory thinking, desired to attain to a univocal perfection, to be s…
A Greek on Art
What follows is ho more than some annotations on the very suggestive phrases towards a theory of art, thrown out almost casually by Aristotle in the course of his Poetics. All of these phrases must be taken together, as each may be seen to imply the other at almost every point: and taken together they help to clarify Aristotle's position with regard to the nature of the aesthetic experience, its nature as an intellectual experience felt as physic…
Confusion of Faces
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John Major
Martyr in Scotland
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History Books for Schools
The University of Glasgow 1457-1577
The Apocalyptic Tradition in Reformation Britain, 1530-1645 . Katherine R. Firth Scottish National Consciousness in the Age of James VI
Giovanni Ferrerio, Humanist
Most scholars, one imagines, of sixteenth-century Scotland will think that Giovanni Ferrerio was a fairly marginal figure at the remote edge of Scottish life, his interest confined to his brief sojourn as tutor to the Cistercian monks at Kinloss and his work as continuator of Hector Boece’s history covering the reign of James III. Whether he might have had any say in Scottish ecclesiastical or educational policies or any wider contact with the co…
George Hay's Oration at the purging of King's College, Aberdeen, in 1569
The Renaissance in Scotland
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