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It's a (Two-)Culture Thing: the Laterial Shift to Liberation
Animal Issues, Vol 4, No. 1, 2000 It's a (Two-)Culture Thing: The Lateral Shift to Liberation Barry Kew rom an acute and, some will argue, a harsh, a harsh, fantastic or even tactically naive F naive perspective, this article examines examines animal liberation, vegetarianism vegetarianism and veganism in relation to a bloodless culture ideal. It suggests that the movement's repeated anomalies, denial of heritage, privileging of vegetarianism, and other concessions to bloody culture, restrict rather than liberate the full subversionary and revelatory potential of liberationist discourse, and with representation and strategy implications. ‘Only the profoundest cultural needs … initially caused adult man [sic] to continue to drink cow milk through life’.1 In The Social Construction of Nature, Klaus Eder develops a useful concept of two cultures - the bloody and the bloodless. He understands the ambivalence of modernity and the relationship to nature as resulting from the perpetuation of a precarious equilibrium between the ‘bloodless’ tradition from within Judaism and the ‘bloody’ tradition of ancient Greece. In Genesis, killing entered the world after the fall from grace and initiated a complex and hierarchically-patterned system of food taboos regulating distance between nature and culture. But, for Eder, it is in Israel that the reverse process also begins, in the taboo on killing. This ‘civilizing’ process replaces the prevalent ancient world practice of 1 Calvin. W. Schwabe, ‘Animals in the Ancient World’ in Aubrey Manning and James Serpell, (eds), Animals and Human Society: Changing Perspectives (Routledge, London, 1994), p.54. 1 Animal Issues, Vol 4, No. 1, 2000 human sacrifice by animal sacrifice, this by sacrifices of the field, and these by money paid to the sacrificial priests.2 Modern society retains only a very broken connection to the Jewish tradition of the bloodless sacrifice. -
Pierre Gassendi's Animals
[Intellectual History Archive 3, 2018] Begley, Pierre Gassendi’s Animals PIERRE GASSENDI’S ANIMALS: A CASE OF EXCLUSION Justin Begley1 University of Helsinki I. Introduction: A Learned Vegetarian The French priest, professor of mathematics, historian, and philosopher, Pierre Gassendi, was perhaps the most influential and well-respected thinkers of his day. 2 While the linguistic and conceptual complexity of his Latin tomes excluded him from the philosophical canon that was formed during the late eighteenth, historians are now beginning to appreciate just how central his ideas were to the development of early modern intellectual life. But recent studies of Gassendi have consistently bypassed a major component of his thought: his defense of a vegetarian diet.3 Conversely, because it is no small task to identify and translate the relevant passages from Gassendi’s oeuvre, historical surveys of vegetarianism have mostly neglected his arguments. Indeed, in the history of vegetarianism, emphasis has been placed on religious sectarians or intellectual outsiders such as Thomas Bushnell and Roger Crab, while figures such as Gassendi who were, historically speaking, intellectual insiders have paradoxically been neglected. 4 Proponents of vegetarianism have thus been shaped teleologically as progressive or even “radical” thinkers. But Gassendi remained thoroughly embedded in the institutions of his day, and channeled the full gamut of humanist apparatuses in his endeavor to integrate the philosophy of the ancient Greek atomist, Epicurus, into the university curriculum. For this purpose, he sought to cleanse Epicurean philosophy of its popular associations with excess, atheism, and debauchery 1 [email protected] 2 Meric Casaubon, Generall Learning: A Seventeenth-Century Treatise on the Formation of the General Scholar, ed. -
A Diet for a Sensitive Soul: Vegetarianism in Eighteenth-Century Britain
A Diet for a Sensitive Soul: Vegetarianism in Eighteenth-Century Britain Anita Guerrini While vegetarianism has a long history in Western culture, it reemerged forcefully in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain. Three main motivations for vegetarianism converged in this period: religious, medical, and moral. In addition, a vegetarian diet entered mainstream medical and popular thought in the works of the physician George Cheyne. By the time of Joseph Ritson's Essay on Abstinence from Animal Food in 1802, however, vegetarianism was about to rejoin the irrational fringe, exemplified in the nineteenth century by Sylvester Graham and his followers. 1 In this essay, I shall focus on three vegetarians of the period: the radical hatter Thomas Tryon (1634-1703), George Cheyne (1671-1743), and the man of letters Joseph Ritson (1752-1803). Cheyne's work, especially his Essay of Health and Long Life (1724) and The English Malady (1733), defined the nascent concept of the sensitive character and explicitly connected it to diet and lifestyle. To Cheyne, a vegetarian diet was preeminently a diet for the sensitive soul. Over the century, the sensitive soul negotiated a path from the overtly religious Tryon to the covertly religious Cheyne to the professedly antireligious Ritson. To each, in addition, vegetarianism was part of a wider critique of contemporary society. Tryon was one of a number of religiously motivated vegetarians in the period following the English Civil War. 2 The context of his ideas can be delineated by examining an earlier -
Tristram Stuart
A note from the author: Below are two word separate extracts. The first is from The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Times; the second is an extract from Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal. I have preceded the first with a quote from Zizek, chosen to provoke some thoughts about what I am up to in both very different works. Tristram Stuart "To demand consistency at strategically selected points where the system cannot afford to be consistent is to put pressure on the entire system. The art of politics lies in making particular demands which, while thoroughly realistic, strike at the core of hegemonic ideology and imply a much more radical change. ... A political movement begins with an idea, something to strive for... Once people get deeply engaged in it, they become aware that much more than meeting their initial demand would be needed to bring about true justice." Slavoj Žižek, LRB, 18 July 2013 [Extract of ch. 27 ‘The Malthusian Tragedy: Feeding the World’, The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Times, Norton 2007] … Mushrooming populations were threatening to outstrip food-production. Britain had doubled in the eighteenth-century from about five million to nearly ten million people. When food shortages struck in Europe during the 1790s and 1800s, concern became all the more intense. Was misery and starvation the future of humanity? In the quest to resolve this crisis, improving land-use efficiency became a national obsession. Robert Southey’s critique of vegetarianism was again undoubtedly instrumental in providing a focus for Lambe, Newton and Shelley: ‘The principle of abstaining from animal food is not in itself either culpable or ridiculous, if decently discussed’, Southey conceded, ‘But ultimately it resolves itself into the political question, Whether the greater population can be maintained upon animal or vegetable diet?’ Large populations were regarded as desirable in themselves. -
Episode 28: Phil Cousineau— the Art of Pilgrimage Thursday, May 14, 2020
Episode 28: Phil Cousineau— The Art of Pilgrimage Thursday, May 14, 2020 [music] You are not moving, you are being moved. You are not singing, you are being sung. You are not praying, you are being prayed Prayed at the speed of love. Janet Conner You are not moving. Now, that's a pretty funny thing to say right now because it's true. None of us are moving [laughter]. But nevertheless, even when you're inside your own home, walking from room to room, the truth is you are not moving; you are being moved. This is a radical, 180 degree different understanding of being alive. You are not moving; you are being moved. You are not singing; you are being sung. You are not praying; you are being prayed, prayed at the speed of love. Welcome. I'm Janet Conner, Prayer Artist, and you have arrived at perfect timing—I like to call it speed of love timing—to episode #28 in Praying at the Speed of Love. This, my new podcast, is dedicated to very unusual, very intimate conversations about prayer, a topic that not a lot of media is interested in talking about. But I'm talking about real prayer, deep prayer, body prayer, mystical prayer, original prayer. And when I say original prayer… that's such an interesting word, "original," because it means simultaneously both, well, way back when, "originally," and at the same moment, anything an artist creates is original, right? And so in one word prayer has these two wings of being forever ancient… I'm madly in love with prayers that probably go back to Paleolithic times, the Labyrinth, the Rosary, which has nothing to do with any patriarchal Christian religion. -
H J KRAMER ECKHART TOLLE EDITIONS NATARAJ PUBLISHING NAMASTE PUBLISHING Contents New Titles
NEW WORLD LIBRARY FALL 2018 H J KRAMER ECKHART TOLLE EDITIONS NATARAJ PUBLISHING NAMASTE PUBLISHING Contents New Titles The Meaning of Happiness............................................................................................2 The Holy Wild................................................................................................................3 Rescuing Ladybugs........................................................................................................4 The Resilience Toolkit.....................................................................................................5 The Divorce Hacker’s Guide to Untying the Knot..........................................................6 Mysterious Realities........................................................................................................7 The Emotionally Healthy Child......................................................................................8 Step into Your Moxie.....................................................................................................9 Jeff Herman’s Guide to Book Publishers, Editors & Literary Agents 2019..................10 The Life You Were Born to Live....................................................................................11 Feeling Better.............................................................................................................12 Smart Ass....................................................................................................................13 The Jewel of -
46Th Annual Convention
NORTHEAST MODERNM LANGUAGLE ASSOACIATION Northeast Modern Language Association 46th Annual Convention April 30 – May 3, 2015 TORONTO, ONTARIO Local Host: Ryerson University Administrative Sponsor: University at Buffalo www.buffalo.edu/nemla Northeast-Modern_language Association-NeMLA #NeMLA2015 CONVENTION STAFF Executive Director Marketing Coordinator Carine Mardorossian Derek McGrath University at Buffalo Stony Brook University, SUNY Associate Executive Director Local Liaisons Brandi So Alison Hedley Stony Brook University, SUNY Ryerson University Andrea Schofield Administrative Coordinator Ryerson University Renata Towne University at Buffalo Webmaster Jesse Miller Chair Coordinator University at Buffalo Kristin LeVeness SUNY Nassau Community College Fellows CV Clinic Assistant Fellowship and Awards Assistant Indigo Erikson Angela Wong Northern Virginia Community College SUNY Buffalo Chair and Media Assistant Professional Development Assistant Caroline Burke Erin Grogan Stony Brook University, SUNY SUNY Buffalo Convention Program Assistant Promotions Assistants W. Dustin Parrott Adam Drury SUNY Buffalo SUNY Buffalo Allison Siehnel Declan Gould SUNY Buffalo SUNY Buffalo Exhibitor Assistants Schedule Assistant Jesse Miller Iven Heister SUNY Buffalo SUNY Buffalo Brandi So Stony Brook University, SUNY Travel Awards Assistant Travis Matteson SUNY Buffalo 2 3 Board of Directors Welcome to Toronto and NeMLA’s much awaited return to Canada! This multicultural and President multilingual city is the perfect gathering place to offer our convention Daniela B. Antonucci | Princeton University attendees a vast and diversified selection of cultural attractions. While First Vice President in Toronto, enjoy a performance of W. Somerset Maugham’s Of Human Benjamin Railton | Fitchburg State University Bondage at the Soul Pepper Theatre, with tickets discounted thanks to Second Vice President the negotiations of NeMLA and our host, Ryerson University. -
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EVOLVING A NEW IDIOM TO EXPRESS TAMIL LIFE THROUGH TRANSLATIONS: AN ACHIEVABLE TASK OR IMPOSSIBILITY? Kandiah Shriganeshan English Language Teaching Centre, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka [email protected] ABSTRACT: Critics have spoken of an innovative idiom to express Sri Lankan experience in English but intelligibility is a further problem faced by international readers. There are two factors that need to be considered. One is that native and traditional metaphors may not be able to express modern life. On the other hand the range of experiences and problems faced by all Sri Lankans could not be expressed by the English educated elite. Therefore achieving our goal of writing good poetry which expresses a truly Sri Lankan experience in an internationally understandable and effective medium may be made practicable through translations. They would be able to express their variety of experiences fusing modern, western and local imagery in the new idiom understandable to an international audience. Having stated the focal point, the present paper makes an attempt to look into the poems translated into English from Tamil selected from the writings of the poets living in Sri Lanka, though there are Tamil poems translated into English from India, Singapore, Malaysia and the Diaspora in Europe, Canada and Australia. The study focuses on the possibility of evolving a new idiom to express Sri Lankan Tamil life in English. Keywords: Intelligible Idiom, Tamil Experience, Spoken Rhythm, Effective Medium 1. INTRODUCTION When English medium education ceased to exist in Sri Lanka in the 1960s Godfrey Goonetilleke surveyed negatively the possibility of writing creatively in English (Jayasuriya 1994:36). -
Hero's Journey
Hero’s journey “The Hero’s Journey” redirects here. For other uses, see is too broad or general to be of much usefulness in com- The Hero’s Journey (disambiguation). parative mythology. Others say that the hero’s journey is In narratology and comparative mythology, the mono- only a part of the Monomyth. The other part is a sort of different form, or color, of the hero’s journey. Call to 1 Terminology Adventure Supernatural Return aid (Gift of Threshold Campbell borrowed the word monomyth from Joyce’s the Goddess) KNOWN Guardian(s) Threshold Finnegans Wake (1939). Campbell was a notable scholar UNKNOWN (beginning of transformation) of James Joyce's work and with A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake (1944) co-authored the seminal anal- The Helper ysis of Joyce’s final novel.[3] Campbell’s singular the Atonement Mentor monomyth implies that the “hero’s journey” is the ul- Hero's timate narrative archetype, but the term monomyth has Journey occasionally been used more generally, as a term for a mythological archetype or a supposed mytheme that re- Transformation occurs throughout the world’s cultures.[4] Omry Ronen Helper Abyss referred to Vyacheslav Ivanov's treatment of Dionysus as death & rebirth an “avatar of Christ” (1904) as “Ivanov’s monomyth”.[5] The phrase “the hero’s journey”, used in reference to Campbell’s monomyth, first entered into popular dis- The twelve stages of the hero’s journey monomyth following the summary by Christopher Vogler (originally compiled in 1985 as course through two documentaries. The first, released in a Disney studio memo): 1. -
Durham E-Theses
Durham E-Theses Gender in British Behmenist thought Gibbons, Brian John How to cite: Gibbons, Brian John (1993) Gender in British Behmenist thought, Durham theses, Durham University. Available at Durham E-Theses Online: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/5730/ Use policy The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that: • a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in Durham E-Theses • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders. Please consult the full Durham E-Theses policy for further details. Academic Support Oce, Durham University, University Oce, Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3HP e-mail: [email protected] Tel: +44 0191 334 6107 http://etheses.dur.ac.uk Brian John Gibbons "Gender in British Behmenist Thought" Ph. D. Thesis University of Durham 1993 In the early modern period, women were commonly regarded as unruly and morally suspect beings. During the period, however, there was a revision in the moral status of women. Behmenism is representative of the process whereby women were raised to the status of morally elevating beings. In Jacob Boehme's theosophy, both the godhead and prelapsarian man have a feminine element, the Virgin Sophia; women are a sort of fallen counterpart to Sophia. The emphasis of early Behmenists, such as John Pordage, was on Sophia's passivity and chastity. -
Judaizing and Singularity in England, 1618-1667
Judaizing and Singularity in England, 1618-1667 Submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Aidan Francis Cottrell-Boyce, Gonville and Caius College, June 2018. For Anna. Abstract In the seventeenth century, in England, a remarkable number of small, religious movements began adopting demonstratively Jewish ritual practices. They were labelled by their contemporaries as Judaizers. Typically, this phenomenon has been explained with reference to other tropes of Puritan practical divinity. It has been claimed that Judaizing was a form of Biblicism or a form of millenarianism. In this thesis, I contend that Judaizing was an expression of another aspect of the Puritan experience: the need to be recognized as a ‘singular,’ positively- distinctive, separated minority. Contents Introduction 1 Singularity and Puritanism 57 Judaizing and Singularity 99 ‘A Jewish Faccion’: Anti-legalism, Judaizing and the Traskites 120 Thomas Totney, Judaizing and England’s Exodus 162 The Tillamites, Judaizing and the ‘Gospel Work of Separation’ 201 Conclusion 242 Introduction During the first decades of the seventeenth century in England, a remarkable number of small religious groups began to adopt elements of Jewish ceremonial law. In London, in South Wales, in the Chilterns and the Cotswolds, congregations revived the observation of the Saturday Sabbath.1 Thomas Woolsey, imprisoned for separatism, wrote to his co-religionists in Amsterdam to ‘prove it unlawful to eat blood and things strangled.’2 John Traske and his followers began to celebrate Passover -
Highlight Highlights Itinerary
12-Day Journey in the Footsteps of Odysseus and Penelope GREECE 11 NIGHTS MODERATE PRICES FROM $417 PER NIGHT GUIDED TOUR | SPIRITUAL | CITY CENTER | GREAT FOR SOLO TRAVELERS | SIGHTSEEING HIGHLIGHTS Set out on an inspiring, 12-day journey of ancient Greece with author, teacher and filmmaker Phil Cousineau. Take a journey 3,000 years back in time, across Homer’s wine-dark sea. Discover the legends of Heroes and Heroines, Gods and Goddesses and connect with the mythic power of the ancients. From the heart of Athens to Odysseus’ home island of Ithaka, embark on an unforgettable tour with lifelong researcher, seeker and storyteller Phil Cousineau. With teachings from his books, films and tudies s, Phil takes you on a voyage through the history of civilizations that flourished in the distant past. With wisdom and wonder to be discovered at every turn, this 12-day tour with Sacred Earth Journeys is one you’ll remember forever. ITINERARY Arrive Athens Monday, April 18th PAGE 1 You will be met at Athens International Airport and transferred to your hotel in the heart of Athens. Depending on your arrival time, you may have an opportunity to explore this ancient city on your own. Athens, the capital and largest city in Greece, dominates the Attica periphery. One of the world’s oldest cities, it is full of myths, mysteries and legends. Steeped with a rich history that spans around 3,400 years, the city is home to many sacred ancient sites, monuments and landmarks. A fusion of old and new, Athens is also a cosmopolitan metropolis buzzing with lively activity and vibrancy.