J@rgonia 2013, vol. 11, nro 22
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2024-03-28T19:40:40ZHermetic roots of Marsilio Ficino’s anthropocentric thought
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Hermetic roots of Marsilio Ficino’s anthropocentric thought
Ockenström, Lauri
Marsilio Ficino’s relationship to the Hermetic literary tradition has long
been a controversial issue in academic discussion. Although Ficino is
commonly known as a translator and keen reader of the philosophical
Hermetica, his allegiances to the Hermetic ideas have been recognized
only in his theory of magic (only to be denied later), while in other cases,
in general, scholars tend to deny the impact of Hermetic writings instead
of accepting it. This paper explores a topic in which the denial has been
particularly harsh, namely Ficino’s Promethean philosophy of man,
highlighted as the most influential achievement of his thought by
previous generations (e.g. by Trinkaus). Despite the neglect, there seems
to be some evident convergence worth researching between Ficino’s
anthropocentric passages and the philosophical Hermetic sources. The
comparative analyses may illustrate how Ficino applied Hermetic
concepts and vocabulary to construct his anthropocentricism and utilized
the name of Trismegistus to support his man-oriented ideals, which were
to have a considerable impact on European thought during the following
centuries. Furthermore, there are reasons to suggest that the inspiration
and reinforcement offered by the philosophical Hermetica encouraged
Ficino to exceed the boundaries of scholastic thought and the preceding
dignitas hominis tradition.
2013-11-28T07:07:53ZKaunokirjallisuus ja siitä käydyt keskustelut sukupuolihistorian lähteenä : lectio praecursoria 13.6.2013
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Kaunokirjallisuus ja siitä käydyt keskustelut sukupuolihistorian lähteenä : lectio praecursoria 13.6.2013
Järvelä, Juha
Juha Järvelän Suomen historian väitöskirja Kaksi maailmaa? Sukupuoli Mika Waltarin kirjailijakuvassa, teksteissä ja niiden vastaanotossa 1925–1939 tarkastettiin 13.6.2013 Jyväskylän yliopistossa. Vastaväittäjänä toimi dosentti Maarit Leskelä-Kärki Turun yliopistosta ja kustoksena professori Kustaa H.J. Vilkuna Jyväskylän yliopistosta.
2013-11-28T07:06:13Z”Siellä missä miehiä tehdään” – Mika Waltarin nuoruuden tuotanto ja sen vastaanotto sukupuolten rakentamisen paikkoina
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”Siellä missä miehiä tehdään” – Mika Waltarin nuoruuden tuotanto ja sen vastaanotto sukupuolten rakentamisen paikkoina
Torninoja-Latola, Jaana
Arvio teoksesta Järvelä, Juha: Waltari ja sukupuolten maailmat. Helsinki:
Avain. 2013. 265 s.
2013-11-28T07:03:56ZA tipper full of skinned limbs : fiction and the Northern Ireland Troubles
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A tipper full of skinned limbs : fiction and the Northern Ireland Troubles
Ruohomäki, Jyrki
This article discusses the potential of a fictional story, a novel, to
challenge political narratives in a divided society. I will analyse three
novels set during the ”Troubles” (1960s-1998) in Northern Ireland,
looking at the ways in which each novel navigates the narrow space
between Northern Irish unionism and nationalism, the two dominant
narratives in Northern Ireland.
I will read the novels politically, interpreting them as rhetorical
narratives holding the power to challenge commonplace assumptions. I
will apply the ideas put forward by James Phelan concerning the
inherent rhetorical nature of narrative in fiction. I will also present Ann
Rigney’s concept of cultural memory as an analytical tool for analysing
the way in which memory and history have been politicised and how the
material analysed offers a critique of that politicisation. I will
contextualise the novels in the political, cultural and historiographic
debates and political transformations in Northern Ireland.
The article concludes that the three novels all seek to challenge and
question the political narratives of Northern Ireland profoundly. They
engage in a rhetorical act through which commonplace assumptions
about the political conflict in Northern Ireland, its premises and its
solutions, are presented in a new and challenging way.
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