Indian Writing in English and the Discrepant Zones of World Literature

2017 ◽  
Vol 135 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-139
Author(s):  
Dirk Wiemann
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
International Visibility ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Indian Writing In English ◽  
The One

AbstractFor world literature studies, Indian writing in English offers an exceptionally rich and variegated field of analysis: On the one hand, a set of prominent Indian or diasporic writers accrues substantial literary capital through metropolitan review circuits and award systems and thus maintains the high international visibility that Indian writing in English has acquired ever since the early 1980s. Addressing a readership that spans countries and continents, this kind of writing functions as a viable tributary to world literature. On the other hand, a new boom of Indian mass fiction in English has emerged that, while targeting a strictly domestic audience, is always already implicated in the dynamics of world literature as well, albeit in a very different way: As they deploy, appropriate and adopt a wide range of globally available templates of popular genres, these texts have globality inscribed into their very textures even if they do not circulate internationally.

scholarly journals Hegel’s Lectures on the History of Modern Philosophy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin de Boer
Keyword(s):  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
Methodological Principles ◽  
The One

This chapter examines Hegel’s lectures on the history of modern philosophy in view of the tension between, on the one hand, his ambition to grasp philosophy’s past in a truly philosophical way and, on the other hand, the necessity to account for the actual particularities of a wide range of philosophical systems. Hegel’s lectures are put in relief by comparing their methodological principles to those put forward by his Kantian predecessor Tennemann. After discussing Hegel’s conception of modern philosophy as a whole, the chapter turns to his reading of Locke, Leibniz, and, in particular, Kant. In this context, it also compares Hegel’s assessment of Kant’s achievements to that of Tennemann. The chapter concludes by considering Hegel’s account of the final moment of the history of philosophy.

scholarly journals Conceptualizing translation in Poland in 2018

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-114
Author(s):  
Anna Kuźnik
Keyword(s):  
Native Speakers ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
The Other ◽  
Main Hypothesis ◽  
Additional Hypothesis ◽  
Item Questionnaire ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The One ◽  
Methodological Strategy

This paper aims to provide an account of our survey on the semiotic nature of the concept of translation among young Polish native speakers. The methodological strategy adopted is a con­structive replication of Sandra Halverson’s survey conducted in Norway in 1997. We claim, in our main hypothesis (stemming from a theoretical background of prototype semantics, which we used for measuring our object), that the concept of translation is not uniform and includes different semiotic types of translation, some of which are perceived as central (prototypical), and others as peripheral. According to our additional hypothesis, young Polish native speakers have a broad notion of translation (encompassing a wide range of intralingual and intersemiotic translations), even broader than their Norwegian counterparts, more than twenty years ago. Our data has been collected in 2018 using a seven-item questionnaire (seven different text pairs) with a seven-value scale from 103 subjects. While the main hypothesis has been confirmed, the additional hypothesis was rejected, with Polish respondents conceiving the concept of translation more narrowly. The methodological format of a replication produced an ambivalent effect: on the one hand, it yielded positive incentive, and on the other hand, it became our principal hindrance.

scholarly journals LIFELONG HEALTH INSURANCE COVERS WITH SURRENDER VALUES: UPDATING MECHANISMS IN THE PRESENCE OF MEDICAL INFLATION

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 803-836 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Dhaene ◽  
Els Godecharle ◽  
Katrien Antonio ◽  
Michel Denuit ◽  
Hamza Hanbali
Keyword(s):  
Health Insurance ◽  
Health Benefits ◽  
Policy Issue ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Insurance Cover ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The One ◽  
Technical Basis

AbstractThis paper considers the problem of a lifelong health insurance cover where medical inflation is not sufficiently incorporated in the level premium determined at policy issue. We focus on the setting where changes in health benefits, driven by medical inflation, are accounted for by an appropriate update or indexation of the level premium, the policy value, or both premium and policy value, during the term of the contract. Such an updating mechanism is necessary to restore the actuarial equivalence between future health benefits and surrender values on the one hand, and available policy values and future premiums on the other hand. We extend existing literature (Vercruysse et al., 2013; Denuit et al., 2017) by developing updating mechanisms in a discrete-time framework, where medical inflation is only taken into account ex-post as it emerges over time and where surrender values are allowed for. We propose and design two types of surrender values: based on the ageing provision on the one hand and based directly on the premiums paid until surrender on the other hand. We illustrate our updating strategy with numerical examples, using Belgian data, and investigate the sensitivity of our findings with respect to elements from the technical basis (in particular: the lapse rates) used in the actuarial calculations. Our updating mechanism is generic and useful for a wide range of products in life and health insurance, where some elements of the technical basis are guaranteed while others are subject to revision according to policy conditions.

scholarly journals Contextualizing Free Will

2020 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-204
Author(s):  
Romy Jaster
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
The Other ◽  
Context Sensitive ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The One ◽  
Alternate Possibilities ◽  
The Way

Hawthorne (2001) toys with the view that ascriptions of free will are context-sensitive. But the way he formulates the view makes freedom contextualism look like a non-starter. I step into the breach for freedom contextualism. My aim is twofold. On the one hand, I argue that freedom contextualism can be motivated on the basis of our ordinary practice of freedom attribution is not ad hoc. The view explains data which cannot be accounted for by an ambiguity hypothesis. On the other hand, I suggest a more plausible freedom contextualist analysis, which emerges naturally once we pair the assumption that freedom requires that the agent could have acted otherwise with a plausible semantics of "can" statements. I'll dub the resulting view Alternate Possibilities Contextualism, or APC, for short. In contrast to Hawthorne's view, APC is well-motivated in its own right, does not beg the question against the incompatibilist and delivers a context parameter which allows for a wide range of context shifts. I conclude that, far from being a non-starter, freedom contextualism sets an agenda worth pursuing.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
pp. 133-145
Author(s):  
Peter Triantafillou ◽  
Naja Vucina
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
The Other ◽  
Health Politics ◽  
Obesity Control ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Promotion Strategies ◽  
The One

This chapter concludes that health promotion strategies and interventions have supplemented and partially recast earlier curative and preventive approaches in both England and Denmark. On the one hand, it is clear that curative approaches and physical prevention both continue to play a fundamental role in public health politics. On the other hand, it seems clear, at least in the areas of obesity control and mental recovery, that health promotion strategies seeking to augment the productivity and vigour of individuals and the population through a wide range of institutional, psychological, and socialising interventions have grown substantially since the 1980s. The chapter concludes that the terms biopower, constructivist neoliberalism and optimistic vitalism are useful concepts to grasp current modes of health politics.

Forms of Realization of the Law in the Aspect Relations of Unconditional and Conditional

2020 ◽  
pp. 76-83
Author(s):  
G. N. Utkin N
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Specific Situation ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Degree Of Dominance ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Life Circumstances ◽  
The Law ◽  
The One

The article is devoted to consideration of specifics and features of realization of the law in various forms in a context of a ratio conditional and unconditional in the law. The author comes to the conclusion that all forms of the law implementation, in varying degrees, whether conditional or unconditional, because, on the one hand, embodied in a specific situation, in relation to individuals, accompanied by a compilation of individual legal act, but, on the other hand, faced with the extrapolation quite dogmatically posilioned as binding rules of law to real life circumstances, mainly through public-imperious peremptory effect. For each of the forms of realization of the law, only the nature of the ratio and the degree of dominance of one of the two principals will differ, which, in the end, serves the presence of a wide range of ways and means of satisfying people’s needs and protecting interests in the law.

From Manufacturing to Logistics: Development of a Kinematic for Autonomous Unloading of Containers

2014 ◽  
Vol 903 ◽  
pp. 245-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Echelmeyer ◽  
Marco Bonini ◽  
Moritz Rohde
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Economic Efficiency ◽  
The Other ◽  
Global Supply Chains ◽  
Process Standardization ◽  
Level Of Automation ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Low Costs ◽  
The One

In many branches of production and manufacturing the level of automation has reached saturation. Further automation would be possible but would also affect negatively their economic efficiency. On the contrary, in logistics the level of automation is low due to the lack of process standardization. This is caused on the one hand by the high number of protagonists involved in global supply chains and on the other hand by the weak demand for standardization that characterizes areas with low costs of labor. Among the logistics processes the highest challenge for automation is the unloading of goods from carriers, i. e. containers, which are used for international and intermodal transports. In containers a wide range of goods is transported among which, unpalettized mass goods have the highest relevance for autonomous unloading, because of their size, shape and weight. Mass goods are arbitrarily packed neatly or loose, stuck or slack patterns and with respect to their properties homogeneous or heterogeneous. Nowadays these containers are unloaded mostly manually. A system for the autonomous unloading of all the kinds of mass goods from containers doesnt exist as a market ready product. This paper presents a kinematic suited to unload all kinds of mass goods from a container.

scholarly journals The need to synthesise industry academy ambitions

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 160-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry Green
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
The Other ◽  
Journalism Education ◽  
Success Rates ◽  
The Public ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The One ◽  
Hard Place

Journalism education in Australia, as it seems in New Zealand, finds itself between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand universities find themselves under pessure to provide courses that meet industry demands and enhance job success rates; on the other hand journalists seek to be recognised as professionals for a wide range of reasons. Among those reasons is the desire to raise the credibility of journalism in the public perception and the need to argue for higer rates of pay and improved conditions.

scholarly journals Introduction: Ecologising Taiwan

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-9
Author(s):  
Andrea Bachner ◽  
David Der-wei Wang
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Ecological Perspective ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Culturally Specific ◽  
Flexible Links ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Ecological Thought ◽  
The One ◽  
Ecological Thinking

Abstract Ecologising Taiwan means to think ecologically about, from, as well as by way of Taiwan. On the one hand, we ecologise Taiwan by viewing it through an ecological perspective; on the other hand, we also want to treat Taiwan itself as an agent that drives our thinking, no longer merely an object of our anthropocentric and anthropocenic gaze. Taiwan, as an island that encompasses a particularly wide range of biotopes, redefines insularity in its connectivity to other global spaces and networks: it pits its infinite potential for different encounters, relations, and comparisons against any bias of smallness and isolation. Culturally specific representations—the stories we tell about the environment and how we tell them—are important in environmental thinking. Thus ecologising Taiwan is not only about what ecological thinking can do for Taiwan but also about what Taiwan can do for ecological thought. In order to sound out the different resonances of what ecologising Taiwan might mean, this special issue brings together six essays that explore flexible links between ecological thought and Taiwanese culture. As such, this special issue is part of the ecological chain of Taiwan studies, featuring topics (even topoi) on languages, genres, media forms, and methodologies in contestation and transformation.

scholarly journals Nationale sportsstereotyper i dansk sportspresse, 1980-2004

2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Eriksen
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
The Other ◽  
World War ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The One ◽  
Second World ◽  
External Reasons ◽  
The Way

Artiklen undersøger med udgangspunkt i landsdækkende aviser og fokus på fodbold, den danske sportspresses stereotyper af Tyskland, England og Spanien. Michael Eriksen: Nationale sportsstereotyper in Danish sport press 1980-2004Football is not just about who’s winning and who’s not. It much more important. In this article the various sporting stereotypes used by the danish sporting press to describe the english, spanish and german national footballteams against the danish national footballteam are identified. These national sporting stereotypes are identified by analyzing a wide range of danish newspapers covering the period 1980-2004. The english are, among other things, described as lions, the germans are frequently referred to by using words originating from the second world war, while the spanish are described as bulls. These stereotypes appear in the way they do as a result of many factors. On the one hand, these stereotypes are a result of football-internal events, and on the other hand footballing external reasons.

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