Pub Date : 2019-01-19DOI: 10.5325/SOUNDINGS.102.1.0061
Jenessa Kenway
Abstract:The blurring of life and art is at the center of Karl Ove Knausgaard's explorations in his memoir, My Struggle, Book 1. Like life, Knausgaard’s book is filled with boring tasks, objects, and events, through which he sifts attempting to locate intrinsic significance. Rendering in hyperreal detail aestheticizing mundane domestic moments positions him as the literary inheritor of the visual art movements of realism and superrealism, alongside artists Gustave Courbet and Duane Hanson. Superrealist art nudges us into examination of life and peers over the edge for a glimpse of what lies beyond the nothingness of the mundane.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-19DOI: 10.5325/SOUNDINGS.102.1.0089
M. Packer
Abstract:“Yet the Angel Must Hang” reflects on the mood of moral skepticism that pervades Billy Budd. This article examines several predicaments left unresolved by the end of the novel, including the narrator’s ruminations on inherent conflicts within human nature, and his lamentations about the loss of spiritual wisdom among learned men of his generation. The story’s defining collision between law and moral principle is analyzed with references to dilemmas confronting American judges during the antebellum period.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-19DOI: 10.5325/SOUNDINGS.102.1.0001
J. Bai
Abstract:This article argues that based on the Pythagorean numerical-musical cosmology, Augustine holds that order, as the immanent power of God, determines the eternal spectrum of beauty, goodness, and harmony in both the physical and metaphysical realms. The principle of harmonic motions of the universe, the principle of knowing the truth, and the principle of right living constitute the divine order of nature, logic, and ethics. In the three realms, nothing can be irrelevant to the inviolate numerical order, which is the essence of all creatures.
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Pub Date : 2018-10-16DOI: 10.5325/SOUNDINGS.101.4.0322
S. Burr
Abstract:The growing complexity of contemporary globalized human culture, while creating greater opportunities for human relation, has likewise generated profound challenges to our human capacity to relate meaningfully. Using Gillo Pontecorvo's 1956 film The Battle of Algiers, Frantz Fanon's paradigmatic text The Wretched of the Earth, and the writings of Albert Camus as representative accounts of colonial/anti-colonial violence in the Algerian struggle for independence, this article will question the legitimacy of a dialectical approach to transcending the paradox of violence, proposing instead a manner of dialogical reconciliation through the human capacity for solidarity-in-relation.
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Pub Date : 2018-10-16DOI: 10.5325/SOUNDINGS.101.4.0291
Sokthan Yeng
Abstract:An exploration of human rights violations against the Rohingya population, led by a Buddhist extremist group and under the watch of democracy icon, Aung San Suu Kyi, can shed light on the interplay of religion and Myanmar's state sovereignty as it emerges within a long history of British rule and domestic military dictatorship. This article suggests that the dynamic between religion and the burgeoning democracy in Myanmar can help explain why the romanticized narratives about wandering monks in Buddhist history and philosophy do not reflect the life of stateless people in Agamben's work.
摘要:在民主偶像昂山素季(Aung San Suu Kyi)的监督下，由佛教极端组织领导的罗兴亚人(Rohingya)遭受人权侵犯，可以揭示在英国统治和国内军事独裁的长期历史背景下，宗教与缅甸国家主权之间的相互作用。本文认为，缅甸宗教与新兴民主之间的动态关系可以帮助解释，为什么阿甘本作品中对流浪僧侣的浪漫化叙述并没有反映出无国籍人士的生活。
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Pub Date : 2018-10-16DOI: 10.5325/SOUNDINGS.101.4.0360
Molly J. Freitas
Abstract:Helena María Viramontes's 1996 novel Under the Feet of Jesus centers on the lives of Hispanic migrant workers in California, and especially on the thirteen-year-old Latina protagonist, Estrella. This article builds on previous readings of the novel's Catholic themes and links them more explicitly to the text's feminist and environmental justice investments. As argued here, the novel radically reimagines Christ through the figure of Estrella and positions this young woman as a powerful beacon of hope. Displacing the usual focus on sacrifice in depictions of Christ, Estrella, by the end of the novel, instead becomes a messianic icon of righteous justice.
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Pub Date : 2018-10-16DOI: 10.5325/SOUNDINGS.101.4.0341
H. Frankel
Abstract:Marc Chagall's world-renowned paintings and the little-known Yiddish poetry of the Lithuanian-South African David Fram reflect a similar zeitgeist and time in history, but their choice of visual as opposed to verbal language affected their interpretations. This article argues for the influence of their similar origins, background, culture, and Jewishness on their oeuvres. Living in exile, their works express their longing for home and their responses to its destruction and loss during the Holocaust. In doing so, they provide a form of remembrance for their lost communities of Eastern Europe.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-25DOI: 10.5325/SOUNDINGS.101.3.0273
M. Ruse
Abstract:Both Christians and Darwinians have discussed the topic of war very extensively. There is a paradox. One might think that Christians, as followers of Jesus’ commands in the Sermon on the Mount, would be against war, and Darwinians, as followers of the claims of the Origin of Species about a struggle for existence leading to change, would be in favor of war. To the contrary, Christians have long argued that one can legitimately go to war and that war will be with us always, whereas Darwinians believe that we can and should transcend our past, and give up war. This article explores the roots of this difference and argues that there are some remarkable shared connections and that today we can and must recognize that both sides of the argument are wrong and that we can now hope for a better understanding of the nature and causes of war.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-25DOI: 10.5325/SOUNDINGS.101.3.0255
J. Johnson
Abstract:While much writing on the Great War centers on its destructiveness, less attention has been given to the steps taken over the half-century before that war to limit the destructiveness of warfare by positive international agreement, the early steps in the creation of a body of international law on warfare and armed conflict. Though some, if not all, of these early efforts failed during the Great War, that failure gave rise to renewed efforts in the 1920s and 1930s (before the beginning of World War II) to redefine, expand, and strengthen international agreements both on the resort to war and on the conduct of war. This article examines the story of the first eighty years in the creation of positive international law on war, dividing this story into three periods: before, during, and after the Great War. It concludes by reflecting on the historical and contemporary influences of religion on thinking about armed conflict.
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