On the conservatism of post-Jungian criticism: competing concepts of the symbol in Freud, Jung and Walter Benjamin

The renewed interest in analytical psychology by academics working in the humanities has led to the emergence of a post-Jungian field of cultural criticism, at the theoretical core of which stands Jung's theory of symbolism. This article examines the centrality of symbolism to both Freud and Jung's psychology and explains how the differing concepts of the symbol lead to their divergent theories of interpretation in psychology and art criticism. Acknowledging the advantages of Jung's more expansive account of the symbol, it argues that Walter Benjamin's critical engagement with Jung nonetheless provides a useful correction to the problematic conservatism inherent to his concept of the symbol and its contemporary application.

Walter Benjamin and the Inhumanities: Towards a Pedagogical Anti-Nietzscheanism

The following discussion is intended as a critical intervention into recent debates about the “crisis of the humanities,” reading the symptomaticity of crisis in the medical sense of a turning point. It does so from the perspective of the work of Walter Benjamin, whose own transdisciplinary practice of thought has been characterized as a “philosophy directed against philosophy” and a “philosophizing beyond philosophy,” and stands as a model for the kind of intellectual and para-academic activity evoked here. Historically re-situating Benjamin’s famous allegory of the Angel of History from the twentieth-century context of the “crisis of culture” to the contemporary “crisis of education,” it attempts to reconstruct a dialectical understanding of pedagogization within Benjamin’s work, which is used to sketch out the contours of a critically reimagined pedagogy of the Inhumanities.

Towards a Critique of Educative Violence: Walter Benjamin and ‘Second Education’

Although modern systems of mass education are typically defined in their opposition to violence, it has been argued that it is only through an insistent and critical focus upon violence that radical thought can be sustained. This article seeks to take up this challenge in relation to Walter Benjamin’s lesser-known writings on education. Benjamin retained throughout his life a deep suspicion about academic institutions and about the pedagogic, social and economic violence implicated in the idea of cultural transmission. He nonetheless remained committed to the possibility of another kind of revolutionary potential inherent to true education and, when he comes to speak of this in his Critique of Violence, it is remarkable that he describes it as manifesting an educative violence. This article argues that Benjamin’s philosophy works toward a critique of educative violence that results in a distinction between a ‘first’ and ‘second’ kind of education and asks whether destruction might have a positive role to play within pedagogical theories in contrast to current valorisations of creativity and productivity.

Heinrich e Cécile Daniker-Haller - A música doméstica na vida de um casal de negociantes entre Zurique e o Rio de Janeiro na primeira metade do século XIX

O casal de suíços, Heinrich (1795–1866) e Cécile Däniker-Haller (1816–1887), com seus filhos, viveu no Rio de Janeiro entre 1828 e 1852. Comerciantes prósperos, cosmopolitas e melômanos, deixaram grande quantidade de informações sobre suas atividades de música em ambiente doméstico daquele período, mas também depois de terem voltado a se estabelecer na Suíça. O Genealogisches Archiv der Helene und Cécile Rübel Familienstiftung (FA HCR), na cidade de Zurique, documenta a história desta família. As informações registradas pelo casal estudado, principalmente em forma de cartas e diários, permitem-nos conhecer e analisar a prática musical em ambiente doméstico das famílias estrangeiras no Rio de Janeiro, e demonstrar quais eram os repertórios por eles utilizados. Entre as conclusões tiradas, inclui-se o fato de que o romantismo alemão teria feito sua entrada no ambiente musical brasileiro através dos salões musicais das famílias estrangeiras, exatamente como foi o caso em outras cidades do mundo não germânico. Nos documentos deixados pela família Däniker-Haller encontram-se os mais antigos testemunhos até hoje encontrados da execução de Lieder de Schubert em ambiente doméstico no Rio de Janeiro. Por outro lado, a prática da Hausmusik na cidade de Zurique vem descrita e comparada àquela carioca. A análise destes relatos também nos permite descrever a diferença que havia entre os eventos musicais em ambiente doméstico íntimo e informal, e os "salões musicais", onde diletantes se produziam em esfera semi-pública previamente preparados e ensaiados, e a marcante diferença no repertório destes dois tipos de eventos sociais.

Garland, since 1776- a unique ownership structure

The case is based on Garland, a 240 years old Portuguese family business, now owned by the Dawson family. It focuses on a decision made 50 years ago, aligned with what had been the company’s history, about the ownership rules for family members, which influences the ownership structure of the firm. It addresses the main issues about ownership in family businesses, and tackles the problem of succession planning and fair process. It contains a teaching note to support the utilization of the case in a classroom context, with learning objectives, target audience, a teaching plan, questions and proposed answers, and theory that relates to the case. It is also complemented with an epilogue and an overview of the case.

Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire du protestantisme français (1852)

Périodicité : Mensuel

La conservation de l'énergie / par Balfour Stewart,.... Suivie d'une Etude sur la nature de la force / par P. de Saint-Robert

Collection : Bibliothèque scientifique internationale ; 10

(Arrêt du grand conseil qui déclare nul l'arrêt du parlement de Nancy, du 27 mars 1776, touchant l'enregistrement dans les bailliages des édits, déclarations et arrêts.)

[Acte. 1776-04-25. Paris]

(Arrêt du grand conseil qui déclare nul un arrêt du parlement de Metz, du 16 juin 1776, touchant la juridiction des présidiaux.)

[Acte. 1776-07-13. Paris]