THE HOPE HERAKLES RECONSIDERED

Summary. The Hope Herakles, hitherto thought to be a Roman copy of a statue by Skopas, is here shown to be a pastiche. The head is tentatively recognised as a classicising portrait, while the body type, having come down to us in a variety of reproductions carrying a different head, is associated with the Argive School of the late 5th c BC. A dating of the latter's prototype close to the plague of 429 as well as the Attic provenance of some of the copies suggest a possible connection with Hageladas'Herakles Alexikakos at Melite.     

承载希望 无畏蜀道

总以为汽车就是冰冷的机械,但是当我们驾驶花冠起程时,却又隐隐地感受到了此行的别样不同。此次的目的地不是现代城市,不是旅游胜地,而是一汽丰田在四川广元资助修建的4所希望小学。开启花冠,满载着爱,与我们一起去寻找精神与情感的家园。     

FROM CATASTROPHE TO HOPE

In his recent book, Amir Eshel focuses on over thirty recent German‐, Hebrew‐, and English‐language novels to develop a reading method—the “hermeneutics of futurity”—that would replace moralizing approaches to past traumas, including German guilt over the Holocaust and Israeli denial of Palestinian suffering. Futurity demonstrates how various narratives imagine a future liberated from denial, guilt, and thus traumatic repetition. In so doing Eshel emphasizes human agency to counter the “hermeneutics of suspicion” that has long dominated a great deal of literary theory, and focuses on how novelists construct human choices and their consequences. He covers two generations of German‐language novels spanning the Adenauer era to the present, and two generations of Israeli writers reflecting on 1948 and later, 1967. In order to develop fully the concept of futurity he also writes on recent American and English novels, often with implicitly political themes. The book succeeds in demonstrating the value of how various novelists read the past otherwise in order to reconstruct the present and future. At the same time, Eshel conceives human agency and “choice” so capaciously that the book often neglects the institutional constraints on agency that afflict victims of traumas in particular. His treatment of Martin Walser's controversial fictionalized memoir is exemplary of this problem in an otherwise stimulating work.     

HOPE AND IMPEDIMENTS IN AFRICAN ANTHROPOLOGY

Local Cultures and Local Meanings… Theory and Practice in African Studies: The 14th Annual Conference of the Pan-African Association of Anthropologists (PAAA), 2-6 August 2004     

危险又美丽的好望角

<正>我们在南非的地接导游乔是中国人,毕业后在南非工作,现在已入南非籍,是一个30多岁知性帅气的年轻人,也是三个孩子的父亲,乔一路上侃侃而谈,热情而友善。一路上,他除了给我们介绍南非的风土人情、景点特色,还一再强调要看好自己的包和贵重物品,千万不要单独行动以及回酒店后最好不要单独出来闲逛。他几乎每天都要做善意的反恐动员:"这里虽然盛产钻石黄金,但是贫富差距特别