Comments on: Salman Rushdie and the Festival of Ideas http://www.spaceandculture.org/2008/11/14/salman-rushdie-and-the-festival-of-ideas/ Welcome to Space and Culture - the international journal and weblog dedicated to social spaces of all kinds. Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:20:40 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Peter Rudd http://www.spaceandculture.org/2008/11/14/salman-rushdie-and-the-festival-of-ideas/comment-page-1/#comment-1649 Peter Rudd Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:36:25 +0000 http://www.spaceandculture.org/2008/11/14/salman-rushdie-and-the-festival-of-ideas/#comment-1649 Why were you surprised at Rushdie's wit and knowledge of the world? I would expect him to be the wittiest and most intelligent among us. Why were you surprised at Rushdie’s wit and knowledge of the world? I would expect him to be the wittiest and most intelligent among us.

]]> By: Tatyana Shekhovtsova http://www.spaceandculture.org/2008/11/14/salman-rushdie-and-the-festival-of-ideas/comment-page-1/#comment-1526 Tatyana Shekhovtsova Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:11:42 +0000 http://www.spaceandculture.org/2008/11/14/salman-rushdie-and-the-festival-of-ideas/#comment-1526 The book is evidently idealogically - oriented and reveals the nature of creative development. It therefore attempts to show the need of social transformations in society in India and in England in a certain degree. This social transformation approach in literature is regarded by me as a valuable means to acheive strengthening of social bonds between cultures and described countries. The mentioning of historic gradation of transformations within a society brings forward the ideas of the future and social human rights, "vast impersonal forces" which are impetuous in changing the world from within and from outside, in a definite community and in a certain period of time. This view is also represented by Daniel Gross (“Why the world’s economic leaders blame the catastrophe on the system instead of themselves”). Success and failure to achieve success, be lucky in a social environment are viewed by me in a globalization perspective, and it addresses the writer's research into reconsidering the true value of life occurrences and events, with most of social breakthroughs and shifts included. The book is evidently idealogically – oriented and reveals the nature of creative development. It therefore attempts to show the need of social transformations in society in India and in England in a certain degree. This social transformation approach in literature is regarded by me as a valuable means to acheive strengthening of social bonds between cultures and described countries. The mentioning of historic gradation of transformations within a society brings forward the ideas of the future and social human rights, “vast impersonal forces” which are impetuous in changing the world from within and from outside, in a definite community and in a certain period of time. This view is also represented by Daniel Gross (“Why the world’s economic leaders blame the catastrophe on the system instead of themselves”).

Success and failure to achieve success, be lucky in a social environment are viewed by me in a globalization perspective, and it addresses the writer’s research into reconsidering the true value of life occurrences and events, with most of social breakthroughs and shifts included.

]]> By: Tatyana Shekhovtsova http://www.spaceandculture.org/2008/11/14/salman-rushdie-and-the-festival-of-ideas/comment-page-1/#comment-1525 Tatyana Shekhovtsova Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:44:02 +0000 http://www.spaceandculture.org/2008/11/14/salman-rushdie-and-the-festival-of-ideas/#comment-1525 I presume that the book “The Enchantress of Florence” written by Salman Rushdi represents a personal judgment of conceptual transformation of his ideas concerning Travelling, The Global, Freedom, Religion, Family/Home. This basic transformation is grounded on spatial search of both freedom and truth in the world, as well as in the most amiable writer’s places - Bombay and England. This interaction of new cultures is mainly related to a somewhat linear transformation which proved that there is a notable set of layers underlying the existing notion of globalization. The theory of globalization expressed by the author in his book deals with the ironical nature of world perception and is directed towards tackling the most important social, political and cultural issues of nowadays. However, the ideas of intercultural communication are a new source of the writer's reaction against Realistic perception of different cultures and an idealistic views on everyday life; that serves as a substitution for most wanted arguments concerning natural changes in the present society - social manifesto which bears a matter-of-fact nature of description in the book. Subsequently, reasoning of any of situational subjects draws readers' attention and makes them reconsider the tackled idea by themselves. Such transformational approach of the author reminds of a Symbolist art: that is a static and hieratic art in modern times. I presume that the book “The Enchantress of Florence” written by Salman Rushdi represents a personal judgment of conceptual transformation of his ideas concerning Travelling, The Global, Freedom, Religion, Family/Home. This basic transformation is grounded on spatial search of both freedom and truth in the world, as well as in the most amiable writer’s places – Bombay and England. This interaction of new cultures is mainly related to a somewhat linear transformation which proved that there is a notable set of layers underlying the existing notion of globalization. The theory of globalization expressed by the author in his book deals with the ironical nature of world perception and is directed towards tackling the most important social, political and cultural issues of nowadays.

However, the ideas of intercultural communication are a new source of the writer’s reaction against Realistic perception of different cultures and an idealistic views on everyday life; that serves as a substitution for most wanted arguments concerning natural changes in the present society – social manifesto which bears a matter-of-fact nature of description in the book. Subsequently, reasoning of any of situational subjects draws readers’ attention and makes them reconsider the tackled idea by themselves. Such transformational approach of the author reminds of a Symbolist art: that is a static and hieratic art in modern times.

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