A long, largely German, tradition of thought looks at history as a total and comprehensible process of events, structures, and processes, for which the philosophy of history can serve as an interpretive tool.
Humans need to isolate a comprehensible concatenation of events from the historical mess.
For any of this to happen, the story must contain the following five ingredients -- an easily discernible protagonist, a clear and bold vision, a distinct and intelligible message, a cohesive and comprehensible chronological sequence of events and it must leave a mark.
Mothers in Japan consider life events less comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful and experience less support.
He thought that history had a design, and that the Depression was an event fully comprehensible within the context of that design: it was the long-predicted collapse of the capitalist order.
It is a "global orientation, a pervasive feeling of confidence that the life events one faces are comprehensible, that one has the resources to cope with the demands of these events, and that these demands are meaningful and worthy of engagement" [ 16].
To summarize, it seems that mothers in Japan have lower QOL and a much less feeling of confidence that the life events they face are comprehensible, that they have the resources to cope with the demands of everyday life, and that they are meaningful and worthy of engagement.
We can do this because events in the past appear comprehensible and orderly compared with future events.
The only figure in "Lost Empress" who can make human events cohere in a morally comprehensible way is Nina Gill.
Samoyault does everything one expects a conventional biography to do, and more, bringing to life the changing intellectual climate of Barthes' time, making – to take one iconic example – his silence after the events of May 1968 seem perfectly comprehensible.
