Gare, Arran
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Cosmos & History. 2020, Vol. 16 Issue 2, p165-181. 17p.
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Einstein Vs. Bergson : An Enduring Quarrel on Time
Alessandra Campo;Simone Gozzano;Alessandra Campo;Simone Gozzano
This book brings together papers from a conference that took place in the city of L'Aq...
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Einstein Vs. Bergson : An Enduring Quarrel on Time
2021; Vol. 00003
This book brings together papers from a conference that took place in the city of L'Aquila, 4–6 April 2019, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the earthquake that struck on 6 April 2009. Philosophers and scientists from diverse fields of research debated the problem that, on 6 April 1922, divided Einstein and Bergson : the nature of time. For Einstein, scientific time is the only time that matters and the only time we can rely on. Bergson , however, believes that scientific time is derived by abstraction, even in the sense of extraction, from a more fundamental time. The plurality of times envisaged by the theory of Relativity does not, for him, contradict the philosophical intuition of the existence of a single time. But how do things stand today? What can we say about the relationship between the quantitative and qualitative dimensions of time in the light of contemporary science? What do quantum mechanics, biology and neuroscience teach us about the nature of time? The essays collected here take up the question that pitted Einstein against Bergson , science against philosophy, in an attempt to reverse the outcome of their monologue in two voices, with a multilogue in several voices.
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Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition. Jan1976, p1-2. 2p.
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A summary and analysis of Matter and Memory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition. Jan1976, p1-2. 2p.
A summary and analysis of Matter and Memory . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Movement, Memory and Mathematics: Henri Bergson and the Ontology of Learning.
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Studies in Philosophy Nov2015, Vol. 34 Issue 6, p565-585, 21p
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Freitas, Elizabeth;Ferrara, Francesca
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Studies in Philosophy Nov2015, Vol. 34 Issue 6, p565-585, 21p
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Staging Difficult Pasts : Transnational Memory , Theatres, and Museums
Maria M. Delgado;Michal Kobialka;Bryce Lease;Maria M. Delgado;Michal Kobial...
This collection of original essays brings together museum, theatre, and performance ca...
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Staging Difficult Pasts : Transnational Memory , Theatres, and Museums
2024
This collection of original essays brings together museum, theatre, and performance case studies with a focus on their distinctive and overlapping modes of producing memory for transnational audiences. Whether this is through narrative, object, embodied encounter or a combination of the three, this volume considers distinctions and interactions between memory and history specifically through the lenses of theatre and performance studies, visual culture, and museum and curator studies. This book is underpinned by three areas of research enquiry: How are contemporary theatre makers and museum curators staging historical narratives of difficult pasts? How might comparisons between theatre and museum practices offer new insights into the role objects play in generating and representing difficult pasts? What points of overlap, comparison, and contrast among these constructions of history and memory of authoritarianism, slavery, colonialism, genocide, armed conflict, fascism, and communism might offer an expanded understanding of difficult pasts in these transnational cultural contexts? This collection is designed for any scholar of its central disciplines, as well as for those interested in cultural geography, memory studies, and postcolonial theory. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives (CC-BY-ND) 4.0 license.
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Museum theater--Cross-cultural studies - Historical museums--Techniques--Cross-cultural studies - Museum exhibits--Cross-cultural studies - Historical reenactments--Cross-cultural studies - Historical drama--Cross-cultural studiesContent provider:
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An Introduction to Metaphysics.
Benjamin, A. Cornelius
By rejecting the mechanistic view of life held by the noted positivists of his day, Be...
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An Introduction to Metaphysics.
World Philosophers & Their Works. Feb2000, p1-5. 5p.
By rejecting the mechanistic view of life held by the noted positivists of his day, Bergson focused renewed attention on the importance of the human spirit, its creative potential, and its inherent freedom, thereby opening new intellectual vistas to many creative artists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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The God of Effort: Henri Bergson and the Stoicism of Modernity.
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Modern Theology. Jul2016, Vol. 32 Issue 3, p397-420. 24p.
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Kotva, Simone
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Modern Theology. Jul2016, Vol. 32 Issue 3, p397-420. 24p.
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Shuman, R. Baird
By rejecting the mechanistic view of life held by the noted positivists of his day, Be...
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World Philosophers & Their Works. Feb2000, p1-3. 3p.
By rejecting the mechanistic view of life held by the noted positivists of his day, Bergson focused renewed attention on the importance of the human spirit, its creative potential, and its inherent freedom, thereby opening new intellectual vistas to many creative artists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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How Robert Frost Made Realism Matter
Jonathan N. Barron;Jonathan N. Barron
Robert Frost stood at the intersection of nineteenth-century romanticism and twentieth...
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How Robert Frost Made Realism Matter
2015
Robert Frost stood at the intersection of nineteenth-century romanticism and twentieth-century modernism and made both his own. Frost adapted the genteel values and techniques of nineteenth-century poetry, but Barron argues that it was his commitment to realism that gave him popular as well as scholarly appeal and created his enduring legacy. This highly researched consideration of Frost investigates early innovative poetry that was published in popular magazines from 1894 to 1915 and reveals a voice of dissent that anticipated “The New Poetry” – a voice that would come to dominate American poetry as few others have.
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The Scientific Method : An Evolution of Thinking From Darwin to Dewey
Henry M. Cowles;Henry M. Cowles
The surprising history of the scientific method—from an evolutionary account of thinki...
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The Scientific Method : An Evolution of Thinking From Darwin to Dewey
2020
The surprising history of the scientific method—from an evolutionary account of thinking to a simple set of steps—and the rise of psychology in the nineteenth century.The idea of a single scientific method, shared across specialties and teachable to ten-year-olds, is just over a hundred years old. For centuries prior, science had meant a kind of knowledge, made from facts gathered through direct observation or deduced from first principles. But during the nineteenth century, science came to mean something else: a way of thinking.The Scientific Method tells the story of how this approach took hold in laboratories, the field, and eventually classrooms, where science was once taught as a natural process. Henry M. Cowles reveals the intertwined histories of evolution and experiment, from Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection to John Dewey's vision for science education. Darwin portrayed nature as akin to a man of science, experimenting through evolution, while his followers turned his theory onto the mind itself. Psychologists reimagined the scientific method as a problem-solving adaptation, a basic feature of cognition that had helped humans prosper. This was how Dewey and other educators taught science at the turn of the twentieth century—but their organic account was not to last. Soon, the scientific method was reimagined as a means of controlling nature, not a product of it. By shedding its roots in evolutionary theory, the scientific method came to seem far less natural, but far more powerful.This book reveals the origin of a fundamental modern concept. Once seen as a natural adaptation, the method soon became a symbol of science's power over nature, a power that, until recently, has rarely been called into question.
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Evolution - Science--Philosophy--History - Science--Methodology--HistoryContent provider:
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Catherine Colomb’s Vision of Time: In Dialogue with Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf
Tamar Barbakadze;Tamar Barbakadze
This monograph is the first substantial contribution to the study of the Swiss novelis...
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Catherine Colomb’s Vision of Time: In Dialogue with Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf
2022
This monograph is the first substantial contribution to the study of the Swiss novelist Catherine Colomb's dialogue with Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf as well as to time and memory studies. The framework and approach devised to examine Colomb's oeuvre contribute to unravelling some of its complexities, not only in its curving style, ephemeral, and sequence-defying narrative, but also in its literary engagement with the science and philosophy that shaped modernity and proposed new ways of thinking time, knowledge, and the human experience. This thesis ultimately allows us to gain insight into the originality of Colombian time experience, memory , and point-of-view representations, transcending the alleged influence of her iconic predecessors.
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English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism - English literature--18th century--History and criticism - English literature--17th century--History and criticismContent provider:
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A History of Cookbooks : From Kitchen to Page Over Seven Centuries
Henry Notaker;Henry Notaker
A History of Cookbooks provides a sweeping literary and historical overview of the coo...
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A History of Cookbooks : From Kitchen to Page Over Seven Centuries
2017; Vol. 00064
A History of Cookbooks provides a sweeping literary and historical overview of the cookbook genre, exploring its development as a part of food culture beginning in the Late Middle Ages. Studying cookbooks from various Western cultures and languages, Henry Notaker traces the transformation of recipes from brief notes with ingredients into detailed recipes with a specific structure, grammar, and vocabulary. In addition, he reveals that cookbooks go far beyond offering recipes: they tell us a great deal about nutrition, morals, manners, history, and menus while often providing entertaining reflections and commentaries. This innovative book demonstrates that cookbooks represent an interesting and important branch of nonfiction literature.
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Cookbooks--Europe--History - Manners and customs in literatureContent provider:
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Power of Freedom : Hu Shih's Political Writings
Chih-Ping Chou;Carlos Lin;Chih-Ping Chou;Carlos Lin
Dr. Hu Shih (1891–1962) was one of China's top scholars and diplomats and served as th...
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Power of Freedom : Hu Shih's Political Writings
2022
Dr. Hu Shih (1891–1962) was one of China's top scholars and diplomats and served as the Republic of China's ambassador to the United States during World War II. As early as 1941 , Hu Shih warned of the fundamental ideological conflict between dictatorial totalitarianism and democratic systems, a view that later became the foundation of the Cold War narrative. In the 1950s, after Mao's authoritarian regime was established, Hu Shih started to analyze the development and nature of Communism, delivering a series of lectures and addresses to reveal what he called Stalin's “grand strategy” for facilitating the International Communist Movement. For decades—and today to a certain extent—Hu Shih's political writings were considered sensitive and even dangerous. As a strident critic of the Chinese Communist Party's oligarchical practices, he was targeted by the CCP in a concerted national campaign to smear his reputation, cast aspersions on his writings, and generally destroy any possible influence he might have in China. This volume brings together a collection of Hu Shih's most important, mostly unpublished, English-language speeches, interviews, and commentaries on international politics, China-U.S. relations, and the International Communist Movement. Taken together, these works provide an insider's perspective on Sino-American relations and the development of the International Communist Movement over the course of the 20th century.
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Chapter 2: CINEMA.
Colebrook, Claire
Life is a flow of time or becoming, a whole of interactions or `perceptions'. Each eve...
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Chapter 2: CINEMA.
Gilles Deleuze. 2001, p29-54. 26p.
Life is a flow of time or becoming, a whole of interactions or `perceptions'. Each event of perception opens up to its own world. Above and beyond all these acutest words there is a virtual whole composed of a multi city of durations. In cinema we free the perception of the world from its fixed and ordering viewpoint. This is done in two waves. early cinema reaches the movement-image. Instead of bodies that move from one point to another, we see movement itself or mob He sections. Modern cinema goes further with the time-image. Images are no longer connected to form logical sequences; by the use of irrational cuts we are given an image of time itself this time is not a simple linear progression from one point to another, , but a divergent and differentiating becoming. Cinema, therefore, has the power of taking thought beyond its own fixed images of itself and the word; we can think of images that are no onager images of some being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Gilles Deleuze (Book) - Colebrook, Claire - Cinema 2: The Time-Image (Book) - Cinema 1: The Movement-Image (Book) - Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995 - Motion pictures & philosophy - Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941 - Philosophers - Time - Time perception - Dialectic - PhilosophyContent provider:
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Feeling Strangely in Mid-Century Spanish and Latin American Women’s Fiction : Gender and the Scientific Imaginary
Tess C. Rankin;Tess C. Rankin
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Feeling Strangely in Mid-Century Spanish and Latin American Women’s Fiction : Gender and the Scientific Imaginary
2024; Vol. 00094
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM. The early twentieth century was awash in revolutionary scientific discourse, and its uptake in the public imaginary through popular scientific writings touched every area of human experience, from politics and governance to social mores and culture. Feeling Strangely argues that these shifting scientific understandings and their integration into Hispanic and Lusophone society reshaped the experience of gender. The book analyzes gender as a felt experience and explores how that experience is shaped by popular scientific discourse by examining the “strange” femininity of young protagonists in four novels written by women in Spanish and Portuguese: Rosa Chacel's Memorias de Leticia Valle (published in Argentina in 1945); Norah Lange's Personas en la sala (Argentina, 1950); Carmen Laforet's Nada (Spain, 1945); and Clarice Lispector's Perto do coração selvagem (Brazil, 1943). It pairs each novel with a broad scientific theme selected from those that captured the contemporary popular imagination to argue that the young female protagonists in these novels all put forth visions of young womanhood as an experience of strangeness. Building on Carmen Martín Gaite's term chicas raras, Rankin proposes this strangeness as constitutive of a gendered experience inextricable from affective and material engagements with the world.
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Women authors, Spanish--20th century - Latin American fiction--20th century--History and criticism - Latin American literature--20th century--History and criticism - Literature and society--Latin America--History--20th century - Gender identity in literature - Scientific literature - Brazilian fiction--20th century--History and criticism - Spanish fiction--20th century--History and criticismContent provider:
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Author of Matière et mémoire (1896; Matter and Memory, 1911), L’ Évolution créatrice (...
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Ethics (Ready Reference series). Apr1994, p1-1. 1p.
Author of Matière et mémoire (1896; Matter and Memory , 1911), L’ Évolution créatrice (1907; Creative Evolution, 1911), and Les Deux Sources de la morale et de la réligion (1932; The Two Sources of Morality and Religion, 1935), and the first person to advance a “process philosophy”. Influenced by the French philosophical tradition, which opposed materialism and the “mechanistic” worldview, Bergson ’s approach to ethics emphasized the primacy of personal actions within the context of evolutionary processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Prismatic Jane Eyre : Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages
Matthew Reynolds;Andrés Claro;Annmarie Drury;Mary Frank;Paola Gaudio;Rebecc...
Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Brontë and first published in 1847, has been translate...
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Prismatic Jane Eyre : Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages
2023
Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Brontë and first published in 1847, has been translated more than six hundred times into over sixty languages. Prismatic Jane Eyre argues that we should see these many re-writings, not as simple replications of the novel, but as a release of its multiple interpretative possibilities: in other words, as a prism. Prismatic Jane Eyre develops the theoretical ramifications of this idea, and reads Brontë's novel in the light of them: together, the English text and the many translations form one vast entity, a multilingual world-work, spanning many times and places, from Cuba in 1850 to 21st-century China; from Calcutta to Bologna, Argentina to Iran. Co-written by many scholars, Prismatic Jane Eyre traces the receptions of the novel across cultures, showing why, when and where it has been translated (and no less significantly, not translated – as in Swahili), and exploring its global publishing history with digital maps and carousels of cover images. Above all, the co-authors read the translations and the English text closely, and together, showing in detail how the novel's feminist power, its political complexities and its romantic appeal play out differently in different contexts and in the varied styles and idioms of individual translators. Tracking key words such as ‘passion'and ‘plain'across many languages via interactive visualisations and comparative analysis, Prismatic Jane Eyre opens a wholly new perspective on Brontë's novel, and provides a model for the collaborative close-reading of world literature. Prismatic Jane Eyre is a major intervention in translation and reception studies and world and comparative literature. It will also interest scholars of English literature, and readers of the Brontës.
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Pueblos y culturas de la prehistoria a la actualidad.
Olivero Guidobono, Sandra (Coordinador);Paz Reverol, Carmen Laura (Coordina...
A partir de los capítulos recopilados en este monográfico se pretende crear un espacio...
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Pueblos y culturas de la prehistoria a la actualidad.
2023
A partir de los capítulos recopilados en este monográfico se pretende crear un espacio de diálogo y encuentro crítico de debate entre estudiosos, especialistas, como así también jóvenes investigadores. El análisis y comprensión de los comportamientos humanos desde múltiples perspectivas permitirán un conocimiento y una reflexión más profunda sobre la problemática y los retos futuros. Somos conscientes que sólo a través de las acciones pretéritas podremos comprender el desarrollo actual y plantear sociedades inclusivas y potencialmente seguras en un futuro sustentable.El presente libro, separado en dos secciones, constituye una muestra del análisis de contextos históricos, demográficos, antropológicos, urbanísticos y patrimoniales de diversas poblaciones a lo largo de un corte temporal amplio y un escenario geográfico variopinto.
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Nuevas investigaciones y perspectivas sobre literatura, cultura y pensamiento.
Flores Borjabad, Salud Adelaida;Grana, Romina;Respaldiza Salas, Inmaculada;...
Esta obra recoge el análisis y estudio de grandes investigadores quienes han estudiado...
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Nuevas investigaciones y perspectivas sobre literatura, cultura y pensamiento.
2023
Esta obra recoge el análisis y estudio de grandes investigadores quienes han estudiado la literatura desde diferentes puntos de vista con el fin de demostrar que la literatura no es una lista de movimientos y autores. Asimismo, se ha puesto de manifiesto que la literatura es una forma de comunicación que convive con el ser humano desde sus orígenes, de manera tal que no puede ser entendida de una forma aislada.Por ello, la división en cuatro secciones ha mostrado que la literatura debe entenderse como movimiento artístico, pero también como una manifestación cultural y una forma de pensamiento crítico. Leer nos hace libres y nos invita a pensar de manera autónoma, por lo que este libro corrobora la idea de que literatura, cultura y pensamiento conforman una tríada indivisible. Dicho de otro modo, la literatura permite transmitir la cultura y el conocimiento de esa cultura nos invita a reflexionar de una manera crítica y autónoma.
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Thinking Europe : A History of the European Idea Since 1800
MATS ANDRÉN;MATS ANDRÉN
Presenting a new historical narrative on European integration and identity this title ...
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Thinking Europe : A History of the European Idea Since 1800
2023
Presenting a new historical narrative on European integration and identity this title examines how the concept of Europe has been entangled in a dynamic and dramatic tension between calls for unity and arguments for borders and division. Through an in-depth intellectual history of the idea of Europe, Mats Andren interrogates the concept of integration and more recent debates surrounding European identity across the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the post-war period. Applying a broad range of original sources this unique work will be key reading for students and researchers studying European History, European Studies, Political History and related fields.
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National characteristics, European - European cooperation - European federationContent provider:
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Open Society Unresolved : The Contemporary Relevance of a Contested Idea
Christof Royer;Liviu Matei;Christof Royer;Liviu Matei
Is the concept of open society still relevant in the 21st century? Do the current soci...
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Open Society Unresolved : The Contemporary Relevance of a Contested Idea
2023
Is the concept of open society still relevant in the 21st century? Do the current social, moral, and political realities call for a drastic revision of this concept? Here fifteen essays address real-world contemporary challenges to open society from a variety of perspectives. What unites the individual authors and chapters is an interest in open society's continuing usefulness and relevance to address current problems. And what distinguishes them is a rich variety of geographical and cultural backgrounds, and a wide range of academic disciplines and traditions. While focusing on probing the contemporary relevance of the concept, several chapters approach it historically. The book features a comprehensive introduction to the history and current ‘uses'of the theory of open society. The authors link the concept to contemporary themes including education, Artificial Intelligence, cognitive science, African cosmology, colonialism, and feminism. The diversity of viewpoints in the analysis reflects a commitment to plurality that is at the heart of this book and of the idea of open society itself.
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Social structure - Social sciences--Philosophy - Liberalism - UniversalismContent provider:
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Time and Space
Maria do Rosário Monteiro;Mário S. Ming Kong;Maria João Pereira Neto;Maria ...
The texts presented in Proportion Harmonies and Identities (PHI) Time and Space were c...
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Time and Space
2023
The texts presented in Proportion Harmonies and Identities (PHI) Time and Space were compiled to establish a multidisciplinary platform for presenting, interacting, and disseminating research. It also aims to foster awareness and discussion on Time and Space, focusing on different visions relevant to Architecture, Arts and Humanities, Design and Social Sciences, and its importance and benefits for the sense of identity, both individual and communal. The idea of Time and Space has been a powerful motor for development since the Western Early Modern Age. Its theoretical and practical foundations have become the working tools of scientists, philosophers, and artists, who seek strategies and policies to accelerate the development process in different contexts.
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Kafka's Zoopoetics : Beyond the Human-Animal Barrier
Naama Harel;Naama Harel
Nonhuman figures are ubiquitous in the work of Franz Kafka, from his early stories dow...
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Kafka's Zoopoetics : Beyond the Human-Animal Barrier
2020
Nonhuman figures are ubiquitous in the work of Franz Kafka, from his early stories down to his very last one. Despite their prominence throughout his oeuvre, Kafka's animal representations have been considered first and foremost as mere allegories of intrahuman matters . In recent years, the allegorization of Kafka's animals has been poetically dismissed by Kafka's commentators and politically rejected by posthumanist scholars. Such critique, however, has yet to inspire either an overarching or an interdiscursive account. This book aims to fill this lacuna. Positing animal stories as a distinct and significant corpus within Kafka's entire poetics, and closely examining them in dialogue with both literary and posthumanist analysis, Kafka's Zoopoetics critically revisits animality, interspecies relations, and the very human-animal contradistinction in the writings of Franz Kafka. Kafka's animals typically stand at the threshold between humanity and animality, fusing together human and nonhuman features. Among his liminal creatures we find a human transformed into vermin (in “The Metamorphosis”), an ape turned into a human being (in “A Report to an Academy”), talking jackals (in “Jackals and Arabs”), a philosophical dog (in “Researches of a Dog”), a contemplative mole-like creature (in “The Burrow”), and indiscernible beings (in “Josefine, the Singer or the Mouse People”). Depicting species boundaries as mutable and obscure, Kafka creates a fluid human-animal space, which can be described as “humanimal.” The constitution of a humanimal space radically undermines the stark barrier between human and other animals, dictated by the anthropocentric paradigm. Through denying animalistic elements in humans, and disavowing the agency of nonhuman animals, excluding them from social life, and neutralizing compassion for them, this barrier has been designed to regularize both humanity and animality. The contextualization of Kafka's animals within posthumanist theory engenders a post-anthropocentric arena, which is simultaneously both imagined and very real.
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The Open Society and the Democracy to Come: Bergson , Deleuze and Guattari.
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Deleuze Studies. Aug2016, Vol. 10 Issue 3, p352-366. 15p.
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Baugh, Bruce
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Deleuze Studies. Aug2016, Vol. 10 Issue 3, p352-366. 15p.
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Culture As Soft Power : Bridging Cultural Relations, Intellectual Cooperation, and Cultural Diplomacy
Elisabet Carbó-Catalan;Diana Roig Sanz;Elisabet Carbó-Catalan;Diana Roig Sa...
This book contributes to bridge the gap between different scholarly communities intere...
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Culture As Soft Power : Bridging Cultural Relations, Intellectual Cooperation, and Cultural Diplomacy
2022
This book contributes to bridge the gap between different scholarly communities interested in the entanglements of culture and politics in the international arena. It sheds light on existing connections in their parallel evolution with a thorough literature review, complemented by several case studies showing the fruitful character of their interdisciplinary mobilisation. Through the notions of cultural relations, intellectual cooperation and cultural diplomacy, the book draws on a soft power perspective to offer a shared, novel, and interdisciplinary theoretical framework to approach cultural institutions and organisations that have been previously examined as isolated objects: for example, cultural institutes, international organisations, literary magazines, and literary contests. The interdisciplinary nature of this volume justifies the relevance of its content for scholars working in the history of international relations, international cultural relations and intellectual history, comparative literature, sociology of literature and global literary studies.
