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Charles Peck Jr deposited Cultural and Sociological Factors in School Shootings (brief) in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoA point of information: there have been 288 school shootings in the United States since the 1990’s. Wikipedia cites 1 school shooting in India and 1 in the Philippines (I count two though the second is politically motivated. Ryan General – in his article – observes, “However, the school shootings that occur in the U.S. has never happened in the…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Extreme Individualism of Dawkin’s Selfish Gene Fallacy-False Premise “gene selfishness will usually give rise to selfishness in individual behaviour = “limited form of altruism” vs studies of compassion, Sprecher-Fehr = spirituality correlation +Mannheim in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoExtreme Individualism & Dawkins Fallacy Dawkins argues that “gene selfishness will usually give rise to selfishness in individual behaviour” – That is an excellent illustration in academia of what David Hay referred to as “Extreme Individualism” – a problem in Western Academia which Virgilio Enriquez also brought to light. Virgilio Enriquez…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Extreme Individualism of Dawkin’s Selfish Gene Fallacy-False Premise “gene selfishness will usually give rise to selfishness in individual behaviour = “limited form of altruism” vs studies of compassion, Sprecher-Fehr = spirituality correlation +Mannheim in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoExtreme Individualism & Dawkins Fallacy Dawkins argues that “gene selfishness will usually give rise to selfishness in individual behaviour” – That is an excellent illustration in academia of what David Hay referred to as “Extreme Individualism” – a problem in Western Academia which Virgilio Enriquez also brought to light. Virgilio Enriquez…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic Twentieth Century in the discussion
English Literature on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months ago“Bibliografía de las obras de Samuel Beckett (1906-1989).” https://www.academia.edu/104883538/
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic Contemporary fiction in the discussion
American Literature on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoHemingway Meets Beckett: ‘The Road’, de Cormac McCarthy https://www.academia.edu/104883537/
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic 20th-c. American Literature in the discussion
American Literature on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoZidan, Ashraf Ibrahim Muhamed. “Theory of Reflection as Articulating the Rise and Fall of McCarthysm in Mary McCarthy’s The Groves of Academe.” ResearchGate (July 2023).* https://www.researchgate.net/publication/372719844 2023
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic Eighteenth Century in the discussion
English Literature on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoRetropost, 2013: The Duplicity of Choice and the Sense of an Ending https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-duplicity-of-choice-and-sense-of_4.html
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Jonathan Rose started the topic CfP: Spectacle and Empathy: The Role of Excessive (Em)Body(ment) in Narrative in the discussion
English Literature on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoNarratives need bodies. Stories are populated by characters whose bodies serve as focalizers for our experience of the narrated world. Certain genres, like body horror, pornography or fanfiction, are predicated on bodily excess, “spill[ing] out over the spectator and penetrat[ing] them with sexual ecstasy or […] terrifying violence” (Linn). In th…[Read more]
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Jonathan Rose started the topic CfP: Spectacle and Empathy: The Role of Excessive (Em)Body(ment) in Narrative in the discussion
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoCfP for seminar session at NeMLA 2024, 7 to 10 March in Boston, MA
Narratives need bodies. Stories are populated by characters whose bodies serve as focalizers for our experience of the narrated world. Certain genres, like body horror, pornography or fanfiction, are predicated on bodily excess, “spill[ing] out over the spectator and p…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic Shakespeare in the discussion
English Literature on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months ago“La Noche de la Tempestad (Sobre la novela de César Vidal).” https://www.academia.edu/104883536/
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic Nineteenth-century in the discussion
English Literature on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoDarwin: Del Big Bang al hombre (1): https://personal.unizar.es/garciala/publicaciones/Darwinbigbang1.pdf
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic MEDIEVAL in the discussion
English Literature on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoSan Román García, Julio. “Sir Gawain: El poder del sol para un caballero artúrico deshonrado.” The Conversation 31 July 2023.* https://theconversation.com/sir-gawain-el-poder-del-sol-para-un-caballero-arturico-deshonrado-206139 2023
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Vitus Angermeier deposited Epidemic Prevention. Precursors of Public Health in Early Āyurveda? in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoĀyurveda, the predominant medical system in pre-modern South Asia, is by definition a very individualistic tradition of healing, discerning and treating the patients under special consideration of their personal constitution, diet, physical strength, habituation, character and age. Furthermore, the āyurvedic source texts show a strong commitment t…[Read more]
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