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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Teoría paranoica de la observación mutua in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months agoSpanish Abstract: En su teoría sobre la interacción estratégica, Erving Goffman muestra cómo las dinámicas de control de la información y de la infiltración de informantes en las líneas enemigas no son únicamente una cuestión de espionaje internacional o de servicios secretos. La vida cotidiana, tal como nos la desvela el análisis de Goffman, e…[Read more]
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Duncan Money deposited “Ain’t I a Bastard, Well I Received My Training in Aussie”: The Life of Frank Maybank, an Australian Trade Unionist in Central Africa in the group
History on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoThis article examines the working life of Frank Maybank (1901-94), a self-described Australian trade unionist on the Central African Copperbelt. Maybank was in many ways a worker of the world, he lived and worked in several countries and did all manner of jobs. The job he held the longest was General Secretary of the whites-only mineworkers’ u…[Read more]
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Froilán Ramos R. deposited Tensiones de la Guerra Fría: Chile y la Primavera de Praga (1968) in the group
History on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoThis article analyzes the reception and reactions in the Chilean political
debate to the so-called “Prague Spring”, especially in the National Congress, in
August 1968. Methodologically, the historical study consults primary sources,
documents from the Historical Archive of the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
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Lloyd Graham deposited The Moon Card of the Tarot Deck May Reprise an Ancient Amuletic Design Against the Evil Eye in the group
Byzantine Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoThis paper proposes a novel source for – or at least influence on – the iconography of the Moon trump in the Rider-Waite Tarot deck, which preserves the design from the Tarot de Marseille. In fact, the Moon template appears to date back to the earliest days of the Tarot. The proposed source or prototype is a Greco-Roman talismanic design aga…[Read more]
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Francesca Falk deposited Einleitung in the group
History on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months ago1970 wurde die Schwarzenbach-Initiative nur knapp verworfen. Sie war der Auftakt zu einer bis heute anhaltenden Reihe von «Überfremdungsinitiativen», die Generationen von Menschen mit Migrationsgeschichte traumatisiert haben. In diesem Buch sprechen Zeitzeug:innen der Schwarzenbach-Initiative über ihr Leben im Provisorium. Sie erzählen von prek…[Read more]
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Anna-Mari Vesterinen started the topic CfP on the impact of pandemics – Helsinki University Press in the discussion
History on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoCall for book proposals
Helsinki University Press (HUP) is soliciting proposals for original research, across multiple disciplines, on the cultural, economic, social, and political dimensions of pandemics. We welcome proposals for monographs, short monographs, and edited volumes. Dissertations and conference proceedings will not be considered.We…[Read more]
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Rita Singer deposited “The Devil may take Snowdon”, or: inscribing touristic disappointment in Victorian visitors’ books in the group
History on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoHistorically, tourism in Wales was invigorated by the reinvention of mountain scenery during the Romantic period when travellers gained new perspectives of the terrain from higher ground. It is also during this period that inns and guesthouses began keeping visitors’ books in which guests evaluated their surroundings and their hosts’ good ser…[Read more]
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Norberto Barreto Velázquez started the topic Convocatoria 1er Congreso Latinoamericano de Estudios Sobre Estados Unidos in the discussion
History on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoConvocatoria1er Congreso Latinoamericano de Estudios Sobre Estados UnidosFecha: 21 y 22 de septiembre de 2022Modalidad online La Red Latinoamericana de Estudios sobre Estados Unidos RELAESE, en cooperación con la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, lo invitan cordialmente a participar en el Primer Congreso Latinoamericano de Estudios sobre Es…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Tragedy and the Oedipal Subject: Shakespeare (and Freud) in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoNotes on the second half of Nicholas Ray’s ‘Tragedy and Otherness: Sophocles, Shakespeare, Psychoanalysis’—a reading of Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar ‘, with some interesting dimensions for the student of retroprospective action. The relationship to the Freudian project is rather indirect, but the chapter stands on its own strength as an o…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Unidad:Texto :: Identidad:Sujeto in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoSpanish abstract: Resumen comentado del artículo de Norman N. Holland “Unity Identity Text Self”, un clásico de la teoría de la recepción literaria desde el punto de vista psicoanalítico. He reescrito el título original en mi propio título de una manera que clarifique más las relaciones que busca establecer Holland entre estos cuatro término…[Read more]
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David Olmsted deposited Inscription on Nestors’ Cup (730 BCE) is not Greek but is Alphabetic Akkadian in the group
Etruscan archaeology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoThe text on Nestor’s Cup (750-700 BCE) is not Greek as many claim but is actually Alphabetic Akkadian. Its three-line text is a debate about the cause of a drought. The first line blames the life network goddess Ayu and her eagle vultures while the second line blames emotion magic with its owls (like the Athenian owl). Alphabetic Akkadian was t…[Read more]
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Allan Savage deposited HUMAN NATURE: 20th Century Philosophy in a new Key in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoThis essay is a précis (for which I take full responsibility) of Chapters One and Two of Leslie
Dewart’s seminal book consisting of Nine Chapters. The perspective he presented here, to my
mind, sets a fresh intellectual trajectory for philosophical contemplation. Written towards the
end of the 20th century the book is not an easy read, bu…[Read more] -
Lajos Brons deposited A Buddha Land in This World: Philosophy, Utopia, and Radical Buddhism in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoIn the early twentieth century, Uchiyama Gudō, Seno’o Girō, Lin Qiuwu, and others advocated a Buddhism that was radical in two respects. Firstly, they adopted a more or less naturalist stance with respect to Buddhist doctrine and related matters, rejecting karma or other supernatural beliefs. And secondly, they held political and economic vie…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited La vida es sólo fantasía: La crisis y la autoinvención humana in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoSpanish abstract: Una reflexión evolucionista y cognitivista sobre el papel de la imaginación y de la autorrepresentación en la identidad humana, en la creación de verdades, y en la gestión de las crisis—en el seno de una realidad humana, realidad interaccional y comunicativa, que siempre ha tenido mucho de realidad virtual (avant la lettre y avan…[Read more]
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Luis de Orueta deposited Las Hermanas Livermore in the group
History on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoEspaña, a finales del siglo XVIII, todavía era un imperio colonial. El comercio con las provincias de ultramar estimulaba la venida de irlandeses, prusianos, suecos, holandeses, marselleses y sobre todo ingleses, que fundaban Casas de Comercio con españoles. Pero con la aparición de Napoleón en la escena europea, Inglaterra impuso el “blo…[Read more]
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Manuel Loyola deposited Jorge Insunza Becker. Escritos políticos e ideológicos 1960-2012. Medio siglo de pensamiento comunista, T.4 in the group
History on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoJorge Insunza Becker (21 de abril de 1936-17 de marzo de 2019) fue uno de los principales dirigentes del Partido Comunista chileno desde los años 60. Ingresó a las Juventudes Comunistas en 1954. En 1962 fue promovido al Comité Central del PC y desde 1965 fue parte de su Comisión Política, aquella que encabezó el triunfo de Salvador Allende de 19…[Read more]
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Allan Savage deposited A CHRISTIAN PHENOMENOLOGICAL CULTURE: A in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoIn this short book, only an introductory and partial discussion can be undertaken respecting the issues distinguish between religious (philosophical) and secular (political) cultural values from a phenomenological point of view. Further, the ideas I consider here are not original. By and large they derive from a new interpretation of human…[Read more]
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Pruritus Migrans deposited Hacker’s Playground in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoHacker’s Playground * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Conectando con Heráclito el Oscuro in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoSpanish abstract: Comparamos los dichos de Heráclito sobre las conexiones y la comprensión perspicaz, por un parte, con algunas intervenciones de la modernidad temprana sobre el ingenio y la perspicacia (Baltasar Gracián, Samuel Johnson, G. W. F. Hegel). Con énfasis especial sobre el papel de la retrospección, teorizada desde la poética cogni…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited La realidad humana, y la realidad in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoSpanish abstract: Para nosotros, humanos, la realidad se confunde con la realidad humana– y no podría ser de otra manera. Hay muchas dimensiones posibles para definir, estudiar o medir la realidad, pero todas sin excepción son relativas a nuestros intereses—algunos muy básicos y ligados a la experiencia humana general, otros especializados y sólo…[Read more]
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