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Pramod Ranjan deposited Bahujan Literature: Conception of a concept in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoTheir words might have been different but both Ambedkar and Phule talked of the slavery of women and Shudras and Ati-shudras, their liberation and their unity. The concept of ‘Bahujan Literature’ was born to highlight the need to explore the socio-cultural foundation of the liberation and unity of Bahujans.
there is a broad unanimity among Hin…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Eligiendo nuestro universo (Choosing Our Universe) in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoSpanish abstract: ´El Gran Diseño´, libro de Stephen Hawking y Leonard Mlodinow (Bantam, 2010) se propone responder científicamente a algunas cuestiones que en tiempos pasados se explicaban mediante mitos de creación: por qué existe el universo, y por qué es como es. Nos centramos aquí en una de sus propuestas más controvertidas, la teoría d…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Eligiendo nuestro universo (Choosing Our Universe) in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 3 years, 6 months agoSpanish abstract: ´El Gran Diseño´, libro de Stephen Hawking y Leonard Mlodinow (Bantam, 2010) se propone responder científicamente a algunas cuestiones que en tiempos pasados se explicaban mediante mitos de creación: por qué existe el universo, y por qué es como es. Nos centramos aquí en una de sus propuestas más controvertidas, la teoría d…[Read more]
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D. Gregory MacIsaac deposited The Deficiencies of the Presocratic Material Elements and the Dream Theory in Theaetetus in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months agoThe Dream Theory in Theaetetus is Plato’s generalised account of Presocratic elements. Evidence for this given from Laws, Phaedo, Timaeus, and through a comparison with Aristotle’s account.
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Freud y la interiorización in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months agoSpanish Abstract: Las actuales concepciones de la psicología sobre la interiorización de la interacción deben algo, o mucho, a Sigmund Freud. Hay precedentes muy notables, como Nietzsche, que formulan la constitución del sujeto mediante la interiorización, pero la teoría de Freud sobre la complejidad de la mente se basa en gran medida en la inter…[Read more]
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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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Sarah Gates posted an update in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoGreetings!
Our research team in the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University, led by principal investigator Richard Ashley, are conducting a research study on ambiguous figure perception in musical contexts. We are inviting English speaking participants who have graduate-level training in music theory (e.g., current graduate students or…[Read more]
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EJ Thomas started the topic Alt-Ac Job Posting: Partner and User Support Specialist ITHAKA (JSTOR/Artstor) in the discussion
Academic Job Market Support Network on Humanities Commons 3 years, 8 months agoHello all! I’m a former academic and now the manager of the Partner and User Support Team at ITHAKA. We support resources you are probably familiar with, including JSTOR, Artstor, JSTOR Forum and Portico. We’re currently hiring for our Partner and User Support Specialist role, the role I started in 6 years ago when I made the decision to leave my…[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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Cara Jordan started the topic How to Write a Cover Letter for an Academic Job in the discussion
Academic Job Market Support Network on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoApplying for an academic job? The process can often be opaque and, unless your advisor is particularly helpful, you might feel alone in the process.
Never fear! In a recent blog post, former art history professor and department chair Matt Shoaf tells you how to research, write, and avoid common mistakes when applying for jobs as a…[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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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited La Segunda República, Beevor la Guerra Civil in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoSpanish abstract: La Segunda República española duró no del 31 al 36, sino del 31 al 39, aunque la etapa de la guerra civil (1936-1939) tiene otro carácter, y quizá haya que llamarla a ésa la tercera república. Es normal por tanto que una historia de la guerra civil empiece con una historia de la República. Vemos aquí la perspectiva que sobre el…[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] -
Channan Willner posted an update in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoI have just published a new article on my website, entitled, “Borrowing for Contrast, I: Schütz, Bach, and Mozart,” at http://www.channanwillner.com/online.htm. The first of a two-part set, the article investigates how composers use borrowings from different sources (or different borrowings from the same source) to generate contrast, and what the…[Read more]
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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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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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Frans Wiering posted an update in the group
Society for Music Theory (SMT) on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoDear colleagues,
In What Do Musicologists Do All Day (WDMDAD) we are investigating the use of technology in the work of music researchers in the widest sense.
Researchers frequently make use of the possibilities that mobile phones, social media, digital libraries, search engines and computer software offer. But these technologies do not always…[Read more]
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