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Samuel Rosado-Zaidi deposited Presentación “Ludwig Feuerbach y el fin de la filosofía clásica alemana” in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoUna dicusión crítica de la lectura de Engels. El marxismo tiene como potencia el propio marxismo, pero implica la autocrítica, ubicar a sus exponentes en sus condiciones históricas materiales concretas.
La tarea de los marxistas del presente es, como diría Hegel, actualizar los elementos revolucionarios del marxismo con las potencias revo…[Read more] -
Steve McCarty deposited Translation Issues in the Rapid Transmission of Esoteric Buddhism from India to China to Japan in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThree consecutive patriarchs of Esoteric Buddhism were Amoghavajra of India, Huiguo of China, and Kūkai of Japan. This paper foregrounds the usually taken-for-granted but vital historical role of language education and translation in the international spread of religion and culture. There had to be sufficiently educated bilingual or multilingual…[Read more]
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Benedict Okundaye deposited The Intra-Covid Renaissance: Envisioning Resilient Urban Neighbour- ‘Wood’ in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThe focus of this study is on the influence of urban ‘woods’ on people’s quality of life in disadvantaged neighbourhoods investigated via the lens of architecture in a Sub-Saharan metropolis. The new intra-Covid Urban Agenda acknowledges that current urban and state-wide resilience management plans, policies, and practices of neighbourhood are…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA started the topic Science and Philosophy in the discussion
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoIssues on the interface of contemporary science (e.g. physics, cosmology, evolutionism, bioengineering) and philosophy. First post, a retropost in Spanish, 2013: El Renacer del Tiempo https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2013/07/el-renacer-del-tiempo.html
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Ana Dumitran deposited Vision de Varnava. Înțăleptului Varnava minunată arătare a vederii lui cu pildă tuturor in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoDu sage Varnava la merveilleuse apparition de sa vision avec exemple pour tous, cette traduction-recréation roumaine en vers du Dialogus du poète baroque hongrois Nyéki Vörös Mátyas, effectuée en Transylvanie en 1670, peut être considérée comme la première œuvre du pope Ioan de Vintz. Sur le plan européen, sa Vision de Varnava représente l…[Read more]
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John Kausch deposited Denotation Ambiguity Scoring for Panlingual Lexical Translation Inference in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoPanLex is a massive database of interlinked lemmas in over two thousand language varieties. Among the uses for a resource such as this is the performance of translation inference on novel translations to construct large ontologies and potentially derive statistically attested semantic universals. This is an area of research that has long relied on…[Read more]
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Steve McCarty deposited Interview on the life and times of Japan’s great saint Kūkai in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoThrough the book Kūkai the Universal, the podcast guest discusses the life and times of Japan’s great saint Kūkai, Esoteric Buddhism, and Zen, in terms of East Asian history, language education, and translation issues including voice.
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Ali Shehzad Zaidi deposited The Ghalib Translations of Daud Kamal: ‘The Nightingale of a Garden Which is Yet to Come Into Existence’ in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoEssay on Daud Kamal’s Ghalib translations.
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James Louis Smith deposited The nonhuman condition: Radical democracy through new materialist lenses in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoThis Critical Exchange explores the nonhuman condition. It asks: What are the implications of decentering the human subject via a new materialist reading of radical democracy? Does this reading dilute political agency? Or should this be seen, on the contrary, as an invitation for new voices and demands to enter into democratic assemblages? How…[Read more]
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Salim Said Bani Orabah deposited Investigating the Relationship among Academic Qualification, Teaching Experience and Writing Proficiency on Classroom-based Writing in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoWriting Assessment Literacy (WAL). However, it is neglected in Iranian context. Taking the importance of academic qualification, writing proficiency and teaching experience with regard to writing assessment, the present quantitative study made attempt to investigate the effect of academic qualification, writing proficiency and teaching experience…[Read more]
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Salim Said Bani Orabah deposited The impact of Oral and Written Story reconstruction on L2 Vocabulary Learning and Retention: A case of EFL Young Learners in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoWord acquisition was one of the important and essential parts for language learning. One of the learning difficulties that many L2 learners at all ages and proficiency levels face was meaningful vocabulary learning and retention as opposed to rote memorization of L2 words. Therefore, this study attempted to investigate the effectiveness of the…[Read more]
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Salim Said Bani Orabah deposited Facet Variability in the Light of Rater Training in Measuring Oral Performance: A Multifaceted Rasch Analysis in the group
Linguistics on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoDue to subjectivity in oral assessment, much concentration has been put on obtaining a satisfactory measure of consistency among raters. However, obtaining consistency might not result in valid decisions. One matter that is at the core of both reliability and validity in oral performance is rater training. Recently, the Multifaceted Rasch…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited एक जोमो का जीवन in the group
Buddhist Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoपत्रकार और शिक्षाविद् प्रमोद रंजन ने जून, 2017 में हिमाचल प्रदेश के दुर्गम इलाकों की यात्रा की थी। इस यात्रा में उन्हें किन्नौर जिले के सुदूर गांव कानम के एक गोम्पा में सुमार नाम की जोमो मिलीं। जोमो यानी बौद्ध भिक्षुणी। मध्य हिमालय की अपूर्व शांति से भरी उस घाटी में सहज वात्सल्य से भरीं 56 वर्षीय सुमार के साथ कुछ घंटे बिताना उनके लिए एक अनूठा अ…[Read more]
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Christopher Griffin deposited Covid Disobedience and the Autoimmune Self-Destruction of Liberal Individualism in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoIn this short article, I discuss a form of civil disobedience that emerged during the Covid-19 pandemic: the refusal to comply with lockdown rules. Because such rule-breakers often claim that they are acting to preserve freedom, I ask whether their unwillingness to help prevent the spread of the virus is symptomatic of neoliberal individualism.…[Read more]
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Paul Dablemont deposited De la continuité entre non-sens et sens : réflexions d’après Deleuze, Ricœur et Wittgenstein in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoA beginner reader might think that my title is senseless: aren’t sense and nonsense supposed to be opposed? Why seeking continuity there? The Stoics and after them this line that goes from Leibniz to Deleuze via Nietzsche, have revealed an intrinsic relationship of continuity between these two entities that common sense sees as contradictory.…[Read more]
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Albert R Haig deposited Dialectic as ostension towards the transcendent: Language and mystical intersubjectivity in Plotinus’ Enneads in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThe theory of language that underlies Plotinus’ Enneads is considered in relation to his broader metaphysical vision. For Plotinus, language is neither univocal nor equivocal, but is something in-between, incapable of precisely describing reality, but nonetheless not completely useless. Propositional knowledge expressed discursively represents a…[Read more]
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Allan Savage deposited A PHENOMENOLOGICAL ATTITUDE TO LAW, STATE, AND LAÏCITÉ: Products of Human Consciousness in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThe world of Platonic idealism will not be satisfactorily imported into the world of phenomenological consciousness. The task of phenomenological philosophers is to return to the interpretation of experience itself and seek to recast meaning not in terms of theoretical idealism, but in terms of existential meaning. The phenomenological philosopher…[Read more]
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Pruritus Migrans deposited King of Brexitland in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoKing of Brexitland * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA
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Pramod Ranjan deposited A chat with Gail Omvedt in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThese are excerpts from the Forward Press team’s India tour travelogue. Forward Press Consulting Editor Pramod Ranjan, sociologist Anil Kumar and Forward Press Editor (English) Anil Varghese were part of the team that went on the tour from Delhi to Kanyakumari between 5 January and 15 February 2017. The team covered nine states and one union t…[Read more]
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Fashion, Dress, Costume: a Proposed Terminological Clarification in the Historical Research of Women’s Clothing in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis paper delineates the conceptual variations between the notions ‘fashion’, ‘dress’ and ‘costume’ in English-language texts on women’s garment histories using relevant examples from interwar Romanian periodicals. The aim is to offer a more precise formulation, as these three terms have largely been used interchangeably. This paper is built on a…[Read more]
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