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Dr. Rakshit Madan Bagde deposited “An Evaluation of Dr. Ambedkar’s Economic Thought on Agriculture in the context of Globalization” in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoBharat Ratna Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar: an eminent socio-economic thinker and epoch-maker shaped the economic destiny of India by introducing many tenets of the State Socialism into the Constitution of free India. He was a post-graduate of Columbia University (U.S.) and obtained his doctoral degree in economics from there in 1917 and D.Sc. degree in…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Símbolo político: El chamizo de los Indignados in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoSpanish abstract: Un comentario sobre la gestión de la opinión pública durante las protestas del 15-M en 2011. La choza los “Indignados” en la Puerta del Sol se promueve en los medios como el ombligo simbólico del país. Enfatizamos la importancia simbólica de los centros en el condicionamiento de la opinión pública. Aquí tenemos, pues, un monument…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Símbolo político: El chamizo de los Indignados in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoSpanish abstract: Un comentario sobre la gestión de la opinión pública durante las protestas del 15-M en 2011. La choza los “Indignados” en la Puerta del Sol se promueve en los medios como el ombligo simbólico del país. Enfatizamos la importancia simbólica de los centros en el condicionamiento de la opinión pública. Aquí tenemos, pues, un monument…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited ‘Never Let Me Go’: El sujeto en la sociedad orgánica in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoSpanish abstract: Artículo sobre algunas implicaciones ideológicas de la película ‘Never Let Me Go’ (Mark Romanek, 2010), basada en la novela de Kazuo Ishiguro. Ofrece un retrato de la sociedad como un sistema educativo manipulador, que mantiene a los niños ignorantes de las cosas más importantes que se pueden saber sobre el poder y la expl…[Read more]
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Michael Maidan deposited Idolatry, Secularization, Philosphy in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThe role of the concept of idolatry in Levinas’ thought. Idolatry and Totalitarian thought.
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited La macdonaldización de la sociedad in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoSpanish abstract: Una nota sobre el libro de George Ritzer ‘La McDonaldización de la Sociedad’ (1993) desde la perspectiva de la fase avanzada de estandarización de los procesos y del trabajo en el capitalismo mediado por las tecnologías de la información y comunicación y especialmente por la Red. ____…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited ‘El interrogatorio’ (‘Przesluchanie’): La corrupción del sistema corrompe al individuo por dentro in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoSpanish abstract: Una reflexión sobre la representación de la resistencia, la resiliencia, y las tácticas totalitarias para domeñar a los disidentes, tal y como se representan en la película polaca ‘El interrogatorio’ (‘Przesluchanie’, dir. Ryszard Bugajski, 1989). La construcción inconsistente de la personalidad de la heroína testifica las dificu…[Read more]
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Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited Niloofar Haeri. Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer and Poetry in Iran in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThrough offering an ethnography of a group of educated, middle-class women who “had been attending weekly Qur’an and classical poetry classes for years” (xii), the volume shows that poetry and prayer are companions in the cultural history of Iran. It attempts to answer the question, “What does this companionship mean for forms of religio…[Read more]
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Evina Steinova deposited Two Carolingian Redactions of Isidore’s Etymologiae from St. Gallen in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoThe Abbey of St. Gallen was the foremost centre for the study of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville in the Carolingian period. Not only can more than twenty early medieval manuscripts transmitting material from the Etymologiaebe associated with Carolingian St. Gallen, but its scriptorium also produced two scholarly redactions of Isidore’s e…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Zapatero y la importancia de las humanidades in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoSpanish abstract: Un comentario sobre la reforma en curso de la estructura de titulaciones de la educación universitaria en España, bajo la administración de José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero y el ministerio de Educación del PSOE (2005), y sobre sus implicaciones para los estudios de la macroárea de Humanidades. ______…[Read more]
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Jacek Ben Silberstein deposited In defence of science – non sole in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoAbstract: The freedom of research is a cornerstone of our civilisation; in many ways it can even be seen as a human right. However, freedom of research does not mean the liberty to cheat. Cheating in science – deliberate falsification of evidence to support a hypothesis – is not only academic misconduct; it is also a crime against society and the…[Read more]
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D. De Rentiis deposited “Chresiology”, short description (part 2) (version 2) in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoShort description (video lecture) of what you can do, when you “do chresiology”, part 2 (slides).
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Peter Matthews Wright started the topic CFP: Muslim Futurism 2021: Definitions, Explorations & Future Directions in the discussion
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoPlease see attached!
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Chris A. Kramer deposited The Playful Thought Experiments of Louis CK in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoIt is trivially true that comedians make jokes and thus are not serious; they are “just playing.” But watching Louis CK, especially his performances in Chewed Up, Shameless, and Hilarious, it is evident that he has more in mind than simply getting his audience to frivolously guffaw. I will make the case that this is so given the content of som…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Objetos transparentes, translúcidos y opacos in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoSpanish abstract: Un comentario sobre la resistencia al uso de las TICs y las redes sociales disponibles para promover un diálogo abierto y público en la Universidad pública española (más en concreto la de Zaragoza), en el contexto de las reformas de la educación superior en 2005. Y una reflexión sobre las inadecuadas nociones de servicio públic…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Полибий о Понте Эвксинком: история геологического времени in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoRussian Abstract: В статье рассматриваются авторские отступления на тему гидрографии Черного моря (Понт Эвксинский) в четвертой книге Всеобщей истории Полибия. Наблюдения греческого историка за влиянием длительного воздействия рек и морских течений на геологические трансформации рельефа сделали его предвестником геологической теории униформиз…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited EEES…. La Europa del Conocimiento in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoSpanish Abstract: Reportaje sobre una jornada interna de presentación al profesorado universitario del programa europeo para la reforma de la Educación Superior en el marco de la reforma española de las viejas titulaciones (2005) de cara al Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior. Se enfatiza el descontento percibido en los nuevos pla…[Read more]
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Chris A. Kramer deposited How Socratic was Swift’s Irony? in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoWas Swift correct that “reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired” (Letter to a Young Gentleman)? If so, what recourse is there to change attitudes especially among those who continue to fervently believe unjustified claims and act upon them in a way that affects other people? I will answer the…[Read more]
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Chris A. Kramer deposited How Socratic was Swift’s Irony? in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoWas Swift correct that “reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired” (Letter to a Young Gentleman)? If so, what recourse is there to change attitudes especially among those who continue to fervently believe unjustified claims and act upon them in a way that affects other people? I will answer the…[Read more]
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Chris A. Kramer deposited Mark Twain’s Serious Humor and That Peculiar Institution: Christianity in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoAccording to Manuel Davenport, “The best humorists–Mark Twain, Will Rogers, Bob Hope, and Mort Sahl–share [a] mixture of detachment and desire, eagerness to believe, and irreverence concerning the possibility of certainty. And when they become serious about their convictions–as Twain did about colonialism…they cease to be humorous”. I agree…[Read more]
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