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Chris A. Kramer deposited The Philosophy of Humor: What Makes Something Funny in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoPeople can laugh at almost anything. What’s the deal with that? What makes something funny? This essay reviews some theories of what it is for something to be funny. Each theory offers insights into this question, but no single approach provides a comprehensive answer.
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited ‘La piel que habito’: Transexualidades y transtextualidades in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoSpanish abstract: ´La piel que habito´, película de 2011 de Pedro Almodóvar, es una historia sugerente, llena de ecos de debates de actualidad, y que señala en muchas direcciones diferentes, todas interesantes, pero el núcleo donde se unen todas es un personaje tan patológico que es totalmente implausible, excepto como ficción cinemat…[Read more]
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Pruritus Migrans deposited V stands for Vanadium in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoV stands for Vanadium * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA
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Duane Alexander Miller deposited FREEDOM OF RELIGION IN ISRAEL-PALESTINE: MAY MUSLIMS BECOME CHRISTIANS, AND DO CHRISTIANS HAVE THE FREEDOM TO WELCOME SUCH CONVERTS? in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThis research represents a continuation and elaboration on Miller’s research for the Christianity and Freedom project, presented in Rome in December of 2013. This article seeks to understand the challenges and context of Christians who are also ex-Muslims in the HolyLand. Attention is paid to the difference between the contexts in the West Bank a…[Read more]
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Duane Alexander Miller deposited La ordenación de las mujeres: más opciones de las que creías in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoEn este breve artículo deseo esbozar las diversas posiciones que existen a lo largo de la Comunión Anglicana (así como los cuerpos anglicanos que no pertenecen a la Comunión) con respecto a la cuestión de la ordenación de mujeres. Mi intención no es respaldar ningún enfoque, sino comunicar que no hay simplemente dos opciones, sino muchas más.
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Pramod Ranjan deposited COVID-19, science and responsibility of the intellectuals in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe coronavirus-induced lockdown hasn’t just eroded our physical liberty; it has also eroded our intellectual freedom. Our freedom to think has been put under lock and key. Clearly, we are on the threshold of a dangerous phase. Which way we go from here will depend on how soon and how well we gauge the danger and start exploring the ways to c…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Forward Press: Let’s embark on a new journey in the group
History on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThe last print issue of FORWARD Press was published in April, 2016. This editorial in the last issue of Forward Press has been written by Pramod Ranjan. Thereafter Forward Press continued to be published as a website and also ventured into the business of books. Pramod Ranjan parted ways with Forward Press in October 2019 in protest against the…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited फारवर्ड प्रेस: आइए चलें नई यात्रा की ओर in the group
History on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoफारवर्ड प्रेस काअंतिम प्रिट अंक अप्रैल, 2016 में प्रकाशित हुआ था। यह उस अंतिम अंक का प्रमोद रंजन द्वारा लिखा गया संपादकीय है। उसके बाद फारवर्ड प्रेस वेबसाइट के रूप में प्रकाशित होता रहा तथा किताबों के व्यवसाय में भी उतरा। फारवर्ड प्रेस के मालिकों द्वारा की जा रही वित्तीय अनियमितता के विरोध में प्रमोद रंजन ने अक्टूबर, 2019 में इस पत्रिका से अलग हो गए।
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Pramod Ranjan deposited बहुजन विमर्श के कारण निशाने पर जेएनयू in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoसामान्य तौर पर यह समझा है कि चूंकि दिल्ली स्थित जेएनयू के वामपंथ का गढ़ था, इसलिए दक्षिणपंथी ताकतें उससे नाराज थीं। अतएव, सत्ता में आने के बाद उन्होंने इस गढ़ को नष्ट कर देना चाहा। सन् 2016 में इस विश्वविद्यालय में घटी घटनाओं को इसी संदर्भ में देखा-समझा जाता रहा है।
लेकिन प्रमोद रंजन का यह बहुचर्चित लेख बताता है कि जेएनयू पर दक्षिणपंथ क…[Read more]
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Pruritus Migrans deposited Kherson eleison in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoKherson eleison * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Lenguaje sin evolución in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoSpanish abstract: El lenguaje no puede entenderse al margen de la evolución. No basta sólo con explicar el surgimiento evolutivo de una “capacidad de lenguaje”, sino que también hay que explicar la evolución del lenguaje en sí, el lenguaje en acto y no en potencia. En suma, no sólo se trata de averiguar si nuestros ancestros hablaban, pues hoy c…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited तकनीकी बर्बरता के नए युग की शुरुआत है ऑनलाइन शिक्षा in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoनावेल कोरोना वायरस के अनुपातहीन भय के खिलाफ आवाज़ उठाने वालों में इतालवी दार्शनिक जार्जो आगम्बेन सबसे प्रतिष्ठित आवाज हैं। उनकी बातों का विश्व के प्रमुख अकादमिशयनों ने संज्ञान लिया है, जिसके परिणामस्वरूप कथित ऑनलाइन-डिजिटल शिक्षा के के विरोध की सुगबुगाहट वैश्विक स्तर पर आरंभ हुई है।
यहां प्रस्तुत है, उनकी एक टिप्पणी…
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Duncan Money deposited American Mining Engineers and the Global Copper Industry, 1880–1945 in the group
History on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoTransnational mobility was characteristic of the profession of mining engineer in the early twentieth century and the skills required in this profession encompassed both wide-ranging technical competencies and labour management, which clearly was racialized.
The chapter uses these two features of the profession of mining engineer to make two…[Read more]
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Matthew Connelly started the topic Free Digital History and Archiving Training Workshops at Columbia This Summer in the discussion
History on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoArchives as Data: May 22-June 2, 2023
Digital history and archiving are thriving, but the increasing volume of digitized and “born digital” materials for historical research also present new challenges for both archivists and historians. Typically, the only way to explore these resources has been through keyword searching. More direct access to…[Read more]
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Alexandre Roberts deposited Heretics, Dissidents, and Society: Narrating the Trial of John bar ʿAbdun in the group
History on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThis article analyzes narratives of a single series of eleventh-century events, the trial of Syrian Miaphysite (Jacobite) patriarch John bar ʿAbdun.
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Allan Savage deposited Philosophical Consciousness and Christian Humanity in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThis book is not a set of introductory essays. It has been written with the more seasoned philosopher in mind. I follow Leslie Dewart’s general understanding of consciousness as a means of personal
adjustment based upon the unique experience of a human being. He notes that consciousness as “human adjustment differs from the animal kind in that m…[Read more] -
Allan Savage deposited Philosophical Consciousness and Christian Humanity in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThis book is not a set of introductory essays. It has been written with the more seasoned philosopher in mind. I follow Leslie Dewart’s general understanding of consciousness as a means of personal
adjustment based upon the unique experience of a human being. He notes that consciousness as “human adjustment differs from the animal kind in that m…[Read more] -
Pramod Ranjan deposited विज्ञान और तकनीक की ओर था पेरियार का झुकाव in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoपेरियार के बारे यह तो सभी जानते हैं कि वे जातिवाद के मुखर विरोधी थे और उन्होंने दक्षिण भारत में ब्राह्मणवाद विरोधी आंदोलन चलाया। लेकिन उनके लेखन में गहराई से रेखांकित करने लायक बात विज्ञान और तकनीक के प्रति उनका आकर्षण है। वे विज्ञान और तकनीक के बूते भविष्य को देखते हैं और उसके अनुरूप समाज को तैयार रहने का आह्वान करते हैं। इसी तरह, स्त्…[Read more]
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Jason Goroncy deposited The Powers of Death: Recognition, Resistance, Resurrection in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThis essay is an invitation to examine the powers of death, particularly the modes by which such powers are manifested in the world, modes that relate to but are irreducible to an individual’s life. It considers contributions to the subject from Karl Barth, Walter Wink, and William Stringfellow, among others, to argue that while death and its a…[Read more]
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Jason Goroncy deposited Creation, God, and the Coronavirus in the group
Theology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThis short reflection argues that, in the face of natural crises that occur in the world, responsible Christian speech requires a much fuller and more thickly textured understanding of creation than is often presented. Reading the Bible leads us to avoid speculating on the origins or purposes of such crises. Rather, it bears witness to the divine…[Read more]
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