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Titus Stahl deposited Beyond the nonideal: Why critical theory needs a utopian dimension in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months ago“Ideal theorists” in contemporary liberal political theory argue that we can only arrive at a conception of what our most important political values require by reference to an imagined ideal state of affairs and that we must therefore, to some extent, engage in utopian thinking. Critical theorists, from Marx and the Frankfurt School, have tra…[Read more]
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Titus Stahl deposited Beyond the nonideal: Why critical theory needs a utopian dimension in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months ago“Ideal theorists” in contemporary liberal political theory argue that we can only arrive at a conception of what our most important political values require by reference to an imagined ideal state of affairs and that we must therefore, to some extent, engage in utopian thinking. Critical theorists, from Marx and the Frankfurt School, have tra…[Read more]
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Rita Singer deposited “A language of wet stones and mists”: The Caribbean Poet as a Traveller in Wales and England in the group
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThis article examines Derek Walcott’s “travel poems” about Wales and England from the collections The Fortunate Traveller (1981) and Midsummer (1984) through the prism of Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of littérature mineure. As a Caribbean poet, Walcott is placed both outside the centre of “majority”, post-imperial civilisation and within the s…[Read more]
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fengjun started the topic Submit your Proposal to The 6 th International Conference on Cognitive Poetics in the discussion
Literary theory on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThe 6 th International Conference on Cognitive Poetics
As we enter the third decade of the 21st century, tremendous changes have been found in both cognitive science and the study of literature. To explore the potential effects of cognitive science on the study of literature, Cognitive Poetics Association Affiliated to CCLA (Chinese Comparative…[Read more] -
Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Valencian Parliamentary Documents on the Internet in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThe purpose of this paper is to submit a project proposal regarding the publication of the Valencian Parliamentary papers in which we want to achieve three main goals: to digitize and transcribe the parliamentary sessions for later publication on the web, which will facilitate access to these texts for both the public and the scientific community;…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited El «Cancionero de Baena» como fuente historiográfica de la Baja Edad Media castellana: el ejemplo de Ruy López Dávalos in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoA pesar de que se trate de una tremenda obviedad, es obligado comenzar estas líneas destacando la forma totalmente distinta en que los historiadores se aproximan a una fuente escrita, los cancioneros castellanos, que, en principio, está destinada a ser campo de trabajo para el filólogo. Por encima del texto, por encima de la indudable riqueza fi…[Read more]
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