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Martin Janello deposited Philosophy of Happiness: A Basic Primer in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoA down-to-earth exposition of the work by Martin Janello on the Philosophy of Happiness. It introduces the fundamental notions that happiness is of existential importance for individuals and humanity – and that we each have it within our power to improve our lives and make this a better world in the process. It also spells out that our success in…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Spencer and Dust in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoEnglish abstract: A vindication of the wide-ranging perspective of Herbert Spencer’s theories of cosmic evolutionism, as an intellectual enterprise far more ambitious and comprehensive than that of his contemporary Charles Darwin. (A retropost from 2011). _________________________________________________________________________________ Spanish…[Read more]
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Martin Janello deposited The Happiness Principle: Why We Need A Personal Philosophy Of Happiness in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoHappiness is a universal human objective. We all want to be happy. But how we define, pursue, and maintain happiness often seems vague and elusive. That is why we need a personal philosophy of happiness.
This presentation lays out the underlying considerations and examines why other avenues of securing happiness are not succeeding. And it…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Con la boca muy pequeña in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoUn comentario sobre la reacción de los estudiantes de la Universidad de Zaragoza, y la reacción institucional, ante el anuncio del Ministerio de Educación (en 2005) de una reforma que reduciría drásticamente el catálogo de titulaciones de Humanidades. ___________________________________________________________________________
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Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited «دوک همت» در دستان عنکبوت دورگه: پذیرش خلاق پروین اعتصامی از شعر والت ویتمن in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoپروین اعتصامی (۱۲۸۵ـ ۱۳۲۰)، شاعر نامدار معاصر، در شعرهایش از منابع متعددی بهره بردهاست؛ اما نکته جالب توجه این است که او در تمام این برداشتهای ادبی، اشعار خود را کاملاً از آثار پیشین متمایز میکند. پروین عناصری را که از آثار دیگران وام گرفته است هنرمندانه با عناصر شعر خود و سنت ادبی فارسی درمیآمیزد و آن را از آن خود میکند؛ به گ…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited The Temporality of Interlinear Translation: Kairos in the Persian Hölderlin (Representations, 2021) in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months agoThis article examines the temporality of interlinear translation through a case study of the rendering of Friedrich Hölderlin’s poetry into Persian. We argue that, in its adherence to the word order of the original, the interlinear crib prioritizes the temporality of the instant (kairos) over the temporality of the linear sequence (chronos). Ka…[Read more]
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Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited ‘The Female Rumi’ and Feminine Mysticism: ‘God’s Weaver’ by Parvin Iʿtisami in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoParvin Iʿtisami (1907–1941), the first important twentieth-century woman poet of Iran, was well versed in classical Persian poetry. Her knowledge of English language and education at the American school for girls as well as her father’s translations from foreign literature contributed to her appreciation of modern ideas, including women’s rights…[Read more]
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Samuel Baker deposited “The Forsaken Merman,” “The Little Mermaid,” and early modernism: Undersea imagery for the dissociation and dissolution of culture in the group
GS Poetry and Poetics on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoThis essay shows how marine imagery mediates thought about culture, by exploring a series of imagined submarine visions across an intertextual network that extends from Matthew Arnold’s poem “The Forsaken Merman” back to Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Little Mermaid,” across the Atlantic to William James’s writings, and thence to ess…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Sarcasmos, Indignaciones, Invectivas y Acres Aforismos contra los Enmascarillado(re)s in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoEs una desdicha vivir en el único país del mundo en el que el Virus ataca al paseante solitario en mitad de sus ensoñaciones campestres… Cuando el espacio público está ocupado por necios y regentado por pillos, el sarcasmo y la sátira son la respuesta más adecuada. Todo para enfatizar una cuestión muy simple que se ha perdido de vista: EL DERE…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Sarcasmos, Indignaciones, Invectivas y Acres Aforismos contra los Enmascarillado(re)s in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 4 years, 5 months agoEs una desdicha vivir en el único país del mundo en el que el Virus ataca al paseante solitario en mitad de sus ensoñaciones campestres… Cuando el espacio público está ocupado por necios y regentado por pillos, el sarcasmo y la sátira son la respuesta más adecuada. Todo para enfatizar una cuestión muy simple que se ha perdido de vista: EL DERE…[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, 5 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, 5 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, 5 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 Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak. A Fire of Lilies: Perspectives on Literature and Politics in Modern Iran in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoAs Seyed-Gohrab rightly mentions in the introduction to this volume, “poets and writers are so essential in the turbulent history of twentieth-century Iran that any history of modern Iran neglecting the role of literature … would be seriously incomplete” (14). This volume, focusing on the second half of the twentieth century, provides a his…[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
Poetics and Poetry 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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Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak. A Fire of Lilies: Women, Perspectives on Literature and Politics in Modern Iran in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoAs Seyed-Gohrab rightly mentions in the introduction to this volume, “poets and writers are so essential in the turbulent history of twentieth-century Iran that any history of modern Iran neglecting the role of literature … would be seriously incomplete” (14). This volume, focusing on the second half of the twentieth century, provides a his…[Read more]
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Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited Reza Taher-Kermani. The Persian Presence in Victorian Poetry in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 4 years, 6 months agoBuilding on the author’s PhD thesis on “the British cultural and imaginative engagements with Persia in the nineteenth century” (vi), the volume charts “the diversity of perceptions associated with Persia in Victorian literary culture” (2). It focuses on poetry as the medium through which to survey the Victorian conception of Persia. It consists…[Read more]
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