L’image de la France dans Freie Gedanken zur Verbesserung der menschlichen Gesellschaft (1752) de Johann Michael von Loen by Catherine Julliard

“…It tries to assess the part of gallophobia which characterizes those essays, in the spirit of the anti-French libels of the 17th century. …”
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“Speaking Out of the Most Passionate Love” – James Baldwin and Pragmatism by Ulf Schulenberg

“…In order to elucidate one possibility of approaching this complex question, the article discusses James Baldwin’s essays. It is argued that Baldwin’s essays can be used to show the significance of a middle ground between Cornel West’s prophetic pragmatism and Richard Rorty’s liberal version of neopragmatism. …”
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De l’usage de la « crise » dans les essais de vulgarisation d’histoire économique au Chili (1860-1960) by Stéphane Boisard

“…Nevertheless, in between these two essays, most of the intellectuals who worked on the chilean economic history criticized this theory. …”
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Black Women’s Radical Religious Epistemologies in Mahogany and Steepled Towers by CL Nash, Carol Marie Webster, Geeta Patel

“… The essays in this issue explore the diverse ways in which Black women’s religious epistemologies challenge conventional theological narratives. …”
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English goes digital: Framing pre-service teachers’ perceptions of a learning management system in their EFL studies by Kapranov Oleksandr

“…., non-teacher EFL students) were requested to write a short reflective essay associated with the use of the LMS in their EFL course. …”
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Les écrits philosophiques d’Yves Simon aux États-Unis (1939-1945). Essai de biographie intellectuelle by Bernard Hubert

“…These essays were soon translated into English (The Road to Vichy: 1918-1938; The March to Liberation; Community of the Free). …”
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Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf: an Artist and a Critic? by Liliane Louvel

“…This time, this article will examine the issue from a point of view opposite to the commonly adopted one, that is, it will not examine only what Virginia wrote about painting in her essays, in her letters or in her novels, but first and foremost what Vanessa had to say about painting and literature in the short volume, Sketches in Pen and Ink prefaced by her daughter, which contains most of her essays.…”
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Values of the Land: Kinships as Climate Solutions in ‘The Honorable Harvest’ and ‘Land as Pedagogy.’ by Abigail Morton-Wilcox

“…I centre my analysis of these essays around four values: care, consent, respect, and reciprocity. …”
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« Lost… and found in translation » : la relation au monde dans The Missing Shade of Blue de Jennie Erdal (2012)Regards d’un traducteur sur sa pratique by Gilles ROBEL

“…Subtitled a « philosophical adventure », the novel focuses on a French translator who has come to Edinburgh to work on a translation of Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume’s Essays. The author of the article is himself the author of a translation and critical edition of Hume’s Essays who knew Jennie Erdal and agreed to let her use his experience in the novel. …”
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Cheesecake Manor, Californie : Raymond Chandler entre roman à énigme et roman hard-boiled by Isabelle Boof-Vermesse

“…Ultimately, what is at stake in the essays is to establish hard-boiled fiction as canonic literature.…”
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Reading the Sensual in James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room by Ronnel Keith Berry, Michael Thomas

“…These techniques connect Baldwin’s literary persona and its transformations with the form and content of his essays, providing a framework for analyzing the tension between heteronormative love and queer desire experienced by David in the novel. …”
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Gottfried Semper, chroniques parisiennes 1849-1850. Contributions à une architecture comparée by Isabelle Kalinowski, Estelle Thibault

“…An examination of the essays written by architect Gottfried Semper during the first year of his career as a political émigré in the second Republic of France brings about interesting insights on this topic. …”
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L’histoire et « l’avenir possible » : Laroui, Djaït et la modernité du Maghreb dans les années 1970 by Idriss Jebari

“…In 1974, Abdallah Laroui and Hichem Djaït, two emerging Maghrebi historians and intellectuals wrote political essays affirming the necessity of re-historicizing the national projects of Tunisia and Morocco. …”
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Is Truth to Post-Truth what Modernism Is to Postmodernism? Heidegger, the Humanities, and the Demise of Common-Sense by Klaus Benesch

“…This essay argues that there is no such thing as post-truth. …”
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Roger Fry: Art and Life by Christopher Reed

“…This piece presents, in their totality, two little-known texts by Roger Fry: one an exercise in emotional self-analysis and the other a rumination on mosquitos. These essays are analyzed to consider Fry’s application of formalist aesthetics to the problems of life.…”
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Editorial Note by Suvi Rautio

“…This issue contains three peer-reviewed articles, three book review essays, and four research reports. …”
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FOREWORD by N. Wolterstorff

“…Rare is the book that is both about justice and about art and beauty. This collection of essays is one of those rare books. The writers are stepping out into almost virgin territory. …”
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“Past fearing death”: Epicurean ethics in Measure for Measure by Jonathan Pollock

“…The numerous allusions to Montaigne’s Essays and Lucretius’ De rerum natura, especially in Act III of Measure for Measure, suggest that non only an “evangelical” but an Epicurean reading of the play is possible, according to which the Duke is not so much a divine figure as an atomist philosopher, advocating measure (and pleasure) in all things.…”
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