The Empiricist Impulse: Doers and Thinkers in Sixteenth-Century Spain by Portuondo María M.

“…This essay explores the tension that existed between empiricism and the metaphysical underpinnings of Aristotelian natural philosophy in Spain during the sixteenth century. …”
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Cultural industries, nation and state in the work of Renato Ortiz: A view from inside the Anglosphere by Philip Schlesinger

“…This short essay reflects on Renato Ortiz’s work and its reception in the Anglosphere. …”
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Mary McLeod in conversation with Salomon Frausto and Leá-Catherine Szacka by Mary McLeod

“…In the essay, she examined the relationship between architecture and politics in the 1980s, a time of unprecedented change. …”
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The Eternal Night of Consumer Consciousness: The Metaphorical Embodiment of Darkness in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road by Inbar Kaminsky

“…The essay strives to conceptualize the consumer consciousness of the father and the son in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road by maintaining that post-apocalyptic America has created a new socio-economic status of the non-consumer. …”
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O Prefață uitată a lui Paul Zarifopol by Andreea Mironescu

“…Since this essay, entitled simply Prefață / Preface, is missing from all the editions of Zarifopol’s work, the second part of the article reproduces it end-to-end. …”
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Direito, política, autoritarismo e democracia no Brasil: da Revolução de 30 à promulgação da Constituição da República de 1988 by Cristiano Paixão

“…There were authoritarian and democratic constitutions in Brazilian politic and legal history. The focus of this essay will be on 1930-1945 and 1964-1988 periods. …”
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Fakecraft by Paul Christopher Johnson

“… The essay defines and explores the dimensions of ‘fakecraft’. …”
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Dickinson’s Ear by Jefferey Simons

“…This essay pursues the reference to and role of hearing in Emily Dickinson’s poetry. …”
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“Introduction to Metaphysics” A Critical Analysis to the Persian Translation by Mohammad Javad Safian

“…This essay will critically examine a translation of Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics”, in the hope of enriching the art of translation in the field of western philosophy. …”
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Virginia Woolf’s “New School of Biographies” and Eighteenth-century Life-Writing: a Sense of Kinship by Maryam Thirriard

“…This resulted in her 1927 essay “The New Biography” in which she praises Harold Nicolson as well as Lytton Strachey for making it new. …”
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Data Reshaped: Literalism in the Age of Digital Design and Architectural Fabrication by Eran Neuman

“…This essay examines the recent shift in the perception of literalism in architecture as a result of the advent of digital media and the emergence of digital design processes. …”
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D. A. Ọbasá: The Man and the Significance of his Cultural Activism by Adekemi Agnes Taiwo

“…The essay traces Obasa’s history; right from his birth to the period he became a renowned Yorùbá intellectual. …”
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The Zone in Reverse by Francesco Sebregondi

“…This essay proposes a reconstruction of the problem of logistics as seen through the prism of Gaza. …”
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Is All Discourse Official? On the Poetics of Gifting and Gossiping by Pierre-Héli Monot

“…This essay discusses gift-giving and gossiping in a canonical American novel (John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, 1939) by way of the two texts which sealed the fate of dominant literary scholarship after WWII: Marcel Mauss’s essay The Gift and Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Introduction to the Work of Marcel Mauss. …”
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Un General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) non molto general by Elena Bougleux

“…Before analyzing the technical merits of what is still possible to do and how to do it in compliance with current regulations, the essay discusses to what extent the concept of data as understood by the GDPR fits the case of our discipline. …”
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Originalita Kantovy nauky o trvalém míru by Chotaš, Jiří

“…The study discusses Kant’s doctrine of lasting peace contained in his essay Toward Perpetual Peace (1795). First, the historical-political circumstances surrounding the genesis of Kant’s essay are described. …”

Does Locke Have an Akrasia Problem? by Samuel C. Rickless

“…Starting in the second edition of the Essay, Locke becomes interested in the phenomenon of akrasia, or weakness of will. …”
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Being True, Sounding False by John T. Lysaker

“…The essay explores multiple senses of “true,” arguing that truth not only has a performative sense, but that certain performances can themselves be true as when a friend is a true friend. …”
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On Norman Mailer’s “The White Negro” (1957): More Than Six Decades Later by Andrew Urie

“…This article engages in an examination of Norman Mailer’s fascinating yet problematic essay “The White Negro” (1957). Drawing from humanities and social sciences perspectives, I employ an interdisciplinary approach that historically contextualizes Mailer’s essay while also examining how it continues to speak to contemporary American racial, cultural, economic, and socio-political issues.…”
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THE HAPPINESS CONTEXT IN INDONESIAN CULTURE (THE ROLE OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS IN TRANSLATING A CULTURE) by Muh. Nadir

“…This essay will discuss the interpretation of sociolinguistics in translating the culture of Indonesia regarding the happiness context. …”
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