What Dewey Knew. The Public as Problem, Practice, and Art by Laura Bieger

“…This essay takes the present “post truth” threat to democratic politics as an occasion to revisit John Dewey’s view of the public as a political actor that is both indispensible for the project of modern democracy and vulnerable to self-effacement. …”
Get full text

Money Talks: Language, Work and Authorship from The Music of Chance to Sunset Park by Aliki Varvogli

“…This essay explores the various ways in which Paul Auster has written about money in his novels throughout his career, and argues that there are continuities as well as differences which reflect the author’s increased concern for the lived world and the socio-economic forces that shape it. …”
Get full text

Le Musée imaginaire de Jean Dubuffet ? Réflexions sur la documentation photographique dans les archives de la Collection de l’Art Brut by Baptiste Brun

“…In 1947, while Malraux had the first essay in the Psychologie de l’art series, entitled Le musée imaginaire, published by Éditions Albert Skira, Jean Dubuffet and some associates opened the Foyer de l’Art Brut in the basement of the Galerie René Drouin in the place Vendôme in Paris. …”
Get full text

De l'obéissance à la révolte ? by Diana Martins

“…The aim of the present essay is to circumvent the occasional limitations imposed by the available sources and adopt a broader approach, taking the Prince's perspective as the starting point whilst seeking to understand, through various testimonies, the manner in which the successor was involved in his father's diplomatic efforts. …”
Get full text

Le droit à l'autodétermination comme droit moral by Xacobe Bastida Freixedo

“…In the current essay we will try to prove that self-determination is a moral right –a legitimate and justified claim– that, as such, should be integrated as far as possible in a democratic constitution. …”
Get full text

Translating Merwin: Navigating Nature, Place, and the Apo Koinou by Helmbrecht Breinig

“…Beginning with Merwin’s own concept of translation, this essay links his work as a poet and translator with early and recent theories of language and translation. …”
Get full text

“Writing about War”: Dương Thu Hương’s Representations of the Vietnam-American War by Subarno Chattarji

“…Dương was appalled when the communist party clamped down on all freedoms and she expressed her dissent in public and through her fiction. This essay analyses two of her novels in English translation, Novel Without a Name (1995) and Memories of a Pure Spring (2000), focusing on recurrent thematics that are central to these works, including the paradoxes of remembrance, critiques of war, the idea of fiction as testimony, and indictments of communist orthodoxy and double standards.…”
Get full text

Teaching Architecture in Palermo by Andrea Sciascia

“…The essay focuses on today’s education at the Architecture University of Palermo, outlining a general context from two points of view. …”
Get full text

‘All is well’: The Construction of Martyrdom in the Diary of Emily Hawley Gillespie (1838-1888) by Claire SORIN

“…Hovering between revelation and secrecy, the diary seeks to immortalize its author as an ideal mother, patient wife and perfect invalid. This essay, which focuses on the last years of the diarist’s life, explores how the writing of pain and suffering seeks to sublimate the present and shape the future. …”
Get full text

In the Shadow of the “Indeterminate Speech-Act”: The Populist Politics of Rumor in Fritz Lang’s Early Sound Films by Florian Zappe

“…Based on Gilles Deleuze’s claim that rumor has been a “cinematographically privileged object” in early sound cinema, this essay will provide a political analysis of the representation of rumor in two early sound films in the transnational oeuvre of Fritz Lang. …”
Get full text

Os males do Brasil são: a doença como elemento distintivo da condição de ser brasileiro by Ermelinda Maria Araújo Ferreira

“…This essay was born of the intention to compare the data collections on the empirical-traditional medicine in Portugal and Brazil, on the initiative of Michel Giacometti, naturalized Portuguese, whose work, recently discovered , was collected in the volume Artes de Cura e Espanta-Males (2009), and the Brazilian writer Mário de Andrade, author of Namoros com a Medicina (1937). …”
Get full text

Dangerous Conversations in The Duchess of Malfi by John Gillies

“…The proposition of this essay is that conversation exists as a theme in its own right in The Duchess of Malfi. …”
Get full text

Égalité, complémentarité, concurrence. La violence entre les “sexes” au Sénégal à l’épreuve du “genre” by Giovanna Cavatorta

“…Thanks to the analysis of a trial for conjugal violence, the essay discusses the stakes of power that are brought to light by its genderization. …”
Get full text

La fille en boîte : naissance d’une perversion au Japon by Agnès Giard

“…In 1972, Shibusawa Tatsuhiko (1928-1987), translator of Georges Bataille and Marquis de Sade, publishes an essay – “Introduction to collections of girls” (Shôjo korekushon josetsu) – expanding the idea according to which girls, being objects by definition, arouse in men the desire to make a collection of them, i.e. to own several specimens of girls and preserve them in boxes. « More the individuality of a woman is restricted within the limits of her sole existence, more she is deprived of words, more she becomes nothing but a fragment of object, more man’s libido burns with a pale and burning flame », writes Shibusawa. …”
Get full text

İNSAN DOĞASI ÜZERİNE by Halilrahman Açar

“…This essay attempts to bring a new approach into clarifying human nature from a different philosophical point of view. …”
Get full text

Oor die teologiese inhoud van die Belydenis van Belhar by D. J. Smit

“… The essay argues that the theological content is indeed the most important contribution of Reformed confessional documents, but that the theological content can only be understood against the specific historical, which most often means socio-political, circumstances in which these confessions were originally adopted. …”
Get full text

Cooked Air by Elizabeth Galvez

“…Through an examination of ASHRAE Standard 62.2, this essay asks why is it that, as ventilation processes become increasingly measurable, there is an equal tendency to reverse awareness in relation to the human sensation, when the standard itself underlines the reality of both phenomenal and intellectual knowledge towards air quality assessment. …”
Get full text

Eduquer le désir : Foucault, Freud et les sexualités impériales by Ann Stoler

“…In this essay, I am interested in two problems: the ways in which the language of Freud has entrenched itself in the general field of colonial studies, and the tangled coexistence of Freud and Foucault, more specifically, in analyses of colonial racism. …”
Get full text

Phonological and Sociolinguistic Challenges of Translating Yorùbá Play, and Game Songs to Singable English for Children by Bolanle O. Sogunro

“…To investigate the translation problems involved and proffer solutions, this essay analyses five randomly selected Yoruba songs and seven of their available English translations from online sources and an unpublished manuscript, using sociolinguistic translation theory and the analytical framework of Franzon’s song translation choices. …”
Get full text

Rhythm, contagion, "cosmic race” by Lorena Grigoletto

“…The aesthetic notion of rhythm, as well as shifting the discourse on mimesis from the visual to the acoustic-emotional dimension, nevertheless presents the characteristics and risks of what Scheler calls “unipathy” or contagion and acquires a particularly important significance when considered as the theoretical premise of the famous Vasconcelian essay The Cosmic Race (1925). This article reconstructs the link between the notions of rhythm, contagion and “cosmic race” to reflect on the question of otherness, on the mimetic-rhythmic processes of the individual and socio-political body, and on the risk of the “desymbolisation” of thought that such a process perhaps conceals. …”
Get full text