The Interface Between the Written and the Oral in lfa Corpus by Omotade Adegbindin

“… While the modernists in the field of African philosophy embrace writing as a precondition for philosophy and forcefully maintain the need to cast philoso­phy in the image of science, the traditionalists insist that African philosophy is essentially a philosophical reflection on African oral traditions, morals, and re­ligious practices. This essay argues that the intransigent relationship between the modernists and the traditionalists persists because the two dominant schools have failed to recognize the need to furnish a paradigm of interaction between their projects. …”
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The role of violence in the classics of Brazilian Social Thought by Bruno de Souza Lessa, Jaqueline Silinske

“…This essay had the objective of problematizing the role of violence in Brazilian social life and of discussing the relevance it poses in three classics of Brazilian Social Thought. …”
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Language and the African Philosophical Traditions by Kọ́lá Abímbọ́lá

“…Building on these and other works, this essay argues that: (i) incommensurability of “worldviews,” “perspectives,” “paradigms,” or “conceptual schemes” springs from deeper, more fundamental cognitive categories of logic that are coded into natural languages; and that (ii) consequently, as long as African reflective reasoning is expressed solely (or predominantly) in European languages, the authenticity of the “African” in African philosophy is questionable. …”
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Paradigmen von Animalität by Sabine Wilke

“…Die Zweisamkeit der Einzelgänger picks as its central topic the relationship between humans and animals and its stage representation. My essay focuses on the analysis of this relationship. …”
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Quando a linguagem é imprescindível à sobrevivência: Ó, de Nuno Ramos by Mayara Ribeiro Guimarães

“…Following this track, Nuno Ramos’ novel breaks lose from the traditional concept of realism and representation in literature on behalf of the staging of both literary tradition and the act of writing. This essay tries to portrait the problems engaged in this novel involving the debate of how contemporary brazillian literature brings back important issues questioned by brazillian literary tradition represented by pioneers of contemporary literature, such as Clarice Lispector.…”
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Mulheres, arte e poder: uma narrativa de contrapoder? by Ana Gabriela Macedo

“…My aim in this paper is to build on a fundamental essay by Linda Nochlin preci- sely titled “Women, Art and Power” (1988), where the author convincingly inves- tigates this triad while, in her own words, she “disentangles various discourses about power related to gender difference existing simultaneously with – as much surface as substractum – the master discourse of the iconography or narrative”. …”
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THEATRICAL LIFE AND REPERTOIRE OF THE MARIONETTE THEATRE OF ESTERHÁZ by Kata ASZTALOS

“…The focal point of the essay is an analysis of the functioning of the marionette theatre based on date, authors and works. …”
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Unpacking the beast of burden: Joerges on the constitutional, political, and epistemological baggage of European integration by Turkuler Isiksel

“…Christian Joerges is a scholar whose work spills over the conventional boundaries between public and private law, social science and legal theory, law and public policy, empirical inquiry and normative philosophy. This essay brings into focus Joerges’s under-appreciated role as a prescient, critical intellectual biographer of European integration. …”
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Pionieri in paradiso by Simonetta Grilli, Fabio Mugnaini

“… The essay reflects on the processes of redefining the forms of living in a rural community, Trequanda (in the province of Siena), which has experienced a partial repopulation since the 1970s with the arrival of individuals (couples and families of various ages) from diverse socio-cultural and geographical backgrounds. …”
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Nietzsche's Poethics: Poetry as a Way of Life in 'The Gay Science' by Philip Mills

“…To what extent is ethics dependent on poetics? In this essay, I argue that Nietzsche’s life-affirming ethics can be understood only in this poethical framework. …”
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Saline obtaining and time standardization of prothrombin using thromboplastin of human placenta. by María de Jesús Sánchez Bouza, Pedro Sánchez Frenes, Albert Vera Razumova, Miriam Soto González, Deysi González Sarría, Junior Jáuregui Solís

“…<strong>Background: </strong>Determining prothombine ‘s time is an important lab test in the study of coagulation disorders. To develop this essay the main reactive was thromboplastin , a substance that is presented in tissue and that has been obtained habitually from the human brain or certain animals but its extraction in labs or its commercial acquisition is difficult at present. …”
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Organisational resilience: a proposal of an integrated model and research agenda by Cristina Chaves Goldschmidt, Kely César Martins de Paiva, Hélio Arthur Reis Irigaray

“…This theoretical essay seeks to shed light on and synthesise the concept of resilience in relation to employees and organisations and to propose an integrated analysis model. …”
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‘Trustworthy Allies’: International Organisations, Ernest Hemingway, Women Activists, and Spanish Republican Exiles in Cuba by Daniel Fernandez Guevara

“…Notably, if the literature on US private aid groups is scant for the Spanish conflict, the research is simply non-existent for refugees who made their way to Cuba or the women in the United States who facilitated aid for these refugees. Thus, this essay addresses a crucial lacuna in the historiography by examining how US aid groups dealt with the crisis on the island. …”
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Bush versus Bin Laden in Time by Johann de Wet

“…The structural analysis focuses on the identification of the binary oppositions at play, uncovering the cultural code predominant at Time through its viewpoint and essay columns. It was found that the cultural code translates into: the United States and the Western World are the beacons of democracy and freedom, while Islam (more specifically Muslim fundamentalists) represents authoritarianism, repression and bondage. …”
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Exploring and Transforming Practices in Higher Education Within the Framework of Reconnection to Self, Others, and Nature: An Introduction by Mona Rechberger, Mariana Tolkatser

“…The collection includes this introductory paper on the project background, process, and outcomes, an essay on the experiences from the Value Creators (VC) and Managing Projects for Sustainable Development (MPSD) semesters, and two research articles on transformative teaching and spirituality in education. …”
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‘If this is of God’: Choosing to Curse in Ghanaian Charismatic Christianity by Mark S. Aidoo

“…In the African Pentecostal/Charismatic ministries, one finds pastors and prophets who are cursing their colleagues openly. This essay reflects on the cursing prayers of Bishop Dag Heward-Mills, the founder and Presiding Bishop of Lighthouse Chapel International, and Pastor Kelvin Elson Godson, founder of Zoe Outreach Embassy, Ogbodjo, Accra to explore their religious, ethical, and cultural justifications in contemporary neo-Charismatic ministries in Ghana in light of the African religious and cultural values. …”
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When lights turn off. Future perspectives to design smart homes by Matteo O. Ingaramo, Mila Stepanovic

“…Technologies have definitely an essential role in these transformations and global challenges aimed to change. This essay analyses the link between this general phenomenon and its particular effect on private citizens, focusing on the digitisation of spaces and, in particular, domestic spaces. …”
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A FEMININE OF NO ONE’S OWN IN CHARLOTTE TÁBUA RASA by Eider Madeiros, Letícia Simões Velloso Schuler, Mariana Pinheiro Ramalho, Hermano de França Rodrigues

“… This paper aims to essay an open and constructive dialogue between the very rupture that the trans female body evokes and the recent concept of “feminine of no one”, through an inductive approach that the latter could make it possible to be kept in a state of infiniteness, of openness, of incompleteness, of non-wholeness, the aspect that characterizes the surrounding and expressive territories of each one of the specific bodies that allow themselves to be situated more leaned onto the feminine. …”
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THE RECLAIMING CUBAN CULTURAL IDENTITY WHILE LIVING AS A CUBAN DIASPORA IN AMERICA AS DEPICTED IN CAMILA CABELLO “HAVANA” by Tan Michael Chandra

“…This perspective is highlighted through essay from Cabello herself, which notes the notion of cultural exchange and the life of the immigrants. …”
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Academic Classrooms as Rational Communications: (Review of the Book of Narrative from Academic Classrooms: The Lived Experience of University Professors) by Gholam Reza Azari

“…The importance and necessity of addressing classroom space are a valuable realm that can provide a variety of challenges for education experts and managers. Therefore, in this essay, the book "A Narrative of Academic Classrooms: The Lived Experience of University Professors" was attempted by Abbas Kazemi from the Institute for Cultural and Social Studies published in 1396.  …”
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