Aristotle and the Problem of Universal Accessibility in Leisure by Lianchong Deng

“…This redefinition presents leisure as a basic human condition, offering a possible solution to the problem of its universal accessibility. …”
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A Geocritical Reading of Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders by Dilek İnan

“…Spatial thinkers such as Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, Yi-Fu Tuan, Marc Augé, and Edward Relph have defined a set of vocabulary related to space which will be helpful to explore the ways in which Defoe’s characters have depicted the human condition and its relation to space. While the notions of locality, displacement, mobility, and placelessness are explored in a setting of eighteenth-century chaos, the paper helps to further studies in Defoe studies especially in evaluating spatiality and lived experience.…”
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La crise de l’urbain et la condition moderne dans les romans de Saul Bellow by Timea Lönhardt

“…This paper proposes to study the correspondence that Saul Bellow’s novels establish between the urban crisis and the human condition in the United States of the second half of the twentieth century, which will eventually entail a discussion of the writer’s conception of the modern world in its social, political and intellectual aspects. …”
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Walter Pater et la vieillesse : humanité et esthétique de la culture by Martine Lambert-Charbonnier

“…Looking back upon their own past, they remember their childhood and their first experiences and reflect on their own identity, on the human condition and on culture. Ageing is also an essential element in the arts, especially in architecture as buildings mature and ripen in the course of years and centuries. …”
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GÖRKEM AKGÖZ, “IN THE SHADOW OF WAR AND EMPIRE: INDUSTRIALISATION, NATION BUILDING, AND WORKING-CLASS POLITICS IN TURKEY” by Ivana Hadjievska

“…I believe that it is an important review subject, as it is a representative of the new currents in the field of labor history, where through a discursive approach to the sources testifying the human condition of the working class, new knowledge is gained about the processes of nation-building and capitalist modernization. …”
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„Święta misja profesora Abronsiusa”. Fantazmaty, abiektalność i transgresje w filmie Romana Polańskiego "Nieustraszeni pogromcy wampirów" by Jakub Rawski

“…This leads to the exegesis of the film from a poststructuralist perspective with a focus on the existential and sexual aspects of vampirism, a topos analyzed by Maria Janion in terms of being a bloodsucker in the face of death, in the face of sex, and in the face of the tragic human condition. The ontic status of the beast seems to be particularly noteworthy if you consider its evolutionary aspect and the role that Polanski’s film played in this regard.…”
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Regionalizm jako wielopłaszczyznowa forma podtrzymywania kultury lokalnej i języka: uwagi do lektury „Nowego bedekera kaszubskiego” Tadeusza Bolduana by Stanisław Puppel

“…In this paper, the view is proposed that human culture appears fundamental in resolving the problem of ‘the human condition’. Its holistic nature comprises all tangible and intangible aspects, including artefacts, language and communication. …”
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Exiles and Their Ethico-political Responsibility: by Mohammad Akbar Hosain

“…Borrowing ‘exile’ theorization of Edward Said and Ashwini Vasanthakumar, first I will focus on the definition and function of the exile and then will examine how this human condition sketched in Saffron Dreams is ‘exilic’ by those definitions. …”
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Modeling the Encephalopathy of Prematurity in Animals: The Important Role of Translational Research by Hannah C. Kinney, Joseph J. Volpe

“…Translational research in preterm brain injury depends upon the delineation of the human neuropathology in order that animal models faithfully reiterate it, thereby ensuring direct relevance to the human condition. The major substrate of human preterm brain injury is the encephalopathy of prematurity that is characterized by gray and white matter lesions reflecting combined acquired insults, altered developmental trajectories, and reparative phenomena. …”
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« The arrested step », Nightwood de Djuna Barnes : « Une image est une halte que fait l’esprit entre deux incertitudes » by Christiane Guillois

“…Against a backdrop in which night is indistinguishable from day and characters are denied their wholeness, the body, essentially the body seen in movement, appears as the paradox inherent in the human condition. The reader encounters five characters drifting towards madness in an unsettled world, and a startlingly poetic prose that constantly disrupts the flow of events as it relentlessly explores their existential depths. …”
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Athens or Rome? A New Perspective on the Political Philosophy of H. Arendt by Simas Čelutka

“…According to established readings of The Human Condition, Arendt is generally regarded as a ‘Graecophile’ whose thought is underwritten by ‘Athenian nostalgia’. …”
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« Nul n’entre ici s’il n’est géomètre ». Mathématiques, sciences et philosophie à l’école élémentaire : instaurer un nouveau rapport au savoir grâce à des discussions à visée philo... by Yvan Malabry, Edwige Chirouter

“…By the regular implementation of sessions, young pupils learn to problématiser, to conceptualize and to argue of big universal questions touching the human condition. It is the didactics of the philosophy that so developed these last years. …”
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Incertezza, precarietà, capacità di immaginazione del futuro e modernità: un confronto tra Appadurai e De Martino by Alessandro Mancuso

“…In both cases, their starting point is in fact the uncertainty of human condition and social orders, and at the heart of their theory, there stands the issue of identifying the different kinds of ethos and cultural activity which permit people to historically and existentially confront this uncertainty through establishing their belonging to a “cultural homeland” (De Martino) or forms of social imagination which shape the capacities of constructively projecting themselves into the future (Appadurai). …”
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Freedom as a natural ability in Roman law by Bronisław Sitek

“…Conclusions This was the result of the recognition that freedom is a natural human condition, which was clearly expressed by the lawyer Florentinus.…”
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Transcendence of the Human Far Beyond AI—Kafka’s <i>In the Penal Colony</i> and Schopenhauerian Eschatology by Søren Robert Fauth

“…The technological development in recent decades has been extraordinary, leading to new attempts to overcome the all-too-human condition. We dream of conquering death, upgrading our bodies into perfect performance machines and enhancing our intelligence through bio-nanotechnology. …”
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Literature and Sociology: A Siamese Twins’ Journey from Entwined to Estranged by Asmaa Ramil

“…It argues that both remain inextricably linked in their endeavours to illuminate the human condition. This research ultimately postulates that the fluidity between these disciplines encourages a holistic understanding of society, fostering creativity, empathy, scientific inquiry and critical thinking.…”
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Między widzialnością a autentycznością w demokracji by Piotr Łukomski, Filip Pierzchalski

“…The starting point for presenting the tension between authenticity and visibility resulting from Arendt’s assumptions will be a discussion of the attributes of a contemporary pluralistic society from the point of view of her theory of the human condition. …”
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Revisiting Agamben’s Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life – A Critical Review by Md. Lab Hossain, Mahmuda Akter

“… Agamben is one of the most influential living thinkers in the world, and within the constellation of his oeuvre, the highly influential Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (1998), explores the relationship between sovereignty, law, and the human condition, focusing on how modern political power is related to human life and how this power can inclusively exclude people from the protection of the law. …”
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Of Human Bondage and the Question of Free Will by Mahinur Akşehir Uygur

“…However, the novel exceeds these simplistic approaches, touching upon the most intriguing questions of the human condition: the triggering principles of human actions and the question of free will. …”
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