CORRESPONDENCE AGAIN? INTERNAL REALISM AND THRUTH by Sami Pihlström

“…Putnam’s pragmatic version of realism can even be seen as accommodating the traditional idea of correspondence truth, provided that this notion is liberated from all kinds of essentialism. The Putnamean pragmatist does not share Niiniluoto’s and other realists’ desire to "define" truth. …”
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U.S. public television in the digital era: from niche to “Greek marketplace”? by Hélène Palmeri

“…Are the contradictions and the problems inherited from the liberal tradition really surpassed? We first look into how public television emerged in the U.S., with what missions, financing and structures, then in the second part we study what is left today of the initial ideal and whether or not current conditions are favorable to public media. …”
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Margaret Thatcher et la BBC : régulation ou manipulation ? by Daniel Ruff

“…Ministers and party members instituted a concerted attempt to intimidate the BBC, most especially its news and current affairs programmes, whenever the latter did not report national politics and international events to the government’s liking. Proposed neo-liberal reforms to the system of funding the Corporation and negotiations for regular increases in the value of the licence fee were similarly opportunities to exert pressure on the BBC and to call into question its public service remit. …”
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CORRESPONDENCE AGAIN? INTERNAL REALISM AND THRUTH by Sami Pihlström

“…Putnam’s pragmatic version of realism can even be seen as accommodating the traditional idea of correspondence truth, provided that this notion is liberated from all kinds of essentialism. The Putnamean pragmatist does not share Niiniluoto’s and other realists’ desire to "define" truth. …”
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Nearly General Septic Functional Equation by Ick-Soon Chang, Yang-Hi Lee, Jaiok Roh

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Bevorworten, Befürworten. Postkoloniale Solidarität in Paratexten von Jean-Paul Sartre und Amilcar Cabral by Lisa Brunke, Christian Wimplinger

“…Am Beispiel von Jean-Paul Sartres Vorwort zu Frantz Fanons Les damnés de la terre (1961) und Amilcar Cabrals Vorwort zu Basil Davidsons The Liberation of Guiné (1969) zeigt sich, wie allographe Vorwörter in postkolonialen Kontexten politische und soziale Allianzen formen. …”
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Un imaginaire sans images ? Des touristes en (dés)amour by Olivier Lazzarotti

“…Et ses chansons, entre ordre et libération, un des modes de contrôle politique de ce qui, par définition, est le moins contrôlable, la rencontre entre deux humains.…”
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FROM AND AFTER 1990: ON LITHUANIAN MENTALITY AND MODERNIZATION by Marius Povilas Povilas Šaulauskas

“…Although such leftover impedes the consolidation of stable liberal democracy interfering with the disclosure of the Political, nevertheless it also helps to lessen the burden of the unprecedented massive transformations by mitigating pernicious outbursts of ANOMIA. …”
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Relire pour nous relier by Cassandre Martigny

“…This article will analyse how these authors unravel the source texts to weave a new text that gives voice to the character itself and restores the place of love and couple relationships through a liberating language. The « constellation », understood as a critical paradigm, emphasizes this dialogue between past and present, between the text and its readings and interpretations. …”
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Epithelioid malignant mesothelioma presenting as a retroperitoneal mass: Report of a rare case by Rong Gao, Jian-Kang Zeng, Yi-Zhang Tong, Chun-Yu Ma

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Competing Partisan Regimes and the Transformation of the Voting Rights Act, 1965-2015 by Jesse H. Rhodes

“…This paper interprets this event as the most recent symptom of a long-term partisan and institutional struggle over the scope of federal voting rights enforcement. Lingering liberal Democratic influence in Congress, coupled with conservatives’ fears of violating the norm of racial equality, obstructed Republican diminution of federal voting rights enforcement via legislation. …”
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Le Multiculturalisme et l’Irlande du Nord by Michel Savaric

“…First, we explore the origins of multiculturalism as a theory which emerged mainly in Canada among liberal thinkers. Then we look at the attraction of this model in Northern Ireland whereby the conflict is explained as resulting from a lack of recognition of “cultural identities,” each community being perceived as possessing its own, clearly distinct culture. …”
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Les nouveaux intellectuels religieux saoudiens : le Wahhabisme en question by Stéphane Lacroix

“…Since that period, most of these intellectuals have become prominent figures in the “islamo-liberal” movement, which emerged out of part of the Islamist opposition, and calls for democratic reform within an Islamic framework, as well as a revision of the dominant Wahhabi religious discourse. …”
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The Eternal Return. Apocatastasis and its Manifestations in Ancient Philosophies: Pythagoreanism, Stoicism, Zoroastrianism, Platonism and Gnosticism by Alexandru LAZĂR

“…In Gnosticism, apocatastasis takes on an eschatological and soteriological dimension, referring to the liberation of the soul from the material world and the return to the divine origin. …”
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Entre dire et faire : discours scientifique sur le changement climatique et adaptation du système ferroviaire français by Vivian Dépoues, Jean-Paul Vanderlinden, Tommaso Venturini

“…The second section of the article questions this approach considering both the properties of a changing climate (uncertainties and variability) and the current context of the railway sector, facing major other challenges (ex.: liberalization, renewal). The article shows how adaptation as we can observe it today, is the outcome of the interactions between scientific discourse and the complex reality of organizations.…”
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Les élections européennes de 2014 : une analyse comparative des résultats aux échelles nationale et régionale by Christian Vandermotten, Pablo Medina Lockhart

“…It opens on a classification of the political parties, leading to an elementary typology : parties developing a leftist critics of the ruling forms of the European policy ; parties agreeing with the ruling trends of the European agenda, either on a social-democratic or labour basis, or on a liberal, conservative or christian-democratic one ; eurosceptic or europhobic parties, on the basis of rightist and/or nationalistic attitudes. …”
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Arrows of Desire: Dance and Power in Transnational Cinema by May Telmissany

“…Associated with female emancipation rather than moral decline, the practice of oriental dancing is perceived as a symbol of subaltern expression, a site of female solidarity and a tool for sexual liberation. The rehabilitation of this practice in transnational cinema opens up a new space to reflect upon the "dispositifs" of desire and power as the immanent principle of the reorganization of forces in society. …”
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Two Stages of Turkey’s Quest for a Regional Power Status in the Middle East: An Integrated Role- Status-seeking Approach by Tayyar ARI, Omar MUNASSAR

“…Since 2002, Turkey has actively been seeking a regional power status in the Middle East through the articulation of regional roles based on historical legacy and liberal experience. Theoretically, the paper seeks to contribute to regional power literature by integrating role theory with status-seeking theory and examining the interactions between them. …”
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Genealogies of African Nationalism and the Idea of Africa by Bongani Ngqulunga

“… The historiography of the African nationalist movement in South Africa tends to focus on the struggle for political liberation. What gets marginalised, often, is that early African nationalists envisioned their political mission as not only bringing about inclusive freedom, but also to establish what they called ‘the ‘New Africa’ or ‘the regeneration of Africa’. …”
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Taphonomic variation in vascular remains from Mesozoic non-avian dinosaurs by M. H. Schweitzer, W. Zheng, E. Dickinson, J. Scannella, A. Hartstone-Rose, P. Sjövall, J. Lindgren

“…Here, we use a suite of micromorphological and molecular techniques to examine vessel-like material recovered from the skeletal remains of six non-avian dinosaurs, representing different taxa, depositional environments and geological ages, and we compare the data obtained from our analyses against vessels liberated from extant ostrich bone. The results of this in-depth, multi-faceted study present strong support for endogeneity of the fossil-derived vessels, although we also detect evidence of invasive microorganisms.…”
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