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Metaphors of violence and survival: Primo Levi’s philosophy of chemistry

myths such as Tantalus and Homer’s Odyssey, but primarily also through the use of metaphor. Close attention is paid to the role of chemistry in Levi’s life, his philosophy of chemistry, how it influenced ... particular his philosophy of chemistry and the use of chemical metaphors in coming to terms with the harrowing experience of his year in Auschwitz. Levi’s career as a chemist started at the University of Turin

The Roman and Viennese indices of prohibited books in Austrian and Bohemian lands under Maria Theresa

officials, nor the areas it applied to. It was more forgiving toward scholarly and older Protestant, political, and philosophical works. It treated pseudo-scholarly and more recent Protestant works, as well ... probably did not even notice it). Both the Roman and Viennese censors prohibited those works on philosophy and especially political philosophy that, in their view, opposed the established religious and

The United States and the Need for an Improved Global Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century: How History Shaped Our Identity as a Nation

of the United States enabled it to develop continuity in its initially experimental political system—a continuity that was never available to Europe. These factors enabled the United States to be in ... and the Need for an Improved Global Citizenship in the Twenty-First 2 Part of the European History Commons , Law Commons, Political History Commons, and the United Follow this and additional works at

Who is at the helm? Mary Wollstonecraft’s contribution to the romantic construct of the imagination

—through Price’s theology and moral philosophy—in the Platonic and pagan as well as Christian Neo-Platonic traditions, she arrived several years before Wordsworth or Coleridge not only at an intuition of the ... Wollstonecraft” Susan Hutton explored the influence of Richard Price’s rational political and moral philosophy on Wollstonecraft’s radical political views. In her book of 2017 Eighteenth-century dissent and

Dobbs and the Future of Liberty and Equality

assumption that the Court is unlikely to issue rulings that deviate significantly from widely-held societal values, especially if held by a significant percentage of political conservatives. The Court will ... equality will depend less on Dobbs and more on the moral and political views of the swing Justices. 2023] CONTENTS INTRODUCTION

The New Dread, Part II: The Judicial Overthrow of the Reasonableness Standard in Police Shooting

, the Court has erected a standard that reflects modern conservative political ideology, including race conservatism, law and order, increased police discretion, and the deconstruction of the Warren ... regressive response to black demands for economic, social, and political equality and an end to oppressive policing.5 The response was considered radical at the time because it endeavored to haul the country

Methodological Gerrymandering

can “gerrymander” their interpretive methodology to make it very likely that constitutional doctrine implements their political or ideological preferences for how society should be organized. This ... into a variety of political commitments, visions of society, and theories of human behavior.”). 3 Responses to Dobbs, such as Professor Laurence Tribe’s, who analyzed the case both in terms of its

“I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free”: A Lamentation on Dobbs v. Jackson’s Pernicious Impact on the Lives and Liberty of Women

U.S. 744, 769–70, 775 (2013) (unconstitutionality of DOMA Sec. 3). 27 The Dobbs Court stresses that the issue of abortion is a political question, not a constitutional one. As such, the Court asserts ... mediated processes controlled by political parties and the legislatures Published by EngagedScholarship@CSU, 2024 9 310 CLEVELAND STATE LAW REVIEW [72:301 lived experiences of women and the Court’s

Climate change and migration

interconnections of real political, economic, and environmental problems with fictional renderings of solutions. Film and literature show more starkly than news media how shortages and want are the result of a ... central to these imaginings is a consciousness of both the inevitability of mass migrations and of the profound social, political, and economic destabilizations such migrations will incur. In imagining the

Got Bounded Rationality and Political Gridlock? There's a Loan Disclosure Hack for That

................................................127 GOT BOUNDED RATIONALITY AND POLITICAL GRIDLOCK? 107 IV. PROPOSAL TO ADD ENHANCED & INTERACTIVE APRS & OTHER INTERACTIVE TOOLS TO THE LOAN ESTIMATE FORM SO BORROWERS CAN DECIDE WHETHER TO ACCEPT ... Despite Consumer Psychological Realities, 5 N.Y.U. J.L. & BUS. 617, 708–12 (2009); Debra Pogrund Stark et al., Ineffective in Any Form: How Confirmation 2020] GOT BOUNDED RATIONALITY AND POLITICAL GRIDLOCK

Transcending the national: on worlding the peripheral literatures

the right to be different, to be other. Various historical and political changes have brought various forms of otherness, reflecting not only the position of literature and culture in a given society ... the French comparatist Pascale Casanova who criticised the concept of universal literature as a set corpus of texts transcending the national, political and linguistic horizons. She claims that literary

Rethinking Patent Law's Exclusive Appellate Jurisdiction

The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit was created in 1982 to unify and clarify patent law, inter alia. It was built from political compromise after the Hruska Commission, which ... severe political hurdles, this Article urges that the uniformity problem should never have been addressed by eliminating regional appellate court jurisdiction in patent law. The problem was with the

Liberal Originalism: The Declaration of Independence and Constitutional Interpretation - Symposium: History and Meaning of the Constitution

political process. “Liberal originalism,” by contrast, maintains that the Constitution should be interpreted in light of the political philosophy of the Declaration of Independence. Liberal originalism ... set out to do in my seminar paper for Professor Abraham’s class was identify the appropriate political philosophy through which the Constitution should be interpreted.4 I quickly expanded my seminar

Burning: silenced rage in Lee and Faulkner

emotion. By exploring the possibilities for non-violent expressions of rage, the article ultimately considers the political ramifications of considering rage as primarily individual and suggests that we can ... violent pitfalls of considering rage as primarily individual. I will return to this point and the political ramifications of articulating rage in the conclusion. While the film leaves it famously ambiguous

Putting the Brakes on California's Emissions Standards: An Analysis of the Legal Challenges California's Advanced Clean Cars II Standards Will Face

.33 If all three of these elements are met, then any state may follow California’s standards rather than the federal standards promulgated by the EPA. b. Political Controversy with the §7543 Waiver ... argument in Massachusetts v. EPA—which the Supreme Court rejected.39 The question left unanswered is whether the decision was motivated by the political interest of the presidential administration or a

Assessing the Future of “Offended Observer” Standing in Establishment Clause Cases

408 (“The law of Article III standing, which is built on separation-of-powers principles, serves to prevent the judicial process from being used to usurp the powers of the political branches.”); Davis ... & Reaves, supra note 20, at 27 (“Standing ensures that federal courts do not exceed their authority and serves to prevent the judicial process from being used to usurp the powers of the political branches

Framing, rewriting, and reception in world literature: the case of Wolf Totem

’ interest. Thus, the 2008 edition’s book covers highlighted both universal themes and cultural peculiarities. However, the political framing of the Cultural Revolution and the author’s political life were not ... publisher constituted powerful cultural capital for the book. Framing political controversy The 2008 and 2009 editions featured a starred review by Kirkus Reviews (“Wolf Totem,” 2008a) . It highlighted

The Habsburg monarchy in the long nineteenth century: new directions in censorship research

language and literature collided here with the insistence on developing an autonomous literature and poetic language. Social and political diversity between representatives of the state and the church (the ... individuals, the emergence of social systems and especially the emergence of literature as an autonomous art form that is not bridled by political, religious or moral standards anymore, make its control

The Anti-Constitutionality of the Deeply Rooted Test in Dobbs v. Jackson

-rcna7404; Mili Godio, Amy Coney Barrett’s Political Views, From Abortion to Gay Marriage, NEWSWEEK (Oct. 12, 2020), https://www.newsweek.com/amy-coney-barretts-political-views-abortion-gay-marriage1537849 ... protection from the majoritarian political process. Recognized suspect classes include racial minorities, women, immigrants, and nonmarital children.169 On the other hand, a non-suspect class is a group that

Anatomy of the “deathly silence”: Slovenian newspapers in Carniola and the pre-March censorship

religiosity, and above all their political thoughts and actions” (Slodnjak, 1949, p. 13) . The proponents of Slavinja soon put together and submitted a publication program, but the two reports that came to ... assessment—and this is perhaps the most surprising thing—there is no moral or political disqualification of the publishers, only “technical” arguments: the publishing project was not thought through enough, it