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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
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
—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
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
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
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
’ 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
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
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
a political émigré and a master of Romantic irony, acknowledged in his Romantic school that “writers who languish under censorship […] yet can never disavow their heartfelt opinion have to resort to ... . McGann does not mention censorship in this context. But is not the abandonment of literary representation of the world in its socio-political concreteness also a “merit” of censorship prohibitions? Katy
political-ideological patterns with clear interests. Postcolonial studies have shown that cultural hybridisation, although not a recent phenomenon, has been accelerated by new types of life. In this sense ... be having an important influence on the shaping of the political and cultural life of Australia, are also fears still there. This sanitised or disguised imperialism sometimes appears in the guise of
economic, political and social development (Kissinger et al., 2021, pp. 1–2) . Scientists also do research in emotional AI products and their markets. Marvin Minsky in The emotion machine and Richard Yonck ... the “post-Pygmalionist” era. Cheng clearly demonstrates that these works, together with the researches in other disciplines such as sociology and technical philosophy, offer useful perspectives for the
unique solution to a problem that was both political and administrative. At the same time, there are parallels to other regions and ‘provinces’ of the Empire, as well as those of other European powers ... during the first half of the nineteenth century, and they should eventually be taken into account to reach a fuller understanding of the political influence on the production and circulation of literature
mater, along with their long-standing friendship, prominence and involvement 4 For the importance of the Commission and Helicon for Neohelicon, see Hajdu, 2008 , pp. 48–49. in public and political
, however, soon came to be criticized for not only uncovering but also legitimizing the convergence of political, economic and cultural hegemonies in the “world literary system.” The definitive works of the ... reappraised by a surge of new works in nationalism studies, more concerned with cultural than with socio-political determinants. Building on AnneMarie Thiesse’s observation that “[n]othing is more international
attention to the fact that “the focal themes and the countries invited as guests of honor objectify the core of the political component that makes up the internationalization of IBFs from non-English-speaking ... markets” (Sorá, 2021, p. 43) . That political impact on IBF (especially linked to the GoH) is palpable in different ways. Most visible is the institutional representation at the opening ceremonies of
l'Italie; de Staël; Visual studies; Nation building; Italian studies - genres is both literary, political and cultural (cf. Collot, 2011, de Certeau, 1990, p. 170, and Chevalier 1993, p. 121 ... “cultural depiction” of the nineteenthcentury Italy, and a portrait of the political decline of modern Italy. However, as Pacini and Sluga have shown, de Staël’s reasoning on arts is just as important as the
Hogan, and Paul Thom. The literature is constantly growing, see, e.g., the recent symposium on meaning in Philosophy and Literature 44 (2020), pp. 80-175. A review of the literature would require a book ... meaning). Theoretical thinking about verbal communication in disciplines like linguistics and philosophy does not, of course, underwrite the ordinary-language model. Yet the understanding of the
shouting its slogan, ‘Australia for the Australians’” (1954, p. 121). In the political context exemplified by this slogan from 1880 to 1914, most Chinese migrants to Australia faced hostile discrimination as ... nationalist writers followed the trend of the political denigration of Chinese patients. One such racist nationalist writer was Edward Dyson (1865–1931), whose poem “Ah Ling, the Leper” (1896) describes the
be used for the descendants of those who suffered the trauma of territorial displacement (exiles and migrations), ethnic and/or political persecutions, and the loss of relatives due to the consequences
