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Gregory Palamas’ Polemic against Nicephorus Gregoras: The Aspects of Syllogisms and of the Authors’ Attitudes Towards Secular Philosophy

open access: yesАнтичная древность и средние века
Gregory Palamas’ treatise Against the False Writings by Gregoras is not only a theological and polemical treatise on the nature of the Taboric light, as well as on the essence-energy relation in God, but also a pamphlet (psogos), shaping a negative image
Dmitrii Igorevich Makarov
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Beyond the causal theory? Fifty years after Martin and Deutscher [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
It is natural to think of remembering in terms of causation: I can recall a recent dinner with a friend because I experienced that dinner. Some fifty years ago, Martin and Deutscher (1966) turned this basic thought into a full-fledged theory of memory, a
Michaelian, Kourken, Robins, Sarah
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William E. Walling and the Pragmatist Foundations of Proto‐Western Marxism: A Re‐Evaluation and Critique

open access: yesConstellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reevaluates Walling as a neglected precursor to American Western Marxism, arguing that his 1912–1914 trilogy synthesized Marxist theory of his time and Deweyan pragmatism into a distinct “pragmatist conception of history.” Born into “aristocracy” yet radicalized, Walling's unique trajectory—as a co‐founder of the NAACP and critic ...
Paulo Antunes
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The Purview of the Particular: Power and Method in Foucaultian Genealogy

open access: yesConstellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT If Foucault was anything, he was a particularist. And yet, if we are to find valuable tools in his method today, they must be able to assist our framing and analysis of non‐particular issues. By what means can Foucault's methods grasp trans‐contextual problems?
Matt Kelley
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Fiscal grievance politics: wealth taxation and master‐race democracy in post‐coup Bolivia Politique des griefs fiscaux : impôt sur la fortune et démocratie de la race maîtresse en Bolivie post‐coup d’État

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
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On the problem of continuity: a theory of culture beyond invention Le problème de la continuité : une théorie de la culture au‐delà de l'invention

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Anthropologists, in common with social theorists more generally, have often understood social life as an emergent phenomenon grounded in practices of creativity and improvisation. Where stasis and continuity feature, these are often presented as illusory manifestations of underlying processes of ‘invention’, or as external impositions upon otherwise ...
Paolo Heywood, Thomas Yarrow
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What is at stake in taking responsibility? Lessons from third-party property insurance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Third-party property insurance (TPPI) protects insured drivers who accidentally damage an expensive car from the threat of financial ruin. Perhaps more importantly though, TPPI also protects the victims whose losses might otherwise go uncompensated ...
Vincent, Nicole
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Serendipitous ritualization: dynamics of lay connectivity in Chinese Buddhist temples and beyond Ritualisation fortuite : dynamique de la connectivité des laïques dans les temples bouddhistes chinois et au‐delà

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
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Islamic Philosophy in Contemporary Iran [PDF]

open access: yesحکمت اسرا, 2009
History bears witness to the fact that Islamic Iran was always a cradle for wisdom and philosophical thought. The great sages and mystics of this land—from FÁrÁbÐ to Ibn SÐnÁ, MawlÁnÁ RÙmÐ to SuhrawardÐ, and Sayyid Íaydar ÀmulÐ to MullÁ ÑadrÁ—are known ...
Muhammad Fanaie Ishkawari
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