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Minor epic: Notes toward a different “Anthropoetry”
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.Abstract Anthropologists have often turned to poetry as a means of accessing emotional registers of which conventional academic prose is unable to avail. In doing so, they have tacitly conflated poetry with lyric poetry, today probably the most widely practiced poetic genre, associated in particular with the expression of inner feelings and subjectival
Stuart McLean
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Lexis, 2020 This paper attempts a reconstruction of Aeschylus’ satyr-play Heralds. As the myth of Erginus’ heralds and their mutilation by Heracles is shown to be unconvincing on many grounds, it explores the possibility that the satyrs turned up or out as ...
Poli Palladini, Letizia
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Pallas, 2018 This paper investigates how the Chorus of Aeschylus’ Eumenides has been revived on the stage to address modern socio-political issues. First, I focus on Sartre’s The Flies, created in Paris in 1943 during the German occupation.
Daria Francobandiera
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Plutarch on the childhood of Alcibiades [PDF]
, 2003 Almost four decades ago, Donald Russell published in this journal an analysis of the first sixteen chapters of theLife of Alkibiades, which consist largely of short self-contained anecdotes about Alkibiades' childhood, youth and early career (Russell ...
Duff, Timothy E.
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Histories of Untranslatability in South Asia: Historiography, Debates, and Problems, 1980–2010
History Compass, Volume 23, Issue 7-9, July-September 2025.ABSTRACT Untranslatability is not a separate field of study in history; rather, it is a conceptual lens that captures the concerns of certain strands of scholarship which have tended to somewhat problematize connections, translations, and mediation across imperial and colonial divides.
Vipin Krishna
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On recognizing the real: Beauty and affliction in Simone Weil
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 464-477, September 2025.Abstract If the guiding question of ethics is “how should I live?,” then the guiding question of aesthetics might be “what is beauty?” For Simone Weil, these two questions have intertwined answers that turn on a like conceptual apparatus. Focussing on Weil's foremost ethical problem, the plight of the afflicted (malheur), this article offers an account
Christopher Thomas
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The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Volume 127, Issue 3, Page 511-575, July 2025.Abstract The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity”.
Elias Papaioannou
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Patient autonomy in the context of digital health
Bioethics, Volume 39, Issue 5, Page 404-413, June 2025.Abstract Digital health opens the door to a promising horizon where the combination of several sciences and the application of new technologies can improve health, hope and quality of life. However, it is essential to ensure that such advances are compatible with and respectful of the right to privacy, data protection, right to information and freedom ...
Salvador Tarodo Soria
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European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 424-437, June 2025.Abstract Two theories dominate the current debate over the nature of verbal irony: the pretence theory and the echoic theory. It is common ground in this debate that irony is sometimes both echoic and enacted through pretence; my concern here is with such cases.
Gregory Currie
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American Journal of Political Science, Volume 69, Issue 1, Page 330-340, January 2025.Abstract Are demands for equality motivated by envy? Nietzsche, Freud, Hayek, and Nozick all thought so. Call this the Envy Objection. For egalitarians, the Envy Objection is meant to sting. Many egalitarians have tried to evade the Envy Objection. But should egalitarians be worried about envy?
Jordan David Thomas Walters
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