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Political Theory, Political Science, And The End Of Civic Engagement [PDF]
, 2009 Within a span of fifteen years civic engagement has become a cottage industry in political science and political theory, but the term has now outlived its usefulness and exemplifies Giovanni Sartori\u27s worry about conceptual stretching.
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Immanent Anthropology: A Comparative Study of 'Process' in Contemporary France [PDF]
, 2014 This paper presents a comparative critique of the ‘processual temporalities’ which infuse both social-scientific theorizing and selected Western cultural practices.
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On the Proper Treatment of Dynamics in Cognitive Science
Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract This essay examines the relevance of dynamical ideas for cognitive science. On its own, the mere mathematical idea of a dynamical system is too weak to serve as a scientific theory of anything, and dynamical approaches within cognitive science are too rich and varied to be subsumed under a single “dynamical hypothesis.” Instead, after first ...
Randall D. Beer
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Nach dem Tod von Wisława Szymborska [PDF]
, 2012 There are many treatises concerning the soul. Plato was not the first to write on the subject. From Greek philosophy and religion the soul wandered over to Christianity.
Arendt, Dieter
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Conversations with Robert: “Jews as Jews” and the Critique of the Critique [PDF]
, 2019 I first met Robert some twenty-five years ago. I had just begun my PhD. As time passed, it was evident that things were not working out between me and my then supervisor, and Robert, whom I had met earlier, stepped in and offered to take over.
Seymour, D.
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La radicalidad del mal banal [PDF]
, 2002 El concepto de ‘banalidad del mal’ fue introducido por Hannah Arendt a fin de caracterizar una forma inédita de perversidad que ella vio encarnada en Adolf Eichmann y otros criminales nazis.
Marrades Millet, Julián
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The Problem of Post-Truth. Rethinking the Relationship between Truth and Politics [PDF]
, 2018 ‘Post-truth’ is a failed concept, both epistemically and politically because its simplification of the relationship between truth and politics cripples our understanding and encourages authoritarianism. This makes the diagnosis of our ‘post-truth era’ as
Vogelmann, Frieder
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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Writing Against the Machine: Computational Authorship and Historical Writing
History, EarlyView.Abstract Historians generate knowledge through the labour of composition – through the friction between interpretation and evidence that makes claims open to scrutiny and challenge. This essay argues that when composition is bypassed, that structure disappears. Generative AI raises this issue in urgent fashion.
CHRISTOPHER GERTEIS
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What is social science if not critical?
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.Abstract This short article represents a contribution to the debate on the motion “Social science is explanation, or it is nothing.” While in the format of parliamentary debating the contribution would fall on the side of the opposition, I will not be arguing against explanation as such.
Jana Bacevic
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