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Islam at the monastery: on infinity as subtractive truth L'islam au monastère : de l'infini comme vérité soustractive

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
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Renaissance Aristotelianism

Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 2002
The medieval universities were diverse in their use of the Aristotelian heritage, and this diversity continued and flourished in the Renaissance (e.g. the non-theological approach in Italy), until the scientific revolution of the 17th century rejected ...
Paul Oskar Kristeller
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Una disputa storico-filosofica nella Torino del ‘500: Agostino Bucci interprete di Parmenide - A Historical-Philosophical Controversy in the 16 th century Turin: Agostino Bucci Interpreter of Parmenides

Rivista di Storia dell'Università di Torino, 2014
What was the level of philosophical discussion in the sixteenth-century Turin? The controversy conducted by Agostino Bucci in 1572 against the Neo-Platonic interpretation of Parmenides’ ontology in theological terms, in addition to being a little lesson ...
Simone Mammola
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The New Aristotelian Essentialists [PDF]

Metaphysica, 2017
Abstract In recent years largely due to the seminal work of Kit Fine and that of Jonathan Lowe there has been a resurgence of interest in the concept of essence and the project of explaining de re necessity in terms of it. Of course, Quine rejected what he called Aristotelian essentialism in his battle against quantified modal logic. But
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Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
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Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’: The ‘Prostitute’ and Britain's Fighting Arm in Nineteenth ̵ Century Colonial Punjab

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
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THE URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
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Meaningful Work, Post-Work, and Contemporary Aristotelianism

Problemos
The paper explores the relation between a contemporary Aristotelian conception of human flourishing and two critical perspectives on work. The meaningful work perspective inquires what kind of work would be meaningful, by arguing that meaningful work is
Egidijus Mardosas
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Fortunio Liceti tra Jean Bourdelot e Tommaso Campanella (con due lettere inedite)

Noctua
The subject of this article is the exchange of letters (winter 1634) between the French scholar Jean Bourdelot and the Aristotelian philosopher Fortunio Liceti.
Oreste Trabucco
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Critical Research Spaces as Scholarship: an Ethnography Lab as an Apparatus for the Experimental, the Imaginary, and the Relational

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The creation of critical research spaces, such as ethnography labs, studios, and other collaborative research environments, requires attention and attunement in anthropology to focus on the kinds of imaginative and generative spaces where creative ethnographic research can unfold as scholarship.
Fiona P. McDonald
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