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Educational Theory, Volume 75, Issue 5, Page 936-961, October 2025.Abstract In contemporary contexts of digitalization, proliferating media, and generative AI, various “life hacks” are regularly recommended to disconnect and resist distraction, ranging from meditation to getting back to nature to unplugging. This paper traces contemporary concerns over “the attention crisis” into a longer signature — the frequently ...
Antti Saari, Bernadette M. Baker
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Asketiske praksisser i Koranen: Vigilien som case
Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2016 In this article, I propose that Peter Sloterdijk’s etymological definition of áskesis as an ‘exercise’ is useful when approaching the Qur’ānic attitude(s) to ascetic practices, including in particular the text’s references to vigils. From a close reading
Johanne Louise Christiansen
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Reading the Creed in the Light of Pentecost: An Eastern European Pneumatic Reflection
International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 507-524, October 2025.Abstract Reading the Creed through pneumatic lenses is essential for understanding both humanity's eschatological destiny in the likeness of the Trinity and the consistently triune economy of salvation. In light of this assertion, the essay highlights aspects of the Creed's explicit and implicit pneumatology, offering a reflection from an Eastern ...
Daniela C. Augustine
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Socratic Askesis in the Symposium
Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia, 2019 The present paper attempts to explain Socrates’ remark in Symposium 212b, where the expression “diapherontos askein” is used to describe Socrates’ attitude towards erotic matters [ta erotika]. The analysis of the dialogue shows that a human being with a reliable power of Eros and knowledge about the proper way of life should strengthen their character ...
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REWILDING GERMAN STUDIES: NOTES FROM AN EXPERIMENT
German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 3, Page 289-303, July 2025.Abstract This contribution reports on the ‘Rewilding German Studies, Rewilding Pedagogies’ event held in January 2024 at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin under the title ‘Day of Dialogue and Reflection’. As well as describing the day's proceedings, we highlight the main points of discussions that emerged between the participants and give insight into ...
Hanna Bingel‐Jones, Tina‐Karen Pusse
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La letra y la verdad: Askesis, escritura y prácticas subjetivantes en el estoicismo romano
Bajo Palabra, 2016 El presente trabajo intenta analizar la importancia que juega la escritura como práctica constitutiva del sujeto ético-estético en los esquemas filosóficos de los estoicos romanos.
S. Díaz
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THE OTHER DEMOSTHENES. ON POSSIBLE FORMS OF PHILIATION BETWEEN ECOLOGY AND PHILOLOGY
German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 3, Page 380-393, July 2025.ABSTRACT Beginning with the oratorial askesis of Demosthenes and its use of nature as a tool for the amplitude and clarity of the human voice as a ‘Vexierbild’, this article suggests that the appropriation of philology to serve a particular end (rather than being an end in itself) risks repeating the very injustice that ecocritical discourses are ...
Elliot Sturdy +2 more
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Enseñar la sophrosyne: el uso del elenchos del Sócrates de Jenofonte
Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental, 2021 En contraste con la abundante discusión que podemos encontrar en torno a la representación realizada por Platón sobre el elenchos socrático, poco ha sido trabajado con respecto al elenchos tal como aparece en Jenofonte.
Gabriel Danzig
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The Heythrop Journal, Volume 66, Issue 4, Page 351-366, July 2025.Abstract In line with José Esteban Muñoz's claim that ‘[t]he future is queerness's domain’, this article presents an approach to transgender and non‐binary identity that is orientated towards a horizon in which there is ‘no longer male and female’ (Galatians 3:28).
Sam Fletcher
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René Girard's Revision and Misapprehension of Psychoanalysis
International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Volume 22, Issue 2, June 2025.ABSTRACT René Girard's theories of mimetic desire, religious sacrifice, and violence have been immensely provocative and influential. His ways of framing literary desire and conflict are fascinating, as they illustrate how desire and rivalry unleashed lead to violence and derangement.
Jerry S. Piven
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