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Civilization and barbarism

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2017
The reflections on civilization, barbarism, and their intricate relationship, which were put forward in ancient Greece, from Herodotus to Aristotle, had a longterm impact.
Carlo Ginzburg
doaj   +6 more sources

Learning to Bury the Dead during COVID-19 - Barbarism or Indigeneity? [PDF]

open access: yesPrehosp Disaster Med, 2020
To the Editor, The journal has lately published about “COVID-19 and Unfinished Mourning” and it has rightly expressed the continuing grief and psychological impact that families of those who have lost loved ones experience during the pandemic.1 Learning ...
Kahambing JG.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Between Barbarism and Progress: Enlightenment Historical Writings on a Major Conflict in Russian History

open access: yesChanging Societies & Personalities, 2020
The dichotomy of barbarism and progress has long been a focal point for the discussions about Russia’s past and present. The discourse on Russian barbarism had been known in Europe since at least 16th century, but Enlightenment thinkers gave it a new ...
Sergei V. Sokolov
doaj   +2 more sources

Kant on Race and Barbarism: Towards a More Complex View on Racism and Anti-Colonialism in Kant

open access: yesKantian Review, 2019
Whether Kant’s late legal theory and his theory of race are contradictory in their account of colonialism has been a much-debated question that is also of highest importance for the evaluation of the Enlightenment’s contribution to Europe’s colonial ...
Oliver Eberl
exaly   +2 more sources

Academic Barbarism Reconsidered—A Comparative Study of Vladimir Nabokov’s Pnin and Qian Zhongshu’s Fortress Besieged

open access: yesComparative Literature: East and West, 2020
In Academic Barbarism, Michael O’Sullivan coins the eponymous term and analyzes its diverse manifestations. He believes that the notion is worthy of more attention both in academia and beyond.
Derong Cao
exaly   +2 more sources

Naturmenschen? Alexander von Humboldt and Indigenous People

open access: yesHistories, 2023
In the numerous texts he wrote about his grand voyage to the Americas (1799–1804), the Berlin-born, highly influential, independent scholar Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) considers the people in Spanish America time and time again. While Humboldt was
Joachim Eibach
doaj   +1 more source

The Historical Background of the Definition of Barbarism and its Occurrence in The Literary Texts

open access: yesIndonesian Journal of Innovation Studies, 2022
The article defines the word barbarism and its historical etymology. It studies its occurrence in the poetry and literature of the world.
Universitas Muhammadiyah Dr. Hindarto   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Chinese loanwords in the novel Blue Lard by Vladimir Sorokin [PDF]

open access: yesИзвестия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: Серия Филология, Журналистика, 2023
The article discusses the Chinese loanwords that appear in the novel Blue Lard by Vladimir Sorokin. The novel contains an allegory of the Russian language of the future.
Yu , Linghong
doaj   +1 more source

Polygamy, State Racism, and the Return of Barbarism: The Coloniality of Evolutionary Psychology

open access: yesStudies in Social Justice, 2022
This article examines the race-thinking and colonial reasoning circulating in two recent developments in Canadian law with respect to polygamous marriage: the Polygamy Reference (2011) that upheld the Criminal Code provision on polygamy and the Zero ...
Suzanne Lenon
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Recovering Shakespeare's Racial Genealogies: Slavery, Barbarism, and Whiteness in Hamlet and its Sources

open access: yesShakespeare Quarterly, 2022
the Danish prince Amleth is deported to England by his uncle, who has killed Amleth’s father, married his ...
K. Gillen
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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