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ABSTRACT This account explores how circumstances verging on the other‐worldly alter human perception and consciousness in a fieldwork situation. The case study involves an archaeological field survey team stranded for a time on a remote Lapland mountain.
Aki Hakonen +2 more
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Beyond Climate Security: Reframing the Climate‐War Nexus Through Bataille's General Economy
Abstract The spectre of resource scarcity as a cause of war is dominant in discussions about potential links between climate change and armed conflict. Via engagement with Georges Bataille's theory of a general economy of the biosphere, this article conceptualises the relationship between climate change and war by focusing on resource excess as a ...
Gitte du Plessis
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The Social Truth of Schopenhauer's ‘Metaphysics of Pity’: Compassion and Critical Theory
Abstract Taking Horkheimer and Adorno's account of pity in the Dialectic of Enlightenment as my starting point, I show that Schopenhauer's compassion‐based moral theory exemplifies key elements of this account. In particular, this moral theory will be shown to possess a social truth for Horkheimer and Adorno because it is an expression of a wrong ...
David James
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In Defense of Metaphysics: A Kantian Approach to the Philosophy of Chiropractic. [PDF]
Thornhill JT.
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Hegel's Theory of Absolute Spirit: Reflexive Practices in Hegel's Social Philosophy
Abstract This paper argues that Hegel's concept of absolute spirit should be understood as central to his social philosophy. Rather than designating a metaphysical endpoint, absolute spirit refers to reflexive practices—art, religion, and philosophy—through which societies critically engage with the norms and assumptions that structure social life ...
Markus Gante
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Worlds Apart, Te Ao Māori and Western Worldviews in Aotearoa, New Zealand. [PDF]
Spelman AH, Dieriks BV.
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The relationship between social life and emotions. Adam Ferguson and sociology. [PDF]
Bevilacqua E.
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Enduring Crises of the Nation‐State: How Spatial Imaginations Reshape Identity and Dis/Unity
ABSTRACT This article reframes the contemporary “crisis” of the nation‐state not as a simple erosion of sovereignty but as a problem of spatial misalignment: adaptive states remain strategically embedded in dense transnational regimes, yet domestic legitimacy falters when unitary national imaginaries confront heterogeneous, multi‐sited social realities.
Erdem Bekaroğlu, Suat Yazan
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ABSTRACT This study examines how an inclusive public sphere was constructed at Erenler, a literary coffeehouse in 1980s Istanbul, amid Turkey's post‐coup authoritarian climate and deepening ideological fragmentation. In the aftermath of the military coup, a period marked by traumatic depoliticization and the suppression of public sphere, Erenler ...
Ahmet Uysal +2 more
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Brexit, the Rise of China, and the Future of the Liberal International Order and Great Power Competition. [PDF]
de Paiva Pires S.
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