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The making of style: On the entanglement of algorithms and aesthetics
Abstract The global fashion industry is changing with the integration of digital technologies. Designers now employ digital design software, tools and technology to develop innovative designs, purchase fabrics and materials and market their new designs.
Heather A. Horst
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Functions and Forms of Verbality in Spiritual Practices and Practices Related to Them
Functions and forms, in which the verb is used in spiritual practices and practices related closely to them are analyzed systematically. The following classes of prac¬tices are considered: 1) Eastern-Orthodox hesychasm, 2) Hellenistic practices of the ...
Horujy S.S.
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L’epicureismo nell’opera di Leo Strauss
This essay aims to arrange and expose chronologically the references to Epicurus, Lucretius and the influence of their ideas contained in the works of Leo Strauss.
Raimondo Cubeddu
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Abstract Scholars have tended to interpret Thomas Nettleton's bestselling Virtue and Happiness (1729) as an Epicurean work. In contrast, I argue that this book was constructed partly from extensive paraphrases of the writings of Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson.
Jacob Donald Chatterjee
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Abstract This essay aims to reveal the conceptual unity of an ensemble of concepts of organic, animal, and anthropological life articulated by the young Karl Marx between 1842 and 1844. To lay the groundwork for my analysis, I begin with Marx's general account of “life as activity.” I argue that Marx articulates a hylomorphic theory of organic form in ...
Christopher Shambaugh
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A thematic analysis of Palahniuk’s fiction in light of Epicureanism
Chuck Palahniuk is a contemporary American writer whose novels have been adapted into acclaimed Hollywood motion pictures. Palahniuk’s literary style is often branded as modernist with nihilistic undertones.
Hesamoddin Shahriari, Ghazal Toosi
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The end of book 4 of De rerum natura is enigmatic for any reader well versed in Epicurean doctrine: beyond the Epicurean orthodoxy that warns us of the pleasures of love, book 4 actually insists on many joyful and pleasurable aspects of sexuality ...
Julie Giovacchini
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Aisthesis: a brief introduction to the aesthetics of affections
This article intends to present an introductory panorama of aesthetic studies from the bias of affections. In this sense, aesthetics is marked by human affections and not by correspondence with some criterion of beauty (consolidated vision in the fields ...
Renato Camassutti Bedore +1 more
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The Humanist at the Table. On the Pleasure of Feasting in Polish Renaissance
Italian humanists’ discoveries of ancient texts and printed editions of such ancient works as Lucretius’ De rerum natura, Plato’s Symposium or Apicius’ De re coquinaria strongly influenced the renewal of the Epicurean category of pleasure (voluptas) and ...
Dawid Barbarzak
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CHRONOPOLITICS OF CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY THROUGH THE NON SEQUITUR
ABSTRACT This article argues that classical philology can play a vital role in debates about the importance of philology now and configures a genealogy that may contribute to the quest for alternative philologies. Building on Werner Hamacher's definition of philology as “love of the non sequitur,” I turn to founding texts of Western classical philology
ALEXANDRA LIANERI
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