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Grumpy brand: Reading literary prize fiction
Abstract Literature and literary texts tell their own story about how value is produced, awarded, and institutionalized. This article examines the classic narrative of becoming an award‐winning author, when the focus shifts from the sociology of cultural prizes to poetic strategies that playfully expose the exhaustive list of market‐driven ...
Irina Hron
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(Re)Introducing “Secular Religion”:On the Study of Entangled Quests for Meaning in Modern Western Cultures [PDF]
The disenchantment of reality has bankrupted conventional sources of meaning for many people in modern Western cultures. This has led a growing number of figures and groups to search for alternative sources of meaning. Typical of their quests for meaning
Vliegenthart, Dave
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Abstract The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity”.
Elias Papaioannou
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Crossing the Threshold: Mysticism, Liminality, and Remedios Varo’s Bordando el manto terrestre (1961–2) [PDF]
In this article we propose to take up the question of the painter’s work in connection with liminality more explicitly. We will argue that the limen Varo’s heroines cross is a psychological one that takes them through a process culminating in a rebirth ...
O'Rawe, Ricki, Quance, Roberta
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Orientalisms in the interpretation of Islamic philosophy [PDF]
In this paper, I argue that Edward Said’s central thesis in Orientalism has a direct explanatory role to play in our understanding of the work produced in at least one area of scholarship about the Arab and Islamic worlds, namely Arab-Islamic philosophy ...
Khalidi, Muhammad Ali
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A structural view of corporate purposes
European Management Review, Volume 22, Issue 4, Page 859-879, December 2025.
Margaret Blair +3 more
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Simón Rodríguez and the sentimental roots of social republicanism
Abstract In this article, I claim that Simón Rodríguez, a 19th‐century Venezuelan thinker, used and reconfigured Jean‐Jacques Rousseau's understanding of amour‐propre to construct a new political foundation for Latin America. He sought to channel it and other sentiments toward productive ends with a social education. In doing so, Rodríguez departs from
Alejandro Castrillón
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Index to HCSB and JHCS Vols. 1-22 (1988-2009) [PDF]
An index to the publication from the first volume through the current ...
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Titian's Bacchus and His Two Loves
Abstract Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne represents not only Bacchus' attraction to Ariadne, as has long been recognized, but also his infatuation with a boy‐satyr, Ampelos, who struts at the centre of the composition. The little satyr's identity, recognized in the seventeenth century, but overlooked by modern scholars, is confirmed by newly revealed ...
Fern Luskin
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Angelology in situ : recovering higher-order beings as emblems of transcendence, immanence and imagination [PDF]
The aim of this study is twofold: to identify the theological purpose underlying the depiction of angels at certain key points in the history of their use, and to explore how far that deeper theological rationale can be re-appropriated for our own day.
Potter, Dylan D.
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