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Amphibian Habits: Freedom, Death, and History in Hegel's Account Of Second Nature

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Hegel's concept of habit is key to his account of social freedom. But it also appears preclude free reflection on social norms. Recent readers have either minimized this problem or concluded from it that social freedom necessarily implies new forms of unfreedom. This paper aims to avoid the latter conclusion while taking seriously its critical
Eskil Elling
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Pronoun inflection in the North Sea Germanic languages: The dative-accusative levelling in the first and second person singular

Filologia Germanica
North Sea Germanic languages were closely related in the Middle Ages, sharing many phonological, morphological and lexical features. A conspicuous grammatical parallel among these languages is found in the system of personal pronouns.
Rosella Tinaburri
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Historical Contemporaneity and Contemporaneous Historicity: Creation of Meaning and Identity in Postwar Trauma Narratives

Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture, 2017
This paper contends that traumatic memories are not inherently memories of an experienced trauma. It explores a new perspective on post-1945 Jewish-American fiction.
Thorsten Wilhelm
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“Of the Ruin and Conquest of Britain”: The Anglo-Saxon Transformation of the British Isles

, 2015
The history of Britain after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire has traditionally been perceived as one of invasion and domination at the hands of Germanic peoples most commonly known as the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes.
Caswell, Bryan G.
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Hegel and Utopia

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT G.W.F. Hegel is usually held to be anti‐utopian in his political philosophy. I aim to challenge that standard reading, outlining and defending a more positive account of his relation to utopianism. The rational state described in Hegel's Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts (1820) is shown to fit an uncontroversial account of utopia without ...
David Leopold
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Substrate lexical influence on Germanic in the light of the language contact theory

Brünner Beiträge zur Germanistik und Nordistik, 2014
The author discusses the lexical influence of the Pre-Germanic substrate into Proto-Germanic, demonstrating the phenomenon of borrowing and infiltration in Proto-Germanic in the light of modern contact theory. The most obvious examples, e.g. Gmc. *hundaz
Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak
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Early Medieval World (Chapter 2 of World History, A Short, Visual Introduction)

, 2015
The fifth through the tenth centuries was a period of significant transformation for Europe. As a result of the Germanic invasions and the collapse of the economy, the last Roman Emperor in the West, Romulus Augustulus (475-76), was deposed in 476.
Corning, Caitlin
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Identity Signifiers In Contemporary Russian Films: A Lacanian Analysis [PDF]

, 2000
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Swaffar, Janet
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On Schopenhauer's Debt to Spinoza1

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Schopenhauer offers ‘nature is not divine but demonic’ as a direct rebuttal of Spinoza's pantheism, his identification of ‘nature’ with ‘God’. And so, one would think, he ought to have been immune to the ‘Spinozism’ that became, as Heine called it, ‘the unofficial religion’ of the age.
Julian Young
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The Proto-Germanic pluperfect [PDF]

, 2010
The Germanic perfect presents (Präteritopräsentien) form a past tense by adding the endings of the weak preterit to the stem of the past participle, e.g. Go. wissa ‘knew’. This is a recent formation (cf. Kortlandt 1989). We may therefore ask ourselves if
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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