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In medias res: the diminishing of historical continuity in modern thought
Acta Academica, 2023 Innovation and future predictions are discussed as the main goals of modern technology. Living in this empirical, modern world set on the future has the possibility of diminishing the value of historical continuity as observation and outcome-based theory
Kara Te Water
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Specimen poetics: botany, reanimation, and the Romantic collection [PDF]
, 2017 This essay argues that the modern literary anthology—and specifically its aspiration to delimit both aesthetic merit and historical representativeness—emerged as a response to changes in eighteenth-century botanical collecting, description, and ...
Porter, Dahlia
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Toponymic Restoration in Irkutsk
Проект Байкал, 2015 The article analyzes the discussion on restoration of historical names of public spaces in Irkutsk. It also reviews different approaches to the problem that appeared in the historical science and publicism.
Alexander Snarsky
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Thinking intergenerationally about motherhood [PDF]
, 2008 This paper draws on The Making of Modern Motherhoods study, which explores how a contemporary generation of women are creating motherhood, and how intergenerational dynamics of mother daughter relationships can provide insight into the interplay of ...
Thomson, Rachel
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It’s About Valence: Historical Continuity or Historical Discontinuity as a Threat to Social Identity
Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 2017 National identity is underpinned by historical representations. Recent research shows that narratives presenting an in-group’s history as discontinuous rather than continuous raise collective angst, suggesting that historical discontinuity threatens ...
Jenny Roth +3 more
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A Vision of Modernity: Narratives of Historical (Dis)continuity in Oman
Arabian Humanities, 2022 Be it in academic publications, official speeches or ordinary narratives, the history of Oman and the foundations of its modern nation-state usually appear as a continuous teleological process.
Corina Lozovan
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Historical Criminology and the Explanatory Power of the Past [PDF]
, 2019 To what extent can the past ‘explain’ the present? This deceptively simple question lies at the heart of historical criminology (research which incorporates historical primary sources while addressing present-day debates and practices in the criminal ...
Bourdieu P +24 more
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An institutional palimpsest? The case of Cambodia’s political order, 1970 and beyond [PDF]
, 2015 © 2015 Taylor & Francis. How do continuity and change coexist and coevolve? How does continuity enable change and change reinforce continuity? These are central questions in organizational and political research, as organizational and institutional ...
Clegg, S +3 more
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Neo-Aristotelian Naturalism and the Evolutionary Objection: Rethinking the Relevance of Empirical Science [PDF]
, 2018 Neo-Aristotelian metaethical naturalism is a modern attempt at naturalizing ethics using ideas from Aristotle’s teleological metaphysics. Proponents of this view argue that moral virtue in human beings is an instance of natural goodness, a kind of ...
C Andreou +32 more
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State history, historical legitimacy and modern ethnic diversity [PDF]
, 2016 How much does the antiquity of states, and the sometimes arbitrary nature of colonial boundaries, explain the modern degree of theory of ethnic diversity and income disthnic diversity?
Bleaney, Michael, Dimico, Arcangelo
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