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Why good work in philosophical bioethics often looks strange. [PDF]
Theor Med Bioeth, 2023 Moen OM.
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[Review of] Charlotte H. Bruner, ed. Unwinding Threads: Writing by Women in Africa [PDF]
, 1986 Looking at the map of Africa locating contributors to this collection of women writers, one is struck by the seeming over-representation from some countries -- Ghana, Algeria, Egypt, Republic of South Africa -- and the vast stretch of lands that have ...
Allen, Virginia
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The Fear of Aesthetics in Art and Literary Theory [PDF]
, 2017 Is aesthetics, as has recently been claimed, now able to meet the accusations often levelled against it? This essay examines counters to three of the most common: that aesthetics is based around overly narrow conceptions of "art" and "the aesthetic ...
Rose, Sam
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Mediating Islamic State| Iconic Socioclasm: Idol-Breaking and the Dawn of a New Social Order
International Journal of Communication, 2020 The Islamic State articulates its claim for legitimate authority through texts, audio messages, and still and moving images. In addition, among the practices employed to classify “genuine” Islam and its boundaries, the destruction of cultural properties
Christoph Günther
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Folia Historica Cracoviensia, 2019 On Christmas of the year 811, Emperor Michael I Rhangabe solemnly crowned his elder son Theophylact in the church of Hagia Sophia. On this occasion, he offered to the cathedral numerous precious gifts, among which was a set of four curtains embroidered ...
Piotr Grotowski
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‘Dark Tourism’ and the ‘Kitschification’ of 9/11 [PDF]
, 2012 This paper aims to interrogate the framing of New York’s Ground Zero as a ‘dark tourist’ destination, with particular reference to the entanglement of notions of kitsch in academic discussions of the events of September 11th 2001.
Adorno T. W. +24 more
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Medieval Heresis and Protestantism
, 2018 In addition to the current social and political circumstances, the appearance of heresies and reform movements during the Middle Ages. was largely determined by the educational tendencies and movement of humanism, which concentrated on the matter of the ...
Angelovska-Panova, Maja
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Notes on mirror visions in 'Modesty Blaise' [PDF]
, 2013 Modesty Blaise (Joseph Losey, 1966) travels the cinematic distance between an opening shot of the seemingly contented sleeping face of its star Monica Vitti and an extreme close-up of her eponymous character’s over-stimulated, rapacious look directly at ...
Grant, Catherine
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Is Aesthetic Good? A Study on the Aesthetic and Vitality Judgment of Pictorial Representations of the Dead, Saints and Non-Saints. [PDF]
Behav Sci (Basel), 2022 Schieppati SV +4 more
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