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‘One must eliminate the effects of … diffuse circulation [and] their unstable and dangerous coagulation’: Foucault and beyond the stopping of mobilities [PDF]
Foucault spent time investigating the stopping of mobilities, notably when studying carceral spaces such as asylums and prisons which effectively immobilise their inmates at a societal scale. In Discipline and Punish, he speculates on how such spaces are
Philo, Chris
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The Legend of Rothschild as the “Napoleon of Finance” in Dostoevsky’s Novel The Idiot [PDF]
The article analyzes the Rothschild theme in the novel The Idiot, a motif strictly connected with the myth of Napoleon, in which Dostoevsky was keenly interested during all his artistic life.
Nikolai N. Podosokorsky
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Ramadan and the Iftar Meal: A Qualitative Exploration of Signs of Disordered Eating in Muslim Men and Women Living in the United Kingdom. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Objective To qualitatively explore the lived experiences of fasting during Ramadan and the Iftar meal in Muslim adults with low self‐regulation (i.e., low ability to control) eating behavior. Methods Semistructured interviews were conducted with Muslim young adults, scoring below the threshold for low/moderate self‐regulation on the Self ...
Zubair A, Hale L, Jeraj S, Poole L.
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The article establishes poetic-typological correspondences between N. S. Leskov’s novel “Neglected People” (1865) and F. M. Dostoevsky’s novel “The Idiot” (1868–1869).
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Calendrical savants: Exceptionality and practice [PDF]
The exceptionality of the skills of calendrical savants and the role of practice were investigated. Experiment 1 compared four autistic calendrical savants to Professor Conway, a distinguished mathematician with calendrical skills.
Carney, Daniel, Cowan, Richard
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Resumo O participante da polis, no sentido grego, era aquele que deliberava sobre a vida coletiva. À condição de manifestado desinteresse pelo Estado, os gregos denominavam Ïδιoς (idiótes), de onde deriva o termo “idiota”. É na tensão entre gnosiologia e
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With its marriage plots and drawing room conversation, The Idiot, of all Dostoevsky’s novels, is the closest to a novel of manners. But the would-be society novel clashes with a theological imperative: the re-establishment of a Christological vision, which Dostoevsky introduces into the novel embodied in the Christ-like Prince Myshkin.
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A BEAUTY THAT SAVES: DOSTOEVSKY’S THEOLOGY OF BEAUTY THE IDIOT [PDF]
This paper examines Dostoevsky’s understanding of beauty and its place in The Idiot. Examining the historical and immediate environment in which Dostoevsky wrote the novel provides crucial insights into his conception of beauty.
Day, Joseph M
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Charles West: a 19th century perspective on acquired childhood aphasia [PDF]
Dr Charles West was the founder (1852) of the first paediatric hospital in the English-speaking world. In a career spanning four decades, he devoted a great part of his energies to describing the nervous diseases of infants and children.
Hellal, Paula, Lorch, Marjorie
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