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Leviathan

Rivista di Estetica, 2022
Is Hobbes right, in that, life is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short?” Will resource scarcity always revert us to our most animalistic nature? In this work of space travel ethical short story fiction, the space cruise liner the narrator is on is hit by a rock. It is severely damaged and some of the crew is injured.
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Der Kalte Krieg und die "binären Termini"

Genealogy+Critique, 2015
This essay explores Foucault's critique of binary and antagonistic modes of thinking with regard to Cold War's confrontational discourses and the politics of détente.
Patrick Kilian
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Apophatic and Cataphatic Ways of Soviet Political Theology

Социология власти
The discourse of political theology developed by Schmitt makes it possible to identify a secular religion in Marxism. Marxism is aimed at achieving an “earthly paradise”. In the Soviet project, based on the “dictatorship of the worldview” (Berdyaev), its
D. V. Popov
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Hobbes' account of life in the state of nature and its implications [PDF]

Srpska Politička Misao
In an infamous paragraph in his magnum opus, Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes describes what he perceives to be the miserable condition of humankind in the state of nature, concluding that human life in this state is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short ...
Matić Ivan
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Human role in the concept of «Computational Leviathan»

Семиотические исследования
Computational sociology is a subfield of social philosophy that views social relations in the context of comparing them to a computer. «Computational Leviathan» is a concept of computational sociology that draws an analogy between society and social ...
Igor I. Keosidi
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Power after power: Arendt on power accumulation in Leviathan [PDF]

Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini
Hannah Arendt claims that Thomas Hobbes argued for power accumulation, offering what she describes as the "blueprint" for 19th-century imperialism. Her reading is often criticized for being biased and hostile towards Hobbes.
Kravanja Aljoša
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John Gray: ‘Americanism’ and the Perversion of Post‐liberalism

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article will make the case for John Gray's inclusion in the canon of post‐liberals despite his protests to the contrary, and will argue that his peculiar post‐liberalism is important for its challenges to the dominance of liberalism as both a political culture and way of theorising the ends of politics based on the model of the American ...
Paul Kelly
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State and social power in post-communist countries: 1996–2022

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
The purpose of this paper is to provide a procedure for examining the extent to which the changes observed among post-communist countries are consistent with a dynamic determined by the relative power of the state versus the relative power of society as ...
Monika Çule, Murray E. Fulton
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On Whales and Giants: Images of Leviathan in New Model Army and The Unwritten

Gragoatá, 2017
Fantastic and science-fictional narratives employ specific modes of representation. In both genres, figurative language can be used in a literal sense, so that symbols acquire a concrete representation in the text.
André Cabral de Almeida Cardoso
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A Structured Review of Research‐Informed Instructional Strategies to Support CPA Enabling Competencies in Future Accountants*

Accounting Perspectives, Volume 24, Issue 1, Page 189-249, March 2025.
ABSTRACT CPA enabling competencies underpin the human skills and professional values that all future accountants should possess. Nevertheless, to date, the discourse is limited within the scholarship of teaching and learning on how to best inculcate these competencies in future accountants.
Sanobar Siddiqui
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