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Toward a “strong” normativity of fear in Hans Jonas and Aristotle
Abstract What does it mean to say that one “ought” to undergo an emotion? In The Imperative of Responsibility, Hans Jonas provocatively asserts that twentieth‐century citizens “ought” to fear for the well‐being of future generations. I argue that Jonas's demand is not straightforwardly reducible to claims about the fittingness, expedience, or aretaic ...
Magnus Ferguson
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Dead time, hard time, and narrative redemption: Delimiting the life proper
Abstract Is every detail of your life a candidate for the meaningful, valuable, or worthwhile? If not, which do you exclude? Thaddeus Metz nominates “dead time”: the nail‐clipping, line‐waiting, traffic‐jam enduring, generally commonplace moments of our life. Dead time, while prevalent, is not remarkable. Metz recommends that we set at least some of it
Kathy Behrendt
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Autopathography and identity in Head Above Water: reflections on illness by Shahd Alshammari. [PDF]
Samir R.
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This paper examines how the politics of water governance intersected with germ suppression during US colonial rule in the Philippines. Drawing on historical materials and policy documents, we critically trace two interrelated processes of hydroterritorialization through which cholera outbreaks in the early 1900s spurred the production of sanitary ...
Rhomir S. Yanquiling +2 more
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Products of Conception: Imaging and Imagining Maternal-Fetal Relationships. [PDF]
Dosani S.
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Street Cries and Public Space Noise Abatement in 19th‐20th Century Barcelona
Abstract Focusing on Barcelona, this paper explores the historical and contemporary dynamics of street cries that allow traders to attract customers and make themselves heard in public spaces. While still common in marketplaces in southern Europe, there is a growing trend towards silencing these street cries in the name of reducing urban noise levels ...
Maria Lindmäe
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The poetics of decline in Julian Barnes's The Lemon Table. [PDF]
Su C.
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Preventing Erasure and Seeking Accountability in Sri Lankan Diasporic Fiction
ABSTRACT Sixteen years after the end of the military conflict in Sri Lanka in 2009, there has been no real accountability for the atrocities that took place during the 26‐year war between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan state. Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens and V. V.
Maryse Jayasuriya
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