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European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Immanuel Kant's The Dispute between the Faculties (1798) contains a footnote referencing four utopian states — Atlantis, Utopia, Oceana, and Severambia. This passage has largely been overlooked in Kantian scholarship. This paper revisits this neglected passage to explore Kant's engagement with utopian literature and its implications for his ...
Karoline Reinhardt
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History and Theory, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article critically examines Dipesh Chakrabarty's concept of Anthropocene history, a philosophy of history that is designed to respond to the universal challenge of the Anthropocene. It uses the work of Maurice Merleau‐Ponty to mitigate the pitfalls of Chakrabarty's concept and to propose an alternative relation between nature and history.
Andréa Delestrade
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Grotesque maternity: reading "happiness" and its eugenics in Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child (1988) [PDF]
, 2014 This paper contexualises and reads Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child (1988) as a criticism towards the Family Acts conducted by Thatcher’s government in 1980s Britain. The article principally draws attention to the main and minor protagonist’s “annomalous”
Uematsu, Nozomi
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The Role of Dice in the Emergence of the Probability Calculus
International Statistical Review, EarlyView.Summary The early development of the probability calculus was clearly influenced by the roll of dice. However, while dice have been cast since time immemorial, documented calculations on the frequency of various dice throws date back only to the mid‐13th century.
David R. Bellhouse, Christian Genest
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The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tim Burton's Christmas trilogy, Batman Returns, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Edward Scissorhands are all characterized by his trademark features. These include characters with ambiguous identities, apparently “normal” worlds adjacent to spaces associated with difference and exclusion, and the inevitable intrusion of the latter into the ...
Fran Pheasant‐Kelly
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Memory/ monstrosity/ representation [PDF]
, 1999 Paper presented at the Wits History Workshop: The TRC; Commissioning the Past, 11-14 June, 1999 Version appears in her Surpassing the spectacle, 2002.The war against the United States in Vietnam has moved from being a nightmare to a memory for the ...
Becker, Carol
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Lieux et pragmatique de la monstruosité dans la prose narrative d’Éric Chevillard [PDF]
, 2009 Cet article interroge les types de manifestations de la monstruosité dans la prose narrative d’Éric Chevillard (Scalps et Démolir Nisard). Questionnant ses lieux (déclaration de la monstruosité de personnages par l’instance narrative) et sa dynamique ...
Audet, René
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International Journal of Art &Design Education, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores how ‘what matters’ can surface in multisensory arts‐informed projects as ways for young people to survive and stay with gender and sexuality troubles that are always more than theirs. Situated in an ex‐mining post‐industrial locale, we make an agential cut in a longitudinal research and engagement project called Unboxing ...
EJ Renold
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Substance Use Disorders in Adolescents: A Qualitative Systematic Review
Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction It is important for the treatment and care of adolescents using substances to bring out their life experiences relating to substance use. Aim To analyse and synthesise qualitative evidence on substance use‐related life experiences of adolescents with substance use disorder.
Hilal Kara, Dudu Karakaya
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What are Monsters in Computer Games?
Corpus MundiThe current paper is a review of the monograph by Czech computer games researcher Jaroslav Švelch “Player vs. Monster. The Making and Breaking of Videogame Monstrosity” (2023).
Vladislav V. Kirichenko
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