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PERIPHERY TO CENTRE STAGE: THE SARRASANI CIRCUS IN WEIMAR GERMANY
German Life and Letters, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The modern European circus was more than just entertainment: it was a powerful platform where fantasies of empire, ideas of national identity, and notions of racial difference came together and were put on public display. In interwar Germany, the Sarrasani Circus — the largest circus enterprise in the country at the time — built on the legacy ...
Sabine Hanke
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PREAMBULAR HISTORY: THE VIEW OF THE PAST IN KEY HUMAN RIGHTS INSTRUMENTS
History and Theory, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article claims that the preambles of foundational human rights instruments, taken together, articulate a consistent view of the past. This view is firmly rooted in historical processes, embedded in metaphysical truths, and enacted in service of the future. Part 1 assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the “preambular approach to history”
Antoon De Baets
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Interstellar Migration, the Population ‘Problem’ and the Climate Emergency
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Anna Hartnell
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EIGENSINN AND DOMINATION IN LIBERAL AND ILLIBERAL SOCIETIES
History and Theory, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article is a posthumously published text that was written by Alf Lüdtke and Alexandra Oeser but was left unfinished when Lüdtke died in February 2019. It examines two central notions—and their articulations—that Lüdtke and Oeser use differently in their work: domination and Eigensinn. On domination, it focuses on perspectives of Max Weber'
Alf Lüdtke, Alexandra Oeser
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Intercultural Music Education: The Moral Ethics of Cultural Educational Exchange
, 2007 It is important when considering a position as a music educator within a non-Western society to examine the political, social and religious influences that are present in music in order to assist in alleviating the tensions and dangers that such an ...
Cummings, Mary
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Taking Drugs to Help Others [PDF]
, 2016 Every day the news shows us provoking stories about what's going on in the world, about events which raise moral questions and problems. In Philosophers Take On the World a team of philosophers get to grips with a variety of these controversial issues ...
Douglas, Thomas
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UNWARRANTED CONFIDENCE: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE POVERTY OF ANTI‐REALISM
History and Theory, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Poverty of Anti‐Realism: Critical Perspectives on Postmodernist Philosophy of History, edited by Tor Egil Førland and Branko Mitrović, celebrates the new dawn of historical realism, which it claims supersedes the erroneous and harmful anti‐realism.
Jouni‐Matti Kuukkanen
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Two Ways of Being Conscious: The Notion of Psychic Conversion [PDF]
, 2012 In this essay I will present an overview of what I have called psychic conversion. I will begin by narrating the birth of the idea, then will present a brief schematic history of its development and principal applications to date, and will conclude by ...
Doran, Robert
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International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract While no longer exactly a theological youngster, Public Theology (‘Öffentliche Theologie’) is not ready to retire. Focusing on the particular German‐speaking context, this contribution makes a case for the importance of continuing the conversation with Public Theology, seeking to alleviate misunderstandings between the different conversation ...
Christine Schliesser
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A Conversation With David Bellhouse
International Statistical Review, EarlyView.Summary David Richard Bellhouse was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on 19 July 1948. He studied actuarial mathematics and statistics at the University of Manitoba (BA, 1970; MA, 1972) and completed his PhD at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, in 1975. After being an Assistant Professor for 1 year at his alma mater, he joined the University of Western ...
Christian Genest
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