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Trauma and affect in a Holocaust survivor's story: Rosita Fanto's novel Rozalia Alone

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract My article endeavors to redress the neglect of Rosita Fanto's Rozalia Alone (2010), which deals with a page of history that is less known worldwide, the Holocaust in Romania. Using a trauma studies perspective that mixes with affect theory, the article demonstrates that Rozalia Alone covers in a nutshell the whole magnitude of the late 1930s ...
Arleen Ionescu
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To Desire What Is Nothing: Simone Weil, Asceticism and Psychoanalysis

Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Georgie Newson
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What Does Intarsia Say? Materiality and Spirituality in the Urbino Studiolo☆

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Upon entering the Urbino studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro, the visitor is struck by a material‐charged environment. Surprisingly, only a few scholars have addressed one prominent aspect of the decorative scheme, namely, the feature of intarsia as a medium. Even so, it remains on the sidelines of the discussion.
Matan Aviel
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The Foundations of Early Latin Christian Teachers’ Worldview [PDF]

Hypothekai
This article explores the conceptual foundations of the worldview of the earliest Latin Christian teachers of the 2nd–3rd centuries. The author highlights that their perception of the world was based on a consistently materialistic – or, in Tertullian’s ...
Alexey V. KARGALTSEV
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Snap Judgements: Turning Photography into Art in the Late Soviet Union

The Russian Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The history of photography and photography theory in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is often preoccupied with “Western” criticism and arguments regarding the photograph as art, document, or technology. Yet, this criticism has ignored the development of photographic theory in the Soviet Union, particularly during the 1950s and 1960s ...
Jessica Werneke
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Philosophy of name in P. Florensky's creativity: platonism or palamism

RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2010
P.A. Florensky is considered as the ancestor of Philosophy of Name in Russia, supporter of Onomatodoxy. At the same time his «Christian Platonism» remains a subject of sharp discussions even today. In Florensky's creativity enter inconsistent interaction
S A Nizhnikov
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The Ontology of Reference: Studies in Logic and Phenomenology [PDF]

, 1976
: We propose a dichotomy between object-entities and meaning-entities. The former are entities such as molecules, cells, organisms, organizations, numbers, shapes, and so forth.
Smith, Barry
core  

Contemporary Reflections on Substantial Kind Change in Avicenna

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contemporary metaphysics, and especially neo‐Aristotelian metaphysics, tackles many of the same problems as Avicenna did. One of these problems is the possibility of substantial kind change. For instance, is it possible for an animal to change its species?
Tuomas E. Tahko
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Quinean Ontological Commitment Derailed [PDF]

Analiza i Egzystencja, 2013
What should we believe exists? The Quinean response is straightforward: We should believe in all and only those objects over which we must quantify in our best scientific theories.
Roxanne Marie Kurtz
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Plato, Platonists, Platonism

Plato, 2017
The paper examines different approaches to key metaphysical and conceptual claims in Plato’s dialogues. It explores how different readers of Plato, beginning with Aristotle, make sense of the status of and the relations between some of the key Forms ...
Allan Silverman
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