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Reading Rousseau’s First Discourse through the Polemics [PDF]
, 2021 This report analyzes Rousseau’s Discourse on the Sciences and Arts and the polemics Rousseau wrote in defense of that work, paying special attention to his rhetoric.
Sanfilippo, C. S.
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, 2020 Description based upon print version of record.Leaker critiques the role that the defence of free speech has played in legitimising the scapegoating of oppressed minorities while deflecting attention from the egregious operations of power that have led ...
Leaker Anthony.
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Polemics and networking in Graeco-Roman Antiquity /
, 2021 Disagreement, rivalry and dispute are essential to any intellectual development. This holds true for ancient cultures no less than for us today. From the classical period to the Hellenistic age and to Late Antiquity, competition and polemics have shaped ...
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What England Is and What It Claims to Be: Orwell on National Identity
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article suggests that George Orwell's body of work offers a rather unique and insightful two‐part conception of national identity in the context of England, made up of a moral inheritance—the values of liberty, fairness and decency—and a lived sensibility—the fluid, experiential quality of collective life expressed in shared customs ...
Sam Taylor Hill
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Corruptions, Imitations, and Innovations: Tropes of Ibn Taymiyya\u27s Polemics [PDF]
, 2015 Most of the Mamluk theologian Taqī al-Dīn Ahmad ibn Taymiyya\u27s opinions had a polemical nature. This paper traces certain common tropes of Ibn Taymiyya\u27s polemics such as tahrīf (corruption), taqlīd (imitation), and bid`a (innovation) that he ...
Al Ahmad, Faris
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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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Oksident, 2019 As well as the works written by the parties about themselves, the apologies and polemics they wrote against each other are important in understanding the history of Jewish-Christian relations.
Fatma Seda Şengül
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A History of ‘Religious History’
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.As a category denoting the analysis of religious actors across history disinterestedly and on their own terms, “religious history” is a relatively recent coinage. This article offers a brief contextualisation of the emergence of the field in the twentieth century. It distinguishes “religious history” from an older, “confessional” mode of ecclesiastical
Joshua Bennett
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Rabbanite Views and Rabbinic Literature in Judeo-Persian Karaite Exegesis
Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2022 This article discusses the outlook of Judeo-Persian Karaite authors on Rabbanite law and rabbinic literature based on an exegetical corpus written in Early Judeo-Persian from the eleventh century, which mostly remains in manuscript form.
Ofir Haim
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‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.During World War I, Protestant churches in Australia, on the whole, enthusiastically supported the war effort. The Queensland Presbyterian Church was a significant exception. This study analyses discord and tensions among its clergymen about what constituted an appropriate response to the war.
Mark Cryle
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