The birth of Russian intelligentsia from the spirit of enlightenment: Alexander Radishchev (I) [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2008 This text is the first part of a larger study about Alexander Radishchev, one of the leading representatives of Enlightenment in Russia's XVIII Century.
Subotić Milan
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GEORGE A. ROMERO’S DYSTOPIAS: THE REPRESENTATION OF DYSTOPIA IN THE UNIVERSE OF HIS ZOMBIE TRILOGY [PDF]
Studia Humanistyczne AGH, 2016 The present paper discusses dystopia in the genre of horror on the basis of George A. Romero’s zombie fi lms. Dystopia seems to be inextricably linked with the vision of the world in which the very structure of the society has been destroyed along with
Michał Zgorzałek
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Toward pluralizing ecology: Finding common ground across sociocultural and scientific perspectives
Ecosphere, 2022 Ecologists increasingly work with people from other fields, in which scholars, practitioners, and activists often pluralize: “ecologies.” By contrast, biophysical ecologists use the singular.
S. T. A. Pickett +2 more
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Comments on Knowledge and Ideology: The Epistemology of Social and Political Critique [PDF]
, 2020 Michael Morris' Knowledge and Ideology is an original and valuable contribution to the philosophical debate concerning the meaning and validity of the concept of ideology critique.
Hentrup, Miles
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“Als wel the lord as the schepherde, He broghte hem alle in good accord”: Harmonious Materialism in the Confessio Amantis [PDF]
, 2020 Using R. F. Yeager\u27s analysis of the figure Arion as a starting point, this article argues that in the Confessio Amantis, John Gower shifts his impulse toward social correction from direct estates satire to a more subtle approach encoding his social ...
Ladd, Roger A.
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The ‘anti-social’ nature of prosocial research; a psychosocial critique [PDF]
, 2010 This article provides a critical review of recent psychological articles on prosocial behaviour. Even though it focuses on a specific section of this literature – giving to charities and prosocial responses to humanitarian disasters – the paper aims to ...
Seu, Irene Bruna
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Kinship Past, Kinship Present: Bio-Essentialism in the Study of Kinship [PDF]
, 2016 In this article, I reconsider bio-essentialism in the study of kinship, centering on David Schneider’s influential critique that concluded that kinship was “a non-subject” (1972:51).
Amundson +114 more
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Rousseau’s Natural Man as the Critic of Urbanised Society
Sjuttonhundratal, 2009 Rousseau’s description of the pure state of nature and the natural man in his Discours sur l’Origine et les Fondements de l’Inégalité parmi les Hommes (1755) has been a controversial topic in Rousseau studies.
Ville Lähde
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Political membership in the contractarian defense of cosmopolitanism [PDF]
, 2008 This article assesses the recent use of contractarian strategies for the justification of cosmopolitan distributive principles. It deals in particular with the cosmopolitan critique of political membership and tries to reject the claim that political ...
Barry +24 more
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Demand and Deliver: Refugee Support Organisations in Austria [PDF]
, 2017 This article analyses four emerging refugee support organisations in Austria, founded before the so-called refugee crisis in 2015. It argues that these organisations have managed to occupy a middle space between mainstream NGOs and social movements with ...
Ataç, Ilker, de Jong, Sara
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