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Tucídides na Teoria das Relações Internacionais | Thucydides in International Relations Theory
Thucydides is frequently cited as the father of International Relations(IR). There is debate in the field on how to interpret his thought, with different schools invoking him as their ancestor.
Tomé Ribeiro Gomes
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No History Without a Method: Anticipation and Other Bad Contexts
ABSTRACT This paper argues for the centrality of methodological awareness in writing the history of philosophy. It does this by analysing and comparing different interpretive proposals presented by those engaged with past philosophical texts. Taking the literature on Thomas Hobbes from past and present century as an example, it shows the merits of ...
Ieva Höhne
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Representing, Re‐presenting, or Producing the Past? Memory Work amongst Museum Employees
Abstract Though it is widely understood that the past can be an important resource for organizations, less is known about the micro‐level skills and choices that help to materialize different representations of the past. We understand these micro‐level skills and choices as a practice: ‘memory work’ – a banner term gathering various activities that ...
Jeremy Aroles +3 more
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The World Gone Wrong: Sophokles’ Electra
Il presente saggio si occupa di una serie di temi presenti nell’Elettra sofoclea, molti dei quali ricorrono nel Filottete e nell’Edipo a Colono, tutte tragedie probabilmente risalenti all’ultimo decennio di vita di Sofocle.
Robert W. Wallace
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Policy Spandrels: How Design Decisions Can Open Up Spaces for Unintended Policy Change
ABSTRACT This article introduces the concept of policy spandrels to make sense of public policies producing second‐order effects that are unintentional from the perspective of policy design and yet are fraught with consequences. By analogy with architectural spandrels—leftover spaces that can be used for unforeseen purposes—policy change can be enabled
Martino Maggetti
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ABSTRACT The Mediterranean is particularly sensitive to rapid climate changes (RCCs) during the Holocene. An increasing number of natural climate archives revealed that socio‐economic developments were influenced by such RCCs since the Palaeolithic. However, multi‐millennial and high‐resolution archives are still rare and often located in mountainous ...
Esra Reichert +7 more
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What historical value can be attributed to the “Sicilian Archeology” which opens up Thucydides’ book VI, notably as regards the circumstances and modes of the arrival of the Phenicians in Sicily?
Corinne Bonnet
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One‐Sidedness and the Inferior Function in Coriolanus and Timon of Athens [PDF]
Abstract For both Jung and Shakespeare, one‐sidedness is the fundamental tragic trait. Jung proposed that as an individual develops, they inevitably associate their identity with certain modes of perception and interaction, and that this leads to psychological polarization.
Sofie Qwarnström
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What Was Homer Honing in the Odyssey?
Abstract We summarize the data provided in Homer's the Odyssey concerning Odysseus' journey and suggest a completely new view of what was Homer trying to convey to us. We suggest that Homer was honing the idea of synergy between rules (determinism) and chance (randomness), an idea deeply rooted in natural processes as well in mathematics.
Anastasios A. Tsonis +2 more
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TOWARD A CONJECTURAL HISTORY OF CONJECTURAL HISTORIES
ABSTRACT Most intellectual historians use the term “conjectural history” to designate a new form of speculative history created in eighteenth‐century Scotland by Adam Smith and a few others. These writers traced the development of human society and culture through conjectural reasoning based on philosophers’ views about human nature and travelers ...
ANTHONY GRAFTON
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