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Esthetics, eroticism and sex parity: Umberto Eco’s History of Beauty and History of Ugliness
Przestrzenie Teorii, 2012 The topic of comparative analysis which is presented in this article is The Story of Beauty and The Story of Ugliness edited by Umberto Eco. Even the covers of these books show the contrast between men and women. How esthetic values build a feedback with
Krzysztof Obremski
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Democracy and the Mundane: Reflections on John Boswell, How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract John Boswell's How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State offers a unique and compelling analysis of democracy and its challenges, and also of the mainstream academic study of citizen disengagement by political scientists and theorists. While the majority of academics focus on big structural reasons for citizens’ increasing disaffection for ...
Phil Parvin
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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
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The insight and innate tendency of human beings towards beauty and ugliness from the point of view of Allameh Javadi Amoli [PDF]
اخلاق وحیانیOne of the ways to acquire knowledge in general epistemology is nature or conscience. In moral epistemology, it is about whether moral conscience exists or not, and if it does, does it have insight and tendency towards moral goodness and ugliness, and if
majid abolqasemzade
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) manages Pakistan's biometric‐based national identity database, one of the largest identification systems of its kind in the world. This article examines bureaucratic practices used during identity registration to record ‘vital events’ in the lives of citizens: birth, marriage, divorce, and death.
Zehra Hashmi
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Beauty, Ugliness, and Black Theology
Black Theology Papers ProjectIn this paper, I argue that theological aesthetics speaks powerfully to black experience in light of this very situation. It does so, I find, through the Beauty of the Cross.
Jeania Ree Moore
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Defying Predatory Capital: Embracing Beauty, Resisting Ugliness, and Striving for Freedom
International Journal of Sociology of EducationResearch has explored the role of capitalist markets in the configuration of society and as social determinants. However, some niche markets have been taken by a form of capital, conceptualized as “predatory”, that has sought maximum benefit without ...
Elisabeth Torras-Gómez +5 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article analyses class construction amongst the urban Indian middle class, through a novel prism of romantic love, specifically performances of romantic love which in turn highlight anxieties of being middle class. The article explains how a performance of romantic love before marriage is used as a basis by the middle class to claim being global ...
Parul Bhandari
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The Ugliness Movement: Riot Grrrl\u27s Use of Ugliness as Feminist Subversion [PDF]
In the 1990s, Riot Grrrl took the punk and feminist worlds by storm. It emphasized community and represented third-wave feminism in radical form. One particular example that represents the Riot Grrrl ideology well is ugliness.
Rollins, Maylee
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CLINICAL FIGURES OF UGLINESS UP AGAINST METAPSYCHOLOGY
, 2018 : In this article we discuss the metapsychological aspect of the psychoanalytic research on the clinical figures of ugliness. If the problem of ugliness is often associated with metaphysics or social norms, we wish to emphasise that the feeling of being ...
Joel Birman +5 more
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