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Narrator, character, other: Kafka’s triangle in Fürsprecher
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract Franz Kafka's protagonists are conspicuously featureless, and yet Kafka is persistently read as a fabulist of the plight of the individual before impervious, impersonal, and indifferent legal structures. How can Kafka champion the individual against such forces when his heroes do not have personalities to lose?
Lindsay O’Connor Stern
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G.H. von Wright's Biographical Sketch of Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophical Investigations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The article presents the history of Georg Henrik von Wright's well‐known biographical sketch of Ludwig Wittgenstein, which first appeared in English in 1955 and was later included in Norman Malcolm's Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir. It will be shown that von Wright, during the years 1954–1984, published as many as six versions of the ...
Bernt Österman
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Resilience of vernacular architecture
, 2014 The notion of ‘resilience’ in urban and architectural science, describes the capacity of human habitats to absorb shocks and perturbations without undergoing major alterations in its functional, physical, social and economic systems. A crucial feature of a resilient urban system is having the ability to survive the potential risks and threats as well ...
DIPASQUALE, LETIZIA +3 more
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It is generally assumed that an ordinary human brain is associated with a single mind. Indeed, this assumption is so deeply rooted that it is rarely articulated explicitly, let alone questioned. However, as philosophers of mind have increasingly noticed, it turns out to rest on alarmingly shaky ground.
James H. McIntyre
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The Many Shades of Clouds: How Law Fails (Us) in Seeing Power in the Digital Economy
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Cloud infrastructures form the backbone of our contemporary (digital) production environment. Despite their centrality, legal and scholarly practice have not been treating cloud infrastructures as single objects of/for study. In other words, we have laws for regulating services and products that flow from (within) cloud infrastructures, but we
Petros Terzis +2 more
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Research on the sustainable design strategies of vernacular architecture in Southwest Hubei-A case study of the First Granary of Xuan'en County. [PDF]
PLoS OneXu W, Wang Q, Deng H, Zhu Z.
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Between 1609 and 1614, after over a century of forced conversions, cultural oppression and inquisitorial persecution, Spain expelled its morisco subjects. Despite being baptised Christians, the descendants of Spain's Muslim population had been deemed incapable of sincerely following the Christian faith and assimilating into society due to ...
Elizabeth Liliann Blakemore
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From <i>pectus</i> to breast: anatomical and semantic gendering of the thorax. [PDF]
Anat Cell BiolKim H, Hwang K, Han SH.
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‘Chrystalline Talk’: Thomas Browne's Poetics of Concretion and Mineral Plain Style
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article charts the figuration, both material and rhetorical, of mineral bodies in early modern natural philosophy, paying particular attention to the second book of Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646). It argues that concretions (stony calculi and crystals formed through the aggregation of physical matter) make manifest a mineral
Jess Dunmore
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Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, III
The Journal of American Folklore, 1990 Diane Barthel +2 more
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