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From:Tikkun (Vol. 25, Issue 3)AFTER CLASS, A GROUP OF US OFTEN FOLLOWED THE EMINENT PHILOSOPHER Emil Fackenheim to his bus stop outside Hebrew University, stretching our brains to find a smart question to ask him. When he boarded the bus, everyone...
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From:Cultural Critique (Issue 69) Peer-ReviewedFor Karl Dahlquist and Rick Joines Law [[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]], lord of all things, mortals and immortals, holds everything with high hand, justifying the extreme of violence [[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN...
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From: Ethical Theories in Islam[(essay date 1991) In the following excerpt, Fakhry explores al-Ghazali's beliefs concerning the soul, happiness, and the seeking of God.] I. The Relation of Ethics to the Other Sciences We have in al-Ghazali's...
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From:Gay & Lesbian Literature (Vol. 1. )Michel Foucault has been called one of the most influential modern philosophers to have emerged since the 1960's. A contemporary of Jean Paul Sartre, Foucault's work has influenced a generation of scholars in a variety...
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From: Creation and the Cosmic System: Al-Ghazālī and Avicenna[(essay date 1992) In the following essays, Frank contends that al-Ghazālī accepts some aspects of Avicenna’s position on creation and cosmology. Frank supports his arguments with a textual analysis that focuses on The...
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From: Unthinking Thinking: Jorge Luis Borges, Mathematics, and the New Physics[(essay date 1991) In the following essay, Merrell considers the relationship between Borges’s work and two mathematical concepts: Georg Cantor’s set theory and Kurt Gödel’s incompleteness theorems. Merrell concludes...
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From: Journal of Hellenic Studies[(essay date 2000) In the following essay, Montiglio considers Solon among the ancient Greek “wandering philosophers,” whose nomadic tendencies, she observes, “connoted their ambiguous status in society—both in and...
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From: Film Comment[(essay date 2011) In the following review, Jones asserts that Malick is “unfashionably” familiar with early philosophers, and his “intense interest in origins—of violence, of the universe itself—has made his last three...
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From: Yād-Nāma: In memoria di Alessandro Bausani, Volume 1; Islamistica[(essay date 1991) In the following essay, Bürgel argues that Nizāmī was less concerned in his works with war and heroic deeds than with the sociopolitical consequences of such actions and the moral importance of love.]...
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From: American Poetry Review[(essay date September/October 1989) In the following essay, Somerville examines the function of nostalgia and memory in Stern's poetry, showing how Stern links them both to time and myth.] We look before and after...
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From:Reference Guide to Short FictionWhen Singer first published "The Spinoza of Market Street" in Yiddish in 1944 under the title "Der Spinozist: Dertseylung," he signed it Yitskhok Bashevis, combining his masculine first name with his mother's. The...
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From:Reference Guide to English Literature (2nd ed.)John Stuart Mill was the leading English philosopher of the Victorian period. His lucid and eloquent writings covered a wide range of concerns, though his central interest was social and political philosophy. Mill's...
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From: Luso-Brazilian Review[(essay date 2012) In the following essay, Tobeck applies the theories of the philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Theodor W. Adorno regarding literary engagement to Lispector’s “The Crime of the Mathematics Professor” and...
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From: CLA Journal[(essay date 1984) In the following essay, Gomes compares the Simple stories with the work of the nineteenth-century “crackerbox philosophers,” particularly James Russell Lowell, who wove homey lessons into anecdotal...
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From: PMLA[(essay date 1949) In the following essay, Lapp examines the attitudes of several sixteenth-century French philosophers toward astronomy, contrasting Tyard’s critique of superstitions relating to the stars, articulated...
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From: Samuel Johnson’s “General Nature”: Tradition and Transition in Eighteenth-Century Discourse[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Evans discusses Johnson’s conception of nature and its relationship to value and morality, as stated in the Rambler and his other periodical essays. Contextualizing Johnson’s...
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From: Studia Phænomenologica[(essay date 2008) In the following essay, Mildenberg provides a phenomenological analysis of Stein’s Tender Buttons, incorporating the theories of philosophers Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Gilles Deleuze...
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From: Huntington Library Quarterly[(essay date 1968) In the following essay, Isler analyzes the concept of “family harmony” presented by Sidney in the Arcadia. He argues that “the dependence of harmony in each of the three levels of...
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From: Hermes[(essay date 1991) In the following essay, Edwards analyzes Parmenides and Empedocles as poets, contrasting the “versified logic” of the former with the “oracular mode” of the latter. While Parmenides sought to encourage...
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From: Michael Dummett and the Theory of Meaning[(essay date 1998) In the following essay, Gunson examines Dummett’s discussions and prescriptions regarding the form that a theory of meaning should take and the constraints it should respect. Gunson bases his study...