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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Experimentalism"”.
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Interpretive experimentalism: A pragmatic theory of moral norms and judgment
Recently, some philosophers working in applied moral philosophy have concluded that the received rule-based normative theories (such as Kantianism and utilitarianism) are inadequate guides for deliberation about concrete moral problems for at least two reasons. First, such problems seem to involve …
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Investigating "experimentalism" : a case study of the tuba and its repertoire
… at about the same time as the tuba, has embraced experimentalism and modern performance. This document contains five major sections. The first provides a brief history of the tuba and its predecessors. The second introduces numerical data representing the performance frequency of top experimental …
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The language of cosmogony: literary experimentalism and metaphor in Plato’s Timaeus and Augustine’s Confessions.
Literary critical discussions of cosmogony usually examine ideas and assumptions about authorship and poetic creation which are formed in light of inherited models of the world’s creation. Far less attention has been paid to actual representations of the world’s creation, the literary theory and …
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Engaging the Heart: Orthodoxy and Experimentalism in William Gadsby’s A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship
… between his traditional orthodoxy and his experimentalism must have seemed bewildering, but seen from a more distanced perspective, his theological stance may be understood as a synthesis of two cultural movements: the Enlightenment and romanticism. Gadsby’s high Calvinistic orthodoxy was …
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“She erected schools, and founded several societies”: Reimagining Margaret Cavendish’s Visit to The Royal Society
… she was deeply hostile towards early scientific experimentalism. While some scholars have noted the disdain with which the Society supposedly viewed Cavendish, others have pointed to various passages in her published writing as evidence of this conflict. In this paper I examine the sources that …
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Princeton Theory's Problematics
… to explain away, problematic notions from experimentalism to experience, solipsism to ethics. Initially a formalist project, Princeton Theory in the early 1970's underwent an under-discussed Turn toward experimentalism, seemingly rejecting its earlier high-modernist orientation. The …
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Voices of New Music on National Public Radio: Radio Net, RadioVisions, and Maritime Rites
… existing historical narratives of musical experimentalism while simultaneously revising and strengthening those narratives. I demonstrate ways in which the shows themselves, as well as their planning phases and promotional materials, served to gather individuals and musical practices …
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Margaret Cavendish and Scientific Discourse in Seventeenth-Century England
… scientific methods, especially mechanism and experimentalism. As presented in Observations upon Experimental Philosophy and Blazing World, Cavendish's natural philosophy incorporates rationalistic and subjective elements, urging contemporary natural philosophers to recognize that pure …
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Networks of Collaborative Contracts for Innovation
… in this thesis are the following. First, legal experimentalism is the most adequate approach to deal with these highly uncertain relationships – through the development of a procedural framework for the continuous and collaborative revision of the obligations of the parties involved in the …
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Operationalising Uncertainty : The US Military and the New Spatiality of New Security.
… This thesis demonstrates this uncertainty - this experimentalism -in two respects, exploring both 1st Cavalry's embrace of ontological multiplicity as part of its operation in Iraq, as well as the continuing interference of multiple modes of absence and presence in enacting military units in the …
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SYMPHONY NO. 2 “SYMPHONY OF CHORALES” BY LUKAS FOSS: A STUDY IN COLLAGE AND MUSICAL BORROWING
… Neoclassicism and his improvisation-influenced experimentalism. The mature Foss is first able to blend these two disparate styles with the premiere of American Cantata in 1976, while his third (1991) and fourth (1995) symphonies show a mastery of this sort of collage. The second symphony is …
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Symbolon: The Poetry of Anne Carson
… provides context for Carson’s poetic experimentalism, locating her concerns about historical representation among those of Ezra Pound, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Phyllis Webb, and P. K. Page. Chapter three, “Postmodern Relatives: Anne Carson’s Elusive Doubles,” theorizes her subversive …
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Comparative philology, French music, and the composition of Indo-Europeanism from Fétis to Messiaen.
… readings show how composers legitimated experimentalism through ‘performances’ of philological ‘authenticity’. Over time, musical parameters such as modes and metres are abstracted and assimilated into compositional lexicons. Composers discussed include Bourgault-Ducoudray, Saint-Saëns, …
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Harry Partch: A Catalyst for Queer Compositionism
… lead of Benjamin Piekut’s scholarship on musical experimentalism. I ask whether the kind of networked hybridity that Latour has us pay attention to could relate to queer negotiations of the closet. Can a re-articulation of Harry Partch’s life’s work as a mediation of his personhood foreground …
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Screening OULIPO : From Potential Literature to Potential Film
… avant-garde, which demonstrate the promise of experimentalism in cinema. From these points of inspiration, the idea of using constraints to explore the potential of a field is transferred to film. As the practice of filmmaking with constraints is yet to be fully formalised and currently lacks …
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An emerging architecture of local experimentalist governance in China : a study of local innovations in Baoding, 1992-2012
… in local China? Previous studies on "Chinese experimentalism" suggest that local innovations in contemporary China stem from its ability to couple reflexive central coordination and decentralized local policy experiments. The strength of this "closed" architecture of experimentalist governance …
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Reconstructing the Republic : Dewey's back to Plato movement.
… intellectual autobiography "From Absolutism to Experimentalism," John Dewey makes a perplexing statement. After an extended discussion of the teachers that directly shaped his view of philosophy, Dewey cites his two philosophical heroes. First, he mentions Hegel and comments on how his "astute …
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Mimesis: Figure di realismo e postrealismo dantesco nell’opera di Pier Paolo Pasolini
… to a poetics of objectivity and linguistic experimentalism in the 40s. I secondly explore Pasolini’s theoretical response to Dante’s plurilingualism in the context of the ideological debate on the new questione della lingua, Neorealism and ‘Neosperimentalismo’ in the 50s. Finally, I examine …
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Transforming Performances: An Intern-Reseacher's Hypertextual Journey in a Postmodern Community
… dissertation, academia, experimentalism and cyberspace innovations among others. I create a <a href="site_map2.htm#3">social constructionistic</a> interactive interplay, using <a href="site_map2.htm#5">hypertext</a>, among my various voices of an intern, a researcher and a …
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Paaugliu subkulturinio gyvenimo budo raiska socializacijos aplinku ivairoveje /
… in culture medium, released from its dynamism, experimentalism, a unique system of values, but is almost totally dependent and unable to act independently, in isolation, \"fall out\" of the general cultural and social context. Membership in the group provides a safety net - the group members are …
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