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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Intellectual life"”.
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All Things To All Men: Reimagining the intellectual life of Raja Ali Haji of Riau
… about Raja Ali Haji which focuses on his intellectual life. Scholars debate whether he was an Islamic thinker, or an exponent of Malay literary culture who embellished Malay cultural practices with Islamic thought. In the last decade some letters between Raja Ali Haji and a colonial …
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ΠΕΤΡΟΣ ΠΑΤΡΙΚΙΟΣ-Ο ΒΥΖΑΝΤΙΝΟΣ ΔΙΠΛΩΜΑΤΗΣ, ΑΞΙΩΜΑΤΟΥΧΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΣΥΓΓΡΑΦΕΑΣ
… WHICH COVERS THE DIPLOMATIC, GOVERNMENTAL AND INTELLECTUAL ACTIVITIES OF PETER THE PATRICIAN. THE BOOK IS DIVIDED INTO THREE MAIN SECTIONS, WHERE BIOGRAPHICAL QUESTIONS, HIS ROLE AS DIPLOMAT AND MASTER OF THE OFFICES AND FINALLY HIS CONTRIBUTION IN THE INTELLECTUAL LIFE OF HIS AGE AS AUTHOR, …
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Japanese 'civilisation' and ideas of progress in Britain, c. 1880-1945
… of human difference and world order in British intellectual life and beyond in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries.
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The Rise and Fall of Organised Political Freethought, 1870-1880
… the Age of Enlightenment upon the political and intellectual life of postbellum America.
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Roman Slavery: A Study of Roman Society and Its Dependence on slaves.
… examples of slave use in various areas of Roman life. The areas covered include agriculture, industry, domestic life, the state, entertainment, intellectual life, military, religion, and the use of female slaves. A look at manumission demonstrates Rome's growing awareness of this dependence. …
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Prolegomenon to a Neo-Kantian Student Heuristic
… some of the more perplexing problems of man's intellectual life by providing them with the means for understanding the structure of thought. As it stands now, though, this is a prolegomen to that text. It contains the essential theory for the text, but lacks sufficient examples to make it …
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L'intelligibilité de la pratique. Entre Foucault et Sartre
… the logic of practice as the main topic of intellectual life in France in the 1960's, we shall understake a confrontation between the ideas of Foucault and Sartre. Without playing down their differences of opinion, which have often been emphasized by the humanistic dispute, we shall endeavor …
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Émigrés as Aneks: Polish Intellectuals Between East and West, 1968–1989
… in exile. Conceptualized as an “annex” to intellectual life in Poland, the publication<em> </em>was founded to help Polish intellectuals look beyond the country to better understand national problems. At the core of the enterprise were the Smolar brothers, who were in a unique position to …
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An Aesthetics of Exclusion: Konstantin Vaginov's Kozlinaia pesn'
… Vaginov’s ambivalent treatment of such trends in intellectual culture as the nature of the life culture dualism, the tenability of culture a priori and framings of rebirth in projections of cultural history are dialogised with the theories of Viacheslav Ivanov, Viktor Shklovskii, Roman Iakobson, …
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Unity in Diversity: The Scholarly Community of the Ḥaramayn in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
This doctoral thesis illuminates the intellectual life of the Hijaz during the early modern period. The research considers the Ḥaramayn as a region, studying the intellectual trends through reconstructing the scholarly networks that existed in the Hijaz during the seventeenth and eighteenth …
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Al-Rāzī's Philosophy of Mind
… of the soul as it developed throughout his intellectual life, with a special focus on al-Maṭālib. In treating the subject matter of the soul, al-Rāzī employs a dialectical methodology (thesis, antithesis and synthesis) in which he adopts a critical stance against both the theologians’ …
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Carl Schmitt And Political Catholicism: Friend Or Foe?
… be called a "standard narrative" as regards his intellectual development. This narrative treats Schmitt as, on the whole, a "Catholic" intellectual and "political theologian" until the mid-1920s when he turns decidedly towards a secular decisionism. Commentators frequently point to Schmitt's …
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The dialectical tradition in South Africa
… thought extends beyond Afrikaner political and intellectual life, that it is best interpreted as a tradition of dialectical thought, and that it represents the most distinctive and enduring form of dialectical thought in South Africa. In the aftermath ,0fthe American and French Revolutions, the …
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The Transatlantic World of William Bloke Modisane, 1951-1986
In South African literary and intellectual history, critical perspectives on Bloke Modisane have largely centred on the singular achievement of his only published book Blame Me on History. While the book remains both a masterful memorial to the passage of a life and a unique contribution to the …
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Speaking for the poor and oppressed: questioning the role of intellectuals in South African social movements
… is concerned with debates around the role of intellectuals in South Africa and particularly in the question of intellectuals "speaking on behalf of the oppressed." Although such a question is foremost a response to recent debates about intellectuals in post-apartheid social movements and …
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Ward as a Tractarian
… how gratifying to come upon, in the seat of intellectual life in England, a tide of intellect, a quickening of soul, a renaissance of devotion, rising like a great white dove over a sea of troubled waters, and giving promise of a return to the Ark of Peace. This white dove, the Oxford …
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Negotiating modernity: education and translation in nineteenth century Egypt
… this new knowledge in educational practice and intellectual life through an examination of debates published in the first Egyptian educational journal Rawdat al-Madaris al-Misriyya (The Garden of the Egyptian Schools). By investigating the role played by those in favor of the inclusion of …
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The works of Cy Twombly : non-linear language and non-linear consciousness
… pre-postmodern interests. The education in the intellectual life of early Modernism, in particular Mallarméan and Poundian theory and practice, and the significance of early 20th century critical language debates in general, locates Twombly's work in the pluralistic cultural phenomena of early …
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Nicolas Berdyaev: An Intellectual Journey
… them and wrote about them for his entire adult life. Berdyaev not only pondered the agony of Russia's past, but he contemplated the possibilities of Russia's future.</p> <p>Berdyaev was a deeply Russian thinker, and like Russia, he presented the world with a paradox. Outside of Russia he was …
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"Encourager le commerce et répandre les Lumiʹere" : the press, the provinces and the origins of the Revolution in France: 1750-1789
This dissertation examines the political, intellectual, and cultural significance of France's provincial newspaper press, called affiches, published between 1750-1789. Combining the histories of the press, provincial life, and the public sphere, this dissertation explores the ways in which the …
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