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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"energeia"”.
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The Function and Measurement of Rhetorical Energeia
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Making a change : Aristotle on poiêsis, kinêsis and energeia
… the action of exercising one’s nature or craft (energeia). I call for the distinction between kinêsis and energeia by arguing that in Metaphysics IX.1-5 change should be construed as a transformational change that is still characterized in accordance with the categories, whereas in Met. IX.6-9 …
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Negative faith: the heretical writings of Valéry, Bataille and Laruelle
… unknowable faith without an object, a form of energeia that explains the existence of what can be called impossible texts. Negative theology, Valéry’s Cahiers, Bataille’s more mystical works and Laruelle’s non-philosophy all revolve around non-referents such as God, the One or the Real. Nothing …
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What’s in a face? Reframing the expressive portraiture of third century Roman emperors
… emotional salience, visual vividness (energeia), and repetition across public and domestic spaces. The study integrates neuroaesthetic theory and memory studies to argue that these portraits were not passive representations but active agents in the cultural and cognitive life of the …
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Aristotle's Account of the Passions
… is not itself an activity, that pleasure is the energeia aspect of the activity and that pleasure completes the activity in the sense that it contains at all time and throughout the activity its end or telos. In the case of the passions, pleasure accompanies the judging aspect of the passions, …
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Posibilidades y límites de la investigación lingüística: el caso de la fraseología
… la dimensión del cambio y de la variación ("energeia" en terminología humboldtiana). No faltan en este trabajo postulados profundos acerca del carácter del lenguaje (Eco, Wittgenstein, Coseriu), si bien los argumentos tomados como objeto de análisis parten de los principales fraseólogos del …
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Reading Early Modern English Poetry through the Prisms of Energy and Empire
This dissertation project examines the influence of energy in its many forms on early modern English country house verse and epic, arguing for a novel reading approach — through the prisms of energy — to arrive at more expansive understandings of the historical period, its imaginative literature, …