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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"polemics"”.
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Air tight : polemics at the intersection of art, technology and the public domain
The author's methodological framework is used to position his art practice in relation to an ecology of thinkers, artists, and activists engaged with defending democratically governed un-privatized public space. Historically, there is a legacy of artists working with techniques of dispersion, …
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The Public Polemics of Baldur von Schirach: A Study of National Socialist Rhetoric and Aesthetics, 1922-1945
This dissertation examines the political writings and speeches of Baldur von Schirach, a leading figure of the National Socialist German Worker's Party, and the means by which he chose to transmit his beliefs in totalitarianism, racism, and militarism. Schirach's activities serve as a case study of …
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Al-Jāḥiẓ’s Treatises on the Imamate
… underlying al-Jāḥiẓ’s treatment of these polemics and the frame of reference to which he adheres. In this regard, I will argue that al-Jāḥiẓ’s analysis of the polemics and his own theories on the imamate are predicated upon two main interpretative paradigms: Shāfiʽite legal …
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Divine and Human Agency by Means of the Covenant: The Anti-Pelagian Theology of John Owen
… the anti-Pelagian soteriology of Owen in his polemics against Arminianism. Examining the views of Arminius was necessary to understand Owen’s positional anti-Arminian stance regarding predestination. Though Arminius was anti-Catholic, Reformed theologians considered Arminius a threat. For …
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A Poetics of Paradox : Reality and the Imagination in the Meta-Poetry of Louis Dudek
… From his earliest “social-realist” poetry and polemics in the 1940s to his late “transcendental-realist” poems, Dudek displays a consistent interest in the poetic process. Through his self-reflexive poetry or “meta-poetry,” in particular, Dudek begins to unite the seemingly disparate elements …
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The Representation of God in First Corinthians 8-10: Understanding Paul in the Context of Wisdom, Philo, and Josephus
… in comparison to other Hellenistic Jewish idol polemics. While this is an argument made about the acceptability or non-acceptability of particular practices, it is an argument made on theological grounds, and these theological underpinnings have been largely unexplored. The majority of Paul's …
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Scripture in the Vernacular in Seventeenth-Century France: Antoine Arnauld and the Defence of the New Testament of Mons
… of Mons and gives an overview of the related polemics. Chapters five and six are dedicated to the two main area of criticism: the language of the translation and the idea of universal reading of the Bible. There I analyse the contributions of Antoine Arnauld as the main defender of Port-Royal …
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The Corncrake in the Aftergrass: poetry practice, cultures and contexts in post-conflict Northern Ireland
… and working in Northern Ireland, transcend the polemics and pietism of difference in a sustained contribution to ongoing conversations of conviction within and beyond Northern Ireland’s cultures and contexts? My thesis investigates whether contemporary poetry practice can go beyond the polemics …
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Lessing's theory of polemic
… an examination of Lessing's own statements on polemics, his use of polemical devices, and the complex way in which these factors interact with his theological positions. In order to discuss the philosophical and epistemological basis for Lessing's views, I analyze a number of texts which …
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"The aesthetic of lived life" from Wollstonecraft to Mill
… which is at once confessional and ideological "polemics of self" which argue for right ways of seeing life, culture, and society, while simultaneously confessing the selfhood of their author.I argue, as well, that both Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Aurora Leigh and John Stuart Mill in his …
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Fabricating radicalism : Ephraim Pagitt and seventeenth-century heresiology.
… many of the heresies in heresy-lists and related polemics (what I have called 'heresiology') were embellished and exaggerated through a variety of verbal and metaphorical strategies. This thesis describes sectarianism as it existed, how that sectarian environment gave rise to the polemical claims …
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Corpses revealed: The staging of the theatrical corpse in early modern drama
… informed by early modern secular and religious polemics over the materiality of the body, the efficacy of performative behavior, and emerging theories of theatrical presence.</p><p>Previously, literary scholars have approached the performance of death on the stage using the insights of …
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Insurrection in Black: Reading Race and Revolt in the Long Nineteenth Century
… speeches, newspapers, autobiographies, and polemics by Robert Montgomery Bird, Richard Hildreth, Jabez Delano Hammond, Gerrit Smith, John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lucy Parsons, Sutton E. Griggs, Thomas Dixon, and Pauline Hopkins. A comparative …
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Sand mining challenges in the Western Cape: The case of the Tormin Mineral Sands and Maccsand Mining and Quarrying Mines
… This study addressed, in a comparative way, the polemics associated with two mining operations in the Western Cape, revisiting their environmental and socio-economic desirability as well as their varying impacts. A Socio-ecological Systems (SES) approach was used to document the processes …
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Clark Wissler, a forgotten influence in American anthropology
… was dependent upon three factors -- politics, polemics, and progeny -- which were postulated as critical determinants of influence. That is, the study suggested and posited that influential figures in American anthropology were determined in a three-fold context: those one patronizes and is …
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The Bahr Al-Madhi of Shaykh Idris Al-Marbawi and the Jawahir Al-Bukhari of Tuan Haji Husayn : Significance Hadith texts for Malay Muslims as tools for religious political and social teaching during twentieth century
… held by the Kawn Tua and Kaum Muda (political polemics) for instance. As a criticism of Malay Muslims, their teaching and condemnation is absolute. This study believed that these Mo great scholars were independent authorities who would respond to key existing problems (including disunity, …
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Understanding change : public space constructin in Bogota, Colombia, the Plaza de San Victorino
… Mayors. At present, after the initial thrill and polemics developed during the construction of the new public spaces, some of the major changes have settled. This situation makes it a good moment to develop an analysis of the performance of these public spaces today, in order to understand how …
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The exquisite corporealities of Leibniz: performance as embodied practice of thought and documentary praxis
… have developed to specifically address the polemics of grafting personal with communal and political identities and the often problematic relation of such, both to civil and human rights and the wider ecologies of which we are each formed! forming a part. Our particular research interests …
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