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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"prefiguration"”.
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Let’s Win Madrid: Radical Democracy and Prefigurative Constitutionality in the New Municipalism
… requires a bespoke understanding of prefiguration itself, as a transversal complex of types and functions of political action, applicable far beyond the limits of ‘prefigurative politics’ narrowly conceived. It opens constitutional theory to the constitutive, self-valorising practices …
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The Orpheus Figure: The Voice in Writing, Music and Media
… or rhetorical purposes. Grounded in the prefiguration of opera’s earlier displacement of the singing voice, the understanding of mass media and digital media then developed is critical of theories of immersion in media. The analyses of the series of works and figures (Orpheus, Ossian, and …
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Estetica ed etica: un itinerario interpretativo, alla luce della ricerca di valori nel pensiero di Ingarden, Tischner, Levinas
… leads to the creation of a world whose essential prefiguration is the Beauty; whose fundamental expression is the Good. Ethics must translate itself in responsability towards the other, in the history. This immersion into reality preserves the aesthetic and ethic dimension from the temptation of …
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Old Testament characters as Christological witnesses in the Fourth Gospel
… David, probably the most influential messianic prefiguration of the intertestamental period. He is characterized by his competence as a ruler, his loyalty to Judaism, and his status as an eschatological figure. While the first half of John's Gospel does not portray Jesus as a Davidic figure, the …
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these americas: Black and Indigenous Poetics Exhausting the Human
… providing particular sites for the liberatory prefiguration of alternative modes of collective life.
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Organizing for alterity: a netnography of #AlteritOrg
… alternative organizing. Drawing conceptually on prefiguration—and prefigurative attempts at organizing—the thesis embraces Bloch’s ontology of Not-Yet-Being (1968) to account for an organizational alterity which is not formally predetermined. The study extends extant work on alternative …
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Workers Out of Control: Recuperations, Reverberations and Communalism from Argentina to Greece
… latter could only be a common, concrete, utopian prefiguration.
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Queen of Heaven for piano and electronics
… and liturgical sources that celebrate the prefiguration of the Virgin in the burning bush of Exodus. The fifth and final movement returns to the heavenly setting of the first, drawing its imagery from Revelation 12: “And a great sign appeared in heaven: A woman clothed with the sun, and the …
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Secrecy Motifs and Messianic Consciousness In the First Gospel: Pre-Easter Tradition and Historicity Vis-A-Vis the Theological Agenda of Mark and the Early Church
… plan, while Farrer views it in a paradigm of prefiguration and fulfillment.</p> <p>The study concludes with the assertion that the author of the First Gospel could have operated with authentic traditions about Jesus and used them to serve a meaningful literary function to aid his unique …
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Reframing socialism from the fifties to the fin-de-siècle : the intellectual odyssey of André Gorz
… hopes for the "non-class of non-workers" as a prefiguration of a new movement of social change subversive of the work-based society. Gorz emerges in this investigation as a progenitor of New Left social theory and as the living legacy of that body of ideas at a time when many European, North …
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Innovation in Tradition: Gregory the Great's Use of Classical and Patristic Thought in His Commentary on the Song of Songs
… books on the Old Testament, demonstrating its prefiguration of the Gospel revealed by Jesus Christ. However, many monks avoided reading or commenting on the <em>Song of Songs</em>, saving it as one of their last books to study. Because of its erotic imagery and sexual content, abbots and monks …
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"We don't know what we're saying": Politics and subjects among the ultras of Centro Storico Lebowski football club in Florence, Italy
… thus focuses on more unwieldy framings for prefiguration, and suggests that studies of prefigurative politics should attend more closely to the ethical and political complexities of personal and collective refiguration.
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Breaking the Republic in Half? Black Worldmaking Practices in Contemporary France
… my chosen case-studies, exploring the material prefiguration of alternative futures, the related centring of case, and flamboyance as black aliveness. Taken together, these examples make a case for flamboyance as a pedagogy of worldmaking. In answer to my first research question, I find that …
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Typological Structures in the Old and New Testaments
… and the prophetic (consisting of the aspects of prefiguration, divine design, and prospective/predictive devoir-être).</p> <p>It is seen that the terms τύπος and cognates are amazingly well-suited to encompass the linear Nachbild-Vorbild dynamics involved in the τύπος structures. Since these …
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Going back-to-the-land in the Anthropocene: a more-than-human journey into anarchist geography
This thesis is a theoretical and empirical journey into the more-than-human worlds of countercultural back-to-the-land farmers: radical environmentalists who migrate to rural places and take up farming as a way of living. It investigates their everyday life and relations to the land as a key …
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Intersectionality and feminist service provision: Power and difference in gender-based violence services
Intersectionality has been described as both a critical inquiry and a critical praxis rooted in Black feminism and the activism of marginalised groups to dismantle interlocking systems of oppression. Yet the question of how to develop and maintain a critical intersectional praxis has remained open …