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EUGENICS AND SOCIALIST THOUGHT IN THE PROGRESSIVE ERA: THE CASE OF JAMES MEDBERY MACKAYE

2018

The aim of this essay is to assess James Medbery MacKaye’s contribution to socialist thought during the Progressive Era. Largely forgotten today, MacKaye proposed a special version of socialism, which he called “Pantocracy,” based on a peculiar blend of utilitarian and eugenic assumptions. Specifically, MacKaye held that biological fitness mapped to the capacity for happiness—biologically superior individuals possess a greater capacity for happiness—and saw the eugenic breeding of “a being or race of beings capable in the first place of happiness” as a possibility open by the advent of Pantocracy. Incidentally, this essay provides further evidence that the influence of eugenic and racialist…

Contre l'autonomie et la clôture du texte : formes et ambiguïtés de la fiction moderniste européenne : (1910-1939)

2014

Although it has been a key concept of literary criticism in the English-speaking world for more than a half-century, modernism remains a relatively misunderstood notion in France, owing to its proximity to somewhat close concepts such as modernity and avant-garde, which it only partially overlaps. The concept is relevant to experimentation in all literary genres, but this study focuses on the novel, with texts by James Joyce, André Gide, Ramón Gómez de la Serna and Virginia Woolf. Those have often been mischaracterized by literary critics as either mimetic novels — though more realistic than realist novels — or more frequently as emblematic of the self-referential text, as defined by the do…

Kuva, havainto ja todellisuus : todellisuudesta ja kuvasta muodostuvat havainnot sekä niiden vastaavuus kuvioiden, objektien, tilan ja syvyyden suhte…

2000

From the theory of “congeneric surd equations” to “Segre's bicomplex numbers”

2015

We will study the historical pathway of the emergence of Tessarines or Bicomplex numbers, from their origin as "imaginary" solutions of irrational equations, to their insertion in the context of study of the algebras of hypercomplex numbers.

La influencia de los textos sagrados en la configuración visual de los santos guerreros

2020

espanolEl presente articulo analiza los convencionalismos y recursos visuales utilizados en las leyendas de santos guerreros, basados en las fuentes del Antiguo y el Nuevo Testamento con la finalidad de ofrecer una mayor comprension del fenomeno de la sacralizacion de la guerra y la funcion de las imagenes de santos caballeros en el ambito hispanico. Son numerosos los ejemplos en los que los santos guerreros aparecen reiteradamente amparando a los ejercitos cristianos o destrozando a las huestes enemigas. En muchos de estos casos, algunos de los elementos significantes utilizados presentan una evidente asociacion con las grandes gestas del Antiguo Testamento, conformandose como recurrentes …

“From Savage to Sublime (And Partway Back): Indians and Antiquity in Early Nineteenth-Century American Literature”

2016

This article examines the comparisons made between Indians and Antiquity in early nineteenth-century American literature (notably in the works of Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper); to do so, it begins by reaching back to references in European and American writings of the eighteenth century. One of the main motivations behind the associations between Native Americans and the Ancient World made in the early decades of the nineteenth century was to “elevate” Indians in order to transform them into worthy symbols of the recently established United States. Such associations also rendered them suitable subjects for treatment by authors inspired to a large extent by the Romantic Moveme…

Solemne acte d'investidura com a doctors 'Honoris Causa' dels Srs. Kurt Wüthrich i James Casey

2004

Solemne acte d'investidura com a doctors 'Honoris Causa' dels excel.lentísims, Sr. D. Kurt Wüthrich i Sr. James Casey.

Creença i realitat en William James

2008

This paper is devoted to analyse both the epistemology and ontology of James's pragmatism and his metaphysical proposals. The conclusions are: first, that James did not defend a metaphysical realism, but a antirealist realism; and secondly that this position was what he needed to defend the possibility of human freedom and religious experience.

¿Es la razón universal?

2005

Es la razón universal? Esta es la pregunta que nos convoca. Una pregunta invita a la respuesta y es descortés evadirla. Así que contestaré, por mi parte, que sí lo es, que la razón es universal. Pero en filosofía parece que rigen unas formas de cortesía distintas a cuando estamos con los amigos divirtiéndonos, nos encontramos con nuestros vecinos o con un extraño. En esos casos es poco gentil demorar las respuestas a las preguntas o evadirlas descaradamente. Sin embargo, parece que cuando filosofamos ocurre todo lo contrario: no es de buen tono, no se ajusta a las buenas maneras contestar como yo lo hecho. De manera que como no quiero ser descortés, como quiero causarles una buena impresión…

Agente 007: Oltre la cortina di ferro. Note per una storia del racconto di spionaggio sovietico.

2013

Nel discorso ufficiale sovietico la letteratura di massa è considerata un fenomeno unicamente occidentale, mentre si nega fermamente la sua stessa possibilità nella società priva di classi. La tendenza prevalente nella storiografia odierna accetta, infondo, questa lettura, postulando la non esistenza di una letteratura di massa separata nel periodo sovietico. Una serie di romanzi di spionaggio di epoca stalinista, però, costituiscono un argomento contro una simile interpretazione. La contraddizione può essere spiegata attraverso un'analisi della ricezione sovietica di James Bond. Sebbene per tutto il periodo sovietico i romanzi di Ian Fleming non siano mai stati tradotti, e i film di Terenc…