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Present Uncertainty and Looking to the Past: The Ambiguous Literary Nationalism of Putnam’s Monthly
2023
Putnam’s Monthly (1853-1857) was one of the best literary and general interest magazines in antebellum America. Besides its high quality, what made the New York-based magazine stand out was its commitment to publishing American writers and focusing on American themes at a time when, with no reliable international copyright protection in place, many periodicals in the United States were in the habit of reprinting the works of foreign (primarily British) authors, sometimes without payment. However, despite its optimistic literary nationalism, Putnam’s Monthly expressed uncertainty about the quality of contemporary American literature and, indeed, about the capacity of American society to enco…
Putnam's internal realism: from metaphysical to natural realism
2017
El objetivo central de la tesis es de hacer una analisis del realismo interno de Hilary Putnam y compararlo con las doctrinas del realismo metafisico y el realismo natural. La razon por la que tal comparacion se hace es porque Putnam mantuvo cada uno de estas tres doctrinas en algun periodo en su larga carrera filosofica. En el primer capitulo se hace un analisis del realismo metafisico tal como Putnam lo comprendio. En este capitulo se muestran las paradojas y los problemas que llevaron a Putnam a eventualmente abandonar dicha doctrina. El segundo capitulo se ocupa de exponer los primeros desarrollos de la doctrina del realismo interno, como los son el argumento de los modelos, el verifica…
On Putnam : Bowling Together - Applying Putnam’s Theories of Community and Social Capital to Public Relations
2018
Although the concept of Social Capital is by no means new, it has certainly spread more widely due to the writings of Robert D. Putnam. His writings have underlined the importance of civic engagement and social ties for the welfare of individuals and societies at large. Putnam’s theories lay the foundation for an understanding of the broader societal functions of public relations, and offer useful concepts and ideas for both theory and practice. Putnam’s theory of social capital posits that the success of societies greatly depends on the horizontal bonds of collaboration: only trust-filled long-term relations, such as associations and clubs, are able to generate the cohesion that brings soc…