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Notre travail se veut une analyse non-exhaustive des différents modes de représentation de la misanthropie dans la littérature québécoise, tel que ce thème a pu être traité dans un roman dit "du terroir", dans un roman de la ville, et... more
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      PhilosophyLiteratureTerroirLittérature québécoise
Representations of misanthropy have frequently attributed it to one or both of two motivations. On the one hand, the misanthrope is often depicted as being ruled by passion, their intense, emotional abhorrence of humanity the result of... more
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      Critical TheoryPhilosophyShakespeareAnimal Studies
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      ShakespeareWord and Image StudiesReputationCommentary
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      Islamic LawArabic LiteratureGlobalizationLiterature
Shakespeare wrote a tragedy about a black military hero, portrayed in a glowing light in the beginning, in the midst of a Europe that was still killing people over whether or not they believed that wine is the blood of Christ, let alone a... more
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      ShakespeareReputationCommentaryAnalysis
Despite the fact that Mary Shelley and E. M. Cioran have never been previously analyzed in the same context (they belong not only to different ages but also to divergent genres), we will find that they share at least two similar themes.... more
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      RomanticismNihilismExistentialismAntihumanism
This paper discusses the representation of moral values in Dickens’ Oliver Twist and their relationship with English Victorian culture and society.
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      EducationFeminist TheoryVictorian StudiesPoverty
ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī's (1050-1143/1641-1731) "Perfecting the Qualities: On Keeping to Homes" is a 39-folio treatise that epitomizes eight centuries of Islamic works on the theme of social reclusion (ʿuzla) away from latter-day... more
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      Quranic StudiesHadith StudiesTasawwufQuietism
De nos jours omniprésent sur la scène politique, le cynisme fut depuis son origine l’objet de polémiques. Le mode de vie scandaleux auquel il est associé pose la question de l’appartenance ou non de Diogène et des Cyniques à la... more
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      Jean Jaques RousseauPhilosophieMarquis De SadeDIDEROT
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      French LiteratureTheatre Studies17th-Century Studies17th Century French Literature (Literature)
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      Animal EthicsPessimismMisanthropyAnimal Rights, Animal Ecology, Animal Studies, Animal Ethics, Animal Cognition, Animal Liberation, Animals in Culture, Philosophy Of Animals, Animals & Society studies, Ethics of Animals, and Laboratory Animal Welfare, Animal Law
Recent efforts among anarchist geographers to re-investigate foundational concepts like ‘space’ and ‘territory’ have helped to cast a new light on the flows and regulations that shape contemporary life and spatial organization, both in... more
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      Environmental EngineeringLandscape EcologySociologySocial Movements
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      ShakespeareDrama TranslationTranslationSociological Models of Translation and Interpreting
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      Critical TheoryCultural StudiesPhilosophyAesthetics
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      BuddhismSpiritualityMontaigneQuietism
L'enfance de Colette, en un siècle qui n'avait pas encore trahi la nature, la place sous l'égide de la sauvagerie, valeur cardinale qui guidera sa vie, l'armera contre les désillusions pour l'élever, indemne, jusqu'au faîte de la gloire... more
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      NatureAnimal RightsAnimalsLittérature Française
In his comedy Der Schwierige, Hugo von Hofmannsthal imagines a community without chauvinism. The play's main protagonist Count Hans Karl Bühl claims that it is indecent to speak, and even to have experiences, and proposes an attitude of... more
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      German StudiesGerman LiteratureComedyDrama
Наше уединение началось в утробе матери, и к такому некогда безопасному и комфортному пребыванию в самоощущениях и гармонии с собой мы стремимся инстинктивно. Одинокость отнюдь не исключительно психическое состояние, и не только... more
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      Meaning of LifeInnate immunityJoseph BrodskyAnthropology of Loneliness
Arguing on the popular belief of Swift being a misanthrope on the basis of Gulliver's travels book 4.
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      Jonathan SwiftGulliver's TravelsSWIFTMisanthropy
*Delievered at the ANZSA bi-annual conference on the 4th of October, 2014. Freud famously claimed to never have read Nietzsche but the latter’s interest in Shakespeare’s plays and the playwright himself arose from a remarkably similar... more
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      PsychoanalysisComparative LiteratureShakespeareHistory Of Psychoanalysis
In this article, I seek to present a "metaphorology" of the shipwreck through a literary example. As Hans Blumenberg has noted, the shipwreck has served as a metaphor for the contingency of human existence in Western culture. Building on... more
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      PosthumanismEnvironmental StudiesGothic LiteratureCritical Posthumanism
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      Second SophisticMelancholyAncient MedicineLucian
The conduct book stakes out the boundaries of correct behavior, making instructions for self-management available to anyone who strives for easy social integration. Given its close relation to the mores of the educated classes, it is a... more
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      German StudiesGerman Literature20th Century German LiteratureGerman Literature and Culture
Following in the tradition of Montaigne and Rousseau, a number of recent philosophers have argued that reflection on the relationship between humankind and certain animals yields good reasons for a misanthropic verdict on the former. One... more
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      Animal EthicsVirtue EthicsAnimals and AnimalityVirtues and Vices
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      ShakespeareDrama TranslationTranslationSociological Models of Translation and Interpreting
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      ShakespeareDrama TranslationTranslationSociological Models of Translation and Interpreting
This paper explores a cross-disciplinary approach to Applied Drama/performance studies and creativity about their role in contemporary communities. Specifically, it discusses the possibilities of using the devising drama practice as a... more
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      Performing ArtsCreativityShakespeareDevised Theatre
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      Continental PhilosophyIntersubjectivityNihilismPhaedo
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      MisanthropyBienes De DifuntosLiturgia De Difuntos
Othello is a Moor, but he has an extreme self-confidence, because he is a very successful warrior. The military identity of him is important and gives him a great confidence. This is what makes him acceptable by elite society, because he... more
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      ShakespeareReputationCommentaryAnalysis
This paper explores a cross-disciplinary approach to performance studies (devised drama) and creativity, and their role in contemporary communities. Specifically, it discusses the possibilities of using drama practice and Shakespeare’s... more
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      Performing ArtsCreativityShakespeareDevised Theatre
Excerpt: The object of satire often bothers the satirist. Of course, satire is nothing but the attempt to ridicule or condemn an object, the venality and decadence of society, the vanity and mediocrity of the literati, and so on. To... more
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      German StudiesGerman LiteratureAustrian LiteratureSatire
This article conceptualizes a postnaturalist ethics of fiction in order to trace the interconnections between anthropogenic effects on the environment and the reading and writing of texts as thematized in Claire Louise-Bennett’s... more
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      Irish StudiesCommonsEcocriticismNarrative Ethics
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      ComedyIdealismShakespeareLiterary Theory
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      PedagogyImmanuel KantPädagogikHelmuth Plessner
Colette, l'animale Méryl Pinque Je deviens de jour en jour suspecte à mes semblables. Mais s'ils étaient mes semblables, je ne leur serais pas suspecte… […] Au point de vue humain, c'est à la connivence avec la bête que commence la... more
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      French LiteratureNatureAnimalsLittérature Française