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Pilyasova, Olimpiada, and Yuliya Smirnova. Children's literature: theory and practice of expressive reading. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1864380.
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The textbook covers theoretical and applied issues of teaching children to read literature based on the material of works of Russian and foreign literature, including folklore. The content of the book introduces the reader to the world of children's literature, introduces the genre features of the works of the circle of children's readers and the most famous authors.
 The publication is a workshop on expressive reading, which is one of the components of students' speech training. The book recreates the world of writers primarily through the word and a kind of artistic thinking. Numerous quotations from works of fiction fulfill this task.
 The textbook describes the stages of development of genres of oral folk art: fairy tales, songs, jokes. Examples with distinctive features of "Christian fantasy" and "occult fantasy" are given. The works of Russian poets are briefly described: K.I. Chukovsky, V.A. Zhukovsky, A.S. Pushkin and other authors.
 The content of the manual meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of secondary vocational education of the latest generation.
 The publication is distinguished by the completeness of the presentation of educational material as much as possible in the textbook, a high scientific and theoretical level and is intended for students of secondary vocational education, high school students and anyone interested in the history of world literature.
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Darris, Dobbs, ed. Animating facial features and expression. Charles River Media, 1999.
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Vilimonovic, Larisa. Structure and Features of Anna Komnene’s Alexiad. Amsterdam University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462980389.
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The Alexiad, written in the twelfth century by a Byzantine princess, Anna Komnene, tells the story of the Byzantine Empire during the reign of her father, offering accounts of its political and military history, including its involvement with the First Crusade. Structure and Features of Anna Komnene’s Alexiad: Emergence of a Personal History introduces new methods of research for studying the Alexiad, aiming primarily at analysing Anna Komnene’s literary expression. The book’s approach focuses mainly on the author, the subject, the structure and the inner stylistic features, as well as the genre itself. The result is a substantially new outlook on the main Byzantine historiographical work of the twelfth century.
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Potaev, Georgiy. Rules for planning, designing, and managing urban development. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2025. https://doi.org/10.12737/2023027.
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The textbook outlines methodological provisions and provides practical recommendations on the transformation and development of modern cities; examines the fundamentals of the philosophy of modern urban planning, trends and features of the modern period of urban development, including issues of reformatting the urban environment and creating an aesthetically expressive architectural appearance of cities. The materials included in the manual are based on an analysis of the best buildings of the leaders of world architecture and urban planning. A large number of examples and original photographs are presented. Meets the requirements of the latest generation of federal state educational standards for higher education. For students studying in the fields of Urban Planning, Architecture, Urban Construction, Urban and Regional Planning, State and Municipal Management, university professors, decision makers in the field of urban development management, and anyone interested in modern urban planning. Photos, diagrams and plans from the personal archive of G.A. Potaev.
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Volodina, Elena. Materials science: Design, architecture: in 2 t. Volume 1. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1039908.
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The first volume of the textbook describes the main groups of building and finishing materials and products, their structure and properties.
 Special attention is paid to the actual finishing materials, as well as their ecological and aesthetic features, which are important for creating an expressive subject-spatial environment.
 The well-thought-out structure of the book allows you to successfully master the discipline in different formats of vocational education: secondary vocational, bachelor's, master's, professional retraining. The volume of the studied material is determined by the teacher in accordance with the requirements of the Federal State Educational Standard of the latest generation and the work program.
 It is intended for students in the areas of training "Design", "Environment Design", "Architectural environment Design", "Architecture", "Architectural design". It will also be useful as a reference for practicing designers, architects, restorers, builders, teachers of materials science and a wide range of people interested in this field of knowledge.
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Panteleev, Andrey, and Anastasija Inos. The Language of Advertising: Graphic, Grammar and Pragmatic Aspects. Publishing Center RIOR, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.29039/02043-2.
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This monograph deals with the problem of functioning peculiarities of graphic expressive means and grammar means in the language of modern Russian advertising. This research work treats the advertising discourse as a composite indirect speech act. Active use of adverbial modifiers of manner — deverbatives, elliptical and indefinite personal one-member sentences is characteristic of modern advertising texts. A most distinguishing feature of a modern advertising text is a mixture of Cyrillic and Latin fonts that contributes to the manifestation of an expressive potential of the application. 
 The monograph is aimed at students of Philology, students major in Management and Marketing, masters, postgraduates, staff of higher educational establishments and all those who are interested in the Russian language.
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Panteleev, Andrey, and Anastasija Inos. Advertising language: Graphics. Grammar. Pragmatics. Second edition. 2nd ed. Publishing Center RIOR, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.29039/02126-2.
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The monograph is devoted to the study of the specifics of the functioning of multilevel elements of language in the texts of modern Russian advertising. The advertising discourse in this book is considered as a complex indirect speech act. The modern advertising text is characterized by the active use of circumstantial determinants — deverbatives, elliptical, definitely personal and nominative one-member sentences. A striking feature of the modern advertising text is the graphic and orthographic foreign language, the contamination of Cyrillic and Latin elements, which contributes to the realization of the expressive possibilities of the application.
 The book is addressed to students of philological faculties, faculties of management and marketing, undergraduates, graduate students, teachers of higher education, as well as all those who are interested in the Russian language.
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Fedotova, Yuliya. Constitutional and legal provision of national security of the Russian Federation. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/986734.
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The textbook is devoted to the constitutional-legal framework (the concept, historical features of formation and development of constitutional system of Russia, its political, socio-economic and spiritual foundations, the concept, essence, content and purpose of the constitutional security as a legal expression of national security) and the system of ensuring national security of the Russian Federation, expressed in the state (consisting of activities of public authorities and other state authorities in ensuring national security) and private (characterized by the participation of citizens and their associations and other organizations in ensuring national security) of its subsystems.
 Meets the requirements of Federal state educational standards of higher education of the last generation.
 For students, graduates, teachers, professionals in the field of constitutional law and national security practitioners as well as for a wide circle of readers interested in issues of national security.
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Fedotova, Yuliya. Constitutional and legal support of the national security of the Russian Federation. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1865701.
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The textbook is devoted to the constitutional and legal basis (the concept, historical features of the formation and development of the constitutional system of Russia, its political, socio-economic and spiritual foundations, the concept, essence, content and purpose of constitutional security as a legal expression of national security) and the system of ensuring national security of the Russian Federation, expressed in the state (consisting of the activities of state bodies government and other state bodies to ensure national security) and non-state (characterized by the participation of citizens and their associations and other organizations in ensuring national security) its subsystems.
 Meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation.
 For students, postgraduates, teachers, specialists in the field of constitutional law and national security law, practitioners, as well as for a wide range of readers interested in the problems of ensuring national security.
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Language of the Face: Stories of Its Uniquely Expressive Features. MIT Press, 2023.
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Gutzmann, Daniel. The Grammar of Expressivity. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812128.001.0001.
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While the expressive function of natural language has received much attention in recent years, the role grammar plays in the interpretation of expressive items has mainly been neglected in the semantic and pragmatic literature. On the other hand, while there have been syntactic studies of some expressive phenomena they do not explicitly connect to recent developments in semantics. This book bridges this gap, showing that semantics and pragmatics alone cannot capture all grammatical particularities of expressive items and that expressivity has strong syntactic reflexes that interact with the semantic interpretation and account for the mismatches between the syntax and semantics of these phenomena. The main thesis he argues for—the hypothesis of expressive syntax—is that expressivity is a syntactic feature, on a par with other established syntactic features like tense or gender. Evidence for this claim is drawn from three detailed case studies of expressive phenomena: expressive adjectives, expressive intensifiers, and expressive vocatives. These expressions exhibit some puzzling properties and by developing an account of them employing minimalist approaches to syntactic features and agreement, the author shows that expressivity, as a syntactic feature, can partake in agreement operations, trigger movement, and syntactically be selected for. This not only provides indirect evidence for the hypothesis of expressive syntax and extends the usefulness of operations on syntactic features operation beyond their traditional domains, but also highlights the hidden role grammar may play for phenomena that are often considered to be solely semantic in nature.
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Juslin, Patrik N. Emotion in music performance. Edited by Susan Hallam, Ian Cross, and Michael Thaut. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199298457.013.0035.
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There are several features that we have come to expect from an expert performance: technical mastery, confidence, originality, flexibility, and a true understanding of the musical style. Yet the feature that both performers and listeners appear to regard as the most important is that the performer is expressive. The most-loved artists are commonly the ones that are able to express and evoke emotions in listeners. Previous studies have mainly concerned how performers express emotions, and this article focuses on this question. The article first provides working definitions of key concepts (e.g. expression, communication), and considers how performers conceive of these issues. It then reviews up-to-date evidence on how performers express emotions. Finally, the article proposes directions for future research.
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Bickford, Tyler. Intimate and Instrumental. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190654146.003.0002.
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This chapter makes crucial theoretical and conceptual interventions to support the arguments developed through the ethnographic core of the book. This chapter extends an influential “expressive practices” approach, which emphasizes the centrality of expressive language and communication in the social reproduction of class, gender, and ethnicity in schools, to include the social production of childhood roles and identities. It identifies “instrumentality” and “intimacy” as key concepts linking expressive practices to social relationships. It then argues that the expressive practices of children’s peer cultures are characteristically “intimate” in their linguistic and social features, by contrast with the instrumental approaches to language and communication characterized by classroom routines and literacy education. This contrast between instrumental and intimate modes is important for understanding children’s practices around entertainment media and digital technologies in subsequent chapters. This chapter also overviews children’s expressive traditions and develops key themes involving media and technology in later chapters.
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Azzouni, Jody. Feature-Characterization Languages. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190622558.003.0009.
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The language appropriate to feature metaphysics is described. This language is one that induces no commitments to objects, although it allows an expression of a commitment to the reality of ontological borders. The language resembles, on the surface, weather reports, with apparently pleonastic subject terms. Feature-characterization languages are shown to be as expressively powerful as those that utilize first-order quantification. They differ from first-order languages because the traditional predication relation (which presupposes objects and properties and relations of those objects) is replaced by an “is at” relation that presupposes none of these things. It’s also shown that the presupposition of locations (in space and time) isn’t required either. The language requires, metaphysically, only that features co-occur.
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White, Miles. Affective Gestures. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036620.003.0004.
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This chapter looks at the ways in which the body, aesthetic features of hip-hop music, and the material culture that surrounds it are deployed to construct affect and help delineate between what is meant by hard and hardcore, both as music and as masculine performance. In hip-hop culture, uniqueness and the expression of individual identity are prioritized through behavior, modes of dress, language, and other ways. Those who adopt these styles of behavior in mannerism, dress, speech, or attitude become part of a community of practice that is able to persist because the expressive codes associated with the culture have the power to invoke it through any number of performative texts. The chapter also traces the historical evolution of hip-hop culture from a largely benign music to something more malevolent.
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Azzouni, Jody. Ontology Without Borders. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190622558.001.0001.
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Part I is metametaphysics. Quantifier variance views are criticized, and it’s shown that ontological debate, to be cogent, requires a single existence concept shared by debate participants. Natural language expresses such a concept which has certain formal properties—univocality among them. It’s shown that an ontological neutralist interpretation of quantifier domains (both formal- and natural-language) is consistent and consistent with usage data. Finally, several puzzles, among them Hob-Nob sentences and truth-talk about fictions, are resolved using the neutralist interpretation. A result established here is crucial to establishing the metaphysics argued for in part II: the general invalidity of indispensability arguments. Part II is metaphysics. An austere metaphysical position—feature metaphysics—is presented and argued for. Features aren’t properties or relations or objects of any sort. They have no individuation conditions. A feature-characterization language, with the expressive strength provided by quantifiers, is given; and using the results of part I, it’s shown that no commitments to objects arise when using this language. Feature-characterization languages supplant predication (properties of objects) with an “is at” relation or a co-occurrence relation between features. It’s shown that the resulting notion doesn’t yield a property-bundle view. Feature metaphysics is argued for by showing that the notion of object borders (central to individuation conditions for objects) cannot be interpreted metaphysically. This is also true of the individuation conditions used by philosophers to argue for tropes over universals, or vice versa. The resulting position allows us to distinguish what we project onto the world from what we find there.
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Levy, Benjamin R. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199381999.003.0008.
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In lectures and essays, Ligeti stressed the role of memory and historical conditioning in the conception of form and meaning in music. His sketches frequently mention music from Couperin to Mahler as a model for different features of his own. These, in turn, become the basis for expressive gestures, referencing elements of traditional music as well as familiar types from Ligeti’s own oeuvre. While it is tempting to look at the titles of works like Clocks and Clouds (after Karl Popper), San Francisco Polyphony, and Three Pieces for Two Pianos (Monument, Selbstportrait, Bewegung) as starting to build toward the expressive ends of the opera, Le Grand Macabre, this trend can actually be found in works with more abstract titles, including his String Quartet no. 2 and Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet. This historical awareness, essential to Ligeti’s music, positions him on a fine line between the modernist and postmodernist eras.
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Temperley, David. The Musical Language of Rock. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190653774.001.0001.
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A theory of the structure of rock music is presented, addressing aspects such as tonality/key, harmony, rhythm/meter, melody, phrase structure, timbre/instrumentation, form, and emotional expression. The book brings together ideas from the author’s previous articles but also contains substantial new material. Rock is defined broadly (as it often is) to include a wide range of late twentieth-century Anglo-American popular styles, including 1950s rock & roll, Motown, soul, “British invasion” rock, soft rock, heavy metal, disco, new wave, and alternative rock. The study largely employs the informal, intuitive methods of conventional music theory and analysis, but it is also informed by corpus data. An important component of the theory is a representation of pitches—the “line of fifths”—that sheds light on issues such as stylistic distinctions within rock, effects of surprise, and emotion. The theory also entails a model of expression with three dimensions, representing valence, energy, and tension; this proves to be a powerful tool for tracing shifts in expressive effect within songs. The theory features novel approaches to issues such as cadences, melodic-harmonic coordination, the handling of sectional boundaries, and the classification of formal types. The final two chapters present analyses of six songs and a broader consideration of rock in its historical and stylistic context.
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Parsons, Laurel, and Brenda Ravenscroft. Marianna Martines, Sonata in A Major, I (1765). Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190237028.003.0006.
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Marianna Martines, a Viennese contemporary of Haydn and Mozart, combined the fruits of instruction in the strict style with the devices and schemata of the new galant style. She was an excellent harpsichordist and singer as well as composer, and her compositional craft is amply displayed in the opening movement of her Sonata in A Major for Keyboard, written around 1765. This movement skillfully handles various layouts, schemata, and compositional devices that were standard at the time. Furthermore, it cleverly manipulates these features with rhythmic and formal devices—some of which are quite daring—in an expressive and dramatic fashion.
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Manuel, Peter. The Trajectories of Transplants. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038815.003.0002.
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Most of the North Indian music heritage brought to the Caribbean consisted of folk styles and genres that were predominantly text-driven, in that their expressive interest lay primarily in lyric content rather than purely musical dimensions. The vitality of such genres in the Caribbean has been gravely undermined by the decline of the Bhojpuri language. And yet, the fate of these music idioms has not been one of uniform decadence. This chapter discusses three genres of Bhojpuri-region narrative song—birha, the Ālhā epic, and antiphonal Ramayan singing—suggesting how their functions, inherent features, and relation to print culture have conditioned their trajectories in the Caribbean context.
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Bonds, Mark Evan. The Beethoven Syndrome. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190068479.001.0001.
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The “Beethoven syndrome” is the inclination of listeners to hear music as the projection of a composer’s inner self. Beethoven’s music was a catalyst for this change, but only in retrospect, for it was not until after his death that listeners began to hear composers in general—not just Beethoven—in their works, particularly in their instrumental music. The Beethoven Syndrome: Hearing Music as Autobiography traces the rise, fall, and persistence of this mode of listening from the middle of the eighteenth century to the present. Prior to 1830, composers and audiences alike operated within a framework of rhetoric, in which the burden of intelligibility lay squarely on the composer, whose task it was to move listeners in a calculated way. Expression was thought of as an objective construct with a purpose. But through a confluence of musical, philosophical, social, and economic changes, the framework of rhetoric gave way to a framework of hermeneutics. Under the paradigm of expressive subjectivity, concert-goers no longer perceived composers as orators but as oracles to be deciphered. The aesthetics of “New Objectivity” around 1920 marked a return not only to certain stylistic features of eighteenth-century music but to the earlier concept of expression itself. Objectivity would go on to become the cornerstone of the high-modernist aesthetic that dominated the century’s middle decades. Perceptions of compositional subjectivity have nevertheless endured in surprising ways, and we find ourselves today in an era of dual and often conflicting paradigms.
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Dobbs, Darris, and Bill Fleming. Animating Facial Features & Expressions. Charles River Media, 1998.
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McKee, Eric. Ballroom Dances of the Late Eighteenth Century. Edited by Danuta Mirka. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199841578.013.007.
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Dance topics represent the largest and most pervasive category of late eighteenth-century topics. This chapter examines ballroom dances current in Vienna during the last quarter of the eighteenth century. The repertoire is largely drawn from theRedoutentänzethat Mozart composed for the imperial court balls held during Carnival season during the last three years of his life (1788–91). This rich and diverse group of works includes the most popular ballroom dances of the Classic period: minuets, contredanses,Deutsche, andLändler. I have two objectives. The first is to provide an account of the prototypical features of each dance’s choreography and music and the correlations found between the two; the second is to introduce some cultural, social, and expressive meanings associated with these dances.
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Finlay, Stephen, and David Plunkett. Quasi-Expressivism about Statements of Law. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198828174.003.0002.
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Speech and thought about what the law is commonly function in practical ways to guide or assess behavior. These functions have often been seen as problematic for legal positivism in the tradition of H.L.A. Hart. One recent response is an expressivist analysis of legal statements. This paper advances a rival, positivist-friendly account of legal statements which the authors call “quasi-expressivist”. It combines a descriptivist, “rule-relational” semantics with a pragmatic account of the expressive and practical functions of legal discourse. This approach is at least as well-equipped as expressivism to explain the practical features of “internal” legal statements and a fundamental kind of legal disagreement, while handling better “external” legal statements. The chapter develops this theory in a Hartian framework, and also argues (against Kevin Toh’s expressivist interpretation) that Hart’s own views in The Concept of Law are best reconstructed along quasi-expressivist lines.
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Winner, Ellen. Can This Be Art? Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190863357.003.0002.
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While philosophers have tried to define art by necessary and sufficient features, this effort has failed. Art is a socially constructed, open concept that eludes formal definition. While art cannot be tightly defined, we can loosely define art by listing possible characteristics of works of art—recognizing that this list must remain an open one. We may not be able define art, but philosophers and psychologists together have revealed the difference between observing something with or without an aesthetic attitude. While any artifact may be used as a work of art, we respond differently to that artifact when we believe it is was created intentionally as a work of art rather than a non-art artifact. We adopt an aesthetic attitude, paying attention to the surface form and the expressive properties of the object. This conclusion is consistent with Kant’s idea of the aesthetic attitude being a form of disinterested contemplation.
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Cameron, Charles M., and Lewis A. Kornhauser. Theorizing the U.S. Supreme Court. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.264.
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We summarize the formal theoretical literature on Supreme Court decision-making. We focus on two core questions: What does the Supreme Court of the United States do, and how can one model those actions; and, what do the justices of the Supreme Court want, and how can one model those preferences? Given the current state of play in judicial studies, these questions then direct this survey mostly to so-called separation of powers (SOP) models, and to studies of a multi-member (“collegial”) court employing the Supreme Court’s very distinctive and highly unusual voting rule.The survey makes four main points. First, it sets out a new taxonomy that unifies much of the literature by linking judicial actions, modeling conventions, and the treatment of the status quo. In addition, the taxonomy identifies some models that employ inconsistent assumptions about Supreme Court actions and consequences. Second, the discussion of judicial preferences clarifies the links between judicial actions and judicial preferences. It highlights the relationships between preferences over dispositions, preferences over rules, and preferences over social outcomes. And, it explicates the difference between consequential and expressive preferences. Third, the survey delineates the separate strands of SOP models. It suggests new possibilities for this seemingly well-explored line of inquiry. Fourth, the discussion of voting emphasizes the peculiar characteristics of the Supreme Court’s voting rule. The survey maps the movement from early models that ignored the special features of this rule, to more recent ones that embrace its features and explore the resulting (and unusual) incentive effects.
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Parpworth, Neil. 18. Freedom of expression. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198810704.003.0018.
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This chapter focuses on laws governing freedom of expression in the UK. Freedom of expression is widely considered to be a necessary feature in any democratic state. The chapter considers the extent to which restrictions are placed on the freedom of expression in the UK. It considers laws for the control of obscenity and indecency, the publication of obscene matter, the test of obscenity, defences, powers of search and seizure, and the possession of pornographic images. The discussion also considers that part of the law of contempt of court which relates to restricting the ability of the media to report court proceedings. This chapter is confined to the law relating to obscenity and indecency and contempt of court on the basis that they share the important characteristic of being regulated by both statute and the common law.
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Buccitelli, Anthony, ed. Race and Ethnicity in Digital Culture. Praeger, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216003953.
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In this unprecedented study, leading scholars and emerging voices from around the world consider how race and ethnicity continue to shape our everyday lives, even as digital technology seems to promise a release from our "real" social identities. How do people use the new expressive features of digital technologies to experience, represent, discuss, and debate racial and ethnic identity? How have digital technologies or digital spaces become racialized? How have the existing vernacular traditions, or folklore, surrounding identity been reshaped in digital spaces? And how have new traditions emerged? This interdisciplinary volume of essays explores the role of traditional culture in the evolving expressions, practices, and images of race and ethnicity in the digital age. The work examines cultural forms in exclusively digital environments as well as in the hybrid environments created by mobile technologies, where real life becomes overlaid with digital content. Insights from academics across disciplines—including anthropology, communications, folkloristics, art, and sociology—consider the interplay between race/ethnicity, everyday vernacular culture, and digital technologies. Six sections explore traditional cultural affordances of technology, folklore and digital applications, visual cultures of race and ethnicity, racism and exclusion online, political activism and race, and concluding observations. The book covers technologies such as vlogs, video games, digital photography, messaging applications, social media sites, and the Internet.
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Artaud, Antonin. The Theatre and its Double. Edited by Mark Taylor-Batty. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350288751.
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In The Theatre and Its Double, first published in 1938, Antonin Artaud puts forward his radical theories on drama and theatre, which he saw as being stifled by conservatism and a lack of experimentation. Containing the famous manifestos of the ‘Theatre of Cruelty’, this collection of essays analyses the underlying impulses of performance, provides suggestions on a physical-training method for actors, and features a long appreciation of the expressive values of Eastern dance drama. This new English translation of Artaud's canonical text by Mark Taylor-Batty retains the idiosyncratic nature of the author's writing, communicating its fervour and ambition, while achieving a much-needed clarity. Through doing so, it facilitates a fuller appreciation of Artaud’s artistic objectives and the original context in which they grew, aided by a newly translated set of his notes and drafts, and a selection of letters to his publisher, friends and associates concerning the book's genesis and the evolution of the concept of a ‘Theatre of Cruelty’. The commentary further contextualizes this material within Artaud’s broader oeuvre, from his collaboration with the Surrealist group through to his plans to stage his own adaptation of Percy Shelley’s Les Cenci in 1935. A welcome addition to any theatre-lover's or student's bookshelf, this translation of Artaud’s classic text offers clear and faithful insights into Artaud's theatre.
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Jeshion, Robin. Slurs, Dehumanization, and the Expression of Contempt. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198758655.003.0005.
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A theory of slurring terms must explain how and why uses of slurs function to dehumanize. On extant expressivist views, speakers express contempt for targets on account of being in the group. This chapter argues that explaining how slurs dehumanize requires more than encoding the speaker’s contempt toward the target and group. It requires appreciating the intricate moral-psychological structure of contempt, in particular that contempt, as a moral emotion, involves taking those properties that are the basis for regarding the target contemptuously as fundamental to the targets’ identity as a person. This feature of contempt is reflected in slurs’ semantics. Understanding contempt is also needed to defend expressivism from important objections.
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Gamzou, Assaf, and Ken Koltun-Fromm, eds. Comics and Sacred Texts. University Press of Mississippi, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496819215.001.0001.
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Comics and Sacred Texts: Reimagining Religion and Graphic Narratives explores how comics and notions of the sacred interweave to produce new modes of seeing and understanding the sacred. The creative texts explored within this edited volume share an expressive interest in modes of seeing the sacred in graphic structures. We examine the intersections between religion and comics in ways that critically expand our ability to think well about religious landscapes, rhetorical practices, pictorial representation, and the everyday experiences of the uncanny. Sacred Texts and Comics engages the diverse and expansive universe of comic studies and its capacity to reveal new modalities of the sacred. We explore how the sacred erupts in places, and through mediums, that challenge where we should see and encounter divine presence. Comics also reimagine sacred texts, and move readers to see traditional texts anew. But the sacred also has limits and borders, so we look at monsters and wizards in comic books, and how these beings challenge visual assumptions about the normal and the sacred. Finally, we show how comics reveal the everyday sacred: a presence in the mundane, common, and often overlooked features of familiar existence. Collectively, the essays in Sacred Texts and Comics reveal how comics, as a visual medium, moves readers to reimagine the sacred. We claim that seeing the sacred is a learned practice: we must learn where to look for and how to envision the sacred.
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Hutchinson, G. O. Motion in Classical Literature. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198855620.001.0001.
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Ancient literature is full of people, gods, and animals in impressive motion. But while the importance of space has been realized recently, motion has had little attention, for all its prominence in literature, and its interest to ancient philosophy. Motion is bound up with decisions, emotions, character; its specific features are expressive. The book starts with motion in visual art: this leads to the characteristics of literary depiction. Literary works discussed are: Homer’s Iliad; Ovid’s Metamorphoses; Tacitus’ Annals; Sophocles’ Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus; Parmenides’ On Nature; Seneca’s Natural Questions. The two narrative poems here diverge rewardingly, as do philosophical poetry and prose; in the prose narrative, as in the philosophical poem, the absence of motion, and metaphorical motion, are important; the dramas scrutinize motion verbally and visually. Each discussion pursues the general roles of motion in a work, with detail on its language of motion; then passages are analysed closely, to show how much emerges when this aspect is scrutinized. A conclusion brings works and passages together. It considers the differences made by genre and by the time of writing. Among aspects of motion which emerge as important are speed, scale, shape of movement, motion and fixity, movement of one person and a group, motion willed and imposed, motion in images and unrealized possibilities. A companion website makes it easier to see passages and analyses together; it offers videos of readings to convey the vitality and subtlety with which motion is portrayed.
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Wilson Kimber, Marian. Multiplying Voices. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040719.003.0008.
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“Verse-speaking” choirs led by women trained in elocutionary techniques were popular at women’s colleges in the 1930s and 1940s. School groups expressively speaking poetry together reflected the Depression-era values of social usefulness and civic unity. Pedagogical materials written by women consistently relied on musical terminology to describe choirs’ arrangements. Choirs undertook recitation utilizing differently pitched voices and alternating spoken solos with larger groups. The Wellesley College Choir, conducted by Cécile de Banke, was a leading representative of this style of musical interpretation of contemporary poetry. While elocution had featured female soloists in personal interpretations of literary works, the speech choir, with its patriotic overtones of civic good, was an even safer venue for feminine expression, as women’s personalities would be absorbed into the whole.
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Ishikawa, Shin'ichiro. An Exploration of a New Poetic Expression Beyond Dichotomy: An Analytical Approach to the Meta-poetic Features of the Poems of D.h.lawrence. Dissertation.com, 2005.
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Stojnić, Una. Discourse, Context, and Coherence. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791492.003.0006.
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On the received view, the resolution of context-sensitivity is at least partly determined by non-linguistic features of utterance situation. If I say ‘He’s happy’, what ‘he’ picks out is underspecified by its linguistic meaning, and is only fixed through extra-linguistic supplementation: the speaker’s intention, and/or some objective, non-linguistic feature of the utterance situation. This underspecification is exhibited by most context-sensitive expressions, with the exception of pure indexicals, like ‘I.’ While this received view is prima facie appealing, I argue it is deeply mistaken. I defend an account according to which context-sensitivity resolution is governed by linguistic mechanisms determining prominence of candidate resolutions of context-sensitive items. Thus, on this account, the linguistic meaning of a context-sensitive expression fully specifies its resolution in a context, automatically selecting the resolution antecedently set by the prominence-governing linguistic mechanisms.
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Cariolou, Leto. Circumnavigating the Conflict between the Right to Reputation and the Right to Freedom of Expression. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198795957.003.0010.
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This chapter analyses key features of the purported conflict between the right to free speech and the right to reputation in the context of the case law of the European Court of Human Rights. The chapter addresses two questions. How can it be that the right to free speech and the right to reputation co-exist as equal, when they can require directly opposite results or protective measures? Second, how can the seemingly inescapable conflict between them be principally reconciled without leading to inconsistent outcomes, depending on how the claims on which they are grounded are framed and adjudicated? The chapter argues that, in adjudicating defamation cases, the ECtHR employs in principle substantive reasoning aimed at delineating or defining the content of both rights, which effectively circumnavigates the conflict between them. Thus the limits of freedom of expression are set where protection of the right to reputation begins; and vice versa.
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Ferrari, Lynne R. Sickle Cell Disease. Edited by Kirk Lalwani, Ira Todd Cohen, Ellen Y. Choi, and Vidya T. Raman. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190685157.003.0051.
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Sickle cell anemia is a disease that combines molecular biology, clinical features, biochemistry, pathology, natural selection, population genetics, gene expression, and genomics and is the world’s most common life-threatening monogenic disorder. Clinical features include anemia; painful crisis especially in fingers, chest, and long bones; hemolysis; splenic infarction resulting in functional asplenia; and microinfarction leading to neurologic and renal impairment. The maintenance of adequate body temperature with active warming devices and warmed intravenous fluids, monitoring hydration and urine output, providing supplemental oxygen, and limiting surgical and anesthesia times to reduce pulmonary complications constitute the best management for patients with sickle cell disease.
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Toulouse, Teresa A., and Barbara C. Ewell, eds. Sweet Spots. University Press of Mississippi, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496817020.001.0001.
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Sweet Spots examines the dense meanings of interstitial spaces in New Orleans architecture and culture. “Interstitial space” refers not only to distinctive features of New Orleans’ houses—high ceilings, hidden passageways, balconies, courtyards and portes-de-cocheres, for example--but also to the relation of such features to the city’s streets and neighborhoods. Thirteen interdisciplinary contributors explore the roles played by “in-between” spaces in expressing and shaping intersections of race, class, gender, and environment in New Orleans. Sweet Spots is rich with visual materials, from maps, architectural renderings and surveys, to postcards, photographs, paintings and drawings.
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Walsh, Bruce, and Michael Lynch. Changes in Quantitative Traits Over Time. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198830870.003.0001.
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Quantitative traits—be they morphological or physiological characters, aspects of behavior, or genome-level features such as the amount of RNA or protein expression for a specific gene—usually show considerable variation within and among populations. This chapter provides a historical overview of the study of such traits and their connections with traditional and molecular population genetics, applied breeding, and evolutionary theory.
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Raymont, Vanessa, and Robert D. Stevens. Cognitive Reserve. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199653461.003.0029.
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The cognitive reserve hypothesis suggests that the structure and function of an individual’s brain can modulate the clinical expression of brain damage and illness. This chapter describes passive and active models of reserve, their impact on neurological illness, and how these effects can be assessed. Passive models focus on the protective potential of anatomical features, such as brain size, neural density, and synaptic connectivity, while active models emphasize the connectivity and efficiency of neural networks and active compensation by alternative networks. It is likely that both models represent features of a common biological substrate and could help in the development of strategies to improve outcome following critical illness.
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Kamtekar, Rachana, ed. Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy. Oxford University PressOxford, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192885197.001.0001.
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Abstract Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy provides, twice each year, a collection of the best current work in the field of ancient philosophy. Each volume features original essays that contribute to an understanding of a wide range of themes and problems in all periods of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, from the beginnings to the threshold of the Middle Ages. From its first volume in 1983, OSAP has been a highly influential venue for work in the field and has often featured essays of substantial length as well as critical essays on books of distinctive importance. Volume LXIII contains a discussion of whether Plato subscribes to a two-world metaphysics in the Philebus; a new interpretation of Aristotle on future contingent statements in De Interpretatione according to which such statements are false in virtue of expressing modal necessity; a defence of Aristotle’s argument in Metaphysics Γ that one cannot deny the principle of non-contradiction; a unified account of the knowable (gnōrimon) in Aristotle’s works; an argument for Aristotle’s textual and philosophical revisions of Eudemian Ethics 5. 2 in Nicomachean Ethics 6. 2; and an account of Stoic metaphysics as responding to challenges posed by Plato’s Sophist.
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Fine, Kit. Vagueness. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197514955.001.0001.
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The book is about the problem of vagueness. It begins by discussing some of the existing views on vagueness and then explains why they have not been thought to be satisfactory. It then outlines a new account of vagueness, based on the general idea that vagueness is a global rather than a local phenomenon. In other words, the vagueness of an expression or object is not an intrinsic feature of the object or an expression but a matter of how it relates to other objects and expression. The development of this idea leads to a new semantics and logic for vagueness. The semantics and logic are then applied to a number of issues, including the sorites paradox, the transparency or luminosity of mental states, and personal identity. It is shown that the view allows one to hew to a much more intuitive position on these various issues.
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Steketee, Gail, and Brian H. McCorkle. Future Research on Obsessive Compulsive and Spectrum Conditions. Edited by Gail Steketee. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195376210.013.0108.
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This chapter reviews comments raised by authors of 25 chapters of the Handbook of Obsessive Compulsive and Spectrum Disorders. Among the challenges raised are those within the areas of diagnosis and features of the several OC spectrum conditions, including revisions to the diagnostic nomenclature for DSM-V under consideration, especially with regard to the possible addition of hoarding disorder to distinguish this more clearly from OCD. Research on clinical versus nonclinical samples, and controversies regarding possible subtypes of OCD and of some of its spectrum conditions like BDD and hoarding, are examined. Relationships among OCD and the spectrum conditions are examined with attention to the general lack of information about this issue. Several authors in the handbook comment on personality features and their association with outcomes following treatment, with a general consensus that assessing features rather than disorders will be most useful. The impact of culture on expression of OC spectrum conditions is clearly under-studied. Causes and mechanisms underlying OCD and spectrum conditions are examined, including neurological and genetic underpinnings, information processing, beliefs and cognitive models, as well as social and familial factors. Concerns about assessment are raised with regard to OCD and its expression in older adults, in hoarding and in BDD, and the impact of culture on assessment. With regard to treatment, chapters focus on research needs concerning mechanisms of action and predictors of change, and the need to improve treatments to enhance their effects. Improvement of outcomes in a variety of areas (e.g., hoarding, children, culturally sensitive treatments) is noted, including outcomes for medications and combined CBT plus medication regimens. Special issues are raised with regard to BDD, tic disorders, and trichotillomania.
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Saussy, Haun. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812531.003.0001.
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We commonly understand by “translation” the creation, in one language, of an expression that will be the equivalent of a pre-existing expression in another language. But much happens in actual translating, especially literary translation, that is not covered by that definition. For example, calques and transliterations import expressions from one language to another; and translators often allude to elements of the cultural background of the target language, thus artificially creating a context for the translated text. The intent of this book is to scrutinize such aspects of translation and to consider them as normal and central to the translating process, not exceptional or marginal. Indeed, they are a mark of the creativity of translators. These features also remind us of the internal diversity of languages, which are always in contact and always in a process of change.
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Heiner, Prof, Bielefeldt, Ghanea Nazila, Dr, and Wiener Michael, Dr. Part 4 Intersection of Freedom of Religion or Belief with Other Human Rights, 4.1 Freedom of Expression Including Questions Related to Religious Conflicts, Religious Intolerance, and Extremism. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198703983.003.0025.
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This chapter examines freedom of religion or belief in relation to freedom of opinion and expression. While these rights have their distinct features and applications, they at the same time share many characteristics. Foremost among these is their role in protecting intellectual and communicative freedoms that contribute to a democratic discourse in pluralistic societies. In addition, the legal formulations in articles 18 and 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights show striking similarities. It is all the more surprising that freedom of religion or belief and freedom of expression have come to be seen as allegedly standing in contradiction towards each other. Recapturing their close interrelatedness is also important for designing effective policies of combating incitement to acts of religious hatred, in line with the 2012 Rabat Plan of Action elaborated by the United Nations.
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Sainsbury, Mark. Intentionality and Intensionality. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803348.003.0002.
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Intentionality is a property of mental states: their being directed on things, or about things. Intensionality is a semantic property, marked by such features as failure of truth preservation when one referring expression is replaced by another with the same reference. Attributions of intentional states are intensional. This first chapter sets out the basic distinctions, describes some puzzles about intensionality (for example, how it is possible to think about unicorns when there are none to think about), and sketches the path to be taken in the rest of the book.
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Guardiano, Nicholas L. Aesthetic Transcendentalism in Emerson, Peirce, and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting. Lexington Books, 2016. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666983593.
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Aesthetic Transcendentalism is a philosophy endorsing the qualitative and creative aspects of nature. Theoretically it argues for a metaphysical dimension of nature that is aesthetically real, pluralistic, and prolific. It directs our attention to the rich complexity of immediate experience, the possibility of discovering new aesthetic features about the world, and the transformative potential of art as an organic expression. This book presents the philosophy in its relationship to its historical roots in the philosophic and artistic traditions of nineteenth-century North America. In this multidisciplinary study, Nicholas L. Guardiano brings together a philosophic and literary figure in Ralph Waldo Emerson, the scientifically minded philosopher Charles S. Peirce, and the plastic arts in the form of American landscape painting. Guardiano evaluates this constellation of philosophers and artists in global perspective as it relates to other historical theories of metaphysics and aesthetics, while simultaneously performing a cultural analysis that identifies an essential feature of the American mind. Aesthetic Transcendentalism thus possesses abiding significance for our vital interactions with nature, daily experiences, and contemplations of great works of art. Aesthetic Transcendentalism in Emerson, Peirce, and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting will be of interest to scholars of American philosophy and American art history, especially specialists of Charles S. Peirce, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the Hudson River School painters. It will also appeal to philosophers working on systematic metaphysical theories of nature.
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Owens, David. Human Testimony. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198713234.003.0011.
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Burge maintains that human beings are entitled to accept the testimony of other human beings simply in virtue of the fact that we are all rational believers. Reid maintains that human testimony depends on distinctive features of human psychology that may not be shared by all rational creatures. This chapter argues that, on this point, Reid is correct. The transmission of belief (and so knowledge) exploits our human emotional psychology and in particular the impact the expression of emotion makes on other humans. It would not work among rational creatures with a different emotional psychology. The chapter concludes by elaborating the criticisms of the assurance model offered in Chapter 9.
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Eden, Kathy. Montaigne on Style. Edited by Philippe Desan. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190215330.013.45.
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This article explores Montaigne’s assumptions, expectations, and judgments regarding style, especially as they demonstrate an Erasmian pedigree. This pedigree is predicated on a broad definition of style that takes into account word choice, phrasing, rhythm, and figures as elements of elocution (the third branch of rhetoric) and extends itself to disposition (the second branch, which attends to the arrangement of the parts of the discourse). It also includes a number of key metaphors for style that Montaigne applies in unique combinations; and it features the stylistic virtues of variety and self-expression, according to which Montaigne takes the measure of his most and least favorite ancient stylists as well as himself.
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Elliott, Mark, and Jason N. E. Varuhas. Administrative Law. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198719465.001.0001.
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Administrative Law Text and Materials combines carefully selected extracts from key cases, articles, and other sources with detailed commentary. This book provides comprehensive coverage of the subject and brings together in one volume the best features of a textbook and a casebook. Rather than simply presenting administrative law as a straightforward body of legal rules, the text considers the subject as an expression of underlying constitutional and other policy concerns, which fundamentally shape the relationship between the citizen and the state. Topics covered include: jurisdiction, the status of unlawful administrative action, public law principles, abuses of discretion, fairness, remedies, and the liability of public authorities.