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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (3): 296–311.
Published: 01 September 2016
... 1880s he engaged in a virtually unknown polemic with Mechnikov about science and religion that culminated in a face-to-face meeting the year before Tolstoy's death. Despite Tolstoy's expressed disdain for Mechnikov's theories, in his final novel, Resurrection (1899), Tolstoy used Mechnikov's phagocytic...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (1): 108–110.
Published: 01 March 2019
... mimesis and fiction came to acquire this representative power is governed by the working premise that the novel, like any other “discourse we have about the world (philosophy, science, religion, poetry, fiction) comes into being marked by a blind a priori and bears an image of the content sedimented...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (1): 35–42.
Published: 01 March 2014
..., sculpture, architecture, music), philosophy, history, the
social sciences (e.g., politics, economics, sociology), the sciences, religion, etc., on
the other” (1). Both kinds of comparative work — comparing different national
literatures and comparing literature with disciplines like history...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (3): 257–264.
Published: 01 September 2013
... terms. The resulting
analysis echoes recent scholarship in the critical social sciences—such as Talal
Asad’s Formations of the Secular and Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age—that points to
religion and secularism not as opposites, but as interrelated and mutually deter-
mining categories. Not only...
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Comparative Literature (2021) 73 (4): 442–462.
Published: 01 December 2021
... the second revised edition of Tylor’s book published in London in 1873. For a comprehensive account of the history of Victorian anthropology, see Stocking ; see also Wheeler-Barclay ( 71–103 ) for an excellent study of Tylor’s contribution to the science of religion. 11 Giles insists...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (2): 145–165.
Published: 01 June 2015
... mythos that locates the sacred in the here-and-now. © 2015 by University of Oregon 2015 Emily Dickinson Rainer Maria Rilke Giovanni Pascoli science and religion poetic modernism and mystical language Works Cited Alighieri Dante . The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 1...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 345–372.
Published: 01 September 2022
... and its potential for making a better future for humankind. But, like Vico, Holberg undergirds his ideology with religion. “Holberg maintains throughout his writings that reason and religion as far as possible should be treated as compatible,” writes Jørgen Sejersted, a leading Holberg scholar ( “Morals...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (2): 230–232.
Published: 01 June 2012
... is real because of its effects and that transcendental ideas can be expressed as
shared fictions. Lewis’s book goes well beyond just demonstrating how social science theo-
ries of religion are confirmed by modernist novels or vice versa. Instead, he uses his frame-
work to set up discussions and fields...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (2): 232–235.
Published: 01 June 2012
... demonstrating how social science theo-
ries of religion are confirmed by modernist novels or vice versa. Instead, he uses his frame-
work to set up discussions and fields of debate where ideas of myth, transcendence, unreal-
ity, and the sacred can resist and define each other through conflict. Often his best...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (2): 235–236.
Published: 01 June 2012
... demonstrating how social science theo-
ries of religion are confirmed by modernist novels or vice versa. Instead, he uses his frame-
work to set up discussions and fields of debate where ideas of myth, transcendence, unreal-
ity, and the sacred can resist and define each other through conflict. Often his best...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (2): 237–239.
Published: 01 June 2012
... demonstrating how social science theo-
ries of religion are confirmed by modernist novels or vice versa. Instead, he uses his frame-
work to set up discussions and fields of debate where ideas of myth, transcendence, unreal-
ity, and the sacred can resist and define each other through conflict. Often his best...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (4): 403–417.
Published: 01 September 2006
... of a Science of Judaism.” Meyer 141 -55. Zimmermann, Heidy. “Was heißt `jüdische Musik'? Grundzüge eines Diskurses im 20. Jahrhundert.” John and Zimmermann 11 -32. THE SOUND OF MUSIC/403
LILIANE WEISSBERG
The Sound of Music...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (4): 381–403.
Published: 01 December 2022
... rational way. By philology, Vico understands everything that today we designate as the human sciences [ Geisteswissenschaften ], [namely], all of history in the narrower sense, sociology, economics, the history of religion, language, law, and art. Philology [thus] demands that these empirical sciences...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (2): 117–130.
Published: 01 March 2001
..., but yet again do
not; or that science is, and is not, better than religion at providing an accurate
description of nature. Even philosophers sympathetic to Rorty’s pragmatic herme-
neutics, such as Hilary Putnam, point out that a program of philosophic irony
can only go so far—namely, that it stops...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 21–28.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Joseph C. Carroll This essay argues that the sciences most relevant to literary study form an integrated complex summarized by the term “biocultural theory.” Foundational theories accepted currently in literary scholarship are incompatible with a biocultural understanding of the evolved character...
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Comparative Literature (2002) 54 (1): 58–71.
Published: 01 January 2002
... Americas
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998) xxii + 289 p., 23 ills.; and Mary Baine
Campbell, Wonder & Science: Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe (Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press, 1999) xiv + 366 p., 31 ills.
The books under review share an interest in the tangled history...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (2): 170–173.
Published: 01 March 2006
... of rhythm was largely abandoned by social science—for example, by various types
of structuralism. There were exceptions, of course, such as Foucault’s Surveiller et punir, which
Michon cites.
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of subjectivity, acting...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (2): 173–174.
Published: 01 March 2006
... these processes so that new forms of power can be realized.
2 He deliberately sets aside the work of philosophers during the period, such as Bergson. After
1940, the idea of rhythm was largely abandoned by social science—for example, by various types
of structuralism. There were exceptions, of course...
Journal Article
Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (2): 175–177.
Published: 01 March 2006
... these processes so that new forms of power can be realized.
2 He deliberately sets aside the work of philosophers during the period, such as Bergson. After
1940, the idea of rhythm was largely abandoned by social science—for example, by various types
of structuralism. There were exceptions, of course...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (2): 177–180.
Published: 01 March 2006
... these processes so that new forms of power can be realized.
2 He deliberately sets aside the work of philosophers during the period, such as Bergson. After
1940, the idea of rhythm was largely abandoned by social science—for example, by various types
of structuralism. There were exceptions, of course...
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