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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 (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 (2021) 73 (4): 442–462.
Published: 01 December 2021
... in developing comparative studies of language, folklore, religion, ethnography, archaeology, anthropology, and so on, as counterparts to the natural sciences in the study of human culture ( Girardot 144 ). Legge, for example, Victorian Britain’s foremost sinologist, translated a number of Chinese classics...
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Comparative Literature (2018) 70 (1): 46–59.
Published: 01 March 2018
... Theater” (1923), in which he bases his preference for art (and theater
among various art forms) over science and religion precisely on the principle of transformation
between the realms of “essences” and “things”:
If science operates with a species changing into a species, and religion...
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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 (2003) 55 (2): 185–190.
Published: 01 March 2003
... to
aestheticssthetikfähig” (x)—none of the socially relevant discourses, such as “science,
morality, religion and politics,” lets itself “demarcate sharply from the value-sphere of the
aesthetic” (x).
What is needed, then, is a concept-historical method that, if it links up with former
projects of history...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 345–372.
Published: 01 September 2022
... to religion that, perhaps, undermines how Habermas conceptualizes “postmetaphysical reason.” The post-secular turn that Habermas is part of includes other, more fundamental reassessments of human nature vis-à-vis religiosity. Militant atheism used to follow in the wake of much evolutionary science, yet...
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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...
Journal Article
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 (2003) 55 (2): 177–185.
Published: 01 March 2003
... of reproduction and simulation which challenge our conceptual con-
sciousness of history” (ix). And, the editors agree, since everything becomes adaptable to
aestheticssthetikfähig” (x)—none of the socially relevant discourses, such as “science,
morality, religion and politics,” lets itself “demarcate sharply...
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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
... of religion, language, law, and art. Philology [thus] demands that these empirical sciences and philosophy become one such that every individual [scientific] result may be deduced from the general law and every general law deduced out of the individual case. But the eternal law is not only immanent and also...
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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
...
1940, the idea 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.
BOOK REVIEWS/171...
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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...
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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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