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Thinking with the Inquisition: Heretical Science and Popular Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century Mexico
Romanic Review (2012) 103 (1-2): 111–132.
Published: 01 January 2012
... understood to be Sigtienza's "scientific modernity," namely his espousal and defense of a mathematical and mechanistic epistemological framework for understanding natural phenomena, served as a platform for the creation of a colonial public sphere composed of an ideal citizenry. In his public writings...
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 195–215.
Published: 01 January 2017
... by the essayist. But the analogy goes only so far, since Montaigne insists on differentiating between the two arts: one must draw a conclusion about him contrary to the conclusion drawn in Athens about the porter. The porter s art of fagotage inferred a mathematical theory embedded in the art and separable from...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (1-2): 3–10.
Published: 01 January 2012
... a cycle dominated by mathematical causality and foreseeable consequences. In fact, as scholars, we refuse the possibility of such a cycle. As twenty-firstcentury scholars we are interested in the breakdown of power that most often defines itself as institutionally heretical. Moreover, we must account...
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Romanic Review (2009) 100 (1-2): 187–202.
Published: 01 January 2009
... leaves to mathematical equality" ("Blood and the Moon" 243). 1. I thank Ann Smock and David Lloyd for sharing their rich knowledge of the French and the Irish Beckett. I quote Beckett in French when the original was in French or translated by Beckett himself, with a few exceptions where the English...
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Romanic Review (2002) 93 (4): 445–457.
Published: 01 November 2002
... delusions in a well-calculated confontation of a chance act and the echoing process of the mind's movement through language (in its double state of "parole'~ and "ecriture." ) Now in this mad, mathematical proof-game of counterposing the absurd recitation of a written prediction and the useless-yet...
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Romanic Review (2004) 95 (4): 427–432.
Published: 01 November 2004
... under the aspect of method and training. [ ] The constant references are to the arts of dressage and of gymnastics: Valery wants to be the "horseman of the mind" [ ] Music, drawing, mathematics, language, politics. While an "heroic note dominates," Gladiator "exemplifies his fundamental voluntarism...
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Romanic Review (2004) 95 (4): 432–433.
Published: 01 November 2004
...,"in Mathematics or in Quantum physics (Volume IV and V forthcoming), will help the reader discover the" insightful analyst," the"radical educationalist," and the "social scientist," (Volume III forthcoming) and all that is inherent to the so-called figure of the "intellectual" that Valery still incarnates today...
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Romanic Review (2010) 101 (1-2): 167–180.
Published: 01 January 2010
... that endeavor with its broad interdisciplinary cast of speakers from mathematics, linguistics, anthropology, psychoanalysis, philosophy, classics and modern literature. A search for unity is not necessarily a search for sameness: yet one gets the impression that, along the way, the whole enterprise...
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Romanic Review (2005) 96 (2): 127–153.
Published: 01 March 2005
.... Gentile. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1990: 162. 130 JAl\1ES HELGES()N the interpretation of impressions. In the 111edieval structure of the seven liberal arts, Illusic is part of the quadriviurn, the four mathematical arts: arithmetic, geornetry, astroIlonlY, and Inusic. The Inathematical arts are the arts...
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Romanic Review (2002) 93 (1-2): 31–44.
Published: 01 January 2002
... linguistics as the first and only science) and "metaphysical" (or post-Hegelian) discourses. In fact, the science brought to the fore from the start was mathematics much more than linguistics or a generalized semiology seen as global theory of signs. This was due to the impact of the historian Charles...
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Romanic Review (2012) 103 (3-4): 596–600.
Published: 01 May 2012
... and Henri Meschonnic. They feel that the authors of Oulipo, because of their declared focus on mathematics, constraints, potential, and the arbitrary, do not explore their inner subjectivity or construct semantic meaning. James chooses to focus on a different set of terms: "The key terms in this debate...
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Romanic Review (2002) 93 (4): 474–478.
Published: 01 November 2002
... to construct If on a Winter's Night a Traveler.) While it may be argued that the constraints of La Vie mode d'emploi - in particular the mathematically governed combination and recurrence of 420 basic elements - work as an "aide-memoire" for the writer, helping him to construct a network of motifs, it does...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 567–574.
Published: 01 December 2023
... will be gainfully employed and not leeching off the welfare state (what remains of it): The tradition of the liberal arts reaches back into classical antiquity. Training the mind through the study of languages, literature, history, culture, society, mathematics, science, the arts and philosophy has for centuries...
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Romanic Review (2014) 105 (3-4): 273–291.
Published: 01 May 2014
... Pascal's work TIME AND HISTORY IN PASCAL 277 God, for Pascal, is useless. By demonstrating that the transcendent perspective offered by Christ is of a higher order and is known differently than the truth of geometry, Pascal shows that humans can know much more about God than just mathematical truths...
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Romanic Review (2023) 114 (3): 500–508.
Published: 01 December 2023
... or the métropole -as-center cast everyone beyond France’s geographical and geopolitical limits as outsiders. 7 I ought to seek to understand the impact of abstract or mathematical (in short, figurative) language on the worldview it creates and carries. I argue that metaphors, as a bridge between language...
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Romanic Review (2004) 95 (3): 271–291.
Published: 01 May 2004
... not only signaled the end of the aristocratic posture of superiority to money, it affirmed the primacy of mathematical probability and sanctified bourgeois economic expertise.3 Areas of life that previously appeared to escape deterministic laws had been tamed by mathematical analysis. Thus, those skilled...
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Romanic Review (2022) 113 (2): 300–309.
Published: 01 September 2022
... boys’ schools, emphasizing the humanities rather than mathematics and science. Nathalie learned a lot in the French literature courses, where she read both classic and more recent writers, as well as in Latin and in philosophy. As Ann Jefferson relates, in 1917, at age seventeen, Nathalie wrote...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (2): 288–315.
Published: 01 September 2020
... and Aristotle’s mathematical model to a host of modern thinkers from Immanuel Kant and Arthur Schopenhauer to Ferdinand de Saussure and Roland Barthes, who have explored the uses and abuses of analogy. 2 Critics attribute the conceptual simplification and enlarged purview of the figure over time—from...
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Romanic Review (2020) 111 (1): 192–203.
Published: 01 May 2020
... the preaching of Catholic dogma,’ and interpretation has been abandoned, in favor of a ‘quest for immobility, for the incontrovertible” (291). Whereas René Descartes’s exemplary Modern doubt was but a provisional step toward a new and overpowering mathematical certainty, doubt for Latour is built into the very...
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Romanic Review (2017) 108 (1-4): 217–231.
Published: 01 January 2017
... and for purely theoretical and often ideological speculation, at the expense of historical research and collaboration with the other social sciences. Economists are all too often preoccupied with petty mathematical problems of interest only to themselves. This obsession with mathematics is an easy way...
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